Rob Sheffield

Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock &amp roll cool that had nothing to…

At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable…

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether…

Most of an award-show host’s job is showing up and keeping a cool head…

In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up…

Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history…

It’s kind of amazing how popular ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ is. What other show can boast such…

It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the…

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. ‘The CBS Evening…

Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren’t…

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it…

Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, ‘The Sopranos’ was hatched in…

American Horror’ goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience – ‘Flowers in…

You can’t beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude…

American Horror’ is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would…