Music-Drop Magazine

I'd argue that 2014 has been a worse year for rock music than 2013 was. There have been fewer stand out bands, fewer amazing debut singles and less amazing albums. However don't allow my pessimistic thoughts make you think that modern rock is still not in fine form. There have been plenty of amazing songs released this year and in no particular order here are my top 25 songs released in 2014 (Not exclusively rock but probably) Rango - Catfish & The Bottlemen  Genre: Indie Rock Next Time - Curtis Harding Genre: Soul, Funk, Rock I Almost Fell - Axxa/Abraxas  Genre: 60s-style Psychedelic Rock Lazaretto - Jack White Genre: Blues Rock/Rock My Silver Lining - First Aid Kit Genre: Folk Pop  Adult Diversion - Alvvays  Genre: Folk Pop  Heavenly Creatures - Wolf Alice Genre: Alternative Rock Love Is To Die - Warpaint  Genre: Psychedelic Rock Sun Structures - Temples  Genre: Psychedelic Rock ...

Three Yesterdays ago i headed up to the big ol' city of Bristol, why? Well although i find Boring as Fuck boats interesting, i actually went up to see the Strypes. You know the Strypes, the band i go on about for ages like here and here as well . So anyway The Strypes are my second favourite band of these dark damp modern times. So i went up there to see them, I got served (which is always good for a 16 year old male) and i also got right to the front. For the life of me i can't remember what they played though.... "Can't Judge a book", "hometown girls", "Blue collar jane" i remember them.... i don't remember much else, i wasn't even really drunk... However i met them before the gig, they're very irish but nice enough, i spoke to them about the Who  and apparently they share the same manager, i also stole one of their picks after they left the stage, i was going to take the setlist too,  but the guy next to me got hit for try...

The Strypes - Hometown Girl The Blues boys returned this month and after a bit of larking about, talking to a few legends and performing alongside Paul Weller. Decided that we mere mortals had been good enough to be graced with this single; ( if you have an consistency with this blog you will know of my adoration of the strypes) Although this single fails to live up to Blue collar Jane it proves they're not just a one trick pony and neither are they a covers band. Temples - Colours To Life Who doesn't want to live like a hippy once in their life? Free Love, Psych, Drugs, Unity. There was everythin everybody would want but unfortunately if you're reading this you either didn't live in that wonderful age or you're a very Tech-Savy 60 year old in which case *High Five*. Temples in this single replicate the sounds of the mid 60s 'Tomorrow Never Knows' Beatles while maintaining a look that Marc Bolan would love. Charlie Boyer And The Voyeurs - ...

1. Upstarts - Johnny Marr 2.  Entertainment - Phoenix 3. Get Lucky - Daft Punk 4. The Stars(Are Out Tonight) - David Bowie 5. San Francisco - Foxygen 6. Immortals - Marnie Stern 7.  Blue Collar Jane - The Strypes 8. 80s Comedown Machine - The Strokes 9. Please Don't Say You Love Me - Gabrielle Aplin 10.  Pompeii - Bastille

Hurray it's that time of the month, you know the time, the time i begin to start raving on about how much i love the strypes!!!!! WHAT?!!? you don't know who they are?..... Go google them now, or look at my post on them.... or suffer the consequences.... But seriously i love the stripes, not in a weird Jimmy Saville way... they're the same age as me anyway but.... I'm also straight so it'd be very weird... However i'm not here to write about my sexual orientation, i'm here to talk about the most amazing Irish Boys ever. Yes better than Boyzone, yes better than Westlife... better than rory Gallagher, Gary Moore and Thin Lizzy... maybe not yet. Now words can't describe how amazing they are, so maybe their songs will. Monkey Blue Collar Jane Rollin' & Tumblin'

Now if you have picked up a music magazine over the past few months you may of stumbled across a little band of irish teens. These boys are talented. Lets make that clear they are talented as hell, think early rolling stones having a baby with early yardbirds and that the strypes. They've released a single recently and are doing rather spiffing all round. Several of the most noticeable musicians around have even championed them, with Elton John, Dave Grohl and Paul Weller being a few of those people. Now i don't often brag but i am honest  proud of myself for finding them a while back. Don't judge them based on appearance cause if you do you will only start thinking they're terrible, they are all 16/15 and they are all more talented than me, you and probably your next door neighbour.