Spectralux takes a fresh, stylish approach to rock music with atmospheric textures and futuristic imagery. Influenced by David Bowie, Pixies and Wire, Spectralux took the stage just before the turn of the century with a handful of songs and homemade props from malfunctioning television sets to dismembered mannequins.
Along the way, Spectralux started using analog drum machines to fill a vacant drummer position which broadened their musical influences to include The Flaming Lips, Can, Catherine Wheel and Depeche Mode. When the vacant drum seat was filled they kept the drum machines, creating modern rock peppered with drum loops, synthesizers and samples.
Spectralux website
The Sunshine factory from Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A. was formed in 2008 by Robert and Ian Taylor. It began as a one man band,using drum loops, recorded tracks with live guitar and vocals as a performance expression. The song writing team consists of the Taylor Duo .Following several east coast appearances and an expanding southeastern schedule the band grew to include a live drummer, Mathew Hendrich and a bass player Sydney Benningfield. Lush layering of live and recorded tracks blur the traditional lines of musical expression as an ever expanding universe of sound is explored by the The Sunshine Factory. They see themselves as part of a new breed of Shoe gaze musicians. They also view themselves as members of a collective movement of musicians who are returning to a glorious genre that saw its beginnings in the early nineties with bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, The Cocteau Twins, Slowdive and Ride. They are intent on remaining true to the foundational roots,incorporating the present and reinventing the future. Joining such acts as Depreciation Guild, Serena Maneesh, A place to bury strangers, The Pains Of Being Pure at Heart, Ringo Deathstar, The Ravonettes, Pilot Cloud and many other innovative and creative groups they are part of a increasing list of musical acts that are driving this energetic and progressive movement.
The Sunshine Factory website
Gold-Bears, a twee punk band from Atlanta, Georgia, make joyful noise influenced by love, jangly guitars, fuzz pedals, reverb, words, spastic drumming, and friends. Jeremy Underwood, formerly of Plastic Mastery (Magic Marker Records) and the French Horns (Clairecords), formed Gold-Bears with Erich Luedtke, Dave Fortner, and Santiago Archila in fall 2009 to record & perform the songs he’d stockpiled during a 5 year sabbatical from music. The band’s taught, blistering take on pop form has gained them comparisons to Boyracer, early My Bloody Valentine, the Mountain Goats and the Wedding Present.
Gold-Bears on Myspace
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