"80s music signifies a temporary demise in creativity and the triumph of mainstream culture." Madeline Harding shares her opinions, positive and negative, on 80s music as a whole.

After joining forces in Chicago, the band known as Bag People became a source of weirdo vitality in New York’s early ’80s post-punk/no-wave scene, but they never got around to releasing any recordings ...

Popular music of the ’70s and ’80s mixed and matched parts assembled earlier in the 20th century, borrowing from the melisma of soul, the locomotion of rock and roll, the improvisational verve ...

The real beauty of punk rock, from its inception onwards, was its ability to inspire groups and sub-groups of kids to ...

More than just a musical genre, punk music, or punk rock ... New wave became a keystone sound of the 80s, spawning bands such as Human League, The Cure, New Order, and Australia’s Nick Cave ...

The real beauty of punk rock, from its inception onwards ... He mentions names from the early 80s like anarcho punkers Icons Of Filth, the recently-reformed No Choice, and "bands like The Living ...