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Without 2 Tone's ska revival, the Specials' "Ghost Town" or the Beat's "Mirror in the Bathroom" may never have existed.

Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review 2011

I aim to visit as many rural communities as possible, providing information about Beat's services and recruiting volunteers to extend the self-help network into these areas.

I'm inspired by the people I help 2011

The English Beat's version of it matched rootsy adherence to real pop smarts in hits split between the late 1970s and early '80s, including earwigs like "Mirror in the Bathroom" and "Save It for Later," as well as an infectious cover of the Smokey Robinson song "Tears of a Clown" with horns made to blare.

Continental, Experimental Andy Battaglia 2011

Memphis Beat's second-season finale is setting up quite a showdown: Field of Dreams' Amy Madigan and Millennium star Lance Henriksen will guest-star as the heads of rival crime families, TVGuide.com has learned.

Exclusive: Amy Madigan and Lance Henriksen Go to War on Memphis Beat 2011

The English Beat's version of it matched rootsy adherence to real pop smarts in hits split between the late 1970s and early '80s, including earwigs like "Mirror in the Bathroom" and "Save It for Later," as well as an infectious cover of the Smokey Robinson song "Tears of a Clown" with horns made to blare.

Continental, Experimental Andy Battaglia 2011

Gay Street Beat's mission is "Bringing you a big gay world, one phone call at a time."

Waymon Hudson: New Gay Street Beat Podcast Talks About DADT, Music, Target, and More 2010

(The session was smartly moderated by The Beat's Heidi MacDonald.)

'HARK! A WINNER': 5 Highlights from this year's SPX convention 2010

Meat Beat's live show has generated a solid rep for being a surround-sound sensorium, and thumping Autoimmune tracks like "I Hold the Mic," "Spanish Vocoder" and "Solid Waste" are just part of the equation: Throw in Lynn Farmer's incendiary live drumming and smartass viz from Stokes and Consolidated vet Mark Pistel, and you've got a politically explosive multimedia program that's nowhere near as boring as An Inconvenient Truth .

Meat Beat Doses the World With New Manifesto, Autoimmune 2008

Throughout the 1990s, Ecstasy did not appear much in The Beat's pages, though drugs were of course a popular topic.

Sheerly Avni: From Hug-Drug to Thug-Drug: Street Ecstasy and Violent Crime 2008

I'm not sure if I can explain it, but I pretty much get all my comics news and blog talk from this blog and The Beat's.

Alex Ross Cover for Uncanny X-Men #500 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008