Ladytron Announces Spring Shows
Ladytron Announces Spring Shows in Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, and McGill, Nevada.
Ladytron Announces Spring Shows in Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, and McGill, Nevada.
Ladytron premiere Serbian DJ and music producer Space Motion’s “Destroy Everything You Touch” Remix video today on Ink 19!
Ronna Reason EP (Damaged Disco). Review by Carole Jaszewski.
Two similar and familiar bands collided as The Faint and Ladytron shared a co-headlining bill that included a pair of sold-out stops in New York City. With more black attire and keyboards than one could count, the two acts offered career-spanning setlists filled with their distinctive synth-pop, post-punk and new-wave sounds. Kiran Aditham witnessed night two of the dark, dancefloor delights for himself.
How do you dethrone the “King of Pop”? Let the current king disappear to Bahrain and get sued for $7 million by an Arab sheik; take your kaleidoscopic and playful songs to California’s Westlake Studios where Michael Jackson recorded Thriller; or simply be a boy named Pop. Pop Levi goes 2 of 3 and emerges with Never Never Love, an album shot through with the ghosts of Prince, MJ, and R. Kelly. S D Green and the musical shape-shifter talk the process of Pop.
“You are all my children now.” Techno rave meets Jim Jones as Chris Catania is inducted into the cult of Big Beat oblivion.
David Waxman Presents Ultra Electro (Ultra). Review by Kiran Aditham.
City (Mute Records ). Review by Matthew Moyer.
fancy ultra-fresh (archenemy). Review by Ben “synth pop snob” Varkentine.
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Kill The DJ (Hypnotic). Review by Ben Varkentine.
She’s a Knife (Mute Records). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Julio Diaz didn’t review as many albums in 2002 as he should have, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t listening. Here are his picks for the year’s best.
Light & Magic (Emperor Norton). Review by Betty Lou Vegas.
Take The Town (Intellectos). Review by Kurt Channing.
Out of the Loop (Kindercore). Review by Ian Koss.
Forever (Archenemy). Review by Julio Diaz.
604 (Emperor Norton). Review by Randall J. Stephens.
The equation Add N to (X) represents the sum of post-modern music made with retro analog synths and a healthy dose of porn, and the product is machine sexy, indeed. Ian Koss spoke with Barry Smith about his many fetishes and kinks.
It’s a safe bet that if a band has the word “tron” in its name, then you’re i…
A.J. Croce celebrates the 50th anniversary of his father, Jim Croce’s, three ground breaking albums, with a nationwide tour of Croce Plays Croce.
High Above Harlesden 1978 - 2023 from On-U Sound collects 60 dub and reggae tracks from Creation Rebel, an astounding set of musicians.
Gerta O. Egy’s beautifully drawn fungi almost eclipse their fairyland habitats in her Mushroom Daydream Coloring Book.
One of the last of the classic wuxia swordplay films stands as a fitting coda to the grand period of the genre. Phil Bailey reviews a new Blu-ray release of the 1975 film The Valiant Ones.
The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Smash Mouth takes us back to The Brady Bunch circa 1973, with “Sunshine Day,” featuring Barry Williams, the original Greg Brady.
Not everyone can be excited by blocks spinning on a screen, but if you are, Ian Koss recommends you pay attention to Best of Five.
The final two films in the bonkers Hong Kong action comedy series The Inspector Wears Skirts hit Blu-ray from 88 Films.
A pair of early “girls with guns” action films from superstars Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock have arrived from 88 Films.