If you're like me, odds are you hear the name Lene Lovich (or, as I recently did, find a copy of this very album in the bins at Goodwill) and instantly hear her distinctively playful yet unabashedly Teutonic voice squeaking out the hook to her best-known song, "Lucky Number." Like so many brilliant artists of the '70s and '80s, however, Lovich has continued being creative and productive over the decades. In fact, she has a new band and a new North American booking agent, and is right this moment teasing us with the prospect of a [...]
And if it's not too much to ask for, Santa, a new album cover too? No? Well, okay, just the toy then. Lene Lovich was one of New Wave's true oddballs, but a pioneering one at that. She appeared right on the cusp between punk leading into New Wave, and in effect helped to define what that genre would be heading into the '80s. Her urgent, synth-based music and hiccup-y vocals proved to be very influential on bands to follow. Her theatrical presence was part of her charm as well - on the one [...]
The people behind international music and art festival Drop Dead believe in bringing together the most creative and interesting bands, regardless of how obscure. Many of the best independent, weirder and art-related bands get little to no exposure, and Drop Dead aims to fill the void by bringing together worldwide talent under one roof. From [...]
Karel Fialka People Are Strange Coil Tainted Love Lene Lovich Lucky Number After a certain age, I lost the ability to mount a defense of certain preferences, tastes, or just things I'm okay with... New wave vocal hysterics are one of them. In my early to mid [...]
Eutopia is a synth rock duo from London in England that emerged in 2011. Alexander Kotziamanis (Guitars / Vocals) and Leah Lennick (Keys / Synths / Vocals) rustle up an engaging out-put which rattles round the brain. Eutopia Leah Lennick , reminded me so much of the ring of Lene Lovich , how could I not take a listen and far more importantly from the perspective of the indie bands blog , I think this new duo has something very [...]
Lene Lovich : New Toy [Purchase] In the fall of 1981 I was a freshman in college who had unfortunately been raised on some pretty lousy radio in Cleveland. I was ready for something other than the Springsteen-Eagles-Zeppelin stuff I had heard to death for years. Luckily I soon fell into a pretty musically savvy crowd and my listening pleasures grew exponentially. One guy, Jim, was a junior and a DJ at the college station. I remember his big passions at the time were Joy Division and [...]
Download Oakland duo ChuCha Santamaria Y Usted’s loud electroclash version of forgotten Lene Lovich song ‘Home.’
This is Lene Lovich live in Malibu back in 1983. Lene Lovich was born Lili-Marlene Premilovich in Detroit, Michigan, to an English mother and a Serbian father. After her father had health problems, her mother took her and her three siblings to live in Hull, England. Lovich was 13 years old at the time. She met the guitarist/songwriter Les Chappell when they were teenagers, and he became her longtime collaborator and life partner. In autumn 1968, they went to London, England to attend art school. It was there that Lovich first tied [...]
Thanks to my pal, Gary W, for turning me on to this...the best cover version I've heard since Tropic of Cancer did "Upside Down." It's new UK band Proxy Music . I'm guessing they're mostly a Roxy tribute band, or maybe thats how they started? Anyway, on June 4 they have an excellent single coming out which is a reworking of "Lucky Number" by Lene Lovich. And yes, it sounds like Roxy Music playing it. The b-side is a more faithful version of Eno's "Baby's On Fire." Luc ky Number by Proxy Music
Flex Lene Lovich (pronounced Lay-na Luv-itch) proud owner of a high-pitched, shrieky voice, spooky wide-eyed stare and general oddball appearance -- was born in Detroit in 1949 to a Yugoslav father and an English mother. She moved to England with her mother when she was 13, then ran away from home two years later. In 1979 Lene Lovich released the single Lucky Number on Stiff records and some say helped usher in the age of new wave music. This could be looked at as a good or [...]
Lene Lovich : Bird Song [ purchase ] If you’ve seen my blog, Oliver di Place, you know that I do album reviews. If you check back, you might think that the first review I ever did was of Annabelle Chvostek. But it goes back much further. I started college in 1979, and in my second semester, I joined the school newspaper as a music reviewer. As I started thinking about this post, I realized something for the first time. As the staffer with the least seniority, I [...]
I'm writing this at 11:11 on 01/10/10. That's...a lot of ones. I am disgruntled. All the playoff games sucked this weekend save for the Pack/Cards game. But the team I wanted to win that one didn't so it was all for naught anyways. Not like it matters though, I think we all know that either the Vikings or New Orleans is going to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl. Then there's the bullshit involving Leno. I hate that big-chinned prick. Always have. I only ever watched his show because he tended to have better guests than Letterman [...]
Mrs Villain, every now and again, bemoans the fact that we will never have an amazing change of lifestyle as we will never win the lottery for the simple reason that I have never in my entire life bought a ticket. Its a philosophical thing - tax on the poor and all that. I've never even been part of any office syndicate.... That's not to say I'm against gambling. Far from it....I'm no stranger to the inside of a bookie's shop, sometimes on horses, but more usually on the result of football matches. Oh and I also have [...]
Today was the first time since I broke my rib/joint/tendon that I was able to work out. I just got done lifting weights while listening to Fear. I could punch God in the face right now I'm so pumped. On a completely unrelated note, I finally got around to updating my blog roll, check it out, there's some good stuff there, especially Friendsound , who get deluxe bonus points for putting up a rare CD by Scanner, one of my favorite electronic acts. Tonight's post is full of weird, awesome and weird awesome. [...]
At a quaint little coffee shop tucked away from the chaos of SXSW's 6th St, PopWreckers Bethany and Joshua encountered what was to be their wildest (sex! cursing! Mozart !) interview yet: Roxy Epoxy & The Rebound . And yes, this is the same Roxy Epoxy of The Epoxies . Bethany, PopWreckoning: Sorry, but this was a last minute interview for me, so I don’t have any questions planned or research done. Roxy Epoxy , Roxy [...]
Many New Wave bands struggled to make the transition from twitchy pop eccentrics to serious recording artists in the early eighties. The skinny ties, scratchy guitars, loopy organs, and amphetamine-driven vocals seemed increasingly irrelevant compared to the seriousness of purpose evinced by the Post-Punks. Next to the unflinching emotional honesty of a band like Joy Division, The Cars or The Go-Gos seemed to belong to some Saturday morning cartoon on television. Lene Lovich's first album, Stateless (1978), was virtually a template for the New Wave sound. Its stripped down, sixties garage band vibe served as the [...]
Thomas Dolby was always the odd man out. Odd in the sense of unusual or not fitting in, but also odd in the sense of not making a pair. Singular. Like the so-called New Romantic groups of the period, his vision of the future was inflected by a sense of the past. But where Visage, Ultravox, and Spandau Ballet espoused a moody grandeur that evoked what Bowie called the "European canon," Dolby was decidedly the English eccentric, pottering about in his shed, stringing up an aerial for his homemade crystal set. More Heath Robinson than Richard Wagner. [...]
As some of you may have heard, Twilight star Kristin Stewart is slated to play Joan Jett in an upcoming movie about The Runaways. As writer Gil Kaufman aptly put it in an MTV.com article , this raises the question, "Just who were the Runaways?" I assume, reader, that you know the answer to this query, but what about the Twilight fans? And will they care? If biopics are going to vacillate from better-known figures, like Harvey [...]
As some of you may have heard, Twilight star Kristin Stewart is slated to play Joan Jett in an upcoming movie about The Runaways. As writer Gil Kaufman aptly put it in an MTV.com article , this raises the question, "Just who were the Runaways?" I assume, reader, that you know the answer to this query, but what about the Twilight fans? And will they care? If biopics are going to vacillate from better-known figures, like Harvey [...]
When I was younger my mother essentially injected Lene Lovich into my bloodstream on a day-by-day basis, and just like any other kid me and needles didn't get on. Now I'm sitting here about to tell the WWW about my admiration for the production values of the frequencies below. Lene Lovich - Life
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