Radio Berlin

A new wave type band from Vancouver. I guess we sound a little like old Cure, Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen, 4AD, with some modern hardcore influences. A 7" and 12" coming out on olympia's Fragil Records (www.fragilrecords.com), a split 7" w/Kid Commando (Sweden) on Australia's Project Icarus, and a CD with the 7" and 12" on Vancouver's Love Und Romance Records (run by two people at Zulu Records). =================== Radio Berlin is a four piece band from Vancouver, BC, Canada. Having been around since 1998, the band has toured around North America several times and have released numerous, critically-acclaimed albums (1999�s SIBLING and 2001�s THE SELECTION DRONE). With a sound best described as rhythmic postpunk/new wave with early 'goth' stylings, Radio Berlin's garnered many welcome comparisons to bands like Pornography-era Cure, Joy Division, Wire, Josef K, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, only backed by the rhythm section one would expect from a band like Clikatat Ikatowi. Having played with peers such as of The Locust, I Am Spoonbender, The Faint, Vue, Add N To X, Interpol, Ted Leo, and Camera Obscura, Radio Berlin rocks out with a hypnotic live show. Radio Ber... more...