How often do you think these bands are confused for each other?
Paul & The Patients features ex-Pitty Sing singer Paul Holmes.
Pete & The Pirates are a British band with no-ex-members of any “15 minutes of blog fame” bands from the early-to-mid 2000’s.
Here we are, not even two weeks into the new year, and I’ve already got an album for my “Favorites of 2011” list. I find it hard to resist Scottish vocalists, especially when they’ve got the full support of a multi-piece backing band such as Jamie Sutherland’s got with Broken Records. Let Me Come Home is the band’s second release and quick dispels any notion of a sophomore slump by delivering a beautiful sounding winter soundtrack. Breaking out of the typical rock boundaries (singer, guitar, bass, drums) by adding a breadth of additional instrumentation (violin, piano, trumpet), Broken Records epic, orchestral songs put them in a league with Snow Patrol, The Frames and Frightened Rabbit among others (all favorite bands of mine).
DOWNLOAD: “A Darkness Rises Above”
DOWNLOAD: “A Leaving Song”
Broken Records is doing a short run in the U.S. in late February/early March and playing relatively smaller venues. Here’s hoping that these shows do well as inspire the band to make another pass through the States at some point in 2011. I have a feeling they put on the type of show that can’t be missed.
Feb 20 – Washington, DC – Black Cat Backstage
Feb 21 – Philadelphia – North Star Bar
Feb 22 – New York City – Mercury Lounge
Feb 23 – New York City – Rock Shop
Feb 24 – Boston – Brighton Music Hall
Feb 26 – Chicago – Schubas
Feb 27 – Minneapolis – Triple Rock Social Club
Mar 02 – Seattle – Tractor Tavern
Mar 03 – Portland – Mississippi Studios
Mar 05 – San Francisco – Rickshaw Stop
Mar 06 – Los Angeles – Satellite Club
Love this song. This was one of the most played on my iPod in 2010 but I couldn’t find a good video of it until now.
Here’s No Age performing “Fever Dreaming” on the Letterman show last night (1/7).
DOWNLOAD: “Fever Dreaming”
The song is every bit as sweet and sugary as the title suggests. “Candyfloss” is the first single from Jonny, a new project featuring Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) and Euros Childs (Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci). The duo’s self-titled debut will be available via digital download on February 1 and will be available in physical form on April 12. However, if you order the CD from the Merge store, you’ll get a download code so that you can get the digital version on February 1. Make sense? Good.
To hold you over until then, Jonny’s made available – for the low, low cost of FREE – a 4-song EP of tracks that didn’t make it onto the 13-song album.
DOWNLOAD: Jonny – Free EP
My obligatory “Favorite CDs of 2010” list was already published (with CD covers and links to videos/MP3s/etc) over at Donewaiting but in case you missed it …
Favorite CDs of 2010
1. The Dollyrots – A Little Messed Up
2. Blood Red Shoes -Fire Like This
3. Everest – On Approach
4. Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
5. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles II
6. The Kissaway Trail – Sleep Mountain
7. Bad City – Welcome to the Wasteland
8. The Unwinding Hours – The Unwinding Hours
9. Massy Ferguson – Hard Water
10. Nas and Damian Marley – Distant Relatives
11. Via Audio – Animalore
12. Kopek – White Collar Lies
13. Ozzy Osbourne – Scream
14. Scott Lucas and the Married Men – George Lassos the Moon
15. The Watson Twins – Talking to You, Talking to Me
16. Gamble House – Gamble House
17. The Posies – Blood/Candy
18. Ratt – Infestation
19. Uniform Motion – Life
20. Tired Pony – The Place We Ran From
21. Chief Nowhere- Chief Nowhere
22. Filter – The Trouble with Angels
23. Lawrence Arabia – Chant Darling
24. No Age – Everything in Between
25. Palmdale – Get Wasted (EP) + How to Be Mean (EP)
According to iTunes, here are the songs that I listened to the most in 2010.
Black Mountain – “Old Fangs”
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