SUNDAY RADIO INTERVIEW – Michael Ciravolo

Michael Ciravolo has been recording and touring with Human Drama for about 30 years.

He has also played live and recorded with Michael Ashton’s Gene Loves Jezebel since 1998.

This year, Ciravolo, who is perhaps best known as President of Schecter Guitar Research, decided to put together his personal project, Beauty In Chaos, and released in September the album “Finding Beauty in Chaos“.

The abundance of guest stars on this album is phenomenal. Members from The Mission, Cheap Trick, The Cure, Gene Loves Jezebel, The Offspring, Kings X, Human Drama, The Awakening are adding their personal touch.

So we came together to discuss about this beautiful album…

To listen to the show CLICK HERE

 

The Sunday Blackout Interview: Lusterlit

Lusterlit is Bushwick Book Club founder, Susan Hwang and producer, Charlie Nieland from Brooklyn, New York, playing their songs about books. They believe it’s a little nerds gone wild.

Lets hear what they have to say cause they have a new single out…

To listen, click HERE

 

The Blackout Radio Show with Mike Pougounas with special guest: Mick Magic

I decided I should post every Sunday, some radio interviews I do for The Blackout Radio Show.

On this week’s Blackout I have a special guest: Mick Magic will enlighten us regarding the Cassette scene of the 80’s and 90’s, his band Magic Moments At Twilight Time and his cassette label Music & Elsewhere which became the main English distributor of the Cassette scene.

All songs will be taken from the compilation “United World Underground Collection” which he put out recently, introducing us to 30 albums that the label released back then…

Click HERE to listen to the show.

The show goes on air as follows:
►Mad Wasp Radio [UK] – Saturday 8AM – Sunday 11PM – Tuesday 4PM
►Wicked Spins Radio [UK]-Thursdays 7PM – 9PM
►KOWS 92,5FM [CA-USA]- Tuesday 10PM-12 Midnight
►Fasching Web Radio [CANADA]- Wednesdays from 5 – 7PM

If you’d like more details or if you’d like to order the collection “United World Underground” click HERE

Mick Magic’s band “Magic Moments At Twilight Time” saw these day the re-issue of their album “CREAVOLUTION REBORN – The Brain Dead Studio Analogue Remaster” (order enquiries should be sent to marcbell386@btinternet.com).

You can check about this album HERE

 

 

The War of the Worlds 80th Anniversary

October 30th, 2018 will mark the 80th anniversary of Orson Welles‘ legendary live radio play broadcast of H.G. Wells’ science fiction masterpiece, The War Of The Worlds.

In honor of that occasion, Stardust Records is reissuing the broadcast as part of a limited edition, 2 CD collection that includes the complete original 1938 broadcast along with a rare February 1955 broadcast and a October 1940 conversation between Orson Welles and H.G. Wells.

This set was produced for release by Athan Maroulis who compiled it and penned the accompanying liner notes.

As a child, Maroulis, known primarily as the vocalist of Spahn Ranch, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, and presently in NOIR, became fascinated by this story after watching a made-for-television film about the panic that ensued after the original 1938 broadcast.

Later, Maroulis began collecting memorabilia relating to both The War of the Worlds and Orson Welles, which he put to use during this project.

Painstakingly remastered, this version of The War of the Worlds sounds even better than it did when it first reverberated out of vacuum tube radios back in 1938.

Stardust Records, a division of Cleopatra Entertainment, will release this pioneering science fiction collection on October 19th, 2018 on compact disc and all digital formats.

You can place your order HERE

 

Blackout Radio exclusive Interview with author and Bauhaus co-founder Kevin Haskins

The Blackout Radio Show with Mike Pougounas goes on air as follows:

The show is aired as follows:
►Mad Wasp Radio [UK] – Saturday 8AM – Sunday 11PM – Tuesday 9AM
►Wicked Spins Radio [UK]-Thursdays 7PM – 9PM
►KOWS 92,5FM [CA-USA]- Tuesday 10PM-12 Midnight
►Fasching Web Radio [CANADA]- Wednesdays from 5 – 7PM

Playlist

01 Soft Science – Undone
02. The Lost End – Self Control
03. Squeeze – Innocence In Paradise
04. The Fall – Brillo De Facto
05. Serpent Power – Golden Dawn
06. Ministry – Public Image
07. SPC ECO – Incomplete
08. Bauhaus – god in an alcove (flexi version)
09. Siouxsie & the Banshees – Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)
10. Bauhaus – She’s In Parties
11. Love & Rockets – So Alive
12. Love & Rockets – Mirror People ’88
13. Tones On Tail – Lions
14. Bauhaus – Passion of Lovers
15. Bauhaus – In the Flat Field
16. Schubert – Trio in E Flat, Op. 100 (Excerpt)
17. Bauhaus – Ziggy Stardust
18. Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
19. Love & Rockets – Sweet Lover Hangover
20. Bauhaus – Kick in the Eye 2
21. Love & Rockets – Ball Of Confusion
22. Bauhaus – Dark Entries (Live At Coachella)
23. New Zero God – Shadow Of Wealth
24. Seatemples – The Burning World
25. Savage Cut with Leyla Josephine – Andy From Finance
26. Dsease – Selfist Darky Tender
27. Permanent Clear Light – One in Five

 

The Blackout Radio Show with Mike Pougounas – First show of November 2017

The Blackout Radio Show with Mike Pougounas started in 2011 on Wicked Spins Radio.

It is a two hour show covering weekly a wide spectre of music genres, playing mostly new releases of underground bands and artists from all over the globe.

Okay, there is a big chance to listen a bit punk rock and post-punk from other genres but if Mike likes something it is aired…

Mainstream artists are avoided and some old music stuff is added to the show to bring back memories spice up things a little.

Interviews are rare but the following guests have been interviewed so far: Alex Daniele (author of the book “The Mission – At War with Gods“), Nick Schultz (of the band Faces of Sarah), Paul Devine (of the band Siiiii), Piers Sixx (of the band Arcane Winter) Rob Layton (of the band Red Sun Revival), The Expelaires, Trevor Bamford (Nightbreed Rec., Nightbreed Radio, Every New Dead Ghost, Midnight Configuration, Arcane Winter, Death Party UK)…

Nowdays, The Blackout Radio Show with Mike Pougounas is aired via four different stations located on three different countries:

The radio station KOWS 92.5FM based at Occidental, California – U.S.A. and the web radio station Wicked Spins Radio (every Thursday at 7PM UK), Mad Wasp Radio (Saturday 6AM – Sunday 11PM – Tuesday 9AM UK) and Fasching Web Radio  (Tuseday 12-2PM Canada).

There is a facebook group where playlists of the show are posted HERE

The shows are also available at mixcloud every Friday morning.

November’s first show is available HERE

This week’s playlist has as follows:

The Cramps – Cramp Stomp
The Vandelles – Lovely Weather
El Goodo – When
The Poppers – In the Morning
Century Palm – Then You’re Gone
In Letter Form – Wait Now
Mayflower Madame – Into The Haze
Soft Kill – From this Point on
The Twilight Sad – There’s a girl in the corner
Mike Peters and Billy Duffy – Time
Cachemira – Sail Away
Spacemen 3 – Revolution
The Ivory Elephant – Ho Ha
Fabulous Head – White Trash
Pickwick – Turncoat
Frank Zappa – Cocaine Decisions
The Aloof – All I want is you
Eli Chartkoff – Jam Im Real
Talisco – A Kiss from LA
Psymon Spine – Shocked
Public Service Broadcasting – Everest
Cheap Trick – Radio Lover
The Expelaires – Nail Gun Guy
Peter and the Test Tube Babies – Run Like Hell
The Dark – Hawai 5-0
The Wire – 12XU
The Wall – Remembrance
Status Quo – Pictures of Matchstick Men

 

All you need to know about The Blackout Radio Show with Mike Pougounas

In 2012 Mike Pougounas was offered to host a radio show on Wicked Spins Radio, a web radio station based in the UK.

Mike came up with The Blackout Radio Show with Mike Pougounas, a two hour show spinning mostly new underground releases from music genres such as: punk rock, post-punk, goth, industrial, electro, trip hop, jazz, funk, prog-rock and soul.

During these years he interviewed on air the following guests: Alex Daniele (author of the book The Mission – At War with Gods), Nick Schultz (of the band Faces of Sarah), Paul Devine (of the band Siiiii), Piers Sixx (of the band Arcane Winter) Rob Layton (of the band Red Sun Revival), The Expelaires andTrevor Bamford (Nightbreed Rec, Nightbreed Radio, Every New Dead Ghost, Midnight Configuration, Arcane Winter, Death Party UK)…

The Blackout Radio Show with Mike Pougounas was aired in USA for the first time in 2014 through KOWS 92,5FM. A radio station based in Sonoma County, California.

In 2016 the show went on air through a Canadian web radio station in Montreal, the Fasching Web Radio 

Mad Wasp Radio is the fourth radio station that airs the show, and the second based in the UK.

Tune in this week to listen to what The Blackout Radio Show with Mike Pougounas brings: Tunes from the latest albums of Roger Waters, Ride, Smash, Jamie Aaron Aux, Savage Cut, The Raft, Divisionists, Klammer, Chantal O’Brien, Candice Gordon, True Body, Sorority Noise, Carl Broemel , Bill Baird, The Menzingers, Yagow, Poni Hoax and the Greek duet Meat Injection from the Aza Records compilation “A Call to instruments vol.3”. Plus, old stuff that I won’t name here…

The show is aired as follows:

►Wicked Spins Radio [UK]-Thursdays 7PM – 9PM

►KOWS 92,5FM [CA-USA] – Every other Tuesday 10PM-12 Midnight

►Fasching Web Radio [CANADA]-Tuesday 12-2PM

►Mad Wasp Radio [UK] – Saturday 6AM – Sunday 11PM – Tuesday 9AM

 

You can also follow the show on mixcloud HERE