1 day ago by secretcircuits

I am totally excited that Duran Duran are reissuing a 2-disc remastering of the album So Red the Rose by Arcadia! It’s due in the United States and Europe in February 2010. Arcadia, of course, was the brilliant side project formed in 1985 by Nick Rhodes, Simon Lebon and Roger Taylor while John Taylo ...

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6 days ago by secretcircuits

Putting aside Devo’s eccentricities for the moment, the gents from Akron, Ohio, chart a pretty good arc into New Wave music for an American band. Seized with anger over typical punk themes ranging from broken politics to broken promises to broken hearts, Devo struck out in the traditionally blue-col ...

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13 days ago by foodwinecello

Natasha Khan (AKA Bat for Lashes) Thanks to my friend & fellow-musician (and Tori fan, I might add) Jodelle, I discovered Bat For Lashes about 10 days ago, and have been pretty much listening non-stop. I bought both her (Natasha Khan, AKA Bat for Lashes) records, “Fur and Gold” and “Two Suns,” plus ...

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14 days ago by Lex Neon

“Jason and the Argonauts.” It was Clover Club Larry that introduced me to XTC. We had heard “Mayor Of Simpleton” on one of the hipper radio stations while driving around in his car. It was then he started going on about how XTC had better songs than “Simpleton,” and how they were now “catering to th ...

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16 days ago by secretcircuits

Having chatted about New Romanticism a bit lately, I was going to save a discussion of this compilation disc for a little later. However, I have a philosophical disagreement with a friend of mine, wherein she would tie musical genres to flash-in-the-pan moments of when their popularity was at its he ...

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17 days ago by secretcircuits

The first two Madonna albums are perfectly lovely garage pop. Coming out of New York City in the early ’80s, Madonna struck upon a time when a robust dance scene melded the best New Wave and disco influences. She could pull from them all as she set about turning the music industry on its ear. Madonn ...

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18 days ago by daryle

When I reviewed Kenna’s album I reviewed it on the merits of being a new wave record, the one that the Neptunes had been trying to make for years. I also went on about how a lot of artists folks respect are closet new wave heads and know some pretty [...]

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23 days ago by secretcircuits

I’m inevitably annoyed when I load new music onto iTunes and the album appears with a classification of music genre that some ignorant dullard assigned to it. Okay, so these days most everyone gets electronica right. Okay, we can basically count on dullards everywhere to classify Royksopp as electro ...

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28 days ago by Michael

Article Manager asked: Trance is a style of electronic dance music, which was developed in the early of 1990s. It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 128 and 150 BPM. Trans music has melodic synthesizer phrases, and a progressive musical form that builds up and down throughout a track. ...

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31 days ago by secretcircuits

Edinburgh is a great, historic city full of castles, historic dwellings and pubs, winding paths, and a fair dose of urban grandeur. It also has CD shops. Among those CD shops it the small independent Avalanche, just a skip off the famed Royal Mile. Although much revered by the locals, it’s actually ...

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