For those who tuned into the radio regularly throughout the 1980s, certain songs became inescapable, playing on what felt like an endless loop. Tracks like "I Just Called to Say I Love You," "Wake Me ...

When MTV debuted in 1981, it ushered in a golden era of music videos. The network’s launch was groundbreaking for artists everywhere. Suddenly, music was no longer a purely audible medium. Visuals ...

This is one of our favorite topics of discussion at NPR Music: What was the worst and best decade for pop music? We'll post a survey later asking you what you think, but I say the worst is the '80s.

Journey moved more than 6 million albums in America in the '70s, most of them after Steve Perry joined in time for 1978's Infinity. Not bad. Then their second proper studio album of the following ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Every generation naturally feels as if the ...

The Des Moines Symphony Orchestra is offering back-to-back free concerts over the upcoming Labor Day weekend highlighting the music of two popular, consecutive decades from the last century. Symphony ...