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Junior Boys Announce Massive Tour
By Tom Breihan on July 22, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. EDT
Photo by Jim Newberry
Junior Boys: Banana Ripple
On their website, soulful Canadian synthpoppers Junior Boys have announced a fresh round of European and North American tour dates that will keep them busy almost until the end of the year. Below, check out those dates. Above, listen to "Banana Ripple", the BNM'ed nine-minute track from their new album It's All True.
Listen: Diamond Rings Remix Junior Boys
By Tom Breihan on June 21, 2011 at 4:25 p.m. EDT
Photo by Sanchez and Kitahara
Junior Boys: "A Truly Happy Ending (Diamond Rings Remix)":
Update: The track has been removed.
For the past six weeks, Toronto synth-glam one-man band Diamond Rings (known to his parents as John O'Regan) has been posting his Remix Rainbow series on his website, featuring one remix per week. Today, O'Regan finished things up with a bright, new wave-y reworking of Junior Boys' "A Truly Happy Ending", which is streaming above. Along the way, he's also remixed tracks from people like Handsome Furs, Austra, and Theophilus London. All those remixes are still up on his website.
Listen: The Field Remixes Junior Boys
By Larry Fitzmaurice on June 14, 2011 at 1:20 p.m. EDT
Junior Boys - "Banana Ripple" (The Field Remix)
UPDATE: Track has been removed.
You've heard the BNT'd original, and now it's time to bliss out to repetition-loving producer the Field's remix of Junior Boys' "Banana Ripple", a single from their latest album, It's All True.
Listen to New Battles, Junior Boys Albums
By Tom Breihan on June 6, 2011 at 11:50 a.m. EDT
Gloss Drop, the new album from post-rock groove monsters Battles, arrives June 7-- tomorrow-- in North America, via Warp. (It's already out in the rest of the world.) And right now, the full LP is streaming at Spinner.
Below, we've also got links to some other new albums streaming online right now.
Junior Boys Share New Song, Announce Tour
By Tom Breihan on April 26, 2011 at 10:40 a.m. EDT
Junior Boys: Banana Ripple
It's All True, the new album from the Canadian synthpop smoothies Junior Boys, is due June 14 around the world and June 20 in the UK, via Domino. Up above, the nine-minute, album-closing soul odyssey "Banana Ripple" is streaming. Before the album drops, the group will release "Banana Ripple" as a 12" single on May 30 in the UK, with remixes by the Field and disco edit pioneer Tom Moulton.
The group will tour behind the album, and they've already announced a few dates-- a tour of North America's eastern half, followed by a show in London. We've got their dates below.
Junior Boys Announce New Album
By Tom Breihan on March 11, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. EST
Junior Boys: "ep"
Junior Boys: ep
The suave, sophisticated Canadian electro-poppers Junior Boys will release their new album It's All True the week of June 14 around the world, with a UK release coming June 20, via Domino. The group's own Jeremy Greenspan and Matthew Didemus produced and mixed the record, which they recorded in Shanghai, Berlin, and Ontario; Bob Weston of Shellac and Mission of Burma mastered the album. Before the album drops, the group will release a 12" single of the nine-minute track "Banana Ripple" featuring remixes by the Field and disco edit pioneer Tom Moulton.
Listen: Junior Boys, Oneohtrix Remix Wild Beasts
By Larry Fitzmaurice on September 9, 2010 at 2:30 p.m. EDT
On November 8, British avant-glam troupe Wild Beasts will release an remix EP of tracks from last year's BNM'd Two Dancers. The set's called Two Dancers (Remixes), and Domino's putting it out both digitally and as a double 12" pack. It features reworked cuts by Junior Boys, Oneohtrix Point Never, Jon Hopkins, and Son Lux.
Video: Junior Boys: "Bits & Pieces"
By Tom Breihan on December 9, 2009 at 6:10 p.m. EST
As far as dance duos go, Junior Boys have always seemed pretty shy and retiring. You know what might bring them out of their shell? A gang of garishly neon-painted liquid dancers!
The clip for the Begone Dull Care track "Bits & Pieces", directed by Stephanie Comilang for Hellhound Productions, plays like a low-budget companion piece to Lady Gaga's epically freaky "Bad Romance" video. Junior Boys might not have Gaga's gleaming set design, but the costumes are just as outrageous. Watch the video below, via Domino.
Junior Boys Plot Halloween Tour
By Tom Breihan on September 30, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. EDT
The mannered, well-dressed Canadian synthpoppers in the Junior Boys are not exactly the types to gargle fake blood onstage, but according to a recent press release, frontman Jeremy Greenspan has a love of Halloween that rivals that of Glenn Danzig. Greenspan loves Halloween so much, in fact, that he's encouraging people to rock costumes at every show on their forthcoming North American tour, which will run through most of October and some of November. The group promises CDs and T-shirts as rewards for the best costumes.
Greenspan said, "Part of being a young Jewish kid to me was directing all of your excitement that should've been for Christmas towards Halloween. I was obsessed with Halloween as a kid, I waited for it impatiently, lamented it when it was over. All of my childhood obsessions with science fiction, horror stories, weird movies and strange music all seemed to converge at Halloween. I was particularly mesmerized by Halloween specials like Disney's 'The Skeleton Dance' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', and a television show produced in Hamilton [Ontario] called 'The Hilarious House of Frightenstein'. Even my indoctrination into dance music came from older gothy friends of mine who seemed to see a direct continuation from the spooky sounds of Throbbing Gristle and Skinny Puppy to early 90s Detroit techno."
Junior Boys and Max Tundra Announce Joint Tour
By Tom Breihan on February 11, 2009 at 4:50 p.m. EST
It's been a long day, you've been working hard, money is tight, and you need to blow off some steam finally. So get ready for a night of hazily romantic idiosyncratic homespun synthpop!
Two of the form's finest purveyors, Canadian bloop-sigh duo the Junior Boys and British ADD bedroom-pop auteur Max Tundra, are set to tear up the road together this spring. Both of them have new joints on Domino, so it only makes sense. Begone Dull Care, the third Junior Boys album, will be out on April 7 (March 24 in Canada), and Max Tundra will drop "Which Song", the second single from his album Parallax Error Beheads You, on March 31. ("Which Song" will be backed by the B-sides "Gumiknuppel" and "Which Song [Silverlink Remix]"). Synergy!
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