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Enjoy some music and video selections highlighting the Strangeways DJ’s favorite tracks from their shows for the week ending 05/19/2013.
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South Florida brings us the dark/new wave band Astari Nite. Astari Nite has been around since 2007 and in that time, they have had the opportunity to warm up acts such as Assemblage 23, Modern English, Andy Rourke of The Smiths, Apoptygma Berzerk and Stars. That’s a pretty good resume for a band that hasn’t released their first album yet. Now, after a few singles and EPs, the band is preparing to release their first full length album in the spring of 2013. Waves was the first single off of the forthcoming album. The second single is Pyramids which the band has made available as a free download for you all in anticipation of the album. Pyramids has a nice hybrid sound to it – featuring 80′s new wave synth stylings with infectious melodies reminiscent of indie rock artists like White Lies.
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WANT/ed, the electro-pop band from Koenigsberg, is the first band to offer a free download on Strangeways new Soundcloud page. The track is Never Will Take It Back and it will be a real treat for fans of dark synth, in the style of Depeche Mode or DE/Vision. The song is taken from an EP “Never Will Take It Back / Start To Live” which is available for purchase on Bandcamp. The EP features nine remixes of this song, along with a couple of other excellent tracks.
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Brooklyn’s The Mystic Underground write pop songs for the disenchanted, disillusioned and disenfranchised. They are songs for the broken-hearted and desperate. Songs that celebrate life, love, death and everything in between.
Strangeways DJs and listeners have been fans of those songs including Remember Me and Evelyn, You’ll Be The Death Of Me. Their new dance floor banger, Fanfare For The Modern Man precedes their forthcoming EP Gender Rules.
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Before he became ‘Iggy Pop’, Jim Osterberg was a straight-laced political hopeful in mid-60′s Ann Arbor, Michigan. Vice President of his high school class, Osterberg attended the 1964 American Legion Boys’ State Program at Michigan State University taking part in a mock election where he ran for the role of Governor of Michigan. Just one year earlier, a boy from Arkansas named Bill Clinton made it from the Boys’ State Program in Little Rock to become his state’s delegate to the Boys’ Nation Program in Washington D.C.
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Enjoy some music and video selections highlighting the Strangeways DJ’s favorite tracks from their shows for the week ending 05/12/2013.
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Morrissey has never been a fan of The Smiths hit single, “What Difference Does It Make?” even though it was quite successful in the UK charts, peaking at #12. If you are a fan of the song and have purchased it in the past, you might want to go take a look at your cover art. The planned cover for the single was a photograph of British actor Terence Stamp. Terence is known for his portrayal of General Zod in Superman movies. He was also in a film called The Collector and the cover of “What Difference Does It Make?” is a photo taken from the set of that movie. However, Terence denied permission for the image to be used so instead, Morrissey re-enacted the scene – using a glass of milk instead of a chloroform pad.
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Did you know that…Blue Monday by New Order is the highest selling 12″ record of all time? Even more interesting is that due to an overly expensive sleeve designed to look like a floppy disc, New Order actually lost money on each sale of the record!
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The National are doing their best to keep us satisfied as we await the release of the new LP, Trouble Will Find Me. About a month ago, the band made the track Demons available through iTunes with pre-order of the new LP.
The last couple of weeks has seen a flurry of activity with an appearance on Jimmy Fallon, the announcement of new tour dates and a collaboration with Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson where they performed Sorrow for 6 straight hours.
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This weeks alternative timelines looks at some of the art from The Smiths and the stories behind the images. Continue reading →
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In today’s world where a new genre seemingly pops up every day, ever wonder what they mean, what it sounds like or who is in them? Our good friend and host of the monthly Strangeways listener show, Soundtrack of Your Life, Sean Montogmery alerted us to this amazing algorithm posted on Furia.com
It’s a map of genres, where if you click on the name you will hear a representative sound. When the genre pops up, click the double arrows for a list of bands in that genre and click to hear them all! There is also a search button, in case you are wondering what genre an artist belongs to. Browse genres from Chillwave, Britpop and Post-Punk to Blue-Eyed Soul, EBM and Viking Metal.
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Alison Moyet’s first album in six years, “The Minutes”, a collection of synthpop / electronic original songs was released this week. So far it has been receiving rave reviews from her fans and the media. Alison rose to fame in the 80s as the voice of Yazoo along with Depeche Mode’s Vince Clark before branching out into a solo career. The album almost didn’t happen as every label she approached wanted her to do a covers album (or appear on reality tv). Cooking Vinyl Records eventually signed her and recording began.
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Brit Rock band Editors have released the first single from their forthcoming 4th LP, The Weight Of Your Love. The single, A Ton Of Love will be available for download thru iTunes tomorrow.
You can also pre-order the new record starting tomorrow in digital, CD or Vinyl format. The vinyl will be a 180 gram 2X LP. The CD will also be available in double format featuring 5 bonus tracks; 3 new cuts and 2 acoustic versions.
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Enjoy some music and video selections highlighting the Strangeways DJ’s favorite tracks from their shows last week. Continue reading →
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In their storied history, The Simpsons have featured appearances by many bands including the likes of Smashing Pumpkins, The Ramones, REM, Coldplay, U2, the Who and more! However, there may be no appearance cooler than this year’s season finale. In the episode, ‘The Saga of Carl’, airing May 19, Homer, Moe, Lenny, and Carl travel to Iceland and encounter none other than Sigur Rós! Continue reading →
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