Savoir Adore: Bodies (Live): CMJ 2010 Part 3/10
Savoir Adore and Alex Winston (to be featured tomorrow) are fairly similar bands that feature lead female vocals, have synth up front, but also fill the sound out with full bands. In the case of Savoir Adore Male/Female vocals are used to excellent affect. (More...)
Kisses: Bermuda (Live): CMJ 2010 Part 2/10
Kisses are the Male/Female vocal duo format that, for whatever reason, suits synth bands so well and is wisely finding its way into many involved in this contemporary New Wave resurgence. (More...)
HolyGhost!: Unknown Track (Live): CMJ 2010 Part 1/10
The faithful TSOI reader will have noted that there has been a recent outcropping of synth bands, Hot Chip, Cut Copy, La Roux, etc, and many others that are enjoying fairly wide-spread success. If CMJ 2010 is a harbringer of things to come, then we are in for a lot more of these sorts of keyboard centric configurations. (More...)
The Charlatans UK: Sproston Green (Live Video)
I couldn’t help but laugh this summer when I went to my childhood home and found a The Charlatans UK advert cut out of an early 90's SLUG (Salt Lake Underground) magazine of their classic press photo with 'CANCELED' stamped across it. Attempting to see The Charlatans UK has been a decade-long running joke (More...)
Guided by Voices: Motor Away (Live)
Guided by Voices are among the ever growing legions of recently reformed bands that seem to be springing from the cracked earth like frogs and serpents following an apocalyptic rain. What is interesting about GBV is that Robert Pollard reformed the Tobin Sprout incarnation (More...)
Interview: Ruby Isle – It’s So Easy (GnR Cover) TSOI Exclusive
TSOI pretty much only features bands that we really dig. Dan Geller is the mastermind behind the influential Athens, GA based label kindercore and a member of two bands that we absolutely revere: I Am The World Trade Center and his current band, Ruby Isle. (More...)
Swans: My Birth (Live)
I went to concerted lengths to catch the final Swans show in Atlanta in 1997 - the tour supporting The Great Annihilator. In 2010 Swans have reformed using an early lineup variant and touring behind a new album (More...)
Hoodoo Gurus – What’s My Scene (Live)
Hoodoo Gurus are a good-time rock pop band from Australia that feature great 90's era college rock vocals in Dave Faulkner. In the late 80's and early 90's they had a string of snappy, slightly quirky, psychedelic, accessible singles, such as "Come Anytime" and "Miss Freelove '69'" that lent themselves for constant rotation on college radio (More...)
Chapterhouse: Pearl (Live)
This year has featured many highly anticipated shows such as the recent appearances of bands long since absent from performing, but the announced tour that got me most lathered in anticipation was the recent two night NYC stand of Chapterhouse. (More...)
The Wooden Birds – Seven Seventeen (Live)
The Wooden Birds is Andrew Kinney’s new band after the much lamented demise of American Analog Set. Whatever praise AmAnSet has gleaned from its singularly methodical approach to song structures is highly deserved and have several beautiful slow-burn classics to top the 2000′s releases. (More...)
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