On August 1, 1981, just after midnight, a new cable network called MTV, Music Television, went on the air for the very first time with these words by one of MTV’s creators, John Lack, “Ladies […] ...

How well do you know your Queen, Milli Vanilli, and Madonna hits? Test your knowledge of the biggest songs of the '80s with this quiz.

MTV's music-only channels all but went dark on New Year's Eve in 2025. The network did a fitting send-off for seven of its ...

If you were an 80s kid, you definitely listened to these hit songs while riding in the family car on the way to school on ...

When discussing the best rock albums from every year of the 1980s, Synchronicity by The Police and Back in Black by AC/DC ...

For anyone who came of age in the era of big hair, mixtapes and MTV, the walls of their bedrooms were sacred spaces to show off their love for the ultimate teen idols. From pop sensations and film ...

In Alabama, a new Huntsville Museum of Art exhibition shows one of the 20th century’s most famous artists in a fresh way.

The Smithereens, known for the hits “Blood and Roses,” “Only a Memory” and “A Girl Like You” that hit MTV and college radio ...

Having well-constructed synthesizer-driven pop-rock songs wasn’t enough for the Fixx during the early 1980s. The arty band ...

In 1995, US film-maker Tamra Davis travelled to Australia to capture the one-off Summersault tour on her camcorder. Thirty years on she has made The Best Summer, an intimate snapshot of an era that ca ...

The '00s had a bevy of one-hit wonders across all genres. The artists dropped a hit that stuck with us, but why didn't they?

The soundtrack of the ’80s is coming to Las Vegas this weekend as Wang Chung joins Howard Jones, Modern English and The ...