Rave Down Radio
In the next hour expect to hear loads of new releases, gig news and the following tracks: Ozean – FallJust Mustard – I Am Youbdrmm – A Reason To CelebrateRide – Nowhere (live at Reading Festival 1992)Galaxie 500 – Shoot You DownDubstar – StarsJulie – Claireborne PracticeDinosaur Jr – Whenever You’re ReadyWhitelands – CheerWishy – […]
Radio stations on a bank holiday always have some kind of chart rundown therefore I thought I’d do something similar and see who are the most popular artists I regularly play on the show. This week’s show is a run down of the top 30 on streaming sites. To qualify any artist or band just […]
Last week we celebrated Doolittle by the Pixies turning 35 years old, this week it’s the turn of The Stone Roses debut album and The Cure’s Disintegration, both of which were released on May 2nd 1989. Therefore this week’s show is a 1989 special featuring tracks from the year: The House of Love – I […]
As we get closer to Christmas there’s less and less new releases but we do have new tunes from Three Quarter Skies and The Jesus and Mary Chain in this hour. Tracks featured in this show are: The Sundays – You’re Not The Only One I KnowDutch Mustard – Feel EverythingThe Telescopes – EversoWhitelands – […]
There seems to be loads of reissues around at the moment, this shows features some of the best ones plus plenty of new releases. Expect to hear the following tunes: Misty Coast – BreatheSonic Youth – Sugar KaneSyd Barrett – No Good TryingDeary – SleepsongSpiritualized – Lord Let It Rain On MePale Saints – Hair […]
In this show we revisit the Rollercoaster tours that started this week in 1992. The Jesus and Mary Chain bored of touring decided they wanted to do something different and organised a mini festival to take around cities. In the spring of the year The Jesus and Mary Chain headlined a tour of the UK […]
The featured album of the week in this show is from Helen with their The Original Faces album. Helen was a one-off album from Liz Harris of Grouper released in 2015 on Kranky. Also on the show there’s plenty of new releases from Low, Dean Wareham, Mildred Maude, Penelope Isles and Deafheaven. There’s also the […]
We go back exactly 30 years for this week’s featured album. Happy Daze vol.2 was compiled by Gary Crowley and released on March 25th 1991. The album captures the sound of the time with a mixture of shoegaze and post-Madchester ‘baggy’ bands. We play tracks from the album throughout the show. There’s also new releases […]
We go all the way back to 1984 for this week’s featured album of the week. It’ll End In Tears was a huge independent album upon it’s release. The project of Ivo Watts-Russell and a whole host of guests including the Cocteau Twins. The album spent 35 weeks in the UK Independent charts and the […]
Dean & Britta’s latest release the Quarantine Tapes is our featured album of the week on this show. The album is a compilation of tracks recorded during the lockdown and some were recorded as part of their live streams during the spring of 2020. We play a handful of tracks from the album but the […]