It’s been a really good few years for 80s-influenced synth pop. Following in that vein and taking a lot of notes from Pet Shop Boys, pop producer Pinemarten of Derbyshire has recently been releasing music. His recent 4-track release Can’t Go Back Again garnered him some fans and was generally well …
I’m starting to think that we might be experiencing a better ’80s than people that lived in the 1980s did. We’re getting concentrates of the most interesting and fun bits of the decade with all the music and fashion resurgence that’s been coming through lately.
Of that ilk is Manchester …
Our Band Of The Week debuted the video to their new single at the beginning of this week. ‘Ice Light’ is an epic, arctic video full of emerald blue seas and bright white glaciers, punctuated by slo mo scenes of icy fragments. Soft-blurred shots of the duo echo the ’80s …
Happiness Machines, the debut album by Moscow Youth Cult, was inspired by the title of an Adam Curtis documentary which examined the Freud and rise of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion.
It makes sense in a lot of ways. Jon Dix & Daniel O’Donnell-Smith, the two men …
Nite Jewel has shared a new lo-fi video for her track ‘Clive’. The California native Ramona Gonzalez released her second album ‘One Second of Love’ earlier this year on Secretly Canadian, and has a upcoming UK tour starting tonight (July 12th) in Liverpool with an XOYO, London date next …
Maximalism. We’ve all heard of its counterpoint, minimalism. So it doesn’t take much working out to get to the crux of this blossoming sub-genre: stuff, and lots of it. Maximalism tracks are thickly layered with sonic swirls and surreal synths and propelled directly into your eardrums. It’s pretty intense.
At …
Not too long ago we were raving to you about FOE’s smooth, punk hit, ‘A Handsome Stranger Called Death’, and now we have more fun FOE news for you. Just released 30th April were two innovative takes the dark, yet catchy tune. Collaborating with Maria Minerva and Com Truise, FOE …
On Time Team, under his Slugabed alias, 22 year-old Greg Feldwick has created a world of widescreen colour and squelched sounds. It’s fun, it’s vibrant, it’s inventive and most of all it’s pretty damn good. It’s not like this is an overnight sensation. Since 2008 releases for the Ramp Recordings …
Today our Retro Super Trainer comes all the way from the 80’s (omg vintage) with Ellesse’s reissued basketball boots The Assist 1. Originally a intended as a basketball boot, The Assist 1 sneaker was, like many an empty swimming pool and public handrail across the US taken over by a …
When you look back at pivotal moments in music and fashion the late 70′s/early 80′s was one of the most exciting as punk crossed over to new romantics Adam Ant was the leader of the movement. The flamboyant pop star has had an interesting career, from working with Malcolm McLaren …
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