House of Blondes‘ Clean Cuts was one of my favorite albums last year, as it landed in the top 5 of this site’s Best of 2012 list. And the album’s lead single, “Shadows” was one of my […]
Tag: Kraftwerk
Travis Caine and Katherine Kin, the duo that comprises electronica act Von Haze recently returned to New York after almost a year in London. just in time for the release of their latest full-length effort, Kar […]
Electronic music can trace it’s origin back to the Germany and Italy of the early 70s. And two of the genre’s earliest (and most beloved) champions were Kraftwerk and Giorio Moroder. In fact, their influence […]
Landing at number 8 on this site’s Best of 2012 list, Boys Noize‘s Out of the Black was one of the more thrilling and interesting electronica/electronic dance music albums I had heard – although undeniably influenced by […]
Sub Pop Records will be releasing the London-based duo, Still Corners’ sophomore effort Strange Pleasures on May 7th. “Berlin Lovers,” the first single off the album has the band gently expanding their sound with a greater emphasis […]
The Brooklyn-based electronic act Jonas Reinhardt cobbled together footage of old 70s and early 80s horror movies for the official video for “The Private Life Of A Diamond,” off their forthcoming Not Not Fun release, The […]
Formed in 2004, the members of the Edmonton, Alberta, Canada-based Shout Out Out Out had been in a number of that area’s punk and rock bands – but it was shared interest in synthesizers and […]
The Brooklyn-by-way-of San Francisco, CA-based Jesse Reiner performs under the moniker of Jonas Reinhardt with a series of bi-coastal collaborators. Since the project’s beginnings in the early 2000s, Reiner’s sound has managed to fuse elements […]
http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/email2/swf/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1361818290 Still Corners, the duo of songwriter Greg Hughes and vocalist Tessa Murray released their 2010 debut, Creatures of an Hour to generally favorably critical reviews – NME, and Drowned in Sound in particular offered praise of Creatures. The […]
Canadian electro pop trio Dragonette will be touring with Major Lazer next week, and to celebrate the occasion they released the Sunshine Jones remix of Bodyparts album opener of “Run Run Run.” The remix starts off with […]
Out of the Black, Boys Noize’s latest effort, released in 2012 was ranked #8 on the site’s Best of 2012 list, thanks in part to two of the most inventive and sonically challenging electronica singles i […]
Classically trained, Kansas City-based musician Matt Hill, a.k.a. Umberto specializes in an electronica that expresses dread and anxious unease – it’s music that’s seemingly perfect for the score of a horror movie or for a […]
Album Reviews
As a blogger my email inbox gets inundated with requests to cover an ever-widening variety of artists, and I really can’t complain about that because I wind up getting introduced to a bunch of new […]
Teen Commandments and House of Blondes at the Rock Shop 12/13/12
Just the other day, I was at the Rock Shop to catch a night of electronica music in the form of Teen Commandments and House of Blondes. Teen Commandments set was a little raw and […]
I have to admit that I’ve become a fan of Stones Throw Records artist Karriem Riggins as his work can sound a bit like the great Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit,” mixed with a bit of Kraftwerk. […]