Our favorite Belgium trip hop band has been active recently. They recently released a track called Release Me for a Eurovision song contest and today they have followed that up with a swanky new single called Summer Sun
Back To The Basement is an online virtual concert that will be performed to benefit doctors, nurses and first responded who are in the front lines of battling COVID-19. The event will feature never before seen live performances from the living rooms of 80s bands Wang Chung, A Flock Of Seagulls, Cutting Crew, Naked Eyes, NU Shooz, The Escape Club, Animotion, The Vapors, Farrington & Mann + more
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.
This week selections were made to show our support for Black Lives Matter by featuring black vocalists in the shoegaze and dreampop community.
On this day in history (June 7, 1993), Tears For Fears released their 4th studio album Elemental featuring the singles Break It Down Again, Cold, Goodnight Song and Elemental. This album was essentially considered to be a Roland Orzabal solo album as Curt Smith had left the band a few years prior.
Velvet Rebel recaps This Week In Music as covered by Strangeways Radio and Slicing Up Eyeballs. This episode features a cool performance from Billy Bragg, a brand new extended video from Depeche Mode and excerpts from a Record Store Day Peel Sessions recording from New Order. Plus, brand new music from The Vapors. That’s right, the folks who brought you Turning Japanese.
In the month of June, the post punk band The Foreign Resort will release a new single every week. Their first selection is a mashup cover of Real Life’s Send Me An Angel and Corey Hart’s Sunglasses At Night. The origin of this cover stems back to 2015 when they played a Halloween show and…
Erasure have released the first single off their forthcoming album titled The Neon. The single is titled Hey Now (Think I Got a Feeling) and it has a disco-soul vibe to it.
Hatchie and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have teams up to record a cover of The Jesus And Mary Chain’s Sometimes Always.
This is the Strangeways Radio countdown of our top 20 songs released in May 2020 spanning a variety of alternative genres, presented by DJ Mikey