Top 200 Tracks of 2010 – 50-21
50. LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean
48. Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
43. Josh Ritter – Folk Bloodbath
42. Diamond Rings – Show Me Your Stuff
50. LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean
48. Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
43. Josh Ritter – Folk Bloodbath
42. Diamond Rings – Show Me Your Stuff
200. The Golden Filter – Solid Gold
199. Delorean – Real Love
198. Band of Horses – On My Way Back Home
197. Games – Heartlands
196. Cults – Oh My God
195. El Guincho – Bombay
194. Marnie Stern – Nothing Left
193. Interpol – Barricade
192. Ke$ha – Your Love Is My Drug
Once every three months I list the best of what I heard in albums/songs/remixes for the quarter. I do this to personally keep up with all the awesome music I hear, as it ultimately helps me at the end of the year when I do my overall listing for the previous twelve months. I also do it to introduce you cool cats to tunes you may have missed independently.
Earlier this week, I gave accolades to Cleveland rocker Cloud Nothings. Turns out the fine folks at Bridgetown Records are releasing a split album with him and another up-and-coming solo artist, California’s Kevin Greenspon.
The two go hand in hand – Greenspon is a punchier, youthful accompaniment to Cloud Nothings’ sharp sing-along garage rock, though the latter tackles a poppier approach on this release. Bridgetown had this to say about the disc:
“The long-awaited split album between these 2 rising young solo artists opens with 5 new songs by Kevin Greenspon: California weirdo heartthrob pop punk about looking back on teenage years and losing it all. Cloud Nothings rounds out the disc with 5 more exclusive new songs: the Cleveland teenager takes his catchy brand of raw and distorted-beyond-the-red bedroom pop in a direction not seen in his “Turning On” album or subsequent tape/vinyl releases.”
The release is limited to 250 discs with full-color inserts and lyric sheets. They go on sale TODAY over at the label’s site, so get one while they’re still around. Sample a track from both artists below.
I’ve posted about Cloud Nothings before – the Cleveland-based crew is easily one of my favorite emerging groups of 2010, and their “Didn’t You/Even If It Worked Out” 7-inch has been on repeat on the turntable here at home (that’s the cover above).
A couple of my dear friends, the Brooklyn-based Nervous Room Service, have been churning out some pretty excellent, albeit trippy, fan-made music videos for their musical projects and Cloud Nothings. Their latest is a rapid-fire spliced collage for “You Are Opening.”
Cloud Nothings // You Are Opening from NervousRoomService on Vimeo.
But by far my favorite is the video for the upbeat “Even If It Worked Out.”
Cloud Nothings // Even if it Worked Out from NervousRoomService on Vimeo.
Check out all of Nervous Room Service‘s videos and be on the lookout for Turning On, the full-length from Cloud Nothings, on October 12.
Once every three months I list the best of what I heard in albums/songs/remixes for the quarter. I do this to personally keep up with all the awesome music I hear, as it ultimately helps me at the end of the year when I do my overall listing for the previous twelve months. I also do it to introduce you cool cats to tunes you may have missed independently.
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