Ladytron News

I used to be ambivalent toward The September Issue , R.J. Cutler's documentary chronicling scary robot Anna Wintour as she gnaws her way through the hearts and souls of the humans involved with Vogue 's September 2008 issue.

Christina Aguilera sure has come a long way from her "Genie in a Bottle" days. For her upcoming September album, Light & Darkness , she recorded songs with British electronic acts Goldfrapp and Ladytron, plus former Zero 7 singer Sia, as SPIN.com reported last summer.

Ladytron love the detritus of the modern age - what they call the weird stuff that humanity has created.

Battles. Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House, May 30. Ladytron. Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House, June 3. NEW York's Battles and Liverpool's Ladytron represent the rock element in Brian Eno's Luminous festival in Sydney.

Before canceling the gig at the last minute, Telepathe , an electro-rock duo from Brooklyn, N.Y., was set to open for kindred spirits Ladytron and the Faint at the House of Blues in April.

It will be a celebration of classic dance beats tomorrow at the Motion Music Festival.

Reuben Wu, of Ladytron fame, visits Honolulu this week. Motion Music Festival / A day before setting off on a European tour earlier this month, Ladytron cofounder and DJ Reuben Wu talked with the Weekly via phone, speaking calmly and with his Scouser lilt.

Beam me up ... Brian Eno with part of his installation 77 Million Paintings at the Opera House yesterday for the launch of the inaugural Luminous festival.

The Ting Tings will be the first guest stars in a brand new series of kids' TV show Yo Gabba Gabba! They will perform the Altered Images track Happy Birthday on the sing-along dance-along show on satellite channel Nick Jr.

"When I saw the future," sang the Faint's Todd Fink, "the geeks were right." The Omaha, Nebraska - "based band's coheadlining Commodore show with Ladytron suggested that maybe the geeks were indeed correct after all.

Orange county hipsters came out in full force Saturday night for the chance to dance to Nebraska's electronic wizards, the Faint.

"The key to working with a group of people is learning what not to put in," Reuben Wu says.

What can electro-pioneers Depeche Mode teach newcomers Ladytron? Our correspondent witnesses a meeting of minds Sophie Heawood When you meet someone famous for having taken the path to excess and tripped over on it a fair few times, you wonder if the demons can really have left them.

The Two Gentlemen Band play vintage jazz, classic R&B and Tin Pan Alley songs tonight at Jack of the Wood, 95 Patton Ave.

Put the old-time ballads and acoustic instruments aside. Electronic music takes center stage Friday night with new wave-inspired stars Ladytron and The Faint hitting the Orange Peel on their co-headlining North American tour.

Co-headlining tours are meant to bring together the best of a particular genre into one night of greatness.

THEY'RE NOT INTO robots, post-modern urban wastelands, androids or animatronic ladybugs.

Friday, April 3 : -- Ladytron get serious at First Ave "Partying since 1999, Ladytron has been crafting electronic soundtracks for a solid decade.

It wasn't the best idea to schedule Ladytron and The Faint show at The Phoenix on the same night as another electro-pop outfit The Presets were playing The Mod Club, as many fans of one show's music likely overlap to the other.

Ladytron is badass. Expressions, no crowd interaction, no smiling and absolutely no dancing; it was very unclear whether or not the six musicians on stage were actual people, a very flashy holligram or a peek into 2050 when robots have taken over the music industry.