Alex Winston: Choice Notes (Live): CMJ 2010 Part 4/10
Alex Winston and Savoir Adore (featured yesterday), two of the most notable CMJ 2010 bands I caught, are fairly similar bands that feature lead female vocals, have synth up front, but also fill the sound out with full bands. (More...)
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...)
Bauhaus: Kick In The Eye (Live Video)
This 1981 Bauhaus clip may have been their television debut. It's truly unfortunate that the performance is mimed, but the band still does a good job of still looking interested. (More...)
The Monday Set: Generationals – Baton Rouge – 11/13/2010
New Orleans' own Generationals closed out a tour in support of their Trust EP at Chelsea's Cafe. Chelsea's has a warm spot in the hearts of those-in-the-know in Baton Rouge, and it is just starting to put on more indie shows again following a period of bizarre persecution by the state's Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control (More...)
The Rest: John Huston
Canada's best kept secret The Rest have a brand new record coming out in 2011 and have released this teaser track to the interwebs in advance. They seem to be ditching the Shins-esque sound for a more modern synth-laden approach which I'm really digging (More...)
The Monday Set: Slant 6 – Athens – 8/3/93
I got this and another amazing live Slant 6 recording from Henry Owings and his never ending box(es) of amazing recordings. I had what must have been a multi-generation cassette version of this soundboard recording that I had traded for in the '90s, but this one comes directly from the master (More...)
Kisses: Bermuda (Live)
Los Angeles' Kisses released their debut LP "The Heart of the Nightlife" in the US yesterday. I'm hoping to pick it up in the vinyl format at one of their upcoming shows, but you can grab the entire thing from Amazon right now for the "Nice Price" of $5.99. (More...)
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