February 2012
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Week 8 (2/19-2/25) Cheap Girls
How rude of me to take so long. This week I will be enjoying My Roaring 20’s by Cheap Girls.
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Week 7 (2/12-2/18) Joyce Manor
This week I will be enjoying the smooth tunes of Joyce Manor’s Self-Titled album.
Haven’t heard much about these guys but they were rated as having the best album of the year last year at punknews.org
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Week 6 (2/5-2/11) Elway
In honor of one of the best games for the nintendo and the cool commercials everyone will get to see while I am working today… I will be listening to Delusions by none other than Fort Collins, CO’s Elway!
January 2012
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Week 5 (1/29-2/4) Nothington
Borrowed Time by Nothington. I’m pretty stoked as some of these guys used to be in Tsunami Bomb, had one of the best albums of the year last year according to punknews.org, and are going out on tour this February with Lagwagon and the Cobra Skulls!
Week 4 (1/22-1/28) Cobra Skulls
I’m rocking out to the Cobra Skulls American Rubicon this week! I’ve been wanting to hear these guys for a while, can’t wait to see what they got.
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Week 3 (1/15-1/21) Bon Iver
This week I am listening to the self-titled album by Bon Iver!
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Week 2 (1/8-1/14) Junior Battles
This week I will be listening to and reviewing Idle Ages by Junior Battles!
The album was released in 2011 on Paper + Plastick.
Artist Info:
A bunch of dudes from Toronto!
Artist Links:
bandcamp
myspace
punknews check out the cool interviews!
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Week 1 Review (4.5 out of 5)
52 Weeks is the first project from the band Into It. Over It. The concept behind the album was to record and release a new song every week for an entire year. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this album, but I was very skeptical about being able to handle 52 songs (totaling 2 hours, 24 minutes, and 26 seconds) from an artist I had never heard before.
However, from the first listen I...
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Week 1 (1/1-1/7) Into It. Over It.
For the very first week I will be listening to the album 52 Weeks by Into It. Over It. I think this is a great way to start my musical journey. This album was recorded over an entire year, with one song written and recorded each week. How fitting for my 52 New Bands project.
Artist Info:
Into It. Over It. was formed by Evan Thomas Weiss, but also has Nick Wakim on the drums (when used). ...
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New Year's Revolution
First of all, Happy New Year’s everybody! I hope you had a wonderful 2011 and an even better 2012. So what is your New Year’s resolution?
I created this tumblr account to help me with my New Year’s resolution. Bored with listening to the same music and never finding any new artists to listen to, I decided to listen to a new band each week for an entire year. Most of the...