Category: New Wave/80’s Music
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Armageddon In The Morning (The Alarm: “Sigma” Album Review)
(This is a review of the new album “Sigma” by The Alarm by way of a very personal story about one of the included songs. If you just want the nuts and bolts, feel free to skip to the end). It has been, so far, without a doubt, one of…
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Never Let The Fires Die: The Alarm Podcast : Episode #4
Note: Jeff and I produce and host a podcast for the 80’s band The Alarm. The Alarm are still going in 21st century, making new music, and inspiring their fans. We’ve been spending much of our “online” time working on the podcast over the past couple months, which is…
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Never Let The Fire Die (podcast episode #2)
Jeff and I host the official podcast for the band The Alarm. They had a bunch of alternative hits in the 80’s (The Stand, 68 Guns, Strength, Spirit Of ’76. Rain The Summertime, Rescue Me, Sold Me Down The River). They new 21st century version of the band…
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Never Let The Fire Die (podcast #1)
In this inaugural episode of “Never Let The Fires Die” The Official Podcast For The Alarm, we start at “the end”. We discuss the last officially released song credited to “The Alarm.” Then we delve back to try to understand the meaning of that song, the song credit “The Alarm”,…
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Bob Mould’s See A Little Light “CASSINGLE” – Old Crap from My Attic
By 8bitjeff (Jeff Fulton) When Husker Du went “KAPUT” in the late 80’s, both Bob Mould (lead guitar, song writer and vocals) and Grant Hart (drums, song writer and vocals) went their separate ways, each going on to create intriguing new musical projects. Both Hart’s solo effort, Intolerance and…
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8bitrocket Goes Backstage
8bitrocket Goes Backstage I usually don’t talk about this, but besides working on Flash web sites and games at my day job and in my spare time, I also run the official web site for the 80’s new wave/rock band The Alarm. I struck-up a friendship with the lead singer…
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Forgotten Heroes From The Teflon Decade: 80’s Metal / Rock / Alt / Country : The Punk – Grudge bridge
I am just now finishing my fourth Chuck Klosterman book. On the subject of music, he is an absolute genius. While his influences in the 80’s were mostly Heavy metal and hard rock, Steve and mine tended a little more toward punk/power pop/The Who influenced rock and an early form…
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80′s Rock Heros Find A Place For Their Music: Mike Peters , Mitch Easter (Interview)
With record companies falling apart at the seams, and CD sales in the toilet you would think that 80’s Guitar artists who are still trying to make music would have it worse than anyone else. They were overlooked at the time, history has not been kind to them, and these…
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