Last month Israeli indie rock trio ELECTRA spread sweat, power and punk spirit with the German audience in form of a joyful tour. Some minutes before their gig in Leipzig, we had the pleasure to talk with these lovely lads about their home country Israel, the Tel Aviv indie music scene, bad mainstream pop around The post Interview: Electra - "We are more than a retro band" appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
Israeli indie/retro-pop band ELECTRA is about to hit the road in Germany in April with the electrifying songs of last year’s longplayer Second Hand Love and its latest catchy single Charge! Boaz Wolf, Nitzan , Doron Farhi are following Kasbah Rock tradition combining the raw live energy of the likes of THE CLASH with an The post Win Tickets for Electra appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .

Photo Credit Yaniv Israel Alon "Hailed as the unlikely new middle east must-watch rock'n'roll act (The best new band in Israel, Time Out Tel Aviv), Electra is definitely following the Kasbah Rock tradition combining the raw live energy of the likes of The Clash with an activist agenda, a reflection of this troubled part of the world in which they live. This band is about passion, anger and fun, mixed together and poured into jagged guitar pop tunes that varies from '50s Rockabilly to '60s [...]

Electra Heart è il prossimo album di Marina And The Diamonds , esplosa anche grazie al brano " Primadonna " che ha conquistato anche con il passaparola. E la cantante ha ammesso di essersi ispirata a Madonna , Marilyn Monroe e Maria Antonietta. Il suo stile e il suo look si sarebbe ispirato proprio a queste grandi figure storiche femminili. "E' ispirato da Marilyn Monroe, Madonna e Maria Antonietta. Madonna è una persona coraggiosa, senza paura. E' stata demolita così tante volte!" Il nuovo anno è stato definito come un [...]

10. THE STROKES Angles [Rough Trade] LEGGI LA RECENSIONE DEI NOT MOVING Il ritorno degli Strokes vede un significativo cambiamento nel sound del gruppo che destabilizza ma non si disdegna. Una vaga aura di spensieratezza pervade i brani. Sfido chiunque a non iniziare a muovere la testa a ritmo di musica all’ascolto di “Macchu Picchu”. 9. STILL [...]
Marina Lambrini Diamandis, in arte Marina and The Diamonds è stata una delle protagoniste della scorsa stagione, arrivando a sfiorare la vittoria agli MTV European Awards poi vinti da Marco Mengoni. Adesso la cantautrice gallese-greca ha cominciato la campagna promozionale del nuovo album " Electra Heart", atteso per l'anno nuovo. Non sarà facile ripetere il successo di " The family jewels ", trainato dai due singoli " Oh no " e " Hollywood" , anche perchè il sound è cambiato. Come lei, ora in versione biondissima. Molto [...]

Foundwaves was there to catch Israel’s Electra at Church. Listen to tracks by the band and watch videos from the show... Goni Riskin Electra , Josephin , and White Pages Tuesday, October 25 at Church Electra - Radio On Electra - Heartbreak is for Fools [...]

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Ornery Little Darlings And now three reasons to celebrate a big Bears win at the Empty Bottle tonight... 1. On their latest record, O is for Ornery , locals Ornery Little Darlings take their contemporary-rockabilly sound to a darker, moodier place. While "Prowler" is a scorching garage rocker, other songs on the album such as "Do What I Told You" and "Silver Spoon" come off as quite eerie with their sinister organ lines and brooding vocals. Ornery Little Darlings maybe a duo, [...]

It wouldn't be surprising if you thought Electra might be the next big thing to come out of the U.K., given their heavily Clash-influenced rock 'n' roll. But the three-piece band consisting of Nitzan Horesh, Doron Farhi and Boaz Wolf is, in fact, from Tel Aviv, Israel. They're also not the "next big thing," but they are currently one of the most successful bands from the country. They made a big splash with their ska-driven "Coming to Get You" in 2010, and have since then released a string of singles from their debut album "Heartbreaks for Fools" boasting [...]
I was damm excited about the return of Marina and the Diamonds and her Electra Heart concept, which we got a glimpse of 2 weeks ago. Fear and Loathing is a gorgeous track, which had me waiting like a giddy child for the next release, Radioactive . Marina gave a bit of warning that it was going to be different in her recent interview with PopJustice, so I was prepared - kind of. I've given the song a good few listens, and I don't dislike [...]

"Lying on a fake beach, you'll never get a tan / Baby I'm gonna leave you drowning, until you reach for my hand," she croons. And so begins the second chapter of Electra Heart , the American Dream-turned-Greek tragedy being slowly unwoven by bright red-lipped UK chanteuse Marina + The Diamonds . After the release of "Fear & Loathing" on August 8 comes "Radioactive," produced by DJ Chuckie and powerhouse Norwegian production team Stargate -Marina's most daring lift-off from her usual output, and also one of her finest [...]
Marina And The Diamonds has débuted the next instalment of her ‘Electra Heart’ series of films. ‘Radioactive’ is also slated to be her next single and it’s a proper dancefloor track, more-so that we’d expect from Marina, what with it being full of big late 90’s trace sounds. It’s a good song though, can’t wait for the reMixes. ‘Radioactive’ is released 3rd October’ Buy Marina And The Diamonds’s music from: [...]

Don't call it an alter-ego. Meet Electra Heart : She is a story, not a person, as invented by one of the brightest new talents to come from the UK: Marina + The Diamonds . After the release of her critically acclaimed debut last year, The Family Jewels , Marina's been hard at work cooking up the follow-up to her debut with some of pop's heaviest hitters (despite an initial hesitance), including Dr. Luke and Stargate . For fans accustomed to the singer's quirky mixture of bright, hook-heavy [...]
Marina & The Diamonds released this teaser video on Monday, which features a new song Fear and Loathing . I'd originally only heard a snippet due to crappy internet connection and travelling, but today I'm finally getting to see the video in full, it was worth the wait. Fear and Loathing is part 1 of a 3 part video series based on her concept Electra Heart . Not to be confused with an alter ego per se, Marina sees it as more than that - there's a interview over on Pop Justice , which gives more [...]

Intense, intimate and unsettling is the only way I can describe the video for ' Fear and Loathing ', to be very clear this is not a single, but an introduction to Marina and The Diamonds ' alter-not-alter-ego/album concept of Electra Heart . The incomparable Welsh singer has departed from her upbeat and spunky sound and take on American culture to delve into something much deeper, to take a look at not only herself, but at the darker side of ambition, success and the American psyche. " Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything that I [...]

Musical philosopher and largely underrated pop singer Marina Diamandis, better known as Marina and the Diamonds warned her Twitter followers earlier today that something would be happening at 4pm UK time. "What could it be?" I wondered, quite excited. A new single? A free track? An album announcement? A wedding proposal (to me, obviously)? Then, 10 minutes after 4pm UK time (that's 5pm Paris time) this happened: [...]