JULY 27, 2009 MiSSiNG iN ACTiON JOEY ALKES AND CHRiS FRADKiN TALK TO ROCKWiRED ABOUT THEiR YEARS AS A SONGWRiTiNG DUO THE ONCE ViBRANT L.A. MUSiC SCENE AND RE-ViTALiZiNG THEiR CATALOG iNTERViEWED BY BRiAN LUSH In the early eighties, the teaming of songwriters JOEY ALKES and CHRIS FRADKIN wrote some of the most influential New Wave tunes for the likes of THE PLIMSOULS (A MILLION MILES AWAY, NOW, HYPNOTIZED.ËœHUSH, HUSH and ËœLOST TIME) and PHIL SEYMOUR'S TALK TO ME. Twenty-five years following their last collaboration, ALKES and his label SQUID MUSIC have come across the demo recordings of the ALKES/FRADKIN catalog and have found that the quarter century-old recordings require very little dusting. They will soon be seeing the light of day in an official release entitled ‘SOME SONGS - RESCUED FROM THE EIGHTIES - TUNES WRITTEN AND RECORDED BETWEEN 1980 - 1983. " I'm excited! It is definitely valid stuff!" says ALKES when asked about the looming release. "There is definitely an album here and it's good power pop. As good as there has ever been and the reaction we've getting on MYSPACE has been great." In listening to an advanced copy of ËœSOME SONGS. I must concur with the popular consensus of the songwriting duo's new found following on the internet but this collection of demos (and I stress demos!) shows the groundwork for all that was (TALK TO ME was covered by PHIL SEYMOUR) and all that could've been (MISSING IN ACTION sounds like it could've been a natural selection for TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS while GIRLS IN THIS TOWN sounds like PAT DINIZIO at his moodiest). Despite the rough quality of these demos, SOME SONGS is an intriguing listen a documentation of a then-thriving L.A. music scene and dare I say a piece of music history worthy of rediscovery.   (READ MORE) ViSiT US AT: WWW.ROCKWiRED.COM OR AT: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/ROCKWiRED