Nostalgien, vemodet og bevidstheden om, at kun det tabte kan fastholdes i erindringen,  kan spores helt ud i coveret og titlen på Helsingborg-duoen This Visions nye – og andet – album. The Golden Age we lost hedder pladen, og det let grynede, analoge familiefoto på coveret minder om erindringens fastholdelse af det tabte i en [...]

NYC-based electronic trio House of Blondes premiere new video for “Slow Motion Tourist" on World of Wonder. The track, available for download via RCRD LBL, was also recently included in Beatport’s Top Ten Must Hear Tracks and compared to GAS, Eno, New Order, and early OMD. Watch the video...

The DMV buzzmaker lets us know just how much he's feelin' himself on a standout off his newly-released Cheers tape.  Click the link for the stream and download.

So you've proven how hip and authentic you are after queuing to get limited edition release for Record Store Day, but now it’s time to put it on the shelf to be forgotten about until a conversation about RSD comes up. You may also have been lucky enough to watch Keane live. You helped RSD record a 50 per cent YoY sales increase so you should all applaud yourselves. But RSD's greatest achievement was the introduction of the indie record store chart. Finally there is a chance to see the albums we love celebrated in a purely ...

Dunproofin’ – Messages [mp3 SoundCloud] OMD cover another classic covered by Dun’

Visiting record stores is tantamount to a religious experience, writes DOUG WALLEN ahead of tomorrow’s international Record Store Day. Photo by LEAH ROBERTSON . Record stores are like church for me. I walk in and feel instantly at peace. The outside world gets paused and I’m left in my own element, to sift and discover. These days, as a father of two living in regional Victoria, I do a lot of my record shopping at op shops, yard sales and antique-y markets. To an extent, it’s the same experience: I get in there, find the records, start flipping ...

Odio París, banda de Barcelona, que estuvo nominada al Premio UFI en los Indie-O Music Awards 2012, ha grabado un cover a OMD. “Electricity” es la canción a la cual rinden tributo en un video que grabaron recientemente. Pueden escuchar el debut homónimo de Odio París completo en su Bandcamp. Odio París – “Electricity” (OMD [...]

MGMT's first album, Oracular Spectacular , was effervescent electro-pop, party rock anthems before party rocking required an apology...

Helluva lot happening in life right now. Moving places, checking in at LA's hipstertown soon, namely Silver Lake, and next weekend takes me to the quite amazing hills of Mammoth, going to snowboard my buttocks off! So a "moving houses" mixtape, a mixtape for the slopes and the mix for a trip. Juicy mix indeed, a lot of rather good music out there at the moment, hope I managed to condense the cream of the crop in here. For instance the new Daniel Rossen EP is gaining genuine affection on my behalf, nothing really fresh-new-under-the-sun kind of thing, simply ...

We get a lot of records sent to us here at The A.V. Club , and a lot of it’s too good to ignore. In Playlisted, we spotlight new music that’s slightly off the beaten path. Album: St. Lucia by St. Lucia (out now on Neon Gold/Columbia) Press play if you like: OMD; smart synths; triumphant hooks; dreamy vocals Some background: As the name implies, St. Lucia has an exotic bio. Jean-Philip Grobler is from South Africa and toured the world as a member of the Drakensberg Boys Choir School before studying music for three years in ...

flexuous \FLEK-shoo-uhs\, adjective: Full of bends or curves; sinuous. Flexuous is derived from the Latin word flexuōsus which meant full of turns or crooked. This is an interesting example where the suffix changes the implication of the word. Unlike the more common word flexible, which means "capable of being bent" because of the suffix -ible, flexuous has the suffix, -ous meaning "full of." Business Casualty When someone wears business casual and it looks horrible. The long dressy skirt and polo didn't look good together, it was a business casualty and tucking it in didn't make it look any ...

Starting tomorrow there will be a Theme Week on Metal Bastard! Every day next week will feature a particular band that I grew up listening to and which had an enormous impact on my interest in music ever since. If you want a hint, they were a part of my Top 30 Album of the 90s list. Some of you will dig it, others won't give a shit. When I say "every day", I mean every day except Tuesday and Friday. On Tuesday you'll get Trippy Shit Tuesday as usual (as well as a likkle supm spum because ...

The 80s synthpop masters just keep on coming ! Hot on the heels of confirmation of The Human League’s December show, we can now confirm that Blancmange will be coming to the Wulfrun Hall in May. Along with Human League, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Yazoo and OMD, Blancmange made edgy but...

check out these two fun and diverse remix/mashups of katy perry's pop classics (especially the one featuring the richard marx cover!). happy sunday y'all!!! katy perry vs omd - teenage gay ( djs from mars bootleg remix) katy perry vs richard marx - the ones that got away ( the jane doze mashup) http://feeds.feedburner.com/WongiesMusicWorld

"Still Life" MP3 from the album Skying 2011 iTunes Continuing one of the rapidest musical evolutions in recent memory, The Horrors' third album finds them so far removed from their Strange House , Edward Gorey goth-punk beginnings that they're completely unrecognizable. Building on 2009's career-making Primary Colours , Skying is painted in even broader, blurrier shoegaze smears; the title even refers to a ’60s-era, primitive phasing technique, which hints at the warped textures within. But where the post-punk-derived Primary hewed toward the gloomily monochromatic when it came to actual melodies, Skying finds The Horrors embracing the anthemic choruses of '80s ...