Ryan's Smashing Life 2010 Album Buyers Guide - 'The Happy Loss' made the list

Our friends over at Ryan's Smashing Life (www.rslblog.com) were kind enough to add 'The Happy Loss' to their 2010 Album Buyers Guide.  Also making the list this year were our friends Thieving Irons out of Brooklyn and Kingsley Flood out of Boston. Stop by the RSL site to check out the list.  Its chalk full of great music to add to your collection.  Go out and support your local music stores. Cheers!

30 Years Without John Lennon

30 Years Ago Today - the World's Most influential contemporary musician was murdered - shot in the back twice at point blank range. He was more influential than Kings and Presidents. He was bigger than religion. Most importantly, he was a man who had convinced humankind (both those who loved him and those that could never hope to understand him) that small deeds can have a lasting effect. In a sense, he was Art itself. What the world lost, some three decades later is still becoming clear. No need to shed a tear, but if you just can't help it, I don't think anyone could blame you. Remembering John Lennon.

 

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Photographic Evidence - SOTS at CMJ BIG Thanks to Ryan's Smashing Life

We need to send a shout out to our friend Ryan Spaulding of Ryan's Smashing Life out in Boston, MA.  Ryan along with Boston's Weekly Dig and annie*rock events were kind enough to put us on their CMJ day party in New York City on Oct 22.

Please check out the photos from our performance below:  Photos by Mark Jenko

Son of the Sun at CMJ

Photographic Evidence
CMJ festival coverage in NY

by Mark Jenko

10/22/10 at Arlene's Grocery
Beast of the Northeast
Sonic Preview / Video Blog

"Son of the Sun are one of the best new bands in America.

Get In on this Now!" - Ryan Spaulding, rslblog.com

RSL Streaming Photo Album
Son of the Sun at Arlene's Grocery - Oct 22, 2010

Son of the Sun
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Ryan's Smashing Life ---- 'The Happy Loss' Review

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New Music this Week!

Someone You Should Know

One to Watch 2010: sick new sounds out of Buffalo, NY

EXCITING NEW MUSIC - Rolling into Boston sometime over the next few hours for the inevitable music bedlam that accompanies great rock bands on the rise, Buffalo's Son of the Sun are someone you should get to know. My immediate thought on listening to the band is that their a cross of two of my all-time favorite bands: Band of Skulls (the amazing new British atmospheric rock trio I have fallen for in a very big way the last 12 months) and the semi-retired Greenhornes (whose percussion and base were stolen by Jack White and Brendan Benson to form The Raconteurs.

As is the case with many musically familiar modern bands, the players from The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes dipped from the well of bands like The Animals and The Zombies and The Kinks. .So there is a clear British Invasion element here (which I have found, historically, irresistible - if done well) but I digress. Son of the Sun have a brand new album and it falls into the familiar, loving recesses of this listener's mind.

The Happy Loss (to which you are listening as you read these words) was co-produced by Mike Brown and the band. It was recorded in part at Temperamental Recordings in Geneseo, NY and mixed by Alan Weatherhead (Sparklehorse, Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker) at Sound of Music Recording Studios in Richmond, VA.

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Son of the Sun

PA's Lounge

Somerville, MA
Saturday 7/10/10