DJ Mikey is the creator of Strangeways Radio and the host of the Halcyon Waves podcast. He specializes in the synthpop genre with a focus on the latest music. Mikey also likes to DJ in live venues as well as produce occasional Mixcloud DJ Mixes to share with his friends and followers.
The Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi has announced a new album titled Shiver that is due out October 2.In advance of the album he has released the second single for a track called Swill. This is an interesting song for Jonsi. It features an artistically impressive video which is at this point just expected from him. He never disappoints.
Echo & The Bunnymen have announced a UK tour for May 2021 that celebrates the 40th anniversary of the band
Yesterday, the complete collection of Björk studio albums was released on Bandcamp. For the entire day (June 19), all proceeds from sales will be donated to Black Lives Matter UK in support of Bandcamp’s NAACP fundraiser.
On this day in history (June 16, 1986), The Smiths released their 3rd studio album The Queen Is Dead featuring the singles The Boy With The Thorn In His Side, Bigmouth Strikes Again and There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.
This weeks compilation features some of my favorite new releases in the realm of synthpop and electronic music. We are thrilled to finally be able to feature new music from Empathy Test. Additionally, the return of Blondfire and Missing Persons is exciting, as are new artists Club Intl, Boniface and Nejbo
On this day in history (June 13, 1995), Bjork released her second studio album Post featuring the singles Army Of Me, Isobel, It’s Oh So Quiet, Hyperballad and Possibly Maybe. Bjork recorded this album after she left her home town of Iceland in favor or London.
Michael Stipe has teamed up with the band Big Red Machine on a new song called No Time For Love Like Now available on the 37d03d label. You may have heard snippets of this track as Stipe recorded an at home performance of it during COVID quarantine.
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
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.
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.