new wave
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A new track from electronic music producer Matthew Dear, “Headcage.” The first time I heard of this guy was when he dropped Black City last year. From the sound of this new track, it looks like we’re in for more funky, dark new wave tracks with lots of great
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German electronic music producer Christian Strobe remixes one of Holy Ghost!’s latest singles via the SoundCloud stream above. Check our review of the new Holy Ghost! album here.
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Armed with strong hooks and pop sensibilities, New York singer-songwriter Chris Glover has released a new album under the name Penguin Prison. The album is out now on Downtown, and is streamable via the widget above. Though a lotta pop music as been wearing its welcome with me lately, the
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MP3 Baltimore-based Wham City! affiliates Future Islands can be a kind of polarizing band. When I saw them live opening for Titus Andronicus and Okkervil River back in June, I was expecting something very much unlike what I heard. Listening to them in that setting, I was simultaneously put off
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The Drums finally drop a track from that new album the band teased us about just a little while ago. The band hasn’t exactly renovated their sound, but it does seem refined. The instrumentation is tighter, and the vocals–while they do hit a nice falsetto–feel much more
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I remember when I first started my YouTube channel, it had no subscribers. Yeah, they all come that way, sadly. But when things started moving in 2010, I was getting a lot of disappointed comments asking me why I never reviewed the Horrors’ previous album in ’09. Well, my answer
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On its latest EP, which is a folloup to 2010’s Silver, Eternal Summers being four new tracks into their discography, embracing the sounds of twee and fem-powered post-punk acts the UK was churning out in the late 70s and early 80s. Though not every track here hit me hard,
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Chicago’s California Wives might be viewed as a contradiction, and their debut single, “Tokyo,” only adds to the confusion. This mod quartet is breathing new life into the classic sounds of new wave pop, blending their love of electronic music with influences from the Police and New Order. The
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Holy Ghost!’s self-titled debut is getting released physically and digitally this month on DFA Recs. There’s even a crazy iTunes exclusive going on right now that has brought the album’s price down to $7.59! I should be reviewing this thing sooner rather than later. The dance
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And another track drops from the forthcoming, self-titled Holy Ghost! album. “Wait and See” is pretty different from the odd dance “Do It Again” was doing, but it’s still a big win in my book. My ears are watering at the thought of hearing the rest of this LP.
