This piece was written for the KCRW music documentary podcast Lost Notes. This season, the poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib explores a single year: 1980 - the brilliant, awkward and sometimes ...

Not a remix record, not exactly a tribute, and certainly not a new album by The Six Parts Seven, Lost Notes From Forgotten Songs may define a new category of record: third-party re-imagination. The ...

The writer and poet's seven-part season extends far beyond a look at the state of the industry 40 years ago. There are seven episodes in “Lost Notes: 1980,” the latest season of the KCRW podcast ...

Check out another KCRW podcast: Lost Notes. This music documentary series explores artist legacies in the era of #MeToo and cancel culture, and profiles musicians and mold-breakers from decades past.

Most everyone knows “Tainted Love,” the chart-topping synth-pop hit from the early 1980s, but few know the song originated as the B-side of a single recorded in Los Angeles in 1965. The first episode ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In 1980, the horizon was bursting with possibility. The Voyager 1 had confirmed a ...