The Bangles made such an impact on the 80s music scene that it’s hard to believe they only released three albums in that decade. It might be even harder to grasp that their recorded output stayed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1986 was the big breakthrough year for L.A.-based pop-rock band The Bangles. After touring heavily in support of their 1984 ...

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 ...

Girl groups were becoming popular again in the 1980s, and The Bangles were one of the best. Their eight-year collaboration produced some of the most essential hits of the decade, including “Manic ...

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 ...

Hoffs says her introduction to Prince's music and her introduction to the man himself came in quick succession, starting one day in 1984 when she heard "When Doves Cry" playing on the radio. At the ...

In 1966, folk duo Simon & Garfunkel — made up of musicians Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel — released the song "A Hazy Shade of Winter" as a stand-alone single, where it peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard ...

The Bangles‘ Susanna Hoffs will release a covers album, Bright Lights, on November 12 via Baroque Folk Records. On it she covers songs by Nick Drake, Syd Barrett, The Velvet Underground, Chris Bell, ...

Steinberg crafted classics for Madonna, the Bangles, Heart, Whitney Houston, JoJo, Cyndi Lauper, Demi Lovato and others. By Gary Trust “The idea for that song came from personal experience,” Billy ...

Last week, our column The Number Ones covered the Bangles' 1989 monster ballad "Eternal Flame," and it gave some of us a chance to reflect on how that song absolutely rules. Then, this past weekend, ...