The first song from the new album is finished! And like all bands say about new material – it’s the best we’ve done so far! 
We’ll have some new video clips for you soon. Previous clips can be found on thegenuinefakes.tv.
Also want to remind you of the gig on the 30th:
We had a great time this weekend with our new-found Finnish friends. The Wonderminers and The Sugarrush put on good performances, and Vesa and Mikko were excellent club hosts. Somehow we just knew that a club called Flavor of the Month would be great! 
We hope to be back soon again!
Here’s a little clip of us doing “Irreplaceable”, courtesy of Petri from The Wonderminers.
We spent last night in the studio working on bass and guitar overdubs on the new song “Even With You”. As promised, we’re documenting as we go, so enjoy this little video clip.
All studio session clips are posted on thegenuinefakes.tv.
This weekend we got A LOT done. Actually, for once everything went just according to plan. We managed to nail all the drum tracks on 14 songs! Johnny was on fire and we averaged one song per hour. Even unmixed it sounds killer and we’re confident we will outshine ourselves both musically and sonically with this album. Out plan now is to finish the songs one by one, and not work ourselves through the all songs one instrument at a time like we did for the last album. That way, every song will get the attention it deserves and we believe the result will be a lot better.
Sadly enough, we couldn’t get the live link at thegenuinefakes.tv to work due to poor network connectivity issues, but we recorded a couple of snippets that you can check out below. We’re going to continue film our sessions and all of them will be uploaded on our YouTube channel and thegenuinefakes.tv as we go along. You can also check out some of Tommy’s photos on Flickr.
Stay tuned for more photos!
Our debut album gets more praise as Powerpopaholic reviews it.
A nice review from Meadow Music. Definitely worth checking out!
“To make an even and great pop album is not easy at all, and after hearing The Genuine Fakes‘ new album it feels like they’ve succeeded in this”
Note: the review is also available in Swedish!
Bored?!? Check out Brett Domino’s Justin Timberlake medley – truly awesome…
Here’s the video for “When Reality Hits You”. Much enjoyment! Many thanks to Johan Lundin and Marcus Söderlund who made it possible.
I think that The Wannadies is one of greatest bands in the world – I just don’t understand why they didn’t make it even bigger… Practically every song is a smash hit as far as I’m concerned!
I’ve linked some YouTube-clips that are definitely worth checking out. The first is the video for the song Friends which is one of their best songs…
The second clip is this simple but cool video for the song I Don’t Like You.
The third clip is from their awesome song Hit. We attempted to play it once with a cover band but it is seriously difficult to get the guitars and rhythm right. The Wannadies are just so tight…
Just look at their unbelievably cool discography; all of their albums are sooo good!
Tune in on Spotify for some excellent tunes by The Wannadies.
The next album on the list is another one that changed my life and the way I perceived music. Will Owsley is the founder of a legendary powerpop trio called The Semantics, which featured Ringo Starr’s son Zak Starkey on drums. Their sole album Powerbill was only released in Japan and the band never got the break they sought for. You might think that this is the album I’m going to talk about – which I could have gone on about at length – but I’m going to focus on Owsley’s first solo album Owsley released in 1999.
The story as I’ve heard it is that he recorded this album in his home studio, which he financed by touring with Amy Grant. When he started shopping around for a deal a lot of labels liked what they heard but wanted him to re-record the album to make it sound “cooler” or something like that. Owsley refused and waited until he found the label that wanted to put it out as it was, and he was rewarded for his persistence with a grammy nomination for “best engineering”. Ain’t that great?
Anyhow, the album in itself is a masterpiece. Packed with powerpop gems, full of energy and beatle-esque songwriting, it had a great impact on me when I first heard it a year after it came out and inspired me in so many ways, changing the way I write music. “Oh No The Radio” might be one of the coolest opening tracks of all time, and “Coming Up Roses” is a song every songwriter would wish they’d written!
Unfortunately, only one track is available for listening on Owsley’s MySpace. But it’s the beautiful ballad “Sentimental Favorite” so there’s really no reason to complain. I’ve been searching YouTube for any kind of Owsley or Semantics clip withouth luck. If you readers happen to stumble upon a clip, let me know.
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