Listen Before You Buy

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 old [...]

Awwww sheeeeeiiiittttt. Were you aware that 1,2,3 are my new favourite-not-so-new-but-still-haven’t-released-an-album-yet band?  Well you fucking should be, I’ve said it enough times in the last month.  Signed to Frenchkiss Records the dudes have an album coming out in June called “New Heaven” and every song of theirs that I’ve heard has been wonderful. Some of [...]

It’s rare that you discover a band and within minutes of hearing one song you’ve already bought their entire discography on vinyl, but that’s what happened to me with 1, 2, 3. Granted that discography is only three 7″ singles deep, but still, that’s the effect they had on me.  When Matt posted “Riding Coach” [...]

Last week Matt posted 1,2,3‘s latest song “Riding Coach” and in an email to me he expressed how damn good it was. I’d never heard of the band before, flying below my radar for a good year or more, but when I heard the song I realised just how fucking good it was.  There’s an [...]

Arguably one of music’s greatest eras, the 50′s and 60′s changed the face of music forever.  Without people ranging from Elvis Presley to Little Richard, Bob Dylan to The Beatles, we probably wouldn’t be listening to some of the bands and music we take for granted today.  One man who grew up obsessed by the [...]

“Riding Coach,” the latest single from 1,2,3′s forthcoming Frenchkiss Records debut, is a blogger’s dream. A sparsely publicized promo single released well in advance of the band’s album, “Riding Coach” is the reason we choose to spend hours wading through submissions searching for the next great song – because when we find it, there is [...]

Ah, youth.  George Bernard Shaw once said, “Youth is wasted on the young” and in most cases he’s right.  What we have here however, is a prime example of what happens when the young decide to do something with that youth. Yo Soybean is an alternative folk band from Athens, Georgia (yes the same Athens, [...]

Smith Westerns, what with your hairy and grizzled version of modern Glam-Rock, what are we supposed to do with you? Just eat you up in copious amounts until we’re throwing up guns and paint and glitter and bits of wood?  Damn right!  If their debut self-titled album came out in 2010 it would’ve been in [...]

“Hunky Dory” is the fourth album from Bowie, but the first that was released under RCA records which he stuck with for over a decade. Bowie arrived at the cover shoot for the album with photographs of Marlene Dietrich who was a perfect metaphor for the music the album presented. It was a perfect representation [...]

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 [...]

After forming in 2008, Factory Kids (Christina Marie and Tim Chaplin) initially released their music via blogs and compilations and then soon after released their debut album “Factory Kids” on Powertool Records. They’ve since released a single and two more EPs on Oddbox Records and 17 Seconds Records respectively.  Their music is simultaneously dreamy and heavily distorted, [...]

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 [...]