http://www.orble.com/this-internets-saving-grace/ This Internet's Saving Grace en Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:30:00 GMT Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:30:00 GMT info@orble.com info@orble.com http://www.orble.com/glam-addicts-fires-of-rome/ New York City's Fires of Rome carry the post punk torch, adding a heavy does of glam rock to create catchy riffs and big, sweeping choruses. Their 2009 debut, You... http://www.orble.com/glam-addicts-fires-of-rome/#comments http://www.orble.com/glam-addicts-fires-of-rome/ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:30:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/noncomformists-the-mekons/ Perhaps no other post punk band was able to break out of the austere pack more than The Mekons. Through synth-noise and funk workouts to esoteric Anglo-country and western, the... http://www.orble.com/noncomformists-the-mekons/#comments http://www.orble.com/noncomformists-the-mekons/ Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:49:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/album-bend-sinister/ Like the Nabokov novel of the same name, the Fall's Bend Sinister (1986) is dark and harrowing, full of characters seemingly caught in untenable positions. It is one of the... http://www.orble.com/album-bend-sinister/#comments http://www.orble.com/album-bend-sinister/ Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:38:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/album-still/ Joy Division's brief and brilliant career ended with Ian Curtis' death and the release of 1981's Still, a live and b-sides collection meant to put the finishing touch on the... http://www.orble.com/album-still/#comments http://www.orble.com/album-still/ Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:56:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/album-ocean-rain/ Standing as a plateau of the post punk era, Echo and the Bunnymen's Ocean Rain is also the group's high-water mark. Released in 1984, Ocean Rain is lush and stately... http://www.orble.com/album-ocean-rain/#comments http://www.orble.com/album-ocean-rain/ Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:47:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/catalyst-brix-smith/ Brix Smith couldn't have been more different than the other members of the Fall. Officially joining the band in 1983, the beautiful blonde American bassist-turned-guitar player brought pop sensibility to... http://www.orble.com/catalyst-brix-smith/#comments http://www.orble.com/catalyst-brix-smith/ Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:56:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/underachiever-robert-smith/ Formed in 1976 in England as the Easy Cure, Robert Smith's band has endured for three decades. As one of the original post punk groups, Smith and company had a... http://www.orble.com/underachiever-robert-smith/#comments http://www.orble.com/underachiever-robert-smith/ Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:32:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/saviors-the-smiths/ Emerging from Manchester circa 1982, The Smiths were the saviors of British guitar rock. The pairing of singer Morrissey with guitarist Johnny Marr provided a nose-thumbing to the synthesizer sounds... http://www.orble.com/saviors-the-smiths/#comments http://www.orble.com/saviors-the-smiths/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:13:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/lp-interpol/ Often compared to Joy Division, Interpol is a modern day purveyor of post punk rock. Yet rather than sounding identical to the legendary Manchester band, Interpol, from New York City... http://www.orble.com/lp-interpol/#comments http://www.orble.com/lp-interpol/ Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:53:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/lp-bauhaus-in-the-flat-field/ Bauhaus are the founding fathers of Goth. Yet from the beginning, their music has defied categorization. Even their darkest, most vampiric LP, 1980's In the Flat Field, contains moments of... http://www.orble.com/lp-bauhaus-in-the-flat-field/#comments http://www.orble.com/lp-bauhaus-in-the-flat-field/ Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:43:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/band-joy-division/2/ When Ian Curtis died in May of 1980, one of the most critically acclaimed rock bands of all time was shattered forever. Joy Division--singer Curtis, guitarist Bernard Sumner, bass player... http://www.orble.com/band-joy-division/2/#comments http://www.orble.com/band-joy-division/2/ Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:06:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/band-the-national/ New York City by-way-of Cincinnati band The National uphold the post punk ethos by making exquisite rock records that are as fragile as they are beautiful. Heavily influenced by the... http://www.orble.com/band-the-national/#comments http://www.orble.com/band-the-national/ Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:52:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/lp-this-nations-saving-grace/ Released in 1985, This Nation's Saving Grace is considered to be perhaps the finest LP from prolific art punk band, The Fall. Band leader Mark E. Smith had added American... http://www.orble.com/lp-this-nations-saving-grace/#comments http://www.orble.com/lp-this-nations-saving-grace/ Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:30:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/post-punk-all-up-in-your-grill/ How has post punk--the dominant rock music movement of the early-to mid 1980s--influenced bands from today? The answer is incalculable; groups like Joy Division, Bahaus, The Fall and Mekons continue... http://www.orble.com/post-punk-all-up-in-your-grill/#comments http://www.orble.com/post-punk-all-up-in-your-grill/ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:39:00 GMT