Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The perfect cure to your manic moment might just be listening to “Manic Monday.” So many of the Bangles songs are just what you ...

The music industry pushed the group behind hits like “Manic Monday” and “Eternal Flame” hard, then pulled them apart. A new book tells their story. By Bob Mehr Reporting from Los Angeles The first ...

A Vulture series in which artists share the stories and strategy behind their lead singles. “The momentum started to gather like a snowball going down the hillside. We started to get bigger and bigger ...

Originals, the latest posthumous release from The Prince Estate, compiles 15 previously unheard songs Prince wrote and demoed for other artists. Among the familiar titles penned by Prince are Sheila E ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. '80s rock icon Susanna Hoffs is 67 and still dancing nonstop. Hoffs led the Bangles, her all-girl band, to music superstardom ...

A year after Simon & Garfunkel released their 1964 debut Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., Paul Simon relocated to London, England. During his time abroad, Simon was writing songs, many of which would make ...

1986 was the big breakthrough year for L.A.-based pop-rock band The Bangles. After touring heavily in support of their 1984 Columbia Records debut All Over the Place, the all-female quartet needed to ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. It's true enough ...

In one giant leap, The Bangles transformed from a critically acclaimed but little-known group to one of the biggest bands on the planet. It took place on the album Different Light, which took the ...

Back in 2013, four of the main players in Los Angeles' often overlooked paisley underground scene managed to get together for two successful shows, one here and one in San Francisco. The bands — The ...