Listen Before You Buy

Tomorrow, December 1st 2011, marks the start of Listen Before You Buy’s Top 31 Albums Of 2011 Countdown Extravaganza!

Lana Del Rey announces her debut album “Born 2 Die” being released on January 23rd 2012.

Win the excellent new Zola Jesus album on marbled white vinyl!

Electronic French duo Air are to release their new album “Le Voyage Dans La Lune” which includes collaborations with Beach House and Au Revoir Simone.

On December 6th one of our favourite bands of the year 1,2,3 have announced that they’re releasing their new single “Scared But Not That Scared” as a digital download.

TweetShare We here at Listen Before You Buy is always looking for more writers and contributors, we just don’t always make posts like this to advertise the fact (even though to some it seems like this is ALL we do). That being said, below are the positions we have available (currently non-paying, but with the [...]

TweetShare After a clutch of interviews teasing a tour, and even a couple of cheeky shows in New York in September, Radiohead have finally announced what we can only assume is the first leg of their 2012 world tour,  in support of their latest album “The King Of Limbs”. And it looks like it’s gonna [...]

TweetShare Back at the start of 2010 The xx spoke about how they’d like to work with R&B soul-sister Rihanna, either on a recording or performing live with her like she did with Klaxons at The Brit Awards in 2008. Post-Dubstep points out that according to ASCAP and the Wikipedia page for Rihanna‘s upcoming album “Talk [...]

TweetShare Next week, from October 18th-22nd the annual CMJ music festival is taking place in New York City, and it’s widely regarded as one of the best and most comprehensive independent music festival around. Hundreds of artists playing at a multitude of venues all across the city, many shows free, many shows all ages, make for an [...]

TweetShare Listen Before You Buy is always looking for more writers and contributors, we just don’t always make posts like this to advertise the fact (even though to some it seems like this is ALL we do). That being said, below are the positions we have available (currently non-paying, but with the prospect of making [...]

TweetShare Recently we did an Introduciton Ones To Watch post on Nerves Junior, talking up their excellent debut album and instead of us keeping it to ourselves and making you jealous and excited about one of the best albums of the year, we’re going to do an album listening party with the band themselves, We [...]

TweetShare A couple of weeks ago the guys over at Ticketometer, a new startup based in Texas which is currently in beta, got in touch with me to let me know about their service. I get a bunch of emails like this from companies, startups, people making extensions for browsers, new sites trying to be [...]

TweetShare So I’ll ask you again: You like winning shit, right!? As with the last time the cool cats at Groopease were giving away tickets to Bonnaroo, this time with tickets Lollapalooza you can get your hands on one pair (there are two pairs to give away) of weekend passes to the festival as well [...]

TweetShare Download this entire album for free! One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music.  The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally please the masses.  Lost in [...]

TweetShare Not this old chestnut again, eh? What started of as “Me” looking for new writers has now expanded into “We” are looking for new writers, but this time it’s more focused.  What we’re looking for are New Music Editors and Album Reviewers, you need to have a good grasp of English, good grammar, and [...]

TweetShare One of the greatest songs of all time has this refrain as its chorus: “If you don’t know me by now, you will be never never never know me”. Yeah, that’s right, I just quoted a Simply fuckin’ Red song (I know it’s a Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes cover, but Mick Hucknall [...]