Velvet Rebel recaps This Week In Music as covered by Strangeways Radio and Slicing Up Eyeballs. He recaps the Cruel World and W-Festival lineups, tour news from Front 242, reissues from Erasure and a live album from Bryan Ferry. Plus, hear the latest singles from Clan Of Xymox plus newer artists Astari Nite and Shopping.
The Seattle based synth band Jupe Jupe just released a new single that will take you right back to the glory days of the 80s. Mix a swanky video, the synth sounds of Depeche Mode or Camouflage and an INXS style saxophone and you get this – How Can We Both Be In Love. This track is off the forthcoming Nightfall EP, scheduled to be released on February 28.
A one-day concert festival has been scheduled for May 2 in Los Angeles featuring a who’s who of 80’s new wave and post punk artists. Tickets go on sale this Friday and details can be found on the Cruelworldfest.com website.
This weeks playlist features our favorite songs from the rich catalog of RIDE. This playlist contains almost 30 songs of listening from these shoegaze pioneers starting from their Smile EP all the way up to their latest album, This Is Not A Safe Place
Host Brenna Cavanaugh brings you her weekly review where she goes over the latest new music in the genres of Shoegaze, dreampop and related genres.
It appears that Depeche Mode will release a DVD called Live Spirits that will be 100% concert footage of the final Berlin shows and, as always, directed by Anton Corbijn.
While everything that Shopping does well sounds better than ever on All or Nothing, the band’s sense of exploration really surfaces on the second side of the record. The intensity of “Lies” sounds more foreboding than anything they have done before while Rachel Aggs’ guitar starts to add some effects to the normally clean, prickly notes. Aggs and Andrew Milk continue to weave vocal lines through each other as Gang of Four once did but the intensity of “Expert Advice” cuts like a diamond
Velvet Rebel recaps This Week In Music as covered by Strangeways Radio and Slicing Up Eyeballs. He recaps the passing of Gang Of Four’s Andy Gill, Heaven 17 tour news, a new single and tour announcment from The Psychedelic Furs, Morrissey’s new single and a new album from Throwing Muses and Marc Almond
On this day in history (February 5, 1980), The Cure released their first compilation album Boys Don’t Cry which contained tracks from the Three Imaginary Boys album (which had yet to be released in the US) plus additional songs from the band’s 1978-1979 era.
The Swedish duo I Break Horses have released their first single off the forthcoming Warnings album, due out on May 8th on the Bella Union record label. This is the bands first work in almost 6 years and it was well worth the wait. The single, Death Engine, is an emotional and beautiful dream pop…
On this day in history (February 4, 1983), Echo & The Bunnymen released their third studio album Porcupine featuring the singles The Back Of Love and The Cutter
Suede has announced 8 dates for a European tour this autumn. They will be playing the Coming Up album in its entirety as well as hits from their deep catalog