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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.”
It’s official Pitchfork likes Total Babes. If premiering the first 2 mp3s off the LP wasn’t enough of a hint, today they reviewed the debut LP from the Medina band giving it a 6.6. One more and it’d been even more fitting.
Evan Minsker says of their debut, “it’s 30 minutes of hook-y punk songs: Their aesthetic offers Wavves-colored juvenility, their sound an in-the-red fuzz with a subtle pop sensibility and vocals delivered with a bratty abandon. Despite the shimmering album title, dinosaur-and-ice cream cover art, and bratty delivery, though, Swimming’s a darker album than you might expect.”
You can still get copies of the limited Tape, LP and CD here.
NPR’s World Cafe named Letting Up Despite Great Faults as an Up and Coming Artist to watch.
NPR said:
“The melancholy dissonance of teenage inferiority and uncontainable optimism course through this wistful piece, finding lead singer Mike Lee sounding both nostalgic and caught in a moment that feels never-ending. “Teenage Tide” revels in the highly saturated emotions of adolescence before abruptly self-destructing. The audio distorts as if the listener’s headphones have become dislodged while running home from school.”
Our Friends at Pitchfork premiered the amazing new single from Lost Boy.
If you were raised on Grunge and 90′s MTV then you’ll probably dig Lost Boy. Tapes are moving very fast. If you want to own one, head to the Old Flame Store.
Listen to Chew Here:
Lost Boy-Chew by Old Flame Records
For some largely unknown reason, well a simple and humorous reason, Old Flame was interviewed by the USA Today about making cassette tapes.
Total Babes’ singer/guitarist Chris Brown sums up this cassette story the best:
“Just having that physical copy … shows more support as opposed to buying an mp3 and putting it on your iPod. There were only 100 copies of the tape made, so having one of those hundred gives you more of an intimate feeling for the record knowing you are one of very few people who have it. Everyone has tape players lying around … and everyone can find a way to listen to it.”
Many thanks to our friends at yvynyl for premiering the rocking video for USA from Lost Boy. The video is from the title track to the new EP being released on 9/20/11 digitally and on limited edition cassette tape.
Here’s the video:
Lost Boy ? – USA from Séamus McGuire on Vimeo.
Head over to the amazing Spinner to pick up a free MP3 download of Letting Up Despite Great Faults “Teenage Tide.”
The video for this song was premiered earlier this week by Rolling Stone.
The last few CDs remain. If you want one, go see the band play live or order it here.
Action sports brand Quicksilver used Unouomedude’s Frequency in an awesome Snowboarding video.Click here to watch.