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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Alt Rock Revivals Part 5: New Wave
Description: It is a fact of life that there are periods where everything old is new again…if you look at Broadway, for example, old productions are always being brought back…
Take “West Side Story,” for example…it first premiered in 1957 and was brought back in 1960, 1964, 1980, 2009, and 2020…that’s five revivals…the Gershwin musical “Porgy and Bess” has been brought back seventimes…
Movies are always being rebooted… “Ghostbusters,” “Planet of the Apes,” “King Kong,” “Robocop,” “Willy Wonka,” “Halloween,” “Spider-Man”…“A Star is Born” first appeared in 1937 and was remade in 1954, 1976, and 2018…
Then there are all the tv remakes…”MacGyver,” “90120,” “Dynasty,” “Lost in...