Nineteen Hundred Eighties

Pat Blashill’s photo book “Texas Is the Reason” captures the energy and anarchy of Austin’s burgeoning scene between 1979 and 1987. Source

You already listen to Cheap Trick, Big Star and the Raspberries. Now hear a dozen irresistibly upbeat tunes by smaller bands made between 1977 and 1983. Source

The bands’ looks were over-the-top. So were the aesthetics of their clips for MTV. Source

The album, recorded in the mid-1980s but released this month, tells us more about the trumpeter’s fascinating final years than a new documentary does. Source


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