The Steve Albini produced Attack on Memory, the latest full length from Cleveland’s Cloud Nothings was named Best New Music from our pals at Pitchfork this week.

Read the full review here.

Come out to Big Snow Buffalo Lodge in Bushwick to see Shark?, Life Size Maps, I’m Turning Into, and The Great American Canyon Band.

It will be fun.

Details here.

Old Flame is excited to be releasing the sophomore effort from Brooklyn’s Dinowalrus on March 6, 2012. The fine folks at Spin Magazine have posted a new mp3 from this release. Check out “What Now” over at Spin.

Now in stock in the Old Flame Store, Tribes – Demos/Live Tapes! These tapes were spray painted gold and numbered from 1 to 100.

Tribes are an ambitious young band with outstanding songs that love the rock’n'roll lifestyle. Tribes have begun to buzz in the UK and Europe, and we hope that follows suit soon in the US. From their humble origins (where one member stole another’s wallet), to Black Francis getting a demo and seeing one show and inviting them to open for the Pixies. Tribes will be a part of the NME Awards Tour in the UK in February, with Two Door Cinema Club, Metronomy, and Azealia Banks. You can order their 10 Inch We Were Children EP here.

Tribes Vibes by TRIBES

Be sure to catch Tribes on their upcoming North American Tour:
Dec. 7 – Great Scott, Boston
Dec. 8 – Mercury Lounge, NYC (early show)
Dec. 9 – Glasslands, Brooklyn
Dec. 10 – The Drake, Toronto
Dec. 11 – Schubas, Chicago
Dec. 12 – The Echo, LA (free show)

Check out Tribes on the web:
http://tribesband.com/
http://www.facebook.com/tribesband
http://soundcloud.com/tribesband
https://twitter.com/tribesband
http://www.youtube.com/tribesvibes
http://www.myspace.com/tribesband

One of our favorite publiciations, Under the Radar, have premiered the new video from Letting Up Despite Great Faults.

Check out the cute Sophia in Gold video directed by Douglas Burgdorff below:

The world seems pretty amazed that people are making cassette tapes again. First USA Today came calling, then it was Perez Hilton, now we were featured on the Swedish version of Good Morning America.

Click here to watch the clip of Lost Boy and Rob of Old Flame talking about why cassette tapes are still relevant.

The fine folks over at the Portland Mercury had some really kind words to say about the new Turf War LP.

The Mercury’s Ned Lannamann said that he “keeps listening to Turf War’s debut album, Years of Living Dangerously, over and over again without really meaning to. I think I got addicted to it. And for good reason: It’s a terrific, hooky record that gets by on attitude more than anything else; the word that invariably comes up in Turf War’s press releases is “rowdy.” Rowdy, yes, but but it certainly doesn’t sound sloppy—these songs are tight little kernels of rock ‘n’ roll that urge you to, quick, learn the melody and memorize the words so you can sing along already. The Atlanta band—and, yeah, I suppose that press picture isn’t gonna do them any favors—cuts right down to the bone of what makes music fun. I find myself referring to the Replacements when I’ve mentioned Turf War to friends.”

Thanks Ned. You’ll probably like Turf War too. Give them a spin.

New Old Flame band You Won’t were recently named the MP3 of the week from the Boston Phoenix.

It’s good to see the band get some love in their hometown. Be on the lookout for their debut LP Skeptic Goodbye in early 2012.

Surf, Skate, & Snow Fashion brand Quicksilver has taken a liking to Jacksonville’s unouomedude, naming him a featured artist on their blog.

They write “Crafting wonderfully fuzzy, outright contagious dream pop, Jacksonville’s Unoumedude – Uno for short – melds elements of dance and punk without diluting the influence of either style. Uno’s newest single, “Frequency,” adds a few clever chillwave touches, taking distorted vocals, reverb-laden drums, and enough layers of melody to bake a cake with to weave a sound that’s not so much trendy as it is trend-setting.”

We couldn’t agree more! Thanks Quicksilver!

The fine folks over at World Cafe have featured Letting Up Despite Great Faults as their band of the day today.

World Cafe shared Teenage Tide as part of a compilation of up and coming bands a few days back. You can download the full sampler here.

Of Letting Up World Cafe says, “A melancholy dissonance between teenage inferiority and uncontainable optimism courses through the band’s wistful tunes, which find Lee sounding both nostalgic and caught in a moment that feels never-ending. “Teenage Tide,” for example, revels in the highly saturated emotions of adolescence before abruptly self-destructing. The audio distorts as if the listener’s headphones have become dislodged during a run home from school. Hear this song, and another from Paper Crush, on today’s World Cafe: Next.”