Have you ever put money in a vending machine and gotten two items for the price of one? Well, that is exactly how we feel about the new Eddie Japan song featuring Greg Hawkes “Time Machine”

You can listen to “Time Machine” on Spotify Here and on Apple Music Here

“Time Machine” takes the unforgettable melodic sounds and electric energies of Eddie Japan and the unmistakable sound of Greg Hawkes on synthesizer and the results are stunningly brilliant.

We have in a sense won the music lottery as we are getting the amazing track “Time Machine “ today , followed by the official video for “Time Machine “ on April 5th but wait…. There’s more!!!! The brand record “Pop Fiction “ via Rum Bar Records on April 28th

“Time Machine “ is an amazing genre bending crafted song that isn’t afraid to have a sound that is both anything and everything all at once .

“The song is about trying to get back to that early stage of a relationship when everything is magical – the rush of new love,” says Eddie Japan vocalist and songwriter David Santos. “It’s sort of the flip side, thematically, to the first single ‘Walk Away,’ wherein the relationship is coming to an end. The male character in the song/relationship realizes the error of his ways and wishes he could start over via time travel, figuratively speaking. We’ve probably all wished we had a time machine for one reason or another.”

It’s easy to listen to “Time Machine” and be transported with Hawkes back to The Cars’ ‘80s heyday, and assume that this pairing is a blip and a beep on both the band’s and artist’s radar. But for Eddie Japan, who have taken the stage with Hawkes to perform the music of The Cars, with an upcoming show at Daryl’s House on April 29 in the New York town of Pawling, the collaboration was the perfect tonic to enhance a career that’s already experienced highs at home and afar, from winning the 2013 Rock and Roll Rumble in Cambridge to bringing 2015 single “Albert” into homes across the globe through Rock Band 4(allowing the single to rack up more than 1 million plays on Spotify). Hawkes produced the band’s prior album, 2017’s Golden Age, and has now essentially become part of the Eddie Japan family.

“In short, it’s been a fantastic thing for the band,” Santos says of the collaboration. “The shows we do with Greg playing the music of The Cars require quite a bit of attention to detail. On the surface, Cars songs may seem like fairly straight-ahead pop songs, but there are lots of tricky bits embedded into just about every track. There is an effortless sophistication to everything they did, and so we take getting that right very seriously. It’s made us a better band. And being able to collaborate with Greg on our own music, and then to have him appear in a video, it’s like a musical Christmas morning every time he’s in the room. He’s also just a lot of fun to be around”

So whether it’s a Hot Tub or a DeLorean find your favorite time traveling device and check out “Time Machine “ from Eddie Japan featuring Greg Hawkes