Listen Before You Buy

Since picking up his guitar for the first time at the age of 13, Nash has sung about God, loss, change, and nature versus man.

TweetShare Buy the album on Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 | CD 2003 saw Adam Granduciel migrating from his hometown of Oakland, California, all the way across the country to Philadelphia, where he and Kurt Vile began playing as The War On Drugs.  Since then, the line-up of the band has seen several entries and [...]

TweetShare Digits is the musical alter-ego of Toronto-based Alt Altman. Eagle-eyed readers will note that we recently featured Mr Altman in his capacity as one half of dreamy R&B duo Bad Passion, whose first EP should be arriving shortly. Listening to his solo output, it’s clear how much of an influence he’s had on their sound. [...]

TweetShare Buy the album on Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 | CD William Elliott Whitmore is a jack of quite a few trades.  Hailing from the Midwest, or more specifically Lee County, Iowa, he’s earned quite a few accolades over his twelve-year career for his blues-y Americana sound reminiscent of a cross between Dylan and [...]

TweetShare You may never have heard of Ride, but chances are you’ve heard of Death Cab For Cutie, so let me give a little insight as to who the former are. In the late 80′s and early 90′s there was burgeoning Indie scene in the UK, specifically London and Manchester that were churning out talent [...]

TweetShare Leatherbag has been rocking the Buddy Holly vibe since 2005, in their own continuation of the “New Sincerity” movement from the 90′s indie scene in Austin, Texas. It involved artists in different media expressing themselves in an ironically carefree way, with absolute “sincerity”. To get a quick idea of Leatherbag’s take on it, think [...]

TweetShare “A fashion has come back. Fixed in new version – and here to stay. Imagine Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith and Bob Dylan. Remove 51% old man, two strings and add a new millennium.” Can you imagine it? Me neither. Never let it be said that I don’t give PR emails the benefit of the [...]

TweetShare This guy knows how to pull at those heartstrings. Maybe it’s a combination of certain things going on in my personal life right now, but The Tallest Man On Earth is the kinda music that accompanies it well first thing in the morning.  I’ve said this before but what he does isn’t anything groundbreaking, [...]

TweetShare While on tour, Mumford and Sons stopped by Colorado radio station, KBCO to perform “The Cave” and a new song that is untitled, but has been dubbed “Home” by the listeners.  Mumford and Sons have been on tour for some time now, stopping by the Grammys for a mega-collaboration with the one and only [...]

TweetShare When was the last time you used a pay phone? Seriously, think about it. Putting change into a phone attached to a pole, or in a booth on the street. Pretty antiquated, right? It’s telling that the cover image on Death Cab for Cutie’s seventh album is a key from a pay phone, suggesting [...]

TweetShare New music from The Tallest Man On Earth = old music from The Tallest Man On Earth. Any music from The Tallest Man On Earth = AWESOME! I’m fine with not saying anything else and leaving the post here, but I’ll give you a little back-story. Back in 2006 when Kristian Matsson was but a lad [...]

TweetShare You might’ve noticed that the site was down for a few days.  One of the things that I was excited to post just before it went down was this new album teaser by my favourite new band, 1, 2, 3.  The reason I was so excited is because having heard this album I can [...]

TweetShare I can’t say that I’m a die hard Death Cab For Cutie fan, but I am a fan. I’ve been listening to them for about six years now and was introduced to them via an online messageboard, my first taste being their (then) just released “Plans”.  If you can wear down MP3s then I wore [...]

TweetShare Need I gush anymore about 1,2,3? No seriously, do I?  I gladly will……. Ok, If I’d started the Ones To Watch section when I did my introduction piece on them these guys would be up there with the toppermost of the poppermost. I’ll say it again, but keep it fairly short in case you’ve [...]

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 I still remember when I first discovered Bob Dylan, and I think I might’ve spoken about it before but in case you missed it, I’ll tell it again (it’s incredibly exciting!). I used to watch VH1 Classic religiously when I was a kid, all hours of the night and I’d be enthralled by all of these amazing [...]