Offbeat Tracks

Even the Queen of Pop had to start somewhere. In honor of her birthday, we jump back to the late 1970s and follow the genesis of her brilliant debut album, which has her most solo writing credits and was made despite producer squabbles.

A girl group named after a song by another girl group! How deliciously '80s indeed. Find a pom-pom, make it into a wig, and sing along with us through the short career of these dance-pop delights.

We revisit a group that dumped two sexy singles into a trashcan and then disappeared forever.

We go poppin' and lockin' into the weird wild sounds of LA street dancers in 1983, and wonder what Lucinda Dickey is up to these days.

For our debut episode, we thought it fitting to pay tribute to the most beautiful woman who ever lived, a sultry pop goddess like no other: Vanity. We run through the life and career of Miss Denise Matthews and attempt to make peace with the abrupt shift in her life and subsequent abandonment of her fame.