Kenneth Partridge
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Kenneth Partridge is a freelance music journalist living in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to AOL Music, he's written for the Hartford Courant, USA Today, the Village Voice, Performing Songwriter, ListenDammit.com, the Deli, and Electronic Musician.
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On September 26, 1980, Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris made their New York City debut, performing at Hurrah's, a now-defunct nightclub on the Upper West Side. Had things turned out differently, the three musicians would have been joined onstage by singer Ian Curtis, and they'd have billed themselves as ...
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When you're from the land of make believe -- or, in the case of Brandon Flowers, a town just down the road -- a little self-deception is no big deal.
"I know it's Thursday," Flowers, born just outside of Las Vegas, said Thursday night at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom, where he played what figures to be his ...
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Max Weiland
Even on the Radio Dept.'s lushest, most synthed-out dream-pop songs, there's such a thing as bad buzzing. Singer and guitarist Johan Duncanson has been leading the Swedish trio long enough to hear it, and Tuesday night at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, N.Y., one verse into 'I Want You to Feel the Same,' he detected an abrasive hum ...
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Daniel Boczarski, Redferns
When bands rerelease old material, they tend to pick landmark albums -- stellar debuts, odds-defying sophomore efforts, career-defining third records, stunning comebacks, etc. 'Television City Dream,' Screeching Weasel's eighth full-length, is none of those things, but according to founding frontman Ben Weasel, the 1998 ...
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The first song on Joy Division's 1979 debut, 'Unknown Pleasures,' ends with frontman Ian Curtis singing, "I've got the spirit but lose the feeling." Three decades after Curtis' suicide, band mate Peter Hook, the man whose restless bassline helped make that 'Disorder' coda such a disquieting listen, is holding fast to ...
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Olle Kirchmeier
The Concretes haven't gone all Gaga or anything, but the smooth electro-pop jams that make up half of their new album, 'WYWH,' are bound to leave some fans scratching their heads. As founder Lisa Milberg explains, the shift from '60s-inspired indie-pop to dance music had to do with her climbing out from behind the drum kit and ...
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Matt Hoyle
Before camera phones, people went to rock shows to experience the communal joys of live music. Now, they go to shoot dark, blurry photos that might as well have been taken from outer space. Matt Johnson, the singing, synth-playing half of Matt and Kim, seems to address this phenomenon on his group's latest single, 'Cameras,' declaring, ...
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