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Johnny Hates Jazz announces UK Tour 2016

Submitted by newseditor on Wed, 02/24/2016 - 12:33

In 1987, as the era of Electronic Pop and New Romantics was reaching its culmination, Anglo-American group Johnny Hates Jazz were catapulted to success with the release of their single “Shattered Dreams” on Virgin Records. It became a top 5 hit worldwide, reaching number 2 in the USA and Japan, and has since been played over 3 million times on American radio alone.

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Leapfrogtown

Submitted by thanos on Sat, 01/30/2016 - 17:09

Hi Chris… I’m glad to have you on Grande Rock. First of all, do tell us how did the idea to form Leapfrogtown come about?

C: Stu and I were in The Bloogs ‘til 2012, but the drummer and singer had personal problems and following some great festival appearances things got really slow, so I thought “Let’s leapfrog over all this and start a side-project with no restrictions”. So Leapfrogtown was born, I stepped up to front the band and now here we are.

And what about the name Leapfrogtown? How did you come up with it?

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Leapfrogtown - Dreaming in Public

Submitted by rockavlon on Sat, 01/16/2016 - 01:24

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Visage - Demons to Diamonds

Submitted by thanos on Sun, 12/20/2015 - 21:08

“Demons to Diamonds” is the new, fifth and last album of Visage! That may sound a bit weird but it all makes sense if you consider the fact that the band’s leader, composer & singer Steve Strange passed away in February 2015, while he was on vacations in Egypt. He was already working on a new Visage album since the Spring of 2014. Apart from the tragic event itself, Steve’s loss is a major hurt for the new wave synth-pop movement in general. Who hasn’t heard the band’s super classic hymn “Fade to Grey”, regardless of one’s music taste and the time era they have lived in?