1. SMALLTOWN AMERICA'S FIRST EVER #1

Who or what can possibly stop the Fighting With Wire juggernaut? As many of you have probably already seen and heard, the video for Everyone Needs A Nemesis is the new #1 most requested video on the MTV2 / Myspace chart! Thank you all so much for pointing and clicking the lads to the top of the chart.

Of course, we want to keep FWW at the top of the tree for as long as possible - so keep clicking away at the Myspace chart!

Staying with everyone's favourite Derry three-piece, the physical release…

This covers about 99% of what I listened between May 2007 and January 2008. As this has been my first year using Last FM, this accounts for both my year end list and my total tracks last.

Total plays: 23627
Total artists: 368

1 Bright Eyes 1,016
2 Okkervil River 758
3 Ryan Adams 750
4 Elliott Smith 587
5 Modest Mouse 552
6 The Replacements 531
7 of Montreal 504
8 The Hold Steady 410
8 Sonic Youth 410
10 Stars 351
11 Broken Social Scene 350
12 Scout Niblett 315
13 Cursive 312
14 Wilco 308
15 Dinosaur…

What a wonderful year it has been at Smalltown America, our busiest and best to date. To say thank you for all your valued purchases over the last twelve months and as a 'book end' to the year, we have put together a free sampler of our 2007 releases, along with an exclusive sneak preview of Fighting With Wire's Man Vs Monster long player, which is going to be our first release of 2008.

It goes without saying that we couldn't exist without your interest, patience and passion for new, exciting music. Keep in touch and let's get some more…

Clone Quartet have dished up a festive treat with their new promo for album track 'Need Your Love' - remixed by Steven H and directed by Steven Q. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojIgFCnvK4

Clone Quartet's debut album Well Oiled Machine is out now, distributed by Cargo Records and available in all good record shops nationwide.

Clone Quartet Myspace | Buy Well Oiled Machine

We don't like to think of ourselves as ones to rest on our laurels, and even though 2007 still has two weeks to go, we're already hard at work on what STA is going to bring to the world in 2008. We're aiming to make it our biggest year yet, and so we have a lot of exciting plans in the pipeline.

In the spirit of this, we'd very proud to announce a new addition to our roster, in the shape of bedroom electro-pop-wonderkid Alan MX. We first came across Alan via Myspace last year, and were instantly taken…

I recently interviewed Adam Gnade via email about his collaborative work with Youthmovies (Adam Gnade & Youthmovies - Honey Slides, out now via Try Harder Records) and other new projects he has in the pipeline for my mp3 blog.

You can check it out here!