Tag Archives: 2006 in Cardiff

Celebrating a bratty, tongue-in-cheek viewpoint along with a spunky indie punk design much like Art Brut, while applying a variety of instruments comparable to Architecture in Helsinki, the seven-piece group Los Campesinos! (a Spanish name that approximately means “the Peasants”) shaped in 2006 in Cardiff, Wales. The lineup got form …

Scrappy Welsh noise rock trio Mclusky was among the shiny spots within the English indie scene’s post-Brit-pop hangover, liberating three appealingly loud albums — 2000’s My Discomfort and Sadness Is usually More Unfortunate and Painful Than Yours, 2002’s Mclusky Carry out Dallas, and 2005’s The Difference Between Me and you …

Probably one of the most interesting and difficult-to-categorize performers in ’60s pop, Gene Pitney had an extended run of strikes distinguished by his pained, one-of-a-kind melodramatic wail. Pitney may also be characterized (or dismissed) like a shallow teenager idol-type susceptible to operatic ballads. It’s accurate that a few of his …