Cosmic American Blog

If you'll recall, the first time I heard "We Got the Beat," I was not impressed. "What the hell is this?," I sa...

I've been proselytizing these videogames to you, dear readers, for years.  Now you have the chance to get some of these games for dirt...

I heard the Pretenders' debut album years ago and I didn't like it very much. It was hard to put my finger on it. I found Chriss...

Many are the fans of '80s rock who bought a Pat Benatar Greatest Hits album and wondered, "Hey, where's 'Harden My Hea...

Picture, if you will, Miles Copeland and the other head honchos at I.R.S. Records in late 1981, sitting around a table. "OK guys, w...

For Waiting , their second and final album, the Fun Boy Three needed a producer - and not just any producer. They needed to find someone...

Then one day, Pat Benatar discovered the synthesizer. It was hot '80s spandex love at first sight. This strange, enigmatic device t...

How much of an achievement is it to be the greatest '80s band from New Zealand? While you think of the answer to that question, let ...

If you put the words "woman," "rocked," and "80s" into a Google search engine, the first thing that would p...

She may have been talented in many ways, but Joan Jett doesn't appear to have been the most prolific songwriter; most of her big hits...