Post-Mode and Pre-Erasure with Yaz

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY“>
You could say that Depeche Mode’s first big single, “Just Can’t Get Enough,” was one of the first-ever Yaz songs. It was written by Yaz (known outside the U.S. as Yazoo) co-founder Vince Clarke, who would become the prince of synth-pop in Erasure but who was in Depeche [...]

Weird horror with Chris Isaak

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
Chris Isaak has made a career out of singing like Roy Orbison, looking sort of like Morrissey and acting in movies like That Thing You Do and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. His best records echo Orbison or Presley’s finest but just missed our current dark period [...]