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Joining keytar goddesses Juliette Commagare and Imogen Heap is Lauren Rocket, of punk girl group Rocket.  
Rocket describes itself as “a volatile combination that leaves one wondering what the results would be if the Shangri-Las crashed the stage during an early Motley Crue gig.”

 


Robot Goes Here - The Byte Is In My Blood

Robot Goes Here is an electropunk project of Dave Rand. After eight years playing in punk bands, Rand switched to laptop retro-chip sounds and a DIY approach.
There’s a lot of interesting 8-bit style synth work on Robot Goes Here’s The Byte Is In My Blood, including chip-noise drums and arpeggios. It sounds like Rand [...]

 

Big Fish Audio has released a couple of new sample libraries, punk and a technocore collections. You can preview them below.
Punk & Indie Rock: Slammin Sounds of So-Cal
Description:
Producer and musician Dan Diaz turns out some of the hardest-hitting Punk and Indie Rock tracks available anywhere. Packed with tons of raw material, this DVD showcases the [...]

 
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Soulwax lets you know right off the bat with Nite Versions what its music is about. The CD is a collection of remixed, mashed-up and remade tracks, mixed as a DJ mix, that explore the space between classic rock and dance music.
Soulwax kicks of the CD with a cover of Daft Punk’s Teachers. In the [...]

 

The latest CD from punk electronica duo Babyland brings punk rock attitude to electronica, and takes no prisoners.
The Finger, Babyland’s fifth album, is a great collection of “electronic junk punk” music that features punk rock vocals over electro-pop beats. The twelve tracks vear towards industrial synth-pop, electro and retronica. The strained, sprechstimme vocals about life, [...]

 

Rick James, the original Superfreak, passed away August 6th in his sleep of natural causes at his Los Angeles home, according to his spokesperson.
James’ electro-funk hit its peak in the late seventies and early eighties with tracks like Give it to me, baby and Superfreak. More recently, his work has been sampled extensively by rap [...]