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In 1983, music journalist Parke Puterbaugh wrote that new music "does not so much describe a single style as it draws a line in time, distinguishing what came before from what has come after." [ 49 ] Chuck Eddy , who wrote for The Village Voice in the 1980s, said in a 2011 interview that by the time of British new pop acts' popularity on MTV ...
House music was strongly influenced by elements of soul- and funk-infused varieties of disco. Club play from pioneering DJs like Ron Hardy and Lil Louis, local dance music record shops, and the popular Hot Mix 5 shows on radio station WBMX-FM helped popularize house music in Chicago and among visiting DJs & producers from Detroit. Trax Records ...
Night Tracks is an American music video television program that aired on TBS in late night on Fridays and Saturdays [1] from June 3, 1983 to May 30, 1992. Created and produced by Thomas W. Lynch and Gary Biller through Night Tracks, Inc. (a production label of Lynch/Biller Productions until 1991, and successor Lynch Entertainment thereafter) and distributed by Turner Program Services, the ...
13. Trivial Pursuit. First things first, just about every household in the ‘80s had a shelf full of board games. But there was one common denominator you could find on nearly every one of those ...
Influential on the development of the neo-psychedelia and college rock music genres and on a number of bands, especially R.E.M. [24] [25] Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1980s: #65 [6] FACT's The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s: #47 [5] Rolling Stone's "80 Greatest albums of 1980": #63 [4] Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die ...
Liam and Noah may be the most popular monikers on the playground, but we’re calling it now—a new favorite baby boy name is going to take over, and it’s a total throwback: Travis. If you grew ...
Friday Night Videos is an American music video/variety program that aired from July 29, 1983, to May 24, 2002, on NBC.Originally developed as an attempt by the network to capitalize on the emerging popularity of music videos, which had been brought into the mainstream by MTV during the early 1980s, [1] the program shifted over to a general music focus in 1990, mixing in live music performances ...
The home of many children’s classic TV shows has launched PBS Retro, a free ad-supported channel that’s available via the Roku channel on Smart TVs, Roku devices, and web browsers. The channel ...