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Thomas Dolby Adds Extra London Show This August
by Josh Sharpe - August 20, 2024 Already selling-out the city’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire later this month, Dolby has now added a second date in the capital. Billed as ‘Thomas Dolby… The Encore!’, the electronic pioneer will be taking the stage at Islington’s O2 Academy on 24th August....
40th Anniversary Edition of Thomas Dolby's 'The Flat Earth' Coming This Month
by Josh Sharpe - June 17, 2024 In celebration of 40 years of The Flat Earth, BMG is releasing an expanded, 40th Anniversary Edition of the album. As well as the complete tracklisting from the original record, the special release of the anniversary edition includes live tracks, rare mixes and alternate versions of songs from the i...
Totally Tubular Festival Adjusts Lineup for Summer 2024
by Josh Sharpe - June 06, 2024 The 80’s New Wave tour TOTALLY TUBULAR FESTIVAL kicks off Tuesday, June 25 in Seattle, WA and the tour organizers have announced a line-up change: “You can’t have a Totally Tubular Festival without The Tubes, so we’ve just added the iconic band from San Francisco to the lineup.” ...
Thomas Dolby Sets UK Tour Dates This Summer With Support From Martin McAloon
by Michael Major - March 08, 2024 Confirming appearances at Newcastle O2 City Hall (16th August), Manchester's O2 Ritz (17th August) and London's O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire (22nd August), the shows will provide a rare opportunity to see the celebrated musician, producer, composer, entrepreneur and professor, revisiting his inspiring ...
Totally Tubular Festival to Debut Summer 2024: Everything to Know About the 80's New Wave Tour
by Michael Major - January 04, 2024 Experience the nostalgia of the 80s with iconic music and performances from your favorite New Wave artists. The artists performing on the 2024 tour include THOMAS DOLBY, THOMPSON TWINS' TOM BAILEY, MODERN ENGLISH, MEN WITHOUT HATS, THE ROMANTICS, BOW WOW WOW, TOMMY TUTONE (select markets), and THE P...
Neil Hamburger to Release New Album 'Seasonal Depression Suite'
by Michael Major - August 21, 2023 Over the past two decades, Turkington’s conception of the rotten existence of “America’s Funnyman” Neil Hamburger has evolved in unexpected ways. On 2019’s Still Dwelling project, Turkington first collaborated with arranger/producer Erik Paparozzi, whose sensibilities aligned perfectly with Turkingt...
Ronna Reason Announces Debut Self-Titled EP
by Sarah Jae Leiber - February 10, 2021 Today, LA-based Ronna Reason has unleashed her impassioned debut single/video “Panic Town,” armed with post-punk electro flair. The new song comes alongside the announcement of her self-titled EP due out March 19 on the newly launched Damaged Disco label....
Prog Rock Visionaries SONTAAG Release New Single 'BEYOND FOREVER'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 18, 2020 International rock collective Sontaag, whose eponymous debut album is a multi-generic collision of progressive space opera, cinematic ambience and sci-fi storytelling that arrived to significant critical acclaim in 2014, are set to return into 2020’s dystopian new normal. ...
UK Post-Punk Band The Tea Set Release Singles Compilation, Share Video For New Song
by Tori Hartshorn - June 20, 2019 The Tea Set were what you would call a classic art school band, all music as art experiment, where mistakes and wrong chords were part of the process. They were creative, noisy, theatrical, clothed in thrift store chic, and WAY ahead of their time. But now it seems the music world has finally manage...
Jenn Vix to Release New EP '6'
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 12, 2019 “You're pretty good for a girl,' sighs veteran Rhode Island-based electronic rock artist JENN VIX about one of the many comments that plagues her as a female artist. “I have been asked questions such as 'Who writes your music for you?' and 'Oh, so you're a singer, right?'” Her plight as a woman in ...
International Rock Collective Sontaag Release Hawkwind Cover SILVER MACHINE feat. Nik Turner
by Tori Hartshorn - March 08, 2019 International rock collective Sontaag, whose conceptually ambitious, eponymous debut album (a sonically cinematic, cross-generic space opera) arrived into the progressive firmament to critical acclaim in 2014, are finally set to re-establish contact with our much-troubled earthly realm....
VIDEO: Showtime to Premiere NEW WAVE: DARE TO BE DIFFERENT Documentary March 30
by Macon Prickett - March 08, 2018 U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Cure - over half a billion records sold, but you might have never heard of them if not for a small suburban radio station on Long Island, NY called WLIR 92.7. NEW WAVE: DARE TO BE DIFFERENT, premiering on SHOWTIME... |