Bedhead |

the bros kadanes, matt and bubba, made up the seminal indie rock band bedhead, which were responsibile in my opinion, for three of the best and most grossly underrated records to come out of the 90’s, what fun life was, self titled and transaction de novo. bedhead had penchant for building music rather than songs. still their songs were slow burns bustling with feeling, that were often epic in nature. the kadanes brokeup bedhead sometime in 99, and went on to form the new year a little bit later. i’ll be honest, i was not aware of the new year up until about a month ago. they just fell off my radar, somehow.

where bedhead could be a bit cold and calculated, the new year seems much more like a living and breathing entity. the music is much more relaxed and not out to set the world a blaze, which gives the songs more room to move. the only thing that hasnt changed is matt kadane’s kind of not singing delivery, which most people either dig or run for the hills. i, of course, fall in the former camp and i am now off to track down the first two new years records, newness ends and the end is near.

the new year’s self titled release is out now. they’re also on tour now, so hit up their site for all the details.

the company i can get

the new year site

has anyone seen the aqua teen movie? i have heard from reliable sources that its pretty great/fucked up. i have been meaning to but alas it has not come to fruition. so, i am guessing, at this point, that i will be waiting for the dvd. it should be out fairly shortly, i hope. one of my top 3 favorite groups, superchunk, is releasing a 7″, i love vinyl, for the single “misfits and mistakes” which appears on the aqua teen movie soundtrack. the b-side features none other than meatwad on vocals. you can pre-order it here for a lousy 5 bucks.

in other superchunk news, they will be playing a benefit show, along side of the mountain goats, @ the metro in chicago on june 20. more info can be found here.

as a reminder, wilco’s sky blue sky is out this week but you can still get a bunch of cool shit with your order. check out these awesome wilco toys. if they weren’t 50 bucks i would definitely be all over em. they also opened a pretty cool uncle tupelo shop, with some pretty cool stuff, alongside of the wilco shop.

have you listened to hallelujah the hills as of yet? i wrote about em a few months back. the recently signed to misra and are going to be releasing collective psychosis begone fairly shortly.

hallelujah the hills yeah they named a song after themselves. so what?

ok, as it turns out there is like 60 tracks making up bedhead vol 2. so, this is going to 3 part series.

19. stumblin through the dark tonight

20. wonderwall

21. dead flowers

22. like a virgin

23. off broadway

24. shadowlands

25. brown sugar

26. helpless

27. thank you louise

28. this time