
May 1st is the street date for Wallpaper Music , the latest album by Cheap Time , the super rockin' garage trio from Tennessee led by Jeffrey Novak . Recorded in Novak's home studio, Wallpaper Music will be released by In The Red , who also released the groups first two albums. From the label: " Retaining both the punk moves and pop-damaged glam jams, the band delivers their most realized, cohesive record yet. Songs like "More Cigarettes" and "Another Time" are Aussie-esque punkers in a Saints-like vein, while "Underneath the [...]
New music video for "Another Time" by Nashville's Cheap Time, the A-side to the garage-punk band's most recent single.

One thing is for sure about Nashville: it certainly knows how to make good on the title " Music City ". Not only is it the hometown of honky-tonk bars, delicious barbeque, and mucho Country musicians playing hole-in-the-wall bars at all hours of the day, but the independent/alternative/baseme nt rock music scene is absolutely exploding, making Nashville the city with the highest concentration of the music industry in the U.S. That's right. More than THREE TIMES L.A. So if your inner desire of becoming that brooding bassist in a basement band decides to become a reality, you might find yourself amongst [...]
Ke$ha announces Beastie Boys cover, Jack White & Wanda Jackson do the Late Show , new music from Blastoids, D. Watusi & JEFF the Brotherhood, and bunch of Nashville concert updates including news on Sharon Van Etten, Ted Leo, the Kills & Interpol.

Part 2 of 4: Last year in my year end round up of my favorite singles I wrote how the 7 inch single seemed to be coming back into favor. This year it went over the top. There seemed to be labels popping out of the woodwork who's main mission was to gather up the best songs and put them out on little pieces of vinyl. To reflect the bumper crop of singles I've expanded the year end singles count down to 40. Like Casey Kasem use to do, we're gonna count them down. I don't think we'll be doing [...]

photo from Jeffrey Novak's MySpace Jeffrey Novak is from Henderson, Tennessee, but when he sings with his affected British accent you might think he comes from somewhere in England. Listening to his newest album After the Ball (self-released on his LMN label) you might also think he's much older than the mere 23 years old that he actually is. At that very young age the guy has already written more songs and made more records than seems humanly possible,except for maybe guys like Robert Pollard [...]
The Singles Collection is contributor Jason Jackowiak's weekly column focusing on rare and essential 7″ releases. We gladly accept all types of 7″ for consideration. It's Easter week and we're back to business as usual 'round here at The Singles Collection. Hopefully you enjoyed last week's video sojourn into the realm of Sacred Bones , one of our favorite labels, but it's back to doing what we love around here, mainly, giving you the scoop on 45's that are currently rocking our world (and that we think will rock yours). [...]

Jeffrey Novak doit être le genre de mec qui ne dort jamais. Le frontman des excellents Cheap Time vient de sortir un LP solo intitulé "After the Ball" sur son nouveau label LMN. 8 pistes, buvard lysergique et solide background musical ont fait accoucher ce disque, à contre-sens de ce qui se fait en ce moment. Novak à décidé de jouer la carte pop psychédélique. Une pop, très Anglaise mid-60s, ressemblant à celle des Soft Machine période Roy Ayers, à celle du Satanic Majestic Request à laquelle on rajoutera, non sans mal, le coté teenager [...]