When I first heard Aussie/LA/Londoner Sam Sparro a month ago, I immediately thought he was of black descent considering his booming soulful voice. I was wrong, this white boy can sing! Already a huge music chart climber in the UK, Sparro isn’t just a singer but a musician that writes, performs, produces and [...]
Syclops lends itself as a bit of a mystery. Little is known of the “Finnish trio” featuring Sven Kortehisto, Hanna Sarkari, and Jukka Kantonen since they don’t tour, do interviews, take press photos, or reveal much information about themselves. The “band” does however play live shows, but only for themselves, not audiences. [...]
Crystal Castles must of been filming this video while waiting for the other bands to finish at our last Friction. Oh snap! Wahhhh!
[Video]: CRYSTAL CASTLES - Courtship Dating (official)
Get ready for Monday!
Over here at the FRICTION NYC HQ, we’ve spent most of the day nursing our massive hangovers from last night’s show, party, afterparty, and after afterparty drinks. While we were bringing ourselves back into existence from our drunken haze we decided it’d be festive to recap last night’s show Madlibs style. Yeah, [...]
GET HYPE! Crystal Castles, HEALTH, Team Robespierre, and Apache Beat are primed to mess with your ears tonight at the Mercury Lounge for our SOLD OUT installment of FRICTION. Crystal Castles bring their distorted electro all the way from Toronto, while HEALTH’s blasts of noise mess with your head, this of course, after locals [...]
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I was instantly into the sound of London-based electro outfit, Battant, after hearing their single “Kevin (1989).” The convulsive punky/new wave-inspired track was written by lead-singer Chloé based on the diary entries of a dude named Kevin. Not exactly sure what she found in the diary, but to come up with killer lines [...]
I’ve had Sébastien Tellier’s new track, “Divine,” from his forth-coming album Sexuality on constant repeat. It has a sleazy electro doo-woppy sound to it, inspired by Brian Wilson and 60s era Beach Boys music. Tellier calls the song “a tribute to the Beach Boys and the Juicy Fruits. It’s about a time [...]
I guess it’s time for me to start getting together one of those year end list things. While I’m at that I wanted to share a few tracks from some artists that I’m looking forward to hearing a lot more of in 2008. Myself and maybe even Nghia will try to get around [...]
Category: electro