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Who Are the Joneser Boomers Keeping Up With?

Bernard Starr | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, The Brady Bunch, Leave It to Beaver, Baby Boomers, Social Change, Social Security, Jones Generation, Bankruptcy, Downsizing, Television Ratings, Economy, Boomerang Generation, Economic Crisis, Adolescents, Mortgage Crisis, Pensions, Jonathan-Pontell, Recession, New Wave, Disco, Television, Marriage, Young Adults, Saving for Retirement, Jonesers, Watergate, Jfk, Fifty News
Bernard Starr

If you think the Wall Street protests are formidable, watch out when the boomers fully wake up to their plight and mobilize. Then you will know: It's one solid generation to reckon with.

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Happy 60th Birthday, Sting! Relive His Best Musical Moments

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: The Police, Sting, 1980s Music, Pop Music, Rock Music, The Police Reunion, Sting 60th Birthday, Sting Birthday, 1980s Rock Music, 80s Music, New Wave, Fifty News

Sting may be turning 60 on Oct. 2, but the self-professed "King of Pain" shows no signs of slowing down. The Police's former frontman is ringing in t...

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Duran Duran by David Lynch: Romance, Redemption and Rocking Good Fun

S.X. Rosenstock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chrissie Hynde, Dance Music, Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, Beth Ditto, My Chemical Romance, Madonna, Mark Ronson, The Mayan Theater, Kelis, Britpop, New Wave, Mtv, All You Need Is Now, Nick Rhodes, David Lynch, Duran Duran, Alice Echols, Barbarella, Simon Le Bon, The Waitresses, Roxy Music, Donna Summer, Los Angeles News
S.X. Rosenstock

Duran Duran's guys have been lovers, not fighters, and they've endured incomprehension and ridicule for their devotion to beauty. They've also sold millions upon millions of records.

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Films in Review: Two of the Next Generation for Francophiles

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Enfante Terrible, France, French, New Wave, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Xavier Dolan, Film Comment Selects, Isild Le Besco, Cannes Film Festival, Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Youth and tradition won another round in Heartbeats, the latest film by French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan. He tells a tale of Montrealer 20-somethings and their fractured threesome.

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France's Neo-New Wavers Tahiti 80 Return

Salvatore Bono | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paris, France, Interview, Xavier Boyer, Tahiti 80, Ed Banger Records, New Wave, Alternative Rock, Daft Punk, Phoenix, New York News
Salvatore Bono

Tahiti 80's The Past, The Present & The Possible is a fun and dynamic record that may very well be their ticket back into America.

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The Bestest 2010 -- Tunage

Marc Ruxin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestest, Punk, Top Ten, Power Pop, Pop, Soul, New Wave, Indie Rock, Entertainment News
Marc Ruxin

In a world without record stores, live shows fill the void, and the universal language of music is never more tangible than experienced from right in front of the stage at Fillmore, Coachella and the Greek, and this is what I listened to.

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Spot The Difference: A Conversation With Squeeze, Plus Don Henley Gets an Apology

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brian Wilson, Glenn Tilbrook, Difford & Tilbrook, Squeeze, A&M Records, Spotify, The English Beat, Jake Riviera, Curtis Mayfield, Elvis Presley, New Wave, Chris Difford, Elvis, Jool Holland, Paul Carrack, Little Richard, Cheap Trick, Elvis Costello, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Squeeze's new album Spot The Difference is a revisit of previous hits and classics. As the title suggests, it's literally hard to spot the difference on many of these songs. Why did they record a project like this?

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Take on She: My Wife's Obsession With A-Ha And How I Got Sucked Into the Madness

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Pop Music, A-Ha, 1980s, Morten Harket, Synth-Pop, U2, Magne Furuholmen, Depeche Mode, Norway, New Wave, Whitney Houston, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

If you're American, you know a-ha -- if you know them at all -- as the purveyors of the bubbly and infectious 1985 synth-pop hit "Take On Me."

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Thank God It's Thursday: Book Expo '09 & The 27s plus The Singular Thomas Dolby

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nikola Tesla, Italian, Brian Jones, Catholicism, Josh Hunter, New Wave, Eric Segalstad, Dolby's Cube, Who, The Magic Show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Stevie Wonder, Lene Lovich, Dynasty, Margaret Thatcher, Burt Bacharach, Albert Einstein, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Dan Hicks, Peter Ham, The Kushans, Albert Schatz, Jesus, Wicked, Stephen Schwartz, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Mario Puzo, Depeche Mode, Poughkeepsie, Rose Bowl, Prefab Sprout, Thompson Twins, Roger Waters, Foreigner, Entertainment News, Carol De Gierer, Doug Henning, Pink Floyd, Enchanted, Joni Mitchell, Chris Bell, India, Unplugged, Promises in the Dark, Thomas Dolby, Poughkeepsie Journal, Live Aid, Jim Morrison, The Wall, Ronald Reagan, Mephisto on Wing, Latin, Broadway, Neil Young, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Issa, The 27 Club, Janis Joplin, Grand Theft Auto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Antoinette Pannard, David Bowie, Mtv, MTV Unplugged, Amazon, Kathleen Beller, Bill Clinton, Angels & Demons, Pocahontas, Albert Schweitzer, Kurt Cobain, George Clinton, Bookexpo, Robert Johnson, Grammy Awards, Best Buy, Lois Drake, Pop Music, The Godfather, Jazz, Indiana Jones, Howard Jones, The Betsy, New Age, Def Leppard, Jimi Hendrix, Robyn Hitchcock, Dan Brown, Pippin, Godspell, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

This year's BookExpo in New York City had its usual small arena of publishers at gussied-up kiosks hawking the latest and greatest by writers known and unknown.

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HuffPost Reviews: Leonard Cohen - Live In London / Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! / Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins - Sara Watkins

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Linda Ronstadt, Dino Soldo, Richard Thomspon, John Paul Jones, The Chieftains, Jimmie Rogers, Tim O'Brien, Cylon, Capitol Records, Dave Rawlings, Battlestar Galactica, Neil Diamond, Kris Kristofferson, Led Zeppelin, Robbie Robertson, Bela Fleck, The McGarrigle Sisters, Sean Watkins, New Wave, Sara Watkins, Benmont Tench, Punk, Leonard Cohen, Gillian Welch, U2, Warner Bros Records, Bow Wow Wow, Entertainment News, Rickie Lee Jones, Bill Adama, Joni Mitchell, Jeff Buckley, Bob Metzger, Pop, O2 Arena, The Webb Sisters, Chrissie Hynde, Adidas, The Strokes, Kate Voegle, Bob Wills, Paul Simon, Chris Eldridge, Sharon Robinson, Edie Brickell, Rock, Nickel Creek, Nick Zinner, Rafael Bernardo Gayol, Steve Lillywhite, Rayna Gellert, Ronnie McCoury, The Louvin Brothers, Jon Mark, White Stripes, Alex Woodard, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Elektra Records, Bob Marley, Dan Wilson, Chris Thile, Javier Mas, Avenue C, Karen O, Laura Roslin, Roscoe Beck, Alternative, Bob Dylan, New York City, Tom Waits, Emmylou Harris, John Hartford, Chris Rea, Ben Lee, Jon Brion, Annabella, Svengali, I-Threes, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Leonard's voice really has grown better over the years, Yeah Yeah's new album is 42 minutes of electronically retro-licious pop, and Sara Watkins is as a serious lyricist with a mission.

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