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A 60′s psych-folk throwback whose layered, homely sound is unlike anything you’ve heard…recently.

TweetShare Admittedly, I welcome when a song opens up my memory bank, overloading my senses with nostalgic associations. This new tune becomes a snowball of time and space that makes me spew more references than I know what to do with – if you haven’t yet noticed. Yet to stick, it’s got to do more [...]

TweetShare In an effort to try to become more relevant, not necessarily to their name but just towards music in general, MTV have launched (March 16th) a new site called MTV Hive which is aimed at music discovery with a slant towards the indie side of things. Just looking at their homepage you’ll see artists [...]

TweetShare Subscribing to a new band’s Bandcamp RSS feed sometimes has its benefits. Usually they’re dormant, or at least the ones I subscribe too, but every now and again you’ll see them update and boom, an entire new album or EP to listen to for free and you’re one of the first to hear it. [...]

TweetSharePhotography by Emily Graham The more I listen to the few songs I’ve heard from Those Dancing Days‘ upcoming second album, the more I get excited for its release. There’s nothing groundbreaking or unique about their music, but that doesn’t meant they can’t make some of the best Danceabilly-Indie-Pop on the planet, and they do it [...]

TweetShare Photography by Emily Graham Seemingly, and hopefully, the ladies in Those Dancing Days go from strength to strength. With their debut album I was instantly hooked, and when we got our first feasting of new music from the band at the end of November with the Indie-Punk-Pop “Fuckarias” I was glad that they still [...]

TweetShare Hi, I’m Franky B Rockafeller and you might remember Sweet Lights from such posts as “[Introducing] – Sweet Lights” and “[Listen/Download] – New Song By Sweet Lights – “Scopitone Scopitone”. Or maybe you don’t, and that’s alright too, but I won’t let you off a third time though.  The song is gorgeous and you [...]

TweetShare Back in 2008 my brother told about Those Dancing Days and when I gave their album a listen, my love for contagious Swedish garage-rock and indie-organ-pop was taken to a whole new level. “In Our Space Hero Suits”, their debut album, is an album I can still listen to on a regular basis and [...]

TweetShare Last week one of the bestest and bestest of music blogs called it a day. This Swiss blog Delicious Scopitone were apparently having some internal conflicts that caused them to disband and just last week they shut up shop.  Before that though they did a little visual dedication to Philly’s Sweet Lights and in turn [...]

TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]

TweetShare There was a band a few years back called Cotton Mather who I was turned onto by Noel Gallagher after he proclaimed their brilliance on an early morning TV show in the U.K. Being the loyal Oasis follower that I was back then I swiftly ran out to find their CD, mainly because he [...]

TweetShare Guards have been one of those acts to get genuinely excited about this year, popping up outta nowhere back in July and then people went nuts for them, mainly because it was so fucking solid. Well “them” is actually just one dude, Richie Follin, who’s the brother of Madeline Follin, the other half of [...]

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 [...]

TweetShare Back to the future from now to a reversion into the 60’s SoCal club scene. This re-release is a flashing anachronism in this late conglomeration, amid the glam neon pink eighties. Considered a precursor to what later became known as the punk-rock scene, Sky Saxon and company quietly managed to blend a confluence of [...]

TweetShare “Revolver” is the 7th album by English superstars The Beatles whom anybody who is anyone has heard of. “Revolver” maintains that guitar-rock folky sorta sound you first here in “Rubber Soul”. None of the songs were performed live that year of 1966 when The Beatles were on tour because of the complex arrangements that [...]

TweetShare I know next to nothing about this band, other than Cults made a tweet late last night/early this morning saying they were featured on the new EP by a band called Guards and they linked to their Bandcamp page. So check it out I did and I’m glad I did, because it’s pretty fucking [...]