80s

You can watch the first four hours of MTV, New Years Eve Balls, hang out with Martha Quinn, check out 120 Minutes and Headbangers Ball and tons more

While some people, including me, hold MTV's 120 Minutes in fond regard, a far more subversive and formative show to this writer (who grew up in West Virginia) was USA network's Night Flight which aired Friday and Saturday nights, midnight to 6 AM, from 1981 to 1988...

The Internet Archive already had the potential for being a time suck black hole, saving copies of websites long gone, not to mention its giant library of books, magazines, movies, music and more...

The Canal Street venue that lately is mostly known for hosting 80s & 90s themed tribute shows (like the one we caught in 2011 with Debbie Gibson and Tiffany), is closing...

The Human League recently released Credo, their first LP in ten years and ninth overall, though according to a source quoted on Wikipedia, it "will not be available domestically in the US or on iTunes...

Horrifying, ironic, awesome, call it what you want, but Debbie Gibson and Tiffany are going on tour together. They're promising a full list of dates, but meanwhile the first show at NYCB Theatre at Westbury on July 29th is on sale now, AND (this is an update to the original post...

Munetaka Higuchi, the drummer and co-founder of the Japanese heavy metal band Loudness, passed away on Sunday at about 10:00 a.m. in a hospital in Osaka, Japan...

What do Aimee Mann and Twisted Sister have in common? They were both popular in the eighties (though maybe Twisted Sister are the only ones still living in it) and are still at it today, they both put out Christmas albums in 2006, they both played Christmas shows in 2007 (Aimee also played one in 2006), and they both are playing Christmas shows in 2008 - both of which are at Nokia Theatre in NYC in December...

I thought it would be a good game to try and see every single concert that brings me back to the 80's this summer. I already failed by missing Duran Duran at Summerstage, and the Cyndi Lauper shows at Jones Beach and Radio City, and I'll probably continue to fail by not actually going to most of these: George Michael, Boy George, Bruce Springsteen, Aimee Mann, New Kids on the Block, Yaz, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and The Human League...

Tickets are on sale (@ 12) for the upcoming Boy George show at Terminal 5. Like George Michael, Madonna, Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen and Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, is playing some shows this summer...