Today is the last stop on our tour of 1979, and it's a doozy. Let's go to Nov. 17 at the 3,200-seat Capitol Theatre in Passaic, N.J....

The time machine has a couple of stops left in her, and today we land at "the Palace" in Boston on July 6, 1979. What a great time...

As the years have passed, and Sting's solo catalog has grown, it has become more and more difficult to remember all that was good about ...

I respect the talent of Joe Jackson more than just about any musician out there. I really enjoy his big-band work, film scores and pop music...

I really enjoyed checking out Buzzcocks at Hammersmith Odeon, but now let's set the time machine for Bethlehem, Penn., on April 12. The ...

Since, in our last installment, I went to the trouble of getting out the time machine to take in that XTC show from Down Under, I figured I...

I know I'm in the minority, but back in 2011 I professed my love for Barry Andrews and the manic keyboard-heavy sounds of early XTC here...

Consistently spinning 'Crimson/Red' these past months has had me on a quite a Prefab Sprout kick. I don't have too many of the ...

Things got a little out of hand on New Year's Eve. If you're a regular reader then you know I spend that festive evening the same wa...

I would give just about anything for a new studio album from Wondermints, it's going on 14 years, fellas, but I'll take whatever I c...

I think I'm coming down with something. Bloggers (and their readership) know it as list fatigue. I came up with this grand countdown of ...

1. 'Scared to Get Happy: A Story of Indie Pop 1980-1989' Some of the 134 songs on this massive box set from Cherry Red are a bit o...