Rare video for “Give Me Back My Man” — not sure why, but I never saw this one on MTV back in the day. Well, never mind, it’s great fun to watch it now. This is still my all-time favorite B-52’s song, and the video really lets you see Cindy work her magic on it. […]
Entries Tagged as 'New Wave'
Music: The B-52’s, “Give Me Back My Man”
May 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Culture, Music, New Wave, Video
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Roundup: The Bitch Is Back Edition
May 11th, 2007 · Comments Off on Roundup: The Bitch Is Back Edition · Apple, Comedy, Comics, Culture, Doctor Who, Health, Healthcare Crisis, Human Rights, LGBT, Media, Music, New Wave, News, Peace, Pet Food, Politics, Science Fiction, Tech, Torture, TV
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Roundup: Kansas Twister Edition
May 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Comedy, Culture, Doctor Who, Education, Food, Health, HIV/AIDS, Journalism, LGBT, Media, Music, New Wave, News, Politics, Science Fiction, TV, Video
Kansas governor says it’s been harder to deal with the recent tornado disaster because the war in Iraq has put such a drain on the state’s National Guard. Both personnel and equipment that should have been available to the state are currently tied up in Iraq. “Here in Kansas, about 50 percent of our trucks […]
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Music: Amnesty International’s Instant Karma — The Campaign to Save Darfur
May 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Activism, Culture, Human Rights, iTunes, Music, New Wave, News
Green Day’s cover version of “Working Class Hero” by John Lennon was released May 1 as the third single from Instant Karma: the Campaign to Save Darfur, Amnesty International’s album of Lennon covers by various artists to raise awareness about the human rights catastrophe in the Sudan. All proceeds from the album will go to […]
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Music: Tim Finn and His Imaginary Kingdom
May 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Culture, Music, New Wave, News, Video
I posted a little over a week ago about the forthcoming Crowded House album, Time on Earth, from Neil Finn and his bandmates. But there’s even more Finn news: Last week also saw the U.S. release of a new solo album from the other Finn brother, Tim Finn — the founder of Split Enz and […]
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Suzi Quatro Rocks Hard in Times Square
April 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Culture, Film, Journal, LGBT, Music, New Wave, Video
Ah, another thrilling YouTube find! Some of you will know Suzi Quatro as the most prominent female glam rocker of the early 70s, racking up a string of hits with Chapman-Chinn numbers like “Can the Can.” Some will know her only from her soft-rock duet “Stumblin’ In” with Chris Norman, which you have to have […]
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New Crowded House Album Due in July; Johnny Marr on Two Songs
April 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Culture, Music, New Wave, News, Video
Earlier this year it was announced that Neil Finn was getting back together with bassist Nick Seymour and guitarist Mark Hart to reform Crowded House. The new version will of course be missing its original drummer, the late, lamented Paul Hester, whose duties will be taken over by former Beck drummer Matt Sherrod. The band […]
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Totally Different Head: Devo on Square Pegs!
April 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Comedy, Culture, Music, New Wave, TV, Video
It’s been a tough week in the news, to put it mildly, so I feel like breaking out something special to brighten up the weekend. Like, how about the New Waviest episode of one of the New Waviest TV shows ever — the infamous Devo episode of Square Pegs! DJ Kristine of Planet Earth Chicago […]
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News Roundup: Indirect Role-Playing Edition
April 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Adobe, Business, Comics, Culture, Food, Hate Crimes, Health, LGBT, Media, Music, New Wave, News, Politics, Software
Gonzales is now helpfully explaining that he only had an “indirect” role in the firing of the U.S. attorneys. Yes, just like I had an indirect role in what happened to the passersby who got hit by those water balloons I dropped yesterday. I mean, all I did was let go! It was the water […]
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DVD: The History Boys
April 13th, 2007 · Comments Off on DVD: The History Boys · Culture, Education, Film, History, LGBT, Lit, New Wave, News, Poetry, Theater
The History Boys is finally being released on DVD this coming Tuesday, April 17. According to this review, the DVD comes with a solid curriculum of extras: Writer Alan Bennett and director Nicholas Hynter share an informative track addressing the changes made to the play but, sadly, do not discuss the interesting cast in personal […]
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News Roundup: Dinosaur Dig Edition
April 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Apple, Business, Comedy, Culture, Feminism, Hate Crimes, Health, Human Rights, LGBT, Music, Nature, New Wave, News, Politics, Science, Software, TV
The White House is claiming that oops, they managed to lose a whole bunch of critically important emails, but as any decent techie knows, deleted emails aren’t really deleted. Someone better sit poor Karl Rove down and explain to him about file recovery utilities. Speaking of recovering things thought lost forever — scientists have recovered […]
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Music: “We Can Get Together”
April 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Culture, Journal, Music, New Wave, Peoria, Video
Here’s Icehouse’s ecstatically edgy crossover single “We Can Get Together” from 1980, which never fails to give me that particular New Wave frisson that results from just the right ratio of synthesizers to spiky guitars complemented by a sublime angst-in-my-pants vocal style. And oh yeah, they were still called Flowers when they made this video, […]
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Music: “Good Morning, Britain”
April 5th, 2007 · Comments Off on Music: “Good Morning, Britain” · Culture, Music, New Wave, Video
As a follow-up to my Roddy Frame post from a week or two back, here’s Roddy teaming up with Mick Jones from The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite to do something energetic, political, and way danceable: the ever-fabulous “Good Morning Britain,” from Aztec Camera’s album Stray, released as a single in 1990. And this is […]
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Music: Tim Curry, “I Do the Rock”
April 2nd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Culture, Film, Music, New Wave, Video
Time for a little Monday music pick-me-up! This one needs no introduction: it’s the inimitable Mr. Tim Curry doing that thing he does. Nobody prances better.
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