Podcast appearances and mentions of Josie Cotton

The Vapors' fourth album Wasp In A Jar (release date: February 28, 2025 via Vapors Own Records)Album single "Hit The Ground Running" will be released on January 17With 2025 kicking off the next chapter for The Vapors, the band are looking at a full plate of activity. “2025 is shaping up into a very busy year for us,” says Danny. “We have the album out on February 28th accompanied by a tour of UK grassroots venues in March. Then we have some UK shows with Big Country in April and May and then we are returning to the US for the Lost '80s tour with A Flock of Seagulls, Big Country, Josie Cotton, Icicle Works, Belouis Some and many others.”  Built around classic punk riffage with a chorus that opens up and toys with expectation, opening track “Hit The Ground Running” retains the breakneck rhythms that fans know and love from their previous releases. With nary a moment to catch a breath, The Vapors follow it up with “The Human Race” which Danny describes as a kind of “ballad of The Vapors.” “Carry On,” a statement about the current climate (“When the government needs to know / That's when the government needs to go”), weaves around shimmering arpeggiated chords and Dave Fenton's haunting vocal lines (“Carry on / As if nothing happened / Carry on / Like we did before”) before evolving into an epic and soaring outro that begs for an audience singalong.  “They all have significance to us in their own different ways. ‘The Human Race' is about the band, ‘Look Away Now' is about Dave dealing with his Parkinson's Disease and ‘Miss You Girl' is about children wanting to move out of the family home. The Vapors is Dave Fenton (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Steve Smith (bass), Michael Bowes (drums), Danny Fenton (guitar). Wasp In A Jar will be released on February 28, 2025 via Vapors Own Records and was recorded and produced by Michael Giblin (The Split Squad) at Mechanicsburg, PA and mastered by Greg Reierson at Rare Form Mastering.The band, formed in 1979 45-year historyThe band parted company late in 1981, with all members going on to have varied and successful careers across the entertainment industry.In 2016, after a decade of Internet clamour for a revival, they announced their reformation for a short series of gigs, including a sell-out show at London's Dingwalls. Over 170 gigs and 2020's comeback album third album Together and several singles later, they're stronger and more relevant than ever. Take some zany and serious journeys with The Pipeman aka Dean K. Piper, CST on The Adventures of Pipeman also known as Pipeman Radio syndicated globally “Where Who Knows And Anything Goes”.  Check out our segment Positively Pipeman dedicated to Business, Motivation, Spiritual, and Health & Wellness.  Check out our segment Pipeman in the Pit dedicated to Music, Artistry and Entertainment  Subscribe to The Adventures of Pipeman at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-adventures-of-pipeman--941822/support  Would you like to be a sponsor of the show?Would you like to have your business, products, services, merch, programs, books, music or any other professional or artistic endeavors promoted on the show?Would you like interviewed as a professional or music guest on The Adventures of Pipeman, Positively Pipeman and/or Pipeman in the Pit?Would you like to host your own Radio Show, Streaming TV Show, or Podcast?  Contact the Pipeman:Phone/Text Contact – 561-506-4031Email Contact – dean@talk4media.com  Follow @pipemanradio on all social media outlets  Visit Pipeman Radio on the Web at linktr.ee/pipemanradio, theadventuresofpipeman.com and pipemanradio.com.Download The Pipeman Radio APP  The Adventures of Pipeman is broadcast live Wednesdays at 1PM ET and Music & Positive Interviews daily at 8AM ET on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) and replays on K4HD Radio (www.k4hd.com) – Hollywood Talk Radio part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). The Adventures of Pipeman TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).

The Vapors' fourth album Wasp In A Jar (release date: February 28, 2025 via Vapors Own Records)Album single "Hit The Ground Running" will be released on January 17With 2025 kicking off the next chapter for The Vapors, the band are looking at a full plate of activity. “2025 is shaping up into a very busy year for us,” says Danny. “We have the album out on February 28th accompanied by a tour of UK grassroots venues in March. Then we have some UK shows with Big Country in April and May and then we are returning to the US for the Lost '80s tour with A Flock of Seagulls, Big Country, Josie Cotton, Icicle Works, Belouis Some and many others.”  Built around classic punk riffage with a chorus that opens up and toys with expectation, opening track “Hit The Ground Running” retains the breakneck rhythms that fans know and love from their previous releases. With nary a moment to catch a breath, The Vapors follow it up with “The Human Race” which Danny describes as a kind of “ballad of The Vapors.” “Carry On,” a statement about the current climate (“When the government needs to know / That's when the government needs to go”), weaves around shimmering arpeggiated chords and Dave Fenton's haunting vocal lines (“Carry on / As if nothing happened / Carry on / Like we did before”) before evolving into an epic and soaring outro that begs for an audience singalong.  “They all have significance to us in their own different ways. ‘The Human Race' is about the band, ‘Look Away Now' is about Dave dealing with his Parkinson's Disease and ‘Miss You Girl' is about children wanting to move out of the family home. The Vapors is Dave Fenton (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Steve Smith (bass), Michael Bowes (drums), Danny Fenton (guitar). Wasp In A Jar will be released on February 28, 2025 via Vapors Own Records and was recorded and produced by Michael Giblin (The Split Squad) at Mechanicsburg, PA and mastered by Greg Reierson at Rare Form Mastering.The band, formed in 1979 45-year historyThe band parted company late in 1981, with all members going on to have varied and successful careers across the entertainment industry.In 2016, after a decade of Internet clamour for a revival, they announced their reformation for a short series of gigs, including a sell-out show at London's Dingwalls. Over 170 gigs and 2020's comeback album third album Together and several singles later, they're stronger and more relevant than ever. Take some zany and serious journeys with The Pipeman aka Dean K. Piper, CST on The Adventures of Pipeman also known as Pipeman Radio syndicated globally “Where Who Knows And Anything Goes”.  Check out our segment Positively Pipeman dedicated to Business, Motivation, Spiritual, and Health & Wellness.  Check out our segment Pipeman in the Pit dedicated to Music, Artistry and Entertainment   Subscribe to The Adventures of Pipeman at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-adventures-of-pipeman--941822/support  Would you like to be a sponsor of the show?Would you like to have your business, products, services, merch, programs, books, music or any other professional or artistic endeavors promoted on the show?Would you like interviewed as a professional or music guest on The Adventures of Pipeman, Positively Pipeman and/or Pipeman in the Pit?Would you like to host your own Radio Show, Streaming TV Show, or Podcast?  Contact the Pipeman:Phone/Text Contact – 561-506-4031Email Contact – dean@talk4media.com  Follow @pipemanradio on all social media outlets  Visit Pipeman Radio on the Web at linktr.ee/pipemanradio, theadventuresofpipeman.com and pipemanradio.com.Download The Pipeman Radio APP  The Adventures of Pipeman is broadcast live Wednesdays at 1PM ET and Music & Positive Interviews daily at 8AM ET on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) and replays on K4HD Radio (www.k4hd.com) – Hollywood Talk Radio part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). The Adventures of Pipeman TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).

Baxie speaks with Steve Smith of The Vapors! While most people remember The Vapors for their classic New Wave hit “Turning Japanese” (1980), their two studio albums were loaded with great songs that deserved equal attention. In 2016 The Vapors reformed after a 35-year hiatus. And this March they will release their latest album “Wasp in a Jar”. And it's exceptionally good! Steve talks about the new record, being discovered by Bruce Foxton from The Jam, and about getting back in the road. The Vapors will be coming to the Bosch Theater at the Wang Center in. Boston on August 1st as part of the Lost 80's Live tour—-which includes Big Country, Flock of Seagulls, General Public, Josie Cotton, Belouis Some, and China Crisis! Coming Monday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and on the Rock102 app! Brought to you by Metro Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Chicopee!

DJ Jesse Luscious spins 2024's Luscious Listener's Choices (& some runner-ups) in this exciting round-up of new releases from punk & weirdo upstarts & veterans from around the planet! Hear the latest from MC5, The Dwarves, Split Dogs, Girls In Synthesis, Cock Sparrer, Coughin Vicars, City Mouse, Human Toys, The Darts, The Death Wheelers, Build Them To Break, Zombie Met Girl, Śmierć, Hard Skin, The Chisel, Deathtraps, Flores Y Fuego, Prey, Uranium Club, Neutrals, Night Court, Dearthworms, The Pist, Planet On A Chain, Clayface, The Promised End, Slaughterhouse, Rites of Hadda, Reduced, The Phase Problem, The Hip Priests, The Last Gang, & Josie Cotton! Split Dogs- Punch Drunk Coughin Vicars- One Cuff Fits All City Mouse- Magnitude Human Toys- Don't Bury Your Dead Dwarves- Roxette Dwarves- Stabbed My Dad Zombie Met Girl- Corpseville Darts- Are You Down Josie Cotton- Painting In Blood Rites Of Hadda- Queer Fool MC5- Heavy Lifting  Last Gang- Dogmatic Capitalizer (Edit) Hip Priests- Thicken My Skin Reduced- Get Through To You Phase Problem- Demon Girl Clayface- Call Your Number Promised End- Smash And Grab (Edit) Planet On A Chain- Ready To Strike Chisel- Living For Myself (Edit) Prey- Ingrate Prey- Til It Snaps Pist- Jim Martin Smierc- Instrukcja Deathtraps- Countdown To Self Destruction Hard Skin- We Are The Wankers Cock Sparrer- Take It On The Chin Flores Y Fuego=- Abraza El Fracaso Slaughterhouse- State Of Emergency Girls In Synthesis- Sinking Feeling Uranium Club- Small Grey Man  Dearthworms- Strike Low Neutrals- Stop The Bypass Build Them To Break- Blood Moon Sky Night Court- Cellphone Death Wheelers- Interquaalude Death Wheelers- Sissy Bar Strut Death Wheelers- Open Road X Open Casket

By the late 70s, drummer Dony Wynn thought his music career might be over. Nothing was really happening and he wasn't holding down gigs. Then the great Robert Palmer heard him and everything changed. Dony joined the fray around the Secrets album in 1979 and stuck around for the next 15 years or so. Dony joins us this week to tell us what it's like working for Robert during his peak (and post peak) period, why they had that magic and his times working with Robert Plant, Steve Winwood, Wang Chung, Dr. John, Josie Cotton and more. These days, Dony is more focused on writing and photography, but he can sure tell a good story! Enjoy! www.donywynn.com www.patreon.com/c/thehustlepod

This week on The Metro, Rev. Jeff Ivins brings you these artists to help with your time warp to the 1980s: Bill Nelson, Alphaville, Cyndi Lauper, Level 42, Modern Romance, Matthew Wilder, Josie Cotton, Icicle Works, Altered Images, Billy Ocean, The Sisters Of Mercy, The Clash, Murray Head, John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band, Colin Hay, and finishing off with David Bowie.

“If there's a plot line for this video, I wish someone would let me know,” laughs infamous New Wave icon JOSIE COTTON about her new video “TRICK OR TREAT” that co-stars Kevin Preston of Prima Donna and currently playing guitar in Green Day. Cohesive narrative or not, when Josie's around, a storyline isn't necessary. Concurs Kevin, “Playing dress up with Josie Cotton is always a blast…I got to be Frankenstein. Enough said!”The Halloween-themed video for the ‘50s-style cover of Chuck Berry's holiday classic stars the pair in different costumes (be sure to check out the extra pair of legs on Josie's hot pink get up!) while they duet to the spooky tune. “Making the video was more like an insanely fun trainwreck, moving between worlds," she smirks. "And let's face it, monsters are just better at parties.” Filmed at Kitten Robot Studios in Los Angeles, CA and directed by Kent Holmes, the video is the latest in a string of new music from the New Wave glitzy glamor queen. Take some zany and serious journeys with The Pipeman aka Dean K. Piper, CST on The Adventures of Pipeman also known as Pipeman Radio syndicated globally “Where Who Knows And Anything Goes”.  Check out our segment Positively Pipeman dedicated to Business, Motivation, Spiritual, and Health & Wellness.  Check out our segment Pipeman in the Pit dedicated to Music, Artistry and Entertainment  Subscribe to The Adventures of Pipeman at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-adventures-of-pipeman--941822/support  Would you like to be a sponsor of the show? Would you like to have your business, products, services, merch, programs, books, music or any other professional or artistic endeavors promoted on the show?Would you like interviewed as a professional or music guest on The Adventures of Pipeman, Positively Pipeman and/or Pipeman in the Pit?Would you like to host your own Radio Show, Streaming TV Show, or Podcast?  Contact the Pipeman:Phone/Text Contact – 561-506-4031Email Contact – dean@talk4media.com  Follow @pipemanradio on all social media outlets  Visit Pipeman Radio on the Web at linktr.ee/pipemanradio, theadventuresofpipeman.com, pipemanradio.com, talk4media.com, w4cy.com, talk4tv.com, talk4podcasting.com. Download The Pipeman Radio APP  The Adventures of Pipeman is broadcast live Wednesdays at 1PM ET and Music & Positive Interviews daily at 8AM ET on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) and replays on K4HD Radio (www.k4hd.com – Hollywood Talk Radio part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). The Adventures of Pipeman TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).  The Adventures of Pipeman Podcast is also available on www.theadventuresofpipeman.com and www.pipemanradio.com, Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

“If there's a plot line for this video, I wish someone would let me know,” laughs infamous New Wave icon JOSIE COTTON about her new video “TRICK OR TREAT” that co-stars Kevin Preston of Prima Donna and currently playing guitar in Green Day. Cohesive narrative or not, when Josie's around, a storyline isn't necessary. Concurs Kevin, “Playing dress up with Josie Cotton is always a blast…I got to be Frankenstein. Enough said!”The Halloween-themed video for the ‘50s-style cover of Chuck Berry's holiday classic stars the pair in different costumes (be sure to check out the extra pair of legs on Josie's hot pink get up!) while they duet to the spooky tune. “Making the video was more like an insanely fun trainwreck, moving between worlds," she smirks. "And let's face it, monsters are just better at parties.” Filmed at Kitten Robot Studios in Los Angeles, CA and directed by Kent Holmes, the video is the latest in a string of new music from the New Wave glitzy glamor queen. Take some zany and serious journeys with The Pipeman aka Dean K. Piper, CST on The Adventures of Pipeman also known as Pipeman Radio syndicated globally “Where Who Knows And Anything Goes”.  Check out our segment Positively Pipeman dedicated to Business, Motivation, Spiritual, and Health & Wellness.  Check out our segment Pipeman in the Pit dedicated to Music, Artistry and Entertainment  Subscribe to The Adventures of Pipeman at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-adventures-of-pipeman--941822/support  Would you like to be a sponsor of the show? Would you like to have your business, products, services, merch, programs, books, music or any other professional or artistic endeavors promoted on the show?Would you like interviewed as a professional or music guest on The Adventures of Pipeman, Positively Pipeman and/or Pipeman in the Pit?Would you like to host your own Radio Show, Streaming TV Show, or Podcast?  Contact the Pipeman:Phone/Text Contact – 561-506-4031Email Contact – dean@talk4media.com  Follow @pipemanradio on all social media outlets  Visit Pipeman Radio on the Web at linktr.ee/pipemanradio, theadventuresofpipeman.com, pipemanradio.com, talk4media.com, w4cy.com, talk4tv.com, talk4podcasting.com. Download The Pipeman Radio APP  The Adventures of Pipeman is broadcast live Wednesdays at 1PM ET and Music & Positive Interviews daily at 8AM ET on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) and replays on K4HD Radio (www.k4hd.com – Hollywood Talk Radio part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). The Adventures of Pipeman TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).  The Adventures of Pipeman Podcast is also available on www.theadventuresofpipeman.com and www.pipemanradio.com, Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

Label: Elektra 47481Year: 1982Condition: MPrice: $12.00From a warehouse find, this is a new, unplayed stock copy, in its original picture sleeve. This terrific single, sounding a lot like the Go-Go's, is pressed on pink vinyl.

Kid Beast Party Theme DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - A Nightmare On My Street The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death The Makers - Howl The Stems - She's A Monster The Deadly Ones - The Mad Drummer Pt. 2 Josie Cotton & Kevin Preston - Trick Or Treat Dickie Goodman - Frankenstein Meets The Beatles Cher - Dark Lady Squeeze - F-Hole The Exotic Ones - Cat Beast Party The Jazz Butcher - The Devil Is My Friend Jim Stafford - Spiders & Snakes The Zambonis & James Kochalka Superstar - Hockey Monkey Mash Southern Culture On The Skids - Demon Death The Deadly Ones - Help Dehd - Mr. Grieves A Flock Of Seagulls - Nightmares Violent Femmes - Nightmares Matt And Kim - Good Ol' Fashioned Nightmare The Cure - Lullaby 

We'd love to hear from you! Click here to send us a text. Season 5, Episode 97Neil Finn and Crowded House are back again with their 2024 release Gravity Stairs. And a band that hasn't put out a studio album in over 2 decades has finally returned.  Well go in depth with the latest from The The and their new album Ensoulment. In music news we go over new singles from the upcoming (finally!) Cure album, Tears For Fears, post punk legends The Chameleons, Josie Cotton, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Suzanne Vega and The Bangles Suzanna Hoffs. Crowded House:https://www.crowdedhouse.com/The The:https://www.thethe.com/Enjoy the podcast?  How about buying us a cup of coffee? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/newwavemusicSupport the show

Baxie talks to Hayley Cain--lead singer of Hayley & The Crushers! After four albums the band is about to release their latest EP "Unsubscribe from the Underworld". It's a great collection of five infectious pop-fueled Punk songs. It is the best record that they've ever released. And it's gotten the full endorsement from people like Josie Cotton (who signed the band to her Kitty Robot record label) and the legendary Paul Roessler who produced the record! It's a totally solid piece of work. And Hayley is an absolute blast! Listen on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, Rock102.com, or on the all new Rock102 mobile app! Brought to you by Metro Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Chicopee

DJ Jesse Luscious spins new tracks from Jesus Lizard, Perennial, WolfWolf, Johnny Moped, Horse Heads, Pat Todd & The Rank Outsiders, Josie Cotton, Gaffa Tape Sandy, Red Bastards, & Deathwish and kicks out the jams with faves from Lard, Bob Vylan, Replacements, Misfits, X, World (Inferno) Friendship Society, Last Gang, Electric Love Muffin, Dwarves, Smoking Popes, Zero Boys, Retarded, Dead Moon, Darts, Esses, Ramones, Iowaska, Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine, Poison Girls, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, & Poison Idea, plus the Luscious Listener's Choice! Josie Cotton- Painting In Blood X- I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts World (Inferno) Friendship Society- Don't Kiss Me, I'm Running Out Of Lipstick Last Gang- Blood Drunk Red Bastards- White Lines Bad Cop/Bad Cop- Breastless Cockney Rejects- Bad Man Poison Girls- Political Love Deathwish- Aces And Eights Poison Idea- Alan's On Fire Jesus Lizard- Hide & Seek Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine- Taliban USA Iowaska- Modranicht Esses- Before The Blight Perrenial- Up-Tight Darts- Intersex WolfWolf- Heidi Is Alive Dead Moon- Parchman Farm Johnny Moped- Roxy You're Gone Pat Todd And The Rank Outsiders- Why I Sing Retarded- Therapy Ramones- Psycho Therapy Zero Boys- Purely Intentional Smoking Popes- Need You Around Gaffa Tape Sandy- Body Meffs- Dead In The City Bob Vylan- He's A Man (Clean) Dwarves- Do It All The Time Horse Heads- WTF NGL (Radio Clean Edit) Misfits- Bullet Electric Love Muffin- Backstreet Ride Replacements- Take Me down To The Hospital Lard- The Power Of Lard

Today's episode of the Other Side of the Bell is brought to you by Bob Reeves Brass.  Check out all the information for what the shop is bringing to the International Trumpet Guild conference in Anaheim for 2024. This episode's special guest is Brian Swartz. Trumpeter Brian Swartz is a diverse musician with a wide range of influences. He has appeared on multiple Grammy® nominated and winning recordings with artists including The (Dixie) Chicks' Double Platinum "Taking the Long Way" which won 5 Grammy® Awards, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year in February 2007, John Beasley's Monk'estra which has garnered 6 Grammy® Nominations for it's 3 albums and 1 Grammy® Win for Beasley's arrangement of "Donna Lee," The Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Scott Healy's Tentet and Kim Richmond's Concert Jazz Orchestra. He has also performed or recorded with The Goo Goo Dolls, Michael Bublé, Kelly Clarkson, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, Robin Thicke, Smashmouth, Patti Labelle, Natalie Cole, Dianne Reeves, Ivan Lins, Tom Harrell, Chucho Valdés, Brad Mehldau, Dave Douglas, Rickie Lee Jones, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The O'Jays, The Temptations, The Four Tops,  Saint Motel, Azar Lawrence, Buddy Montgomery, Joe Henry, Keb' Mo', Jackie Greene, Josie Cotton, Lisa Loeb, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Gerry Gibbs, Connie Han, Taylor Eigsti, Raya Yarbrough, Bob Florence, The Luckman Jazz Orchestra, Francisco Aguabella, JazzAntiqua, The Los Angeles Jazz Collective, Jose Rizo's Jazz on the Latin Side All Stars and many more.  Since 2005, Swartz has proudly held the trumpet chair in Oingo Boingo Former Members.    Brian Swartz has released five jazz albums as a leader: "There's Only Me" (Noir Records 2000), "Live at the Jazz Bakery" (Summit Records 2005), "Three" (Summit Records 2006) and "Portraiture" (Summit Records 2014), "To Be With You" (DistroKid 2020). As an arranger, Brian has written for his own big band, Ruthie Foster's 2021 Grammy® Nominated "Live at the Paramount," Sussan Deyhim with the Pacific Symphony, the Ron Jones Influence Orchestra and has served as staff arranger for The Luckman Jazz Orchestra, John Beasley's Monk'estra, Oingo Boingo Former Members and the ABC TV show, "Duets." Brian's film credits include the 2012 Oscar® Winning Animated Feature "Rango," Jennifer Anniston's "The Break-Up," "The Cooler" starring William H. Macy and "Let Them All Talk" with Meryl Streep. In 2021, Brian appeared with John Beasley's Quintet on the Amazon Prime TV show 'Bosch," Season 7, Episode 1.   Born December 16, 1967, Brian is a second generation trumpeter. His father, CMSgt Lawrence Swartz (1937-1992), was a 30 year trumpeter in the United States AirForce. Brian's early exposure to music made a profound influence on him and he started playing trumpet at the age of ten in Bellevue, Nebraska. As a teenager, his family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he attended Armijo High School. He played all through his high school years and won many honors and accolades. He graduated from Armijo in 1986 and began his music education at Solano Community College. In 1988, he moved to Los Angeles to attend California State University at Northridge and the University of Southern California where he could further hone his craft. For five years, Brian studied with trumpet guru Bobby Shew. Bobby inspired Brian's passion for teaching and since 1997, Brian has maintained a very busy schedule of private students in the Los Angeles area and beyond. Brian also studied with John Coppola (SFO), Bill Bing (CSUN), John Thomas (USC) and LA studio legend Uan Rasey. Brian's dedication to mastering his craft and continually building upon his knowledge has brought him to prominence in the global jazz scene.

This week, we're joined by Patron Marcia Potts as we travel back to a simpler time when the shirts were bright, the jackets Members Only and the music was...AWESOME! When director Martha Coolidge made her 1983 sleeper hit 'Valley Girl', she filled the movie with New Wave gems made popular by KROQ's "Rock of the 80s" format. Unfortunately the planned release of a soundtrack album was cancelled due to clearance problems with some of the songs. In 1994, Rhino Records FINALLY righted this wrong and released an official compilation of songs from the film's soundtrack on CD, making Marcia and her younger sister VERY happy! "Okay, fine Fer sure, fer sure..." Songs discussed in this episode: Valley Girl - Frank Zappa; A Million Miles Away - The Plimsouls; Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie; Johnnie, Are You Queer? - Josie Cotton; Johnnie, Are You Queer? - The Go-Go's; Fetch Me One More Beer (1978 Demo) - FEAR; Eyes Of A Stranger - Payola$; Angst In My Pants, This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us - Sparks; Who Can It Be Now? - Men At Work; Everywhere At Once - The Plimsouls; Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) - Pat Travers Band (Live); I La La La Love You - Pat Travers; He Could Be The One - Josie Cotton; Love My Way - The Psychedelic Furs; Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime) - The Flirts; Give Him A Great Big Kiss - The Shangri-Las; The Fanatic - Felony; Sidewinder - The New Order; She Talks In Stereo - Gary Myrick and The Figures; Oldest Story In The World - The Plimsouls; School Is In, Faster Pussycat - Josie Cotton; I Melt With You - Modern English; I Melt With You - David Hasselhoff (with Steve Stevens)

This week on The Metro, Rev Jeff Ivins is back from his 2 week break and brings you the following bands for your time trip to the 1980s: The Cure, Cyndi Lauper, Paul Young, Alexander O’Neal, Tears For Fears, Thompson Twins, Kool & The Gang, Josie Cotton, Berlin, Laura Branigan, Mike + The Mechanics, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club, ABC, and finishing off with some Bangles.

Cult icon Josie Cotton joins us this week! Of course, her career exploded in the early 80s with the help of Valley Girl and the immortal "Johnny, Are You Queer?" but her time on major labels was short-lived. For almost 40 years she's built a career thriving as an indie artist and doing her own thing. Last year she released a strong new album called Day of the Gun which, like everything she does, is a complete artistic package from the music to the fashion to the videos and beyond. She  discusses her long and unique career and how she conceptualizes what she puts out in the world. She's a legend in her own way. Enjoy!  www.josiecotton.com www.patreon.com/thehustlepod

This week on The Metro, Rev. Jeff Ivins brings you the following bands for your weekly time warp to the 1980s: Alphaville, Strawberry Switchblade, Modern Talking, Josie Cotton, When In Rome, Fools, 1927, Uncanny X-Men, The Go-Go’s, Bluebells, Pet Shop Boys, Tommy Tutone, Duran Duran, Pretenders, and finishing off with some Men Without Hats.

She's back and ready to record! Poppy Behrens the publisher of Modern Storage Media will be chatting with Harry at the Camelback Studio this Saturday, and we couldn't be more excited. MSM has been the most respected trade magazine for self-storage operators, owners, developers and investors for 40 years. We know there will be tons of stories told and what we can look forward to in the coming year. After that, she'll unveil her 'Poppy's Big Beats' ... her top 10 favorite songs which will be up on RadioWilderlive.com in mid-November. This week, we have a big-time lineup to showcase Poppy and we lead off with a brand-new song from the great Paul Rodgers from Badfinger, 'Free and The Law'. Awesome voice! How about Dolly Parton doing a Rock n' Roll album? We have the first cut from it, and Dolly can DO Rock n' Roll. Still has that powerful voice! Great Deuces are Wilder with Neil Young and Josie Cotton. Ed Sheeran, a new tune with Eyes Closed, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, The Stones, Elton, Doobies, Deep Purple and much more on the playlist. Shout outs to the Texas Self Storage Association for their big show, we heard it was awesome! Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show! #dollyparton #modernstoragemedia #biglineup #greatrocknroll #rocknrollmusic #selfstorage #storage #TSSA

Season 4, Episode 62Josie Cotton has a brand new album, 2023's Day Of The Gun, so what better time to talk with her?  We discuss the controversy surrounding "Johnny Are You Queer," what she's been doing over the years and stories about this very diverse new album. Day of the Gun album:https://josiecottonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/day-of-the-gunJosie's social media links:https://www.instagram.com/josiecottonofficial/https://www.facebook.com/JosieCottonhttps://josiecotton.com/Enjoy the podcast?  How about buying us a cup of coffee? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/newwavemusicOur official website:http://newwavemusicpodcast.comSupport the show

Baxie talks to New Wave icon Josie Cotton! In 1981, Josie scored a hit with the early MTV classic "Johnny Are You Queer?". This was a single that, in spite of the controversy surrounding it, had been used in several film soundtracks--including 1983's Valley Girl with Nicholas Cage. But the story behind that single is absolutely amazing! And the story behind Josie's legendary career is even more fascinating! Be sure to check out her latest album, "Day of the Gun"! It's an absolute blast! In fact, it might just be the best album of her career! Prepare yourself for a good one! Listen to the interview on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and on the Rock102 website!

On this episode of the Adventures of Pipeman, Pipeman speaks to Josie Cotton, an American singer, songwriter, and actress who began her career in the late 1970s. Josie talks about her latest album, "Day of the Gun", which will be released on May 2nd. She also mentions an album release party on May 4th at Los Angeles' Daddy Diamonds, where people can come and have fun while enjoying popcorn, an ice cream truck, and possibly balloons. She invites everyone to the party, saying that it will be a super-mindless celebration of life. Pipeman and Josie also discuss starting over and the difficulties that come with it. Josie suggests that it would be better to fix what we have rather than completely clearing the decks. Pipeman agrees and points out that starting over would require a lot of work, and people have already done the legwork to get to this point. Josie tells listeners how they can connect with her on social media and where they can find her album. She is reachable on Instagram and Facebook as Josie Cotton Official and Josie Cotton, respectively. The album will be available on all platforms. She also talks about her record company, Kitten Robot, and their roster of artists, including the Velvet Starlings, Tombstones in Their Eyes, Hayley & the Crushers, and Mark Lanegan. You can check the music out over on the record labels website at kittenrobot.com or on all the major streaming platforms. You can find her on Instagram @josiecottonofficial and on Facebook under Jose Cotton, so be sure to keep up with everything she's up to! Shares Ennio Morricone-Inspired New Single “Painting In Blood” A twisted plot line in an ode to the "Maestro" and the Giallo Soundtracks he scored New Album Day of the Gun, out May 2 Album Release Party on May 4 at Los Angeles' Daddy Diamonds (1553 N Cahuenga Blvd) Day of the Gun - new album out May 2nd on Kitten Robot Latest single "Painting in Blood": https://youtu.be/md0ifqPNg9k Video for "The Ballad of Elvis Presley": https://youtu.be/vpiLRrs-jcY MP3 of "The Ballad of Elvis Presley": https://www.dropbox.com/s/23eizidfscxs2x0/05_Ballad%20of%20Elvis%20Presley_MP3_320kbps.mp3?dl=0 "Day of the Gun" download: https://haulix.promo/gn4 Latest press release: https://mailchi.mp/reybee/josie-cotton-painting-in-blood Website: https://josiecottonmusic.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JosieCotton Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josiecottonofficial/Take some zany and serious journeys with The Pipeman aka Dean K. 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On this episode of the Adventures of Pipeman, Pipeman speaks to Josie Cotton, an American singer, songwriter, and actress who began her career in the late 1970s. Josie talks about her latest album, "Day of the Gun", which will be released on May 2nd. She also mentions an album release party on May 4th at Los Angeles' Daddy Diamonds, where people can come and have fun while enjoying popcorn, an ice cream truck, and possibly balloons. She invites everyone to the party, saying that it will be a super-mindless celebration of life. Pipeman and Josie also discuss starting over and the difficulties that come with it. Josie suggests that it would be better to fix what we have rather than completely clearing the decks. Pipeman agrees and points out that starting over would require a lot of work, and people have already done the legwork to get to this point. Josie tells listeners how they can connect with her on social media and where they can find her album. She is reachable on Instagram and Facebook as Josie Cotton Official and Josie Cotton, respectively. The album will be available on all platforms. She also talks about her record company, Kitten Robot, and their roster of artists, including the Velvet Starlings, Tombstones in Their Eyes, Hayley & the Crushers, and Mark Lanegan. You can check the music out over on the record labels website at kittenrobot.com or on all the major streaming platforms. You can find her on Instagram @josiecottonofficial and on Facebook under Jose Cotton, so be sure to keep up with everything she's up to! Shares Ennio Morricone-Inspired New Single “Painting In Blood” A twisted plot line in an ode to the "Maestro" and the Giallo Soundtracks he scored New Album Day of the Gun, out May 2 Album Release Party on May 4 at Los Angeles' Daddy Diamonds (1553 N Cahuenga Blvd) Day of the Gun - new album out May 2nd on Kitten Robot Latest single "Painting in Blood": https://youtu.be/md0ifqPNg9k Video for "The Ballad of Elvis Presley": https://youtu.be/vpiLRrs-jcY MP3 of "The Ballad of Elvis Presley": https://www.dropbox.com/s/23eizidfscxs2x0/05_Ballad%20of%20Elvis%20Presley_MP3_320kbps.mp3?dl=0 "Day of the Gun" download: https://haulix.promo/gn4 Latest press release: https://mailchi.mp/reybee/josie-cotton-painting-in-blood Website: https://josiecottonmusic.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JosieCotton Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josiecottonofficial/Pipeman in the Pit is a music and interview segment of The Adventures of Pipeman Radio Show (#pipemanradio) and from The King of All Festivals while on The Pipeman Radio Tour. Pipeman in the Pit features all kinds of music and interviews with bands & music artists especially in the genres of Heavy Metal, Rock, Hard Rock, Classic Rock, Punk Rock, Goth, Industrial, Alternative, Thrash Metal & Indie Music. Pipeman in the Pit also features press coverage of events, concerts, & music festivals. Pipeman Productions is an artist management company that sponsors the show introducing new local & national talent showcasing new artists & indie artists.Then there is The Pipeman Radio Tour where Pipeman travels the country and world doing press coverage for Major Business Events, Conferences, Conventions, Music Festivals, Concerts, Award Shows, and Red Carpets. One of the top publicists in music has named Pipeman the “King of All Festivals.” So join the Pipeman as he brings “The Pipeman Radio Tour” to life right before your ears and eyes.Pipeman in the Pit Podcasts are heard on Pipeman Radio, Talk 4 Media, Talk 4 Podcasting, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Amazon Music, Audible, Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts and over 100 other podcast outlets where you listen to Podcasts. The following are the different podcasts to check out and subscribe to:•The Adventures of Pipeman•Pipeman Radio•Pipeman in the Pit•Positively PipemanFollow @pipemanradio on all social media outletsVisit Pipeman Radio on the Web at linktr.ee/pipemanradio, theadventuresofpipeman.com, pipemanradio.com, talk4media.com, w4cy.com, talk4tv.com, talk4podcasting.comDownload The Pipeman Radio APPPhone/Text Contact – 561-506-4031Email Contact – dean@talk4media.com The Adventures of Pipeman is broadcast live daily at 8AM ET.The Adventures of Pipeman TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).The Adventures of Pipeman Radio Show is broadcast on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) and K4HD Radio (www.k4hd.com) – Hollywood Talk Radio part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). Pipeman in the Pit Podcasts are also available on Pipeman Radio (www.pipemanradio.com), Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

This week, we take a look back at a movie celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its theatrical release this coming Saturday, a movie that made a star of its unconventional lead actor, and helped make its director one of a number of exciting female filmmakers to break through in the early part of the decade. The movie Martha Coolidge's 1983 comedy Valley Girl, starring Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we're going to be looking back at a movie that will be celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its original theatrical release. A movie that would turn one of its leads into a star, and thrust its director into the mainstream, at least for a short time.   We're talking about the 1983 Martha Coolidge film Valley Girl, which is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its release this Saturday, with a special screening tonight, Thursday, April 27th 2023, at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood with its director, doing a Q&A session after the show.   But, as always, before we get to Valley Girl, we head back in time.    A whole eleven months, in fact. To May 1982.   That month, the avant-garde musical genius known as Frank Zappa released his 35th album, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. Released on Zappa's own Barking Pumpkin record label, Drowning Witch would feature a song he co-wrote with his fourteen year old daughter Moon Unit Zappa. Frank would regularly hear his daughter make fun of the young female mallrats she would encounter throughout her days, and one night, Frank would be noodling around in his home recording studio when inspiration struck. He would head up to Moon's room, wake her up and bring her down to the studio, asking her to just repeat in that silly Valspeak voice she did all the crazy things she heard being said at parties, bar mitzvahs and the Sherman Oaks Galleria shopping center, which would become famous just a couple months later as the mall where many of the kids from Ridgemont High worked in Amy Heckerling's breakthrough movie, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. For about an hour, Frank would record Moon spouting off typical valley girl phrases, before he sent her back up to her room to go back to sleep.   In a couple days, Frank Zappa would bring his band, which at the time included guitar virtuoso Steve Vai in his first major musical gig, into the home studio to lay down the music to this weird little song he wrote around his daughter's vocals.   “Valley Girl” wold not be a celebration of the San Fernando Valley, an area Zappa described as “a most depressing place,” or the way these young ladies presented themselves. Zappa in general hated boring generic repetitive music, but “Valley Girl” would be one of the few songs Zappa would ever write or record that followed a traditional 4/4 time signature.   In the spring of 1982, the influential Los Angeles radio station KROQ would obtain an acetate disc of the song, several weeks before Drowning Witch was to be released on an unsuspecting public. Zappa himself thought it was a hoot the station that had broken such bands as The Cars, Duran Duran, The Police, Talking Heads and U2 was even considering playing his song, but KROQ was his daughter's favorite radio station, and she was able to persuade the station to play the song during an on-air interview with her.   The kids at home went nuts for the song, demanding the station play it again. And again. And again. Other radio stations across the country started to get calls from their listeners, wanting to hear this song that hadn't been officially released yet, and Zappa's record label would rush to get copies out to any radio station that asked for it.   The song would prove to be very popular, become the only single of the forty plus he released during his recording career to become a Top 40 radio hit, peaking at number 32. Ironically, the song would popularize the very cadence it was mocking with teenagers around the country, and the next time Zappa and his band The Mothers of Invention would tour, he would apologize to the Zappa faithful for having created a hit record. "The sad truth,” he would say before going into the song, “is that if one continues to make music year after year, eventually something will be popular. I spent my career fighting against creating marketable art, but this one slipped through the cracks. I promise to do my best never to have this happen again."   As the song was becoming popular in Los Angeles, actor Wayne Crawford and producer Andrew Lane had been working on a screenplay about star-crossed lovers that was meant to be a cheap quickie exploitation film not unlike Zapped! or Porky's. But after hearing Zappa's song, the pair would quickly rewrite the lead character, Julie, into a valley girl, and retitle their screenplay, Bad Boyz… yes, Boyz, with a Z… as Valley Girl.   Atlantic Entertainment Company, an independent film production company, had recently started their own distribution company, and were looking for movies that could be made quickly, cheaply, and might be able to become some kind of small hit. One of the scripts that would cross their desk were Crawford and Lane's Valley Girl. Within a week, Atlantic would already have a $350,000 budget set aside to make the film.   The first thing they needed was a director.   Enter Martha Coolidge.   A graduate of the same New York University film program that would give us Joel Coen, Amy Heckerling, Ang Lee, Spike Lee and Todd Phillips, Coolidge had been working under the tutelage of Academy Award-winner Francis Ford Coppola at the filmmaker's Zoetrope Studios. She had made her directorial debut, Not a Pretty Picture in 1976, but the film, a docu-drama based on Coolidge's own date rape she suffered at the age of 16, would not find a big audience. She had made another movie, City Girl, with Peter Riegert and Colleen Camp, in 1982, with Peter Bogdanovich as a producer, but the film's potential release was cancelled when Bogdanovich's company Moon Pictures went bankrupt after the release of his 1981 movie They All Laughed, which we covered last year. She knew she needed to get on a film with a good chance of getting released, and with Coppola's encouragement, Coolidge would throw her proverbial hat into the ring, and she would get the job, in part because she had some directing experience, but also because she was willing to accept the $5,000 Atlantic was offering for the position.   Now that she had the job, it was time for Coolidge to get to casting. It was her goal to show an authentic teenage experience in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, absent of stereotypes. As someone whose background was in documentary filmmaking, Coolidge wanted Valley Girl to feel as real as possible.   Her first choice for the role of Randy, the proto-punk Romeo to Julie's… well, Juliet… Coolidge was keen on a twenty-three year old unknown who had not yet acted in anything in movies, on television, or even a music video. Judd Nelson had been studying with Stella Adler in New York City, and there was something about his look that Coolidge really liked. But when she offered the role to Nelson, he had just booked an acting gig that would make him unavailable when the film would be shooting. So it was back to the pile of headshots that had been sent to the production office. And in that pile, she would find the headshot of eighteen year old Nicolas Cage, who at the time only had one movie credit, as one of Judge Reinhold's co-workers in Fast Times. Coolidge would show the photo to her casting director, telling them they needed to find someone like him, someone who wasn't a conventionally handsome movie actor.   So the casting director did just that. Went out and got someone like Nicolas Cage. Specifically, Nicolas Cage.   What Coolidge didn't know was that Cage's real name was Nicolas Coppola, and that his uncle was Coolidge's boss. She would only learn this when she called the actor to offer him the role, and he mentioned he would need to check his schedule on the Coppola movie he was about to start shooting on, Rumble Fish. Francis Coppola made sure the shooting schedule was re-arranged so his nephew could accept his first leading role.   For Julie, Coolidge wanted only one person: Deborah Foreman, a twenty-year-old former model who had only done commercials for McDonalds at this point in her career. Although she was born in Montebello CA, mere miles from the epicenter of the San Fernando Valley, Foreman had spent her formative years in Texas, and knew nothing about the whole Valley Girl phenomenon until she was cast in the film.   Supporting roles would be filled by a number of up and coming young actors, including Elizabeth Daily and Michelle Mayrink as Julie's friends, Cameron Dye as Randy's best friend, and Michael Bowen as Julie's ex-boyfriend, while Julie's parents would be played by Frederic Forrest and Colleen Camp, two industry veterans who had briefly worked together on Apocalypse Now.   As the scheduled start date of October 25th, 1982, rolled closer, Martha Coolidge would be the first director to really learn just how far Nicolas Cage was willing to go for a role. He would start sleeping in his car, to better understand Randy, and he would, as Randy, write Foreman's character Julie a poem that, according to a May 2020 New York Times oral history about the film, Foreman still has to this day. In a 2018 IMDb talk with director Kevin Smith, Cage would say that it was easy for his performance to happen in the film because he had a massive crush on Foreman during the making of the film.   Because of the film's extremely low budget, the filmmakers would often shoot on locations throughout Los Angeles they did not have permits for, stealing shots wherever they could. But one place they would spend money on was the movie's soundtrack, punctuated by live performances by Los Angeles band The Plimsouls and singer Josie Cotton, which were filmed at the Sunset Strip club now known as The Viper Room.   The film would only have a twenty day shooting schedule, which meant scenes would have to be shot quickly and efficiently, with as few hiccups as possible. But this wouldn't stop Cage from occasionally improvising little bits that Coolidge loved so much, she would keep them in the film, such as Randy spitting his gum at Julie's ex, and the breakup scene, where Randy digs into Julie by using Valspeak.   In early January 1983, while the film was still being edited, Frank Zappa would file a lawsuit against the film, seeking $100,000 in damages and an injunction to stop the film from being released, saying the film would unfairly dilute the trademark of his song. The lawsuit would force Coolidge to have a cut of her movie ready to screen for the judge before she was fully done with it. But when Coolidge screened this rushed cut to Atlantic and its lawyers, the distributor was pleasantly surprised to see the director hadn't just made a quickie exploitation film but something with genuine heart and soul that could probably have a much longer lifespan. They were originally planning on releasing the film during the later part of the summer movie season, but now knowing what they had on their hands, Atlantic would set an April 29th release date… pending, of course, on the outcome of the Zappa lawsuit.   In March, the judge would issue their ruling, in favor of the film, saying there would be no confusion in the public's mind between the song and the film, and Atlantic would continue to prepare for the late April release.   One of the things Coolidge really fought for was to have a wall of great new wave songs throughout the film, something Atlantic was hesitant to pay for, until they saw Coolidge's cut. They would spend another $250k on top of the $350k production budget to secure songs from The Psychedelic Furs, The Payolas, Men at Work, Toni Basil, The Flirts and Sparks, on top of the songs played by The Plimsouls and Josie Cotton in the film.   Valley Girl would be one of three new movies opening on April 29th, alongside Disney's adaptation of the Ray Bradbury story Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Hunger, the directorial debut of filmmaker Tony Scott. Opening on only 442 screens, Valley Girl would come in fourth place for the weekend, grossing $1.86m in its first three days. However, its $4200 per screen average would be better than every movie in the top 15, including the #1 film in the nation that weekend, Flashdance. Not bad for a film that was only playing in one third of the country.   In its second weekend, Valley Girl would fall to seventh place, with $1.33m worth of ticket sold, but its per screen average would be second only to the new Cheech and Chong movie, Still Smokin'. Over the next three months, the film would continue to perform well, never playing in more screens than it did in its opening weekend, but never falling out of the top 15 while Atlantic was tracking it. When all was said and done, Valley Girl would have grossed $17.34m in the United States, not a bad return on a $600k production and music clearance budget.   There was supposed to be an accompanying soundtrack album for the film that, according to the movie's poster, would be released on Epic Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records whose eclectic roster of artists included Michael Jackson, The Clash and Liza Minnelli, but it turns out the filmmakers only ended up only getting music clearances for the movie, so that release would get cancelled and a six-song mini-LP would be created through a label Atlantic Pictures created called Roadshow Records. But then that album got cancelled, even though some copies had been printed, so it wouldn't be until 1994 that an actual soundtrack for the film would be released by Rhino Records. That release would do so well, Rhino released a second soundtrack album the following year.   The lawsuit from Zappa would not be the only court proceeding concerning the film. In July 1984, Martha Coolidge, her cinematographer, Frederick Elmes, and two of the actresses, Colleen Camp and Lee Purcell, sued Atlantic Releasing for $5m, saying they were owed a portion of the film's profits based on agreements in their contracts. The two sides would later settle out of court.   Nicolas Cage would, of course, becomes one of the biggest movie stars in the world, winning an Oscar in 1996 for his portrayal of an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who goes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death.   Deborah Foreman would not have as successful a career. After Valley Girl, it would be another two years before she was seen on screen again, in what basically amounts to an extended cameo in a movie I'll get to in a moment. She would have a decent 1986, starring in two semi-successful films, the sexy comedy My Chauffeur and the black comedy April Fool's Day, but after that, the roles would be less frequent and, often, not the lead. By 1991, she would retire from acting, appearing only in a 2011 music video for the She Wants Revenge song Must Be the One, and a cameo in the 2020 remake of Valley Girl starring Jessica Rothe of the Happy Death Day movies.   After Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge would go on a tear, directing four more movies over the next seven years. And we'll talk about that first movie, Joy of Sex, on our next episode.   Thank you for joining us.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about Valley Girl.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

This week, we take a look back at a movie celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its theatrical release this coming Saturday, a movie that made a star of its unconventional lead actor, and helped make its director one of a number of exciting female filmmakers to break through in the early part of the decade. The movie Martha Coolidge's 1983 comedy Valley Girl, starring Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we're going to be looking back at a movie that will be celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its original theatrical release. A movie that would turn one of its leads into a star, and thrust its director into the mainstream, at least for a short time.   We're talking about the 1983 Martha Coolidge film Valley Girl, which is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its release this Saturday, with a special screening tonight, Thursday, April 27th 2023, at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood with its director, doing a Q&A session after the show.   But, as always, before we get to Valley Girl, we head back in time.    A whole eleven months, in fact. To May 1982.   That month, the avant-garde musical genius known as Frank Zappa released his 35th album, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. Released on Zappa's own Barking Pumpkin record label, Drowning Witch would feature a song he co-wrote with his fourteen year old daughter Moon Unit Zappa. Frank would regularly hear his daughter make fun of the young female mallrats she would encounter throughout her days, and one night, Frank would be noodling around in his home recording studio when inspiration struck. He would head up to Moon's room, wake her up and bring her down to the studio, asking her to just repeat in that silly Valspeak voice she did all the crazy things she heard being said at parties, bar mitzvahs and the Sherman Oaks Galleria shopping center, which would become famous just a couple months later as the mall where many of the kids from Ridgemont High worked in Amy Heckerling's breakthrough movie, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. For about an hour, Frank would record Moon spouting off typical valley girl phrases, before he sent her back up to her room to go back to sleep.   In a couple days, Frank Zappa would bring his band, which at the time included guitar virtuoso Steve Vai in his first major musical gig, into the home studio to lay down the music to this weird little song he wrote around his daughter's vocals.   “Valley Girl” wold not be a celebration of the San Fernando Valley, an area Zappa described as “a most depressing place,” or the way these young ladies presented themselves. Zappa in general hated boring generic repetitive music, but “Valley Girl” would be one of the few songs Zappa would ever write or record that followed a traditional 4/4 time signature.   In the spring of 1982, the influential Los Angeles radio station KROQ would obtain an acetate disc of the song, several weeks before Drowning Witch was to be released on an unsuspecting public. Zappa himself thought it was a hoot the station that had broken such bands as The Cars, Duran Duran, The Police, Talking Heads and U2 was even considering playing his song, but KROQ was his daughter's favorite radio station, and she was able to persuade the station to play the song during an on-air interview with her.   The kids at home went nuts for the song, demanding the station play it again. And again. And again. Other radio stations across the country started to get calls from their listeners, wanting to hear this song that hadn't been officially released yet, and Zappa's record label would rush to get copies out to any radio station that asked for it.   The song would prove to be very popular, become the only single of the forty plus he released during his recording career to become a Top 40 radio hit, peaking at number 32. Ironically, the song would popularize the very cadence it was mocking with teenagers around the country, and the next time Zappa and his band The Mothers of Invention would tour, he would apologize to the Zappa faithful for having created a hit record. "The sad truth,” he would say before going into the song, “is that if one continues to make music year after year, eventually something will be popular. I spent my career fighting against creating marketable art, but this one slipped through the cracks. I promise to do my best never to have this happen again."   As the song was becoming popular in Los Angeles, actor Wayne Crawford and producer Andrew Lane had been working on a screenplay about star-crossed lovers that was meant to be a cheap quickie exploitation film not unlike Zapped! or Porky's. But after hearing Zappa's song, the pair would quickly rewrite the lead character, Julie, into a valley girl, and retitle their screenplay, Bad Boyz… yes, Boyz, with a Z… as Valley Girl.   Atlantic Entertainment Company, an independent film production company, had recently started their own distribution company, and were looking for movies that could be made quickly, cheaply, and might be able to become some kind of small hit. One of the scripts that would cross their desk were Crawford and Lane's Valley Girl. Within a week, Atlantic would already have a $350,000 budget set aside to make the film.   The first thing they needed was a director.   Enter Martha Coolidge.   A graduate of the same New York University film program that would give us Joel Coen, Amy Heckerling, Ang Lee, Spike Lee and Todd Phillips, Coolidge had been working under the tutelage of Academy Award-winner Francis Ford Coppola at the filmmaker's Zoetrope Studios. She had made her directorial debut, Not a Pretty Picture in 1976, but the film, a docu-drama based on Coolidge's own date rape she suffered at the age of 16, would not find a big audience. She had made another movie, City Girl, with Peter Riegert and Colleen Camp, in 1982, with Peter Bogdanovich as a producer, but the film's potential release was cancelled when Bogdanovich's company Moon Pictures went bankrupt after the release of his 1981 movie They All Laughed, which we covered last year. She knew she needed to get on a film with a good chance of getting released, and with Coppola's encouragement, Coolidge would throw her proverbial hat into the ring, and she would get the job, in part because she had some directing experience, but also because she was willing to accept the $5,000 Atlantic was offering for the position.   Now that she had the job, it was time for Coolidge to get to casting. It was her goal to show an authentic teenage experience in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, absent of stereotypes. As someone whose background was in documentary filmmaking, Coolidge wanted Valley Girl to feel as real as possible.   Her first choice for the role of Randy, the proto-punk Romeo to Julie's… well, Juliet… Coolidge was keen on a twenty-three year old unknown who had not yet acted in anything in movies, on television, or even a music video. Judd Nelson had been studying with Stella Adler in New York City, and there was something about his look that Coolidge really liked. But when she offered the role to Nelson, he had just booked an acting gig that would make him unavailable when the film would be shooting. So it was back to the pile of headshots that had been sent to the production office. And in that pile, she would find the headshot of eighteen year old Nicolas Cage, who at the time only had one movie credit, as one of Judge Reinhold's co-workers in Fast Times. Coolidge would show the photo to her casting director, telling them they needed to find someone like him, someone who wasn't a conventionally handsome movie actor.   So the casting director did just that. Went out and got someone like Nicolas Cage. Specifically, Nicolas Cage.   What Coolidge didn't know was that Cage's real name was Nicolas Coppola, and that his uncle was Coolidge's boss. She would only learn this when she called the actor to offer him the role, and he mentioned he would need to check his schedule on the Coppola movie he was about to start shooting on, Rumble Fish. Francis Coppola made sure the shooting schedule was re-arranged so his nephew could accept his first leading role.   For Julie, Coolidge wanted only one person: Deborah Foreman, a twenty-year-old former model who had only done commercials for McDonalds at this point in her career. Although she was born in Montebello CA, mere miles from the epicenter of the San Fernando Valley, Foreman had spent her formative years in Texas, and knew nothing about the whole Valley Girl phenomenon until she was cast in the film.   Supporting roles would be filled by a number of up and coming young actors, including Elizabeth Daily and Michelle Mayrink as Julie's friends, Cameron Dye as Randy's best friend, and Michael Bowen as Julie's ex-boyfriend, while Julie's parents would be played by Frederic Forrest and Colleen Camp, two industry veterans who had briefly worked together on Apocalypse Now.   As the scheduled start date of October 25th, 1982, rolled closer, Martha Coolidge would be the first director to really learn just how far Nicolas Cage was willing to go for a role. He would start sleeping in his car, to better understand Randy, and he would, as Randy, write Foreman's character Julie a poem that, according to a May 2020 New York Times oral history about the film, Foreman still has to this day. In a 2018 IMDb talk with director Kevin Smith, Cage would say that it was easy for his performance to happen in the film because he had a massive crush on Foreman during the making of the film.   Because of the film's extremely low budget, the filmmakers would often shoot on locations throughout Los Angeles they did not have permits for, stealing shots wherever they could. But one place they would spend money on was the movie's soundtrack, punctuated by live performances by Los Angeles band The Plimsouls and singer Josie Cotton, which were filmed at the Sunset Strip club now known as The Viper Room.   The film would only have a twenty day shooting schedule, which meant scenes would have to be shot quickly and efficiently, with as few hiccups as possible. But this wouldn't stop Cage from occasionally improvising little bits that Coolidge loved so much, she would keep them in the film, such as Randy spitting his gum at Julie's ex, and the breakup scene, where Randy digs into Julie by using Valspeak.   In early January 1983, while the film was still being edited, Frank Zappa would file a lawsuit against the film, seeking $100,000 in damages and an injunction to stop the film from being released, saying the film would unfairly dilute the trademark of his song. The lawsuit would force Coolidge to have a cut of her movie ready to screen for the judge before she was fully done with it. But when Coolidge screened this rushed cut to Atlantic and its lawyers, the distributor was pleasantly surprised to see the director hadn't just made a quickie exploitation film but something with genuine heart and soul that could probably have a much longer lifespan. They were originally planning on releasing the film during the later part of the summer movie season, but now knowing what they had on their hands, Atlantic would set an April 29th release date… pending, of course, on the outcome of the Zappa lawsuit.   In March, the judge would issue their ruling, in favor of the film, saying there would be no confusion in the public's mind between the song and the film, and Atlantic would continue to prepare for the late April release.   One of the things Coolidge really fought for was to have a wall of great new wave songs throughout the film, something Atlantic was hesitant to pay for, until they saw Coolidge's cut. They would spend another $250k on top of the $350k production budget to secure songs from The Psychedelic Furs, The Payolas, Men at Work, Toni Basil, The Flirts and Sparks, on top of the songs played by The Plimsouls and Josie Cotton in the film.   Valley Girl would be one of three new movies opening on April 29th, alongside Disney's adaptation of the Ray Bradbury story Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Hunger, the directorial debut of filmmaker Tony Scott. Opening on only 442 screens, Valley Girl would come in fourth place for the weekend, grossing $1.86m in its first three days. However, its $4200 per screen average would be better than every movie in the top 15, including the #1 film in the nation that weekend, Flashdance. Not bad for a film that was only playing in one third of the country.   In its second weekend, Valley Girl would fall to seventh place, with $1.33m worth of ticket sold, but its per screen average would be second only to the new Cheech and Chong movie, Still Smokin'. Over the next three months, the film would continue to perform well, never playing in more screens than it did in its opening weekend, but never falling out of the top 15 while Atlantic was tracking it. When all was said and done, Valley Girl would have grossed $17.34m in the United States, not a bad return on a $600k production and music clearance budget.   There was supposed to be an accompanying soundtrack album for the film that, according to the movie's poster, would be released on Epic Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records whose eclectic roster of artists included Michael Jackson, The Clash and Liza Minnelli, but it turns out the filmmakers only ended up only getting music clearances for the movie, so that release would get cancelled and a six-song mini-LP would be created through a label Atlantic Pictures created called Roadshow Records. But then that album got cancelled, even though some copies had been printed, so it wouldn't be until 1994 that an actual soundtrack for the film would be released by Rhino Records. That release would do so well, Rhino released a second soundtrack album the following year.   The lawsuit from Zappa would not be the only court proceeding concerning the film. In July 1984, Martha Coolidge, her cinematographer, Frederick Elmes, and two of the actresses, Colleen Camp and Lee Purcell, sued Atlantic Releasing for $5m, saying they were owed a portion of the film's profits based on agreements in their contracts. The two sides would later settle out of court.   Nicolas Cage would, of course, becomes one of the biggest movie stars in the world, winning an Oscar in 1996 for his portrayal of an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who goes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death.   Deborah Foreman would not have as successful a career. After Valley Girl, it would be another two years before she was seen on screen again, in what basically amounts to an extended cameo in a movie I'll get to in a moment. She would have a decent 1986, starring in two semi-successful films, the sexy comedy My Chauffeur and the black comedy April Fool's Day, but after that, the roles would be less frequent and, often, not the lead. By 1991, she would retire from acting, appearing only in a 2011 music video for the She Wants Revenge song Must Be the One, and a cameo in the 2020 remake of Valley Girl starring Jessica Rothe of the Happy Death Day movies.   After Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge would go on a tear, directing four more movies over the next seven years. And we'll talk about that first movie, Joy of Sex, on our next episode.   Thank you for joining us.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about Valley Girl.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

Singer and songwriter Josie Cotton has a brand new album called 'Day of the Gun' on the way and drops by Geekscape to tell us all about it! Along the way, we'll discuss her legendary rock and roll career, her famous collaborators, what keeps her going and making her second music video with me... for her new single 'Disco Ball'! We'll also discuss this week's 40th Anniversary screening of 'Valley Girl' (on which Josie has too songs), next week's listening party and maybe reminiscence just a little bit! And Josie surprises me by talking human and animal gene splicing and which animals we'd want to gain abilities from! Josie is one of my favorite people and collaborators and I can't wait for you to learn even more about this rock icon! You can also subscribe to the Geekscape podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3BVrnkW Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3H27uMH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season 3, Episode 52With this episode, we look at a couple of albums more in the dark wave vein. First up is the 2021 release Limbo from Clan Of Xymox, followed by the 2007 solo album Mantaray from Siouxsie Sioux, which has just been reissued digitally and is soon to come out on CD and Vinyl. In music news we discuss the new Josie Cotton single, additional Peter Gabriel tour dates, the now postponed Celebrating Bowie with Peter Murphy, the DEVO documentary that's in the works and a quick mention of the EXTC show we attended.Clan Of Xymox Website:https://clanofxymox.com/Siouxsie's Mantaray:https://www.amazon.com/Mantaray-Siouxsie/dp/B000S850GS/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=24JEK8ZV2YJ7X&keywords=siouxsie+mantaray&qid=1679971065&sprefix=Siouxsie+m%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-1EXTC 2023 Tour Dates:https://extc.band/tour-datesJosie Cotton Disco Ball:https://josiecottonmusic.bandcamp.com/Peter Gabriel 2023 Tour Dates:https://petergabriel.com/news/i-o-the-tour-north-american-shows-announced/Enjoy the podcast?  How about buying us a cup of coffee? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/newwavemusicOur official website:http://newwavemusicpodcast.comSupport the show

On this episode, we are joined by Melanie Vammen, who played with some influential bands over the years including The Pandoras, The Muffs, and Leaving Trains. Most recently, she has been involved with all star band The Coolies, and has backed Josie Cotton. We have a great talk with Melanie about how she got her start at 17 when she joined the Pandoras and and later being part of their reunion shows, the original formation of The Muffs, Bill Bartell, and more... Music Milquetoast & Co "Cigarette Burns"(theme music) The Coolies "King Of Confusion" The Muffs "Big Mouth" Recorded on Zoom on March 13, 2023 This episode was supported by Baby Loves Loves Tacos(Pittsburgh PA), Joe's Albums(Worcester/Northampton MA), and Studio Float Audio. Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/twistedrico Keep The Rock N Roll Alive. Contact: twistedrico@gmail.com Blowing Smoke with Twisted Rico is brought to you by Light Street Media(Denver Colorado). #ThePandoras #TheMuffs #MelanieVammen

This week on The Metro, Warlock Jeff Ivins brings you the following for your time warp to the 1980s: Adam & The Ants, Power Station, Eurythmics, Public Image Ltd., Dave Edmunds, Howard Jones, Nick Lowe, After The Fire, The Cars, Ultravox, Kim Wilde, Pat Benatar, Josie Cotton, A Flock Of Seagulls, and finishing off with some Missing Persons.

The Danny Diess Show celebrates it's 300th episode with an all request show featuring Pat Benatar, Gang Of Four, The Velvet Underground, Current 93, Joy Division, Janis Joplin, Black Sabbath, Missing Persons, Josie Cotton, Prince, and more. © Copyright Danny Diess 2022.

Otro lunes más con joyitas de power pop. Aquella nueva ola en Estados Unidos, de costa a costa, que ya había explotado en Gran Bretaña representada por talentos del calibre de Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Graham Parker And The Rumour, Rockpile (Nick Lowe, Ian Gomm, Dave Edmunds)… A finales de los 70 y primeros 80 del siglo pasado. Tiempos modernos en los que se cantaban canciones de menos de 3 minutos con influjo de la rebeldía punk, pero sobre todo del pionero, gran antecedente, Buddy Holly y de la invasión británica de los años sesenta.: The Beatles, The Kinks, The Hollies. Y aquella ola americana se confirmó con figuras como Marshall Crenshaw, Josie Cotton, Fotomaker, Hawks, The Motels, Blondie o Code Blue, cuya gira española reciente ha sido todo una éxito. Y después… nuevas generaciones desde The Go Go’s a la actual The Big Moon, por ejemplo. Los primeros temas de Los Secretos o Nacha Pop estaban. Muy contagiados de esta nueva ola anglosajona. DISCO 1 LOS STRAITJACKETS Cruel To Be Kind ( 12) DISCO 2 NICK LOWE Cruel To Be Kind (1) DISCO 3 IAN GOMM Hold On (5) DISCO 4 GRAHAM PARKER Local Girls (8) DISCO 5 MARSHALL CRENSHAW Someday, Someway (Cara 1 Corte 2) DISCO 6 JOSIE COTTON You Could Be The One (ESCA) DISCO 7 NACHA POP Lloviendo en la ciudad (2) DISCO 8 THE MOTELS Remember The Nights (Cara 2 Corte 1) DISCO 9 THE BIG MOON Trouble (ESCA) DISCO 10 HAWKS It’s All right, It’s O.K. (Cara 1 Corte 1) DISCO 11 JUDE COLE Wals That Bend (Cara 1 Corte 2) DISCO 12 FOTOMAKER Where Have You’ve Been All My Life (Cara 1 Corte 1) DISCO 13 LOS SECRETOS Problemas (2) DISCO 14 CODE BLUE Face To Face (Cara 1 - Corte 4) DISCO 15 THE GO GO’S We Got The Beat (Cara 1 Corte 2) Escuchar audio

Paul Roessler is the owner and producer of Kitten Robot Studios in Los Angeles, whose latest record, The Turning of the Bright World, marks his return from behind the soundboard since 2020 and a triumphant return to songwriting. His early work with the Screamers, Nina Hagen and 45 Grave codified his place in the punk lexicon and he has continued work with the likes of Josie Cotton, Hayley and the Crushers (Episode 63), and Crowjane, among others, who carry the spirit of punk into the future. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sketchedsounds/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sketchedsounds/support

This week on The Metro, Warlock Jeff Ivins brings you the following bands for your time trip back to the 1980s: Romeo Void, Golden Earring, Midnight Oil, The Romantics, Wang Chung, Sparks, Monroes, Alarm, Crowded House, Planet P Project, Nik Kershaw, Kim Wilde, Kid Creole And The Coconuts, Josie Cotton, and finishing off with a NEW song by The Fixx.

Ron talks with Stabbing Westward keyboardist Walter Flakus about the Chicago industrial band's commercial success, his 'other' career in radio, and reuniting to make SW's first album in two decades.Also -- Ron visits Los Angeles record label Kitten Robot Records and talks with musicians Paul Roessler and Josie Cotton about resilience and running a studio and a label together./ Songs featured on the podcast include Josie Cotton "Pussycat Babylon", Paul Roessler "Maker", and Stabbing Westward "Ghost"/ Find out more about Stabbing Westward at stabbingwestward.com/ Find out more about Kitten Robot Records at kittenrobot.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on The Metro, Warlock Jeff Ivins brings you the following bands for the years that were the 1980s: Adam & The Ants, Naked Eyes, Josie Cotton, The Cars, Saga, Quarterflash, Hall & Oates, Dream Academy, A-Ha, Strawberry Switchblade, The Go-Go’s, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Wham!, Scritti Politti, and finishing up with Peter Gabriel.

Welcome to our year end countdown! We go back forty years and countdown the top 25 of 1981. It's a great lineup! Track Listing: 25) I Know What Boys Like - The Waitresses 24) W.O.R.K. - Bow Wow Wow 23) Girls On Film - Duran Duran 22) Prince Charming - Adam Ant 21) Electricity - O.M.D. 20) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police 19) I Will Follow - U2 18) Lust To Love - Go-Gos 17) New Toy -Lena Lovich 16) Jerkin' Back And Forth - Devo 15) White Girl - X 14) Funny Face - Sparks 13) The Adultress - The Pretenders 12) Homo Sapien - Pete Shelly 11) Janitor - Suburban Lawns 10) Stand And Deliver - Adam Ant 9) I'm With The Guys - The Penetrators 8) We Want The Airwaves - Ramones 7) Never Say Never - Romeo Void 6) On The Outside - Oingo Boingo 5) Johnny Are You Queer? - Josie Cotton 4) It's My Party - Barbara Gaskin And Dave Stewart 3) We Got The Beat - Go-Go's 2) Ant Music - Adam Ant 1) Number One of 1981

This week on The Metro, Warlock Jeff Ivins brings you the following: Band Aid, Kim Wilde, The Tubes, The Romantics, Josie Cotton, Marillion, Power Station, Eurythmics, Pat Benatar, Culture Club, Falco, The Cars, Corey Hart, Human League, and finishing off with some Wham!

It's that time of year as Revenge of the 80s Radio presents our Christmas Special with holiday cheer from Josie Cotton, Wall of Voodoo,, The Damned, The Pouges & Kirsty McColl, Fishbone and more classic alternative artists.

The Mighty Manfred's guest this week is 80's pop icon Josie Cotton. Josie tells us of her early exposure to the arts and growing up as a sort of ‘Wednesday Addams' girl, who learned a lot by being an outcast. Her recent record ‘Pussycat Babylon' features our Coolest Song in the World this week- ‘Calling All Girls'. Join the Mighty Manfred and Josie Cotton for this week's coolest conversation, presented by Hard Rock

Today's show is New Wave Rock and Classic Synth Pop. Featuring Adam Ant, David Bowie, Toni Basil, Sisterhood, Berlin, Joy Division, Sparks, Josie Cotton, Culture Club and much more. Live Broadcast 12/3/2021.© Copyright Danny Diess

The Gleaming Spires may have only released three albums together under that name, but their musical history extends through several rather interesting projects. One of the duo, David Kendrick, join Chris Cordani this week on Revenge of the 80s Radio.Omnivore Records has re-released the Gleaming Spires' albums: Songs of the Spires, Walk On Well-Lighted Streets and Welcoming a New Ice Age. Each will feature bonus tracks including previously unreleased material from Kendrick's and Leslie Bohen's Bates Motel, remixes and other projects like Eleven Blue Men. Kendrick discusses the making of the original albums (all while playing with Sparks), the duo's earlier musical partnership and his own work with the likes of Devo, Josie Cotton and many other stellar acts.

The "Queen of Camp", Josie Cotton is a staple of the New Wave genre and has been just below the mainstream radar on purpose for 40+ years. She kicked off her careear in music in the film "Valley Girl", with songs "Johnny Are you Queer" and "He Could Be The One". Johnny became a celebrated anthem in the LGBTQ community but was also misunderstood by others. She proudly holds the title for being "Banned in Amsterdam", and want's that on her headstone. She has covered all kinds of subjects, and even done an album "Invasion of the B-girls" that was covers of B-grade horror film title tracks. Her newest release is called "Pussycat Babylon" and covers some very personal issues from her life, in a very special "Josie Cotton" way. Empowering girls, Milwaukee, Hong Kong, Bruce Lee and even Iggy Pop are subjects on the album. website facebook twitter instagram #josiecotton #campymusic #newwave #brucelee #iggypop

The legendary JOSIE COTTON chats with me for a over an hour! Recorded Saturday, June 12th, 2021, Josie and I scratch the surface of her career from "Johnny Are You Queer?" to her love of Japanese garage rock bands appearing in 60s movies, to how she got her master tapes back from Elektra! Of course we share a mutual love of all things John Waters. There's no one better than Josie Cotton and I was delighted she wanted to chat!This is our full unedited conversation! Highlights will be featured on I DID THIS FIRST! this week, but this is over an hour of Jake and Josie! You can also watch the interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4rM3CiZj_RoCheck out https://www.josiecotton.comFollow Josie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josiecottonofficial Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The “Marlon Brando of Punk” was the title Josie Cotton gave to JackGrisham of T.S.O.L. the West Coast punk band that emerged in theearly 80s. T.S.O.L. are a staple in the punk genre, and they dabbledin a bit of “horror film” records that were absolutely fantastic. Covering themes of Anarchism, bullying, and some topics you just need tolisten to the music for. T.S.O.L. have a large catalog that hasevolved over the years but remained true to the genre. Talking about his new book on the way “The Pulse of The World”, Jack isan author, inpromptu social commentator, and always has somethingfunny, intelligent, and often rude to say. No filter, you always knowwhat he is thinking. www.jackgrisham.com https://www.facebook.com/jackgrisham https://www.instagram.com/jackgrishamphoto/?hl=en https://twitter.com/jackloydgrisham?lang=en TSOL Youtube #jackgrisham #americandemon #TSOL #Punkpodcast #codeblue

Merry Classic Alternative Christmas, Revenge of the 80s Radio spreads holiday cheer with music from artists including Josie Cotton, Limahl, The Lopez Beatles, Wall of Voodoo, The Pogues with Kirsty MacCool, Doug & the Slugs and Squeeze. Also, enjoy Hour 1

Josie Cotton talks with Chris Cordani about the re-release of her Invasion of the B-Girls album, which features a track not on the original: the title cut from John Waters' "Female Trouble." We also talk B-Movies with Josie.

It's that time of the year for our Revenge of the 80s Radio Christmas special with new holiday songs from Josie Cotton and Limahl plus celebratory classics by Captain Sensible, Wall of Voodoo, Squeeze, The Pogues with Kirtsy MacColl, The Damned, Shakin' Stevens and more. Hour 2 is also available on this digital outlet.

Josie Cotton is back to talk about her new album, Everything is Oh Yeah, which was originally recorded in 1986. Josie discusses the album, why it represents a transition in her career, in-session contrary industry advice from Malcolm McLaren and Brian Setzer, thoughts on some of the tracks and an plans for 2020.We also play tracks from Blotto, The Waterboys, Icehouse, The Lopez Beatles, Stiff Little Fingers and more

This week on Revenge of the 80s Radio, we salute the women of punk and new wave with tracks from the ladies of the Classic Alternative era, featuring new tracks from Josie Cotton, Rose McDowall, Berlin and classics by Martha Davis, Lydia Lunch, The Little Girls, Strawberry Switchblade, The Coconuts and many more.

80s icon Josie Cotton discusses the release of "Everything Is Oh Yeah", a record that was never released 30 years ago--until now! She discusses the film "Nomads", her love of mid-century furniture; her retro style; and much more! [...]