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From my native Cleveland, OH, Cloud Nothings eight-song debut Turning On is one of the grittiest, most immediate hitting indie pop record i’ve heard in a while. The kind of record that needs repeated listens and seeing their fantastic live show just made them more of an obsession. Turning On is out via CA’s Bridgetown Records in a limited edition of 50 CDs and 100 cassettes.
Cloud Nothings – Can’t Stay Awake
www.myspace.com/cloudnothings
Happy New Year!
Now that we are well into 2010, it’s time to look back at some of the best releases of the past year.
Here are some year end lists from the Old Flame roster.
Mean Creek:
Daniel Johnston- Is and Always Was
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
Built to Spill – There is No Enemy
Cass Mccombs – Catacombs
Elvis Perkins In Dearland – S/T
Nirvana – Live at Reading
Cotton Jones – Paranoid Cocoon
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Russian Circles – Geneva
Headlights – Wildlife
Buy Mean Creek – The Sky (Or The Underground)
Twin Tigers:
Health – Get Color
No Age – Losing Feeling
The Antlers – Hospice
Flaming Lips – Embryonic
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
Long Legged Woman – Nobody Knows This Is Nowhere
Atlas Sound – Logos
Japandroids – Post Nothing
Maserati – Passages
Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
Twin Tigers debut album out digitally 1/19/10 and in stores 3/2/10
Wintergreen:
Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
Muse – The Resistance
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Dethlok – Dethalbum II
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Kings of Leon – Only By The Night
Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy
Where The Wild Things Are – Karen O & the Kids
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below
Twin Tigers – Automatic EP
Wintergreen’s new album Rebel Shout out digitally and limited CD on 2/16/10
Rob Mason Old Flame Records:
Big Pink – A Brief History of Love
Pomegranates – Everybody, Come Outside
Sonic Youth – The Eternal
Cold Cave – Love Comes Close
The Answering Machine – Another City, Another Sorry
Boat – Setting the Paces
The XX- S/T
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – S/T
French Miami – S/T
Japandroids – Post Nothing
Here’s to an awesome 2010!
Athens based psych-shoegaze-indie-pop gems Twin Tigers have just started their November tour w/ The Antlers and Minus the Bear.
To celebrate, Twin Tigers release the Automatic EP for FREE!
Click Here to Download
With only a self-released EP under their belt, Twin Tigers have managed to find their way onto the stage with everyone from Les Savy Fav, Deerhunter, Dead Confederate, Black Lips, Dungen, Woods, A Place to Bury Strangers, Snowden and more…
Make the time. See Twin Tigers LIVE!
The band recently completed their debut record, Gray Waves, which will be released by
Brooklyn based Old Flame Records in early ‘10
Tons of Tour Dates:
Nov 1- Downtown Brew w/ Minus the Bear & The Antlers- San Luis, California
Nov 2- Belly Up Tavern w/ Minus the Bear & The Antlers- Solana Beach, California
Nov 3- Glass House w/ Minus the Bear & the Antlers – Pomona, California
Nov 4- Orpheum Theater w/ Minus the Bear & The Antlers- Flagstaff, Arizona
Nov 6- The Door w/ Minus the Bear & The Antlers- Fort Worth, Texas
Nov 7-Fun Fun Fest- Austin, Texas
Nov 8- White Rabbit w/ Minus the Bear & The Antlers-San Antonio, Texas
Nov 10- Workplay Theater w/ Minus the Bear & The Antlers- Birmingham, Alabama
Nov 11- Firestone w/ Minus the Bear & The Antlers- Orlando, Florida
Nov 12- 40 Watt w/ Minus the Bear & The Antlers- Athens, Georgia
Nov 13- Cat’s Cradle w/ Minus the Bear- Carrboro, North Carolina
Nov 14- The Note w/ Minus the Bear- West Chester, Pennsylvania
Nov 15- The Crazy Donkey w/ Minus the Bear- Farmingdale, New York
Nov 16- Mercury Lounge – New York, New York
Nov 17- Westcott Theater w/ Minus the Bear- Syracuse, New York
Nov 18- Port City Music Hall w/ Minus the Bear- Portland, Maine
Nov 19- Pearl Street w/ Minus the Bear- Northampton, Massachusetts
Nov 20- Mr. Smalls Theater w/ Minus the Bear- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nov 21- Otto’s Nightclub w/ Minus the Bear- Dekalb, Illinois
Nov 22-People’s Court w/ Minus the Bear- Des Moines, Iowa
Nov 23-Granada Theater w/ Minus the Bear- Lawrence, Kansas
Mean Creek played their biggest show yet this past Friday, playing at the Paradise in Boston as the direct support for Buffalo Tom. The show was sold out and the band delivered a stellar set in front of nearly 700 people.
The Boston Globe did a great interview with the band. You can read it HERE.
Band In Boston recorded the audio from the show.You can listen to it HERE on Boston.com or at their site, Band In Boston.
If you are on the East Coast, look out for Mean Creek as they head out on a mini-tour in July!
July 12 at the Mercury Lounge in NYC
July 14 The Space w/Cotton Jones in Portland, ME
July 15 Club Hell w/Cotton Jones in Providence, RI
July 16 The Space w/Cotton Jones in Hamden, CT
July 17 Jungle Space Loft in Brooklyn, NY
Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears will release their follow up to 2008’s beloved Flight of the Knife. The forthcoming Mad Valentine EP will be jointly released on Elijah Woods’ Simian Records and Brooklyn based Old Flame Records on October 27th.
BSST has been called “psychedelic,” “progressive,” “quirky,” and “strange,” yet the Brooklyn based band truly consider themselves first and foremost —a pop band.
2008’s Flight of the Knife fused glam, psych rock, and theatrical 70s pop with science fiction narratives and elaborate children’s stories.
A conceptual tour-de-force, the album hit #6 on the iTunes Rock Chart after being made Editor’s Choice, and amassed a significant cult following.
The group continues to win fans with their flamboyant and maniacally-energetic stage shows — multimedia events which showcase the band’s story-telling and flair for the dramatic.
Tour Dates!
Sep 3 – U of Illinois (Courtyard Cafe) – Urbana, Illinois
Sep 4 – Spin- Indianapolis, Indiana
Sep 5 – Schubas – Chicago, Illinois
Sep 6 – Private Event -Milwuakee, Wisconsin
Sep 8 – Skull Alley – Louisville, Kentucky
Sep 12 – 92Y Tribeca – New York, New York
UME
Hailing from Austin, TX, ume shares my penchant for sonic youth inspired guitar shrieks, silversun pickups’ harmonies, and lowercase letters. The trio of Eric Larson, Jeff Barrera and Lauren Langner Larson absolutely tear it up live and their latest effort, the self-released Sunshower ep will have you hooked in no time.
Here is an mp3 from a WOXY.com session they recorded during SXSW this past year. Listen to “The Conductor”.
Their record The Sky (Or The Underground) will be released in August on Old Flame Records. Check out “The Sky (Or The Underground)”
Jun 26 2009 8:00P
@ The Paradise w/ Buffalo Tom Boston, Massachusetts
Jul 14 2009 8:00P
@ The Space w/ Cotton Jones Portland, Maine
Jul 15 2009 8:00P
@ Club Hell w/ Cotton Jones Providence, Rhode Island
Jul 16 2009 8:00P
@ The Space w/ Cotton Jones Hamden, Connecticut
Jul 17 2009 8:00P
@ Loft w/ Gunfight Brooklyn, New York
Aug 8 2009 8:00P
DUAL CD RELEASE W/ DRUG RUG @ Middle East (Downstairs) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Athens, GA and Old Flame’s Twin Tigers release their latest work, Sexless Love, digitally and on extremely limited grey vinyl. Blending influences from Jesus and Mary Chain, U2, Black Angels and Sonic Youth, Twin Tigers are set for total world domination.
Only 300 of these exist in the world and thanks to early support from WOXY.com, Pampelmoose , and various others very few of these remain unclaimed. Get yours now in the Old Flame webstore!
Look for their debut full-length in September of 2009. Until then check out “Sexless Love”
Los Angeles’ Wintergreen make their Old Flame debut with their “Forest St” EP. Featuring their trademark sunny Los Angelean take on gloomy Pacific NW indie-pop, Forest St features 4 new songs and a cover of Cindi Lauper’s Goonies classic “Good Enough.”
Listen to “Good Enough”