Race Cars : The Extreme Rally
Popdose (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The Cars were on an extended hiatus in 1987 and its members were off doing their own things. Ric Ocasek and Elliot Easton had both released solo discs since the group’s last studio album, Heartbeat City, in 1984. Since Lakewood, Ohio’s Benjamin Orr handled the vocals on that album’s biggest hit, “Drive,” it [...]
BORN AGAIN 80'S (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
NEVER SAY NEVER (ORIGINAL EXTENDED 12" VERSION) Romeo Void were a New Wave band from San Francisco, California who were active from 1979 to 1985. Their popularity was primarily in alternative and college radio, and as a dynamic performing act. The original band members met at the San Francisco Art Institute. Most of the band members were also visual artists and did their own album...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008
Filed under: Rock Almanac Spinner.com : On This Date in 1949: The Cars' vocalist and songwriter Ric Ocasek is born Richard Otcasek in Baltimore.The Almanac Advises for March 23: "A brand-new car depreciates in value the first day you drive it home. However, its worth will stabilize the... Read more
Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008
Happy Birthday to "Into The West" actress Keri Russell (1976), New Jersey Nets basketball star Jason Kidd (1973), "21 Jump Street" star Richard Grieco (1965), film actress Hope Davis (1964), "Pulp Fiction" actress Amanda Plummer (1957), soul singer Chaka Khan (1953), The Cars lead singer Ric Ocasek (1949), folk singer David Olney (1948), [...] Read more!
VH1 (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
2006 The Cars announce they are reforming -- but without gangling/charismatic frontman Ric Ocasek. Singing duties will instead be handled by Todd "Can We Be Friends" Rundgren.2005 U2, The Pretenders, Buddy Guy, the O'Jays, and Percy Sledge are all inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a dinner in New York. 2004 DJ Casper's "Cha Cha Slide (All Around The World)" knocks Britney Spear's "Toxic"...
BORN AGAIN 80'S (Free subscription) | 11/21/2007
HELLO AGAIN (ORIGINAL 12" REMIX VERSION) (ELECTRIC LOOSE GHETTO MONKEYS MIX) (2007 BSF ELECTRIC CAR MIX) The Cars were a Boston, Massachusetts band that emerged from the early punk scene in the late 1970s and were signed to Elektra Records in 1977. The band were at the forefront in merging 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synth-oriented pop that was then becoming popular and which would flower...
Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 11/08/2007
The Motion City Soundtrack secret is finally getting out.
Big Action! (Free subscription) | 10/18/2007
I recently picked up a Cars anthology -- this one, to be specific -- and was pretty well blown away by how top-to-bottom good it was. Not that I didn't have a sense of that going in, but everything just...
Leo's Stuff (Free subscription) | 09/21/2007
The Cars were a great American new wave rock and roll band from 1976 until 1988. They had two fine lead singers in rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek & bassist Benjamin Orr. Greg Hawkes , Elliot Easton, and Dave Robinson made up the rest of the band. Blondie may have had a string of number one hits and Talking Heads may have won the hearts of the critics, but the Cars were the most successful American new...
extrawack! (Free subscription) | 06/29/2007
One of the highlights of my career in media so far has been writing a weekly soccer column about the MetroStars (now New York Red Bulls ) for a couple years for the widely-acclaimed but now-defunct New York Sports Express . I was recruited to write for NYSX by its editor, New York City underground sportswriting legend Spike Vrusho. I'd known Spike for a few years through shared grills and tailgate...
