The Chromatics: Disco does a phoenix

Disco is making a big comeback. Labels like DFA and bands like Hercules & Love Affair seem to be getting all the hipster love for reviving the genre. Another label hard at work at bringing back italo-disco–with a distinctly modern favour–is Italians Do It Better. Two bands on the IDIB roster that deserve special attention are Glass Candy and The Chromatics.

I think a Pitchfork critic got it right (yeah, yeah… sometimes they do get it right) when he said that Italians Do It Better “lovingly re-imagines the style as retro-futurist noir– a sleek soundtrack to lives of moral ambiguity in post-urban shadows.”

Both bands are making really exciting music right now. Definitely get into them now before everyone else does. The Chromatics album “Night Drive” was on a lot of “2007 best of” lists and Glass Candy was one of 25 bands on NME’s “Bands Making America Cool Again” list.

Keep an eye on winniecooper.net for upcoming interviews with Glass Candy (on August 25th) and The Chromatics (September). We always give you the good shit.

The Chromatics – “Running Up That Hill” (Kate Bush cover)

Glass Candy – “Computer Love” (Kraftwerk cover)

Those of us in Vancouver get to see The Chromatics live this weekend.

THE BILTMORE CABARET (395 KINGSWAY)

SATURDAY AUGUST 9TH

10-2AM

Tickets will be available at the door *only*

$15

The show is being put on by Winnie Cooper ally Tyler Fedchuk. He is celebrating 50 of his radiozero podcasts. Check out www.radiozero.ca for regular podcasts chock full of indie goodness.

If you are worried about getting into the show (and you should be), send Tyler an email and tell him how much you like radiozero podcasts and his remixes and he will put you on the ticket “to-buy” list to make sure you have a ticket waiting at the door. Email him at… tylerfedchuk@gmail.com. Put “CHROMATICS RADIOZERO TO-BUY LIST” in the subject line.

Jay Reatard – “I know A Place” (Tyler Fedchuk edit)