Forever's a Long Time By Editor Jill We really dug She Wants Revenge (MySpace) when we first heard them a few years ago – of course, that might be because we thought we were listening to Interpol. Don't get us wrong – that's not a bad thing. In fact, it helped us really get into their debut self-titled album. (It also helps that Reactionaries did an awesome performance to "Tear You Apart" two DanceBOOMs ago.)......

We can't say we're entirely proud of ourselves for this, but we have to admit we're totally loving Black Fingernails, Red Wine, the third album and latest release from Australian trio Eskimo Joe (MySpace). Sure, it's pop. But it's also totally fun (one might even say irresistible), infectious, danceable pop rock with a New Wave (sometimes almost Depeche Mode-ish) flavor, and a piano often tinkling in the background. Download two of our favorite tracks off......

Ross Currie contributed to this piece. Actually, he penned the majority of it. Being big fans of Fair to Midland’s Fables from a Mayfly album, we walked into Tuesday night’s (yes, we know we’re terribly late with this review) show at the TLA (“Fillmore” be damned) sticking out like sore thumbs with our lack of black clothing and facial piercings (FtM was the sole metal act in a night of goth rock), and with a......

Ross Currie contributed to this piece. Admittedly, when we were contacted by Fair to Midland's publicist, we agreed to cover tonight's show at the TLA (yeah, yeah, the Fillmore) without having ever heard a Fair to Midland song, owing solely to the fact that we liked the band's name. (We're big fans of "clever.") Also to the fact that we tend to be supportive of anything non-political that comes out of Texas. So we requested......

"Come to Jesus," the featured hit single of Mindy Smith's debut album, sold 300,000 copies, as well as being featured on numerous TV night-time talk shows and VH1 and CMT. Frankly, with a hit like this, we thought she was a Christian-Pop star. But after listening to her sophomore CD, One Moment More, we've realized that she has crossed many genres and landed in Country, Folk, and even Pop. Time Magazine calls it a "hybrid......

VNV Nation Giveaway
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Countering all the claims that electronic music took a sharp dive in the mid to late 90's has been the continued quality of composition from producers like BT (Brian Transeau), a Berklee College of Music dropout who began his electro-dance music career working with his DJ friends Deep Dish in Washington DC on the way to earning international fame as a trance music pioneer. Though his style and production habits are constantly changing, the......

Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, "TATER TOTS OR FRIES?" Also, FEMA wants it's money back. LAist are a bug bunch of geeks. They're Star Trek geeks, David Duchovny geeks and Frank Gehry geeks. During their Cochella preview their readers reveal themselves to be Depeche Mode geeks. Seattlest saw their basketball team preparing to leave for......

More events that are going on sale this weekend (see the previous list here): POD w/The Pillar, The Chariot and Maylene & The Sons of Disaster The Troc Thu, 4/20/06, 7PM $16.50 ($18 day of show) On sale: Fri, 10AM, Electric Factory Rachelle Ferrell Keswick Theatre, Glenside Thu, 6/1/06, 7:30PM $39.50 On sale: Fri, 10AM, TicketMaster The Spinto Band w/The Teeth TLA Thu, 3/30/06, 9PM $12 ($15 day of show) On sale: Fri, 12PM, Electric......

The Bravery (slated to tour with Depeche Mode this November) is headlining the TLA tonight at 9 p.m. in support of their debut album, The Bravery. (We love self-titled debut albums...their titles are so easy to remember!) Coincidentally, their recent appearance at MTV's Hard Rock Live in Orlando will be broadcast tonight at 8 p.m., so we suppose you could check them out on the MTV before coming down to the show. But that would......

Well, we were going to tell you about Dracula's Ball, the regular Goth event that happens to occur on Hallowe'en every year (what a coincidence!), but then we had a bright idea: Why do all the work when we can have someone else tell you all about it? So we traded some emails with promoter Patrick Rodgers of Dancing Ferret, and he graciously agreed to answer some spoooooky questions. (Incidentally, that's not Patrick to......

The band emerged onto a darkened stage, to a background of computer-provided crickets and wind. From the moment they launched into "A Forest," Nouvelle Vague had the audience. Stripped down to drums, guitar, computer and a pair of singers, the band seemed tiny on the imposingly huge and high stage of the World Café Live. The space seemed divorced entirely from the smoky jostle of the punk clubs and the intimacy of the jazz......

By now you’ve probably heard of Nouvelle Vague, the French band covering songs of the English new wave in the loungey style of Brazilian bossanova. They’re on the stereo at your hipster friends’ parties, they’re showing up on every list as one of the best breakout albums of the summer, and most recently, they’re on the soundtrack for a T-Mobile commercial. And now the band is bound for World Café Live, the Philadelphia stop on......