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Neon Trees

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Are you a big fan of rock and roll? Or are you crazy about running? The Neon Trees, which light up the vivid look of rock and are stained with the active rhythm of the new wave of the 80s, are a rare intersection between rockers and nightclub coffee, and a great musical reconciliation!

Tyler Glenn, who is pretty punk-dressed and in charge of vocals/keyboards, plus guitarist Chris Allen, bassist Branden Campbell, and drummer/back vocals Elaine Bradley, is inspired by Tyler’s sighting of a well-known chain burger joint one night In-N-Out Burger is inspired by the dazzling neon decorative trees outside the In-N-Out Burger, and Tyler’s father is a Las Vegas neon designer, so he named it Neon Trees; insist on scattering colorful bright beats, no matter what The appearance of the scene must quickly attract people’s senses, which is the purpose of the establishment of the orchestra. Beginning in 2006, Neon Trees took advantage of the tour opportunity to release self-made EP works, and soon gathered a large number of loyal followers, even The Killers drummer Ronnie Vannucci, Jr. also praised them, and then warmly invited to serve as The Killers in North America. The opening guest of the live show. Ronnie went even further, getting Neon Trees to sign a contract with Mercury Records. Before the film was officially released, it was voted in the “2009 Band of the Year” list by the Salt Lake City Weekly.

For example, neon lights are colorful and dazzling, with strong electrical energy, without losing the rhythm of rock, and gorgeously reproduce the joy of the new wave of the 80s. , The Killers, Flaming Lips, My Chemical Romance, 30 Seconds To Mars, Panic! At The Disco and other star bands have all invited Neon Trees as the warm-up guest of the tour concert.

I love their Pop Psychology album, it’s an honest piece of work by lead singer Tyler Glenn, especially after a psychotherapy session, and he’s also very deep on sexuality. Although there are many words of helplessness and sadness in it, it presents a happy melody as a whole, inspiring people to hold their heads high and live a colorful life.

The Struts

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The Struts first started a musical collaboration with vocalist Luke Spiller and guitarist Adam Slack in 2009, and in 2012, they formed a four-member band after bassist Jed Elliott and drummer Gethin Davies joined. Luke Spiller, who leads the band, has been exposed to gospel music since childhood. He was inspired by the music of Michael Jackson at the age of 7. He was also immersed in the music of legendary bands such as Queen, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Def Leppard, The Smiths, Oasis, The Libertines, The Strokes, etc. Cultivate a diverse and retro rock heritage.

In 2014, The Struts released their first album “Everybody Wants”, which immediately broke into the UK Singles Chart Top 100 (UK Chart), a perfect start to their music career. The image of them wearing gorgeous costumes during their performances is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and subsequent tours have been enthusiastically supported, and they have been invited to act as the opening for Foo Fighters, The Rolling Stones, Guns N’ Roses and other big groups. In 2018, The Struts handed over their second album “Young & Dangerous”, showing their accumulated skills in communicating with the band’s predecessors, making them stand out among the new generation of music.

The British band The Struts with glam rock features has been highly appreciated since its debut, and has been invited by various groups to serve as concert guests. Last year, they released a new single Low Key In Love, and found Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris Jackson to cooperate, and the sweet duet also brought a retro romantic atmosphere to the song.

“Paris brings a whole new face to the song and brings the story to life, she’s both beautiful and talented!” Luke Spiller revealed that “Low Key In Love” was written after a date at the retro ’70s bar Good Times at Davey Wayne’s , incorporating the song into the feeling of walking into a bar to absorb the atmosphere; and when he decided that the song would be duet for two, Luke Spiller remembered Paris Jackson’s excellent performance in the bar that night, so he invited him to cooperate.

I love their Young & Dangerous album. The charming opening song “Body Talks” is a prelude to a small test of water temperature. The rich retro rhythm and passionate melody seem to mix the temperament of The Rolling Stones and The Strokes (the album also includes a version with the American pop queen Kesha at the end); The surging “Primadonna Like Me” followed; “In Love With A Camera”, a tribute to idol Freddie Mercury’s steady treble; I Do It So Well” also illustrates the orchestra’s rich extensibility in arrangement.

Milky Chance

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The psychedelic smoke voice of a German niche band – Milky Chance

The name of the band I want to recommend today is Milky Chance. The band has four members, lead singer and guitarist Clemens Rehbein, bassist Philipp Dausch, guitarist Antonio Greger, and drummer Sebastian Schmidt.

I know that this band started with the song Flashed Junk Mind. At that time, I clicked on a playlist that I had in my collection. When I played this song, I was immediately attracted by the voice of the lead singer. The voice of the lead singer was very Psychedelic and somewhat cold smokey voice, I don’t have any particular preference for the singer’s voice, and I rarely listen to the smokey voice, but the voice of the lead singer immediately caught my attention, and I have to say that his voice is very Charming, because of him I went to listen to the rest of the band and found this treasure band.

The style of this band is rather decadent. Their music always reveals a feeling of life being short and lively, but the rhythm is strong, the melody is simple and repetitive, and the lead singer’s psychedelic smoke always makes people immersed in it.

I love their song Heartless, it’s a very sad song, with a simple repeating melody, accompanied by the lead singer’s deliberately low and long smokey voice, like a voice coming from a distant valley. There is a short simple melody in the middle that keeps repeating until it seems to have no end, which is extremely heartbreaking. The lyrics also have only two repetitions of Remember that someday the heartless will go/Those people know the way. Repeated melody, repeated lyrics, as if telling an unwilling story. After the lead singer’s voice came to an abrupt end, and after a period of emptiness, the heartbreaking melody sounded again. The melody is especially sad when listening to it late at night, as if being hit by cold water in the cold rain.

Metric

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Metric is a group of Indie and New-Wave bands founded in 1998, but almost every member of the band has other jobs, so everyone only needs to know 2 soul characters in the band. The first is the female vocalist and synthesizer. The musician, Emily Haines who occasionally plays the guitar and Emily’s boyfriend, who is also the guitarist in the group, James Shaw, is also very talented. Emily’s father is a poet, and because of his travels, Emily is a native of India. , A child who grew up in Canada, the teen Emily followed her parents’ footsteps. She also attended the famous Canadian art school Etobicoke School of the Arts (ESA). In this high school, Emily and later singer-songwriters Amy Millan and Kevin Drew group the first band.

Emily Haines later met British-born, Canadian-raised guitarist James (Jimmy) Shaw , who was also a music major, and even studied classical music at the famous Juilliard Music School for three years, but Later, James still decided to make the music he liked, so his studies were not completed. In short, the two got to know each other through some mutual friends, and then they often made music together., These are also the first two founding members of Metric

I love their fifth album, Synthetica. They used quite a few Vintage instruments to create this futuristic, synthetic and organic album. The opening song “Artificial Nocturne” is a psychedelic post-punk song from Yumei, Uplifing and then on to Motorik Beats, which is quite breathtaking. The first single “Youth Without Youth”, which talks about the crimes of youth, is driven by Gary Glitter-esque Glam Rock beats. James Shaw also sings with Vocoder. The”Speed the Collapse” on the theme of environmental protection is driven by a huge beat, how emotional, romantic and poignant this song is.

YUNGBLUD

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YUNGBLUD, whose real name is Dominic Harrison, was born in the north of England in 1998. Born in a musical family since he was a child, he joked that he was forced to take a picture with Ukulele in front of the hospital 6 hours after he was born.

YUNGBLUD’s music genre is positioned in alternative rock. “I think the meaning of rock has faded nowadays. I feel like a group of idiots in leather jackets moaning on stage. I want something that can represent the youth of this generation. Drive.” YUNGBLUD said in an interview, “I grew up being influenced by music and musicians who could convey certain things, like The Clash, N.W.A., Eminem and Arctic Monkeys.”

It can be seen from YUNGBLUD’s narrative that his works do not need to please the public with rhetoric. What he wants is to speak up for his generation, to sing the voices of teenagers in this generation who have the same situation but don’t know how to arrange themselves.

Anyone who has seen YUNGBLUD’s live performances will surely see his iconic costume “black one-piece dress”. For YUNGBLUD, gender is never a factor that affects his clothes. The skirt and the pair will definitely be worn every day. Pink socks are just a channel for him to show his personal characteristics. In an exclusive interview, he said “I just feel sexy in it.” which reflects his cynical attitude, and also expresses to fans the spirit of not being bound by social stereotypes.

I like his Medication song, the light rhythm and bright and fancy MV style, if you don’t listen to the lyrics carefully, you will think it is a Disney youth single, but in fact he is also a song that conveys the suffering of mental health. Feelings, I believe that changing the style of this song may make people want to cry. YUNGBLUD said that he wanted to be honest about the parts of this generation that teenagers felt were not understood, but it could be fun.

Dragonette

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Dragonette is a Canadian Electro-pop band. It was recommended by the well-known music website Popjustice as the favorite new band in 2007. It abandoned the Indie Rock of the Canadian band. Dragonette chose Popjustic, which is well-known abroad with Eelctro-pop as the band style. And in the eyes of electronic music blog moderators such as HardCandyMusic and Electroqueer, Dragonette is a super rookie king (even blogger Perez Hilton also greatly appreciates them).

Dragonette’s music. After listening to it, I believe that Dragonette can be favored by these electronic music geeks, not without a reason, because they are really great. Music critics call them a group of electronic music rock groups that write pop songs. It can be described as It’s very appropriate. Their music is pop songs surrounded by electronic music.

Dragonette is composed of female vocalist Martina Sorbara, bassist and producer Dan Kurtz, guitarist-Will & drummer Joel. The core figures of the group are Matina and Dan. The music background of this couple is not simple. Martina was once a successful Canadian Jazz / Folk singer-songwriter. Released 2 albums and participated in the famous Lilith Fair performance. Her soul bel voice has also appeared in the songs of the famous electronic music group Basement Jaxx, Martina’s husband Dan Kurtz is even more powerful. In addition to being a member of a famous live electronic music group in Canada. He is also an electronic music DJ producer. He has collaborated with singers from Feist to Cyndi Lauper.

I like their first album. The conclusion of Galore album is: Sexy / Fun / Cool & Good . Martina’s singing can only be described in two words: “Sweat and Dirty”. Every time I listen to it, there will be something new feeling. Rendering songs full of power like a charged mysterious door. Waiting for someone to open this door and enter the fantasy world of music.

Chvrches

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Emerging bands that shine in the electronic torrent: Chvrches

Chvrches (CHVRCHΞS) from Glasgow, Scotland plays Synth-Pop, featuring female vocals Lauren Mayberry (vocals/synth/samples), Iain Cook (synth/guitar/bass/chorus) and Martin The Doherty (synth/sample/chorus) trio formed in 2011. The two-man-one-woman group started in 2012 and released the critically acclaimed debut album “The Bones of What You Believe” the following year (2013).

Before forming Chvrches, Iain Cook was a member of “Aereogramme and The Unwinding Hours” and also wrote songs for film and TV; Martin Doherty was a live musician for “The Twilight Sad”; and Lauren Mayberry just left Long (She has a LL.B. and an M.J. in journalism), is a freelance journalist, and is the lead singer and drummer of the Blue Sky Archives band.

Originally, they chose the English word “churches”, but in order to avoid confusion with the real church when others searched for the group name on the Internet, they replaced the “u” with the Roman letter “v” with the same pronunciation. What’s more interesting is that the band has nothing to do with religion, they just thought the name sounded cool.

Chvrches music gives a clean sound. Generally, their musical style is considered to be Synth-Pop, while absorbing elements of Indie Electronic, Indie Pop and Electronic Dance.

I liked the song Good Girl from their album Screen Violence, which they released last year. The female lead singer once again criticized the stereotyped framework established by this society for women, as well as the unreasonable thinking of brainwashing. Suddenly there was something we didn’t think was unfair growing up, and after Lauren raised her point of view, she seemed to wake up. The original inspiration for the song was when Lauren was chatting with a group of friends at a bar one day about some issues with a male artist, and she was surprised that these friends were trying to defend the male artist. Even if male artists do a lot of things they shouldn’t, everyone seems to be more tolerant and tolerant towards male artists, and it may be bad to a very bad level before everyone can start boycotting him. Women are taught from childhood that it is safer to live a low-key life in order to be a good girl. Lauren believes this is not right and that women should fight for their own survival and for their rights. But it seems that the brainwashing of the society is very deep, so that it is obviously a bad thing, but because of different genders, the acceptance of the public is also different.

Florence + the Machine

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Addicted to romance and life and death,
the British chief Indie rock group Florence + the Machine

The nature of the music is close to the infinitely transparent azure blue and magnificent, the singing has a transcendental aura, the beats and drums are combined with various musical styles, depicting the most unique in the music world. Florence + the Machine is not only a simple rock group, but also full of Music artists, relying on notes, rhythms, melody, and beats, present a hearing and vision that is beyond everyone’s expectations.

Florence + the Machine wanders in artistic music styles such as indie rock, baroque pop, Chamber Pop, art rock/pop, neo-soul, folk, etc., coupled with the unique British flavor, nurturing unprecedented Indie The unique flavor of rock. From their debut album “Lungs” to “Ceremonials” and “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful”, they have won 2 Brit Awards, 3 Q Magazine Music Awards, and 6 Grammy Award nominations. Certainly, it is three consecutive times on the British Gold List! And sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.

Florence + the Machine’s debut is the funniest story I’ve ever seen. It is said that Florence Welch often goes to nightclubs, dances in different clubs every night and gets very drunk. One day she got drunk again at the club and dragged Mairead Nash, the host of the day, into the toilet. Then she sang to her, she was so drunk that she thought she is a singer, and Mairead on the opposite side is the only fan. As a member of the well-known DJ group Queens of Noize in London, Mariead Nash can actually see the potential of an alcoholic under such circumstances. In short, now Mariead Nash Already become the agent of Florence + the Machine.

Alvvays

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Alvvays was formed in 2011 by Molly Rankin (female vocals/guitar), Kerri MacLellan (harpsichord), Alec O’Hanley (guitar), Brian Murphy (bass guitar), Phil MacIsaac (drums). Molly has grown up in a musical family since she was a child. She is the daughter of John Morris Rankin, a member of The Rankin Family, a famous Canadian Celtic Folk Music family. She and Kerri were neighbors when they were children and played instruments together. Molly later met Alec at a concert, and they Several members actually live in areas not far from each other, and there are not many opportunities to play music together. Alvvays was officially formed after Alec produced the EP She for Molly in 2010.

In 2014, the first album of the same name was released, and it was praised as “indie-pop wonder” by “Rolling Stone” at that time. Alvvays’s songs are very lively and straightforward, the rhythm is brisk, and the lyrics are also very straightforward.

I like this album, after listening to the whole album, you will find that the songs are telling the changes of a relationship, from beginning to end, such as the first two or three songs “Adult Diversion”, “Archie, Marry Me” and “Ones” “Who Love You” is all about getting to know someone, doing anything for them, finding someone who truly loves you, expressing your true temperament, etc., but later the lyrics changed, such as “Next of Kin” , “If I had known you couldn’t swim we would never have gone in” means that both sides of a relationship have begun to have uncertainty, and they have begun to find that one party can’t keep up with the rhythm of the other.

In 2017, ALVVAYS performed two of the most famous international music festivals. ALVVAYS released the band’s second album “Antisocialites”. It can be seen that they deeply love the enlightenment of the British band in the 1980s. Among their songs, it is not difficult to find the melody around the beam The well-known Teenage Fanclub, as well as the influence of The Smiths, whose lyrics are pungent and mocking of reality, combine the essence of various genres. At this time, the newly joined drummer Sheridan Riley takes over from Philip, and the rhythm part is smoother and full of rhythm, which adds a little bit to Molly’s singing. cute.

City and Color

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Do you know who is Dallas Michael John Albert Green? Today we are introducing you to a musician, songwriter and record producer born in Ontario, Canada. He is also known for his contributions as a vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. In 2005, he released his first full-length album, Sometimes, which was certified platinum in 2006. City and Color began performing in small, intimate venues between Alexisonfire tours. The name City and Color comes from his own name: Dallas, a city, Green, a color. The reason he named it was because he was uneasy with released albums under the name Dallas Green.

Singer-songwriter Dallas Green’s moniker “Cities and Colors” is undoubtedly one of the biggest trending stories to emerge in Canada. Winner of 3 JUNO Awards – including two Songwriting of the Year (2009, 2012), 3 double platinum and 1 platinum studio album sold in Canada, Green’s latest and fifth studio album If I Should Go Before You Debut #1 On the Soundscan 200, City and Colour topped the Canadian charts for the third time in a row. The LP also made an international splash, reaching No. 16 on the US Billboard 200 and No. 5 in Australia, Green’s LP Little Hell went to Gold. In 2014, Green teamed up with international superstar Alecia Moore (aka P!nk) on a new project called You+Me. The duo’s acclaimed platinum-certified debut, Rose ave. , debuted at No. 4 on the US 200, No. 1 in Canada, and No. 2 in Australia, culminating in memorable performances on The Ellen Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live.

When listening to his songs, you can feel his sweet, high-pitched voice, candid and confident way of performing moving and dramatic songs and let you keep listen to the whole album.