Hercules News

When interviewing the God-gifted vocalist and piano-man, I ran out of time before asking Wainwright, "Why don't you lend your vocals to a whole album of dance music?" Understanding the tragedy of not asking this question and how I could have reasonably asked it in the first place requires some background.

Hercules and Love Affair performs at Fillmore on Friday. Enough guitars. I finished Friday night with synthesizers and dance music: Hercules and Love Affair, a blipping, thumping digitalized disco update, and Cold Cave, a throwback to whomping, motoric analog-era synth-pop. Both have lyrics full of bitterness and disillusionment.

London Transit's sleek and stylish debut lands the local synth-poppers smack in the middle of the indie-electronica landscape, blipping and humming away somewhere between the catchy beats of Hercules and Love Affair and the sugary vocals of Hot Chip .

I am - " Hercules!! Funny People FAQ Is "Funny People" funny? Yes, it's easily one of the funniest movies of the year.

Endlessly surprising, always mesmerizing, one of the most compelling dramas ever forged.

Endlessly surprising, always mesmerizing, one of the most compelling dramas ever forged.

As a principle, I don't like mashups. There's nothing really original about them.

Last September, I wrote about dance music gaining credibility among high-minded indie aficionados, most notably with the critical praise given to the alt-disco bands Hercules and Love Affair , Cut Copy and LCD Soundsystem.

Hercules and Love Affair aired their smouldering disco anthems on May 23 when they played their first official UK gig... 'Sidetracked' includes a brand new track from the band Hercules And Love Affair a s Andy Butler has announced the release of a compilation album entitled a Sidetrackeda .

If you're a sci-fi fanatic then you're probably all ready for the "Wrath of Con" Sci-Fi Convention & Film Festival that starts Friday! It's the conventions second year here in the panhandle.

New Nashville dance series Noise Fridays has a solid DJ lineup planned for every Friday in May, but this one might be the most danceable, hypeworthy bill of the bunch.

But Bell Orchestre proved to be another beast entirely, mixing the epic sensibility of post-rock instrumentals and baroque pop with Parrya TMs background in electroacoustic music.