1984

Punk Rockabilly 

Early Cramps Classics Back On Wax

October 31, 2025October 31, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1980, 1981, 1984, Bad Music for Bad People, I.R.S. Records, Lux Interior, Poison Ivy, Psychedelic Jungle, Songs The Lord Taught Us, The Cramps

Three seminal LPs back in stores now

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Hardcore Post-Hardcore Punk Rock 

SF Hardcore Pioneers Whipping Boy Reimagine 2nd LP

August 10, 2025August 11, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1984, 2025, Blackhouse Records, California, Dead Kennedys, Dysillusion, Eugene Robinson, Klaus Flouride, Muru Muru, San Francisco, Steve Ballinger, Whipping Boy

Dysillusion (fka Muru Muru) out Sept. 5

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Hip Hop 

WATCH: Kurious Shares ‘1984’ Video

January 29, 2025January 29, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1984, 2024, 2025, A Constipated Monkey, Kurious, Majician, Metalface Records, MF Doom, Rhymesayers Entertainment

NYC rapper’s latest LP, Majician, out now on Metalface Records

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Films New Wave Rock 

Found a Job: Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense at 40

September 11, 2024September 12, 2024 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, Bernie Worrell, Chris Frantz, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, Tina Weymouth

Looking back on the band’s groundbreaking concert film and soundtrack

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Hard Rock Heavy Metal Metal! Rock 

Fight Fire With Fire: Metallica’s Ride the Lightning Turns 40

July 26, 2024July 26, 2024 Todd Manning 0 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, Cliff Burton, Creeping Death, Fade to Black, Fight Fire With Fire, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich, Metallica, Ride The Lightning, The Call of Ktulu, Trapped Under Ice

Looking back on the band’s revolutionary second album

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Alternative Rock Folk Indie Rock Pop Post-Hardcore Post-Punk Punk Rock 

Punk’s First Epics Pt. 2: Hüsker Dü’s Zen Arcade Turns 40

July 8, 2024July 8, 2024 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, Bob Mould, Grant Hart, Greg Norton, Husker Du, minutemen, SST Records, Zen Arcade

Looking back at the White Album of Minnesota

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jazz Punk 

Punk’s First Epics Pt. 1: Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime Turns 40

July 7, 2024July 7, 2024 Dan Weiss 2 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, D Boon, Double Nickels On The Dime, George Hurley, Husker Du, Mike Watt, minutemen, Zen Arcade

Why this SST masterpiece remains a crucial listen four decades later

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New Wave Prince Rock Soul 

How Purple Rain Cemented Prince’s Path to Immortality

June 26, 2024June 26, 2024 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, Apollonia, Bobby Z, Brown Mark, Darling Nikki, Dr. Fink, Dreams, James Foley, Let's Go Crazy, Lisa Coleman, Prince, Prince and the Revolution, Purple Rain, The Time, Vanity, Wendy Melvoin, When Doves Cry, William Blinn

Looking back on 40 years of the soundtrack to the Purple One’s cinematic breakthrough

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New Wave Pop 

Sour Milk Cow Blues: Goodbye Cruel World at 40

June 18, 2024June 20, 2024 Ryan Maffei 3 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, Bruce Thomas, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, F-Beat, Goodbye Cruel World, Pete Thomas, Steve Nieve

Elvis Costello and the Attractions’ unhappiest (but not worst) album reaches its bitter middle age

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Bruce Rock 

No Surrender: Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. Turns 40

June 4, 2024June 4, 2024 Craig Peters 0 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Clarence Clemons, Columbia Records, Dancing in the Dark, Glory Days, I'm On Fire, Little Steven, My Hometown, No Surrender, Steven Van Zandt

Looking back on The Boss’s most successful album

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Glam Rock 

Future Legend: David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs Turns 50

May 24, 2024May 24, 2024 Craig Peters 0 Comments 1974, 1984, 50th anniversary, Candidate, David Bowie, Diamond Dogs, George Orwell, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, RCA Records, Rebel Rebel

Looking back on a criminally underrated album in his vast catalog

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Indie Rock Rock 

Second Guessing: R.E.M.’s Reckoning at 40

April 11, 2024April 11, 2024 Jason Gross 0 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, 7 Chinese Bros, Bill Berry, Harborcoat, I.R.S. Records, Lynda Stipe, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Oh-OK, Peter Buck, Pretty Persuasion, R.E.M., Reckoning, Second Guessing, So. Central Rain, The B-52's, The Byrds

What makes the band’s sophomore set better than Murmur

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Hip Hop Rap 

How Run-D.M.C. Revolutionized Hip-Hop in 1984

March 30, 2024March 30, 2024 Deborah Sprague 0 Comments 1984, Daryl McDaniels, DMC, Eddie Martinez, Hard Times, Hollis, Jam Master Jay, Jason Mizell, Joseph Simmons, Larry Smith, Queens, Rev Run, Rock Box, Run DMC, Run-D.M.C., Russell Simmons

Looking back on 40 years of the rap trio’s seminal debut

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Hardcore Punk Rock 

The Battle Scars of Black Flag

March 26, 2024March 26, 2024 Jason Gross 2 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, Black Flag, Chuck Biscuits, Chuck Dukowski, Dez Cadena, Greg Ginn, Henry Rollins, Keith Morris, My War, Robo, The Minutemen

Was Greg Ginn testing our patience with My War?

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Rock 

Alchemy: Dire Straits Live is an Essential ’80s Concert Album

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, Alan Clark, Alchemy: Dire Straits Live, Dire Straits, Hal Lindes, Joop de Norte, Mark Knopfler, Mel Collins, Once Upon a Time in the West, Sultans of Swing, Terry Williams, Tommy Mandel, Warner Bros. Records

Revisiting this guitar epic for its 40th anniversary

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