The new wave/shoegaze band from Copenhagen, The Foreign Resort, has just released a brand new video for Take A Walk off of their self titled EP. The video was shot on location at Copenhagen's Distortion Festival in 2011. For those of you who are new to The Foreign Resort, Gaffa Magazine described them as 'The Cure embedded in noise with Tears For Fears-ish melodies and the energy burst of Joy Division'.
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Miserylab is a post-punk-goth band spearheaded by Porl King. They have been getting some love on Strangeways lately both from the DJ's, and several listeners who have wrote in requests to hear more Miserylab.
Miserylab has recently released a video for Say What We Mean, which is taken from a limited edition digital download only EP called Somewhere Between. The EP also comed with an extended remix of the track that introduced Strangeways to Miserylab, People. The digital EP is limited to just 120 copies so you might want to hurry up and get your order in.
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One of the UK's greatest rock bands (sadly overlooked in the US), Manic Street Preachers recently released the career spanning 2-disc compilation, National Treasure - The Complete Singles. The album begins with their debut single, 1991's Motown Junk and runs through their 2011 cover of The The's This Is The Day.
The band celebrated 25 years together with 'A Night of National Treasures' live performance and London's 20,000 capacity O2 Arena. Apparently, one night was not enough as Manic Street Preachers have announced a 12-date European tour performing a selection of songs from National Treasures.
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Now a solo project of founding member Andrew Saks (also of The Northern Two), Sway began making noise in 1999 in Ventura, California. Sway was originally a four-piece garage rock outfit consisting of Andrew, Amber Carlson, Seth Eubanks, and Vince Alatorre, playing shows and confusing audiences up and down the west coast with its blurry wall of sound.
Sway has previously released a few indie EP’s with the above mentioned line up, including the shoegaze renaissance classic The Millia Pink And Green EP in 2003. The most recent release, This Was Tomorrow, is both Sway’s first full-length release and it’s last with musical contributions by all four of its original members. With this release, Andrew has begun his personal journey to write the soundtrack to his childhood memories.
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Daniel Victor is a different kind of Rock Star. Make no mistake about it though, he is most definitely a Rock Star. From his time at University of Windsor in Ontario, CA Daniel eschewed the prototypical band. Drawing influences from film soundtracks, compilation albums and Hip-Hop collaborations, Daniel embarked on a project where the songs would be the star. This project, Neverending White Lights drew its name from the sense that humans have an energy that doesn't go away when they die. While the physical body stays on earth, the light escapes. That is what we're made of, that never-ending light.
His records tell a story; with the albums themselves serving as 'Acts', the songs as 'Scenes' and his various collaborators as 'Actors'. His ambitious first record was called Act I: Goodbye Friends Of The Heavenly Bodies and dealt with themes of death, spirituality and angels. Drawing influence from Brian Eno, Craig Armstrong, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Kent, and Massive Attack, Daniel wrote the compositions or 'Scenes' and then sent them off to some of his favorite vocalists whom he thought would be good fits for those scenes. He scored collaborations with the frontmen of such Alternative bands as 311, Ours, Hum, Finger Eleven, Shudder to Think, Our Lady Peace and Starflyer 59 amongst others.
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