Hey it's 2010 and the Oldsters are kicking Brooklyn ass (Mostly)

Hey it's 2010 and the Oldsters are kicking Brooklyn ass (Mostly)

by | May 16, 2010 | 2010, Best of


Hey ironic mustaches! Can you focus on the music and less on your retro brown pants? I dig the tats but those will get saggy in due time. I dig openness but most of you will get conservative soon too but what will last is your attention to music and your legacy. Not going to directly slag your scene but this year yet again The Oldsters are kicking music’s punkless-asses all over Fulton Street like a sober pathetic drunk. It should be an all out knife fight with the jukebook but it mostly sounds like a tuneless teen idle worship. I’m begging for somebody to point me to some new dish. Seriously this is your last chance.

Here’s 7 of my Top 10 Music List of 2010 (so far):
Teenage Fanclub – Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Seconds: A Short Cut T Damn talk about a pop-tart vocal triumph. Try this T on for size “Ain’t That Enough” mp3
The Fall – The Future of Clutter Wow on first listen its like peeling the wax out of my ears with pretty distorted things like solvent is to glue is to the desperate need of fresh air in this lame new music landscape. Taste this download “Hot Cake” – mp3
The New Pornographers – Together Has already made billboard waves. It’s going to be huge this year no denying the songster genius. Kick down the clutch and download “If You Can’t See My Mirrors” – mp3
The Hold Steady – Heaven Is Whenever Ironically mustacheless with one man down there is no stopping Craig Finn and this band. Toping their last release it gives a big fat lip to Aerosmith greatest hits like it was nothing. Have a drink my fellows and sample “The Weekenders” mp3
Sweetapple – Love & Desperation Dude you like kiss and big monster drug rock guitars with solos? If Witch, Cobra Verde and J Mascis started a band they would sound like this… oh wait. You can’t be metaphor to yourself or can you? Chomp on this one geeks (Hint: sounds nothin’ like Country Life but the cover sure is nice)”Flying Up A Mountain” m4a
Male Bonding – Nothing Hurts You know your local record store dorks have made this record just for you when think it just flows naturally after listening to all the bands listed above no matter the track. They cut out the schwagg and just give you the raw parts. Sort of like Obits meets Crystal Stilts. It’s raw like the smell of a hot plastic cassette mix in the summer which you bank on upping you chances of getting some(From London so Brooklyn you just had your teeth given to you neatly wrapped in under 29 minutes and 34 seconds. Try “Year’s Not Long” mp3
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – The Brutalist Bricks Jersey always performs well with Bloomfield local with this one being Ted’s 9th release. This batch of songs is up there with The Tyranny of Distance in my humble opinion. It’s raw in all the right places and never trying to be something he’s not so super huge amount of respect to this brand of punkrock. Dig “Gimme The Wire” mp3

Holy Crap Best of 2008 lists

Holy Crap Best of 2008 lists

by | Jan 10, 2009 | 2008, Best of, Music reviews

I found the craziest list which I think was compiled by a nutcase programmer. Check out Largehearted boys 2008 Year-end round-up list o’ lists. Has every damn site best of listing — everybody’s list! We’re still listening and trying to decide over here. It’s a lot of freaking work. So far these records have made it on there and when we are done we’ll put a podcast together. Geesh.

In no particular order:

1) Do you like rock music? by British Sea Power – Holy crap this is another UK band that just took things to a whole different level, earthy and dark, blankets of sound

2) Nouns by No Age – Best duo i’ve heard in a long time. Plenty of noise, respectable burried vocals. Dig that washy sound man.

3) Old Wounds by Young Widows – Mucho distorted bass and straight up riffage like minimal rock should be. No trickery.

4) Lust Lust Lust by The Raveonettes – lots of layers and reverb just like god intended for any post Jesus and Mary Chain band to sound like.

5) The Devil You + Me by The Notwist – This is dark and bad-ass with the right balance of technology mixed with guitars

6) Little Death by Pete and the Pirates – I was shocked I like this so much but then again I’m a sucker for a good UK guitar driven pop band with lots of attitude.

Ok that is it for now.Yeah i list six freakin’ records so what! If you want to throw down your own opinion feel free to participate in Tric Mccall’s annual critics poll for 2008. Your opportunity ends Jan 30.