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 ...

In our previous ’50s, ’60s and ’70s examinations of Feel-Bad Hits of the Summer, a song had only to depress, distress and oppress listeners on its own merits, be it regrettable lyrics, ill-chosen ...

Welcome to the jungle. We got fun and games. The Eighties are one of the weirdest eras ever for music. It’s a decade of excess. It’s also a decade of INXS. It’s got big hair, big drums, big shoulder ...

Did you ever dig deep enough to find out the second best songs of certain one-hit wonder bands? Well, we did and in this feature you'll find that some of the '80s and '90s biggest one-hit wonder acts ...

For its 15th year, Des Moines’ annual downtown music festival moved a few minutes south – a short drive that seemed to change the fest entirely. ⁠ The 80/35 music festival, held for years in downtown ...