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Six months ago one of my favourite albums of the year was given an iTunes bonus disc release; Yuck‘s self-titled debut album. On that bonus version were a couple of tracks not on the regular version, and although it’s been out for six months or so today they decided to give us one of said new tracks: [...]

Mind The Gap is becoming one my new favorite bands.  Their tracks are definitely categorized as “easy listening” in my iTunes library and seem to fit any mood I’m in.  Their latest single, “Once You Leave” combines what I’ve come to love – interesting melodies, steady and foot-tapping beats, and light and airy vocals. The [...]

I’ve been listening to this album for about a week now and I have to say, it’s blowing me away. St. Vincent‘s first album “Marry Me” was excellent and she somehow managed to top it with her second album “Actor” in 2009, and two years later we have her third album “Strange Mercy” that has [...]

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The last time we did this we gave away every single free MP3 that we posted during the month of July….and even though it was hundreds of megabytes in size, there were over 1,000 downloads of it, but this month, or for last month’s mix, we’re just going to give you the tracks that we [...]

It’s been a year since you last heard from us regarding A Classic Education, and as school is about to start again, “Baby, It’s Fine” has the perfect timing. I personally love short songs, especially when they hit your stomach right from the first chords. This manages to do all that, and more, adding an elusive sultry [...]

It’s not so hard to get into the studio these days: with the price of professional recording equipment at a record low, it is easier than ever for musicians to craft, and find an audience for, their sounds. There is a downside: with a glus of music to listen to, listener attention spans are shorter [...]

Not ones to shy away from getting work done, New York’s Miniature Tigers have already completed the follow-up to 2010′s “F O R T R E S S”, which was the follow-up to their 2008 Indie-Jangle-Pop album “Tell It To The Volcano”, which was the follow-up to them just pissing about in their bedroom. Now [...]

Buy the album on Amazon – Vinyl | CD With 90′s nostalgia becoming a legitimate phenomenon, we’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn’t remember Pavement. Headed by Stephen Malkmus, Pavement gathered an enormous cult following in their day and are held by many to have been the best band of the nineties. [Ed: it's a shame that Silver [...]

Nathan Williams, or as we know him as Wavves,  has read my mind on this one, would he care if I join the meeting when this occurs? MTV must have felt the same and used the song on the pilot for their new show “I Just Want My Pants Back” yesterday evening. His vocals lead you right [...]

One of my favourite things about rainbows is the spectrum of awesome colours they hold, from yellow, to purple, to red, to green, to beige, to blue, to black, to orange….all in that order. One of the things I like most about Philly’s Reading Rainbow is that they too are colourful, be it the artwork [...]

Modern pop culture, be it music, movies or television, thrives on the nostalgia of our past, a revolving door of ideas and sounds. And as music trends more towards the blissful, sentimental pop tunes – Tennis, Cults, Washed Out – the notion of dirty garage punk and distorted lyrics seem laughable. Portland, OR.’s Grrrl Friend [...]

Are these guys really from Brooklyn? I feel like someone shoved me into a spaghetti western and I must dance to avoid the bullets. Slow Sound’ shameless melody is in precision with the vibrating energy unfolding their power pop, and don’t let this Nashville guitar fool you, fortified by the hectic drums, it’s on a [...]