June 1963 …girl groups take over

DURING THE LAST week of November 1963, the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was released in the United Kingdom. That same week, a young Brit named Laurence Juber started playing guitar. It wouldn’t

Fondly remembered this month...

‘Magnifique’, B-side A B-side cut from the first Scissor Sisters album, this track is a manifesto for the band’s approach to pop music. A high-camp and flirtatious description of a handsome piece of t

RIDE ON TIME BLACK BOX (DECONSTRUCTION) Was anyone, in the final months of 1989, really fooled by the full-throated vocals coming out of the mouth of Katrin Quinol when Black Box performed this huge h

JIM HOSKING REWRITES A HISTORIC MUSICAL UNION WITH BIZARRE BALLS-OUT COMEDY EBONY & IVORY

This month’s forgotten classic: a fated ’80s collaboration that vaulted over the wall of sound.