10/07/2007
This is what you would get If the members of devo had sex with a japanese alien
To say that Hiroyuki Hayashi, lead singer of the Japanese spazz band The Polysics, is obsessed with Devo, well, is an understatement. Sure, one can hear the sound of Talking Heads, B-52's, and Kraftwerk in the band's work, but it's those cooky ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 10/07/2007 6:09 PM EST in Electronic, New-Wave, YouTube | Permalink
Suicide: Synth-Pop Minimalists in a Punk-Rock Age
Suicide's first album, 1977's Suicide is full of harrowing mantras of super-heroes, down-trodden Vietnam-Vets, and weird, inspirational love ballads. Subsequent albums never quite reached the plateau of their debut, but nevertheless they went on ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 10/07/2007 5:14 PM EST in Electronic, Experimental, New-Wave, YouTube | Permalink
10/05/2007
Dan Deacon is a Future-Shock Freakazoid
Dan Deacon is an electronic composer/musical weirdo from Baltimore, Maryland. Often heralded as leading the newly coined genre of "Future-shock," which is basically just a neat way of saying "ahead of it's time," he is undoubtedly one of the mos ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 10/05/2007 4:27 PM EST in Indie-Pop, Electronic, Experimental, New-Wave, YouTube | Permalink
Stream: New Neon Neon - Raquel
Fusion lap-topper Boom Bip merged forces with Welsh psychedelic super-hero Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals to form Neon Neon in July of 2007. They released the single "Trick or Treat," which was a bouncy electro soul-fest, reminiscent of Beck' ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 10/05/2007 10:36 AM EST in Electronic, Krautrock, New-Wave, YouTube | Permalink
10/04/2007
Everybody's a Homosapien Nowadays
Many people know that The Buzzcocks were a highly influential punk band from the mid/late 1970s. Pivotal players in the Manchester scene, along with the Sex Pistols (and eventually Joy Division), the songs of Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto were ...
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