Welcome to WoodgrainFronts. I've been wanting to get a music blog going for quite some time, now, and finally scraped together a spare half-hour to style one up.

The real impetus to start this thing came from a single track on the 6th segment of the Diplo / Mad Decent podcasts — 'Hot Boyz', by Dear Nora & Casiotone For The Painfully Alone. This track just kind of hit me in the gut. Such a hard bass drum... grimey and out of tune and perfect. Dear Nora's voice makes me smile a big shit-eatin-grin—so childish, innocent, sweet... It really made the mix, for me. So, being the music nerd that I am, I found a clean MP3 of the track. It's gotten a lot of rotation on the iPod since I found Dear Nora's MySpace page (also has a download of the track).

The track appears on the compilation Bro Zone (featuring a bunch of groups I've never heard of) from States Right Records.

Dear Nora has a new album out on Magic Marker titled There Is No Home. The site has an mp3 download of the track 'Emily' which aint half bad, though I'm not a big fan of the whole indie singer-songwriter thing. Dear Nora's currently touring in Australia, and has a blog up documenting her travels.

download Hot Boyz | buy the comp [you dirty pirate]