Topic: ’80s music

Rick Springfield (Getty/Kevin Winter)

"Jessie's Girl" to God, the devil & sex

Kevin Smokler
(Getty/Bloomsbury Publishing/Salon)

LCD Soundsystem's coming-of-age moment

Ryan Leas
Midnight Oil (Star Max/IPX)

The return of Midnight Oil

Annie Zaleski
The band Toto accepting a Grammy Award, Feb. 23, 1983. (AP)

Why Toto's "Africa" endures

Annie Zaleski
The Psychedelic Furs; Depeche Mode; Echo & the Bunnymen (Legacy/Sire)

1987: The year alt-rock broke

Annie Zaleski
The Cars (Elektra)

Why the Cars Matter

Annie Zaleski
Depeche Mode (Sony Music)

Synthpop politics

Annie Zaleski
Leonard Cohen (Getty/Evening Standard)

Leonard Cohen's impact

Scott Timberg
Taylor Swift, Kanye West (Reuters/Danny Moloshok/AP/Zacharie Scheurer)

Team Taylor or Team Kanye?

Scott Timberg
Prince (AP/Rtnroth)

The enduring power of Prince

Scott Timberg
Michael Stipe performs "The Man Who Sold the World" on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" (NBC)

We missed you, Michael Stipe

Scott Timberg
The Feelies perform in "Something Wild" (MGM Studios)

When The Feelies shattered

Scott Timberg
Gordon Gano with Violent Femmes performs during the Last Summer on Earth Tour 2015 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre on Sunday, July 12, 2015, in Atlanta. (Photo by Robb D. Cohen/Invision/AP) (AP/Robb D. Cohen)

Gordon Gano speaks

Scott Timberg
(beathappening.dominorecordco.com)

Punk without the macho

Scott Timberg
(AP/Dan Hallman/Reuters/Danny Moloshok)

Swift lends Adams relevance

Scott Timberg
(Invision)

Prachi Gupta

Rick Springfield: Writing tips

Rick Springfield