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The 2000 American Music Awards: A Gallery

Mike Wass | May 14, 2020 5:45 pm
Mike Wass | May 14, 2020 5:45 pm

Glitz and glamor. More »


LFO Frontman Rich Cronin Dead At 35

Robbie Daw | September 9, 2010 10:09 am
Robbie Daw | September 9, 2010 10:09 am

Resurgent LFO Now Trying To Bring Back The Other Bad Parts Of The ’90s

noah | July 15, 2009 3:00 pm
noah | July 15, 2009 3:00 pm

lfoEarlier this afternoon I was absently listening to my iTunes library, and a song came on that made me wonder at first if someone had decided to play a trick on me by adding pieces of the Offspring’s back catalog to my playlist. Given that this scenario is pretty much logistically impossible at present, I was forced to check out what song I was hearing. As it turned out, the song was by a band that made its bones in the ’90s, albeit at the very tail end of the decade! More »



LFO Get Acquainted With Another Summer Girl

noah | July 14, 2009 4:30 pm
noah | July 14, 2009 4:30 pm

abercrombieandfitchI always say that I’m going to swear off mash-ups—too kitschy, too early-millennium—but then another one comes along that makes my resolve waver. The pop blog Sheena Beaston unearthed the latest one to make me smile, Virginia DJ CJ Milli‘s collision between Lumidee’s summertime staple “Never Leave You” (a.k.a. the “uh oh… uh oh” song that was all over New York radio a few years back) and LFO’s ode to ladies who wear Abercrombie and Fitch “Summertime Girls.” The slight dissonance between Lumidee’s vocals and LFO’s lyte funkiness is sorta reminiscent of the bending that happens to ice cream trucks’ tinkling music as drivers make their rounds on summer evenings. After the jump, another “Never Leave You” remix that I found while trying to unearth one version of the song’s video that didn’t feature cameos by Busta Rhymes and Fabolous (no offense intended, they just weigh down one of the airiest pop songs to grace radio in ages): More »


LFO Reunion Show Yet Another Sign That World’s Supply Of Broken-Up Bands Is Running Dangerously Low

noah | May 21, 2009 2:00 pm
noah | May 21, 2009 2:00 pm

1357The boy band LFO–whose name stood for “Lyte, Funky Ones,” and whose song about young ladies who purchased their clothing at Abercrombie & Fitch is something of a nostalgia-trip staple–is reuniting in July for a show at New York’s Highline Ballroom. Tickets are $35, although those who would like to engage in a “meet & great” can pay a bit extra. Whether the women attending this show will pull out their old A&F clothing–or show that they’ve matured by wearing duds from Anthropologie or gotten smarter about money by sporting H&M–remains to be seen, but in the interim, why not look at a video that LFO member Rich Cronin made while waiting for the reunion iron to strike last year, and think about how its attached song really, really sounds like “Summer Girls”? More »


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