Category Archive Punk

LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening

James Murphy’s dance/punk style is infectious on This Is Happening, LCD Soundsystem‘s 3rd and possibly their last album.  Whether it’s really the last album or not, fans won’t be disappointed.  It’s the cohesive blend of electronic, dance music and punk rock attitude and style that Murphy is well known and loved for producing. MP3: LCD [...] Read More…

Powder at the Key Club

On May 2nd at the Key Club, I saw one of the craziest shows I’ve ever seen- Powder. Powder is an absolutely insane “turbo-pop rock” act that one of my friend’s recommended to me. It was an incredible show, I’ve never seen anything like it. Check out the band’s promo video below and you can [...] Read More…

Recycling Absinthe (Pt 1) – “Straight To Hell”

The MIA song “Paper Planes” was a huge hit last year after Pineapple Express introduced the song to a very large audience.  The song just took off- it was all over TV, the radio, and the blogosphere.  You couldn’t go into a bar or a club without hearing “Paper Planes”, or at least a remix, or one right after [...] Read More…

From The Post Punk Archives

- Posted by Scott S – Today it seems many of us are quick to catch on to anything with an old sound. This is the natural proclivity for nostalgia that the human ear contains and it’s great. But it seems like every other act that comes out is doing their best to sound like [...] Read More…

Weekly Dose (11/8/08)

First song is “Man Up”, the title track off the brand new album by The Blue Van.  The Denmark based band’s music is heavily influenced by classic and modern rock and blues.  They’ve been around since I think 2005 but this particular song has been getting a pretty decent amount of airplay on KCRW – 89.9 [...] Read More…