NME — "Most bands just take Gang of Four ideas and call them their own" more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Nebraskan dance-punks The Faint released a new single "Young & Realistic" yesterday, which vocalist Todd Fink said, "goes in The Faint Danse Party folder. [It's] pretty song-y for club music and pretty clubby for indie/punk, this one falls right... more info

Consequence of Sound — Glaswegian duo discover their inner Gang of Four with help from Steve Albini. more info

Stereogum — Jon King, the original singer of British post-punk legends Gang Of Four, is known for bashing a microwave with a bat as a form of percussion during the song “He’d Send In The Army.” It’s kind of his thing! Although King exited the band a few ... more info

Stereogum — Athens, Georgia quartet New Madrid have an album called magnetkingmagnetqueen on the way, and lead single “Don’t Hold Me Now” suggests it will be a good one. Propelled by skittering drums and lockstep bass and topped off by Phil McGill’s mang... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Amanda Hatfield; words by Bill Pearis Shopping is The Best Band. They're also The Most British Band, sounding at times like the Slits, Wire, X-Ray Spex, or Gang of Four. Each instrument is played in a manner both... more info

Mercury News, California — Also on deck: Cypress String Quartet gets intimate; Dimmensions Dance tackles Oakland issues; August Wilson; post-punk Gang of Four hits Bay Area more info

Stereogum — On their debut album It’s You, Australia’s Gold Class plays like a brilliant post-punk compendium — the jagged yet chiming guitars of Jawbox and Fugazi, the lockstep rhythm section and dreary climes of Gang Of Four and Joy Division, a quavering... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Modern Sky 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Last year, China's Modern Sky Festival held its first-ever US edition in NYC's Central Park. This year, they're returning to Central Park on October 4, and also doing one in Seattle on... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis UK duo Prinzhorn Dance School are back with a new mini-LP, titled Home Economics, that's out this week via DFA. The band's taught, minimal sound -- somewhere between Young Marble Giants and Gang of Four -- is... more info