10 that I missed in 2010
So, like many of you, I dutifully made a list of 2010’s most devious musical mutations based on what’d had slipped into my little bubble. But the finality of that list was illusory, and soon enough that semi-permeable membrane of mine began allowing further musical contagions to ooze into my consciousness, regardless of the status of the calendar.
So here are 10 things I’ve retroactively discovered from 2010
What did you miss last year?
White Wires WWII
No longer just the capital of Canada, Ottawa is now the capital of the entire Retro-Punk nation.
Willie Nile Innocent Ones
Willie’s one of rock n’ roll’s truest believers, one whose career has lasted thirty years but has really only hit it’s peak these last five years.
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Pudge Chippy Tea
As the bio brags “Sheffield’s 4th best purveyors of chip-related punk rock”.
Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt
This made it onto a schwack of the boiler-plate “Best-of-2010” lists but I’m now willingly to grudgingly admit that Swede Kristian Matsson has made the best “One man, one guitar and one-thousand words” album of the past year.
Night Birds Midnight Movies
“It’s bad, bad, bad, bad biology.”
Geoff Useless Don’t Stop
Some might call this pop-punk vet’s (The Queers, The Nobodys’, The Guts) solo debut a country album because of the pedal-steel but it’s really just a more growed-up pop-punk album (And that’s good, by the way.)
Kurt Baker Got It Covered E.P.
The Leftovers leader gives us a power-pop history lesson.
Thee Spivs Taped Up
Damned, Damned, Damned great Brit-punk.
Pleasure Kills Bring Me a Match
Blondie-meets-The Avengers in outer space.
Mattless Boys
It’s 77 pop-punkers The Boys (minus Matt Dangerfield).
