The Alarm – The Keswick Theatre – Glenside, PA – August 31, 2019 – Photo by Jay S. Jacobs © 2019 The Alarm, Modern English & Jay Aston’s Gene Loves Jezebel – The Keswick Theatre – Glenside, PA – August 31, 2019 The 80s touched down at the Keswick recently. Or at least, the alternative outskirts of 80s music – that quirky neighborhood that they used to call college rock. The Sigma tour – named after The Alarm’s most recent album – was a treat of varied musical styles and like-

Playing Back the 80s (A Decade of Unstoppable Hits) by Jim Beviglia Jim Beviglia – Playing Back the 80s (A Decade of Unstoppable Hits) (Rowman & Littlefield) It’s hard to condense the music of an entire decade into a concrete and meaningful listing. That goes doubly for an adventurous and musically rich era like the 1980s. I could probably easily come up with a list of hundreds of the greatest songs of the decade, so it’s pretty impressive that music journalist Jim Beviglia