The Fixx "Anyone Else" - The Fixx The Fixx , the first band I ever saw live, is playing a show at the Knitting Factory Brooklyn on June 10, 2012 ( Buy Tickets ). According to Wikipedia , the current iteration of the band features the classic lineup with Jamie West-Oram on guitar, Rupert Greenall on keyboards, Adam Woods on drums and Dan K. Brown on bass. The Fixx even have a new album coming [...]
Rare daytime post! Art Of Noise Art Of Love (Extended Mix) Ambience Of Love Heart Of Love So how the hell didn't I know about this? In 1990, Art Of Noise released "The Ambient Collection." As its name suggests, it is a collection of Art Of Noise tunes reworked as a continuous ambient mix. That alone sounds pretty rad. What makes it even more rad (I'm totally bringing "rad" back, by the way) is that the [...]
I first posted this album eons ago, and it sounded like complete dogshit. In my ongoing effort to redeem myself for my ceramic needle USB-turntable early days, here it is again, re-recorded with decent equipment. Live Letters - Bands Featured Live at the 101 Club This is a very interesting record, and I wish I knew more about the people who made it. Apparently the 101 Club was a venue in South London in the early 80s, but I don't know for how [...]
The Fixx : The Fool [ purchase ] I'm not at all familiar with the Tarot or the various meanings of its cards. Let's just say everything I know about it I learned from Wikipedia , the blogger's friend. I know more about the British band The Fixx, though, 'cuz they're one of my favorite 80s New Wave groups. They've always shown more complexity in their melodies and lyrics than most bands of the time. This song is from their first album, [...]
Download: Marty "The Villain" Download: Marty "The Fixx" New Jersey emcee Marty leaks 2 new tracks off his upcoming Elephants EP, "The Villain" & "The Fixx". Bio: Martin "Marty" Angus is a Hip Hop artist from Central New Jersey. Marty was born on May 10, 1988 to Martin Sr. and Enid Angus who migrated from Jamaica to the states in the late 70s. He grew up in Union, [...]
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No, we weren't exactly floored back in June when the news came down that the Granada Theater had booked '80s new wavers The Fixx to play their annual anniversary party celebrating Mike Schoder's... Continue reading "The Fixx Backs Out of Granada Anniversary Gig; Party To Now Feature Blind Pilot on October 6" >
The fact that the synth-pop sound is bigger than ever these days should not be news to anyone who follows electronic/dance music with even half an eye or ear. The buzzing bass-lines, LinnDrum-like beats, and hooky-as-hell melodies of classic (as in early-'80s) synth-pop have worked their way so thoroughly into contemporary pop that you almost don't even think about it anymore. What better time, then, for one of most iconic acts of the original electro-pop era to come bursting back into action? Allow us to introduce you to the Human League circa 2011. Featuring the same [...]
Since that whole Rapture dealio surprisingly fizzled, I can't help but think that the real losers were the non-pants wearing inhibitants of this planet. Imagine how elated the animal kingdom would have been had several hundred million humans simply vanished. I picture camels, cockatoos, coyotes - all creatures great and small - breaking into song and dance like cartoon characters at the idea of fewer of us humans mucking up the scene. Word would obviously be spread by the whales as they are able to communicate to all of the world's oceans [...]
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I'm not a particularly superstitious person. I don't believe in bigfoot, ghosts, horoscopes, UFOs or fairy tales that involve talking snakes, burning bushes and messianic people rising from the dead like self-righteous zombies. I am, however, pretty fatalistic when it comes to Mercury-in-rertrograde. Cataclysmic shit rains down on me like clockwork; from bad breakups to car accidents to floods that take half your possessions (twice if you can believe it). So Mercury this time around thus far has brought me all kinds of presents including this morning when a fucking button popped off my cherished Eames Lounge . Yesterday [...]
Filed under: News , Book Club Niki Kanodia Growing up, music and pop culture critic Rob Sheffield had role models both positive and negative. Among the former, he explained Wednesday night, as he discussed his new book, ' Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut ,' at the Barnes and Noble store in Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Park Slope neighborhood, were his sisters. As Sheffield recalled, they would "get all the [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Tony Peluso , who played lead guitar with the Carpenters before becoming a successful producer, died on Saturday, June 5 in Los Angeles of heart disease, according to the Hollywood Reporter . Peluso, 60, was a four-time Grammy winner who made an impressive mark on the world of pop music, performing and producing on records that, in total, sold in excess of 150 million copies. Peluso got his start working with teen idol Bobby Sherman in the late '60s and [...]
Thinking of record stores not long ago , I realized that I didn't have a chance to frequent indie record stores until college (at that point, there were a half dozen within a few blocks of each other). Though my friends and I spent a good deal of time trekking to Cincinnati in high school, we usually stuck to the malls. The malls had everything we didn't have in our hometown - record stores, book stores, arcades, food courts, escalators - in one place. And a lot of girls. (there were, obviously, girls in [...]
As we reported earlier this month, the once powerful Washington, DC based music festival, HFStival, will return this year following a four year hiatus. As it stands now, however, that might be the only the thing current about this year's event. According to D.C. television and radio blog DCRTV.com , HFStival 2010, which is set to take place on September 18th at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD, will feature the likes of Third Eye Blind, Fuel, Presidents Of The USA, Marcy Playground, Billy Idol, Better Than Ezra, and the Fixx. Hey, at the very [...]
I always believed that fall break was one of the most inspired things. It wasn't as lengthy as spring break – a mere Thursday and Friday – but it's placement in the school year was almost flawless. It usually fell in late October, a week or so before Halloween, half the way between the start of the school year and Christmas break. It was far enough into the semester that the hopeless feeling that the school year would never end had set in, but scattered warm days of Indian summer were reminders of the summer past. [...]
Awww, shite, I got myself all tangled up in this 80's stuff and I can't stop. This is a redux post since I posted it about 3 years ago to the date. I was twenty years old in 1980 and these were some of my favorite bands. They are all stellar and worth looking up and listening to. This series is about the year that these bands were formed. The tracks are not necessarily from that year. So, to the best of my knowledge and research these bands were formed in the year 1980. This is [...]
Today we have a very exclusive mix from our main man Rayko . We first came across Rayko through the brilliant Balearic disco gems on Spanish label Rare Wiri...check it out for all sorts of fresh sounding house and nu-disco. Back to the mix and as you can see below the track listing speaks for itself... Rayko Adventures in the Rare Wiri Headquarters Matrix mix 1 Jean Michel Jarrre - Arpegiator 2 Vangelis - Dervish 3 The Fixx - Reach the beach 4 Night Moves - Transdance (Rayko edit) [...]
Truth be told, we at the Ripple office just fell in love with Cy Curnin after he popped up on the Ripple Radio Show. What a gracious guest! And hilarious. It was by far, the funniest, most off-the-cuff Ripple guest we've ever had. So with all that love in mind, we're pretty darned thrilled to update all waveriders on Cy's latest happenings, including the opportunity for you to get your name in the liner notes of Cy's new album. Look closely, The Ripple Effect will be there! [...]
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