Tag Archive: new wave

VOLTAIRE TWINS – ROMULUS (SynthPop – Australia)

Voltaire Twins

Hailing from Perth, Western Australia, Voltaire Twins are a brother and sister who make new wave pop music with their friends. You can stream their new Romulus EP, including new single “Animalia”, as well as download the new remix of …

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MEMORY TAPES – PLAYER PIANO (Electronica/LoFi – US)

Memory Tapes

Memory Tapes is one of the numerous recording aliases of New Jersey-based musician Dayve Hawk (also known as Memory Cassette and Weird Tapes). This musical project is mainly aimed at lovers of laid back psychedelic electronica (think Phantogram or Washed …

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WE SEEM TO HAVE MISPLACED OUR IGLOO – JUNO (Indie/Dance/Electro – Belgium)

We Seem To Have Misplaced Our Igloo

Among the multitude of indie electro band these days (think Delphic, Two Door Cinema Club or We Have Band), it’s difficult to make a difference. And yet this is what this young Belgian band is trying to do. We Seem …

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OU EST LE SWIMMING-POOL – THESE NEW KNIGHTS (Electro/Nu Wave – UK)

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool are a shiny new electro / nu wave outfit hailing from North London. Their superb debut “Dance The Way I Feel”, released in November 2009, is a dark electro track with Pet Shop Boys influenced …

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TESLA BOY – THE TESLA BOY EP (New Wave/SynthPop – Russia)

Tesla Boy

Russian trio Tesla Boy are a 80s-esque new wave / synthpop band formed in 2008 in Moscow.  Often compared to Cut/Copy and other electro bands, they are the first Russian act to get real media  attention since t.A.T.u. But the …

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THE PENELOPE[S] – PRICELESS CONCRETE ECHOES (Electro/NuWave – France)

The Penelopes

The Penelopes are a French dance rock band consisisting of Axel Basquiat and Vincent T. Based in Paris, the pair has played a major role in both the rock and the electronic scenes and they have released a few singles …

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saturday nite with… LADYHAWKE

Ladyhawke

Ladyhawke is the stage name of New-Zealand born singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Phillipa ‘Pip’ Brown. She plays electric, bass and acoustic guitars, synthesizers and drums and usually performs all of the above on her studio recordings. Ladyhawke – Dusk Till Dawn …

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