There has never been a band exactly like Talking Heads . They took everything from punk to pop to avant-garde to funk and twisted it all up into a signature sound that has influenced not only other bands, but music as a whole. With their wild experimentation and disregard for the norm, they seemed like a band never meant to be mainstream popular, but they were, and the state of music post-Talking Heads is better because of it. If you're a fan of Talking Heads, here are five other bands that you may be into. [...]
Boys Noize l'a annoncé en personne, le premier single de son nouvel album (qui n'a toujours pas de nom) sortira en août. my heros MMM (Errorsmith & Fiedel) have officially remixed my next single « XTC » ! Original & MMM remix will be release in August ! Le morceau qui était disponible sur YouTube il y a encore quelques semaines a été depuis mis hors ligne par l'équipe de son label Boys Noize Records. Cependant, il semblerait qu'une ou deux vidéos leur aient échappé, ça s'écoute juste en [...]
It's my 31st birthday and the 20th anniversary of the day I fell in love with music, so this week I'll be looking at the ten albums that changed my life. It comes once a year. That day when you are legally obliged to admit that you are a year older than [...]
I've documented my longstanding XTC fandom in this space before, and I thought I'd rung that bell enough. But like all my favorite bands, they keep finding ways to nudge themselves to the forefront of my attention. For a bunch of years, I favored their post-punk peak period, but the lush pop craftsmanship of late albums like Nonsuch has been steadily unfolding its charms. Andy Partridge has always been a great—if usually understated—lyricist, and this one is deliriously appropriate for these days when the air itself seems villainous. For a few minutes at least, [...]
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After a week off, the list obligatory is back to tackle one of the most contentious topics in modern music. I'm counting down the top ten reasons the 19802s most definitely did not suck. This is a list that has been brewing for some time. The 1980s are probably the [...]
Hooray For Earth haven't been around for very long, but their impact on synth pop has been unmistakeable. Where their MOMO EP pushed boundaries, their True Loves LP shattered expectations in every way and made for one of the best records of 2011. While sounding larger than life, this New York-based project is built around the home recordings of singer and multi-instrumentalist, Noel Heroux. I recently ran into Heroux while browsing the ' Exciting ' category on Netflix... Violent Success: When [...]
Carl von Arbin If you require an introduction to We Are Serenades - which you probably do - then let it be known that they are the collaborative project of Swedes Adam Olenius, whom you may know as frontman of of Shout Out Louds , and Markus Krunegard, who led an outfit called Laakso . If the latter doesn't mean that much to you, that's reasonable as I don't think they made it overseas at all, and really, Shout Out Louds is really the only reference point you really need for We Are Serenades' (who [...]
Acid house pioneer DJ Pierre has teamed up with Russian vocalist/producer Xenia Beliayeva for his Afro Acid project focusing on unsung talent. Beliayeva, a music industry veteran who has worked at various promotion positions and has issued tracks on tracks on Datapunk as well as Ever Since , her 2010 album for Shitkatapult, brings her vocal talent to the duo's upcoming collaboration "XTC." The track, which features an intentional monotone vocal from Beliayeva, will include remixes from DJ Pierre (Acid Face), Chicago's Angel Alanis and Denver's Greg Grajek. In addition to working as [...]
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Alternative radio stations like KROQ and 91X and exchanging mixtapes shaped the musical soundtrack of Lisa’s high school years.
Martin Newell (with Andy Partridge) : Goodbye Dreaming Fields [ purchase ] If, as I did, you discovered Martin Newell and his song Goodbye Dreaming Fields after the fact, you might be tempted to dismiss it, musically, as an XTC knockoff. Indeed, Andy Partridge was the producer, played many of the instruments, and can even be heard on background vocals. But, the XTC albums that sound most like this, Oranges and Lemons and Nonesuch, came out after this one. So, it would be more correct to say that Martin Newell’s influence [...]
Hope & Anchor is a pub in the Islington borough of London. In 1977, they held a series of concerts dubbed The Front Row Festival. Performances from those concerts were then culled to create a 2LP concert album that was a record for the ages. It's a crazy album with a wildly diverse set of artists, a line-up that shows a bygone era where an amazing assortment of diverse bands and genres co-existed in an open and free environment. Not only are a wide arrange of punk of and new wave artists featured on the album, but a good majority [...]
Bubbling away in the cavernous doldrums beneath the Roundhouse where tonight the insufferable Dropkick Murphys bumble along incomprehensibly to fiddles and punk that's about as authentic as most 'Irish pubs' are Peckham's Beaty Heart , who've voyaged north of the Thames to headline the somewhat insipidly denominated 'Sonic' night of this year's Roundhouse Rising festival. They're preceded however by a quite demented half hour from analogue gear enthusiasts CLOUT! who sound, for the most part, like Seb Rochford rewiring every psychotic vision within the discography of Devo to hugely dramatic effect. Validating their stated claim under manifesto [...]
Having had a reaction due to the ingestion of a certain plant-based substance, I once rampaged my way through several boxes of crackers, leading my housemates to dub me “Cracker Vacuum.” (it was later translated into Chinese as the far more sonically palatable Bin Gone Kon). Munchies-inspired nicknames aside, crackers are delightful and the addition of cheese was a great moment in humankind. My enjoyment of this combination has been tempered of late by my concern that – based on knowledge gleaned from numerous viewings of Blade Runner – I might be a [...]
Facebook After writing up some bands lately whose names have either undersold or misrepresented the music they present, it's rather refreshing to have an artist whose public identity promises exactly what they have to offer. And that artist is Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny . A grandiose name, to be sure, and one that's matched by the title of their just-released debut album Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose . There's no way that labels like those could herald anything less than grandiose [...]
XTC : The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul [ purchase ] I don’t like the label “post punk”, but if I have to tell you what it means, I point to the music of XTC. Over a strong rhythmic pulse, you find crunching guitars and highly politicized lyrics. But XTC’s leader, Andy Partridge, is also heavily influenced by the Beatles. So in 1986, Partridge got some help to expand XTC’s sonic pallet, in the form of producer Todd Rundgren. The resulting album was Skylarking. Here, one hears nature sounds, there [...]
Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions, 1942 After all the champagne is gone and the confetti swept off the floor, we're faced with a brand new year and a second wind of optimism. This year, you'll start running, you'll quit smoking, you'll waste less time, you'll kick television, you'll love more and eat less. Whether you're trying to save up or get your weight down, as long as your resolutions last, here's your soundtrack. Full track list after the jump! Track listing: [...]
Well the way that we're living, is all take and no giving, there's nothing to believe in, the loudest mouth will hail the new found way, to be king for a day
Pigeons and Planes
Stop The Noise
Earbuddy
Now you're at Songblague!
White Folks Get Crunk
Violent Success
Chromewaves
Big Shot Magazine
Powerpopulist
The Owl Mag
Fanatic Promotion
Star Maker Machine
The Lost Turntable
Dots & Dashes
Barely Awake In Frog Pajamas
The Rotation
noiselab
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