Listen Before You Buy

There were girls jumping up and down, balls flying, and beer spewing.  And that was just the first band.  Newcomers Best Coast and Wavves have teamed up on the tour, “Summer is Forever”.  Filling an almost sold out crowd at the 9:30 Club in our nation’s capital, the two bands brought the noise and the [...]

Yeah you read that right, four new videos by The Go! Team. That’s four over the course of a few days which is fucking impressive/insane/awesome.  Maybe they’re doing what others have done with special releases of their albums and included a DVD with videos for each of their songs.  Usually they’re more visual accompaniments as opposed to [...]

Album number three is only five days away for this Brighton fire-startin’, sample-lovin’, Indie-Pop meets Electronic Hip-Hop-Danceabilly-rockin’ ensemble otherwise known as The Go! Team. Back in October they released the first single from the album “T.O.R.N.A.D.O.”, then they released the video for it and that’s it so far, but a couple of months of no [...]

This seems to happen, and has happened, with a lot of other music sites and blogs, whereby they post about a new artist who’s trying to get some coverage of their music and over the course of a year or so they watch that artist blossom and grow and get the kind of acclaim and [...]

And so it happens again. Last week when I posted the track from their upcoming split 7″ with Wavves I mentioned how the tracks that Best Coast have released after their album came out have all been better than some of the tracks on the album, and here’s another example to prove my point. Taken [...]

So colour me confused (actually I did spell “colour” correctly, thank you very much) but the tunes I’ve heard coming outta the Best Coast camp that aren’t on their album, have been better than most of the songs that are on the album. Their Christmas jam they did with Wavvess and released as part of [...]

When I was making my best albums of the year list I initially had Best Coast, in a fairly prominent position, but as I re-listened to each album I wondered why I’d loved their debut “Crazy For You” so much. I think it was because it was Summer and the album was all hazy and shit, but [...]

Remember that time when you heard a band you really liked on an awesome music site, and then you checked out more of their music and snagged it on vinyl?  And then you bought a ticket for you and your buddy to see them at a local joint and bought a t-shirt and 7″ from [...]

Best Coast and Wavves both released two of the better albums of the year, even though I despised (and still do) Wavves’ first album. Best Coast frontwoman Bethany Cosentino just so happens to be dating Wavves frontman Nathan Williams and presumably live life together in a garage by the sea that’s filled with smoke and tubes [...]

I like to keep in touch with artists who reach out to me or that I contact about featuring them on the site. When James Nee, the mastermind behind We Are Trees, first got in touch with me back in July we got to email-chatting and have kept in touch since, and the dude’s one [...]

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 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 [...]

Last week the ever-entertaining and most things musically-knowledgeable blog We Listen For You held their three year birthday party/show in NYC. When Zach posted the roundup of the show one of the bands on the lineup was Radical Dads and they were the only one on said lineup that I hadn’t heard of, yet for some [...]

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 [...]

If Ed Droste Daniel Rossen was dead, We Are Trees would be his spirit, his living embodiment. That’s not to say that We Are Trees is just a Grizzly bear rip-off, far from it.  James Nee, the guy behind We Are Trees, may sound like “The Droste” but it’s not just his voice that encompasses [...]