The New Wave Music Podcast

Steve and T-bone repeatedly deliver honest and insightful album reviews of legendary bands that shaped an entire generation and still deserve the attention today! I’m hooked and looking forward to more!

This podcast fills a much-needed niche in popular music. The New Wave sound was/is so fantastic, but since its heyday passed, it’s hard to find news and reviews on it. Well, here ya go. But then we’ve got problems - and this after listening to many episodes - The reviews tend to sound repetitive and rehearsed. You get a very strong sense that the comments are just being read from note cards and not extemporaneous (and then also not feeling very genuine). If I hear “you’re reading my notes” one more time… Second, c'mon guys, they can’t all be bangers! They gush over something like 90% of the tracks they review. As a result, their reviews become rather meaningless. And let’s be honest - this from a true new wave fan - a lot of these artists’ more recent work is…not good. Finally, the interviews tend to be rather cringe - for similar reasons. Kind of like Chris Farley asking questions but without the intended comedy. Canned, predictable, unimaginative.

As a true first generation New Waver & alternative music lover, I find it so dismissive when a ‘legacy’ band releases something new and it’s ignored. This podcast does a noble service to those releases. Well done!

Great podcast very informative.