Electronic and Alternative Music Blog http://www.e-skool.org Alternative, Synthpop, Techno, Industrial Dance Music, Previews and Videos at E-Skool.org Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:26:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 en Xymox and Blind Hearts http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/xymox-and-blind-hearts/ http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/xymox-and-blind-hearts/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:01:24 +0000 admin http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/xymox-and-blind-hearts/ Xymox - Twist of ShadowsBack in the early 80’s Xymox aka Clan of Xymox started creating beautiful alternative music. By the mid 80’s we started hearing their songs played on the local college radio stations and after listening to these works of art, we immediately went to the record stores to find them. We had bought the album Medusa and I thought it was the best new, dark and heavenly music I’ve ever heard. Begining with Theme I and ending with Back Door while the record had other tremendous songs such as Louise and my favorite After the Call. The band started on the label 4AD but when Pieter Nooten left the band and were once again Xymox they signed with Wing Records a subsidiary of Polygram. They released Twist of Shadows in 1989, their most commercially successful album to date. They had three singles from the album, Obsession, Imagination and a song that brings me back in time that you can listen to now, Blind Hearts. 

]]> http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/xymox-and-blind-hearts/feed/ Silversun Pickups Upcoming Shows http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/silversun-pickups-upcoming-shows/ http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/silversun-pickups-upcoming-shows/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 04:44:41 +0000 ChuckTronic http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/silversun-pickups-upcoming-shows/ The Silversun Pickups are one of those alternative bands I love listening to when I’m driving my car. Their songs seem to get me in that good mood and they sound great loud. Their CD Carnavas is a great one and has an amazing collection of tracks starting with Melatonin and ending up with Common Reactor. All the songs in between are equally as good so lets listen to their hit Lazy Eye below show dates.

Silversun Pickups - Upcoming Shows
Aug 9 2008 1:00P
Summer Sonic 08 Sonic Stage Maishima, Osaka
Aug 10 2008 1:00P
Summer Sonic 08 Sonic Stage Mihama-ku, Chiba, Tokyo
Sep 13 2008 8:45P
Monolith Music Festival @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, Colorado
Sep 28 2008 4:30P
Austin City Limits @ Zilker Park Austin, Texas
]]> http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/silversun-pickups-upcoming-shows/feed/ Severed Heads - Dressed in Air http://www.e-skool.org/electronic/severed-heads-dressed-in-air/ http://www.e-skool.org/electronic/severed-heads-dressed-in-air/#comments Sun, 11 May 2008 03:52:52 +0000 admin http://www.e-skool.org/electronic/severed-heads-dressed-in-air/ Severed HeadsWhen the normal folk listens to Severed Heads the reaction is always (Huh, what the hell is this?). They can sound like just plain noise, then move to heavenly melodies that blend together like creamy butter. Call it what you will but the master mind behind the Australian electronic band Severed Heads is Tom Ellard. I happened to meet Tom back in 1990 in a small industrial dance club in New Brunswick, NJ when the Severed Heads were touring the states. The show was awesome and I was extreemly delighted to actually hang out and talk with Tom for a while before he went on stage. Here is an atmospheric song by Severed Heads called Dressed in Air off their 1987 album Bad Mood Guy.

]]> http://www.e-skool.org/electronic/severed-heads-dressed-in-air/feed/ Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/pixies-monkey-gone-to-heaven/ http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/pixies-monkey-gone-to-heaven/#comments Sun, 11 May 2008 03:07:31 +0000 admin http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/pixies-monkey-gone-to-heaven/ I remember back in the late 80’s, actually it was 1989 when I first listened to Monkey Gone to Heaven by the Pixies. My brother bought the album Doolittle at an alternative record store in New Jersey and when he got home we cranked it up and loved every minute of it. Take a listen below.

]]> http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/pixies-monkey-gone-to-heaven/feed/ Radiohead Playing Bodysnatchers Live http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/radiohead-playing-bodysnatchers/ http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/radiohead-playing-bodysnatchers/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:07:42 +0000 ChuckTronic http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/radiohead-playing-bodysnatchers/ You just gotta love Radiohead just by the way the belt out these solid underground alternative dreams of music. I can listen to this track over and over again and never get tired of it. The lp “IN/ RAINBOWS” is a melodic trip deep into your head that one can feel outside of their body.

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]]> http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/radiohead-playing-bodysnatchers/feed/ The Human League Path http://www.e-skool.org/electronic/the-human-league-path/ http://www.e-skool.org/electronic/the-human-league-path/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:41:06 +0000 admin http://www.e-skool.org/electronic/the-human-league-path/ When people think of Human League they talk about hit songs such as “Don’t You Want Me”, “(Keep Feeling) Fascination”, “Mirror Man” and “Human” but fail to realize they were one of the best darkest Electronic bands ever. Check out this early track from 1979 “Path of Least Resistance“.

]]> http://www.e-skool.org/electronic/the-human-league-path/feed/ Meet Real Guitar Hero Johnny Marr http://www.e-skool.org/synthpop/meet-real-guitar-hero-johnny-marr/ http://www.e-skool.org/synthpop/meet-real-guitar-hero-johnny-marr/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:32:12 +0000 BaldPunk http://www.e-skool.org/?p=251 It’s time to put down your plastic guitar and 3-D glasses and take a dose of reality. Professor Johnny Marr from the *University of Salford by way of The Smiths and now Modest Mouse (WTF?) gives a very intriguing yet entirely esoteric interview on all thing JM. (*Google it you lazy bastard)

]]> http://www.e-skool.org/synthpop/meet-real-guitar-hero-johnny-marr/feed/ My New Favorite Song of All Time! http://www.e-skool.org/synthpop/my-new-favorite-song-of-all-time/ http://www.e-skool.org/synthpop/my-new-favorite-song-of-all-time/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:11:39 +0000 BaldPunk http://www.e-skool.org/?p=248 Radiohead

                    In Rainbows

                                           Reckoner

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All I have to say is that Radiohead is incredibly smooth, melodic and that this musical piece of art is somewhat catchy but yet still alternative. Don’t miss this one!

]]> http://www.e-skool.org/synthpop/my-new-favorite-song-of-all-time/feed/ CD/Record Stores are going, going . . . http://www.e-skool.org/music-news/cdrecord-stores-are-going-going/ http://www.e-skool.org/music-news/cdrecord-stores-are-going-going/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:13:02 +0000 BaldPunk http://www.e-skool.org/?p=247 I was in Circuit City today and I noticed something strange. The aisles of cds had dwindled down to just a few. Well, duh, I know, people buy and steal most their music online. No reason to waste space on them . . .

So much for cutting school and going to NYC to buy records/cds. My first time I remember coming up from the subway at Christopher Street and going to a dingy basement shop called 99 Records . . .  then off to Bleeker Bobs, and to the various stores on Eighth Street and St. Marks Place. Or as tike–walking over a mile to Our Music Center–then within weeks after getting my drivers license, stealing off to Vintage Vinyl in Fords, NJ.

Now like many other things in life, music is just a click of the mouse away. Oh well.

]]> http://www.e-skool.org/music-news/cdrecord-stores-are-going-going/feed/ ‘Running Up That Hill’ by Placebo http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/running-up-that-hill-by-placebo/ http://www.e-skool.org/alternative/running-up-that-hill-by-placebo/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:03:41 +0000 BaldPunk http://www.e-skool.org/?p=246 This is a great cover of Kate Bush’s 80’s alternative hit. It’s much different yet still captures the surreal nature of the original. <<:/)

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