New Tracks for 2015

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Duran Duran - Paper Gods (Paper Gods - 2015)
Son Lux - Lost It to Trying (Lanterns - 2013)
Youth Lagoon - The Knower (Savage Hills Ballroom - Out 9/25)

I Break Horses - You Burn (Chiaroscuro - 2014)
Chromatics - Shadow (Dear Tommy - Out Sometime, we hope)
Tamaryn - Fade Away Slow (Cranekiss - 2015)
Beach House - Sparks (Depression Cherry - 2015)

Low - No Comprende (Ones and Sixes - 2015)
Widowspeak - My Baby's Gonna Carry On (All Yours - 2015)
DIIV - Dopamine (Is the Is Are - Out This Fall)
The Raveonettes - Summer Ends (Pe'Ahi - 2014)

Einsturzende Neubauten - The Garden (Ende Neu - 1996)

From the Middle Room

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A Flock of Seagulls - Messages (A Flock of Seagulls - 1982)
Modern English - Someone's Calling (After the Snow - 1982)
Visage - Visage (Visage - 1982)
Talk Talk - Another World (The Colour of Spring - 1986)

DEVO - Gates of Steel (Freedom of Choice - 1980)
Berlin - The Masquerade (Pleasure Victim - 1982)
Ultravox - I Remember (Death in the Afternoon) (Rage in Eden - 1981)
Duran Duran - Night Boat (Duran Duran - 1981)

John Foxx - Night Suit (The Garden - 1981)
Gary Numan - The Image Is (We Take Mystery to Bed 7" - 1982)
Yaz - In My Room (Upstairs at Eric's - 1982)
Tears for Fears - The Prisoner (The Hurting - 1983)

Billy Idol - Don't Need A Gun (Whiplash Smile - 1986)
The Tourists - From the Middle Room (Into the Future 7" - 1980)

As an apology for the horrible Duran Duran pun I made in the show, hear a song from the new record!
Duran Duran - Pressure Off featuring Janelle Monáe and Nile Rogers (Paper Gods - Out 9/11)

New Tracks for 2015

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Son Lux - Ransom (Lanterns - 2013)
I Break Horses - Faith (Chiaroscuro - 2014)
Tamaryn - Hands All Over Me (Cranekiss - Out 8/28)
Sinead O' Connor - I Want Your (Hands On Me) (The Lion & the Cobra - 1987)
Polica feat. Justin Vernon - Tiff (Shulamith - 2013)

Lapalux - Don't Mean A Thing (Lustmore - 2015)
Slime - My Company (My Company 10" - 2015)
Keep Shelly in Athens - Benighted (Now I'm Ready - Out Sept. 2015)
Nicolas Jaar - No One is Looking at U (Nymphs II - 2015)

I'lls - Keep (Can I Go With You to Go Back to My Country - Out Aug. 2015)
Doldrums - Video Hostage (The Air Conditioned Nightmare - 2015)
Flume feat. Moon Holiday - Insane (Flume - 2013)

Bonus Video Time:
Lapalux feat Andreya Triana - Puzzle

Postcard from a Small Town

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Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (Age of Consent - 1984)
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again (Touch - 1983)
Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! (Into the Gap - 1984)
Tears for Fears - Watch Me Bleed (The Hurting - 1983)

Soft Cell - Frustration (Non Stop Erotic Cabaret - 1981)
Depeche Mode - Something to Do (Some Great Reward - 1984)
Ramones - I Just Want to Have Something to Do (Road to Ruin - 1978)
Echo & the Bunnymen - Rescue (Crocodiles - 1980)
The Smiths - Nowhere Fast (Meat is Murder - 1985)

Psychedelic Furs - Book of Days (Book of Days - 1989)
New Order - Elegia (Low-Life - 1985)
Japan - Burning Bridges (Gentlemen Take Polaroids - 1980)
Duran Duran - Edge of America (Big Thing - 1988)
Yaz - Winter Kills (Upstairs at Eric's - 1982)

Bonus video time!
Jimmy Somerville performs a stripped-down, acoustic piano version of "Smalltown Boy" in 2014:

Remembering the Future

This episode features songs dealing primarily with technology, simulation, and authenticity. It's co-hosted by Heather, a text-to-speech program.

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David Bowie - Saviour Machine (The Man Who Sold the World - 1970)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Metal Postcard (Scream - 1978)
Joy Division - Isolation (Closer - 1980)
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (The Man Machine - 1978)

Depeche Mode - Photographic (Speak & Spell - 1981)
Ultravox - Mr. X (Vienna - 1980)
John Foxx - A New Kind of Man (Metamatic - 1980)
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - We Have a Technical (Replicas - 1979)

Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark - The Future Will Be Silent (English Electric - 2013)
Pet Shop Boys - Minimal (Fundamental - 2006)
Visage - Lost in Static (Hearts & Knives - 2013)
Duran Duran - Blame the Machines (All You Need is Now - 2011)

Image by Hideaki Kodama, 1987.