synth-pop

  • STRFKR’s Josh Hodges: “If nothing else, I’m prolific. I write a song a day.” (4/23 at UT)

    “Union Transfer is amazing and one of my favorite venues, like Top 3.  That’s the place I would want to go to see a show,” says Josh Hodges, founder and mainman of Portland, OR indie rock outfit STRFKR.  The band has played the Eraserhood ballroom numerous times over the...
  • Get Moody with Glove (6/22 at MilkBoy)

    “It’s always moody.  Expect a moody set, and some mood swings,” says Brie Deux of Tampa-based post-punk trio Glove while we’re discussing their current batch of headlining dates, which will have them at MilkBoy on Thursday, June 22nd.  We first met the group – which also includes Rod Wendt...
  • MUNA Get Gayotic in Philthy

    Yesterday MUNA announced the new season of their podcast, Gayotic, with an episode in which Katie, Naomi, and Josette chatted with queer icons Tegan and Sara about, “sharing hotel rooms during tour, secret high school girlfriends, feeling like the Phantom of the Opera, and, of course, our therapists and...
  • St. Lucia’s Utopia: “We just fully made 100% the record we wanted to make…” (10/8 at TLA)

    “We felt like we wanted to make a record that felt like the antidote to the last few years that we went through,” says St. Lucia mainman Jean-Philip Grobler of the band’s fourth LP, Utopia, which drops this Friday, October 7th, courtesy of Nettwerk.  The synth-pop band, led by...
  • Purity Ring Returns to The Road (6/27 at UT)

    Having released their third LP, WOMB, in April of 2020, “future pop” connoisseurs Purity Ring never got a chance to properly tour the album’s songs, which each serve as a coming-of-age tale of a female protagonist as they are forced to face the deepest-cutting traumas of modernism, which Pitchfork...
  • ACTORS: “Across the board, the band’s been stoked.” (4/1 at Ortlieb’s)

    For those of you, like me, who believe that the ‘80s synth-pop, post-punk, and new wave of artists like The Smiths, The Cure, New Order, and Peter Murphy represent the greatest period of pop music, Vancouver’s ACTORS might just be your new favorite band…  However, they’ve technically been around...
  • Kat Von D: “There’s no greater feeling than going onstage and seeing your fans singing along…” (3/2 at Brooklyn Bowl)

    “I think most people expected me to come out with a metal album.  And I love metal, but my voice doesn’t sound anything like Arch Enemy,” says Kat Von D, laughing.  Last year the tattoo artist, author, reality TV star, and beauty entrepreneur released her first album, Love Made...
  • CHVRCHES Bring the Spectacle to Franklin Music Hall

    Last Friday, December 3rd, CHVRCHES put on the biggest (or perhaps just best) post-quarantine spectacle the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection has seen yet.  The Scottish synth-poppers packed Franklin Music Hall to at least capacity with a surprising mix of matured mall goths and young suburban couples,...
  • Annie Hart Goes Ambient (11/30 at WCL)

    You may know Annie Hart as a composer of synth-heavy, postmodern pop jams, both as one-third of Au Revoir Simone and, since 2017, a solo artist.  However, her latest solo effort, Everything Pale Blue, which dropped this May, took Hart in a different direction.  In the middle of lockdown...