Replacements’ Tommy Stinson Brings Back Bash & Pop
After The Replacements broke up everyone who loved the group expected Paul Westerberg to continue putting out great music and he did not disappoint. What people did not expect was that Tommy Stinson would go onto record a gem of an album, but that’s exactly what he did with Bash & Pop’s Friday Night is Killing Me. At the time it came out label politics, timing, and many of the things that hurt The Replacements...
80s/90s Alt-Rockers Buffalo Tom Making a New Album
While Buffalo Tom had its biggest successes in the 1990s, the band was born at the University of Massachusetts in the 1980s. The group — Chris Colbourn (bass/vocals), Tom Maginnis (drums), and Bill Janovitz (guitar/vocals) — reached its commercial peak in the 90s with Let Me Come Over, followed by Big Red Letter Day, and Sleepy Eyed. After 1998’s Smitten the group mostly stopped being an active band, though it never...
Shannen Doherty Taking Part in Heathers TV Show
Heathers may have come toward the end of the decade in 1988, but the film created perfect characters that screamed 1980s while also being timeless. Shannen Doherty, of course, played Heather Duke — the female leads– in the original movie and now she has taken to Instagram to tout her involvement in the upcoming reboot series on TV Land. What roll will Shannen Doherty play? The actress won’t be reprising her classic...
The Breakfast Club’s Judd Nelson Has Been Busy
After his 1980s Breakfast Club/St. Elmo’s Fire heyday Judd Nelson saw his career momentum falter. He never stopped working, but aside from a three-year run in the forgettable Brooke Shields sitcom Suddenly Susan his work was mostly one-off appearances on shows. Now, Nelson has a bit of a comeback on his hands. He’s not a movie star anymore, but he has thrown off the curse of being recognizable and perhaps typecast from his...
New Fashion Exhibit Remembers Princess Diana
In the 80s there were few fashion icons who stood out like Princess Diana. While her life turned out to not be the fairy tale many thought it was, she was to many the people’s princess. Though she never ascended to the throne (and eventually divorced Prince Charles) she was for some a the embodiment of the Disney Princesses — a real person who style of dress was admired and revered. Now, The Guardian reports that an...
