Few bands can legitimately lay claim to pioneering an entire new genre, but Korn are one of them. With their self-titled 1994 debut album, the band from Bakersfield, California single-handedly ushered ...

In this music parody game, Reggie Watts and Kate Berlant listen to alternative 1980s songs about things that happened in the 80s — of other... Alternative 80s In this music parody game, Reggie Watts ...

Everyone knows the story: the Sex Pistols played Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall and future members of the Buzzcocks, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Fall (as well as TV presenter and soon-to-become ...

American mainstream pop audiences didn’t know much about the influential British band Echo & the Bunnymen during their ’80s heyday. But the alternative fans got it, making the band underground ...

These somewhat obscure musicians from the 80s disappeared from the US charts in a flash, and I can't imagine why.