Listen Before You Buy

TweetShareIf you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted by [...]

TweetShare “Falling Off The Lavender Bridge” by Lightspeed Champion back at the start of 2008 quickly became one of my favourite albums of the last few years. Now with the new album “Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You” only three days away (Feb 15th), you can not only listen to the entire album for [...]

TweetShareMGMT have just announced that from today U.S. residents can preorder “Congratulations”  from their store with three options available.  It’ll be available from April 13th: Standard CD – $11 Limited Edition CD – $13 - Scratch off front cover with custom metal coin, 32 page booklet of photos and lyrics Vinyl LP – $25 - 12″ Double LP [...]

TweetShareI’m a fan of Jimmy Fallon. I didn’t have much hope for him when he first started hosting Late Night, but he’s come into his own. His humour is dry and his “bits” are somewhat surreal, but he also has great taste in music and has some amazing bands and artists on his show. Last [...]

TweetShareWith vocals dark and somewhat incomprehensible, reminiscent of those by The Knife on “We Share Our Mother’s Health”, drums methodic and cavernous, and the sound of someone rhythmically beating the crap out of a steel pipe in the background, Odd Blood’s opening song “The Children” is nothing like the rest of the album, an eclectic [...]

TweetShareThe Strokes haven’t released an album for almost 4 years now, their last being “First Impressions Of Earth” in 2006, but they’ve been speaking about that followup and playing live this summer at various festivals.  I wasn’t a huge fan of “First Impressions Of Earth” with only a few standout tracks, but I really liked [...]

TweetShareMassive Attack’s music is so timeless that it’s hard to believe it’s been seven years since their last album “100th Window”. When “100th Window” was released they had waited five years since the album before that, Mezzanine, so this being a seven year wait for “Heligoland” means we’re in for a treat. Right? “100th Window” [...]

TweetShareOperator Please had quite a bit of praise and success back in 2007 when they released their debut barrage of post-punk album “Yes Yes Vindictive” and now they’re gearing up to release its successor “Gloves”.  ”Gloves” will be available as a download on April 23rd and as a physical release on May 31st, both of [...]

TweetShareWild Beasts had one of the best yet underrated albums of 2009 in “Two Dancers” (ok, it was well rated by the press, but they received very little mainstream success).  If you can find me someone giving it a bad rating I’ll call you a liar and kick you in the shins.  They’ve already released [...]

TweetShare Those rascalian (I could’ve sworn that was a proper word), electro Gypsy-wannabes from the future MGMT have revealed the details for their second album “Congratulations”, the followup to 2007′s almost album of the year “Oracular Spectacular”. It has a release date of April 13th and their site has a countdown to it, currently at [...]

TweetShareIf you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted by [...]

TweetShareBetween 2002 and 2009, Oasis went through quite a few changes, losing band members, getting new members, being attacked, car crashes, releasing good and bad albums, releasing their last album and most notably, “splitting up”. I put that in quotation marks because noel quit the band and any reincarnation or continuation that Liam does will [...]

TweetShareI had absolutely no information about RJD2 before listening to “The Colossus”, having never heard of him or to my knowledge ever hearing any of his work, all I knew was that his genre was listed as Hip-Hop.  By the time the first song “Let There be Horns” had finished I thought he was going [...]

TweetShareYesterday I showed you some of the Oasis videos that made them huge between 1994 and 1996, today I’ll show you videos from their next two albums “Be Here Now” and “Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants”.  ”Be Here Now” was a huge commercial success but critics were divided, many of them saying it was [...]

TweetShare It’s for her third single “Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood” from the excellent album “Actor”.  The video features ThunderAnt which comprises of Fred Armisen (of SNL fame) dressed as an old woman and Carrie Brownstein (former singer of Sleater-Kinney and blogger for NPR), both bookstore owners putting on a show by St. Vincent. [...]

TweetShareYesterday I posted about how Oasis changed my life and today I’m giving examples. I posted a couple of their videos yesterday, the first being Supersonic and the second being Live Forever. The former was the first video of theirs I saw, and with Live Forever I thought it was crazy that Liam could somehow [...]