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Pas/CalDetroit's harmonious art-pop unit Pas/Cal was founded in the early aughts by Casimer Pascal (guitars), Little Tommy Daniels (drums), and Gene Corduroy (guitars).
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 183 Phil Ramone 2011
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Handsome FursHandsome Furs are the Montreal art-pop husband-wife team Dan Boeckner (vocals, guitar) and Alexei Perry (electronics, keys).
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 172 Phil Ramone 2011
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And closing out the run is an all-Charm City triple-bill at Red Palace featuring the jittery art-pop and dramatic, croaking vocals of Future Islands, rumbling percussion and jolting rhythms of Thank You and the grab-bag of bizarre that is Ed Schrader.
Nightlife agenda: Maker's Mark dipping, Dmerit EP release, electro-funk at Liv 2011
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HjaltalínIcelandic art-pop ensemble Hjaltalín was founded in 2004.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 181 Phil Ramone 2011
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They jump effortlessly from new wave-tinged rockers to Queen-like bombast to stunning Beatlesque ballads to jazzy art-pop, without losing their touch with hooks that lodge themselves in your cranium and refuse to let go.
Tony Sachs: One More Once: A Listen Back At The Records That Made 2010 More Bearable Tony Sachs 2011
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HjaltalínIcelandic art-pop ensemble Hjaltalín was founded in 2004.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 181 Phil Ramone 2011
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They jump effortlessly from new wave-tinged rockers to Queen-like bombast to stunning Beatlesque ballads to jazzy art-pop, without losing their touch with hooks that lodge themselves in your cranium and refuse to let go.
Tony Sachs: One More Once: A Listen Back At The Records That Made 2010 More Bearable Tony Sachs 2011
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Manchester-based, but hailing from realms as far apart as Newcastle and Kent, Everything Everything are one of those squirming, convoluted art-pop bands that Britain's churning cultural centrifuge throws out every so often – like Foals, or north-eastern arrhythmiacs Field Music, or Friendly Fires.
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In fact, if they had followed the same bizarre, sadistic art-pop direction they had utilized in the introduction before the opening credits, they definitely would have had a slick piece of memorable movie on their hands.
Frightworld (2008) 2010
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Download the spectral "Fires," from the 2010 project Fences, co-produced by Sara Quin of art-pop duo Tegan & Sara.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 153 Phil Ramone 2010
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