Insound Staff Pick - 2008! New York City's Le Tigre's collaboration is a deliriously addictive, hybrid sound the band calls "feminist punk electronic music." It's a mix of drum-machine samples, synth hooks, buzzing guitar loops, gang vocals, and foolproof bass-lines. Le Tigre's roots go all the way back to a Bikini Kill show in Portland, Oregon: Johanna, in the audience, was impressed and intrigued, and approached Kathleen to give her a copy of her feminist art zine, Snarla. The two became fast friends, an...   [ read more ]

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Following close on the heels of their critically acclaimed Knock Knock Knock EP, Make Up the Breakdown is Hot Hot Heat's debut full-length, recorded with Jack Endino at Vancouver's Mushroom Studios. SPIN Magazine had this to say about the band: "Some retro new wavers hang themselves on their own skinny ties. While their peers lip-synch to Cure 45s, these Canucks take subtler cues from early-'80s synth disco. It's not new wave worship; it's the sound of punk teaching itself to dance." Like their peers Radio...   [ read more ]

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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! The Faint are back with Danse Macabre, the follow-up to 1999's highly praised "Blank-wave Arcade," which fused traditional rock instrumentation with electronic elements to create a haunting yet danceable sound that was more driven by punk rock than any sort of dance foundation. The Faint continue to evade the traditional standoffish and cold aura of electronic music by using warm and embracing instrumentation, including bass guitar and cello, in addition to the barrage of analog synthes...   [ read more ]

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