It's safe to say that were it not for acts like Justice and MSTRKRFT, the current dance resurgence would have never would have left the underground. In the past few years, more and more bored indie kids have been shaking way more ass than the generation that preceded them.
This scene borrows heavily from Giorgio Moroder with a healthy nod to the raver kids that dominated almost a decade ago. This new scene isn't so steeped in ecstasy and a neo-hippie aesthetic as the glowstick-armed TRANSIT
Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry and synthetic to wet and gushy), rhythm tracks can be tempo-tweaked with an upward toggle to change a Timbaland beat into a Chromeo one. Add some T-Pain-esque pitch-correction vocals to your between-
There are so many artists coming to Houston this summer and fall who should pick up on the "classic album" trend Rocks Off could hardly stop at just five. See our picks for Nos. 6-10 here.
5. Blondie (Arena Theater, August 23)
Album: Eat to the Beat (Chrysalis, 1979)
After 1978's Giorgio Moroder-assisted "Heart of Glass" ripped Blondie's CBGB past to shreds but brought the band massive pop success, Eat to the Beat, which opens with the practically perfect "Dreaming," continued down those paralle
Photos by Groovehouse​Denton-area band Neon Indian came in at the last minute to cover for the absent Danish garage-gloomers The Raveonettes. We really dug these kids, which includes members of Ghosthustler and and VEGA. They only played for about forty minutes but it only took the first half for us to draw comparisons to Giorgio Moroder and even the band Suicide.
