Tag: "Pet Shop Boys"

Pet Shop Boys : Leaving
0 Comments. 292 Views. Posted 31 Oct 2012 @ 1:59pm.
A very understated disco pop tune from the yet-forthcoming Pet Shop Boys album, Elysium. Leaving has a surprisingly hypnotic quality; a silken ripple effect that ushers away a super-camp Kylie Minogue-loving army of gayness that would otherwise consume this single. (For the record, I have no issue with a super camp army of gayness, I just don’t like Kylie Minogue.) Read More
Pet Shop Boys : Winner
0 Comments. 504 Views. Posted 18 Jul 2012 @ 12:13pm.
Winner is Pet Shop Boys at their most saccharine or most deeply ironic, it’s hard to say. The lyrics are sincere as shit, ready-pressed for the 2012 Olympics (“It’s been a long time coming, we’ve been in the running for so long, but now we’re on our way…you’re a winner, I’m a winner, this is all happening so fast”) but it’s hard to believe they mean it. Surely there is some arch undertone here?... Read More
Kate Miller-Heidke : Nightflight
0 Comments. 1,211 Views. Posted 1 May 2012 @ 11:44am.
Believe it or not, Nightflight is actually Kate Miller-Heidke’s first solo album in three years. The success of its predecessor, Curiouser, rippled so triumphantly for so long, it’s as if Miller-Heidke never withdrew from the limelight. Nevertheless, she’s back, presenting a satisfying return to form.   Buoyant opener Ride This Feeling offers an electrifying first impression, bristling with... Read More
Daniel Merriweather To Perform Intimate Show
0 Comments. 680 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 12:25pm.
One of our fair country's most dynamic talents has announced a swift return to Melbourne, this time performing in a very intimate surrounding.   Currently based in New York, Daniel took the world by storm with the release of his Mark Ronson-produced debut album, Love & War, in 2009. The album went Platinum in the UK and earned him an ARIA Award, as well as a reputation as one of the... Read More
Rüfüs
0 Comments. 546 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 2:26pm.
  I’ll come right out and admit it. As a child of the halcyon days of the ‘80s, nothing – nothing – floats my boat more than skillfully employed and emotive synth-pop. From the explosion of JG Ballard-inspired post-punk of Throbbing Gristle, Human League and Cabaret Voltaire to the post-industrial electro-pop purveyed by luminaries Depeche Mode, New Order and Erasure, the ‘80s were... Read More
Zomboy
0 Comments. 779 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 10:22am.
  Speaking from his hotel in Turin at The Big Snow – a snowboarding festival where he is playing – Zomboy explains that he is working on new music and looking out onto one of the most amazing views he’s ever experienced. “In fact, let me take a picture so you can see,” he says. Before I know it, there is a picturesque snow covered chateau with beautiful tinges of green and brown in my inbox... Read More
Mount Kimbie Tour
0 Comments. 1,231 Views. Posted 13 Mar 2012 @ 3:13pm.
UK post-dubstep duo Mount Kimbie are returning to Australian shores this May. Last in Victoria for the closing Saturday night set at Golden Plains last year, the duo have received worldwide critical acclaim since the release of 2010 debut album Crooks & Lovers. Revered for the progression in their live show since the release, this tour is unmissable for fans interested in the future of UK... Read More
DJ Fresh Australian Tour Dates
0 Comments. 721 Views. Posted 4 Mar 2012 @ 2:24pm.
"Fresh" is right. Old mates with fellow drum and bass trendsetter dBridge from his role in the revered collective Bad Company, founder of Dogs on Acid and one of the genre’s favourite labels Breakbeat Kaos (home to releases from the likes of Pendulum to J Majik and Wickaman and the Brookes Brothers) along with Adam F, and production work for the Pet Shop Boys, DJ Shadow, Apollo 440 to Andy C and... Read More
Voltaire Twins : Romulus EP
0 Comments. 1,367 Views. Posted 19 Jan 2012 @ 12:30pm.
They’re hardly the new kids on the block, but Romulus may well be your introduction to Perth’s Voltaire Twins. Jaymes and Tegan’s androgynous looks and dark electro beats suggest something along the lines of The Knife, but this is fairly straightforward new wave pop (plus, er, they’re actually a quartet). While their music is hardly ground-breaking, it’s so confident in its sound, grounded with... Read More
VHS Or Beta : Diamonds And Death
0 Comments. 1,031 Views. Posted 13 Jan 2012 @ 8:47am.
VHS Or Beta have always had the feel of plucky underdogs about them. Their 2004 debut, Night On Fire, was a near-perfect revival of moody '80s new wave pop, but unfortunately for them a certain album called Hot Fuss came out that same year. Thus The Killers' became the world's premier skinny tie rockers, and VHS Or Beta found themselves stuck in support slots - opening for Duran Duran is cool... Read More
Rat Vs Possum
0 Comments. 1,107 Views. Posted 24 Nov 2011 @ 8:16am.
In that sea of naked bodies you find on Rat Vs Possum's new album artwork, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Matt Kulesza claims it's his legs that stand out the most. "They're pretty hairy!" he laughs, "and we're all covered in baby oil…" And if the mixture of friends and band members depicted in their birthday suits on the cover of Let Music & Bodies Unite weren't comfortable with... Read More
Single Of The Week - Death Cab For a Cutie : Home Is A Fire
0 Comments. 794 Views. Posted 23 Nov 2011 @ 10:45am.
Ben and co ramp up the eighties electro fever on Home Is A Fire, the second single from the aptly named Codes and Keys. The chorus is a drifting wash of synth and esoteric vocals, offset by a driving drum ‘n’ bass beat. It’s pretty awesome. It sounds like The Pet Shop Boys, though slightly more melancholic. Read More
Q&A: Jessica Says
0 Comments. 1,253 Views. Posted 22 Nov 2011 @ 10:45am.
What's your name then? Oh. And the name of your band…   My name is Jessica and my 'band' is called Jessica Says.   And what do you do?   I write, sing, and play cello and piano/keyboards/synths.   When did you start doing that?   I started writing songs when I was sixteen, so it must be eight years. Forever.   Why did you start doing that?   Isn't... Read More
Tim Sweeney Sideshow
0 Comments. 1,804 Views. Posted 26 Oct 2011 @ 2:25pm.
One of the most influential figures in contemporary dance music, Tim Sweeney, is returning to Melbourne. Sweeney, who hosts the pioneering New York radio show Beats In Space, last toured the country in 2009. Returning to program the late night shenanigans at Meredith, he'll also be rejoining local disco stalwart Andee Frost at The House deFrost.    Sweeney's underground prominence... Read More
Ned Collette & Joe Talia : Long You Lie
0 Comments. 1,241 Views. Posted 19 Oct 2011 @ 12:41pm.
Long You Lie is the A-side of a 7-inch single coming out later this month, aptly described by his publicist as a funky, new wave stylistic adventure in the manner of Talking Heads. Electronic synth scales rub up against Spanish acoustic guitar notes and a slow-bubbling disco beat - an arch and slinky mix of music - while Ned sings in his deadpan, quasi-gothic way. Cold but clever. Read More
Sinden
0 Comments. 474 Views. Posted 18 Oct 2011 @ 1:30pm.
UK-based DJ/producer and all-round genre-bender Sinden is currently alternating between Los Angeles and London. And things are set to stay this way for quite some time if he has it his way because Sinden's upcoming collaborations with some impressive names in the American rap game are taking him down a different path. For any mere mortal, it could be a lifestyle that's daunting or exhausting at... Read More
Dave Seaman
0 Comments. 3,030 Views. Posted 4 Oct 2011 @ 9:25am.
How do you relaunch Renaissance, one of the most significant brands in dance music for the last two decades? Grabbing one of the planet's biggest DJs, Dave Seaman is a great start! Seaman has been working with the label since the mid nineties and he's on his way back to Australia this week to launch his new mix for them, the Renaissance Masters Series. Like so many other elements of the... Read More
Your Rules, Not Mine at Revolver
0 Comments. 752 Views. Posted 4 Oct 2011 @ 2:02pm.
Melbournians have always been able to count on Revolver for a filthy good night out on the town, and when we heard about the impending Your Rules, Not Mine tour, we knew this was going to be no exception.   Featuring the likes of UK synth-pop prodigies Age of Consent, electronic adventurers Bitrok with a new album Smoke and Mirrors, Brisbane-based Felinedown, soulful-electronica duo Metals... Read More
Mat Cant
0 Comments. 746 Views. Posted 15 Sep 2011 @ 11:19am.
Splendour In The Grass, Summerdayze, Groovin’ The Moo, Good Vibrations and Golden Plains – local DJ/producer Mat Cant has done them all. In 2011, it’s time to add his “favourite festival” to the above list as Cant hits the stages of this year’s Parklife while getting ready to release two brand new EPs. “I actually made the decision this year to cut back on gigs quite a lot,” he claims. “I wanted... Read More
Pajama Club
0 Comments. 1,581 Views. Posted 14 Sep 2011 @ 9:55am.
What do you do with your evenings when the kids have flown the nest, there's nothing on telly and you happen to be Neil and Sharon Finn? You march up to the music room, pick up an instrument and form a new band, that's what. Pajama Club is worlds away from Neil's work in Split Enz and Crowded House. It's more danceable, more ethereal, looser and with more of a late-‘70s Bowie type feel. Yet for... Read More
Future Of The Left Announce Sideshow
0 Comments. 1,567 Views. Posted 29 Aug 2011 @ 9:50am.
The very tasty stream of Meredith sideshows continues with Future Of The Left announcing what's set to be a hard-rocking night at The Corner. The UK post-hardcore have endured a little bit of a lineup change since last visiting the Supernatural Amphitheatre for 2008's Golden Plains, but have retained the ferocious energy that has gained the group a reputation as a killer live act.   The... Read More
Seth Troxler
0 Comments. 1,204 Views. Posted 25 Aug 2011 @ 9:41am.
Seth Troxler hates himself. And his biography captures it brilliantly - whether he is DJing in LA, Berlin, or Buenos Aires, his evening usually ends in a corner somewhere, his head in his hands, his hands running through his hair, his eyes staring at the ground and his conceptually-rich mind wondering why all of us, not just those in the world of house and techno, don't see it: his immeasurable... Read More
60 Seconds With The Vaudeville Smash
0 Comments. 1,333 Views. Posted 18 Aug 2011 @ 9:29am.
So then, your name and what do you 'do' in the band? I'm Marc - lead singer and Sexy Sax.   What do you reckon people will say you sound like ?   Hall and Oates meets Chic.   What do you love about making music?   The look of sheer joy on a fan's face while they're jumping up and down in a packed room, singing a song you wrote in your bedroom (sound a bit corny but... Read More
Miami Horror : Under the Milky Way
0 Comments. 1,881 Views. Posted 18 Aug 2011 @ 9:28am.
Synth posters Miami Horror have covered Under the Milky Way by The Church, to raise funds for an Indigenous arts foundation called Heaps Decent. They've added a disco beat and a few synth flourishes to this seminal new wave track - all kinds of wrong, to be honest, but for an indisputably good cause. Read More
Downtown
0 Comments. 1,697 Views. Posted 16 Aug 2011 @ 11:08am.
While chatting with Rosie Dennis, it's easy to skip from Yoko Ono to weather, chemistry to art. Dennis is unaware she is making me supremely jealous as I shiver in rubbish Melbourne weather. "I'm just in a T-shirt and cardigan," she says, on the phone from Sydney. Meanwhile, one of the coldest mornings we've ever had in August has recently graced Melbourne's frosty doorsteps. Thanks, Mother... Read More
Above & Beyond
0 Comments. 1,595 Views. Posted 5 Aug 2011 @ 9:27am.
It's electronic music with soul, not just something that sounds like a computer spat out. According to Above & Beyond's Jono Grant, it's possible to apply your songwriting skills to dance music and end up with something that simply sends shivers down the spine. For the British trio, in 2011 that comes in the form of second album Group Therapy. "Ah, no it's got nothing to do with actual... Read More
The Moniters : Sex City Lovers
0 Comments. 1,821 Views. Posted 15 Jul 2011 @ 1:34pm.
This Brisbane-based three-piece have something pretty different going on. There’s somewhat of an electronic vibe going on, but the overriding feel is catchy, occasionally driving alternative pop-rock. Touches of other bands can be detected in their sound, such as the Killers, MM9 and maybe someone like the Presets, but no one influence dominates. So the finished product is quite original overall... Read More
Bastille Day At Red Bennies
0 Comments. 2,529 Views. Posted 8 Jul 2011 @ 11:37am.
There are plenty of celebratory dates throughout each calendar year, but my mum's French so we only celebrate Bastille Day. Which actually turns out pretty good, since there's much to celebrate at Red Bennies on Friday July 15.   The Bastille Day Party will be bringing some heat from the European summer with a 'belle epoque' inspired Bastille Ball Day. The French-est band in Melbourne, jazz... Read More
Beat's Parklife Picks
0 Comments. 2,984 Views. Posted 17 Jun 2011 @ 1:54pm.
We asked the Beat Eds to pick out what was good at Parklife. Not just for dance music nuts, it seems. Jaymz' Parklife Picks (music editor) This Parklife lineup is fucking great for one simple fact: Death From Above 1979. Christ, when I saw them at SXSW, it kicked off a goddamn riot with people being tazed, pepperspayed and wailed on with batons by po-lice on horseback and in riot gear. It was... Read More
Yelle Returns To Melbourne
0 Comments. 3,840 Views. Posted 26 May 2011 @ 10:27am.
The scintillating Frenchwoman Yelle is returning to Australia and bringing her alluring electro-pop to Melbourne. After blowing minds with the recent release of her second album Safari Disco Club, Yelle has spent much of her time on the road with Katy Perry, but has now decided it's time to grace a stage in the 3000 once more. Born and raised in Brittany, France, Yelle is known for her spirited... Read More
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