Posts Tagged ‘new wave’
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Love Comes Close in a Cold Cave
Like most stylistically unclassifiable acts, the sheer oddity of Cold Cave can only be explained by dissecting each member’s role. And when each collaborator’s presence is already shrouded in a unique enigma because of creative...
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REVIEW: Wolf Parade – At Mount Zoomer
Few bands manage to be as innovative and instantaneously accessible as Wolf Parade, the acclaimed joint project of Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner. The most impressive thing to me about the two collaborators, however, is not the ...
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Hilotrons Get Happymatic
In present day, calling a genre “dead” will most often be looked upon as a controversial statement. There are countless numbers of musicians specializing in stylistic revivalism, and I doubt that number is going to ...
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Central Standard Takes Center Stage
Urgency is a petty thing. People often assume that there is a vital need for it, even if it can often result in quality of a lesser standard due to the increased level of production. However, for Frankie Ostello’s vocal s...
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Feu Therese Parlent Ça Va Cogner
Judging by their name and stylistic preference alone, I would have easily guessed that Feu Therese was one of the many up and coming French electronic acts rising to prominence this year. You know the type — I have featur...
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The Superfantastics Love the 80s (and Michael J. Fox)
If it were not for the references to ICQ, Facebook, and other forms of technological social networking in the geekily titled “The Only One I C++ is U++”, it would be rather difficult for first-time listeners of The ...
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Pelle Carlberg In a Nutshell
For the tourism offices in Sweden, the past several years must have been a breeze. With such a bustling outlet of quality Swedish musical acts gaining reputable fan bases overseas, international fans have inherited the desire t...
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VHS or Beta Prepares to Bring on the Comets
Note: Thanks to weeone for the information: Chea Beckley remains the keyboardist in the group and Zeke Buck is no longer part of the line-up. It is always interesting to see in which direction a band will follow after experienc...
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Steven Mark Releases Third Album, “Racing Grey”
Steven Mark has always found writing any form of art to be personally natural. Whether it was the writing of a play, a story, or even a song, the esteemed graduate of Columbia Journalism School has long balanced his stellar int...
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