La musique couverte sur ce blogue originant souvent d'outre-atlantique ou de chez nos voisins du sud, les occasions d'annoncer un concert particulier à Montréal se font rares. Que les fans locaux de minimal wave se réjouissent toutefois à la persepective de Permanent Wave Vol. 2 , soirée-concert se tenant samedi, le 3 mars. Il s'agit de la deuxième édition de cette série qui nous avait déjà fait danser à l'Escogriffe en mars dernier au son d' Automelodi , Chevalier Avant-Garde et Low Factor . Demain soir, c'est quatre groupes [...]
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by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD : Frank (Just Frank) - Coeur Hanté (MP3) Minimal wavers Frank (Just Frank) play the Wierd party at Home Sweet Home tonight (6/1), the band's first live performance in two years. Frank (Just Frank) released their debut album, The Brutal Wave , last year on Wierd. Like most artists on the label, it's indebted to the '80s. You can hear vintage [...]
J'avoue avoir été surpris par l'émergence de ce groupe que je pensais sorti de nulle part. Signé sur la nouvelle Mecque cold pop, Wierd records dont on consacre tout un mercredi de puublication, Frank (Just Frank) joue en réalité sa brutal wave depuis un petit moment. Après avoir prêché la bonne parole sur Paris en participant aux derniers concerts froids intéressants de la capitale (Xeno and Oaklander au Social Club, Automelodi au Klub), Frank Just Frank a publié il y a quelques mois son premier effort sobrement intitulé The [...]
2010 was a fantastic year for music and a very good start to a new decade of it.
I hardly speak a lick of French (despite three years of it in High School) but in the past few years I've really taken to French language pop, be it the '60s classics or the new wave. Even hip hop. You don't need to understand the lyrics -- it just sounds good. (I still don't know what Michael Stipe, Mark E Smith or Elizabeth Frazer were singing in the '80s.( Anyway, I listened to a lot of Francophone artists this year. Here's nine I especially liked. [...]
Last year was all about Summer . This year it was quite the opposite. So once again, instead of doing a songs-of-the-year list, our list focuses on what we picked up to be the dominant trend this year. Cos we're all about being hip and relevant. Here are some of our favorite weird dark gems and year round winter hits. Light Asylum – A Certain Person + Dark Allies Forest Swords – If Your Girl (Aaliyah cover) [...]
Plastic Flowers Tallahassee, Florida Sean Earl Beard M y name is Sean Earl Beard and i write pop music. It's the most important thing to me. I have been writing music in one band or another for years. But these days I'm recording new tracks for an upcoming release. They are coming together nicely. Big synths and big words, Nouvelle Vague and Sarah Records. I think they [...]
Blackout Musique a aujourd'hui le plaisir de vous présenter une étiquette italienne récemment portée à notre connaissance, Mannequin . Conjuguant les fonctions de label et de mailorder , elle nous fait découvrir depuis 2008 les joies de la musique underground d'Italie et d'ailleurs en se spécialisant dans les genres cold wave, post-punk et autres minimal synth qui sont notre pain quotidien. Fidèles à l'esprit DIY , Mannequin nous propose des parutions au tirage ultra-limité pour collectionneurs avertis, le vinyle étant le support de prédilection. Leur plus récente publication, [...]
Resident Wierd favorite Frank (Just Frank) now has Japanese botanical visuals to accompany their dark and gorgeous track "Mr. Itagaki." We're such a sucker for that low and hollow post-punk voice. The band categorizes themselves as 'brutal wave,' bringing metal and synth music together. Whatever wave they're on, we want to be riding it with them. Enjoy la vidéo below. Technorati Tags: Frank (Just Frank)
Frank (Just Frank) (FJF) is a coldwave duo from the south of France. Composed and performed by Anthem and K.D., their music lies somewhere between the sound of late '70s / early '80s post-punk filtered through chilly guitar, prominent bass, nihilistic lyrics, dark drum machines and icy minimal synths. Taking cues from The Cure , Joy Division , Siouxsie & The Banshees and The Smiths , the band released their debut album The Brutal Wave on New York City's hip Post-Wave label Wierd Records [...]
Frank (Just Frank) - Do the Soviet Modern electronic post-punk neu-wave anyone? à la Cure guitar riffs and early Joy Division icy thumping. Despite their sound they are a newer band.
My favourite cold wave tunes are the soundtrack for a boss fight against abstract concepts that manifest themselves in daily grief: alienation, commoditisation, urban loneliness. It is Josef K on the hero's journey, crisis and change as processed by a soviet bureaucracy (in triplicate). Hence the alluring clash of beauty and decay, exaltation and depression [...]
[RSS Readers: See post to listen to audio] I was just digging in deeper into the Wierd Records [its not spelled Weird, I triple checked] catalog and this song by Frank grabbed me over and over, the guitar line reminds me of some huge 80s hit, is it Dire Straits ? no, I don't know what it is but its buggin' me, either way its pretty poppy for a cold wave label and thats what makes me keep going back to them. I wanted to include Alice Cohen in my [...]
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Frank (Just Frank): Crisis With Zola Jesus wooing everyone from Vogue to Wolf Parade , it's clear that we've finally started to embrace- hell, celebrate goth. Captured Tracks and Sacred Bones have both cashed in on the trend, and their recent crop of darkwavers ( Minks , Blessure Grave , Blank Dogs ) has brought minimal beats and eyeshadow back in style. The latest to hop on the bandwagon is [...]
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