150. Dirty Projectors - Dance For You . 149. Messy Mya – New Orleans Houston Atlanta 148. Young Romance - Follow On Your Own . 147. Scuba - Ne1butu ‘NE1BUTU’ is Scuba’s take on the classic late 80′s Italian piano house tune. Black Box, D-Mob, Double Dee, Gino Latino etc… I can’t listen to [...]

Alexandra João Martins São maioritariamente portuguesas as mais recentes confirmações para o festival EDP Paredes de Coura. Nomes como PAUS, B Fachada, Best Youth, Youthless, Salto, League, Brass Wire Orchestra, Quim Albergaria (DJ Set), DJ Nuno Lopes, Chromatics e Sun Araw preenchem assim o palco secundário do festival minhoto. tUnE-yArDs, Japandroids, Crystal Fighters e God is an Astronaut são outros dos artistas internacionais já confirmados para o Vodafone FM. O festival EDP Paredes de Coura celebra a sua 20ª edição, entre 13 e 17 de Agosto, na praia fluvial do rio Taboão. O [...]
The Pitchfork Music Festival kicks off this afternoon (Friday) at Union Park with the first band, Chicago's Outer Minds , at 3:20 p.m. Click on links below for my day-by-day previews. Friday: Japandroids, Dirty Projectors, Purity Ring kick off Pitchfork fest Friday Saturday: Grimes, Sleigh Bells, Wild Flag, Atlas Sound highlight Pitchfork Saturday Sunday: The Men, Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Iceage add teeth to Pitchfork’s Sunday lineup Most of the [...]
Three debuts make it into our next batch of albums of the year to date, although it's hard to think of Jack White's Blunderbluss in such terms after a wealth of different projects. It is his first solo excursion, though, and holds its own against the much talked about Ms Del Rey and not talked about enough alt-J. Throw in yet another exquisite effort from Chromatics and the sound of an Irish band truly coming of age and we're done for today. 10. Jack White - Blunderbuss [...]

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Il y a plus de vingt ans, Neil Tennant, grande gueule pop parmi tant d’autres, avouait regretter que ses morceaux soient perçus uniquement comme des machines à faire balancer les bourrelets sur les dance floors. Comme si un songwriter digne de ce nom ne pouvait donner envie de se trémousser. Il est vrai qu’il ne faut pas spécialement être Johnny Cash ou Lou Reed pour savoir épancher son spleen, se revendiquer cynique, écrire « I love you, you pay my rent ». C’est peut‑être une des raisons qui avait poussé Pet Shop Boys à reprendre le standard Always On My Mind [...]
"For never was a story of more woe than this of Radelet and her Romeo!" A Shakespearian tragedy with Synths! So, word is out. Thin White Duke and owner of "Best Secret Agent Name in Pop" Johnny Jewel had been one of music's most treasured secrets. An enigmatic electro impresario behind not only Chromatics but the sweet Desire, the sick Glass Candy and co-founder of the Italians Do It Better label. This 88-key goldsmith had cut some of the finest diamond disco and emerald electronica around whilst steadily acquiring a devoted cult following. Honestly, it's...

Chromatics had been at work on their follow up to 2007's Night Drive for nearly five years until Kill For Love unexpectedly dropped on iTunes a couple of weeks ago. It has since garnered an intense amount of critical praise, and is, in our opinion, one of the better albums this year has seen thus far. We were able to trade words with Chromatics' Johnny Jewel and talk about some of the other projects he's involved with, as well as the creative process that spawned such an incredible album as [...]

"An all-in-all somewhat heterogeneous album worth the while for its experimental, lo-fi and enthralling features". Chromatics - Kill For Love (2012) 7.0/10 Italians Do It Better Cruising down the highway Drive propelled them on at high speed, Chromatics seemed to have lifted off the tar and dirt roads of Oregon and grown airborne thanks to the zero gravity “Kill For Love”. If the title of this fourth album rings like that of a bittersweet Shakespearean journey lead by a 21st century Moriarty, the quest would have to be [...]
pattymelty : Chromatics - “Lady”

DOWNLOAD: Chromatics - "Into the Black" (MP3) Chromatics at Lincoln Hall, Chicago in Jan. ( more by Zach Pollack ) Portland, OR post-punk-turned-synth-pop outfit Chromatics are back with their first full length since 2007's Night Drive . They began picking up speed again in 2011 after the success of the Drive Soundtrack , which they contributed to, and announced that the album, titled Kill For Love , would come [...]
Jonah Bromwich does it better. When grappling with a work of art, it's occasionally helpful to imagine it within a different medium. That’s a pretty pretentious idea, so allow me to illustrate. The Wire is a commonly used example: the staggering depth, characterization, and pacing reminded most critics of a novel not a TV show. Or take Gabriel Garcia Marquez's gorgeous One Hundred Years of Solitude , in which characters and events so frequently echo that you’re left feeling as if you’ve just been reading a rich and moving tapestry. [...]
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Chromatics , la banda de Portland , Oregon, conformada por Ruth Radelet como vocalista, Adam Miller como guitarrista, Nat Walker como baterista y Johnny Jewel en la producción y teclados, quien es parte del dueto Glass Candy , están de estreno con su nuevo álbum de estudio " Kill For Love ", el cual ha sido publicado bajo el sello Italians Do It Better . [...]

It's been five long years since the icy dance killer Night Drive was released by Portland electronic quartet Chromatics and five long months since the announcement of the imminent new album. Label Italians Do It Better reported yesterday that the wait is now over and double album Kill For Love has now been released. No fewer than five tracks have seen the light of day over the internet during that five months so [...]
Nachdem ich mit Desire neulich ja schon eine Band der „Neo-Noir-Disco“-„Welle vorgestellt habe, kommen nun die Chromatics , die ebenfalls auf dem Italians Do It Better-Label sind und musikalisch in ein vergleichbares Horn stoßen. Die Veröffentlichung ihres neuen Albums «Kill for love» steht an, und vier Songs daraus wurden bereits mit Videos versehen. Monoton-melancholische Großstadtatmosphäre deluxe! Discomusik zum Nicht-Tanzen. Wem Lana del Rey zu elegisch ist, kann sich seine Depressionen hier ebenfalls gut abholen. (Übrigens ist das LdR-Album bisher meine CD des Jahres, auch wenn man das bei dem ganzen Hype um sie gar nicht mehr zugeben [...]

Hooray for new music. In particular, that Kendrick Lamar is just ridiculous. Working one of Maybach Music's gooniest characters into a gritty, psychedelic meditation on how the culture of violence is communicated to kids- I mean, damn. Shlohmo also shows up here twice, half of which is thanks to that hazy, spaced-out take on "Crew Love". The Shabazz Palaces video is, like most of the visuals they've provided so far , out of this world. The Julia Holter is appropriately odd and interesting and the L-Vis 1990 take on D'Angelo's "Untitled" is too groovy miss out on. Oh, and [...]

La banda de Portland Chromatics está por sacar su cuarto LP Kill For Love y adelanta algunos videos. Liderado por la cantante Ruth Radelet , el grupo ya ha sacado tres videos de su próximo disco y ahora podemos ver un cuarto. El primero fue para la canción Kill For Love que ha sido incluída en la película del año pasado, Drive . El segundo, para Into The Black es el [...]
There have been some new songs/videos coming out of from Chromatics for their upcoming release Kill For Love . Here is the latest track, "Candy", with two more new songs after the jump. can't wait for this release.

Johnny Jewel, Ruth Radelet y su tropa muy pronto estrenarán Kill your love , su esperado nuevo trabajo, que con este nuevo "Candy" suma su cuarto adelanto, tras mostrar "Into the black", original de Neil Young, además de "Kill your love" y "Lady", del que también presentaron video. Ahora y como siempre vía Italians Do It Better estrenan "Candy", otra muestra audiovisual dirigida por su habitual realizador Alberto Rossini, que sabe adentrarse muy bien en el misterioso mundo de los de Oregon. A continuación te dejamos con el video de "Lady" y el recién estrenado [...]
CHROMATICS' THIRD SINGLE FROM "KILL FOR LOVE" FILMED LIVE AT SILVER CITY PROM 2010 LIMOUSINE SERVICE PROVIDED BY AUTO FANTASY PHOTOGRAPHY BY RHYS BALMER & ALBERTO ROSSINI EDITED BY ALBERTO ROSSINI EXCLUSIVELY FOR ITALIANS DO IT BETTER FILMS LYRICS: If I Could Only Call You My Lady Baby I Could Be Your Man I Just Want You To Come Back [...]