Nice to see Johnny Jewel resurrect his long idle band Glass Candy for his After Dark 2 compilation album. "Warm in the Winter" is actually an old song from 2011 but it is leading off the new album.
Katie Stelmanis and her goth project Austra have announced the long awaited follow up album to 2011 favourite Feel It Break. The LP is titled Olympia and will be out June 18th on Domino/Paper Bag. Here the first track from the LP, "Home."
A lot of new songs to get to tonight....less talk. more rock.
New J Mascis/Sharon Van Etten duet from the John Denver tribute album "The Music Is You" which is out April 2nd on ATO. Listen to "Prisoners" below:
Brand new music and video from Vancouver indie rock band The Zolas. Watch the clip for "Escape Artist" below. Taken from the album Ancient Mars which is out now on Light Organ Records.
Swedish synth pop band Kate Boy have released a new clip for their song "In Your Eyes." The track is taken from their EP, Northern Lights, which is out now on IAMSOUND Records. Watch below:
Johnny Jewel synth pop project Glass Candy have released a new track for free download and an accompanying music video. Watch the clip for "The Possessed" and then go and get the free Extended Runway Edit of the track.
Scottish synth pop buzz band Chvrches have come out with a video for their awesome song "Recover". Watch below:
Taken from the Recover EP which is out March 26th via Glassnote.
Another new track from dub step soul musician James Blake, this time with a little help from ambient producer Brian Eno. The track will be on Blake's latest LP, "Overgrown," which is out April 8th via Republic.Records. Listen to "Digital Lion" below:
Second track from the new Caveman album debuted this week. Stream the beautiful "Over My Head" from their self titled sophomore album which is out April 2nd via Fat Possum.
I was perusing Netflix on Friday night looking for a flick to watch when I came across the movie Bronson in the "Just Released" queue. I had heard about this movie before but did not know anything about the character being portrayed in the film. I had only heard that it was directed by Drive's Nicolas Winding Refn and that it starred up and coming British actor Tom Hardy (Bane in The Dark Knight Rises). Of course, based on the director and actor, I decided to stream the movie.
The film was not your average biopic and presented the character of Michael Peterson (Bronson), Britain's most violent criminal, in a kind of black comedy fashion. The movie looks at Michael Peterson's life behind bars and his acts of insubordination that included violent outbursts and taking prison guards hostage. He was released from prison in 1988 where he became a bare knuckle brawler and changed his name to Charlie Bronson, thus the movie title. His freedom only lasted a few months and he remains behind bars to this day. I won't go into too much more detail and highly recommend that you watch the movie.
The movie has a really good soundtrack that includes a lot of classical works mixed with contemporary modern music. The soundtrack includes The Electrician by The Walker Brothers, and Your Silent Face by New Order. There is a really funny scene in the movie where a bunch of drugged-out mental patients are dancing to the The Pet Shop Boys It's a Sin.
The soundtrack also has the song Digital Versicolor by Portland synth pop band Glass Candy. A little bit surprising to hear this song in the movie because the film is a period piece taking place in the seventies and eighties, while the track was released on Glass Candy's B/E/A/T/B/O/X album from 2003. However; the track does have a retro synth pop/italo disco sound and you could easily mistake the song for something released in the eighties. The music video for the song stars Australian actress Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids). Watch the video below and download the song.
Director Refn must be a big fan of electro pop music because he included Glass Candy mastermind Johnny Jewel's other project, Chromatics, in the ultra cool film Drive. That movie also has music from synth pop bands Kavinsky and College featuring Electric Youth.
Buy the soundtrack to Bronson on Amazon.
Download the Glass Candy album B/E/A/T/B/O/X oniTunes.
