Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare Next week (April 6th) sees the release of “Hippies”, the second album by Harlem, an Austin three-piece by way of Nashville.  Their thrash-trash-punk is getting a shitload of people excited, and rightly so.  They played about 783 shows at SXSW this year and came away from it as one of the highlights of the whole festival, [...]

TweetShare I first heard of Janelle Monae a couple of years ago when she released her EP “Metropolis: The Chase Suite” and I’ve pretty much only had those five songs to listen to for more than two years.  Even back then there was a load of excitement about her and it’s a testament to her [...]

TweetShare Twin Sister are a five-piece band based in Brooklyn who make insatiably catchy experimental pop music, drowned in atmosphere, with singer Andrea being loosely compared to a Bjork and Regina Spektor love-child.  They released a four-song EP back in 2008 called “Vampires With Dreaming Kids” but have unfortunately gonna pretty much unnoticed until recently. They played [...]

TweetShare Remember that huge SXSW post I made a couple of weeks ago where I uploaded hundreds of songs by bands and artists appearing at this year’s festival?   Nah I didn’t think so, but I do, and one of the things I remember about it as I was listening to all of the songs [...]

TweetShare Charlie over at Wait What spent three weeks on this mashup, traveled 26,542 miles, worked 116 hours at his day job, tweeted 41 times, made 26 new Facebook friends, danced for 17 hours, snowboarded 5 mountains, celebrated 5 birthdays, took 2 trips to the hospital, found out his favourite author passed away, and ended up with [...]

TweetShare Credit where credit’s due, the only reason I got this is thanks to Twitter, WeListenForYou, TheMusicNinja, and PrettyMuchAmazing. It’s a pretty weird (good) video, for a somewhat mediocre song, at least until the last quarter of it when it really kicks in. Flash Delirium is out now as a free download and you can [...]

TweetShareThe Black Keys just posted to their YouTube account a video for “Tighten Up” that features a dinosaur puppet doing en excellent job of lip-syncing to their new song. Check iiiiiit. Ok, this video is awesome, I’m loving the dance moves and the bi-polar, passive-aggressive text scrolling along the bottom. Pre-order “Brothers” – Amazon

TweetShare Dark, brooding, and Gothic, Blessure Grave from San Diego blend music from The Cure, Joy Division and Cocteau Twins into one frighteningly atmospheric and introspected sound that can either instigate a bad mood and get you out of one, but bad moods are awesome (they give you license to be a justifiable dick to anyone!) so [...]

TweetShare Cults, the mysterious and much hyped band that burst onto the scene a few weeks back have signed with Forest Family Records.  FFR is a brand new record label, founded by Gorilla vs Bear and Weekly Tape Deck, and their first release is a limited 7″ run of 400 copies of “Go Outside” (the [...]

TweetShare NPR have some really amazing Tiny Desk Concerts and today they posted their session with Wye Oak who had one of the better albums of last year “The Knot”, and definitely one of the best in the Indie/Folk genres, but this Tiny Desk Concert doesn’t even touch that album. Two songs (“My Neighbor” and [...]

TweetShare Black Eyed Dog is a one man band from Italy, joined by “Q” when playing live and doubling the intensity.  Fabio Parrinello plays all of the instruments on his music (Piano, Synth, Mandolin, Guitar) and writes all of the songs and music, so he’s basically like Prince but without the velvet and the funk, [...]

TweetShare If 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 [...]

TweetShareOver the course of the SXSW festival I uploaded hundreds of songs to the site that the SXSW organisers gave away for free (they do it every year) so that you could find some new music and download it.  Since the festival’s now over, I’m going to take down the stream but leave open my [...]

TweetShare Spelling “colour” the proper way (wink wink), Colourmusic hail from Oklahoma with the exception of one member who hails from Yorkshire in the U.K..  Judging by their name you’d think they make colourful music, and judging by people’s knack for judging things based on a name, you’d be right.  They’ve already released an album [...]

TweetShare With the release date of High Violet getting ever closer (May 11th), excitement and (no pun intended) buzz is starting to really pick up. So far we’ve seen a live performance of “Terrible Love” on Jimmy Fallon and a grainy video of the band playing new songs live in New York, but today, thanks [...]

TweetShare Summer Camp aren’t new.  Well…..that actually depends on your definition of new.  They don’t have an album yet.  Their label doesn’t even have them listed on their site yet (they do, but the page returns an error).  They have a single but you can’t buy it anywhere because it’s not released until April 12th. [...]