If you know even the slightest bit about music over the last 100 years, you’d know that the development of sound amplification through the electric guitar in the early 1930s and the the development of […]
Tag: Kraftwerk
Across contemporary psych rock, there has been a tendency to craft sounds that turn back towards the 50s and 60s; however, the Minneapolis, MN-based Leisure Birds have strongly resisted that trend as their sound has […]
The founding members of Kraftwerk, Florian Schneider and Ralf Hutler met as students Robert Schumann Hochschule in Dusseldorf in the late 1960s and had taken part of the German experimental music art scene that has […]
Luminous, the Horrors’ much-anticipiated and long-awaited follow up to their critically applauded 2011 release, Skying was recorded over a 15 month period in the band’s East London studio/laboratory/bunker with co-producer Craig Silvey, who has worked with the […]
Recorded over a 15 month period in the Horrors’ East London studio/laboratory/bunker with co-producer, Craig Silvey, who has worked with the likes of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire and the National, Luminous is the much-anticiapted and […]
Although their first full-length effort was released in 2007, the Brooklyn-based trio of House of Blondes had only begun playing live shows together in 2012. in fact, I caught about half of the band’s second […]
Captured Tracks Records released Lenses, the critically praised sophomore effort from the Los Angeles, CA-based duo Soft Metals. Sonically, the material on Lenses owes a great debt to both the legendary godfather of electronic dance music, Giorgio Moroder and to […]
Out of the Black, Boys Noize (a.k.a Alex Ridha)’s last album landed at number 8 on this site’s Best of List in 2012 as it was one of that year’s most thrilling and interesting electronica/electronic dance music […]
I have to apologize for the irregular posting here of late – after returning from Germany, i had been battling what I believed was a just a bad cold. It later turned out to be […]
Originally formed in Athens back in the early 90s, the quartet of Elf Power have developed a reputation through their involvement with the famed Elephant 6 Collective, and the release of several albums that were critically applauded, including […]
Originally formed in Athens,GA back in the early 90s, the quartet of Elf Power have developed a reputation through their involvement with the famed Elephant 6 Collective, and the release of several albums that were critically applauded, including […]
In the three plus years i’ve run this site, I’ve become quite a fan of the Los Angeles-based label, Stones Throw Records – not only have they consistently put out the work of forward-thinking and […]
Lenses, the sophomore effort from the now Los Angeles, CA-based duo Soft Metals was released last month by Brooklyn-based Captured Tracks Records. And with the release of the official video for album title track, “Lenses,” […]
The Belfast, Ireland-based quartet Girls Names released their critically acclaimed sophomore effort, The New LIfe earlier this year through Slumberland Records, and the album reportedly marked a sonic change in direction for the band. Gabe Gurnsey of […]
German-born electronic artist Ulrich Schnauss will be embarking on a tour of select stops across North America over the summer to support the releaese of his fourth, full-length release, A Long Way to Fall through Domino Records […]