Cosmic American Blog

Ten years ago, just for the fun of it, I started blogging about my favorite songs of the year. I didn't realize it would grow into an an...

What a wild year it's been. Thanks to the vaccine, the world began opening up again (somewhat). At the same time, it feels like the worl...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Whuh ? Whenever I hear someone complain about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I'm inclined to recycle the line...

Let's go back, shall we, to January 2012, toward the tail end of my "Fun New Wave Surprises" series, where loyal readers may r...

Ahem. As most of you know, I take tremendous pride in my professional standing. Being an '80s music blogger of the highest repute, I che...

Four years. That's a pretty nice chunk of time. We're talking the span of an entire U.S. presidential term, or the length between Wo...

Oh, fine, I guess I better do one more post on Madonna. You know what? It's OK. I've achieved what I set out to achieve. I've ma...

Perhaps a year or so ago, my former co-blogger Yoggoth posed a quick pop music game to me, via random text: "Name a song you really lik...

Sailing through the Seven Seas of YouTube, one can find clips of Belinda Carlisle on every conceivable interview program known to man, from ...