Asides

Video: “Candyfloss” – Jonny

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

Favorite CDs of 2010

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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New releases from Small Stone Records (The Might Could, Suplecs)

Small Stone put out some great stoner-rock/metal in 2010 (check out this post on Brokenbeard.com that spotlights 9 releases including some great stuff by Skanska Mord and All Time High) and is getting 2011 started off quickly with new releases by The Might Could (featuring Alabama Thunderpussy’s Erik Larson) and Suplecs.

Small Stone’s website curiously doesn’t have any free MP3s to sample from either artist but you can check out music by both at their respective MySpace pages.

The Might Could tour dates

Jan 6, 2011 – Newark, DE – Mojo Main
Jan 7, 2011 – Philladelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie
Jan 8, 2011 – Brooklyn, NY – The Acheron
Jan 9, 2011 – Allston, MA – Great Scott
Jan 10, 2011 – North Hampton, MA – The Elevens
Jan 11, 2011 – Pittsburgh, PA – 31st Pub
Jan 12, 2011 – Cleveland, OH – Now Thats Class
Jan 13, 2011 – Indianapolis, IN – TBA
Jan 14, 2011 – Chicago, IL – The Empty Bottle
Jan 15, 2011 – Detroit, MI – Corktown Tavern
Jan 16, 2011 – Akron, OH – The Leathershop
Jan 17, 2011 – Columbus, OH – Bourbon St.
Jan 18, 2011 – Baltimore, MD – The Side Bar
Jan 19, 2011 – Richmond, VA – Strange Matter

Band(camp) of the Week: The Short Summers

Kicking off 2011 with a new feature – Band(camp) of the Week. One of the greatest sites I found for discovering new music in 2010 was Bandcamp.com. It reminds me a lot of the early days of MP3.com where unsigned or independent bands would post free music for people to check out. The idea is similar with Bandcamp.com – artists upload their music and then set a price for it – often, many bands just want the exposure and the chance to be heard and give their music away for free or for a very low price (many EPs and full lengths start with a suggested $1 donation).

Boston’s The Short Summers packaged together their individual 7″ releases into one download on Bandcamp.

Recommended for fans of: Pavement and Steve Malkmus’s solo material.

Video: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – “Back in the Saddle”

Awesome.

Catch Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin on tour this January and February with Tokyo Police Club and Two Door Cinema.

JANUARY 2011
17 – The Met, Pawtucket RI
19 – Paradise Rock Club, Boston MA
20 – 9.30 Club, Washington DC
21 – Terminal 5, New York NY
22 – The Trocadero Theatre, Phildelphia PA
23 – Newport Music Hall, Columbus OH
25 – The Masquerade, Atlanta GA
26 – Crowbar, Tampa FL
27 – The Social, Orlando FL
28 – Culture Room Ft. Lauderdale, FL
29 – Jack Rabbits Jacksonville, FL
31 – Spanish Moon Baton Rouge, LA

FEBRUARY 2011
01 – Granada Theater Dallas, TX
02 – La Zona Rosa Austin, TX
03 – Warehouse Live Houston, TX
05 – Exit/In Nashville, TN
07 – The Blue Note Columbia, MO
08 – Firebird St. Louis, MO