Tagged: catchyelectro

You might remember Vivek Shraya from a post on this very blog a long time ago. Well, our favorite Canadian indie/electro upstart is back with his sophomore album "Keys and Machines" and it's set for a release this November! So hold onto your hat and enjoy this funky preview track "In Out" featuring Meghan Toohey . Vivek Shraya - In Out AZLTRON MUSIC BLOG

• Vivek Shraya - In/Out

Magic Wands are a duo out of L.A. that have been casting a spell on the electro club scene out west. Their latest release "Warrior" has been making some waves since it's July 6th release. If you're feeling the magic, you can grab some additional remixes below. Magic Wands - Warrior (Defend Moscow Remix) Magic Wands - Warrior (The XX Remix) AZLTRON MUSIC BLOG

The Main Drag are an indie/electro/pop band out of Boston Massachusetts. Like Passion Pit, another Massachusetts band, these guys have an ear for a good pop song, and also like Passion Pit they throw everything and the kitchen sink into their mixes. Everything from strings and glitches to horns makes it's way into their songs. The Main Drags overall sound is a bit more of a traditional rock sound that only leans on synths occasionally. The main heft of their songs is lifted by their nimble guitar work. They've gone on to be salon.com's #1 unsigned artist and have a [...]

Leed's retro-futurists Heads We Dance have released a b-side from their upcoming single "When the Siren Sounds" called "Work It Out" featuring a little lady who has been taking the world by storm, Little Boots! The track is a bit darker and more rock driven than a lot of their other stuff, but fear not, the synths are turned on high as they cruise past cymbal crashes and dance beats. Heads We Dance also launched their new website where you can get Frankmusik's remix of "Love in the Digital Age" and listen to some of [...]

That sometimes folky, sometimes dancy upstart known as Emil & Friends from Brawlston Massachusetts is back with a new song on a folkier kick called "The Shrine". If you're looking for a laid back song for an early morning or late night of scrambling around to get all those things on your impossibly long list of things to do done "The Shrine" is the perfect chill pill. Emil & Friends - The Shrine Emil & Friends Myspace AZLTRON MUSIC BLOG

It happens every year , after I've done my year end list, there's one criminally neglected artist not featured on the list. This year it's Ladyhawke from New Zealand who flew under my radar. I knew she released "Paris Is Burning" over the summer as it was one of my mainstay summer jams. I didn't know until just recently that they put out a slammin' debut album. Everything on there is rock solid, she draws inspiration from everybody from Heart to Gary Numan. Needless to say, she'd have held some kind of spot in my top 10 if I could [...]

Division Kent is a two piece from Zurich, Switzerland that plays swirling, dark new wave rock composed of two members; vocalist Andrea B. and instrumentalist Sky Antinori. Their music is at times dark and heavy, calling to mind the work of psychedelic indie band Midnight Movies due to the ominous melodies and sultry voice of Andrea B. While this is the primary musical mode the band is set in there are some fun surprises along the way. Right off the bat the band set a mood with the atmospheric "No Kryptonite" that calls to mind Blonde Redhead. [...]

Dirty Disco Youth is the project of Phil Speiser who resides in Hambug, Germany where he spins his prodigiously hard mixes. Bloody Beetroots - Rombo (Dirty Disco Youth Remix) Deadmau5 - ghosts n stuff (DIRTY DISCO YOUTH REMIX) Digitalism - Taken Away (Dirty Disco Youth Remix) Stardust - Music Sounds Better (dirty disco youth remix) Dirty Disco Youth Myspace AZLTRON MUSIC BLOG

10 Questions with Thieves Like Us (#2 Best album of 2008!) By: Aaron Z. Lee Thieves Like Us is an electro band that's two thirds Swedish, and one third American that creates indie electro pop that's akin to a sonic mix of New Order and Daft Punk. I corresponded with their singer, Andy. 1. You've said that Play [...]

Welcome to the second installment of the AZLTRON Blog's top 30 Albums of the year! Here are some albums for your listening/reading pleasure! Here is the link to Part 1 . 20. Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Glistening Pleasure This creatively named band feels like a joke band started between a few friends that somehow along the way they shocked each other with how good they became and decided to take the show on the road. The concepts featured on [...]

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Gold seems to be a fashionable color for up and coming electro artists. First MSTRKRFT, then Heads We Dance, and now Truly Beautiful Disaster. The band is composed of one member from Greece and one from London. Combined they make the kind of electronica that makes me want to put on a cape and mask and fight crime with Hong Kong inspired impossible martial arts. TBD - Miranda's Veranda Truly Beautiful Disaster Myspace AZLTRON MUSIC BLOG

Some of you might remember the short lived but excellent New Wave band Elkland that formed out of Horseheads, NY (Upstate New York!). The band released their debut album Golden in 2005 and supported such bands as VHS or Beta as well as Erasure before breaking up. Singer/Sonwriter Jon Pierce soon after reformed his old band Goat Explosion with old friend Jacob Graham and produced a 4 song EP entitled Hope Is Alive . Then the band went quiet. Jacob resurfaced with a new band called Horse Shoes just recently and even more [...]