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Punk legends The Godfathers and The Stranglers start a month-long UK tour tonight.
The Ron Asheton Foundation announced on Tuesday the DVD for the 2011 tribute concert in honor of the famed guitarist will be released on June 4, 2013 and not April 9 as previously planned.
This week, we re-broadcast our July 2012 interview with Taco Ockerse
Kid Creole and the Coconuts today released the video for their new single, “In a Place Like This.”
This week, we play a new track from Peter Dunne, best remembered by 80s music fans as Peter Bilt of Pearl Harbor and the Explosions.
Big Country announced their May concert dates in Europe as they continue to put together their Journey Tour 2013. After playing throughout April in the U.K. and Ireland, the band will perform 15 shows in 18 days on the mainland beginning on May 14 in Venue, France.
This week, we play a soon-to-be-released track from Antonee First Class, the toaster for Dave Wakeling’s current English Beat lineup and music from X, Mental As Anything, Fad Gadget, The Modulators, Julian Cope, INXS, Robert HazardBig Country, Alison Moyet and more.
Shortly after releasing “Muchachacha,” Darnell came out of the studio with his latest single, “In a Place Like This.”
Power pop fans from all over the New York-Metro area crowded The Cake Shop on Friday and Saturday night to celebrate the guitar-driven musical genre at Power Pop-A-Licious 2 with The Paul Collins Beat and a heavy-hitting lineup of long-established and up-and-coming bands.
This week, Paul Kelly is back with us to talk about his upcoming plans to tour the US, Australia and other parts of the world, his album Spring and Fall, thoughts on the documentary Paul Kelly: Stories of Me and continued efforts to re-release many of his out-of-print albums. Our conversation takes place during hour 2.
New wave party band The B-52s will lead a star-studded lineup at the Rewind the 80s Music Festival on August 16-18 at Henley-on-Thames in the U.K. Event organizers confirmed the group’s participation today.
Organizers for the Isle of Wight Festival say the Boomtown Rats will play a one-off together at their 2013 event.
Camper Van Beethoven’s Jonathan Segel is back with us to talk about the band’s new album, La Costa Perdida. We will also play a track from that and Adam Ant’s new album, Adam Ant is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunman’s Daughter.
Fans looking forward to new wave icon Adam Ant’s first new album in 17 years endured a few obstacles before Adam Ant is The Blueblack Hussar in Marrying The Gunner’s Daughter became a reality today.
This Week, we catch up with Midge Ure on his U.S. tour as he makes a stop in Woodstock, NY. We will also play music from Visage, Blondie, Icehouse, Annabella Lwin, Kime Wilde, The Sunnyboys, Amazulu, Trans-X and more.
Even though Kid Creole and the Coconuts co-founder Adriana Kaegi has been keeping busy with Dear Addy Digital Media, she recently composed two very cool chill-out electronica instrumentals for the our listening pleasure.
After reuniting with Ultravox and recording an album together, Midge Ure is touring the U.S. for the first time in decades. Ure made a stop to perform at Bearsville Theater in the upstate New York town of Woodstock
This week, we play David Bowie’s new track, “Where Are We Now?” Plus, music from Ultravox, Mental As Anything, Coati Mundi, Nikki and the Corvettes, Big Country, Kevin Rowland, The Beat and more.
On the strength of a new album and two successful North American tours, Men Without Hats will start their first European tour in over 20 years on February 1.
Ground-breaking musician David Bowie gives his fans a present on his 66th birthday: a new song.
This week, legendary Producer/Songwriter/Musician Ron Rogers is back with us. We will talk about his new album, Cross My Heart,
This week, we air an encore broadcast of our October interview with Andy Prieboy, where we talk about his latest single, “The Death of New Wave.â€
Enjoy holiday cheer from XTC, Squeeze, Molly Johnson, Mel Smith & Kim Wilde, Klark Kent, Band Aid, The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl and more.
As the Mayan calendar closes out on December 21, 2012 and some fear the end of the world is nigh, we put together a list of the top classic alternative songs of the 80ss:
Paul Collins’ Power Pop-A-Licous 2 Fest, which was postponed due to Hurricane Sandy, has been rescheduled for February 1 & 2 at The Cake Shop n NYC.
This week: our End of the World special and guest Linda Jo Rizzo
The second night of Concrete Blonde’s December 2012 Eastern U.S. tour saw the band play to a crowd of fierce fans at New York City’s Irving Plaza
Midge Ure is our guest on this week’s Revenge of the 80s Radio. Plus. music from Debora Iyall, The Undertones, Camper Van Beethoven, The Time Bandits, A Flock of Seagulls, The Boomtown Rats and more.
Revenge of the 80s Radio is giving away five pair of tickets to see Concrete Blonde live at Irving Plaza (17 Irving Place, New York, NY) on Thursday, December 13th.
This week, we play a new track from Kid Creole & the Coconuts (featuring Los Lococs), “Muchachacha.” plus, music from Berlin, Orange Juice, Real Life, The Human League, Duran Duran, The Hoodoo Gurus, New Order, The Paul Collins Beat and more