Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare As the title says, Listen Before You Buy can no longer sustain itself and it’s becoming too costly for me to keep it running, so it’s with great regret that I have to close it down. Nah, just playin’. This place isn’t going anywhere, at least not yet anyway, but it is becoming too [...]

TweetShare Kimberly: In college I took this course called “The Media and Popular Culture,” as an elective.  I dismissed it as an easy A and one that I needed merely for the credits.  It was either that or “Film 101,” where it was rumored that the professor would just play clips from “Citizen Kane” – [...]

TweetShare You like winning shit, right?  RIGHT!?  You like music, right? Well some of it, at least.  Hopefully you like enough of what’s going on at Bonnaroo to want to go, otherwise you’re wasting your time here.  If you’re still reading then thanks to Groopease you can win a couple of pairs of 3-day passes [...]

TweetShare If you are the wallflower that stands in the corner with crossed arms and crossed legs, gently bobbing your head, then you do not belong at the Sleigh Bells concert.  Or the CSS concert for that matter. Opening for Sleigh Bells at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy) was [...]

TweetShare And by hiring I mean I need people to contribute for nothing!  Even though it seems like I’m always “hiring” (it’s non-paying just in case you’re wondering) I was in good shape and not taking on any new contributors, but unfortunately I had one flake on me and the other, long-time Editor Matt, is leaving [...]

TweetShare Before you get your panties in a bunch, this isn’t aimed at all bloggers and site owners, but I guess we’re all to be held accountable for the subject at hand, including myself. In three weeks the Seattle Indie-Folk-Pop-Alternative-Rock band Fleet Foxes will release their much-anticipated second album “Helplessness Blues”.  On the last day [...]

TweetShare If we didn’t all love music then we wouldn’t be here, but often overlooked are the videos that accompany the music, and even more overlooked are the directors and producers who put their time and effort and money into making them, which is why I’ve started Le Garage. Before I get into the details, [...]

TweetShare Picture via MIT You like music, right?  You like people being helped, right? Well now you can do both all from the comfort of that nice chair you’re in.  For the month of March, any music that is bought via any of the Purchase links (Amazon, eMusic, iTunes, Insound) on Listen Before You Buy or [...]

TweetShare Would you like to write for Listen Before You Buy, the premiere music website for facetious and sarcastic commentary? Are you sure?  Have you really thought about it?  Think about it again……..k, you done? Alright, at LBYB we run a tight ship, my writers are frickin’ awesome but even their speedy typing skills and [...]

TweetShare Today Listen Before You Buy lives up to its name. This was my initial intention for ListenBeforeYouBuy before it launched as a blog-type site in January 2010; to have the whole site as a place for people to come and listen to music before they bought it. In fact, this has been in the works [...]

TweetShare 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 this growing blogging race are the [...]

TweetShare Go on Scotland, go do your thing (I know Frank is all about the homeland); as he should be, especially with good music coming out of it like Aerials Up. Aerials Up is an outfit from Glasgow, making some serious noise this past year. This is a good one, a seven piecer with a [...]

TweetShare Dayuuuummmmm. One year, eh?  When I started the site I initially had a much broader and further reaching plan for it (which is being worked on by myself and my resourceful writers and I’ll reveal to you all very soon), something that was nothing like how the site is now (a cesspool for sarcasm [...]

TweetShare This took a little longer than expected for me to announce but there was a large amount of entries between Twitter and Facebook, but I’ve finally found a winner, and as with my previous contest I used Random.org where you input a bunch of entries and it randomises those entries and lists them numerically. [...]

TweetShare I have quite a few plans in store for Listen Before You Buy this year.  Some will be trying out new ventures, some will be expanding the site to encompass more and varied material, and some may never even see the light of day. One thing I’m interested in is the combination of sharing [...]

TweetShare If you follow me on Twitter then you may have seen me take part in a music blogging debate that was going down on Thursday afternoon.  My $0.57 of input were thus: So apparently I’ve missed the whole #musicblogging debate, but here’s my $0.57….do it because you enjoy it, not for money or popularity. And: [...]