Watch, Listen, Tell

SO i discovered this little youtube channel called "watchlistentell" about a year and a half ago and fell in love with it. It produces fantastic looking videos consisting of up and coming bands doing acoustic versions of one of their own songs. i'm constantly checking the channel each month eagerly awaiting a new video from a really incredible band. It's getting bigger by the day and i wouldn't want you guys to miss out...

SO HERE ARE MY FAVOURITES:

Bombay Bicycle Club - Dust On the Ground




The Joy Formiddable - Whirring




The Golden Silvers - Magic Touch




Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work




Villagers - Becoming A Jackel




Chief - Night and Day




Lucy Rose - Night Bus




Forest Fire - Fortune Teller




Cloud Control - Gold Canary




there you go, i hope you enjoyed.

TIM.

Novels

I stumbled across this little band called Novels. It's a mixture of band members from Born Ruffians, Tokyo Police Club, Jay Sad, Ex~Po and Will Currie and the Country Frenchmen. They made a small 5 song ep back in 2009, but never released, claiming:

" NOVELS won't be sold in CD stores, on the internet, or anywhere else. Instead, we'll give them away, or put them places. Maybe you'll find a copy sitting on a park bench. Maybe a masked man will hand you one as he passes you on the street. Maybe none of these things will happen. But we'll make sure that everyone gets a chance to listen if they want to."


But alas, they have been nice enough to give birth to five video chapters of the recording processes of each song.

NOVELS - Introduction & Pitch Session from Wade Vroom on Vimeo.

NOVELS - This Wouldn't Be The First Time (Chapter 1 of 5) from Wade Vroom on Vimeo.

NOVELS - Mr. Foster's Teenage Daughter (Chapter 2 of 5) from Wade Vroom on Vimeo.

NOVELS - Big Run (Chapter 3 of 5) from Wade Vroom on Vimeo.

NOVELS - Record In Hand (Chapter 4 of 5) from Wade Vroom on Vimeo.

NOVELS - No Hard Feelings (Chapter 5 of 5) from Wade Vroom on Vimeo.

Now hopefully bye now you watched all the videos. Thank you. now here's a free gift.

Step 1:
Click here to download the whole Novels album.

http://okaynovels.com/Novels.zip (copy, paste into URL for automatic download)

Step 2: Listen to all the songs

Step 3: Give this link to your friends

Step 4: Burn the Novels songs to some CDs

Step 5: Share those CDs with strangers. Hide them at the supermarket! Leave them at your doctor's office! Have fun with it!

Step 6: Send us an email with a photo and the city of where you hid the CDs. Send us a photo of the random person you shared a disc with! We will put it up on the blog!


Thank You Novels, may we all learn to love your quintuplets that you blessed the world with. Go forth and spread!

TIM.

New Music Videos from Bands That are Good.

Here's your supply of good music that should suffice your ears as well as your eyes.
enjoy.

The Wild Honey Pie Presents: Tokyo Police Club Buzzsessions NY from The Wild Honey Pie on Vimeo.

that's all folks.

TIM.

10 Bands Destined for Success in Twenty-Eleven.

Happy New Year Y'all!

Hypothesis: 2011 will be a great year for music.
Theory: It's a new decade therefore a new era in music.
Practical:

1. The Heartbreaks



2. Two Wounded Birds



3. Motorama



4. A Classic Education



5. Yu(c)k



6. Summer Camp



7. Smith Westerns



8. California Wives



9. The Vaccines



10. The Crookes



Noteable Extras:
Bleeding Knees Club


Archdukes



SO there it is. A years worth of amazing bands all rolled into one.

What did you think?
Did i miss any?

May your ears have a blissfull year.

Love TIM.

On Track With SEAT.

Oh man, Oh man, Oh man.

so dicovered this little youtube channel today it's called "ClubSEATUK"
The videos on the channel consist of great bands recording their very own live ep straight to vinyl.

It's magnificent! Here is my favourites.

















I hope you liked them, i certainly did.

TIM.

Top 20 Albums of 2010

So it's the end of the year already and my oh my, there has been some ridicuously good albums that have come out this year.

I tried compiling a list of of my top 10, but that was way too hard, so i had to make into my:

Top 20 Albums of 2010

20. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night




19. Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez




18. Jonsi - Go




17. MGMT - Congratulations




16. Vampire Weekend - Contra




15. The National - High Violet




14. Perfume Genius - Learning




13. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs




12. O. Children - O. Children




11. Motorama - Alps




10. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor




9. Beach House - Teen Dream




8. Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws




7. Tokyo Police Club - Champ




6. Best Coast - Crazy For You




5. Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You?




4. Wild Nothing - Gemini




3. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening




2. Foals - Total Life Forever




1. The Drums - The Drums




Well that wraps up the year in great albums. It was so much fun. i can't wait till next years list.

I hope this is similar to your own top albums of 2010. If you think i missed any amazing albums from 2010, feel free to let me know. :)

Keep tuned in for more "Top" lists like this one. I'm currently preparing my all time favourite albums list. so keep your ear to the ground and keep checking back here to see new posts.

TIM.

Some n00b-ees

so here's some bands you may not have heard of yet.
get amongst it.















now If you liked Motorama (which i am currently in love with) here's a little surprise: http://www.wearemotorama.com/blog/?m=blog&alt=1 (copy and paste into your URL for a full album download) your welcome.

TIM.