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October 19, 2012 – Crystal Castles' songs, even when they were of the chirpy 8-bit variety, have always been dark and implicitly violent. Consequence of Sound points to live footage of the Canadian duo performing a new one live in Denver this week, and what's most striking is how comparatively blissed out this neo-rave floor-stomper is. …
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September 26, 2012 – Ever-buzzy grave-wavers Crystal Castles are coming back on November 5 with their third album, (III). …
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September 24, 2012 – If there's a band that understands the confluence of beauty and terror, it's Crystal Castles. Their July-leaked grave-rave freakout "Plague" has met its visual match in a new video shared by the band via Facebook, as WAWSTSF points out.The clip was actually put together by Serbian fan Ivan Grbin, who has a history of syncing up film footage of possessed women to gothy songs. …
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July 26, 2012 – Fresh off unleashing the thrillingly grave-ravey first cut from their latest album, Crystal Castles have confirmed their third studio LP will arrive in September. Will it sound extremely different than their previous work? Evidently not!
"There's no departure," Ethan Kath told NME bluntly of the as-yet-untitled record. "We like how we sound. …
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July 25, 2012 – Crystal Castles are back, and it's beautifully terrifying. The time since the Canadian duo's second self-titled album a couple of years ago has only brought more competition in the "spooky, basement-ready electronic pop" category, most notably from Purity Ring, whose (admittedly more twee-leaning) Shrines came out this week after a string of near-perfect singles, but also from "witch-house" acts like Balam Acab. …
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February 22, 2012 – Alice Glass' demon-possessed stage presence has long helped set Crystal Castles apart from other fuzzy electronic pop duos. …
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October 24, 2011 – Nobody in the audience wore sunglasses at SPIN's Flip Out showcase at CMJ on Saturday, but they didn't need to. The event at lower Manhattan's DCTV Firehouse was a see-and-be-seen kind of place — fitting the strong lineup, announced only a week earlier. (The party was presented by SPIN and Ray-Ban and sponsored by Kanon Organic Vodka.)
Fire in the disco! …
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October 17, 2011 – SPIN and Ray-Ban will close out this year's CMJ Music Marathon with Flip Out: A Never Hide Concert, an exclusive bash on Saturday, October 22, featuring performances by Crystal Castles, the Rapture, and A-Trak at a secret location in New York City. …
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Locrian, Return to Annihilation
Palms, Palms
Heliotropes, A Constant Sea
Spectrals, Sob Story
Red Hare, Nites Of Midnite
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Christopher Paul Stelling, False Cities
Big Eyes, Almost Famous
Japanther, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Mind Control
Pure X, Crawling Up The Stairs
pacificUV, After The Dream You Are Awake
Destroid, The Invasion
Marques Toliver, Land of CanAan
Roomrunner, Ideal Cities
Gene The Southern Child & Parallel Thought, Artillery Splurgin'
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