Keyboards are a key ingredient in this week’s Courant arts picks. Several organists associated with Connecticut Virtuosi play classical works on the pipe organ at Hartford’s Cyril & Methodius Church, ...

JoBoxers played their first show in over 35 years. The British new wavers saw chart success with their 1983 debut album Like Gangbusters; they recorded two albums afterwards, Skin And Bone in 1985 and ...

What are the best examples of the opening track? From vintage tunes by The Doors and Pink Floyd to classics from The Police ...

Dylan's last gospel record included one of his best '80s songs, the heavenly "Every Grain of Sand." It also spawned a B-side, ...

Sounding not unlike Echo and The Bunnymen – there's even a mention of crocodiles in the following song – they were a potent live force and in a parallel universe are living in big mansions in Killiney ...

Dolly Parton and The Wiggles have released ‘Counting 1 To 5’, a reimagination of the country icon’s classic song – listen below.

In the early 1980s, Atlanta group the Producers signed with Portrait Records with catchy ditties that evoked Cheap Trick, the Romantics and the Knack. The band was a dynamic live act and created ...

Unfortunately for the artists responsible, songs can be inferred far removed from their intentions, serving as twisted ...

The second was Rapture, a song that merges disco, hip-hop, funk and new wave Rapture would go on to become the first No. 1 ...

When you close your eyes and think about the music of the 1980s, what comes to mind? Synths, early rap? Prince dressed in purple, Tom Petty and his wheat-colored hair? Stevie Nicks and Michael Jackson ...

Jimmy Page was a guitarist in the Yardbirds and one of the busiest session musicians in London in the mid-‘60s when he first ...

A beloved guitarist that came to fame in the 1980s has revealed he 'cannot play' due to a disease. The 65-year-old acclaimed ...