Listen Before You Buy

I owe this guy an apology. 22 year-old James Cooley (or Mesita under his musical moniker) sent me his music a while ago and it’s taken me this long to get it up on the site.  So apologies, James. He’s been releasing music for a couple of years now, most of which is available for [...]

No sooner had I made my post about Tennis than Patrick (from Tennis) had sent me a mastered version of “South Carolina”, a song that was previously only available as a demo.  He sent it to me yesterday, so I apologise for the delay, but it’ll be worth it. Well now you have three excellent, [...]

There are three, maybe four songs from Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, this husband and wife duo from Denver, Colorado floating around t’internet. That’s a shame because I’ve been doing nothing but listening to those songs over the last three days, especially with the onslaught of gorgeous weather and a summer breeze, they accompanied my [...]

One of my most loved discoveries of 2010 so far is Gauntlet Hair, a duo from Lafayette, Colorado creating catchy lo-fi, layered garage-rock, with a huge beat. I featured them about a month ago and included three of their songs.  At that time they had only just revealed they were releasing their debut single “I [...]

Another recent signing to the newly created label Forest Family Records is Gauntlet Hair, who now share the label with “Cults”, the excellent new Indie-Soul duo from San Diego. Gauntlet Hair are two BFFs (Andy and Craig) from Lafayette, Colorado who’ve been making music together since they were 15 and it shows, their sound is [...]