Cosmic American Blog

I wasn't too surprised to learn that Marc Almond is gay. But after spending some time with Soft Cell, I have to say that "gay...

Do a Google search on 80s One Hit Wonders, and the first thing that will probably come up is Soft Cell's "Tainted Love." Actu...

A few years ago, I was watching one of those VH1 "Top 100 Songs Of The '80s" specials or something of that ilk (Zrbo knows t...

Can you guess which one isn't from 2011? Here we are again folks, the end of another year means it's time to start rolling out the...

I love punk. But I love New Wave more. New Wave is like punk with all the good stuff thrown back in. They're basically the same genre...

I almost feel like I should let Little Earl handle this one. Here's a terrific short video on Spielberg and his dramatic us...

Like George Benson, Grover Washington, Jr. was a jazz musician who did the crossover dance. Somehow or other, he roped Bill Withers into h...

So there's this movie coming out called "War Horse" directed by Steven Spielberg. You may have heard of him, bu...

Q. What's lamer than a funk musician going pop? A. A jazz musician going pop. You see, jazz is already kind of lame as it is, and h...

Hey, so Berkeley, you think you're all political and protesty and at the forefront of civil rights and everything? Well guess who just ...