Synth-pop pioneers, Depeche Mode formed in Essex, England in 1980 and refined the British romantic movement with its squeaky clean production and poignant lyrics. Building on early electro-pop artists such as Kraftwerk, Gary Numan and The Human League, the band released its first album, Speak & Spell in 1981. Nearly 30 years later, the record remains a stellar debut and possibly one of the band's best with its bouncy beats, drip-drop keyboards, and pretty boy vocals. The band's two early classics, "New Life" and "Dreaming of Me," had peppy beats, shimmering synths and pure vocal harmonies. The clubby 80's dance anthem "Just Can't Get [...]
Dream pop power trio from South London, Kitchens of Distinction (KOD), combined early shoegaze and straight-forward Brit-pop melodies with some of the most clever lyrics to surface in the early 1990s.The band hit the U.K. indie scene with the album Love is Hell , featuring "Prize," a track New Order might have written if they teamed up with Slowdive or My Bloody Valentine in 1989.Their second album, Strange Free World , which showcased the band's brilliant tender tongue and cheek, bass driven, shimmering guitar-laden jams like, "Drive That Fast." Other sonic gems included "Polaroids" and "Quick As Rainbows," that had [...]
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Alternative dance-pop outfit, The The released its first proper album , Soul Mining in 1983. The album topped Melody Maker's best of list at #3 for the year. Fronted by founding member and brainchild, Matt Johnson in 1979, the album managed to blend easy-breezy melodies with social and political undertones. "This is the Day" is the album's catchiest track that revolves around Johnson's warm, fuzzy vocals, a simple guitar lick, bouncy bass lines, hush harmonicas, a soulful accordion and some piano tinkling with some processed drum beats. The song managed to get some airtime in a M&M commercial in 2007. However, other tracks like "Perfect" [...]
Alternative dance-pop outfit, The The released its first proper album , Soul Mining in 1983. The album topped Melody Maker's best of list at #3 for the year. Fronted by founding member and brainchild, Matt Johnson in 1979, the album managed to blend easy-breezy melodies with social and political undertones. "This is the Day" is the album's catchiest track that revolves around Johnson's warm, fuzzy vocals, a simple guitar lick, bouncy bass lines, hush harmonicas, a soulful accordion and some piano tinkling with some processed drum beats. The song managed to get some airtime in a M&M commercial in 2007. However, other tracks like "Perfect" [...]
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Psychedelic dream pop trio, Drugstore , formed in Londo n in 1993 was coined after Gus Va n Sant's 1989 film, Drugstore Cowboy . The band f ronted by Isabel Mont eiro whose smoky vocals and chanteuse swagg er could make sober men sw [...]
Sparkling alternative pop quintet, The Trash Can Sinatras from Irvine, Scotland wooed listeners with its infectious melodies and reflective prose back in the late 1980s. The band's debut album, Cake released in 1990 seemed to build on the brilliant songcraft of the Smiths as well as encompassing the local music scene of fellow Scots like Aztec Camera, Orange Juice and Josef K. Cake managed to spend three months on the Billboard Top 200 with its simple and carefree aura coupled with genuine great pop sensible hooks and lyrics that last a lifetime. The album's success lies mainly with the two standout [...]
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Formed in Liverpool, UK in 1978, gloomy post-punk pre-madonnas, Echo & The Bunnymen managed to mesh mel ody with poetry. Founde d by frontman Ian McCullo ch and guitarist Will Sa rgeant were first kn own as Echo and later added bunnymen ba ssist Les Pattinson. Back in the d [...]
Former Suede frontman Brett Anderson is releasing preview songs from his new album Slow Attack on youtube, starting with Frozen Roads. For more info check out his official site here.
The recent death of legendary cult 80s movie icon John Hughes rekindles all the good times and great tunes of the era. The man was had a knack for finding stellar musical artists to fit his films, like Echo & The Bunnymen, Oingo Boingo, OMD, New Order, The Smiths, Jesus & the Mary Chain, Flesh for Lulu, Bryan Ferry, etc. The most obvious one of the day was taken from "Pretty in Pink" and was played by post-punk pop outfit from London, The Psychedelic Furs . The band formed by the Butler brothers in 1977 were heavily influenced by David Bowie and [...]
Blogs all over are reposting this new Radiohead song with a release date of August 17th, 2009 on a one track advance CD. It's called "These Are My Twisted Words".
Formed from the ashes of legendary shoegaze gods, Slowdive, low-fi sadcore outfit, Mojave 3 traded in the rever b pedals for a strippe d down somber sound. After three solid ethereal space-laden albums under S lowdive, the band became Mojave 3 in 1995 and created an eeri e, other-wordly beauty t hat pays homage to [...]
Here's a trailer to a new film called We Are The Mods directed by E.E. Cassidy. Check out the site for more info here.
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