Rave Down Radio
This show is a round-up of new and recent releases from July 2022. There’s plenty of singles from forthcoming albums including Alvvays, The House of Love and Sonic Boom with Panda Bear. Then there’s also tracks from recent albums including Launder, Ghost Woman, Horsegirl, Working Men’s Club and Pye Corner Audio. Tracklisting is below. Horsegirl […]
Post-rock is a name to described music that is played with rock instruments in an experimental way. The term wasn’t created until 1994 when journalist Simon Reynolds wrote a review of the Bark Psychosis album Hex in Melody Maker. Over the years bands have tried to distance themselves from the term ‘post-rock’ just like many […]
Whilst shoegaze bands released plenty of EPs there were still loads of quality tracks that were just tucked away as b-sides. This show is back to back b-sides, expect to hear tunes from the likes of Lush, Ride, The Radio Dept, Cocteau Twins, Adorable, My Bloody Valentine, DIIV, Chapterhouse, Sigur Ros, The House of Love, […]
Back in January 1992 the NME ran a front cover featuring LFO called Don’t Fear The Bleeper. The cover showed the band smashing up guitars and highlighted a big move for the paper. Although it had covered acid house and hip-hop in the recent years the focus had very much been on bands with guitars […]
In this show we look at the latest music news, new releases and reissues. Expect to hear tunes from the likes of Business School, Horsegirl, Dummy, Just Mustard, Neu, XAM Duo, Pye Corner Audio, Under The Sun, Dean and Britta, HAAi, Poster Paints, Seagoth and Revolution Above Disorder.
In this show we focus on dreampop which Wikipedia tells me “emphasizes atmosphere and sonic texture as much as pop melody.” Expect to hear tunes from Lush, Cocteau Twins, Beach House, The Beach Boys, Low, Julee Cruise, Mazzy Star, Slowdive, Sigur Ros, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, The Duritti Column and Galaxie 500.
This show is a round-up of new releases, reissues, gig news and any other general bits and bobs going on this month. Expect to hear tunes from Horsegirl, Sun’s Signature, Mogwai, Bdrmm, A Place to Bury Strangers, Daniel Avery, Minor Victories, Eternal, Engineers, Ride, Warpaint and Hatchie.
An hour of back to back tunes from the early 90s that were played in indie discos across the land. There was a time before Britpop and Mr Brightside when indie discos were blasting out music that was either fast or baggy, accompanied by the stench of stale lager and fag smoke of course. Expect […]
Slowdive are returning to the live stage this week in Bath and to celebrate the show looks back at their career. Outside of the band they’ve released so much music over the last 30 years and I’ve tried to cover much of it in this show alongside a few Slowdive tracks. You can hear tunes […]
This week pop pickers every song featured in the show has been a chart hit in the UK including 5 number one singles. However we aren’t playing the original versions, all the songs have been covered by the usual bands we play on this show such as Lush, Ride, The Jesus and Mary Chain, etc… […]