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This week’s Revenge of the 80s will take a geographical turn: we feature classic alternative music from the 80s about cities, countries, locations and other points of interest around the world — real and fictional. Among the artists to be featured tonight are: XTC, Wall of Voodoo, Alphaville and Big Audio Dynamite.
Revenge of the 80s airs live on Friday nights 7-9ET on Q99.1FM in the Hudson Valley (www.wtbq.com) and on Wednesdays 12noon Melbourne, AUS time on Radio 80s 87.6FM. Podcasts are available on Saturdays after the live show. We also air Wednesdays 6-8pm and Saturdays 10am-12noon on The Volt.
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One of the great things about running a classic alternative radio show from the 1980s is being able to play the wide selection of music that qualifies. Classic Alternative is thought of, by many, as new wave music, its pop-crossovers and offshoots like “New Romantic” or “Darkwave.” The 1980s was a time where experimentation earned an artist anything between a rabid cult following to an interesting landmark in music history. Alternative radio stations actually played “alternative music” back then, until the industry commercialized the moniker and made the average teen confuse commercial grunge-pop-rock with real alt-rock. Around now one might imagine me as a grandfather sitting on a rocking chair spouting memories of $1.00 per gallon gas, large cellular phones and quality thin ties so therefore, I will digress.
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Tags: 80s, absoultely sweet marie, alt-country, Americana, beay on the mountain, CD, classic alternative, coal country, country, cowboy, documentary, fervor, halycon times, jason and the scorchers, jason ringenburg, Lone Justice, music, new, new wave, Nick Cave, nick lowe, pbs, rock
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The podcast version of our 7/24 Revenge of the 80s Radio show featuring a conversation with Caron Maso Murray of The Little Girls is up and available at the bottom of this post.
The Little Girls have two new CDs out: Thank Heaven for Valley Pop and Today… and Yesterday. They are released in the U.S. under the band’s Valley Pop Records label.
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One commentClick here to listen live between 7-9pm Eastern US Time. You can also get the show from our flagship station website: www.wtbq.com.
Tonight’s Revenge of the 80s Radio show will feature our latest interview with Caron Maso Murray of The Little Girls. The band has just released two new CDs: Thank Heaven for Valley Pop and Today… and Yesterday.
We will talk about the CDs, filled with classic Little Girls songs, new music and previously unreleased demos from the 80s. We will also talk about some solo work Caron has been doing lately. Our conversation leads off the second hour of the show.
We will also play tracks from artists including Erasure, Robin Lane and the Chartbusters, The Clash and Kid Creole and the Coconuts — as well as a cut from Original Coconut Adriana Kaegi from her new album TAG.
Revenge of the 80s airs live on Friday nights 7-9ET on Q99.1FM in the Hudson Valley (www.wtbq.com) and on Wednesdays 12noon Melbourne, AUS time on Radio 80s 87.6FM. Podcasts are available on Saturdays after the live show. We also air Wednesdays 6-8pm and Saturdays 10am-12noon on The Volt.
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Tags: 80s, adriana kaegi, Caron Maso, CD, chartbusters, clash, Earthquake Song, erasure, guest, interview, kid creole and the coconuts, Kip Brown, L.A., Little Girls, machele maso, mp3, Murray, new wave, power pop, Robin Lane, tag, thank heaven, Tinsley, today and yesterday, valley pop
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No commentsThe podcast for our 7/17 show is up. This week we ran a re-broadcast of our interview last year with Caron Maso Murray of The Little Girls, who will be on the next Revenge of the 80s show to talk about the bands new CDs.
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Tags: 80s, california, Caron Maso, CM3P, Earthquake Song, L.A., Little Girls, Michele Maso, Murray, new wave, power pop, punk, thank heaven, Tinsley, valley pop
Posted by
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No commentsClick here to listen live between 7-9pm Eastern US Time. You can also get the show from our flagship station website: www.wtbq.com.
While I promised an interview with Caron Maso Murray of The Little Girls for this week’s show, a home emergency forced me to postpone playing our conversation on the band’s new albums and Caron’s solo performances. I greatly apologize for that adn I will have that interview on next week.
This week, we will replay last year’s discussion with Caron about the history of The Little Girls and the relatively recent release of 31 Pop Flavors and The Clear Album.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
Revenge of the 80s airs live on Friday nights 7-9ET on Q99.1FM in the Hudson Valley (www.wtbq.com) and on Wednesdays 12noon Melbourne, AUS time on Radio 80s 87.6FM. Podcasts are available on Saturdays after the live show. We also air Wednesdays 6-8pm and Saturdays 10am-12noon on The Volt.
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Tags: 80s, california, Caron Maso, CD, chris cordani, classic alternative, Earthquake Song, guest, how to pick up girls, interview, Little Girls, Los Angeles, Michele Maso, mp3, Murray, music, new wave, power pop, rich girl, thank heaven, Tinsley, today and yesterday, valley pop
Posted by
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MTV and dance/choreography legend Toni Basil is a woman for all music genres. While most know her from her 1982 hit song “Mickey,” Basil has been on the music scene since the 1960s. A memorable lost classic performed by the energetic sensation is the melancholy “I’m 28″ from 1966, which was put out as a B-side to her “Breakaway” single. Her non-”Mickey” 80s repertoire includes “Shopping A to Z,” “Over My Head” and the Love classic “Little Red Book.”
According to her website, Basil will receive the Living Legend of Hip-Hip honor at the Hip Hop International awards ceremony on August 2nd in Las Vegas.
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Tags: 80s, award, bette midler, choreographer, dance, dancer, hip hop, international, little red book, living legend, LOVE, mickey, music, new wave, over my head, shopping a to z, tina turner, toni basil
Posted by
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No commentsHere are some interesting highlights around the 80s Blogosphere and the rest of the Internet:
- The Boston Globe‘s Sarah Rodman reminisces about the classic are Modern Rock station WBCN’s impact on her through the late 70s and early 80s
- Pop Dose‘s Ted Asregadoo has an interesting post on how some classic rockers of the 70s tried to work with the new synth sound of the 80s.
- Clicks and Pops discusses Julian Cope
- …and Back to the 80s has a quite interesting “Top 10″ list.
Tags: 80s, blog, classic alternative, internet, music, new wave, web
Posted by
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15 commentsIt was 30 years ago on the date of this post that a Chicago White Sox promotion became a controversial part of music history and a landmark in time.
The Chicago White Sox wanted to bring more people into its Comiskey Park home and teamed up with area DJ Steve Dahl, who is given credit for the term “Disco Sucks” which adorned bumper stickers and t-shirts all over America at the time, to dream up the idea of “Disco Demolition Night.”
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Tags: 1979, 80s, backlash, classic alternative, comiskey park, Disco Demolitoin Night, elton john, funk, mike veeck, new wave, political correctness, punk, radio, record, slade, soul, steve dahl, white sox. chicago
Posted by
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No commentsFirst, I would like to apologize to all of our blog visitors about the lack of new posts; I have been very busy with another radio show I produce, which is about to be nationally syndicated. This has taken up a large amount of my time. Things will be back to normal very soon and I thank you for your patience.
This week, we catch up on some requests, which can be made by e-mailing us at radio@revengeofthe80sradio.com, during our first hour. The second hour is dedicated to classic alternative dance music from the 80s from artists including Clan of Xymox, Grandmaster Flash, Amazulu and Strawberry Switchblade.,
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Tags: 6. the volt, 80s, 87, 99.1, Amazulu, broadcast, chris cordani, clan of, classic alternative, club, dance, grandmaster flash, new wave, posdcast, radio, Revenge of the 80s, Rose McDowall, strawberry switchblade, Voice of the Beehive, WTBQ, xymox
