I can admit it. The goth chick in me was totally excited about a new Bauhaus album. I know most reunion albums are bad (has anybody heard that new Duran Duran album – ugh), but hearing the name Bauhaus conjures up so many memories of having a great time while wearing way too much black lipstick, I had to give it a listen. Surprisingly, it turns out the album’s pretty good. Some of the tracks are a little less minimalist than classic Bauhaus, but it’s still your basic new wave on the dark side. There’s even a couple songs like “Saved” that are as typical Bauhaus as you can get — so goth it hurts. Plus, there’s a video track of the band doing their standard, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” where you’ll get to see Peter Murphy singing while suspended upside down. Just in case you needed any more reason to dust the cobwebs off those fishnets.

- Julia

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I got a chance to see The Spinto Band a couple years ago when they opened for Arctic Monkeys. They did a really fun show and got the crowd into it, even though I don’t think most people knew who they were. They even gave the crowd kazoos! I just saw that they are touring again in April, so I wanted to recommend that you check them out. Here’s a great video they did for Brown Boxes.:

- Laura

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Somebody took rock n roll and pumped it full of estrogen. Has anybody else noticed that every new rock band that appears on the scene always has this depressing down tone to all of their songs? Having a couple ballads or sad songs is good for a band but when every song on the album is about them breaking up with some chick it gets real old real fast.

Great rock bands have written great sad or depressing songs and usually the lyrical and instrumental part of the song is good. Plus if its really good, you might even be able to relate to it. But the only people relating to this new rock are women. Don’t get me wrong, i love women and there are a lot of good women musicians out there (mainly Heart), but rock n roll used to be a dudes thing. Whatever happened to the testosterone driven bands like AC/DC?

Sure they had a bunch of songs about chicks, but it was all about getting laid not crying over them. But basically what im saying is that rock needs to get a shot of adrenaline and start to not suck again. We need rock to feel like someone screaming at us, spitting on our face and then rubbing our head in the dirt. Thats what rock should do, not make us want to get in touch with our inner feelings but make us take our feelings out on other people. So for all the manly-ness still left in rock, ROCK ON.

- Dan

The idea that film and music go hand in hand is hardly a new concept. But the idea of film as music does offer a new twist - one that multi-talented artist Mike Relm has been perfecting. A former winner of the International Turntablist Federation’s US competition, Relm has become known for live shows presenting audio mixes paired with video images that he “scratches” in real time. If you’ve ever thought Office Space’s famous “O Face” scene might make one hell of a song, this just might be for you… <more at RSJ –>

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