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• 8-30-2010
• Aug 29
• 99-2470-03 Moonless March Aloha :00 4:33 00 99-1663-03 Ramblin' (Wo)man Cat Power :00 3:50 00 99-1607-12 96 Tears ? and the Mysteri:00 2:59 00 99-2444-15 Floating Vibes Surfer Blood :00 3:53 00 99-1682-19 Mexican Radio Wall of Voodoo :00 4:08 00 99-2478-07 Burial (DJ Mehdi RMX) Miike Snow :00 3:26 00 99-1264-13 Christenings Blackfield :00 4:37 00 99 ...

• 8-30-2010
• TEN REASONS WHY THE 80's WERE BETTER
• on the third night, and then a fourth day devoted to country. The brainchild of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, what I remember most about the festival was that up-and-coming bands like Wall Of Voodoo, Missing Persons and the Clash all got paid HUGE bucks to perform. While the entire festival, which took place in both 1982 and 1983, was filmed, precious little of it has ever seen the light of day since. I think Triumph is the only band to have officially released their US Festival performance, but You ...

• 8-30-2010
• Q&A: Stan Ridgway Talks Voodoo, Ethel Merman and Covering "Love Will Keep Us Together"
• ​Stan Ridgway will always be known, for better or worse, as they guy who sings "Mexican Radio." As the founding member of the legendary new wave act Wall of Voodoo, Ridgway found a musical niche ... Continue reading "Q&A;: Stan Ridgway Talks Voodoo, Ethel Merman and Covering "Love Will Keep Us Together"" > ...

• 8-30-2010
• New Stan Ridgway - Neon Mirage and Rare Free MP3s
• The greatest American singer/songwriter/guitarist/storyteller/man about town/humourist you've never heard of, Stan Ridgway, recently unleashed his newest album, Neon Mirage. You have probably heard of his former band Wall of Voodoo's Mexican Radio, but the guy's been putting out amazing solo albums now for 24 years. Please give him a listen, buy some of his stuff, I dearly want him to continue making music. Drive She Said from The Big Heat Can't Stop the Show (Live) - original ... version from The Big Heat Goin' Southbound from Mosquitos Camouflage from The Big Heat Beloved Movie Star from Holiday in Dirt Talkin' Wall of Voodoo Blues from Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads and Fugitive Songs Lonely Town from Mosquitos Train of Thought (Live) original version from Anatomy If you've made it all the way down here, you deserve a prize. The following are available as free downloads from Beyond Tomorrow, which is billed "your Stan Ridgway resource on the net ...

• 8-27-2010
• Wall of Voodoo - The Index Master (from Ink19)
• If you need one record to illustrate "new wave," this is it. This beautifully remastered disc is essentially the first EP from Stan Ridgeway's Throbbing Wall of Voodoo. (They dropped the "throbbing" so they could get their name on the Whiskey's Marquee.) Ridgeway's vaguely nasal vocals ride high over the chunky guitars and cheesy electric organ, painting a backdrop for film noir lyrics and a sense of urban foreboding. "Long Arm" was the first song of theirs I ever heard, and it reflected the col......

• 8-27-2010
• Book Notes - Adam Langer ("The Thieves of Manhattan")
• Germany, turned me on to Die Toten Hosen a long time ago. She's really not a fan of the music, but I still am. "Susie Before Sunrise," Stan Ridgway For me, no songwriter encapsulates the ironic noirish sensibility of Thieves better than Ridgway, the former frontman of Wall of Voodoo. His best songs, which for me include "Don't Box Me In," "Going Southbound," and "Peg and Pete and Me," work like concise, pulpy short stories. Whenever I hear this song, I imagine a closing shot of a movie followed ...

• 8-26-2010
• TERRELL'S TUNEUP: RIDGWAY'S NEON MIRAGE
• A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New MexicanAugust 27, 2010Even before he formed Wall of Voodoo back during the New Wave scare, Stan Ridgway had a cinematic perspective on the music he makes. Many of his songs — the instrumental "Heat Takes a Walk," epic meditations like "My Beloved Movie Star" — sound like they were ripped from celluloid. Even some of his albums, the noirish The ...

• 8-25-2010
• ArpLine – “Fold Up Like A Piece of Paper” (Video)
• "Fold Up Like A Piece of Paper" from unsigned Brooklyn band ArpLine is a noise-pop anthem hopped-up on cocaine and channels the less goofy elements of '80s bands like Wall of Voodoo and Split Enz with a dose of Industrial. Works for me. ...

• 8-11-2010
• Wall Of Voodoo’s Stan Ridgway Unveils ‘Neon Mirage’
• All things considered, it seems somehow strangely fitting that the tour supporting erstwhile Wall Of Voodoo frontman Stan Ridgway's upcoming Neon Mirage album should find him performing in New York City on September 11th. Ridgway's latest solo outing is, after all, a document of a tragic time that saw some key people in the L.A. singer/songwriter's life depart this mortal vale. On his first solo album since 2004's Snakebite, Ridgway maintains the same sardonic outlook and colorful style that ...

• 8-11-2010
• Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium
• tastefully to enhance the music and are not the true basis of the songs . . . the songs are still rooted in detuned, sludge-y, and dark heavy metal. The textural embellishments act more like visual effects to enhance the story of a movie like Star Wars rather than the sole purpose of the song. They're the color of a spectacular painting. The album opens with a monstrous and brutal rendition of Wall of Voodoo's alt-pop classic, "Mexican Radio," and we, as listeners, get that opportunity to both raise our ...

• 8-08-2010
• Kevin Feige Teases Nerds, Talks 'Black Panther,' 'Iron Fist,' 'SHIELD' And Other Superhero Movies
• It's amazing that the nerdiest of us were once sitting around boom box radios listening to Wall of Voodoo and Devo and debating what superheroes would make great movies and who would play them, feeling that none of these movies would ever happen. And while we stood fast that Clancy Brown would be a great Sabretooth and that they can never make a superhero movie with a character that has a flaming ...

• 7-10-2010
• July 10th-16th.. 1977-1994 Post Punk & New Wave !
• of suggestions there. In the meantime, here are some artists i will be highlighting ... Wall of Voodoo ...

• 6-18-2010
• Sous le soleil de Mexico...
• ! Wall Of Voodoo Mexican Radio (1982) Ennio Morricone + Devo = Wall Of Voodoo. "Mexican Radio ...

• 6-10-2010
• Concrete Blonde’s Johnette Napolitano on the Anniversary of Bloodletting and Turning Down Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson
• . How did you come to cover "Tomorrow Wendy" by Andy Prieboy? We met Wall of Voodoo when we opened ...

• 6-04-2010
• Summer Fridays 3.2: Hazy, Hot and Humid
• original, alongside Peter Buck, Andy Gill and Wall of Voodoo's Mark Moreland (and Johnny Marr if you want ...

• 6-01-2010
• Kevin Dunn | No Great Lost: Songs 1979-1985
• , the days were numbered for people like Dunn and likeminded contemporaries like Wall of Voodoo and Polyrock ...

• 5-27-2010
• "Ring of Fire" ~ Wall of Voodoo ~ Cover (Live)
• (11 votes - 1 comment - 211 views) Wall of Voodoo's cover of "Ring of Fire" Johnny Cash. Live ...

• 5-22-2010
• “Fauna Sessions” Animal Special – Extended Playlist 170510 – www.2ser.com 107.3FM
• , Ascension) (original 1981) # Wall Of Voodoo - Animal Day ("Dark Continent" - 1981, IRS) Peterlicht ...

• 5-11-2010
• Can’t Complain: Stan Ridgway
• 's better known to the MTV Generation as the lead singer for 80's new wave group Wall of Voodoo on their MTV ...

• 5-10-2010
• Sound Off: Literature
• love chess, yeah. Austin Sound: Remember the 80's? We all danced to Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio ...

• 4-24-2010
• OINGO BOINGO Part 1.: The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo (1972-1980) and Oingo Boingo's A&M Years (1980 -1984)
• we'd just been playing, and Fear Oingo Boingo, X, The Go-Gos, Wall of Voodoo, Los Lobos, a couple [of ...

• 4-07-2010
• Concrete Blonde reuniting for 'Bloodletting's 20th anniversary
• in full" tours. Formed in Los Angeles in 1982 by singer Johnette Napolitano and guitarist James Mankey, the band was originally called Dream 6 until Michael Stipe suggested they change their name to Concrete Blonde. Bloodletting was the band's third album which, in addition to "Joey" (written by onetime Wall of Voodoo singer Andy Preiboy), found Modern Rock radio success with the LP's title track -- that has since been used in more than one Vampire movie/TV show over the last 20 years. The band made ...

• 3-30-2010
• "Mexican Diet Pills" by Dan Creeden
• Based on the song, "Mexican Radio" as performed by Wall Of Voodoo ...

• 3-12-2010
• TSOL 1980 Demos
• . I'd learn. Number 2: Everything in this company was done in Microsoft PowerPoint. I never opened the program. I'd learn. I was one of, maybe, 5 Caucasians working there. But you know what? Everybody was cool as hell. There were one or two ball busters, but all in all people were cool. Every morning as I walked in I heard the Wall of Voodoo song in my head: "I'm on a Mexican Radio . . ." as I walked past the two glass DJ booths. The company had an in-house AM radio station, and the more ...

• 2-19-2010
• Great Metal Covers
• Suicide Machines - It's The End Of The World As We Know It 20 Torment - Stone Dead Forever [Motorhead] Code:http://rapidshare.com/files/349038308/Vol._41_by_lepin.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/349032690/Vol._41_by_lepin.part2.rar Great Metal Covers 42 Mp3/320 1 Agent Orange - Seek And Destroy [Metallica] 2 All Boro Kings - I Want You [Kiss] 3 Benediction - Electric Eye [Judas Priest] 4 Bonehouse - No Voices In The Sky [Motorhead] 5 Celtic Frost - Mexican Radio [Wall Of Voodoo] 6 Defleshed ...

• 2-18-2010
• Elvis Costello "Radio Sweetheart (Live)"...Plus The Selecter, and Wall of Voodoo
• The Vinyl District Report: Click here to go to TVD to check Elvis Costello "Radio Sweetheart (Live)"...plus The Selecter "On The Radio", and Wall of Voodoo "Mexican Radio" ...

• 2-16-2010
• Wall Of Voodoo - Call Of The West (from Mojo)
• In 1982 Wall Of Voodoo's rare frontman Stan Ridgway called their songs "a bunch of little Twilight Zones strung together". Not a bad way to approach this anti-sunbathing Los Angeles group's admirably unclichéd sign-off Call Of The West. A suspenseful travelogue full of twists, shadow and ambiguities, it also perplexes with its musical palette; Ridgway's mordant, sung-from-the-corner-of-his-mouth vignettes of paranoia, pessimism and alarm are accompanied by synths and drum box set to "malarial",......

• 1-04-2010
• Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio (Live, US Festival '83) RARE!
• Found at: youtube

• 1-04-2010
• Featuring Brian Wilson 1
• Found at: youtube

• 1-04-2010
• Wall Of Voodoo "Call Box (1-2-3)"
• Found at: youtube

• 8-31-2009
• VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the '80s: Do You Agree?
• Lipps, Inc. "Funkytown" 38 Bruce Willis "Respect Yourself" 39 Matthew Wilder "Break My Stride" 40 The Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star" 41 Billy Vera "At This Moment" 42 Timbuk 3 "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" 43 Shannon "Let the Music Play" 44 Wall of Voodoo "Mexican Radio" 45 Robbie Nevil "C'est La Vie" 46 Georgia Satellites "Keep Your Hands To Yourself" 47 Pretty Poison "Catch Me I'm Falling ...

• 8-12-2009
• Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
• Found at: myspace

• 8-12-2009
• Mexican Radio Wall of Voodoo
• Found at: myspace

• 8-12-2009
• Wall of Voodoo - Tomorrow
• Found at: myspace

• 8-03-2009
• Stan Ridgway and Wall Of Voodoo ( 1982 )
• Found at: youtube

• 8-03-2009
• Wall Of Voodoo "This Way Out"
• Found at: youtube

• 8-03-2009
• Wall Of Voodoo- Tomorrow
• Found at: youtube

• 8-03-2009
• Wall of voodoo -me and my dad + callbox
• Found at: youtube

• 7-21-2009
• Wall Of Voodoo "Tse Tse Fly"
• Found at: youtube

• 7-21-2009
• Wall of Voodoo - Far Side of Crazy
• Found at: youtube

• 7-21-2009
• Wall of Voodoo - Red Light
• Found at: youtube

• 7-21-2009
• Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
• Found at: youtube

• 7-21-2009
• Wall Of Voodoo Back In Flesh LIVE URGH!
• Found at: youtube

• 7-21-2009
• Wall of Voodoo-Mexican Radio (Death Metal style)
• Found at: youtube

• 7-21-2009
• Wall Of Voodoo - "Factory"
• Found at: youtube

• 7-20-2009
• Wall of Voodoo - The Index Master (from Ink19)
• If you need one record to illustrate "new wave," this is it. This beautifully remastered disc is essentially the first EP from Stan Ridgeway's Throbbing Wall of Voodoo. (They dropped the "throbbing" so they could get their name on the Whiskey's Marquee.) Ridgeway's vaguely nasal vocals ride high over the chunky guitars and cheesy electric organ, painting a backdrop for film noir lyrics and a sense of urban foreboding. "Long Arm" was the first song of theirs I ever heard, and it reflected the col......

• 7-15-2009
• Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
• Found at: myspace

• 7-15-2009
• Wall Of Voodoo - Back In Flesh
• Found at: myspace

• 7-15-2009
• Wall Of Voodoo - Back In Flesh
• Found at: myspace

• 7-15-2009
• Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo
• Found at: myspace

• 7-10-2009
• Dave Matthews Band, Wilco Spice Up New Orleans Jazz Fest
• Photo: Diamond/Getty "New Orleans is the soul of America," Gil Cerezo of Kinky declared. The dance rock band from Monterey, Mexico, was onstage and finishing up the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell in exhilarating fashion, merging Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" with their own. This year marks the 40th anniversary of Jazz Fest, a two-weekend-long celebration of what festival producer Quint Davis refers to as "the heritage of jazz." This weekend ...

• 6-22-2009
• Wall Of Voodoo "Good Times"
• Found at: youtube

• 3-22-2009
• Wall Of Voodoo and Stan Ridgway - Redlight
• Found at: youtube

• 3-22-2009
• Celtic Frost - Mexican Radio (Wall of Voodoo cover 1987)
• Found at: youtube

• 3-22-2009
• Wall Of Voodoo
• Found at: myspace

• 2-27-2009
• H.O.S.H. comes to America
• Me? 11. Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind 12. Duke Ellington - Moonbow 13. Future Pilot AKA - Terry Bina 14. Mulatu Astatke - Yègellé Tezeta 15. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Nashville Blues 16. Lee Hazlewood - Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On 17. Wall of Voodoo - Ring of Fire 18. Chris and Cosey - Sweet Surprise 19. The Lady Vanishes - Sleepwalk Domino will release Optimo's Sleepwalking on October 27, 2008. ...

• 2-27-2009
• Optimo to Release New Mix Album on Domino
• : "La Mer" 06 Raymond Scott: "Sleepy Time" 07 Cluster: "Sowiesoso" 08 Eno, Moebius and Roedelius: "Broken Head" 09 Arthur Russell: "This Is How We Walk on the Moon" 10 Damon: "Don't You Feel Me?" 11 Karen Dalton: "Something oOn Your Mind" 12 Duke Ellington: "Moonbow" 13 Future Pilot AKA: "Terry Bina" 14 Mulatu Astatke: "Yègellé Tezeta" 15 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: "Nashville Blues" 16 Lee Hazlewood: "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" 17 Wall of Voodoo: "Ring of Fire" 18 Chris and Cosey: "Sweet Surprise ...

• 1-28-2009
• Capitol Records to Reissue I.R.S. Records By the dB’s, Tom Verlaine
• Starting February 10th, Capitol Records will dig deep into the I.R.S. Records vault and begin making some of the now-defunct label's most acclaimed music available digitally for the first time. Gary Numan, the Police's Stewart Copeland, Television's Tom Verlaine, Wall of Voodoo, Timbuk 3, Concrete Blonde and many more artists are slated to have their I.R.S. recordings released DRM-free. We're especially excited for the digital release of dada's alternative classics Puzzle and American Highway ... Flower. But the really big news is that the digital world will finally, legally, be able to download the dB's influential first two albums, Stands For Decibels and Repurcussion, as well as their fourth album Sound of Music. Plus seven songs by the punk supergroup Lords of the New Church, featuring the Dead Boys' Stiv Bators, will also hit iTunes, Amazon and most other digital music providers. Capitol will release the I.R.S. albums over the course of six weeks, culminating on March 17th. Additionally ...

• 1-01-1982
• Wall of Voodoo - Call of the West (from Robert Christgau)
• Those who believe synth-pop means that the end is near should cf. WoV's 1980 EP, which gave no hint they were capable of tunes as neat and witty as "Mexican Radio" or "Lost Weekend." Maybe soon vocalist-lyricist Stanard Ridgway will fall in love with a human and start pretending he's a nice guy....