Toronoto’s Gay. It feels so odd to write that. Anyway, they’re an experimental indie band outta Canada looking to get their big break.
Check ‘em out….
Toronto\’s \”Gay\” Jungle Jim video
Tags: Indie
Toronoto’s Gay. It feels so odd to write that. Anyway, they’re an experimental indie band outta Canada looking to get their big break.
Check ‘em out….
Toronto\’s \”Gay\” Jungle Jim video
Tags: Indie
Tags: Mario!, Picture of the day, Video Games
Very unusual double-album from a Chapel Hill, NC duo. A little bit indie, a little bit country, a little bit experimental…
Tour Dates:
11.11 • The Berkeley Cafe (Raleigh, NC)
11.12 • The White Hart (Lynchburg, VA)
11.17 • Stage on Herr (Harrisburg, PA)
11.18 • The Gypsy Joynt (Great Barrington, MA)
11.19 • FETE Lounge (Providence, RI)
11.20 • Red Hook Bait and Tackle (Brooklyn, NY)
12.09 • The Soapbox (Wilmington, NC)
Tags: Indie
This would be perfect if he had the big red frizzy wig.
More great hip hop from Domo Genesis of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, the same group of L.A. rappers who spawned Tyler, The Creator. But I dig Domo much more. On this tape, he raps over some Kanye, Scarface…A bunch of great stuff.
Tags: Free Album!, Hip Hop, Mixtape
David Ford is a throwback–in his own words, he’s just a “whiney little Georgia boy singing the blues.” And with song titles like “Liverpool” and “Song For The Republican Convention,” he’s doing nothing to hide that fact.
His new EP is some great rock and roll. Makes me want to see him live. Which you can, by the way, below.
The EP is, apparently, the first half of what will be his fourth album–to be released next summer.
I’m digging it.
Get it for under five bucks at Amazon.
Here he is performing live:
Tags: Indie rock
Brooklyn mope-rock in the house! In researching Country Mice, I found quite a few sites labeling their work as “Americana,” but frankly I don’t see it. This is straight up indie rock by a foursome with a powerful drummer, great melodies, and a guitar-and-bass-and-guitar combo that will knock your socks off.
The songs are simple, and may sound familiar at first listen. But they’re played shockingly well, so I’m inclined to instantly forgive them for following the indie rock formula. This is an extremely promising debut.
Tags: Indie rock
The lead story has to be the October 2011 sales figures, which still show success vis a vis DC’s new 52. It’s safe to say that the new 52, and the new 52 alone, is responsible for America spending 12% more on comic books than they did last October. Comic-book unit orders are also up—by over 32% from last year. That’s tremendous. They’re also up from the first month of the new 52, but I assume that’s because so many DC #1s sold out in September and were reprinted in October. What does 32% mean? It means a million more comic books were sold. DC’s market share was 42%–a new record for the world’s number two comic book publisher. They haven’t hit that number since December 1999, when Grant Morrison’s JLA came out. In comparison, all indie publishers combined got only 28% of the market.
Here’s the top 10 for comic book sales, October 2011:
10. Superman #2.
9. Fear itself #7.
8. Wolverine and the X-Men #1.
7. Hulk #1.
6. Detective Comics #2.
5. Flash #2.
4. Green Lantern #2.
3. Action #2.
2. Batman #2.
1. Justice League #2.
Rounding out the top 25 were second issues of the other Bat-family books, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Teen Titans, Justice League International, and only three other Marvel titles: Fear Itself: Fearless #1; Amazing Spider-Man #671, and the last issue of Uncanny X-Men. So only six Marvel titles cracked the top 25, in a month where one of its bestselling titles ended and we saw a #1 with the word “X-Men” in it. Amazing.
Things didn’t fare much better for Marvel on the trade front, with only one book, Ultimate Spider-Man: The Death of Spider-Man, managing to crack the top 10 (and coming in at #10, no less). DC had 5 books in the top 10, several of them hardcovers, including Flashpoint. Walking Dead got two trades in the top 10 and worth mentioning is that Alan Moore’s horrendously shocking, disgusting, horrifying and brilliant Neonomicon trade paperback came in at #9 for Avatar Press. You should all go buy it, unless you’re easily offended.
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Tags: Captain America, Comic books, Filthy Muties, Spider-Man, Superman, The Avengers
