I bought a CD on Wednesday. An actual CD! One of those things with the annoying plastic on the outside and sticky tape around the top that leaves gunk on it that pisses me off. I think it's been a very very long time since I've paid for a ridiculously overpriced new cd. It was kind of fun. Usually I just buy everything digitally from a number of sources or I'll order used cd's (I'm not pic...
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Yes yes, we are past hump day but hasn't this week felt like it's been going on forever? We've had a rough go of it recently, and it's time to polish off the records to cheer our sad selves up. Let's get to it! Old School: Front Page -- "Love Insurance"Technically the work of vocalist Sharon Redd (criminally uncredited on the vinyl), this is one serious monster of an old school jam. More rec...
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Now this is just downright vogue-tastic. After releasing what has become of my favorite albums of 2008, which I only realized after I made a best of list, I have always wondered what Hercules and Love Affair were like live. Their look kind of reminds me of an early 80’s urban anti-drug commercial [...]
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Andy Butler is Hercules & Love Affair. In 2008 the self-titled album on DFA wowed critics and music fans across the board with tracks such as ‘Blind’ and ‘You Belong’. The soulful blend of disco-inspired songs provided the perfect soundtrack to last summer. A year on, Sidetracked arrives just in time for those demanding a [...]
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One of the more successful disco revivals this year has been Hercules and Love Affair. The name is fitting, as the band incorporates a pantheon of romantics: the jewelry designer Kim Ann Foxman, CocoRosie collaborator Nomi and the enigmatic Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. Although Antony isn't part of the live band, their August 8th performance at Irving Plaza was a full blown production, ...
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If you haven't experienced the magic of Hercules and Love Affair yet, than you're surely living under a rock and really missing out on something. Combine fresh disco sounds with the almighty genre of classic Chicago house and you have a starting point. The brainchild of Dj Andy Butler, the debut album was released on [...]
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Andy Butler told The Quietus about working on the second Hercules & Love Affair album. He said: "I've been working on more minimalist compositions, I'd say I've written maybe two or three songs which are informed by that tradition. There's something trance-like and soft about the music. It's almost akin to an artist like Brian Eno, a kind of ambient pop thing. In terms of genre I'm pitting di...
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This is where music and atmosphere hit the high gears for me, love it!(VIDEO)
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Tonight, 10.22 Hearthrob is offering discounted admission to tonight's Hercules and Love Affair show. E-Marce and Red Foxx are opening. Via the Hearthrob mailer, Please get yr rsvps in before 5pm today and the admission will drop from $14 to $10. Send RSVPs to: heartrsvp@gmail.com. You've got one hour. Next Tuesday, 10.28 Hearthrob and Jokers of the Scene @ Middlesex: [...]
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Hercules and Love Affair have added a couple of NYC dates to go along with summer tour plans.The band will be hitting the The Gramercy Theatre on August 14th and Music Hall of Williamsburg on August 15th. Both shows are live sets. Tickets go on sale this Friday for both shows.Hercules and Love Affair had [...]
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I'm sure most of you have heard of dance-punkers Hercules and Love Affair. But did you know that the core members used to be part of Hoboken, NJ's finest, Zeus And The Romantic Rendezvous? Yep. Apparently Hercules' frontman Andrew Butler helped form Zeus and co-wrote some of their early hits. But like all local NJ favorites, creative differences proved to be too much for the Romantic Rendezvous...
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I forgot about including the inclusion of movie reviews with music. I recently saw both Milk and Slumdog Millionaire which seem to be candidates for movie of the year. Anyway, while Juno was a popular indie flick to see at first, it got tiresome fast. Slumdog Millionaire didn't look appealing at first, you know a [...] Related posts:Pineapple Express Review and Playlist Pineapple Express ope...
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Hercules And Love Affair - Blind (zshare) Hercules And Love Affair - Blind (ysi) Christmas tip: Give this to a blind person! His/her by automatic procedures extended and refined hearing ability will catch Hercules And Love Affair 's groove and send him/her into a hypnosis of dancefloor joy! This is one of the best singles released this year.
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Hey everybody, disco is back. Thanks to Hercules and Love Affair, in 2008 the music world got it's collective groove back, and learned to shake it to those disco house sounds again. Antony (of the Johnsons) turns in a star turn on the record too, possibly showing that full on disco-divaism is a role he suits better than that of morose troubadour. Singles such as 'Blind' and 'You Belong' have se...
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16 songs featuring OutKast, LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, Missy Elliott...
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