The (mostly) 80s Music Podcast

Kathy Valentine of The Go-Gos Interview for the 80s music podcast "What Difference Does It Make"

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Doug Clifford joins us at What Difference Does It Make. Our discussion starts with the Golliwogs, the...

It's another great talk on What Difference Does It Make as Glen Sobel tells us the secret to getting into Alice Cooper's Band, his...

Glen Sobel, drummer extraordinaire for Alice Cooper and Hollywood Vampires tells us about his start in the business and  the prep that...

We got the opportunity to talk with Producer Steven Wolfe and Director Rachel Lee Goldenberg for the just released re-imagining of the...

Our talk continues as Leslie Kogan Gold tells us all the exciting ideas she has to keep Andrew Gold's music fresh and exciting.  Besides...

Leslie Kogan Gold talks about musician and songwriter Andrew Gold

We talk to Craig Rosen, the man literally wrote the book on Billboard Number One Albums and R.E.M.  We dig into Craig's origin story as a...

If you've listened to our show at all you know that Holly and Dave ask each other music trivia questions at the end of each episode.  JC...

We are thrilled to get the opportunity to talk to Nova Scotia radio legend, JC Douglas. We talk about all things radio including first...

Please, please tell me now! What was the number 1 song on the World Famous KROQ's 1983 countdown?

Well in this time of social distancing we heed the words of David Bowie, "I don't want to go out.  I want to say in.  And get things...

Did you see the video? Holly continually swats away the question.  Okay maybe she  didn't see the videos, but she knows the songs.  We...

This week's episode feels just like the video for "The One Thing by INXS as we devour Randy's donuts and try to figure out how to...

This episode includes talk of cover songs, alcohol and break-ups.  No, we have not switched formats to country music but each song we...

Counting down the hits from 1983 as played on radio station KROQ in Los Angeles entails more rabbits holes to go down.  We end up...

This Ep is dominated by Austrian superstar, Falco.  We try to talk German, Alles klar? Der Kommissar and fail miserably.  Falco talk...

This episode we  debate the significance of the age seventeen and the importance of the marimba. We wonder if Peter Garrett is 8 feet...

This week we talk about songs we totally love like Roddy Frame and Aztec Camera and songs we that left us oblivious.  Plus more...

From haircuts (A Flock of Seagulls vs. Kajagoogoo) to TV and Film actors (Spandau Ballet) to literally parenthesis telling you to  (Go...