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This week, we play a classic Revenge of the 80s, where we salute great movie soundtrack music of the era.
This week, we re-broadcast our March interview with trombone player “Big Jim” Paterson of Dexy’s. We talked with Jim shortly after the band released its latest album, which has recently been made available in the U.S. Our discussion leads off Hour 2 of the show.
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.
Revenge of the 80s Radio is happy to welcome our newest radio affiliate, TKO Replay, of the TKO Radio famly. TKO Radio is one of the world’s top internet radio stations, offering a wide cariety of music from popular tracks to alternative cuts. Based out of Spain and the UK, we will broadcast on TKO […]
This week, we play another track from Jill Bryson’s new band, The Shapists. She is in teh studio with Craig Hood and her daughter, Jessie Frost, working on a full album which shuold be coming out in the next year.
Our 8/16 show podcast/syndication edit is up and available at the bottom of this post. This week, Donna Destri is our guest. A central figure in the 70s/early 80s NYC punk scene, Destri is best-known for her work as a backup singer on severl of Blondie’s more excellent tracks and her stellar solo work. Donna […]
Andy Prieboy is back on with us. Recently,, he performed live at the Steve Allen Theater in LA and will be there again on August 15th. We will talk about that and play some of his newest tracks.
This week, we will play the world radio premiere of another new track from Jill Bryson’s band, The Shapists: “King of the World.” We will also play classics from INXS, Flash & the Pan, Immaculate Fools, Tears For Fears, Big Auidio Dynamite, XTC, The Hothouse Flowers and more.
This week, we air an encore presentation of our November 2012 interview with Johnette Napolitano.
This week, we play more of your requests (you can send yours by e-mailing us at radio@revengeofthe80sradio.com or joining our Facebook page). In hour 2, we will air a music block tribute to Devo percussionist Alan Myers, who passed away on June 25.
This week, Michael Aston of Gene Loves Jezebel will be our Hour 2 guest.We also play the newest song from Kid Creole and the Coconuts, a jaunting dance track called “Pack Your Trunk.”
The podcast/syndication edit for our 5/31 Revenge of the 80s show is up and available at the bottom of this post. This week, we will have Ken Mazur on with us. Perhaps best known as Robert Palmer’s guitarist, Mazur has played with several music legends and built up a reputation as one of the music […]
Marshal Crenshaw is our guest. Crenshaw recently released his newest EP, featuring the single “Stranger and Stranger.” It is a part of a series of planned EPs, one of which is already out while the others will be recorded soon.
Thus week ,Cherie Currie is our guest. Cherie, best known as the lead singer for The Runaways and her solo work, is also an actress, author and chainsaw artist. She has a new album coming out later this year and will be playing some live dates including as a headliner for the upcoming Girls Got Rhythm Fest in St. Paul, MN. Our conversation leads off Hour 2 of the show.
This week, we feature driving music of the classic alternative era, with songs about cars, driving, speeding, songs with car references in them and tracks that we like to blast with the top and windows down while on the road. This program is an encore presentation.
Nikki Corvette is back on with us before she sets off on her 2013 European tour with her band, Nikki Corvette & The Romeos.
This week, Rodney Anonymous of The Dead Milkmen is our guest. The band recently released their newest track, “The Great Boston Molasses Flood.”
Revenge of the 80s plays comedy/novelty classics of the 80s during hour 2 of the show, with tracks from Julie Brown, The Kids in the Hall, Weird Al Yankovic, Kip Adotta, Nigel Planer (as Niel) and more.
To mark our birthday, Revenge of the 80s rewinds back to our first-ever interview on the next show, our inguinal conversation with Tracy and Missy Belland from Voice of the Beehive.
This week, New Zealand musician Murray Grindlay, known to many as “Monte Video” from his 1982 international smash hit “Shoop-Shoop, Diddy-Wop, Cumma-Cumma, Wang-Dang” as Monte Video and the Cassettes is our guest.
This week, we play new 80s song covers from Plan B and Maryam Zadeh. Plus, classics by INXS, New Order, The Divinyls, The Waitresses, Flash & the Pan, The Motels, Midge Ure and more.
This week we welcome Trombonist “Big Jim” Paterson of Dexy’s as our guest. Also, new track from Linda Jo Rizzo’s 2012 Day of the Light album, a Dexy’s tribute song from ska musician Andy Keys Clark and classics by Toyah, REM, Mental As Anything, Trio, The Tom Tom Club, Wall of Voodoo and more.
This week, we re-broadcast our July 2012 interview with Taco Ockerse
This week, we play a new track from Peter Dunne, best remembered by 80s music fans as Peter Bilt of Pearl Harbor and the Explosions.
This week, we play a soon-to-be-released track from Antonee First Class, the toaster for Dave Wakeling’s current English Beat lineup and music from X, Mental As Anything, Fad Gadget, The Modulators, Julian Cope, INXS, Robert HazardBig Country, Alison Moyet and more.
This week, Paul Kelly is back with us to talk about his upcoming plans to tour the US, Australia and other parts of the world, his album Spring and Fall, thoughts on the documentary Paul Kelly: Stories of Me and continued efforts to re-release many of his out-of-print albums. Our conversation takes place during hour 2.
This Week, we catch up with Midge Ure on his U.S. tour as he makes a stop in Woodstock, NY. We will also play music from Visage, Blondie, Icehouse, Annabella Lwin, Kime Wilde, The Sunnyboys, Amazulu, Trans-X and more.
This week, we play David Bowie’s new track, “Where Are We Now?” Plus, music from Ultravox, Mental As Anything, Coati Mundi, Nikki and the Corvettes, Big Country, Kevin Rowland, The Beat and more.
This week, we air an encore broadcast of our October interview with Andy Prieboy, where we talk about his latest single, “The Death of New Wave.â€
This week, we have a conversation with Johnette Napolitano. Concrete Blonde will tour the Eastern U.S. in December as the band has also officially released two new tracks, “Rosalie” and “I See the Ghost,”