Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare “Everything dies, baby that’s a fact.” Bummer. Bruce Springsteen‘s “Nebraska” was loaded with portraits of desparation and, clearly, “Atlantic City” was no exception. That’s why hearing Benjamin Francis Leftwich’s version of the track came as such a surprise: everything dying has never sounded so uplifting. When Benjamin sings “now our luck may have died [...]

TweetShare I gush, what can I say?  Sorry?  Ok, maybe sometimes a “sorry” is warranted, but most of the time it’s not because I’m not the only one gushing. The latter part of that sentence is definitely true for Cults.  I gushed back in March when they showed up unannounced out of nowhere and turned us all [...]

TweetShare You know you’re onto a winner when other people start stealing stuff from your site.  That’s exactly what I’ve done to Transparent, quite literally one of the best sources anywhere for amazing new music.  Their hit rate is insurmountable, maybe having one shite song in 20, and even then the song isn’t shite, it’s [...]

TweetShare I’m not sure what the weather’s like where you are but right here on the east coast of the U.S. it’s between “Hot” and “Hotter”.  That’s pretty hot, but I love the heat and gravitate towards as much of it as my body can handle.  When I was younger my parents brought my brother [...]