Arts And Entertainment

To indie penalization lovers across the country, the countdown is on for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, held Apr 15-17 at the Empire Polo Field.  With bounteous names as Cee Lo Green, Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, The Negroid Keys, Kanye West, and The Strokes performing, it's cushy to lie the bands in the "little font".  Some of these bands, however, module surely be the highlight of the show and are definitely not to be ignored.  From today until the festival, I'm going to verify some instance to review the non headlining acts.

 

Artist of the Day:  Cold Cave

 

 

An empiric dark wave synth-pop project conceptualized by Wesley Eisold, (former frontman of American Nightmare/Give Up the Ghost, Some Girls, and Ye Olde Maids), Cold Cave apace became a group effort to include Prurient's Dominick Fernow (electronics), Mika Miko's Jennifer Clavin (synthesizer), Guy Licata, and a small containerful of others who have since come and gone.  

Stylistically unique, apiece creator brings something quite different to the table.  All coming discover of time projects, and with their possess follower base, the adornment appears unconcerned with existence too accessible.  Instead, apiece member takes the possibleness to modify on their time penalization to create an unprecedentedly talented modern verify on the 80's post-punk penalization genre.    

Cold Cave's 2009 debut album, Love Comes Close, is an 80s industrial and synthetic noise-pop mix. Dark contemporary diversion music, the songs are catchy in an older edifice category of way. The good on the medium ranges from the upbeat nearly (but not quite) bubblegum infused "Life Magazine", to denomination road “Love Comes Close” which is reminiscent to the genuine 80's call of The Psychedelic Furs and the primeval New Order years.  This is an medium that crapper attain you nostalgic upon prototypal listen.

 

Their intermediate full-length album, Cherish the Light Years, module be released in primeval Apr of this year.  In his individualized blog, Eisold describes the medium as "a fuck honor to the path that has led me to where I am now, to expiration and fuck and friends and enemies and the dizzied and foggy ways of the world. This strain and achievement is about magic, preservation, youth and movement."  The opening medium track, "The Great Pan Is Dead", serves as a papers of everything Eisold "wants to insist finished Cold Cave."  The strain itself is a transformation from the bands previous work.  Loud, aggressive stripling sway carried along melodic synthesizers makes for a coercive combination.  Peaks of the medium indicate that, genuine to Cold Cave style,  tracks module substance an obvious gesture to the 80's.

 

 "The Great Pan Is Dead" is acquirable for free download on the band's website. 

 

Cold Cave module be touring with The Kills this spring.  Don't woman your possibleness to see them action at Coachella, Friday, Apr 15th.

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