Cosmic American Blog

OK, fine, Lips Unsealed is probably not the greatest book ever written. However, it is The Greatest Book Ever Written. If I had to come up...

Think about it. If someone asked me to come up with the most absurdly awesome pop singer career I could think of, designed to appeal speci...

T hat's Belinda Carlisle? No, seriously, that's Belinda Carlisle? Come on, stop joking around, show me a picture of Belinda Car...

So, as I perused Go-Go's and Belinda Carlisle videos on YouTube, in search of the answers to so many questions, I kept reading oblique...

So here is how much, until I started learning about the Go-Go's, I knew about the Germs. The Germs were arguably the first L.A. punk ba...

So here is how much, until approximately a year ago, I knew about the Go-Go's. The Go-Go's were the first all-female rock band. N...

Regarding the new Damien Hurst art shows (colored dots on canvases), Roberta Smith writes in the NYTimes : "The fluctuations in quality...

I don't remember hearing Duran Duran songs as a child. Later, when people would say, "Oh man, remember the 80s? Remember Duran Dur...

In 1982, Roxy Music released their final album, Avalon . It was fairly popular and, although very different from the band's earlier mat...

In 1979, Fleetwood Mac recorded the song "Tusk," which they released on the album of the same name. An odd song by Fleetwood Ma...