CIMA: Woodhands and Shout Out Out Out Out Named Two of the 10 Best New Bands On Earth

Woodhands and Shout Out Out Out Out Named Two of the 10 Best New Bands On Earth

UK Magazine Q has just named Toronto’s Woodhands (Paper Bag Records) and Edmonton’s Shout Out Out Out Out (Six Shooter Records) as two of the “10 Best New Bands On Earth” in their latest issue.

Legendary label owner Simon Reymond of Bella Union describes the Woodhands as, "Potentially huge. The singer plays a keytar and looks like a deranged Elvis Costello. Their MySpace has a brilliant version of 'Electric Avenue', and they did a killer cover of 'I Kissed A Girl.'"

"Vocoder-based, no-hold-barred, arms-in-the air disco-funk-techno-electro," says Phil Heyes, director of DirecTV's SXSW coverage, about Shout Out Out Out Out. "Not a single person could keep still. Even in the Portaloo queue people were dancing."

Top music experts picked these bands from this years’ line-up at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Pick up the magazine on news stands now.

             The Woodhands                                               Shout Out Out Out Out
   www.myspace.com/woodhands                     www.myspace.com/shoutoutoutoutout

Critics are trumpeting Reintegration Time, the sophomore release from the Edmonton's Shout Out Out Out Out, a band that transforms despair to dance music and terrible decisions to double drummed, multiple synth driven beats that shake even the foulest moods at their foundations. Over and above the recent Q Magazine (UK) pronouncement that Shout Out Out Out Out are one of "10 Best New Bands on Earth," CMJ Weekly put the Shoutset on the magazine's cover (May 4, 2009). Billboard Magazine also featured the band in a story about the decision to release Reintegration Time in the US - their first release south of the border (April 11, 2009).