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Feature Band – The Mystic Underground

It’s no surprise this is some great music out of Brooklyn. The Mystic Underground, Vlad and Ben, can write pop songs without selling out… songs that are bright and upbeat but still emit some bitterness of life’s struggles and disappointments… more »

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Carousel – May 2013

        May 03, 2013 Fayshalarts – Clown Dali’s Car – His Box Gazelle Twin – I Am Shell I Am Bone Girls Names – Drawing Lines The Bellwether Syndicate – The Night Watch Principe Valiente – Take more »

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Feature Band – Girls Names

After reading NME’s review of Girls Names’ new album “The New Life,” (Slumberland Records) I found myself on Spotify, giving it a listen (after all, how could I resist their description of doom-laden goth pop?) What I heard was a more »

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Feature Band – Chevalier Avant Garde

Here’s a band I would like to listen to more of. They’re an electronic duo from Montreal, Canada. I had accidentally stumbled upon their track “Haircut” a year or so ago when putting together an episode of Toy Factory and more »

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Carousel Returning, Bedroom Cassette Masters Vol. 2, New Project, and other news…

Hello! I’ve been a bit busy lately and I know it’s been months since I’ve done any kind of show. I’m quite sure I am now speaking to just a very small group of you. Thank you for sticking with more »

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Feature Band: Blindness

A foursome out of the UK music scene who rightfully tag themselves as “Electro-filth,” have been playing together since 2008. They have 2 EPs out, “Confessions” and “Last One Dies” with the title song being released on a split single more »

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Toy Factory – Episode 50

        Originally aired on Strangeways Radio January 2, 2013 Moby – Be The One Visage – In The Year 2525 Figaro – The Passenger (Iggy Pop) Metroland – 2013 Soft Metals – Do You Remember The Golden more »

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Toy Factory – Episode 49

        Originally aired on Strangeways Radio December 26, 2012 Depeche Mode – Shake The Disease In Trance 95 – Presidente Camera Obscura – Destitution It & My Computer – Sur une Cigarette Experimental Products – Mannequin (EchoDroides more »

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Feature Band: Dead Leaf Echo

This Brooklyn trio are currently on tour down to SXSW and supporting their upcoming new record ‘Thought & Language’ which is being mixed by by John Fryer (Cocteau Twins, Lush) As luck would have it, I will see them here more »

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Toy Factory – Episode 48 (2012 Highlights)

        Originally aired on Strangeways Radio December 19, 2012 The Shade – Dawn Of Life Mirrors – Somewhere Strange LabXIV – Without A Friend (The Present Moment Mix) Hypefactor – Descriptive The Mystic Underground – Evelyn, You’ll more »

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