The Fugitive Souls bio describes them this way: "Fugitive Souls are a volatile combination of dark, alternative guitar-based angst mixed with distopian electronic flourishes, which echo the introspective melodies and musical sensibilities of artists such as Muse, Smashing Pumpkins, Silversun Pickups, and M83." Mmmm, not so much actually. Introspective? Yes. Distopian electronic flourishes? Mmmm, no. Dark? Again, for me, not so much. The definition of distopia is the opposite of Utopia. It is the place where everything is as bad as it can be. [...]
After staying up yesterday and watching so much football I was seeing double. The Canes continue to develop into a fantastic team (it's all about that U baby!), Iowa held on against the other U of M, Florida State continues to deteriorate, and well Florida played hard enough to get by. In addition to that I crammed a few hours of The President's Cup into the mix. Golf is generally BORING to watch, but when you put the players in a vice grip and compete for points and pride, something happens...golf becomes exciting. Anyway, after all that I [...]
Since we capped off September with a bang , it's only appropriate we do the same to kick off the month of October. Boy, the year has flown by, eh? It's already time to start putting together new our year-end and decade-end lists , talk festival rumors, and maybe launch something pretty incredibly new and awesome. This and more will be coming in the month of October from your friends here at CoS. In the meantime, let's do that kick off with a band thingy with this week's edition of our Friday Mixtape... NEW Singles: [...]
Jonny Leather is mounting the latest installment in his benefit concert series on Wednesday, August 12 at the Bell House. The proceeds from this month's show will be used to purchase music, instruments and equipment for the children at the Ronald McDonald House in NYC. Here's what the lineup looks like for Wednesday night: YOUR VEGAS 11pm Your Vegas - "In My Head" (mp3) | Video ARPLINE (formerly Kiss Off) 10pm Hooray For Earth - "Surrounded By Your Friends" (Miadis Remix [...]
Get Hype!!! FRICTION is back from a break with a night at new performance and art space littlefield in Brooklyn. Headlining this month's post mid-summer classic are NYC's The Forms with Special Guests. On the bill are Boston's Pretty & Nice who bring their form of frenetic and danceable form of pop and punk. Just added are Fugitive Souls with their dark, guitar-based angst mixed with electronic flourishes. All the way from Long Beach, melodic post-punkers The Valley Arena open up [...]
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