I honestly don't know how much that is.
Michael Jordan Touchdown Pass - Baby Steps (2011)
Michael Jordan Touchdown Pass is a pop/folk punk band from VT. Definitely for fans of Nana Grizol, Spoonboy, The Max Levine Ensemble, Toby Foster, and Defiance, Ohio. This is their latest release to date, "Baby Steps".
Kvelertak - Kvelertak (2011)
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"Black 'n' Roll" from Norway. One of the best albums last year, if not best metal album. Lots of heaviness and aggression oozing with hardcore/black metal/rock 'n' roll influences. If I knew what they were shouting about, it would probably be about bad ass norse gods and the bad assery that they ensue. Thought I'd post these guys after seeing The Avengers this weekend... I'm not a big Thor fan but I got to say that that guy can kick some major Loki ass. The other guys were cool too, I guess. EXCEPT, WHERE THE FUCK WAS ANT MAN! It's like they replaced him with this stupid "walk on you like an ant" theme One-Eyed Willy L. Jackson kept pushing. I don't give a flying-Stan-Lee-cameo-fuck about Black Widow and her "I have red hair and it's a metaphor for Russia" and "I dare you to not look at my ass" bull crap... There was already that lady from How I Met Your Mother standing in as eye candy for us all, anyways. They could have replaced her (Black Widow) and the DJ Marky Mark look-a-like with a bow and arrow (Hawkeye) with Ant Man and I think they could have really had something going for them and the minor superhero storyline(s) they were subtly trying to quickly-as-possible shove done our throat. I just wanted to see a little man turn into a big man, one that didn't talk about his bigger self or "other guy" like it was his penis (The new Incredible Hulk). Is that too hard to ask?
Kvelertak's name means chokehold and the art-work is by the demigod of metal art, John Dyer Baizley. Nuff said.
Locktender - Collected (2012)
Emotionally charged Hardcore and post-whatever. Essentially just Men As Trees but two years removed and now from Cleveland, Ohio. That being said though, "Collected" and their new project as Locktender is totally happening and lightyears better than being broken up or on hiatus.
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The Earth is a Man - The Earth is a Man (2010)
Lately here on NFT's weekly "Monday" series, it seems I've been throwing up any math rock band I can't find a place for anywhere else and calling it a day without having anything to say about them, and while this may be true a couple of times now, this band right here surely has something to talk about. Not only has The Earth is a Man found a nice little sound they can call their own but may have earned themselves a top contenders spot as one of thee coolest unknown bands as they were the band to lend their instruments, studio, and virtuosity to the Tim in Tim & Eric's Awesome Show Great Job! and Billion Dollar Movie, Tim Heidecker who decided he wanted to cover a Bob Dylan song for no reason one day.
The Earth is a Man + Tim Heidecker - All the Tired Horses (2012)
Yep, this really happened. Tim Heidecker had some time off last February and decided that he would try to submit a Dylan cover for Amnesty International's new Dylan tribute album, "Chimes of Freedom". Heidecker put out a twitter thingy (not sure what it's called, sorry) in hopes of using a local Chicago band's studio and the boys of The Earth is a Man answered his call (or tweet, I guess). Unfortunately the cover didn't make the cut onto the CD, which is a big boomer to a former Amnesty Club-er like myself.. But hey, at least it exists and is for free on The Earth is a Man's bandcamp!
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