International music, News

The Breakdowns – The Kids Don’t Wanna Bop Anymore

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File under: The best stuff ever. New The Breakdowns album The Kids Don’t Wanna Bop Anymore is most likely friggin’ amazing. I’m excited after checking out just the 30 sec samples and a couple of full songs. I’m gonna order the album tomorrow. This UK band plays my kind of music. Just great power pop/garage/rock’n’roll action going on. Hey Veronica sounds like The Shoes to me and that’s hardly a bad thing. The Ramones tribute The Kids Don’t Wanna Bop Anymore works equally well. Magnificent!

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Video of the Day #76: Brown Bird

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I already wrote about the new Brown Bird album Salt For Salt a couple of months ago, but the album is actually coming out later this week. I just pre-ordered my copy tonight and got the download. I only quickly browsed through a couple of songs, so no opinions just high expectations at this point. But I know what I will be doing at work tomorrow. I will listen to this album, because good music makes hard physical work so much easier. Anyway, I just saw this great live video of Brown Bird playing Thunder & Lightning at WBUR studios and really enjoyed it. The song is also on the new album.

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These great tracks are also on the new album.

Fingers to the Bone:

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Bilgewater:

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Brown Bird Website

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Lenny and The Piss Poor Boys reissued

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Suburban Home Records will release several great albums later in 2011. Micah Schnabel and Have Gun, Will Travel are getting ready to release their new albums, but let’s begin with this amazing reissue. Lenny and The Piss Poor Boys from Boston released one amazing album mid 00s, but it’s been out of print for a long while. I only have a lame digital version myself and I’m thrilled that I’m finally able to buy it. It really is a great country album. Traditional country and punk fits well together. Sure there are many punk rockers going country these days and I really like many of them. But only a couple of them can reach the same heights as Lenny and The Piss Poor Boys reached on their debut album. Reissue should hit the stores late november, but you can already preorder it from Suburban Home. You can listen to two great songs from the album on this little sampler.

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Small Houses – North

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Way too much time with beetroots and way too little time with the blog. That’s how things are going on at the moment and there’s so many great releases that I haven’t mentioned yet. Let’s start with this charming folk album entitled North. Small Houses is a Jeremy Quentin from Michigan an this thing of beauty was released on 6th of october. Slowcoustic introduced Small Houses to me a week or two ago and I got pretty obsessed with the song Late July during that night and still rate it as one of the best folk songs of the year. The whole album is captivating and extremely highly recommended. Especially if you are into artists like Chris Bathgate and Hezekiah Jones, you have found a new favourite. This is Late July from Bridgehouse Sessions.

Small Houses Bridgehouse Session Pt. 3 from Mostly Midwest on Vimeo.

Small Houses Website

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