80s new wave
Sal Solo of Classix Nouveau talks with Chris Cordani about the band’s new single, “Fix Your Eyes Up,” and their upcoming album — their first since 1983.
Steven Jones and Logan Sky are back with us with a new album, European Lovers.
Chris talks with David Diamond and Mister Zero of The Kings.
we play new music from Linda Jo Rizzo and Andy Prieboy plus classics by Roman Holliday, Peter Case, Stan Ridgway, Mojo Nixon, It’s Immaterial, The Three O’clock and more
Chris talks with Belouis Some, who has come back to the stage in recent years after a long time out of the spotlight.
This week, we are dedicating Revenge of the 80s to that musically innovative decade as we play classic alternative era covers of music from the 1960s with tracks from Boomerang, The Damned, The Lopez Beatles, Mental As Anything, Julian Cope, Visage, Suzi Quatro, The Clash and more
Josie Cotton is back to talk about her new album, Everything is Oh Yeah, which was originally recorded in 1986. Josie discusses the album, why it represents a transition in her career, in-session contrary industry advice from Malcolm McLaren and Brian Setzer, thoughts on some of the tracks and an plans for 2020.
This week on Revenge of the 80s Radio, Chris Carter, co-founder of #Dramarama, talks with host Chris Cordani.
This week’s Revenge of the 80s Radio will feature new music from Paul Collins and Julian Cope plus tracks from The Divinyls, Icehouse, The Flirts and more.
Steve Kilbey of The Church talks with us about The Church’s North American tour, their 2017 album and plans to record new music, his many projects and a retrospect on his career.
This week’s Revenge of the 80s is up: an encore broadcast of our German Music Special: During Hour 2, we play music from German New Wavers of the 80s, many of them part of the Neuve Deutshe Welle movement, featuring tracks from Nena, Trio, The Spider Murphy Gang, Spliff, Hubert Kah, Alphaville and many more.
This week, we air an encore broadcast of our salute to the Beatles with a 2-hour show filled with covers of some of their stellar music by classic alternative artists and our podcast/syndication edit is up.
This week, we present the Geography Edition of Revenge of the #80s Radio. We play tracks with names of locations (countries, towns, cities, neighborhoods, roadways) in the title, featuring cuts from Nina Hagen, The Fleshtones, The Stranglers, Falco, Billy Bragg, Midge Ure and more.
Donna Destri talks with Chris about her new Double A-Side single with Paul Zone with covers of two Sonny & Cher deeper cuts: “It’s the Little Things” and “Just You.” “It’s the Little Things” was produced by Man Parrish and “Just You” was set to tune by Richard Citroen.
Tom Bailey talks with host Chris Cordani about his upcoming new album, “Science Fiction,” the former Thompson Twin’s first solo project. We discuss the tracks, musical influences, thoughts on pop over the years and Bailey’s upcoming tour.
This week on Revenge of the 80s Radio, we play new music from Gang of Four and Kim Wilde plus tracks by Shonen Knife, ABC, The Saints, Falco, Q-Feel and more
This week’s Revenge of the 80s Radio premiers tonight. We play new tracks from Kid Creole & the Coconuts and Blaine L. Reininger plus classics from Men Without Hats, The Beloved, Prefab Sprout, The Time Bandits, Amazulu and more classic alternative artists.
Blaine L. Reininger joins us to talk about his new album, The Blue Sleep
This week on Revenge of the 80s radio, we play new tracks from Simple Minds, Paul Kelly and Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark plus classics by Julian Cope, The Hoodoo Gurus, Icicle Works, The Cramps, Rational Youth and more.
Our first show of 2018 premiers tonight as we soon approach our 10th anniversary. We kick off the year with a New Wave Dance Party in Hour 2 featuring club tracks and extended remixes from Re-Flex, Peter Godwin, Fad Gadget, Ivan Doroschuk, Alphaville and many more.
This week, Neil Arthur of Blancmange talks with host Chris Cordani about their new album, Unfurnished Rooms. The album takes a somewhat darker tone than longtime fans of Blancmange are used to, with a more harder-edge guitar mixed in with Arthur’s classic synth-based style. Blancmange has also released a new 9-CD set, The Blanc Tapes, featuring fan favorites, deeper cuts, demos and B-sides.
This week, we feature new music from Colin Hay, Edward Tudor-Pole, Man Parrish and The Godfathers plus classics by Dave & The Dynamos, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, The Beat, Spoons, Mental As Anything and more classic alternative artists.
We once again catch up with Linda Jo Rizzo, who had just come back to Germany from concerts in Australia, the US and Poland. Her new album, Day of the Light: 80s Reloaded, will soon be out in vinyl. We also find out where Linda will be performing this summer and what goes into preparing for and singing at the many huge outdoor festivals in Germany.
we play music from Scottish artists of the classic alternative era including Rose McDowall, Orange Juice, Big Country, Fish, The Armoury Show, The Associates and many more.
We play new music from Colin Hay, Stan Ridgway and Depeche Mode plus classics by The Nomads, Ultravox, The Pogues, Dear Enemy, Nina Hagen, Laurie Anderson and many more classic alternative artists.
Our 3/10-16 show is up. This week, we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Hour 2 with music from great Irish artists of the classic alternative era, including The Pogues, Still Little Fingers, The Undertones, Hothouse Flowers and The Boomtown Rats
we catch up with some requests and play music from X, The Nomads, Flesh For Lulu, INXS, Debbie Harry, Dr. Feelgood and many more classic alternative artists.
On this week’s Revenge of the 80s Radio, we play new music from Linda Jo Rizzo, Kate Bush and Cindy Wilson plus classic cuts by Mondo Rock, XTC, A Flock of Seagulls, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Shakin’ Stevens and many more.
we play music from Scottish artists of the classic alternative era including Rose McDowall, Orange Juice, Big Country, Fish, The Armoury Show, The Associates and many more.
Producer, songwriter and musician John Ratcliff joins Chris for a conversation about his music, career and the band he discovered, A-ha.