Articles about The Cocteau Twins

Audio Archaeology: Fruitopia Ads

By Cap Blackard on August 2nd, 2009

In 1994 the Coca-Cola company debut a bold, new bottled juice beverage line, Fruitopia. It wasn’t just a fruit drink — it was a concept, a gateway to a higher plain of flavor, the one path to real, ultimate thirst quenching. Coke banked on the early-nineties’ Summer of Love nostalgia trip to market their Snapple-competing drink to Generation X’s wannabe hippie crowd. The result was a striking, psychedelic television ad campaign that made Fruitopia out to be a, like, totally mind-opening beverage, man.

List ‘Em Carefully: CoS’ Top Ten Christmas Songs

By Tim Nordberg on December 24th, 2008

This is a list of Christmas songs. This list is an antidote to people who think the intersection of Christmas and rock music begins with “Jingle Bell Rock” and ends with “Run, Run Rudolph”. This is a list of bands that you know – and might even care about – either chiming in [...]