Here’s a new interview that Joey did for Bandmo.com recently. He talks about the current state of music, where it’s headed and the role of the Internet.

There are still CD’s to be had in our webshop if you haven’t bought one already.

Christmas time is nigh, and our record label in Japan has decided to put out a 24-track Christmas compilation this year. Back in 2009 we released our rendition of Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas”, and now it’s going to be put out on CD for the first time. A limited number of copies will be printed, so head on over to the Thistime Online Store and place your orders while you still can.

The CD will be out on Dec 24.

Here’s the tracklist:

1. Golden Bubbles – Tiny Hammers Time
2. The Genuine Fakes – All I Want for Christmas
3. Greg Pope – Christmas Snow
4. Phlying Saucer – Over the Moon(ft.Nikki Simmons)
5. SpecialThanks – Special Christmas
6. Clueless – Do They Know It’s Christms
7. The Higher Elevations – All These Winter Nights
8. The Wellingtons – A Christmas Toast
9. The Goodtime Dudes(Bobby Emmet & The Schreffman) – We Are The Goodtime Dudes (to say Merry Christmas)
10. LL Cosmonaut – We Came In Peace
11. Sugar Crisis – Unwrap Your Heart
12. Rach and Danna (from The Coincidents) – Winter Wonderland
13. Dreamboy – Christmas Kisses
14. NUDGE’EM ALL –  Christmas
15. Jim Boggia – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
16. Beaufiul Lies – We Wish You a Merry Christmas
17. The Smith Bros. – Every Day Is Like Christmas
18. hello! – My Way home Winter Night
19. Marcus Meston – No Time for Christmas
20. Mimi Betinis – A Christmas Song
21. Superfriends – Christmas
22. Justin Kline – Merry Christmas Katie
23. Neil Nathan – Santa Claus is Coming To Town
24. The Sonic Executive Sessions – Christmas Without You

“Every song here sparkles with those affable harmonies we have come to expect from The Genuine Fakes.”

The full review can be found here.

Liner Notes is available now on iTunes.

British online magazine Uber Rock says good things about our latest release.

“Swedish powerpopsters The Genuine Fakes follow up their debut release, ‘The Striped Album’, with all the bits they had left over from those sessions – kind’ve like Dr. Frankenstein throwing together a Mini-Me from the slops bucket… for newbies of The Genuine Fakes this EP, or mini-album, is a great introduction to the band and, at nearly 30 minutes in duration, is only a song short of some full-length albums.”

Read the whole review here.

“These are not some barely decent tunes that didn’t make the debut album, because they weren’t any good. I think these are ridiculously amazing considering that fact and many power pop groups would have been proud to have written even one of them. While the debut was a loud power pop album best suited for Friday nights, these new mixes might bring some melodic greatness to Sunday mornings as well. “

Read the whole review here.

We see this release as the end of the beginning – the other side, if you will, of our debut album. It’s the songs that were recorded during the album sessions but for different reasons ended up not being on the finished product. We did find, however, that those tracks fit very well together as a separate unity and therefore we decided to put them out now so you have something to listen to while waiting for the second album. So therefore we sat down and re-mixed all the tracks and then sent them to Anders Hellgren (famous from The Merrymakers) who did the mastering. The result will be revealed on Bandcamp tomorrow, and will subsequently be available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc.

We’ll give you the full story on the songs tomorrow. For now, here’s the artwork:

Liner Notes EP