Listen Before You Buy

French Wives hail from Glasgow, Scotland and wish they had an interesting back-story as to how the band formed. Instead, they’ve got some great tunes to serve as their introduction.

Dry The River have become a regular name in the “bands to watch” slots that appear in the media around this time of year, and their single “No Rest” has over half a million views on YouTube – not bad for a band who’s first official EP, “Weights & Measures”, was only released just over a month ago.

Régine Chassagne is so damn fabulous!

TweetShareThis live video of  “Josh McBride” and “Oh Virginia” is case and point why The Head And The Heart are one of my all-time favorite bands. Each time they play it is absolutely incredible, you would be in a tough argument to try and persuade me into believing there is actually a better band to [...]

TweetShare I’ve often admitted that I’m not a huge fan of the Spanish music scene. There are very few bands that I’ve found myself enjoying, and most of the acts I do listen to (such as Polock or The Sunday Drivers), happen to sing in English. One welcome exception to this trend is vetusta morla (who prefer [...]

TweetShare Siskiyou will be putting out “Keep Away The Dead” on October 4, one of the more promising albums of 2011. Comprised of Great Lake Swimmers members Colin Huebert and Erik Arnesen who are now stepping away from the duo aspect that has been Siskiyou up to this point and adding full-time members Shaunn Watt [...]

TweetShare A quick update on the music news for the week before I get started: The Righteous Brothers‘ cover of “Unchained Melody” is on jukeboxes everywhere; anticipation for The Beatles‘ up-coming album “Help!” is reaching fever pitch; and The Ronettes‘ latest, “Is This What I Get For Loving You?”, has flopped, rather embarrassingly. That’s right: [...]

TweetShare Eugh. Just look at those publicity shots. Dylan Champagne has been crafted to look like the most smug man on the planet. His fighting stance on the left is just inviting you to hit him. With photos like those, an album called “Love Songs of the Apocalypse Volume 1″ and a bandcamp blurb that [...]

TweetShare Connect with Arcade Fire - Facebook | Twitter | MySpace | Website | Last.fm

TweetShare It was almost exactly a year to the day when Arcade Fire started dropping some 12″ vinyl singles in record stores across the world, much to the surprise of everyone.  People were cropping up online posting pictures of this vinyl that wasn’t announced by the band, something that shoppers were finding randomly littered amongst [...]

TweetShare I think there’s something particularly special about music that’s really evocative of a time or place. It’s why I never grow tired of Guillemots‘ “Through The Windowpane” – every time I listen I actually feel like I’m on a train to Brazil, and end up heartbroken in São Paulo. Pretty epic. The Lonely Wild [...]

TweetShare If, like me, you were barely old enough to string sentences together during the early nineties heyday of shoegaze, the genre’s ongoing revival is something of a blessing. On Volcano, a four-piece group from Tampere, Finland, provide the latest aural treat for revivalists. “New Blood”, their second EP released late last year, is a [...]

TweetShare Picture by James Chadderton/Peter Hook   It’s fairly indescribable the impact that Joy Division have had on my life, but it’s fair to say it’s been nothing short of life-changing; one of those artists that literally do change your life, and personally it’s only happened with four others (Oasis, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Arcade [...]

TweetShare While I was going through LBYB’s SXSW list, I listened to the first few seconds of each track.  If you can get me at “hello,” then I’m yours.  All I needed to hear was that first bass drumbeat of Superhumanoids’ track “Persona”, and I knew I was going to like it.  Then in walked [...]

TweetShareClick on the image to listen to the entire album for free.

TweetShareClick on the image to listen to the entire album for free.