dance-rock

  • Squid’s Anton Pearson on Touring: “It’s been a crazy few months!” (2/9 at UT)

    Today Brighton post-punk outfit Squid released standalone single “Fugue (Bin Song),” the follow-up to their second full-length, O Monolith, which dropped last June on Warp and which prompted Stereogum to say, “Squid turn dance-rock inside out until you can’t really dance to it anymore.  The arty, explosive O Monolith will still...
  • Imploding the Mirage Live (The Killers in South Philthy)

    The Killers are, both literally and figuratively, likely the most Vegas band in the world… and that’s not a bad thing…  The Las Vegas group shimmied onto pop music’s radar in 2004 with their ineffably infectious anthem of androgyny, “Somebody Told Me,” a smash single that fully embraced the...
  • Franz Ferdinand Bring Just-The-Hits to The Fillmore

    It’s hard to believe it’s been two decades since the emergence of Franz Ferdinand, about halfway between the death of Brit Pop and the mainstream popularity of what has come to be known as indie sleaze.  The post-punk revivalists hailing from Glasgow, who find themselves somewhere between the two,...
  • 5 Reasons to Come See MARINA at the Met This Saturday

    It’s been nearly four years since the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection has been graced with the presence of global superstar Marina Diamandis, and the London-based electropop singer/songwriter has been through a few changes in that time.  Once known as Marina and the Diamonds, Diamandis now goes,...