FNNW 1/9

This week's Friday Night New Wave spends the night doing what it usually does best: letting the requests pile up and seeing where they lead. Along the way, there’s a Then & Now check-in that jumps between early 80s debuts, second albums that accidentally shifted the landscape, and a reminder that some careers only make sense when you stop trying to summarize them.

This week’s Spotlight focuses on Echo & The Bunnymen, following their slow build from tightly wound early tracks into something broader and more confident, without ever losing the tension that made them interesting in the first place.

The chat box will be open throughout... active, opinionated, occasionally distracting... for requests, commentary, or quiet lurking while the music does its thing.

Friday Night New Wave starts at 8 p.m. Eastern, 7 Central.