Category Archives: Music
Ladytron
12th Aug 2010
Buzzy glam rock fashion plates Ladytron came together in a jet-set miracle in mid-1998. Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu, who lurk in the background playing rhythm boxes and keyboards in the band, settled in Liverpool after a spate of DJ work in Japan and world travel, including a train trip in Bulgaria where they met vocalist Mira Aroyo.Helena
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Ladyhawke
Soon after the New Zealand band Two Lane Blacktop (named after theMonte Hellman movie) broke up in 2003, guitarist/vocalist Pip Brown moved to Sydney, Australia. She worked with several bands in the area, including Teenager and Pnau, before launching her own act in 2006. Adopting the name Ladyhawke (named after the Richard Donner movie), she handled instrumental duties herself and
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Kraftwerk
During the mid-’70s, Germany’s Kraftwerk established the sonic blueprint followed by an extraordinary number of artists in the decades to come. From the British new romantic movement to hip-hop to techno, the group’s self-described “robot pop” — hypnotically minimal, obliquely rhythmic music performed solely via electronic means — resonates in virtually every new development to
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Kanye West
In the span of three short years, Kanye West went from hip-hop beatmaker to worldwide hitmaker, as his stellar production work forJay-Z led to a major-label recording contract and, ultimately, a wildly successful solo career. West paired his beats with tongue-twisting raps and a self-assured, flamboyant personality. His dapper fashion sense set him apart from
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Kasabian
Kasabian took the British press by storm in the early 2000s by mixing traces of the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, and Primal Scream with Oasis-sized confidence and DJ Shadow-influenced electronics. Named after Linda Kasabian, Charles Manson‘s getaway driver turned state witness, the Leicester-based group also stole a page from the Bandby moving into a remote farmhouse to brew its music. Communal life
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Tagged Happy Mondays, indie, indie-rock, Kasabian, Oasis, Primal Scream, The Stone Roses
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Kaiser Chiefs
When Tears for Fears sang “Kick out the Style/Bring back the Jam” in “Sowing the Seeds of Love,” one can imagine the lads in Kaiser Chiefs raising their mugs of ale in agreement. Comprised of vocalist Ricky Wilson, guitarist Andrew White, bassist Simon Rix, keyboardist Nick Baines, and drummer Nick Hodgson, Kaiser Chiefs resurrected the mod spirit of the Jam in “I
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Tagged indie, indie-rock, Kaiser Chiefs, new wave, Predict Riot
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JUSTICE VS SIMIAN
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Joy Division
Formed in the wake of the punk explosion in England, Joy Division became the first band in the post-punk movement by later emphasizing not anger and energy but mood and expression, pointing ahead to the rise of melancholy alternative music in the ’80s. Though the group’s raw initial sides fit the bill for any punk
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J*Davey
With a diverse array of influences, eclectic twosome J*Davey — female vocalist Jack Davey (b. Brianna Cartwright) and producerBrook D’Leau — deliberately evade the narrow categories of what urban music should sound like, not to mention that they defy normal conventions of pop music. Drawing equally from neo-soul, new wave, funk, and hip-hop, their melting pot of
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Tagged Brook D'Leau, Electric, electronica, J*Davey, J*DaVeY "Outta the Window", J-Davey, Jack Davey, Progressive Soul, Rhythmic Soul
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Jane’s Addiction
Jane’s Addiction were one of the most hotly pursued rock bands when they gained notice in Los Angeles in the mid-’80s, with record companies at their feet. Flamboyant frontman Perry Farrell, formerly of the band Psi Com, had an undeniable charisma and an interest in provocative art (he designed the band’s album covers), and Jane’s Addiction played
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Janelle Monae
Growing up, Janelle Monáe (born Janelle Robinson) felt constrained by the limited resources offered to her in her greater Kansas City, KS, home. When she finished high school, she moved to New York to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy with the intention of pursuing musical theater, but in 2004, after performing in a
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Tagged Cindi Mayweather, Janelle Monae, Outkast, Progressive Soul, Rhythmic Soul
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Jamie T
Jamie T With his appealingly lazy hip-hop vocal phrasing and his eclectic bedroom D.I.Y. musical palette, Jamie T. comes across at times like the mutant love child of the Streets‘ Mike Skinner and Badly Drawn Boy‘s Damon Gough. His clever pop sense is his own, however, and keeps the young South Londoner from sounding like a mash-up of his
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