Post-Punk / New Wave

http://www.last.fm/music/Soviet+Soviet wrote:Pesaro, Marche, Italy (2008 – present)

Soviet Soviet is a three-piece post-punk band based in Pesaro, Marche, Italy and formed back in 2008. The lineup consists of: Alessandro Constantini (vocals, guitar), Andrea Giometti (bass, vocals) and Alessandro Ferri(drums).
Their full-length album Nice was released in February 11th, 2011.

http://www.last.fm/music/Flaamingos wrote:Flaamingos are the latest signing to Felte, and their music drags the classic sounds of their favorite bands into the 21st century, in the process creating a sound that’s entirely their own. The band was formed by Jerry Narrows (vocals, drum programming) and Daniel Koontz (guitar, bass, synth) — the two played together in psych and shoegaze bands as youngsters, before going their separate ways and working in other musical projects for a time.

http://www.last.fm/music/These+Immortal+Souls wrote:These Immortal Souls were an Australian band of Melbourne expats in Germany: Rowland S. Howard (guitar and vocals), Genevieve McGuckin (keyboards), Epic Soundtracks (drums) and Harry Howard (bass). The band formed in Berlin in 1987 when McGuckin joined the three ex-members of Crime And The City Solution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abecedarians_(band) wrote:Abecedarians were a Los Angeles based post-punk trio active in the mid to late 1980s, on Factory Records. The lineup consisted of Chris Manecke (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Kevin Dolan (drums) and John Blake (bass). They specialized in reverb heavy, synth driven post-punk songs.[1]

http://www.systemsofromance.com/blog/category/zero-le-creche/ wrote:... a UK-based post-punk/deathrock outfit whose sound bridged a gap between the catchy drawl of Psychedelic Furs and the atmosphere of Bauhaus. The band appeared during the legendary Batcave era in the Britian’s early 80s scene and released only two singles during their tenure, each with a different singer (the second does resemble the Furs’ Richard Butler a fair amount.) They disbanded lickety-split, and for ages these two singles became sparse and cherished classics. However, there’s recently been rumors of a potential reunion, and the band is releasing both these singles and various outtakes on CD in the very near future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prids wrote:The Prids are a band from Portland, Oregon. The quartet's music can be categorized as a blend of noise pop and post-punk, influenced by Sonic Youth, Built to Spill, The Smiths, Unrest, My Bloody Valentine and Wire.

Founded in Saint Joseph, Missouri in 1995 by David Frederickson and Mistina La Fave, they continued to develop in Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska. Omaha synthpop band The Faint were fast friends. In Lincoln they befriended Harry Dingman III, guitarist of 1980s cult legendary post-punk band For Against. Harry would create the artwork for their EP Duracraft, before the band relocated to Portland in November 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriekback wrote:Shriekback are an English rock band formed in 1981 in Kentish Town by Barry Andrews, formerly of XTC and League of Gentlemen (keyboards/synthesizers/vocals), and Dave Allen, formerly of the Gang of Four (bass), with Carl Marsh, formerly of Out On Blue Six (guitars/vocals) soon added to the line-up. They were joined by Martyn Barker on drums in 1983.

http://www.last.fm/music/Suicide wrote:Suicide is an American electronic proto-punk musical duo, intermittently active since 1970 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev on synthesizers and drum machines. They are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo.

Never widely popular amongst the general public, Suicide are highly influential: critic Wilson Neate argues that Suicide “would prove as influential as The Clash. Listening to their self-titled 1977 debut from the vantage point of late 2002, it’s all so obvious: The synthpop, techno, and industrial dance sounds of the ’80s and ’90s, and now the new New Wave of electroclash, all gesture back to that foundational album.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Durutti_Column wrote:The Durutti Column are an English post-punk band formed in 1978 in Manchester, England. The band is an ongoing project of guitarist (and occasional pianist) Vini Reilly who is often accompanied by drummer Bruce Mitchell and Keir Stewart (on bass, keyboards and harmonica).

Chris Ott summed up Vini Reilly in 2003: "Friend to Ian Curtis and New Order, a borderline New Age celebrity within European muso circles and the creative force behind much of Morrissey's Viva Hate, Vini Reilly has unleashed untold volumes of music over the last twenty-five years. Delving into modern classical composition with 1984's Without Mercy, his low-key reputation as an independent auteur was cemented with 1989's Vini Reilly, a masterpiece recorded in just twenty days' time after finishing Viva Hate with Morrissey and Stephen Street."

http://www.last.fm/music/1919 wrote:Bradford, UK, post-punk group (Mark Tighe - guitar, Ian Tilleard - vocals, Mick Reed - Drums. Sputnik - Wasp. Other members were changing. Formed in December 1980 and set about recording heavy, melodic, intense dance music with no frills and pretentions. Recorded 4 singles. One album and performed a couple of sets for John Peel (in 83 and 84). Muic by Mick Reed/Tighe, Words Tilliard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Eon wrote:Modern Eon was a British post-punk/new wave band, formed in Liverpool, England in 1978. They released one album, Fiction Tales, on the independent UK label Dindisc in 1981

http://www.last.fm/music/Spear+Of+Destiny wrote:Spear Of Destiny (S.O.D.) is a post-punk rock band formed in the 1980s lead by singer songwriter Kirk Brandon, former Theatre of Hate frontman and bassist Stan Stammers. They are best known for their single, Never Take Me Alive, which was a top 20 hit in 1987.

They had (and still have) a cult following and they have produced eleven studio albums, notably ‘One Eyed Jacks’ and ‘World Service’. They still tour today and the studio album, Loadestone, has been very well received. It includes a remarkable cover of the Joy Division track, Transmission.

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Basic: Contre Jour is a three-member, confessedly retro style coldwave band from Nice that started in 09. The latest EP (Jan. 2014) contains 8 songs from their first two albums and is free to download.
Influences: Depeche Mode, M83, The Cure, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, Indochine, Little Nemo, The Cranberries, Alain Bashung, ...
Discography: One Night At The Station ‎(2011, Infrastition)
Passion And Fall ‎(2013, Infrastition)
Abîme (EP 2014, ?)

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http://www.last.fm/music/The+Modern+Lovers wrote:The Modern Lovers were an American rock band led by Jonathan Richman in the 1970s and 1980s.

The original band, billed simply as “The Modern Lovers”, existed from 1970–74 but their recordings were not released until 1976 or later. It featured Jonathan Richman and bassist Ernie Brooks with drummer David Robinson (later of The Cars) and keyboardist Jerry Harrison (later of Talking Heads). The sound of the band owed a great deal to the influence of The Velvet Underground, and is now considered one of the leading bands of the “proto-punk” scene. It pointed the way towards much of the Punk, New Wave and Indie rock music of later decades. Their only album, the eponymous The Modern Lovers, contained stylistically unprecedented songs about dating awkwardness, growing up in Massachusetts, and love of life and the USA.

After recording several tracks in 1972 and ‘73, including “I’m Straight” (referring here to abstaining from drug use), and “Government Center”, Richman wanted to scrap the tracks that were recorded and start over with a mellower, more lyrical sound. The rest of the band, while not opposed to such a shift later, insisted at the time that they record as they already sounded. They continued and eventually, the first album was released in 1976. Long before its release, however, creative differences split the band apart.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/bodanegra/227894460627346?id=227894460627346&sk=info wrote:What started as an instrumental solo project got in 2011 a big support from Rio Black, singer/songwriter and frontman of Atomic Neon, a great darkwave/coldwave band from Essen/Germany.
Our stuff isn't mixed in a music-studio but we try to keep the quality as high as possible by mixing and recording at our home-studios. However, I hope you like this stuff and you can enjoy the music anyway.

https://www.facebook.com/veiloflightmusic/info wrote:Veil of Light is a one man project from Zürich, Switzerland. On this, his eponymous debut EP, we are treated to six songs of ice cold gothgaze splendour drenched in reverb and distortion.

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Scientists wrote:The Scientists were an influential rock band formed in Perth, Australia in 1978 led by Kim Salmon. The band had two primary incarnations: the Perth-based punk band of the late 1970s and the Sydney/London-based swamp rock band of the 1980s. The Scientists were much more influential than their minimal commercial success would indicate, lending their influence to artists such as Mudhoney and New York’s downtown indie scene of the early 1990s.
They were active from 1978 until 1987, then from 2007.

http://www.last.fm/music/Glaxo+Babies wrote:Glaxo Babies were formed in the winter of 1977 in Bristol, UK. The line up was Dan Catsis, guitar, Tom Nichols, Bass, Geoff Allsop, Drums and Rob Chapman vocals and lyrics. The band’s influences include German bands like Can and Faust, The Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, William Burroughs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Haut wrote:Die Haut were an experimental German post-punk post-rock band, who enjoyed some local success in the Berlin of the 1980s and 1990s, with one record where Nick Cave was involved in the mixdown, Burnin' The Ice. The only constant member was Christoph Dreher.

Formed as an instrumental rock quartet, many of their recordings and live performances featured an array of international guest vocalists.

Their last full-length album was "Spring" (1997) followed by a remix album called "Springer" (1998). At the same time the band went on hiatus, Remo Park and Christoph Dreher have continued to work as separate acts,[1] and Jochen Arbeit with Rudi Moser joined the Berlin-based underground legend Einstürzende Neubauten.