Revenge of the 80s Radio

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The podcast edit for our 3/5/10 Revenge of the 80s Radio show is up and available at the bottom of this post. This week, we feature a conversation with Kate Garner. She, with Jeremy Healy and Paul Caplin, formed the trio Haysi Fantayzee. Garner is also an internationally-renowned fashion and art photographer, having had several critically-acclaimed shows and exhibits including her most recent, Jolly Darkness. Our interview leads off the second hour of the show. We also played new music from Garner, Debora Iyall and Martha Davis.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:56 — 47.5MB)

Podcast (feed-2): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:17 — 50.6MB)

Click here to listen live between 7-9pm Eastern US Time You can also get the show from our flagship station website: www.wtbq.com. Check the bottom of this post for other affiliates’ dates and times.

Tonight’s Revenge of the 80s Radio show will feature a conversation with Kate Garner of Haysi Fantzyzee. Kate is also an internationally famous photographer with several critically-acclaimed art shows and exhibits to her credit. She also has a new single out, which we will play. Our interview leads off the second hour of the show.

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Gorevette EP cover

Expectations are high when a Detroit punk legend and a Motor City garage band queen team up to form an alt-rock supergroup. Gorevette, formed by Nikki Corvette (Nikki and the Corvettes) and Amy Gore (Gore Gore Girls), deliver solidly with their first EP, Lustfully Yours.

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While weaseling through the blogosphere, here are some classic alternative music-related highlights:

• Blitz Magazine has an excellent article on The Little Girls
• Adriana Kaegi’s 2009 TAG album is showcased in the Album Art Hall of Fame Blog
• The people at the Michael Hutchence Tribute Site continue to do a bang-up job.
• …and those who worked to put together a mass download party of INXS’ “Don’t Change” for Micheal Hutchence’s birthday are now looking to get him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

This Friday, our guest on Revenge of the 80s Radio will be Kate Garner, who — with Jeremy Healy and Paul Caplin — formed Haysi Fantayzee. Kate is now a world-renowned photographic artist and has a new single, which we play at the end of our conversation.

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A blizzard that hit the northeast hard kept me from doing a live Revenge of the 80s Radio show on Friday, but it did allow me to run an encore of the show featuring our 2009 conversation with the multi-talented, elegant and brilliant Adriana Kaegi. She is best known as a co-founder of Kid Creole and the Coconuts (with August Darnell and Coati Mundi) and leader of The Coconuts. Currently, she is runs her own business, Dear Addy Productions, and is working on new music after releasing her first solo album, TAG. Our interview leads off the second hour of the show.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:47 — 49.2MB)

Podcast (feed-2): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:30 — 50.8MB)

Click here to listen live between 7-9pm Eastern US Time You can also get the show from our flagship station website: www.wtbq.com. Check the bottom of this post for other affiliates’ dates and times.

A massive blizzard will keep me from being live in the studio tonight for Revenge of the 80s Radio and time spent digging out of it along with the extra day-job work kept me from recording a new show. We are postponing the airing of my conversation with Haysi Fantayzee’s Kate Garner until the next week’s show (3/5/10), which will also feature new music by Kate as well as a brand new track from Debora Iyall.

Tonight, I will re-broadcast one of my favorite Revenge of the 80s shows, which features an interview with the elegant and multi-talented Adriana Kaegi from almost one year ago and shortly after the release of her brilliant TAG album.

We apologize to those of you who wanted to hear our Kate Garner interview tonight, but we have her on next week. Thank you and enjoy the show.

Revenge of the 80s airs live on Friday nights 7-9ET on Q99.1FM in the Hudson Valley (www.wtbq.com); on Wednesdays 12noon Melbourne, AUS time on Radio 80s 87.6FM; Weekday mornings 7-9am AUS time on Seymour FM; Wednesday nights 6-8pm (Eastern US) and Saturdays 7-9pm on The Volt radio (Canada). Podcasts are available on Saturdays after the live show.

Gorevette EP cover

Gorevette will tour the Eastern US and continue on in Japan this spring. Band leaders Nikki Corvette and Amy Gore made the announcement shortly after the release of their Lustfully Yours EP, which we will review very soon.

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Rhino Records announced it will release The Pogues‘ first five albums (Rum Sodomy and the Lash, Red Roses for Me, If I Should Fall from Grace With God, Peace and Love, and Hell’s Ditch) as a Box Set on March 1st, 2010. The compilation is part of Rhino’s “Original Album Series” editions, which include box sets of music by The Pretenders, Echo & The Bunnymen, Todd Rundgren and The Cars.

The Box Set can be purchased at our Revenge of the 80s Amazon Store.

There is, however, some bad news for Pogues fans in the states: According to their official website, the band will not be touring in the U.S. for March as they have been in most of the past years. There are also no plans for a St. Patrick’s Day show this year.

This Friday, our guest on Revenge of the 80s Radio will be Kate Garner, who — with Jeremy Healy and Paul Caplin — formed Haysi Fantayzee. Kate is now a world-renowned photographic artist and has a new single, which we play at the end of our conversation.

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