Video: The New Frontiers - Mirrors - DeepRockDrive

These kids from Texas knocked my socks off earlier this year and I knew from the second I heard their CD Mending that I'd be reserving a spot for them on my year end "Best of" list. They spent a lot of time on the road in 2008 and in today's music climate, I suspect that took a toll, especially when getting people to hear your music is an uphill battle. A MySpace bulletin posted today (after yesterday's foretelling "the rest of the tour is cancelled" bulletin) lays things out: [...]

... I barely knew ya! This is sad news since I had pegged The New Frontiers to fill in for The Damnwells as that band seems to be on a permanent hiatus (though an Alex Dezen album of some sort is supposedly in the mixing phase right now). Both bands have a rural rock sound without coming across as too alt.country, though I wouldn't mind if either band indulged a bit in the twang! This song ("Mirrors") reminds me a lot of my friends [...]