The march to Rifflandia V continues… September 13-16th, the city will be buzzing on rock, electronic, hip-hop… and all the spaces in between. Family of the Year will be on the Side-Stage on Saturday fairly early in the day. Make a point to hit it.
We’ve been jamming on their sound around thew radio station a bit. After the bands were announced, Bossman Johnny flew on the youtuber machine and found a few quality tracks. One of the songs from this Los Angeles band that we like at The Zone is called “Diversity.”
Family of the Year – “Diversity”
Download MP3 >> Family of the Tear – Diversity (youtube rip)
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I love Imagine Dragons. Its not an everyone fave at the Zone brain trust, but the ep Continued Silence is pretty special to my ear.
The single “It’s Time” is a strong modern rocker. The first song on the ep gets a little dirtier and aggressive. Reminds me a little of Awolnation’s “Sail.” The Las Vegas band is popular with some of the servers at Veneto so I’ve been going to the record a lot for the last month or two.
Imagine Dragons – “Radioactive”
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This song gets drilled into my head all the time. For the past couple days I couldn’t place the melody I was singing in the shower then today! BOOM, “Radioactive!” What a relief when you get that earworm out of your brain..oh man, I hope it didn’t lay any eggs! Ear Worms can do that you know…
This morning, when I HAD to get this song out of my head I went on Youtube. In the comments it seemed like some band spammed it with a link to their video. I never click on those, but the band was called We Barbarians. I judge bands all the time based on superficial shit like band name and appearance. We Barbarians just sounded cool so I clicked.
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I ended up kinda like the song. Simple, clean sounding. Weirdly familiar… maybe Alt Nation plays We Barbarians? or someone on Facebook sent me a link in the past? I can’t remember.
We Barbarians – “The Wait is Over”
Download MP3 >> We Barbarians – The Wait Is Over
The song isn’t new… last summer. And clearly did not capture the mainstream attention as well, they haven’t become stars yet, but the song is nice. Maybe it was overlooked, maybe they’ll keep working hard and it’ll happen for them.
Lots of new music to check out… might even have some thoughts on new Bloc Party later or tomorrow… we’ll see if I can pull myself away from Rome Total War for 5 seconds to write tonight.
Go with yourself.
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The Morning After 
We Barbarians opened for Passion Pit in Vancouver a couple years ago. They blew me away at the time, their live show is great (I even remember meowing to Dave about it at the time). Their first album is a bit too hard-rock for me, but their EP from last year is awesome!
I like when people say “meowing.” hahaha