Retro Pop Reunion - with Joe Cortese

Today is Courteney Cox's birthday! One of our favorite "Friends," Monica Geller, is 62 today! Hard to believe that it's been 22 years since "Friends" wrapped up - we faithfully spent every Thursday night with Monica, Ross, Rachel,…

The third week of June 1987 is one of those charts where every song feels like it has something to say. Whitney Houston is right there with “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me),” and it’s just pure energy from the first note. Right…

New York City was the place to be last night at the Songwriters Hall of Fame gala! Some of our favorite video music artists - Alanis Morissette and Kenny Loggins - were inducted, along with Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of Kiss and…

Soft Cell, the group that brought us the hit "Tainted Love," is going to release a new and final album this fall! The album is titled Danceteria and will feature singer Marc Almond and the late multi-instrumentalist Dave Ball. Ball…

Wanna go to another concert for free? The It's Iconic tour with TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, and En Vogue is coming to a city near you this summer and Retro Pop Reunion wants you to be there! Joe Cortese will give you a code word to enter at…

We're going retro to 1986, when a band from Manchester, England, hit No. 1 in the U.S. with a song that flopped everywhere else! Simply Red's hit song "Holding Back the Years" was first released in 1985, but didn't do much. The band…

Happy 65th birthday to El DeBarge! You probably know him as the lead singer of the family group DeBarge. They brought us favorite '80s songs like "Rhythm of the Night," "Who's Holding Donna Now," and "All This Love." You may not know…

There was just something about the year 1986! MTV was as important as a cell phone is today. We blasted Bon Jovi on our Walkmans. Janet Jackson took "Control" of her own life. And we teased and sprayed our hair, put on our Air…

Happy birthday to Alanis Morissette, who is 52 today! She is one of the defining musicians of the 1990s, with her 1995 breakthrough album "Jagged Little Pill" still a banger to this day. She's often described as a defining voice of her…

Everyone's favorite California lifeguard show is getting a second life! The "Baywatch" reboot is shooting now in Los Angeles and is scheduled to premiere on Fox in January 2027. The original series aired from 1989 to 1999, mostly on…

Summer fun, summer drives, summer crushes... they all happened to the soundtrack of the summer songs we know and love! This weekend we're playing SUMMER SONGS from the '80s and '90s... you'll feel like you're back at the beach, the…

They're going to enjoy a "Joyride" across North America! The Swedish pop-rock duo Rosette just announced that it's bringing its 40th anniversary tour to the U.S. and Canada, playing at 14 stops. The tour starts in Michigan in…