Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil and Tommy Lee are all together (and according to the band, getting along swimmingly). Mötley Crüe’s newest album debuted in the Billboard Chart’s top five, and the band is out on a wildly successful national tour. One might think it was 1986, if only for the fact that [...]

  As she approaches 50, Belinda Carlisle sees things a bit differently from when she was a young musician on the way up in the ’80s. For one thing, the former lead vocalist of the Go-Gos isn’t impressed with today’s U.S. music scene. “The American music scene is much worse than in Europe,” Carlisle says [...]

  In 2028, when 3D holodecks are in every strip mall and we’ll be able to have games downloaded directly into our brains, we’ll look back wistfully on the hits of 2008. Wasn’t “Grand Theft Auto IV” quaint, we’ll muse. Aren’t our alien overlords much nicer than that nasty Locust Horde in “Gears of War [...]

  It’s not easy to move around Comic-Con’s crowded exhibition hall when you’re carrying six bags and a cardboard box full of stuff.  But Scott Zubrick, 30, doesn’t look at all inconvenienced as he lugs his packages around – he’s on a rush from being around so many toys. Inside his bags he’s got the [...]

Just as MTV was gaining a foothold in the world of cable TV in the early 1980s, movie musicals went into hiding. What was to blame? The glitzy New Wave/disco of Olivia Newton-John’s XANADU? The crash-and-burn of the Village People’s first (and only) big-screen vehicle CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC? The less-than-gargantuan grosses of GREASE 2? [...]

 There was nothing girly or dainty about this group of hard-rocking female musicians.   LIKE it or not, rock music has largely been the domain of men. While the number of female singer-songwriters who has entered public consciousness is comparable to that of their male counterparts, the same simply cannot be said when it comes [...]

  (PRNewswire)  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures is putting into development a musical remake of MGM’s classic 1983 comedy VALLEY GIRL as a feature film based on an idea by Idealogy, Inc.’s Sean Bailey and Matt Smith. The announcement was made today by Mary Parent, Chairman, Worldwide Motion Picture Group. Utilizing the classic Romeo and Juliet story of [...]

The Rubik’s Cube is set to make a comeback, along with Star Wars and Indiana Jones toys, as one of the most popular toys this Christmas, according to Woolworths. Other toys associated with the 1980s will also be in demand come the end of the year, the retailer predicted. Releasing its list of the top [...]

  Retro Fitness is bringing back the 80s… Yes, go ahead and run to your attic and dig out that spandex jumpsuit, headbands, scrunchie socks, and a pair of Keds sneakers. From the checkered board floors to the old-school music and movies they show during the workouts, it’s a trip back to the ’80s. The [...]

  James Roday and Dulé Hill are reciting the television influences from their favorite decade. “‘Cosby,’ ‘The Facts of Life,’ ‘Family Ties,’” Hill says during a conference call with reporters. “ ‘A Different World,’ ‘Growing Pains.’” “‘Alf,’” Roday adds. “‘Alf’ was sort of like the precursor to ‘Family Guy.’ … ‘Alf’ was getting away with [...]