As a follow-up to last week's post on the blog buzz on two new bands, Coolfer is checking in on We Are Scientists and Morningwood. With the trend tool at search engine Ice Rocket it's easy to see how many mentions bands are getting in the blogosphere (unless the band has a name that's impossible to search).

Leaving Nickelback out this time, let's look at the two bands again. Morningwood's buzz is at the same level it was a week ago on street date, but We Are Scientists started to spike a few days ago. Why the increase? Looks like some people wrote about recent live shows. We Are Scientists have had 1,463 posts in the last month, an average of 47.19 per day. Morningwood is right around the level of last week's album release day. It has 522 posts in the last month, or 16.84 per day.

(Another reason We Are Scientists have so many more posts even though the bands' albums came out on the same day: The band's UK head start definitely helps. Coolfer has spotted some UK blog posts in the search results.)

Morningwood is as polarizing a band as Coolfer has seen in a while. The conversation at industry message board The Velvet Rope is representative of the banter. Lots of love, lots of hate. But I suppose that's good. When was the last successful band that didn't have its share of haters? For insight into what's behind public opinion on the band, check out this interview with Morningwood singer Chantel Claret at Decent Content.