October Updates

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1) Tobacco's Fucked Up Friends


Tobacco, best known for his work as a member of Black Moth Super Rainbow, has a new album coming out on October the 14th.

Here's the Video for "Street Trash"


Fucked Up Friends Track List -

01 Street Trash
02 Truck Sweat
03 Hairy Candy
04 Hawker Boat
05 Side 8 (Big Gums Version)
06 Yum Yum Cult
07 Berries That Burn
08 Get My Nails Did
09 Dirt (Featuring Aesop Rock)
10 Gross Magik
11 Little Pink Riding Hood
12 Backwoods Altar
13 –
14 Tape Eater
15 Pink Goo
16 Grease Wizard

I think the album name is really fitting... This is pretty fucked up alright.

Tobacco - Truck Sweat (mp3)(buy)

2) The Silent Years

The Silent Years have got two new videos, both of which are done by animation artists. Have a look!

The Sun is Alive

That's adorable!

On Our Way Home



The Silent Years - On Our Way Home (mp3)(buy)

Silent Years Tour Dates:
Oct 12 - Lincoln, NE - Box Awesome*
Oct 13 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room*
Oct 14 - St. Louis, MO - The Bluebird*
Oct 15 - Champaign, IL - Mike N Molly's*
Oct 17 - Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pigs*
Oct 18 - Detroit, MI - THe Magic Stick* (also w/ Silverghost, Prussia, and Running with Panthers)
Oct 30 - Lansing, MI - Mac's Bar
Oct 31 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Hopcat - w/ The Hard Lessons
Nov 1 - Toledo, OH - Frankie's

*w/ The Envy Corps

3) Birdmonster Loves Their Fans

Birdmonster recently sent out a letter to all the members of their mailing list, detailing what they've been getting up to. Among other things, that band wants you to have a "rock n' rollified" version of a track from their latest album, and to know that we can expect a video from them for "Born to Be Your Man"soon. They also want you to know that they had fun breaking things for said video.

Birdmonster - I Might Have Guessed (Mean Version) (mp3)(buy)

4) The Legends Love Heavy Feedback and Distortion

Swedish one-man-band, the Legends, release their new single on November the 5th... but you can hear it now.



=)

The Legends - Seconds Away (mp3)(buy)

5) The Dead Trees Are More Lively Than Their Name Gives to Believe

Having finished up last year's tour with Albert Hammond Jr, this four piece is ready to hit the road again with Little Joy. They will also be supporting their own full length release, King of Rosa.

The Dead Trees - Shelter (mp3)(buy)

The band ha a notion of bringing back the basics to rock and roll. According to the Dead Trees' vocalist Michael Ian Cummings, "these days, the only way forward is backward". I like that.

King of Rosa will be out (CD and digital) on October the 21st.

6) the Pale Corners Love Table Tennis


That's the second Swedish band on our roster today. Stockholme-ian band the Pale Corners, would like you to know that their members never tell each other to go to hell, and are more like an amateur table tennis team than anything else.

The Pale Corners - Steve Buscemi (mp3)(not yet available for purchase)

They're so much like a table tennis team that they spent hours recording a table tennis game. We'll be able to hear this game as the drum beat to their next single. Godspeed, Pale Corners! You've got me hooked.

August Updates

When I neglect my blog for a long time, I end up with a long agenda of things to do, which means that to get it all over with, I have to put everything I wanted to say in a condensed form over the course of an "Updates" post. This is one of those posts.

1) Adding to Edie's last post, Ryerson University has also announced their frosh concert line up. The biggest names on the list are Thunderheist, Zaki Ibrahim and Kardinal Offishall as the headliner. However, according to the below flyer, you'll need Ryerson student ID to get in. I s'ppose you could still take a visit to the Toronto island and just HAPPEN to stumble upon it... But don't take my word for it.



2) Earlimart's headed on tour with the Wedding Present and has asked us very nicely to list their dates. Aw shucks, we'd do anything for you guys.

September 18 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah

September 19 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour

September 21 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall

September 23 – Eugene, OR @ John Henrys

September 24 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos

September 25 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge

September 26 – Vancouver, Canada @ Media Club

You know what would make this tour even better? If they came to Toronto. Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.

Earlimart - For the Birds (mp3) (buy)

Wedding Present - Don't Take Me Home Until I'm Drunk (mp3) (buy)

Note to self: I still gotta do some writing about the Weddding Present. I've taken quite a liking to them. You can expect that sometime in the near future.

3) The Silent Years's album was officially released on two days ago on the 26ths. They decided to celebrate by putting the new album, "The Globe", up for streaming and also with a new video. What generous fellows!

The Silent Years - On Our Way Home



The Silent Years - Black Hole (mp3) (buy)

4) Expect more updates soon.

July Updates

My gosh. I'm sure I've said this before. Damn, it's been a while.

Anyhow, to summarize my excuses for being tardy, I've been fairly busy. What with graduating from high school, getting all my university application documents finalized, and such. No big deal, right? Aside from that, I've also got a tendency to be lazy.

Moving right along now. I've got a two major updates I want to make, since I've been away.

1) Kill Kill Kill

No, that's not a command, silly. That's a band. They were the first ever to contact Impressionable Youth in regards to their music, so there was an immediate sort of affection for them because they helped us reach another blog milestone. Quite interesting, really. To be honest, I wasn't quite sure how to review music of their genre. Think somewhat mostly experimental-instrumental with a lot of distortion and a strange undertone of apprehension. Nonetheless, I'm a sucker for vocals, so here's a few tracks by them that include them.

Kill Kill Kill - Dark Cold Dark (mp3)
Kill Kill Kill - Pink Eye (mp3)
Kill Kill Kill - Hang Sleep (mp3)

These tracks can be found along with many more at their blog.

2) Earlimart


I fell in love with this these guys last year with the release of Mentor Tormentor. They're back, now (so quickly?!) with a new one. Hymn and Her is the name of the album, released on the first of July. Their way with words amuses me to no end. So do their oh so soothing melodies. Perfect for waking up to on a lazy summer day.


Earlimart - For the Birds (mp3)
Earlimart - Before it Gets Better (mp3)
Earlimart - Face Down in the Rights Town (mp3)

Visit their mySpace, here.