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If you want to hear Rusty Egan on Visage’s biggest hit, “Fade to Grey,” you need to get the single version. Hear that DUUSSCHHH… extended hit from the Simmons SDS? …

Eddie Bengtsson‘s record collection has been a big influence on the sound of Page. The singles of Silicon Teens provided the template for the band. John Foxx-era Ultravox! and early …

In the middle of the new documentary, Nash the Slash Rises Again!, a former roadie describes how anyone alternative was treated by the rockers and rednecks of 1970s and 80s …

There is an argument that Emmon’s shift from the electropop of “High Horses” and “Lips on Fire” to the darkwave of “Decisions” isn’t a step change so much as a …