New Romantic synth-pop invades MTV. Thriller becomes history’s biggest hit. Music gets louder ... D.C. go-go. There’s ska, goth, reggae, acid house. But just one song per artist, or half ...

The '80s had stupid synthy pop bands. No instrument was good enough ... And so, so, so much ska music. It gave us Smash Mouth and Billie Ray Cyrus and "Who Let the Dogs Out?" ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Wednesday was declared "Oingo Boingo Day" in the city of Los Angeles in honor of the '80s ... pop band with influences from ska, punk and other styles. "When you heard their ...

You probably know The Hooters best for their ’80s new wave/power pop hits like “And We Danced ... they actually were a ska band who’d made a name for themselves playing local clubs ...

The post Potato 5 on the ’80s Ska Scene, Mad Professor, and the Reinvention of Traditional Ska: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Potato 5 wasn’t exactly a two-tone band, per se.

A case could be made that the ska music scene ... own variations in the ‘80s, writer Wasserman says that in L.A., “you have a bringing together of not only the music but the style in a way ...

They were a Canadian phenomenon. But to a future Vancouver director he was just the next door neighbour. When the 90-minute chronicle “Doug and the Slugs and Me” premieres Sunday on CBC and ...