So 2010 was kind of a weird year for me. I graduated college, band broke up, got a real job and started to become a very boring person. SO let me just go on record and say that I am very happy that 2010 is fucking over. Now there is a clean slate and a reason to get up and to start doing the things I love to do. Also another reason why last year sucked was because of the fact that issue #2 of New Noise was never printed due to laziness and I sort of just lost interest and forgot why I started this zine in the first place. So im not going to go down that road again and Im going to be printing out the interviews and reviews that I worked on over a year ago ASAP! They will be sold for very cheap due to the fact that its outdated to some extent (but not too bad). The zines will be printed from my house and put together by hand, and if I am capable I might even get a little creative with them but we will see what happens when I get there.
Anyways enough blabbering about what should have been done over a year ago and more onto the topic at hand. Like every music website and blog I will partake in the end of the year tradition and put together my list of what I think was awesome in 2010 (although im over a week late, but who cares). There were a lot of cool records and bands that came out last year and a lot of bands I just started to recognize and really get into. I've found myself crossing many musical boundaries and getting into a lot of great bands/artist that I have been missing out on the last few years, but needless to say Im happy that i've finally gotten to this point.
So here is the list of everything cool that came out in 2010 (and this is in no particular order because I really have no way of judging which is better than the other, I simply enjoyed it all).
1. THE BLACK KEYS "Brothers"
2. TIGERS JAW "Two Worlds"
3. BLACK MOUNTAIN "Wilderness Heart"
4. WALTER SCHREIFELS "An Open Letter To The Scene"
5. BLACK BREATH "Heavy Breathing"
6. DEFTONES "Diamond Eyes"
7. COLISEUM "House With A Curse"
8. BITTER END "Guilty As Charged"
9. BLACK THROAT WIND "Demo"
10. TERROR "Keepers Of The Faith"
11. NAILS "Unsilent Death"
12. THE SMASHING PUMPKINS "Volume 2: The Solstice Bar"
13. JIMMY EAT WORLD "Invented"
14. GIVE "Boots Of Faith"
15. THE SWORD "Warp Riders"
16. DIAMOND "Demo"
17. SUMMER PEOPLE "Good Problems"
18. SOUNDGARDEN "Telaphantasm" (rare and unreleased material)
19. TIGERS JAW/BALANCE & COMPOSURE "Split 7inch"
20. BURNING LOVE "Songs For Burning Lovers"
Records that people should have listened to in 2010:
MANDATE OF HEAVEN "Hun In The Sun"
SWERVEDRIVER "Mezcal Head"
TOM WAITS "Alice"
KYUSS "And The Circus Leaves Town"
Im sure that I left out a bunch of great records that I probably listened to a hundred times already but my memory is shot so sorry if I left any bands out I guess.
Now for some things that I am looking forward to this year:
1. The new CROWBAR album coming out in February
2. RIVAL SCHOOLS "Pedals"
3. Mogwai "Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will"
4. SUPERTOUCH "Lost My Way"
5. LEMURIA "Pebble
6. Finishing up writing/recording the new Born To Expire and Current Records! (Both bands will be on tour hopefully by the summer time)
7. The new DOWN record
8. New music, New faces and also seeing some older/familiar ones as well.
Expect new things for newnoisezine in 2011, I know I always say that and nothing ever gets done but im sticking to my word on this one!
