Coupled with the fact that even without MTV, the song had just leaped in one week ... who featured the new wave band Devo on his 1982 hit “Let Me Tickle Your Fancy,” which had also garnered ...
In the early ‘80s, The dB’s mixed pop-rock with punk and dashes of psychedelia and experimentation to spawn a new sub-genre called ‘jangle pop.’ Their ...
Suede’s cover of Shipbuilding (written by Elvis Costello and Clive Langer in 1982) was the first version of the song I heard. Such is the power of the piece, I suspect it was not difficult to ...
The Official UK Singles Chart reflects the UK’s biggest songs of the week, based on audio and video streams, downloads, CDs and vinyl, compiled by the Official Charts Company. The UK Top 40 is ...
Petty's classic album is being rereleased as Long After Dark Deluxe, including seven previously unreleased songs. Petty, who died in 2017, spoke to Fresh Air in 2006 about his influences.
The Cure have announced the first single from their forthcoming new album, Songs Of A Lost World ... Rihanna (S&M contains an interpolation of 1982's Let's Go To Bed) and Yungblud (who got ...
When I joined Pitchfork a couple months ago as its new editor, we got to work on what you’re reading now, the Best Songs of the 2020s So Far, our first big list of the year. On the surface ...