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  OMD's Andy McCluskey Rewrote His Band's History and 'Everybody Bought It'

  April 9, 2013 – 35 years ago, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark started as an attempt to capture the future. At the respective ages of 16 and 15, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys started wrangling synthesizers in the back room of Humphrey's mother's house in Northwest England, creating a sumptuously mechanized take on the post-punk that ruled the late '70s British music scene. …
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  Telekinesis Reveals Which Rock Stars Are Aliens, Performs 'Dormarion' Beauties

  March 18, 2013 – "I love straight-ahead rock records," Telekinesis mainman Michael Lerner told SPIN, speaking on the phone during a recent interview, "but I also love records that that took a lot of risks." Those twin affections are in full flower on the band's third full-length album, Dormarion, due April 2 on Merge. …
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  WATCH: Backstage Interviews from SPIN @ Stubb's

  April 4, 2011 – SPIN's annual bash at Stubb's BBQ in Austin, Texas, was a showstopper once again in 2011, with performances by loads of SPIN-beloved acts, including two-time Album of the Year honorees TV on the Radio, resurgent synth pop icons OMD, and punk supergroup OFF! Watch backstage interviews with all three! TV on the Radio talked about bringing the songs from their excellent new album, Nine Types of Light, to life onstage. …
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  TVOTR, Kills, OFF!, Vaccines Play SPIN's Party

  March 19, 2011 – If TV on the Radio wanted to reintroduce themselves to their audience and get people excited about April's Nine Types of Light, they couldn't have done much better for themselves than their headlining set to a densely packed, sun-baked throng at SPIN's annual party at Stubb's BBQ in Austin. …
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  Inside the SPIN Party at Stubb's

  March 18, 2011 –  …
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  Win Passes for SPIN's Bash at Stubb's!

  March 7, 2011 – Every March in Austin, Texas, SPIN takes over Stubb's BBQ for our annual day party, and this year's lineup boasts TV on the Radio, the Kills, OMD, the Vaccines, OFF!, Smith Westerns, and more. Now, we're giving you loads of chances to win passes to the March 18 bash. Here's how. 1. Enter to win on SPIN.com. Readers can enter to win one of 25 pairs of tickets. This giveaway will end at 11:59 P.M. EST on March 11. 2. …
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  TV on the Radio, Kills Headline SPIN's SXSW Bash

  March 1, 2011 – Two-time SPIN Album of the Year honorees TV on the Radio will headline the annual SPIN@Stubb's bash during this month's SXSW festival, the Brooklyn band's first appearance in support of their upcoming studio album, Nine Types of Light, which arrives April 12. Joining TVOTR at the show -- which runs from 12:30 to 6 P.M. …
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• OMD, 'History of Modern' (Bright Antenna)

  September 28, 2010 – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's first album in 14 years--and first in 24 to feature the lineup that recorded the bulk of their hits--meticulously returns to the ostensibly perky sound and pensive sensibility of the Merseyside quartet's early-to-mid-'80s heyday. Andy McCluskey's ageless croon still conjures ghosts in the synth-pop machinery, as vintage mellotrons weep quasi-operatic tears. …
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  EXCLUSIVE: New Song from Synth Pop Legends OMD

  August 16, 2010 – Synth pop pioneers OMD (Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark) -- best known in the States for "If You Leave," the pop smash from John Hughes' film Pretty in Pink -- are back with their classic lineup and History of Modern (out Sept. 28), the band's first album in 14 years, and first with their classic lineup in 24 years. …
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