'modern retro' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use this term when referring to a style or design that is a contemporary version of something from the past. For example, "This modern retro hotel has an updated vintage look that will appeal to guests of all ages."
"Modern retro," Meyer said.
Popham Design's Hex Artichoke ($29 per square foot, annsacks.com), however, is at once funky, modern, retro, graphic and classy.
A book called Modern Retro was published around the same time and has since sold more than 65,000.
Thorn teamed up with Massive Attack and EBTG devised a "modern retro hybrid" on their landmark albums Amplified Heart and Walking Wounded.
Food options include many of the usual suspects found at the modern retro bars these day: oysters, local pickles, olives, soft pretzels, panini, cured meats and artisan cheeses.
The band recently self-released their first EP, A Night Of Wine, and the title track has an awesome modern retro sound that invites foot-tapping.
Axiom Verge, though, revisits a distinct aesthetic and gameplay tone left fallow by many practitioners of modern retro-mining.
Which makes sense: Just as those bands were reacting to punk rock's creative cul-de-sac in the 1970s and '80s, many of the current bands are reacting to a modern retro-rock trend that has grown stale.
An eroticised, sometimes violent natural world intersects with neurotic humanity dressed up in post-modern retro-chic.
"I call it modern-retro, look at the best we have been and sharpen up what we're doing now".
Theirs is a hybrid sound with a Coldplay sensibility and Radiohead edginess, a low-voiced frontman Sam Margin à la Eric Burdon, along with a Black Keys modern-retro sound.
