Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Dec 6, 2009, 8:00 am
The other day Sweden’s Shout Out Louds released their first track from their upcoming album Work.  The song is entitled “Walls” is a moderately paced pop song…that isn’t...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Dec 5, 2009, 8:00 am
Chromeo’s single for Green Label Sound, “Night By Night”, has just received the video treatment.  I know what you’re thinking…what could best visually describe this song...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Dec 4, 2009, 8:00 am
Violetness aka Vanessa Upson, straight outta Chicago, has absolutely made my ears happy with the few tracks she just dropped in my inbox.  She reminds me of The Creatures (powerful/soulful female voc...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Dec 3, 2009, 8:00 am
Philadelphia’s Br’er, the musical vehicle of Benjamin Schurr, is a band definitely worth checking out if your into lush blooming audio highs.   His work on the new EP Filled With Guilt & ...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Dec 2, 2009, 8:00 am
Georgia/’Bama band Bear In Heaven and their new album Beast Rest Fourth Mouth has slowly spilled into the music adoring side of my mind.  Atmospheric experimental thing-a-ma-jig music right?  ...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Dec 1, 2009, 8:00 am
I’ve posted on The Sky Drops a few times before, mainly in some concert run down posts (they’ve played around here frequently being so close out of Delaware).  The duo of Rob Montejo and ...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Nov 30, 2009, 8:00 am
This year XL Recordings released the album True Romance from London trio the Golden Silvers.  At first glance it might be easy for some to pass them off as an 80s rock/dance pop/new wave revival ban...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Nov 25, 2009, 8:00 am
Sometimes I’m horrible about keeping up with the waves of emails that come in daily.  It’s amazing I never forgot about this lone email I received this past august from writer/journalist ...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Nov 24, 2009, 8:00 am
Back in June I caught onto Spain’s Crystal Fighters and their first single “Xstatic Truth”, a blistering rhythmic synth pop explosion.  Kitsune is about to release (November 30th)4 ...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Nov 6, 2009, 11:00 am
Chicago’s The Race have crept their way into my subconscious and are currently tinkering with important brain waves whilst I try to get some work done…their music is fueling my creativity ...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Nov 6, 2009, 8:00 am
What happens when one electronic disco artist clashes with another?  Great things.  France’s premier disco-house dj Fred Falke has reworked the epic disco masterpiece “Warm In The Shadow...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Nov 5, 2009, 8:00 am
If you don’t own a copy of The Antlers‘ Hospice, you need to drop everything and go grab yourself a copy.  It’s one of this year’s best for sure.  With the success of an albu...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Nov 4, 2009, 10:31 am
This past summer Heartbreakbeat Records released a stunning split family affair EP featuring Baltimore/Houston artist Jana Hunter and her brother John Hunter’s band Inoculist.  Jana Hunter has ...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Nov 4, 2009, 8:00 am
I’ve gotta hand it to The xx…they’re pretty good at being awesome.  They’ve produced one of the more memorable debuts albums this year and are also lighting up the nets with s...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Nov 3, 2009, 11:17 am
When Cut Copy hand picks a band out of a sea of demos to come on tour with them for some select east coast shows…it helps you get noticed.  This is the case for New York’s Kordan aka Arth...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Nov 3, 2009, 8:00 am
Wow.  The internets have swelled with Yeasayer’s new track “Ambling Alp” which is the first single off of next February’s ODD BLOOD out via Secretly Canadian.  Compared to th...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Nov 2, 2009, 11:08 am
Seattle 5 piece Black Whales were a pleasant surprise a few weeks ago in my ever-crowded inbox.  Their Origins EP out now via Mt. Fuji is filled with un-glamorous rock.  There’s no spectacle i...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Nov 2, 2009, 7:00 am
That’s it!  The Twelves are friggin sick.  End of story.  Fever Ray’s “Seven”, one of my top tracks of the year, was re-done by CSS a little while back and I didn’t th...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 30, 2009, 10:49 am
It’s Friday.  It’s grey.  This day feels like it’s going in slow motion.  The band Psychic Powers pops up on my computer and every thing fits.  I easily fall for their new wave e...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 29, 2009, 8:00 am
So I’m not the biggest fan/listener of Shwayze, but when my main man Alan Wilkis is attached to something I tune in.  Glad I did for Wilkis’ new remix of Shwayze’s “Get U Home...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 28, 2009, 11:48 am
You know I really don’t have time for music that does not motivate me.  I NEED some motivation alls the times holmes!  Enter The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! and their ridiculously long name, b...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 28, 2009, 8:00 am
San Fran’s Ring Trick, producer of perhaps one of  my favorite Radiohead remixes, is being quite the ambitious musician this month by posting a demo a day on his tumblr blog.  If you’re ...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 27, 2009, 8:00 am
Boston’s Bodega Girls play that off beat Architecture In Helsinki meets Black Kids indie dance funk hip hop that interests me greatly.  This style also blends seamlessly when they introduce it ...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 26, 2009, 11:12 am
Way back when this blog was first cutting it’s teeth I had the pleasure of catching New York’s Ravens & Chimes at the Rock and Roll Hotel in DC.  Needless to say it was an amazing perform...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 26, 2009, 8:00 am
Two bands with completely opposite styles come together in a seriously friggin sweet way when NYC’s new wave experimental rockers Violens step up and remix the afrobeat jam “Warm Heart Of ...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 23, 2009, 10:34 am
Okay.  I’m sure you’re looking at the name Fizzy Dino Pop and wondering whether Pasta has lost it a little bit.  Trust me, I have, but this band is legit.  They sent me an email the oth...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 23, 2009, 8:00 am
Two bands that put out stellar albums this year clash when YACHT does their bestest to bring their infectious styles to Phoenix’s “Armistice”.  I was pretty much hooked as soon as I...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 22, 2009, 8:00 am
A few weeks ago Midnight Juggernauts unveiled their first slice of new music with the single “This New Technology” (get it here via Acephale).  Now they’ve backed that up with a han...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 21, 2009, 8:00 am
It’s rare that I use the term “club banga” on this site.  It’s even rarer that I actually enjoy the track that the term describes.  This rarity has occurred today when I ran ...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 8, 2009, 8:00 am
I’m still waiting on some sort of EP or album from Crystal Fighters.  Seriously folks.  I’m jonesin’ for somethin’!  The single “Xstatic Truth” still slays my ea...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 7, 2009, 8:01 am
Victoria Bergsman’s (ex-The Concretes) other band Taken By Trees has just released a new video for the soft-hearted cover of Animal Collective’s “My Girls” (renamed “My B...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 6, 2009, 11:00 am
Yoni Wolf and company have just released Eskimo Snow, an album that is the ying to the yang of last year’s Alopecia.  On Eskimo Snow WHY? smooth out the angles of Alopecia and mixes in heavy fo...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 6, 2009, 8:00 am
So yesterday morning I discovered like many on the internets that Vampire Weekend was having some sort of countdown on their website.  It was going to wrap up in the mid afternoon.  So noon time com...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 5, 2009, 8:00 am
Wow it’s been a busy week for remixes, especially since two prominent and pretty sweet ones came out of none other than Phoenix.  Sure there’s been a quadrillion attempts to remix this ba...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 2, 2009, 8:00 am
Another week is coming to a close and I don’t think there’s a better way to shut ‘er down than a new Chromeo track.  “Night By Night”, a track done for the Green Label S...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 1, 2009, 10:40 am
Rolling Stone just premiered the video for Andrew Bird’s “Anonanimal”, perhaps one of my favorite tracks off of Noble Beast.  The article (found here) is actually pretty interesting...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 1, 2009, 9:48 am
I was hoping this was not true, but apparently on September 27th Beau Velasco of the amazing band The Death Set passed away.  This is a big loss for music.  My heart and prayers go out to his family...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Oct 1, 2009, 8:00 am
YES!  For those who don’t know I’m a big RJD2 fan.  I still recall the first time I glanced at the Deadringer CD on the rack….contemplating whether a disc with a bloodied up dude m...
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Laurent H. posted an article on Pasta Primavera - Sep 30, 2009, 10:40 am
New York’s Amazing Baby first tugged my ears when they opened for MGMT a ways back.  They sent over a few demos (that were sweet), but somehow I never posted on them (A TRAVESTY!).  Well they ...
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