Robert Smith Requesting some Ham (Illustration By Aaron Z. Lee)
The Cure is a group I find myself returning to constantly, the sheer diversity of their catalog is enough to satiate any hunger for music that fits nearly any emotional category. I found myself looking up old interviews and watching live performances from various eras in The Cure’s history which resulted in me finding a picture of Robert Smith with his tongue out and I couldn’t resist making a cartoon out of it, since one of his nick names is “Fat Bob” and he has gotten chubbier over the years, but seriously, the man is a genius. For a video and mp3 of The Cure’s “Hungry Ghost” (One of the best off of The Cure’s 2008 album “4:13 Dream”) make the jump! (more…)
A Venezuelan armed with a drum machine, autotune, and synthesizers is trying to steal your heart and your moneys with his new album “The Reddest Ruby”. Employing a velvety smooth Postal Service pastiche with a couple of digitized Cure flourishes here and there Nuuro will no doubt take you on a fantastic aural adventure, just don’t stay up late forever. Nah, I’m kidding stay up as long as you want.
Berlin’s Neonman is composed of Ben John Osborn from London, UK and Bastian Asdonk from Berlin, Germany. Together they make post-punk rock that at times swooshes and sashays with a punk ferocity and other times confidentlstrides plods forward with a signifigant dub and reggae influence. At their best they call to mind the post punk explosion of the late 70’s and early 80’s. Imagine XTC merging with Public Image Ltd, their music is something like that.
