For our second instalment of Wasted Years Tunnel Sessions, we sent our resident party boy, Adam John Fraser, to an ice-cold castle in Scotland. Armed with his Hawaiian acoustic guitar, a cheap can of beer and a camera phone, Mr. Fraser busted out Water & Gasoline in classic blues-dog style. Enjoy!
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Okay, let’s be clear here: I’m not suggesting for a minute that you should replace your phone completely with a cassette walkman. I mean, it doesn’t make calls or allow you to send texts, and it certainly doesn’t facilitate you meeting up with online babes for cheap thrills (or committed meaningful relationships—but seriously, who’s using…
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If the sound of the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe getting gang-banged by The Byrds while Robert Smith jerks off in the corner sounds appealing, then our Dig of The Week could be up your alley. The Pacers are a four-piece, no-nonsense garage band from London town that turn out damn fine tunes. They have the jangle of the great garage…
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If you find yourself driving at night down lonely roads whilst the troubles of suburban life weigh heavy on your heart, then you’ll certainly identify with our selected Dig of The Week. Conor Dardis hails from suburban Dublin and writes beautiful, illustrative music that is emotive like Bruce Springteen, yet capable of painting a narrative…
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Wasted Years Records is proud to present the first episode of its new YouTube series Poptails—a delectable musical adventure, where we challenge our resident barkeep, Joel Persson, to design a cocktail to compliment our song of the week. We kick things off by challenging Joel to conjure up the perfect beverage to slam down whilst getting…
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If you’ve just broken up with your sweetheart and need some sombre, yet beautiful music to throw on whilst you work your way through a cheap box of merlot, then we may have just the ticket. This week’s Dig of The Week is from Melbourne artist Mike O’Dowd A.K.A The Singer. His debut EP is a delicate,…
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This week’s Dig of The Week is a little something that was deposited into our inbox from an anonymous bedroom artist. It reminded us a little of Joy Division, girls with short hair, sexual intrigue, loveless fascination and lonely nights spent in front of a 4-track cassette recorder. Keep ’em coming Mr. Anonymous – we like…
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Do you like the sun? How about high times on the beach, checking out babes, games of frisbee, and short shorts? Well if you like all of that drenched in reverb and heavily stylised then the debut single by US band The Yetis could be your ticket to ride. It’s certainly been getting some high rotation…
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As we’re approaching the end of the year, we gotsta talking’ around the water cooler about the best gig we’ve seen this year. The general consensus amongst the no-hopers that keep things chugging at Wasted Years was that nothing has yet topped seeing Skaters bang out a 45-minute power set at Dingwalls back in March. The…
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These chaps caught our eye this week with their seriously radical shoegaze psychedelia. Fresh from the US. Check ’em out – Red Transistor Radio
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