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2011 In Music: A Preview
2010 is still not over. It’s worth mentioning that 2011 is shaping up to be an interesting year, at the very least, in terms of new music coming from some of my long-time favorite bands/potential favorites. Let’s take a look at what is definitely coming out:
Arctic Monkeys – Fourth Studio Album – Sometime!
The Beets – Stay Home – January 11
Black Lips – Sixth Studio Album – April 5
Bright Eyes – The People’s Key – February 15
Davila 666 – Untitled – February
Gentleman Jesse & His Men – Untitled – Sometime!
Hunx and His Punx – Untitled – April
Jens Lekman – Untitled – Sometime!
Lovely Feathers – Untitled – Sometime!
Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Untitled – March
Panda Bear – Tomboy – Sometime!
Peter Bjorn and John – Gimme Some – March
Radiohead – Untitled – Sometime!
Sam Roberts – Untitled – Sometime!
Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde – January 18
The Strokes – Untitled – Sometime!
Tapes ‘N Tapes – Outside – January 11
Editors – Unedited: Deluxe Edition Box Set
Tom Smith
“We’ve been picking through the archive recently, looking back at our 3 records, many many b-sides and some material that has never seen the light of day. It’s been addictive. We can’t leave it alone, much like picking a scab, and we’ve decided to package it all together and share it with our fans, officially. We’ve raided the vaults, searched through old CD-Rs, cassettes and photo albums and gathered it all together. We’d like you to have this music on any and every format we can produce and also share some photos and memories of the last 6 years in a volume that you can keep forever.”
Includes:
Exclusive stunning 12″ 100 page photo-art book (a collection of lyrics; 200 images of artwork, band and live show photographs)
The Back Room (original album CD, LP and download)
An End Has a Start (original album, CD, LP and download)
In This Light and On The Evening (original album CD, LP and download)
You Are Fading B-Sides
| You Are Fading I |
You Are Fading II |
| No Sound But The Wind Last Day Heads In Bags Find Yourself A Safe Place Let Your Good Heart Lead You Home An Eye For An Eye Disappear Crawl Down The Wall For The Money |
Every Little Piece Open Up Some Kind Of Spark Release Banging Heads Come Share The View The Diplomat Dust In The Sunlight |
| You Are Fading III | You Are Fading IV |
| This House Is Full Of Noise Camera (original demo recording) From The Outside Bullets Time To Slow Down A Thousand Pieces I Buried The Devil Alone A Life As A Ghost The Picture |
Colours I Want A Forest Thousands Of Lovers Forest Fire Human No Sound But The Wind (Live at Werchter 2010) You Are Fading These Streets Are Still Home To Me (Version 1) |
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Some of those B-Sides are simply stunning personal favorites including “You Are Fading,” “The Diplomat,” and “Dust In The Sunlight.” I’d say this is a must have for Editors fans.
Purchase Here: http://www.sonymusicdigital.com/editors/details/5705033
Glen’s Best/Worst of 2010: Record Labels
Congratulations to Matador Records for taking the cake in this one. The three Matador/True Panther albums that I noted below were securely in my Top 10 Albums of 2010 list. So, good job, Matador! Keep it up and here’s to 21 more years! Sub Pop and Fat Possum, two other large independent labels, put out some great records as well. On the smaller scale, Goner Records, based in Memphis, released a handful (probably even more) of quality records and I can only guess that 2011 will be another great year for that label and store. Burger Records, which has garnered national attention for its release of cassettes, is small as well, but their devotion to music and the bands that they put out is overwhelmingly large. As far as “better luck next year” labels go, we’ve got In The Red. In The Red has been a consistent favorite for me, but nothing that they put out this year really floored me. It was a bit of an off-year for Domino Records as well. Of course, that can go out without saying the year after releasing two stellar records, Merriweather Post Pavilion [Animal Collective] and Humbug [Arctic Monkeys]. EMI did pretty awful, but that’s expected too…it is a major label after all. Warner Brothers was a mixed bag; Devo’s LP was pretty good, but nothing else really tickled my fancy. I know a lot of people were feeling Dr. Dog and the Black Keys (especially) this year.
Top 5!
1. Matador/True Panther Records – Notable Releases: Hippies [Harlem], Gay Singles [Hunx & His Punx], Memphis [Magic Kids]
2. Sub Pop – Notable Releases: Teen Dream [Beach House], I Will Be [Dum Dum Girls], Everything In Between [No Age]
3. Fat Possum Records – Notable Releases: King of the Beach [Wavves], Lisbon [Walkmen]
4. Goner Records – Notable Releases: First Blood [Nobunny], Melted [Ty Segall]
5. Burger Records – Notable Releases: Cum Stain [Cum Stain], Shame, Shame [APACHE]
Worst!
1. EMI – Un-notable Releases: Of the Blue Colour of the Sky [OK GO], Sea of Cowards [Massive Attack]
2. Domino – Un-notable Releases: There Is Love In You [Four Tet], Hidden [These New Puritans]
The Strokes Discuss Homemade Mixtapes
Interesting topic…this is apparently The Strokes first interview in three years.
New Info. About Handsome Furs Third Studio LP
Spinner.com:
“We kind of realized after we made that ‘Face Control’ record that one of the strengths of the band that really separated it from Wolf Parade — and separated the two audiences — was there was more of a dance party vibe than sort of a cerebral rock vibe to the crowd [at] the shows,” he continued. “It was really cool to be able to have those things separate so I could enjoy them separately — I think we’re kind of going more in the sweaty, punk dance party vibe.”
Handsome Furs is currently touring eastern Europe, and so far have one North American date in Chicago already booked for 2011, they’ll play at Lincoln Hall January 15. According to Boeckner, the band’s new album will be out “late spring/ early summer” if everything goes as planned.”
Nobunny’s Raw Romance Coming To LP Courtesy Burger Records
Nobunny’s collection of old demos, alternative takes, and the like came out as Raw Romance in 2009 in cassette form. Flash forward to February 2011 and you will be able to buy that same collection of recordings, but in VINYL. Burger Records — one of KLYAM’s top record labels of the year (and in general)…more on this later — will be releasing it!
Bright Eyes – “Four Winds”
On Friday December 17 tickets go on sale for Bright Eyes on March 10 at the House of Blues, I bring this up for two reasons, one, I am a big Bright Eyes fan, but also for the past couple of years there have been rumors about Bright Eyes breaking up so Conor Oberst can concentrate on other projects. Will this be the final go around, maybe-maybe not, in any case I am hedging my bets and going, better to play it safe then miss out.
Glen’s Best of 2010: Songs
Rock and Roll/Pop/Etc
1. “Linus Spacehead” – Wavves
2. “Walk In The Park” – Beach House
3. “Cum Stain” – Cum Stain
4. “Gay Human Bones” – Harlem
5. “Motorhead With Me” – Nobunny
6. “Fresh” – Devo
7. “My Sunshine” – Ty Segall
8. “Chem Trails” – No Age
9. “Be Brave” – Strange Boys
10. “Candy” – The Magic Kids
Honorable Mentions:
“Roxanne” – White Wires
“Sea Lion Goth Blues” – The Growlers
“Girls FM” – Happy Birthday
“Broken Dreams Clubs” – Girls
“He Would Have Laughed” – Deerhunter
“Summer In The Kitchen” – Prismo Perfect
“Chem Trails” – No Age
“Angela Surf City” – The Walkmen
“Waiting For Me” – Mark Sultan
“It Only Takes One Night” – Dum Dum Girls
“Ambling Alp” – Yeasayer
“Brian Eno” – MGMT
“Broken Up” – Wheels On Fire
Rap and Hip-Hop
1. “Power” – Kanye West
2. “Black and Yellow” – Wiz Khalifa
Who Did it Better? “I Fought The Law”
A unknown musical fact I came across today (uknown to me anyway), The Clash’s classic song “I Fought The Law” was not a orginal song from the band, it actually was an old song from a band called The Crickets from 1961, who at one time played with Buddy Holly. So for this edition, we are going to look at the original song, The Clash’s cover, and just for the sake of argument, a couple of other covers.
First up, The Crickets:
Next The Clash
Here is A Green Day cover:
Lastly a Dead Kennedy’s cover:
Just going by what was on Youtube this is probably this most covered song KLYAM ever did, so there was actually some selective editing on my part. I went with a punk heavy rotation though because at its heart I think it is a punk song, and I think the Clash do it best. Although the original has some charm to it and I like the edge of the Dead Kennedy’s version (I wasn’t feeling Green Day, I haven’t been feeling them since American Idiot to be honest with you).
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 