Artist To Watch: WedgeTHE FORMULA: COCTEAU TWINS - 80’s HAIR + SIGUR ROS The title of Wedge’s debut album, Heavensville, is an ode to singer-songwriter Tommy Wedge’s Indiana hometown, but a sardonic one. The indie-electronica act’s sole member, Wedge knew he had to get out of teensy Evansville after he spent nine months in bed, gripped by depression. “I’d get up every day around six p.m. to check the mail,” says Wedge, 32, who now lives in Athens, Georgia. “Then I’
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Published: 2007-04-26
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Artist to Watch
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New Wild Nothing - "Chinatown" (Stereogum Premiere)After talking about the Cocteau Twins/Smiths/Shop Assistants-inspired haze of Jack Tatum's Wild Nothing on the dreamy "Confirmation" (and appropriately airy take on Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting"), I suggested you should keep your eyes peeled for a Captured
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Published: 2010-01-25
Provider: StereoGum
Keywords: stereogum,indie,rock,mp3,blog
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New Salem - "Frost"The shadowy goth-tinged Salem crew really do feel like the Cocteau Twins colliding with Royal Trux. Or like Crystal Castles with more substance. Cold Cave with less. In that (and that) sense, it's fitting the band is releasing the Yes, I Smoked Crack EP
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Published: 2009-09-22
Provider: StereoGum
Keywords: stereogum,indie,rock,mp3,blog
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Foals Remix The FieldWhen we posted "The More That I Do," the lead track from Swedish minimal techno whiz Axel Willner, aka The Field, the comments focused on (a) how beautiful it is and (b) that is makes use of the Cocteau Twins' "Lorelei." In this remix by the Foals, you m
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Published: 2009-05-12
Provider: StereoGum
Keywords: stereogum,indie,rock,mp3,blog
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