Revenge of the 80s Radio

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The podcast for our 2/5/10 Revenge of the 80s Radio show is up and available at the end of this post. This week, we pay tribute to Lux Interior a year after his passing with a block of music by The Cramps. We also played new music from Adriana Kaegi.

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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.

On tonight’s Revenge of the 80s Radio show, we will take time in the second hour to dedicate a Cramps music block in honor of Lux Interior, whose untimely passing was just one year ago (February 4, 2009).

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Louise Robey will be back in the United States this year to promote her new music and upcoming anthology album: Louise Robey Music Anthology (1979-2009) The Essential Collector’s Edition. Not only will Robey appear at conventions and autograph-signing events, she is also slated to perform at a number of venues.

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Gorevette EP cover

On this week’s Revenge of the 80s Radio show, we feature new music from Gorevette, who a few days ago released their first EP, Lustfully Yours. We also played another previously unreleased recording from August Darnell (Kid Creole), who is currently working on his upcoming anthology album.

Gorevette is a creation of Detroit’s Nikki Corvette (Nikki and the Corvettes) and Amy Gore (the Gore Gore Girls), who teamed up to form a new collaborative supergroup with Gore’s former bandmate Lianna Castillo and Powertrane’s Al King.
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:24 — 48.0MB)

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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 on Revenge of the 80s Radio, we will play a new track from Gorevette, led by Nikki Corvette (of Nikki and the Corvettes) and Amy Gore (The Gore Gore Girls). The band — consisting of Corvette, Gore, Lianna Castillo and Al King — is celebraitng the release of their new EP, “Lustfully Yours” this weekend with two big parties: one tonight in Detrot and one this weekend in Ann Arbour..

We will also play classic alternative cuts from artists including Stan Ridgway, Haysi Fantayzee, Strawberry Swithblade, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, The Undertones and The Motels.

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.

Touring again in recent months with a new Motels band and working hard on an upcoming children’s album, Martha Davis turns on a new kind of retro-cool with the soulful jazz track, “Mr. Grey.”

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Gorevette EP cover

Gorevette released their new EP, Lustfully Yours, today. The Detroit supergroup featuring Nikki Corvette, Amy Gore, Lianna Castillo and Al King plan to celebrate this weekend with two big CD release parties.

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The podcast edit of our 1/22/10 Revenge of the 80s Radio show is up and available at the end of this post. This week, we played some of Michael Hutchence’s classic tracks with INXS in tribute to what would have been his 50th birthday. We also featured a track from Boston-are musician Digney Fignus, whose 1984 video for “The Girl With the Curious Hand” not only won an MTV Basement Tapes contest, he cast model Gail Huff — now a newscaster who is married to Massachusetts newly-elected Senator Scott Brown — as the central character in the entry.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:51 — 48.4MB)

Podcast (feed-2): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:56 — 50.3MB)

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 on Revenge of the 80s Radio, we will honor the legendary Michael Hutchence, who would have celebrated his 50th birthday today had it not been for his tragic death in 1997. We will take some time and salute Hutchence with some of his greatest songs with INXS as part of the second hour of the show. The effort by fans to give him a #1 download hit for his landmark day is going strong and can be caught up with at the organizers’ Facebook page. There is also a brilliant tribute website to Hutchence here.
Also, while we are generally not a political show, we must commemorate the Scott Brown Massachusetts Senate seat win, but not because of the new Senator himself: his wife, news anchor Gail Huff, was the central character in the 1985 video for “The Girl With the Curious Hand” by Digney Fignus. The piece gained notoriety as the winner of MTV’s Basement Tapes contest that year.

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August Darnell announced the winners of the two creative challenges he issued to fans after introducing several previously unreleased songs. Entrants were to either produce a video for one of the new cuts or re-mix one of them.

The winner of the video contest goes by the handle of “Chukanuk.” His video is for the song “No more magic Kingdoms:”
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