Listen Before You Buy

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 to [...]

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 of [...]

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 in [...]

Photography by me. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” – John Lubbock I’ve been toying with the idea of putting together a mixtape for a while [...]

Tuesdays excite me. Not only does it begin with a “T” (one of my favourite letters, not far behind “F” and “ranky B Rockafeller”) but Mike over at The Big Beat posts a New Tunes Tuesday mix of 12 or so songs that are….well new, and I’ve yet to be disappointed by the variety and consistently good [...]

Although they’ve been around and being spoken about for a good few months now, it seems like only in the last couple of weeks or so that I’m starting to hear about New Jersey’s Alexander and Daniel, the guys behind Slow Animal.  They’ve been showing up on various different blogs and Twitter streams and it [...]

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 [...]