Word: pops
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...wouldn't have put money on it, but one of the sweetest sounds in underground music today pays homage to Indonesian film scores and pop acts of the 1960s. White Shoes & the Couples Company, a Jakarta-based six-piece, have parlayed not only a musical but sartorial fascination with their nation's pop culture into a sound and look that have seen them hailed as one of the most "crush worthy" bands of 2006 by influential music site allmusic.com, and "the most blog worthy band on the planet" by Ken Micallef, music critic at Yahoo! Music. Last year rollingstone.com named...
...call it Indonesian pop," says 26-year-old vocalist Aprilia Apsari. That's not because it bears any resemblance to the Top 40 fodder on sale in the country's malls and markets, but because it is steeped in the spirit of vintage Indonesian acts like Ismail Marzuki, Jack Lesmana, Noor Bersaudara and Guruh Gipsy. White Shoes is "unafraid to embrace the kitsch aspect of the past and have fun with it in their music and image," explains Ardiasyah. "Hipster kids can relate to their image, which is pop but not cheesy mainstream...
...March to play the SXSW Music Conference and Festival, an industry showcase held annually in Austin, Texas. For now, though, there are more songs to write, and more film soundtracks, vinyl LPs and magazines from the 1960s to scour. How charming that the biggest leap forward in Indonesian pop music should actually be a giant step back in time...
...best of machines can get a bit rusty (especially in sub-zero weather) and require a little engine grease to get rolling.Expressions is a dance company that encourages and thrives on audience participation, and one of the ways it does so is by being shamelessly, refreshingly attuned to pop culture. Taking its cues from the electronica-infused hip-hop that has come to dominate the radio waves, the company members deftly transformed themselves into robots with libidos, but struggled at first to gain momentum.“Ex-Static,” featured the direction of Pamela M. Santoyo...
...Nikki,” “Fast Car,” “Purple Kisses”—they’re all here, along with “Luv Songs.” Thank Prince for creating a generation of functionally illiterate pop stars. There’s some other biting going on too. A lot of the production work—frequently provided by Tricky Stewart—sounds as though Timbaland took several shots of Nyquil and then bet himself that he couldn’t make half an album?...