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I don’t do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I’m proud to be a troublemaker. –Sinead O’Connor

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor; (8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023 aged 56), was an Irish singer-songwriter, artist-musician and political activist. O’Connor released 10 studio albums throughout her career. Her debut studio album, The Lion and the Cobra, was released in 1987 and charted internationally. It was considered “one of the most striking debuts of its era, synthesizing everything from rock to hip-hop to the global music-influenced atmospherics of Peter Gabriel into a style that was entirely her own.” Her second studio album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (1990), became her biggest success, selling over seven million copies worldwide. Its lead single, “Nothing Compares 2 U”, was named the number-one world single in 1990 by the Billboard Music Awards. Although she was at times often steeped in controversy, it “never drowned out her astonishing songcraft…As well as being a fearless interpreter of others’ work, the late singer adapted to a seemingly endless array of styles, marking her out as a bold and utterly singular artist.” –Alex Petridis

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End of the Century: Nothing Compares with DJ Miss Kitty »

Carrie Thornbrugh End Of The Century July 29th, 2023

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: #wrir #localmusic, music, Music show, obscure, post-punk, synthpop, UK music british breakfast rock, variety, WRIR

Dog Germs / PND (punk’s not dead) presents:

so listen

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bte

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best of 2023 so far… »

DJ tablescraps Dog Germs / PND (punk’s not dead) July 18th, 2023

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Tags: #wrir #localmusic, music, Music show, obscure, Punk, rva radio, WRIR

Dog Germs / PND (punk’s not dead) presents:

Pelican johnny and I play gay punk, queercore and other stuff

@pndwrir

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Be Gay Do Crime! »

DJ tablescraps Dog Germs / PND (punk’s not dead) June 20th, 2023

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Tags: #wrir #localmusic, music, Music show, obscure, Punk, rva radio, weirdo, WRIR

Dog Germs / PND (punk’s not dead) presents:

if you don’t like punk, maybe check out the archive player, or spend some time with your dog

bte

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This is a punk show… »

DJ tablescraps Dog Germs / PND (punk’s not dead) May 9th, 2023

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Cause and Effect presents:

No, we’re not talking about the Pittsburgh pirates or the swashbuckling sort, today’s Cause & Effect episode takes a look at the Pirate Radio movement.

In 1964, there was nowhere easy for British youth to listen to rock ‘n’ rollers like The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones. Commercial radio wasn’t yet an option, and the guardians of the publicly-owned British Broadcasting Corporation considered such music immoral, antisocial and unfit for public broadcast. Yet just three years later, on Sept. 30, 1967 — the BBC switched on the transmitters of Radio 1, the country’s first dedicated popular music station. What happened to change their minds? The answer to that question — and the story of how pop music came to the FM dial in the U.K. — involves illegal offshore broadcasters AKA PIRATE RADIO.

Drive around some parts of London today and you’re still liable to hear mainstream radio broadcasts drowned out by fleeting bursts of unfamiliar music. Pirate radio stations have been illegally hijacking the FM dial since the 1990s, but while the pirate scene is far smaller than it was in its heyday, the influence of pirate radio has endured and the movement is still thriving on a local scale, and a vibrant array of online-only stations are inspired by the energy and spirit of the pirates.

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