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This week,Robbie Grey is back on with us as he discusses Modern English’s new album, Take Me to the Trees. The music reflects the combined sounds of their first two albums, Mesh and Lace and After the Snow. Modern English will also be touring the UK and the US in 2017, the latter both on their own and with the Retro Futura Tour.
Peter Coyne of The Godfathers joins Chris Cordani on Revenge of the 80s Radio. Coyne discusses the band’s new album, A Big, Bad Beautiful Noise.
Don Most: band leader, recording artist, film maker, star of “Stewardess School” and “Happy Days” talks with Chris this week. Most is touring with his swing band and is releasing two new albums: “Swingin’ Down the Chimney” in time for Christmas and “D. Most: Mostly Swinging” on February 10, 2017
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.
It’s that time of the year for our Revenge of the 80s Halloween Special, which is also up and available at the bottom of this post. We play spooky season classics from classic alternative artists including Oingo Boingo, Total Coelo, Shane MacGowan (and Friends), The B-52s, Bauhaus, Ministry and the Cramps.
This week is an encore show where we devote Hour 2 to the great horn sections and horn players of the classic alternative era with tracks from Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Fishbone, Oingo Boingo, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, The Specials, The Blasters and many more great hornmeisters.
Our week of 8-5 podcast/syndication edit with Peter Godwin is up. One of the early new wave innovators, Godwin co-founded Metro before going solo. His classic tracks include “Images of Heaven,” “The Art of Love” and “Criminal World,” the latter of which he wrote with Metro and was covered by David Bowie.
This week, we are running an encore broadcast of our interview with Murray Grindlay, best known as “Monte Video†through his intern“Shoop-Shoop Diddy-Wop Cumma-Cumma Wang-Dang†and as lead singer of the classic 60s band, The Underdogs.
Steven Jones and Logan Sky are back with us. The duo present their new EP, Maria, and discuss it with Chris
The Delfonics spanned several decades, including the 1980s, and our guest this week is the co-founder, songwriter, leader and singer of the band, William Hart.
This week on Revenge of the 80s, we devote Hour 2 to the great horn sections and horn players of the classic alternative era with tracks from Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Fishbone, Oingo Boingo, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, The Specials, The Blasters and many more great hornmeisters.
Dogs, Cats and (yes) Chickens were dressed in the finest 80s-style fashions at this year’s New York Pet Fashion Show
This week on Revenge of the 80s, Hugh Cornwell is back with us. He has a new compilation album featuring two tracks from each of his first six solo albums: The Fall and Rise of Hugh Cornwell. We also play the new track featured on the album.
This week on Revenge of the 80s Radio, we play music from Midge Ure, Squeeze, Information Society, The Motors, The Go-Betweens, INXS and more.
This week on Revenge of the 80s Radio, we play new music from Kate Pierson and I, Ludicrous plus classics by Reel Life, Midnight Oil, The Only Ones, ABC, King and more.
This week, we play new music from Stephen Emmer and Paul Collins plus classics by Julian Cope, The Monitors, Alison Moyet, The Stranglers, Tuxedomoon, Falco and more.
This week, Hour 2 of our show features new wave artists from Australia, with music from Midnight Oil, The Church, The Divinyls, Ol 55, Paul Kelly, The Cockroaches, The Hoodoo Gurus and more.
Peter Flerl of Plan B is back on with us. Plus, music from Lou Reed, The English Beat, Lone Justice, The Divinyls, Plastiv Bertrand and many more classic alternative artists
We play new music from Suzanne Vega and Jill Bryson’s The Shapists. Vega has a new album out, Tales from the Realnm of the Queen of Pentacles and The Shapists recently recorded a cover of Bryson’s Strawberry Switchblade classic, “Trees and Flowers.”
This week on a new Revenge of the 80s Radio, Donna Destri is back with us. We talk abuot her new EP, London
his week on a new Revenge of the 80s Radio, we dedicate Hour 2 to great Australian artists of the 80s.
My voice has been down this week, so we are running an encore broadcast of our interview with Murray Grindlay, best known as “Monte Video” through his international hit, “Shoop-Shoop Diddy-Wop Cumma-Cumma Wang-Dang” and as lead singer of the classic 60s band, The Underdogs.
The podcast/synd edit for this week’s Revenge of the 80s is up – with a new remix of a Peter Godwin classic and music from Ultravox, George Kranz, The Waitresses, New Order, The Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, Blancmange and more.
This week on Revenge of the 80s, we catch up with Linda Jo Rizzo, formerly of The Flirts, who recently visited New York City before and after her mini-tour of the U.S. We talk about her trip to the states, performances, a new project with fellow Flirt Debra Gaynor and her other passion — cooking. Her family recently opened up a new Rizzo’s Fine Pizza on Clinton Street in Manhattan.
This week, we play a classic Revenge of the 80s, where we salute great movie soundtrack music of the era.
This week, Julie Brown talks with Chris about her new musical, “Julie Brown’s The Homecoming Queen’s Got a Musical,” which will be performed at the Cavern Club in Los Angeles on October 25, 26, 27 and November 1, 2 and 3. You can get tickets through Julie’s website, juliebrown.com. We also catch up with Julie’s other projects and find out whether she will be creating a musical for “Earth Girls Are Easy.”
This week, we will play new music from Susanna Hoffs and Jill Bryson’s band, The Shapists. Plus, classics by from Icehouse, The Motels, 20-20, Howard Jones, Book of Love, Freur, Kate Bush and more.
Martin Brett is our guest. Brett was the bas player for Voice of the Beehive and is now with I, Ludicrous
This week, Profucer, Drummer, Inventor, Author adn Professor Richard James Burgess is our guest.