Listen Before You Buy

It’s almost a week until Panda Bear‘s Paw Tracks release “TOMBOY”, the follow-up to the 2007 masterpiece “Person Pitch”, drops and in usual fashion, NPR have an exclusive stream of the entire album for the whole week. In their words “it’s great” and after a making my way through a couple of songs it’s definitely what [...]

Way back when I had the red and black lumberjack, with the hat to match, I posted about Jai Paul and the sublime music he had posted on his MySpace page. Well now that’s all gone and has been replaced with a short message from him and two flashing images that follow it; Air Force, [...]

When it comes to Animal Collective and their various members’ solo/side projects, people expect some great things from both. It doesn’t always happen (Avey Tare‘s debut was piss-poor) and then sometimes it does (Panda Bear‘s “Person Pitch” was one of the best album of the last decade), and from what I’ve heard of Panda Bear’s [...]

“Don’t go killin’, killin’ the vibe. I can’t take your lame style.”  How many times have you wanted to say that? The new collaboration from Ducktails, Real Estate guitarist Matthew Mondanile’s alter-ego, and Animal Collective’s Panda Bear, also known as Noah Lennox, definitely has a good vibe.  The new track includes classic Panda Bear vocals, [...]

Ok, so it’s not new, but relatively few people have heard this as it was the accompanying b-side on their second 7″ single “Out, Don’t..” that was released back in October on Mexican Summer. When I initially got the 7″ I had just a shitty 1979 Light & Sound machine portable turntable that I was [...]

You’re gonna like this one, I guarantee it. Ok, I don’t really guarantee it, but I can say you’ll love it if you loved their astounding debut EP.  As you’d expect from the song, the video follows suit with some trippy visuals, cold electronic synthetics, and a slightly creepy vibe with some hooded entity roaming [...]

I’d say my ratio for PR companies sending me half-decent music is maybe one out of ten (sometimes two), and I don’t get a whole lot of PR releases.  That either says something about the state of music, or about PR, or about both, but those one or two times that they nail it and [...]

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 Gmail [...]

For a good month or two there have been just as many Avey Tare fakes as there have been Daft Punk/Tron fakes, and I was prone to one of those fakes a few weeks back. I figured that since Stereogum posted it, and they know what they’re talking about a damn sight more than I [...]

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 Gmail [...]

So this isn’t quite an “Introducing” piece since they’ve been around for a little while and featured on other sites, but not a whole lot. First things first though;  Hot fucking damn this shit is tight.  For some reason before listening to their music I kinda thought, based on the name, that they’d be some [...]

Some lucky bastards managed to get their “Tomboy” 7″ early, but of course I wasn’t one of them.  Shit, vinyl I’ve been waiting on since May hasn’t even arrived yet, nevermind vinyl that hasn’t even been released yet.  Hopefully by Thursday I’ll have it (I’ll cut someone if I don’t). Anyway, said lucky bastards ripped the vinyl [...]

Librarians come from West Virginia and play uplifting, ethereal electro-tinged indie pop. Their latest album, Present Passed, was released in March 2010, and the two singles here are a good taste of the record as a whole. “Candy Season” is as light and sweet as its name implies, building a summery pop melody on top [...]

He labels himself on his MySpace page as “Pop/Hip-Hop/Indie”, but Jai Paul is so much more than that.  That only touches the surface of his sound which is one of the most exciting things I’ve heard in a long time. Hailing from Rayners Lane in London he currently only has demos, most of them short, [...]

Another recent signing to the newly created label Forest Family Records is Gauntlet Hair, who now share the label with “Cults”, the excellent new Indie-Soul duo from San Diego. Gauntlet Hair are two BFFs (Andy and Craig) from Lafayette, Colorado who’ve been making music together since they were 15 and it shows, their sound is [...]

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 by [...]