Every Waking Moment from Los Angeles’s The Dear & Departed consists of 11 songs that made me instantly fall in love with the band. I’ve listened to the album [...]

The latest release from British band The Horrors, Skying, is a smart blend of dark ’80s New Wave and Brit-pop with gothic musings. After being [...]

Devo brought their oddball stage performance to an estimated crowd of 25,000 at NXNE 2011.

One of the beautiful things about NXNE is that one can stick with big-name acts, or get adventurous and go find the lesser-known artists.

Swedish natives The Sounds are back with their fourth full length album. Something to Die For is yet another compilation of New Wave-esque synth pop. [...]

Crystal Castles teamed up with the front man of The Cure, Robert Smith, for a cover Platinum Blonde’s 1984 single “Not In Love.” Via Gorilla [...]

We all know the Christmas season well: the snow, the tree, the Jack Frost nipping at your nose…blah, blah, blah…perhaps we know it a little [...]

Yes, we know, Alvin. You want a hula hoop. Will someone please get this rodent a friggin’ hula hoop? It’s the most wonderful time of [...]

“Not In Love,” originally by the 1980s New Wave band Platinum Blonde, was covered by Crystal Castles for their latest album — and now they’ve [...]

In 1977 Gary Wilson famously released a uniquely bizarre and personal album titled You Think You Really Know Me…, full of electro-funk, proto-new wave, noise collage, [...]

New York’s Ursula 1000 sets his time machine towards primitive garage punk for his new EP, FUZZ. FUZZ features the inimitable Fred Schneider from The [...]

Backed by a pantheon of rock and indie elite, New Collisions is getting ready to take over the world with their thought-provoking brand of pure [...]

As I was too young to have witnessed Devo perform during their late-’70s/early-’80s heyday, I spent more than a bit of time looking up vintage live footage of them on YouTube. Back then they were over the top with energy — subversive, snarky, low-budget, maybe even a little innocent. What could one expect in 2010?

Elizabeth Fraser. The name alone conjures up flashbacks of the neon-spewing Eighties synth and New Wave. The Cocteau Twins breakup broke hearts in 1997, but [...]

Has it really been almost two months since our last mix? Hey, give us a break. We’ve been busy. All this groundbreaking music coverage doesn’t write itself, you know. Plus, we had the holidays to contend with. Everyone’s busy around the holidays, right? Yeah, that’s a feasible excuse…