Category: Indie/Pop

SEEING SOUNDS – Daniel Morrow presents The Bedford Green Project

NYC’s hottest multimedia experience, The Bedford Green Project, merges music and cinema into one mad experimental night of total artistic freedom, in the process redefining synesthesia – the state of mind when you can see the sounds and hear the…

Band Of The Week: Sweet Fix

SWEET FIX are the big winners of the last Band of the Week contest. They are fun, they are glam and they are seriously kicking ass. To be specific – SWEET FIX totally rock these retro-future guitars we love so…

Alice Sungurov releases debut video

NYC-based singer-songwriter Alice Sungurov’s first single “So Blind” melts quirky pop with punk-rockish rhythm     all wrapped up in a creative and colorful video. Released through HitPlay Records – a subsidiary of Sony Music – the song has a…

Interview with Rachel Ann Weiss @ the Rockwood Music Hall

Rachel Ann Weiss, a young and promising singer/songwriter, released her new EP “Always” at the Rockwood Music Hall on September 8th. She was joined on stage by Dominic Fallacaro on keys and Conor Meehan on drumsThe place was packed and…

Escape NYC with Escape Music Festival, October 11-12 2014

Escape Music Festival premiers in Red Hook, Brooklyn for a two day long musical experience during Columbus Weekend. The line up for the festival includes Placebo, Yeasayer,  Ra Ra Riot, Bakermat, ASTR, Tesla Boy, Basecamp and Follow Me. The electronic…

Camera Obscura @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg

Scottish indie pop legends Camera Obscura played a bright and mellow show at Music Hall Of Williamsburg. That was their second date in NYC for this summer, on the tour supporting the band’s new album Desire Lines  – the night…

Phantogram @ Zoom Club, Frankfurt

Browsing this year’s album releases, a rock duo called Phantogram caught my attention. The band’s name got me excited. It describes an optical illusion creating the impression of three-dimensionality on a flat surface. If this group could produce similar effects…

Night Club – Need You Tonight (song review)

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Night Club are a synth-pop duo out of Los Angeles who’ve laid their heads before the altar of 80’s New Wave. In an attempt to summon the dark electronic gods of old, responsible for the drink and drug fueled revelry at dance clubs throughout the 80’s and early 90’s, Night Club chose to cover Inxs’s “Need You Tonight,” Michael Hutchence being already somewhat deified in certain circles.

From the first digitized bass hit, Night Club makes their supplicative cries clear. Their language is synth. Digitized and over-saturated, the melodies sound like the beautifully low-fi blips and beeps of 8 bit video games.

The cover is straight forward. No license is taken with the material, the only difference being that the singer for Night Club is female. Her voice is sultry and full. You can picture it coming from a confident, full-figured woman which turns the chorus of I “Need you tonight” into more of an expectation than a request.

Covers like these are typically well received because they’re old enough to evoke nostalgia but recent enough that no grandparent can claim them as their own. The ones who were around can reminisce about the halcyon days when experimentation in drugs, sex and music was the norm. The line between excess and good taste not existing, any indulgence could be chalked up to exploration. Those who are too young to have been there can romanticize its excesses and experimentation without having the consequences that befell many dampen their enjoyment. Night Club’s cover of “Need You Tonight” can help you do that.

More about Night Club on Facebook, YouTube, iTunes as well as their official website http://www.nightclubband.com/.