The heat was on. The label expected. And so, in 1986, the Bangles did what the Bangles did best – they put together a set of ...

Arguably the most famous of these was Manic Monday, a song that Prince originally wrote for Apollonia 6, the girl group that he assembled in 1983 and who appeared in Purple Rain. However, it ended up ...

A member of a beloved rock band recently revealed a music superstar unexpectedly gave the band one of its biggest songs. But the connection went beyond that. “He would come to our shows and sit in,” ...

There was a time, back in the ‘80s, that Prince was writing so many good songs that he could afford to give away surefire hits to other artists. Arguably the most famous of these was Manic Monday, a ...

Vicki Peterson remembers the night Prince crashed a Bangles gig, the secret 'Manic Monday' demo he sent, and how it rewired their 1980s pop-rock destiny.

In 1986, The Bangles released a song that spent four weeks at No. 1, and was the beginning of the end for the group.

If you were alive and paying attention to pop music in the 1980s, Susanna Hoffs was inescapable — and that was a wonderful ...

Before '90s bands like Bikini Kill and L7 spearheaded the riot grrrl movement or '80s groups like the Go-Go's and the Bangles had their biggest hits, a group of pioneering women became the first ...

Gilmore Girls featured several rock star cameos during its seven-season run. Everyone from the Bangles to Sonic Youth to opening them singer Carole King made appearances on the beloved show. In ...

This Can’t Be Today - A Trip Through The US Psychedelic Underground 1977-1988 is marketed as a “3CD set documenting the 1980s American ‘paisley underground’ scene” which includes “over 65 scene ...

Tom Petty didn’t want to take a minute of the time he had making music for granted, and he hated wasting music.

Love Rocks NYC returned to the Beacon Theatre for its milestone tenth annual edition last week packed with world-class musical talent.