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Kathy Valentine, the original and current bass player, for the 1980s pop music phenomenon, The Go-Go's, has released her autobiography.  Titled All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir, Kathy goes behind the scenes of The Go-Go's from their beginnings to their collapse and eventual resurrection, as a band. This is not a scathing tell-all filled with gossip and backstabbing.  On the contrary, Kathy Valentine's book delves deep into her personal life, from her upbringing in …

Can you believe this?  Devo's Freedom of Choice, the 3rd album, by the legendary New Wave band, that contained their groundbreaking hit, Whip It, is 40 years old. When discussing writing the tracks that appeared on Freedom of Choice, Devo co-founder and bassist, Gerald Casale, said that they were modelling the songs after classic and current R&B and were heavily inspired by the Gap Band and early Prince.  Knowing that they would lose both their record contract with …

                                                                     Are you a fan of the 1993 classic rock infused stoner film, Dazed and Confused, about the last day of school for a bunch of Texas teens, set in 1976? I don't know a music or movie buff who isn't. It was a pioneering film that launched the careers of …

Ironic as it may be, that the day after 4/20, is the birthday for 2 musical pioneers in the genre of Alternative Rock. Now granted, the term Alternative Rock didn't really exist, as a term, until the late 1980s-early 1990s, with the onset of bands like Jane's Addiction and the Seattle Grunge style groups. However, the term has come to symbolize the entire make up of all the different sub-genres of Punk, Grunge, New Wave, Gothic, etc. So, with that, while each of the musicians who are celebrat …