On December 31, 1989, WFNX 101.7 FM – the wicked cool alternative radio station in Boston – did a “Top 101 Alternative Songs of the 1980s” countdown, based on a listener poll. Now here’s your chance to pick the best alternative track from that very same list! Choose one of the two songs shown and… Read.

In paperback and e-book. A heartfelt celebration of 1980s “alternative” music and the lost art of making a 90-minute mixtape, “Our Mixtapes, Ourselves – The Happy-Sad Story and Soundtrack of Generation X” playfully and poignantly explores why new wave, punk and post-punk music mattered so much to millions of Gen X teens back then — and… Read.