Listen Before You Buy

Check out the b-side to the new Beach Fossils 7″ that’s coming out at the end of the month.

Beach Fossils are releasing a new 7″ single towards the end of February but you can download an MP3 of it today.

TweetShare Listen to and download “Faithless,” the new release from Heavenly Beat below. Heavenly Beat, the side project of John Peña, bassist for Beach Fossils, put out a new 7′ single for the song “Faithless.” It’s a calming pop song backed by bossa-nova style percussion and guitar sections that sounds surprisingly cohesive and inventive. It [...]

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 [...]

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TweetShare Spacemonster is the alias of young Richmond based recording artist Kenny Hamilton. Previously part of a basement band called American Spacemonster Gill, Kenny’s gone his own way and taken his contribution to that name with him. Once upon a thankfully distant time, Spacemonster gigs consisted of scriptural readings accompanied by blaring white noise. I’m [...]

TweetShare Now, let me preface this with an admission that I haven’t listened to a single song by The Wake, which I’m guessing will be tantamount to sacrilege, being that I’m Scottish and all, and The Wake are all Scottish and shit too. But, just because I’m from Scotland doesn’t mean I should be expected to [...]

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 Back in 2009, PS I Love You teamed up with Diamond Rings on a split 7″ that yielded the irresistibly catchy “All Yr Songs” from Diamond Rings. That track introduced John O’Regan a/k/a Diamond Rings’ infectious baritone to the masses, spawning critical love and hatred in equal measures. Somewhat forgotten in that critical tsunami [...]

TweetShare On February 22nd, Beach Fossils will unleash a new EP via Captured Tracks. What a pleasure. Ironically, the EP is entitled “What A Pleasure”, and will feature a collaboration with Jack Tatum, better known as Wild Nothing and the track, “Out In The Way,” features a bolder sound than anything we’ve previously heard from [...]

TweetShare Beach Fossils narrowly missed out on my Top 31 Albums of 2010 list with their stellar-but-not-quite-as-stellar-as-some-other-albums-released-last-year-like-the-31-others-that-did-make-it-to-the-list album “Beach Fossils”. This is the second song we’ve heard from the “What A Pleasure” EP coming out February 22nd via Captured Tracks, the first being “Calyer”, and along with the first one, “What A Pleasure” doesn’t really [...]

TweetShare Yesterday Beach Fossils announced that they’re releasing a brand new 7″ EP “What A Pleasure” on February 22nd via Captured Tracks, the label who released their stunning self-titled debut earlier this year. The song will appear on their as-yet-untitled second album due out in April, so clearly the guys have been hard at work [...]

TweetShare Short, sweet, and to the point. Easy tigers, I’m not talking about myself, although I am fairly short and my head does get all pointy at the top like Dan Aykroyd’s.  I’m talking about Shimmering Stars from British Columbia, Canada.  Whilst their sound is upbeat, harmonious, sunny, and can quench thirst at the drop [...]

TweetShare It’s only been a couple of weeks or so since I first featured Reading Rainbow on here and now they’ve gone and released another new tune that’ll probably be from their upcoming second album “Prism Eyes”. The duo from Philly recorded it for the Shaking Through series and was picked by Mark from YVYNYL [...]

TweetShare I thought I had stumbled upon an excellent new band last week when I heard Reading Rainbow’s “Wasting Time”, but unbeknownst to me they’ve been around for a year or two now. Their debut album “Mystical Participation” made it onto Weekly Tape Deck’s best albums of last year and they also released a couple [...]

TweetShare Two new songs (the band got in touch with me and mentioned that these two “new” songs were actually done before their demo EP and that actual new songs are on the way.  Fuck yeah!) from New Jersey’s Slow Animal, taken from a cassette-released EP on Trivial Pursuit. Previously featured on the site back [...]