
Stay Sweet! Fest has announced the first wave of bands that will be playing the festival. Stay Sweet! will take place April 13th - 15th, at The Camel in Richmond, VA, and will feature bands such as Bridge and Tunnel , The Sidekicks , The Wild , Spraynard , Direct Hit! , Candy Hearts , Signals Midwest , Timeshares , Algernon Cadwallader , Choke Up , Daytrader , Glocca Morra , Pentimento , and many more. The complete list of bands is [...]

In honor of their newest release "Awkward Breeds", we have a brand new Pink Couch from Ohio's The Sidekicks. I can attest to the fact that their new record is amazing, and you should all do yourselves a favor and preorder the new record. You can order it on vinyl from Really Records and on CD from Red Scare along with their "Grace" 7 inch. Check them out on their upcoming March tour with Cheap Girls when they swing through your town.

Our stream today comes from Cleveland, OH-based The Sidekicks . We've got a stream of the first 2 songs from their latest EP, Grace . The EP can be pre-ordered here . The Sidekicks will be releasing their new record, Awkward Breeds , February 21 via Red Scare Industries. You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile

Bomb The Music Industry! and The Sidekicks will be heading out on tour later this month, with dates scattered all over North America. Click below for the details. BTMI! will be supporting Vacation , due out July 26, 2011 via Really Records/Ernest Jenning/ Quote Unquote Records . The Sidekicks recently released a split 7-inch with Tigers Jaw .

The Sidekicks and Tigers Jaw have announced a split 7-inch pre-order featuring one original song and a cover from each band. The Sidekicks' side includes, "Little James" and Elvis Costello's, "(Angels Wanna Wear) My Red Shoes". Tigers Jaw performs, "Jimmy Piersall" and Okay Paddy's, "Boots 'n Hanks. The records will be available at this year's Berea Fest in Berea, OH. A digital streaming of the split can be found here . Also, The Sidekicks will be at this year's Stay Sweet Fest . Whereas,Tigers Jaw will [...]
Le groupe Net Emergence de février : The Sidekicks « The band that has never met » ou le groupe dont les membres ne se sont jamais rencontrés (ça claque moins en français). Un groupe virtuel donc qui a fait la une de pas mal de blogs et médias. C'est également le groupe que les jurés ont choisi et plutôt largement : « My SideKicks en premier (je ne sais pas si cette histoire de « groupe qui ne s'est jamais vu » est une escroquerie mais c'est bien foutu, homogène, sans [...]
Kleiner Sidekick: Nicht nur, daß die Free Music Charts - welche ursprünglich am 01.01.2007 hier im Blog gestartet sind - Geburtstag feiern, es gibt auch wieder eine neue Ausgabe davon beim kleinen Schwarzen mit den bunten Streifen. Mit Neuvorstellungen von EGOamp, LPF12, RU.ARE, Singleton und The Womb. Den Artikel mit allen Songs findet ihr hier , den dazu gehörigen Podcast dann hier . Und dran denken: Anhören, 5 Favoriten ausdenken, diese im Voting ganz unten auf der Seite anklicken und Abstimmen.

Whew! Anybody else have a long week? Well, good news, the weekend has finally arrived. Summer is slowly fading away, so better get out there and enjoy the warmth while you still can. But if the heat and outdoors aren't for you, no worries, there are plenty of great reasons to stay inside...inside one of this city's many amazing music clubs! There are tons of great shows we're highlighting this weekend including the Mad Decent Block Party at the Hideout , Slayer and Megadeth at the UIC Pavilion , [...]
Who: American War Sounds: Rhetoric Where: Kent, Ohio How: Self-Released What: Amazing Ohio folk-punk from Matt who also plays in The Sidekicks who are fucking amazing too. Download the entire Rhetoric album for free here . RIYL: Defiance,Ohio, The Sidekicks, etc... MP3: American War - Rhetoric
Reboot Full Discography Real Name: Frank Heinrich In Groups: La Peña Info: http://www.discogs.com/artist/ Reboot http://www.myspace.com/rebooot https://www.beatport.com/en-US /html/content/artist/detail/41 441/reboot Releases: (2007) Reboot_-_Charlotte__Clear_Moti on-(BELOW014)-Vinyl-2007-HQEM (2007) Reboot_-_Tony_Der_Schieber-(CI 004)-WEB-2007-HQEM (2008) Reboot_-_Be_Tougher__Letters-( CADENZA24)-WEB-2008-HQEM_iNT (2008) Reboot-Assign_The_Source__We_F unk-(MOTIV01)-WEB-2008-SiBERiA _iNT (2008) VA-Cocoon_Ibiza_Summer_Mix__Mi xed_By_Chris_Tietjen_And_Reboo t_Vs_Johnny_D_(CORMIX020)-2CD- 2008-BF (2008) Reboot_-_Sidekick-EP-(BELOW018 )-WEB-2008-HQEM (2009) VA-Baile_Caminando-(SED003)-Vi nyl-2009-CBR (2009) Reboot-Enjoy_Music-(DFTD241D)- WEB-2009-wWs (2009) VA-From_Frankfurt_To_Mannheim_ _Mixed_By_Reboot_And_Sascha_Di ve-(CECFFTM001)-2CD-2009-TDK (2009) Reboot__Damian_Schwartz-Hello_ Sweden__La_Voz-(LLFO08)-WEB-20 09-CBR_INT (2009) Reboot-Ronson-(COR12058)-WEB-2 009-dOve Remixes: [UNRELEASED] Ricardo Villalobos - Easy Lee (Reboot Edit) Alex Flatner Feat. Lopazz - Perfect Circles (Reboot Remix) Calculus - Loosey Goosey (Reboot Rework) Frivolous - C My Consciousness (Reboot 'Rebuttal' Remix) Guy Gerber - Disorientation (Reboot's Clik And Gogogo Rework) Kreon - [...]
Ifyoumakeit: The Sidekicks "A Healthy Time"

So this is it. My favorite full-length albums of the year. So many other blogs post their top songs of the year, but I guess I'm a bit more old-school (and probably older) than most of them. I prefer the album format rather then just ranking singles against one another. I posted Part I of this list yesterday, but there are so many good albums from 2009 that I had to leave off the list completely (unless I was going to make it an even 100). Maybe next year, right? Also, fuck all the [...]

Again I need to ask the question, why is no one giving The Sidekicks any love? Their new album Weight Of Air is simply brilliant and a huge step forward for the band. Over the course of just one full length and a 73 the band's sound has changed significantly enough that it might be hard to recognize them as the same group that released So Long, Soggy Dog back in 2007. The quartet (from suburban Cleveland) has ditched most of the rough edges and standard-issue pop punk affectations of their early material [...]
Here's the fourth installment of this silly mega compilation I'm putting together. For some reason whenever I listen to Cletus, I think of Andy Pishko. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. MP3 | Pennywise - Dying To Know from the 1993 album Unknown Road MP3 | The Unlovables - Dance Party For Two from the 2007 album [...]

Ahhhh, this songs been stuck in my head all morning. Italian minimal/tech producer, Andrea Roma , dropped his original "Prosciutto" way back in 2008, and I'm bringing it back for you. Apparently Roma is in the mood for some ham, but hey...who am I to judge. Also included is a nice remix by fellow Italian producers, Dandi & Ugo . Andrea Roma- Prosciutto Download audio file (Prosciutto.mp3) [...]

U might not recognize this band, because it is the band Blink 182, before they 'blew up like crazy.' (L to R: Travis Barker, Mark Hoppus, Thomas DeLonge) It's kinda weird these days. I feel bands want to 'make it' in a way that means 'not becoming a huge brand that can sell a bunch of shit to markets that u don't respect.' Whether it is tweens or people over the age of 36 who still buy Green Day albums, it seems like bands want to be 'successful' in a [...]

So the weekend has started for most so I thought I would pleasure some ones ears with these gems. Out of the Aussies remixing Calvin Harris s Im not alone were Hey Now. Now Hook n Sling really makes something of it. CALVIN HARRIS-I'M NOT ALONE-HOOK n Sling RMX Eric Van Basten from Holland may be the next dutch superstar, with his latest chapter of his discography. Chap! Eric Van Basten-Chap This next track Ingrosso and Angello have been smashing, nice tech house that [...]
The Sidekicks "Weight Of Air" out Sep 15 The Sidekicks is set to release their new album " Weight of Air " on September 15th via Red Scare. 1. Let It Breathe 2. Looking 3. A Healthy Time 4. Almost the Same [ stream ] 5. Day-Staring 6. Small 7. Static Mouth 8. Plans 9. Like the Tides 10. Shading 11. Learn to Live Without 12. Weight of Air
Video: The Sidekicks "Hop On a Sea Cow and Manatee Up" From the recent Crucial Fun Fest in Lexington, KY [thanks to ifyoumakeit ]: this band kicks so much ass
Last year The Sidekicks (from suburban Cleveland) released a killer four song 7" called Sam as a folllow up to their full-length So Long, Soggy Dog and it's fuckin' great. It's that gritty and melodic pop-punk I love that pulls in just enough folk and rootsy flavor to make me compare this to The Gaslight Anthem, The Riot Before, and Get Bent. I mean, there are really zero valid reasons that you shouldn't love this. Oh yeah, (like the full length) seemingly dedicated to a dog in doggie heaven. Remember kids, [...]