synth-pop

  • Kat Von D: “There’s no greater feeling than going onstage and seeing your fans singing along…” (3/2 at Brooklyn Bowl)

    February 14, 2022
    “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

    December 11, 2021
    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)

    November 26, 2021
    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...

  • Stars: “It’s the holidays! So we are pulling out all the stops.” (12/11 at WCL)

    November 25, 2021
    This year marks the 20th anniversary of Stars’ debut LP, Nightsongs.  It also sees the Montreal-based intellectual indie poppers bringing back their customary holiday shows, after last year’s painful drought of live music.  Torquil Campbell, Amy Milan, Evan Cranley, Chris Seligman, Patrick McGee, and Chris McCarron will bring The...

  • Halo Circus, Bringing it Back to Bourbon & Branch Tonight

    April 11, 2018
    The last time we caught up with Halo Circus they were on a crowd-sourced tour, promoting their debut LP, Bunny, a hard rock record with an obvious nod to ‘90s alt rock.  At the moment, they’re touring behind their recently released follow-up full-length, Robots And Wranglers, a fashionably abrasive...