Pages tagged “slow club”

The 2011 Paste Christmas Sampler: 40 Free Holiday Tracks

By Max Blau at 2:14 PM on December 12, 2011

We've compiled the best new tracks for this holiday season in our 2011 Paste Christmas Sampler, featuring 40 free Christmas tracks from Deer Tick, She & Him, The Polyphonic Spree, Damien Jurado, Nicole Atkins and more. read more

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Slow Club: Paradise

By Adam Vitcavage at 2:05 PM on September 13, 2011

A sophomore album can fall anywhere between sounding exactly like the first album, (thus risking being boring) to being radically different, which takes the chance of losing fans from a band’s original release. English folk-pop duo Slow Club find a happy medium between the extremes.... read more

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Ten Sugarpop Bands We're Not Ashamed to Love

By Rachel Dovey and Kevin Keller at 8:05 AM on May 14, 2010

We’re aware that this genre didn’t exist until we coined it just now. A Google search revealed that “sugarpop” is a kid group that performed on GMA’s SOP sporting tuxedos and pink frilly dresses and fashionably-mussed hair and covering songs that were way beyond their emotional and hormonal depth. And, as it turns out, that’s a pretty good definition of sugarpop the genre. A little twee, kind of precious, it usually contains some combo of handclaps and cellos and boy-girl duos dressing in Value Village Mad Men chic. The duos in question might even make music videos where they wear... read more

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