Fine American Art!
The Boom Bang – “Coast of Christmas Trash”
Oklahoma surf/punk group has just released a single called “Coast of Christmas Trash,” which you can listen to/watch the video of below and if you really like it download it (link below) or buy it on iTunes or Amazon.
It’s equally trashy and subversively catchy, if I must say.
Myspace Link: http://www.myspace.com/theboombang
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?e3lt7477nfa7c
New Peter Bjorn and John Album Out March 2011!
Peter Bjorn and John are all done with their sixth studio album! It will be released on March 29th on StarTime International. According to member John Eriksson: “‘We originally planned to make a punk rock album, but listening to it now it’s definitely a pop rock album. But it sounds more punk rock when we play the songs live!’” This is surely departure from their electronically experimental (but very good) 2009 LP Living Thing.
The Futureheads – “Heartbeat Song”/”Struck Dumb”
The Futureheads are one of my favorite bands right now, with five albums under their belts they put out a nice body of work and show no signs of stopping. Although they don’t have the biggest fan base in America, they sell reasonably well and have their supporters. Here are two of my favorite songs from their latest album ‘The Chaos’.
Heartbeat Song
Struck Dumb
Sex Machine
Now I understand how he got those young women to obey him. Superfly!
Pete Doherty Has A Website That Makes Noises
There’s no much content, but if you want to give “Peter” your e-mail address, he will follow up sometime with goodies.
In other news, he went to court for cocaine a few days ago.
Band of the Week: Jacuzzi Boys
Trio from the Sunshine State that rock hard. Their debut record No Seasons [2009] is a keeper. They are playing on the Bruise Cruise that sails away from Miami in February.
Boston Music Awards 2010
I don’t usually pay attention to music awards of any kind, but here are some notable (relative to KLYAM anyway) winners from last night’s show.
Artist of the Year: Amanda Palmer
Rock Artist of the Year: Girlfriends
Best Live Music Venue: Middle East
Radio 92.9 Boch Boston Band Award: Gold Star Morning*
Congrats!
*GSM drummer is our very own James DiNanno. Good work brother!
For a full list, turn here: http://theywillrockyou.com/2010/12/boston-music-awards-2010-winners/
Who Did it Better? “Baby, I Love You”
For this edition I decided to cover the The Ronettes “Baby, I Love You” which I believe is one of the greatest love songs ever written (disagree take it to the comments). This time I am only including one cover song from another Phil Spector band The Ramones.
First up the orginial
Next up the Ramones
Hard to beat a classic, and I don’t think The Ramones do it, still a nice cover none the less.
CD Review: First Four EPs [2010]
Band: OFF!
Release: 11/2011
Label: Vice Records
1. “Black Thoughts” – A-
2. “Darkness” – B+
3. “I Don’t Belong” – A-
4. “Upside Down” – B+
5. “Poison City” – B+
6. “Now I’m Pissed” – B
7. “Killing Away” – B+
8. “Jeffrey Lee Pierce” – A-
9. “Panic Attack” – B
10. “Crawl” – B-
11. “Blast” – B+
12. “Rat Trap” – B-
13. “Fuck People” – B
14. “Full of Shit” – B
15. “Broken” – B
16. “Peace In Hermosa” – B
Comments: This is the kind of record that you simply can’t review while doing something else. If you decide to go the multi-tasking route, which I did, you might just find yourself listening to the sixth track of the record while you’re under the impression that you’re still on the second. For long-time followers of punk rock, such a perception is child’s play. At any rate, I haven’t heard many hardcore punk songs…sad, I know. OFF! is the latest band of Keith Morris, a rather prolific person in hardcore punk (front-man of Black Flag, Circle Jerks). That’s that. The songs on this record are very good. You can tell these guys have been around for a while. Loads of recycled chord progressions and stuff like that. That’s kind of expected in any genre of music, but these kind of things seem to particularly stick out on here.
Grade: B (86)
