Tag archive for ‘disco’

• “Time Machine” by Robyn & “Another Life” by Kano: Disco Lives On

  11/14/10 • (2)

  

  Here at SFCritic we are equal-opportunity haters and lovers, and I’m not generally one to defend disco, but I would like offer up exhibits A and B in its defense: Robyn and Kano (not the rapper), an Italodisco outfit from the 1980s. I tend to think disco music has gotten dissed so intensely on the reg over the past [...]

• Phoenix “If I Ever Feel Better” Live at Coachella

  8/10/10 • (0)

  

  Phoenix will be performing this weekend at Outside Lands, and are definitely one of the bands SFCritic is excited for. The group originally had a very different, almost disco, sound when they first came out with “If I Ever Feel Better” (back in 2001). Thanks to Fluxblog for putting me on to this video. Fingers crossed they perform [...]

• Music Submissions: The Hundred In The Hands & Fake Drugs

  7/12/10 • (0)

  

  The Hundred In The Hands: This Desert EP By Angela Sobrepena Is it just me, or does there seem to a recent surge in the popularity of guy-girl duos? The Brooklyn-based team of Jason Friedman and Eleanore Everdell try to distinguish themselves from the masses with their debut EP, This Desert (released on May 18). Their dream-poppy vocals [...]

• Inside and Out

  7/09/09 • (0)

  

  I first came to heard “Inside and Out” on Feist’s album Let it Die. The original song is by the Bee Gees. Both version are stellar, but I might actually say it–I like Feist’s version more. I’m just digging in my crates today. Tomorrow I’ll have the “Listen to What You’re Missin’.” Bee Gees: “Love You Inside and [...]