Cosmic American Blog

I love albums that take their title from the  lyrics  of a song on the album but not the actual  title  of a song on the album. For examp...

Rome fell to the Huns. Napoleon lost one battle too many. The British Empire collapsed under the weight of its own antiquated colonialism....

After just one song, did the world think it knew Cyndi Lauper? Well, Cyndi had other ideas. Or rather, maybe that was the idea all along. ...

So, there's this guy you know, and for all intents and purposes, he's a lot like you. He's kinda goofy, fun to be around, not...

Usually, when a band announces that it will be replacing its departing lead singer with its drummer, that is not a good sign. When Phil ...

I didn't want to talk about Madonna. I swear, your honor. For starters, plenty of people have already written about Madonna. She's...

And so, in January 1985, young Belinda Carlisle finally found herself in the Brazilian coke dealer's mansion. Would she make it out al...

There's a great passage in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas where Hunter S. Thompson, clownishly stumbling through the bitter and jade...

When rock critics wax eloquent about all those great guitar-based bands to come of out late '70s England - all those D.I.Y. groups who...

Let's go back, you and I, to a simpler time. I remember the days (was it really all so long ago?) when "Hip To Be Square" u...