2010 Music
I've been doing a crap job at keeping up with new music this year. I went through the new bands I've heard this year, but this list strikes me as fantastically incomplete (and short!). What 2010 releases are getting heavy rotation on your iPod/CD player/record player/tape deck? I'm missing more than I'm hitting lately, so I could use a little help.
Here are a few bands I came across this year that I hadn't heard (or didn't exist) before. I starred the ones that I thought were either really fun or just downright good:
*Local Natives - So indie it hurts, but they're good. Complex harmonies and amazing composition.
*Mumford and Sons - Best of the year. 'Nuff said.
Free Energy - This band sucks in every way possible. They are almost comically bad.
Hundred in the Hands, The - Sounds like a band from Brooklyn. Lots of Korg. Fake drums. Lots of reverb on the vocals. I'm not a fan.
Karen Elson - Should go back to modeling. Awful.
*Mayer Hawthorne (album was an '09) - Worst lyrics, but it's a solid do-wop album. Makes me miss Marvin Gaye.
Two Door Cinema Club - Hell yes. In spite of the ironic disco beats. Very mod. Very good... Until you get sick of the drums.
Broken Bells - James Mercer and Danger Mouse. It's predictably solid.
Just to make it a multi-media event: Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man (on youtube)
Oh yeah, and Pioneer Youth. Best new band of 2010... though I don't they we... I mean they... even have a myspace page yet. Look for shows in the fall. I'll keep you posted.
OK, peeps. What should I be listening to?
Here are a few bands I came across this year that I hadn't heard (or didn't exist) before. I starred the ones that I thought were either really fun or just downright good:
*Local Natives - So indie it hurts, but they're good. Complex harmonies and amazing composition.
*Mumford and Sons - Best of the year. 'Nuff said.
Free Energy - This band sucks in every way possible. They are almost comically bad.
Hundred in the Hands, The - Sounds like a band from Brooklyn. Lots of Korg. Fake drums. Lots of reverb on the vocals. I'm not a fan.
Karen Elson - Should go back to modeling. Awful.
*Mayer Hawthorne (album was an '09) - Worst lyrics, but it's a solid do-wop album. Makes me miss Marvin Gaye.
Two Door Cinema Club - Hell yes. In spite of the ironic disco beats. Very mod. Very good... Until you get sick of the drums.
Broken Bells - James Mercer and Danger Mouse. It's predictably solid.
Just to make it a multi-media event: Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man (on youtube)
Oh yeah, and Pioneer Youth. Best new band of 2010... though I don't they we... I mean they... even have a myspace page yet. Look for shows in the fall. I'll keep you posted.
OK, peeps. What should I be listening to?