This concert review is co-written with US-based Debbie Martinez – our guest blogger and an ardent a-ha fan that traveled far to make sure she could be ours eyes and ears on the ground. Dates: ...

The much awaited new New Order album now has a release date. The album titled “Music Complete” will see the light of day on September 25, 2015.  This is the first album of newly recorded ...

Earlier this year, we reviewed “Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs that Defined the 1980s” by Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein. This book is a “must have...

Last year, we made a post about the back-story around George Michael‘s timeless classic “Careless Whisper” to celebrate 30 years since the song went to #1 in the UK. It got us thinki...

Around a year ago, we published our annual post for “Veteran artists to look out for in 2014”. There was a lot of excitement around that post. Some of that excitement was warranted. Some c...

It is hard to believe that one of pop music’s legends has turned 51 today. For some, it feels like yesterday that he first burst on to the global scene with his buddy Andrew Ridgeley and their “Ch...

In an interview almost two decades ago, international superstar George Michael claimed that he enjoyed singing other people’s songs more than he enjoyed singing his own songs. That is fairly odd giv...

2012 was definitely a big year for several veteran artists returning with new albums. Noteworthy examples include Madonna, Van Halen, Aerosmith, and Robbie Williams. Not all these acts delivered as we...