The weekly '80s flashback extravaganza known as the "Back To The Eighties Show" celebrated their three year anniversary with a throwback-heavy lineup of guests at Canal Room, including JJ Fad, A Flock of Seagulls, Rob Base, Tiffany and Naughty By Nature.

The Back To The Eighties weekly show at Canal Room celebrates its three year anniversary Friday, March 23, with a plethora of flashback faves from everyone's favorite neon-colored decade, including performances by Tiffany, Flock of Seagulls, J.J. Fad, Rob Base and Naughty By Nature! Go 'head, get your 80s on!

Filed under: News , Exclusive Joshua Ostroff, AOL When Rob Base bounded onto the stage of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum for TOGETHER 2012, the United Jewish Appeal fundraiser may have been an unlikely event but the venue was rather apropos, what with all the dinosaurs in the building. The '80s hip-hop legend no longer performs with his one-time partner DJ E-Z Rock, but Rob Base was part of a stellar old-school hip-hop bill that included a surprisingly fantastic Sugarhill Gang , expectedly fierce Naughty by Nature and a well-fed Young MC . It was also on the eve of a new anthology ...

-- On January 31, the New York avant-pop band Hospitality will release their new  self-titled album via  Merge . Check out album cut "Friends of Friends" here . --  Giant Single: Profile Records Rap Anthology collects 31 tracks released on the pioneering New York rap label  Profile Records from 1981 to 1996. It's out January 31 via  Sony . It features Run DMC, DJ Quik, Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, Onyx, Camp Lo, Rammellzee and K-Rob, and more. -- On February 6, Pet Shop Boys will release the compilation  Format via Parlophone . The 38-track release collects B-sides and bonus tracks released from 1996 to 2009 ...

Dank Radio - 2011 FINALE - Live Broadcast (12-31-11) by dankradio Eccentric Levels UP into the New Year: Flying Lotus - Caravan of Delight B. Lewis - Your Two Choices Synkro - Girl (Talk) 123mrk - Pleasure Ital Tek - Phantom B. Lewis - All to Myself Lapalux - There are monsters in this Bed Nativity sums up the year with his definite dance floor favorites: 2 Guys In Venice - Cookies Gesaffelstein - Viol Dillon Francis & Diplo feat. Maluca - Que Que feat. Maluca (Torro Torro Remix) Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock - It Takes Two Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix) Michael Jackson - Billie Jean Cosmic Kids - Reginald's ...

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And they only just now got around to "Hip Hop Hooray." The fourth installment better have some Monie Love and Queen Latifah, nah right? Watch and marvel at what's rapidly becoming a TimeLife collection we'll call House Parrrtttaaaayyy : History of Rap: Sugarhill Gang - "Rapper's Delight" Run-DMC - "Peter Piper" Beastie Boys - "Paul Revere" A Tribe Called Quest - "Award Tour" Digital Underground - "The Humpty Dance" Snoop Dogg feat. Dr. Dre - "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" Tupac Shakur - "California Love" The Notorious B.I.G. - "Juicy" The Roots - "The Seed" Eminem - "My Name Is" Missy Elliott - "Work It" Soulja Boy ...

Rusted Wheel - The Belle Brigade (mp3) At Least I Have You - Mates of State (mp3) Chances Are - Bob Seger & Martina McBride (mp3) My single most favorite trend of the past 20 years in music is the surge in male-female musical groups. Boy-girl duets is nothing new, mind you. Helloooo, Sonny & Cher? Donny & Marie? The history of pop music is replete with duets, from Kiki joining Elton to Rihanna guesting with Eminem or Coldplay. But the fact is this: You put a male and a female in a song, singing into one another, singing around one another, singing on top of one another, and I’ll give your song five times the chance of success. The song doesn’t have to be overtly sexual, because the allure of male-female singing goes far deeper than mere genitalia. It follows a rule similar to Jules' explanation of foot massages in "Pulp Fiction." A male-female duet hits me in the same core as bagpipes or African drums; something primal in me is instantly drawn to it. Trying to name all the current bands on my radar which exploit this weakness is virtually impossible. The Weepies, The Civil Wars, The Rescues, Mates of State, The Belle Brigade, The New Pornographers, Buddy & Julie Miller. Those are all bands who earn chronic rotation in my musical life. Others include The Ting Tings, Lady Antebellum, Sugarland, Swell Season, Acid House Kings, Sleeper Agent, Black-Eyed Peas, COYOL. These are all without even looking at my iTunes collection. There’s no telling how many I’m missing. Glee , the entire show, the cultural phenomenon, rocketed into instant success the minute they turned "Don't Stop Believin'" into a male-female duet. As much as I adore ‘80s music and its place in my heart and history, its male-female combos kinda sucked unless they were one-shot deals. Roxette? Animotion? The Human League? Ace of Base? Just about the only one that comes to mind that earned much respect was Timbuk 3, and that’s a stretch. The ‘70s and ‘80s seemed better about single-gender combinations, groups where multiple dudes shared singing duties or sang on top of one another. Hall & Oates, Tears for Fears, Wham, Alabama, The Eagles, Flock of Seagulls... the Beatles, even. Almost the only obvious exception that stands out is Fleetwood Mac. But you sit me down and ask me to start rattling off all the songs from my life I’ve loved that harnessed the power of a male-female duet, and I might never find time to eat a meal again. Here’s what I came up with just on the way home from dinner tonight: “Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart” - Elton John & Kiki Dee “After All” - Peter Cetera & Cher “The Next Time I Fall” - Peter Cetera & Amy Grant “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” - Tom Petty & Stevie Nicks “Endless Love” - Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “Islands in the Stream” - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton “Kid Fears” - Indigo Girls & Michael Stipe “I Knew You Were Waiting” - Aretha Franklin & George Michael “It’s Only Love” - Bryan Adams & Turner">Tina Turner “Up Where We Belong” - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes “Chances Are” - Bob Seger & Martina McBride “U Got the Look” - Prince & Sheena Easton “Summer Nights” (and most of GREASE) - Olivia Newton John & John Travolta “I’ve Had the Time of My Life” - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes “Don’t Know Much” - Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville “Almost Paradise” - Mike Reno & Ann Wilson These all popped up in 15 minutes or less of driving. I’ve thought of at least several dozen more since then, and I haven’t even Googled “greatest duets ever” or anything yet. I only made this connection, about my deep instinctive love for male-female songs, because I wrote about both Turner">Tina Turner and Bryan Adams. The truth is that I love their duet, “It’s Only Love” as much as if not better than anything the two of them created individually. Which is absurd, by the way. It’s not that great. Which means this is more about my own Kryptonite, my own Achilles’ Heel. But I wouldn’t trade it. Rap and Hip hop men have always sensed the value of a well-placed woman. We would never know Rob Base or DJ EZ Rock if they didn’t enlist the assistance of a woman to tell us exactly What Took Two. C&C; Music Factory never sells 10,000 CDs without a woman belting out that chorus. This continues today with B.O.B.’s “Airplanes” and Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie,” just as examples. I love all these ...

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NPR : How do you sell an enigma? In the 1990s, American rave was a big but scattered subculture. Packaging its fleeting tunes and site-specific good times for mainstream consumption would take some doing. When rock and hip-hop began show signs of weakness mid-decade, a handful of true believers, funded by major-label money, would make their move. In America, raves — British-style warehouse and outdoor parties featuring DJs playing house, techno and their variants — first washed ashore in 1989, when groups of largely British ex-pats began throwing U.K.-style warehouse parties in L.A., San Francisco and Brooklyn, independently but in ...

Justin Timberlake dropped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon yesterday, but the pop star-turned-actor had more than his new movie Friends With Benefits on his mind. Timberlake wrapped up his chat session by reviving the awesome "History of Rap" duet with Fallon — the medley of hip-hop classics that they debuted last September. Watch it here. "It's not gonna happen — we can't do it again, we can't top [it]," Timberlake jokes, before the pair grab some mics and leap out onto the floor. From there, the duo (with the Roots providing ace back-up) seamlessly rip through more than ...

As other Friday begins and the weekend approaches I feel myself drawn towards the hip hop once again. This time it’s Harlem duo Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock bringing the heat with their biggest hit “It Takes Two”. Delving into the usual funk samples this track has been voted as one of the best [...]

From an early age, Brandon Ramon was attracted to sports and Hip-hop music. He can recall listening to songs like “It Takes Two” by Rob Base and Rakim’s “Microphone Fiend.” While his passion for hip-hop grew through childhood, his calling … Continue reading →

This is as close as you will ever get to a Rob Base/Black Sheep collab. Enjoy. I did.

Day 17 from Splash and Lowkey's "Black By Popular Demand" mixtape series. This is part 2 of the 80's Hip Hop disc. Continue reading to download. Download: DaJaz1 x UHTN Present Black By Popular Demand (Day 17) 1. La Di Da Di - Slick Rick & Doug E Fresh 2. The Show (Oh My God) - Slick Rick & Doug E Fresh 3. Buddy (Rmx) - De La Soul feat A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah & Monie Love 4. Cha Cha Cha - MC Lyte 5. I Can't Live Without My Radio - LL Cool J 6. Peter Piper - Run-D.M.C ...