Bad Books In-store Update!

Hey guys, we are really excited for the Bad Books performance coming up this Thursday – just two days away!  Kevin Devine is one of our favorite people on the planet, and we’ve been huge supporters of Andy and Manchester Orchestra since Karl first heard them 3 and a half years ago.  To have the two of them playing in the same band is almost too much for us to imagine, but this Thursday we’ll all get to see it for ourselves.

 

If that’s not exciting enough, I have some more great news.  I just got off the phone with the band’s label, and even though the CD was supposed to come out on November 9th, we worked out a deal where everyone who comes to the show Thursday will get the CD two and a half weeks early! We know a lot of you love having the CD the day you see the band play, so we pulled some strings to make this happen.

If you haven’t already, definitely jump on board and grab a wristband before they’re all gone.  See y’all on Thursday!

 

-dan

 

Bad Books CD Pre-Order:  16.99

HUGE NEWS!

Hiya everyone, I’m just putting this up before actually doing a whole long post [probably later this weekend] because it is the hugest of the huge news.
As a follow-up to his critically acclaimed, 22 chapter “hip-hopera” Trapped in the Closet, R&B star R. Kelly has announced plans for a followup of 15 more chapters.  There is no set release date, but seeing as how prolific Kelly has been in the last few years, I would definitely expect it in this calendar year.

To celebrate, I was going to put up a video of his song “Real Talk”, but I couldn’t find one that would let me link it.  Instead, here’s a pretty fair runner-up choice:  “Ignition[the Remix]“.  Enjoy!

-Dan

get stoked on these!

I’ll be the first to admit that I completely missed the boat with the “best of ’09″ lists my co-workers have put up.  I turned it over in my mind a few hundred times and eventually decided that I couldn’t nail it down to 10, much less try and put them in any sort of order.

So, opportunity lost, and opportunity…gained?

Instead of writing up a list of last year’s records that have already been hashed, re-hashed, re-re-hashed, and possibly turned into hash browns, I figured that I’d turn my eyes forward to the new year and the new releases coming with it.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – “Pin Points & Gin Joints”

CD $12.99

Ok, ok, I know that we’re getting this off to a bad start by listing an album with a December 8, 2009 release date here, but hear me out.  This album is an indie store exclusive that was released through Newbury Comics in the boys’ hometown of Boston only on the 8th.  We got it in this week for the first time and I finally had a chance to give it a listen, and the Bosstones did not let me down.  These guys have been putting out quality albums for what seems like forever, and going on hiatus for a few years just seemed to re-energize them.  This is an instant classic, with memorable song after memorable song all album long.

Crime In Stereo – “I Was Trying To Describe You to Someone”

Due out February 23rd, the fourth full-length from Long Island’s own melodic hardcore powerhouse is definitely something that’s piqued my interest.  It says a lot about how good these guys are that I can still say I’m excited for this even after hearing about the mediocre-at-best album title and strangely bizarre album artwork.  They’ve taken the normally staid paint-by-numbers formula of punk rock and really put their own unique spin on it, most notably on the 2007 album Is Dead.  It’s always been refreshing to hear someone thinking outside the box and trying new things for themselves and not care when a bunch of kids on a message board cry foul.

The Wonder Years – “The Upsides”

This is going to be the second album for the guys in the Wonder Years, if you don’t count the seemingly countless number of splits and 7″s they’ve released in between their debut and sophomore CDs.  This time around, they decided to scrap the whole “doom and gloom, doesn’t life suck” lyrical outlook and focus on the good things in life…hence, “The Upsides”.  Drawing on the influences of Saves the Day and New Found Glory before them, the Wonder Years are poised to make a big breakthrough this year and this is going to the be the album that does that.  Pick it up when it comes out January 26th!

2009 might have been a pretty rad year for music, but these three albums are just the tip of the iceberg as far as what 2010 is gonna have for us.  Let me know what you’re looking forward to in the comments section!

-Dan