Wall of Voodoo was a New Wave band from Los Angeles, California, United States, best known for the 1983 hit "
Mexican Radio". The band's sound was considered a fusion of synthesizer-based New Wave music with the style of spaghetti-western composers such as
Ennio Morricone. The band had its roots in Acme Soundtracks, a film score business started by
Stan Ridgway, who became the band's lead vocalist. Acme Soundtracks' office was across the street from The Masque, a club frequented by local punk rock bands, and Ridgway was soon drawn into the emerging punk/new w…
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