Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare The last time we heard new music from Zola Jesus was at the end of June when I wasn’t even suppposed to have the track, but due to some screw-up they gave the song away as a download and of course I posted it. Anyway, this time around we ARE allowed to have the [...]

TweetShare Uhhh….what the fridge? I can only assume that this was made with the sole intention of having nothing to do with the band name (Tennis), the song name (“Pigeon”), or the theme of the song (love), because it’s a magician, doing magic tricks.  Oh, and he’s in dark room, possibly with his captors in [...]

TweetShare Another band whose upcoming debut album “Cape Dory” is sure to be a monster, is Tennis. Rolling out of obscurity towards the start of the year, everyone instantly latched onto their laid back, Lo-Fi, sweet summer sound and from then on, we were all smitten.  Since then they’ve gone from high to higher and [...]

TweetShare It’s weird how things happen. I was just looking at the pre-order page for Tennis’ debut album “Cape Dory” (January 18th on Fat Possum) and they have the lead track from the album as a stream.  One minute later I checked out my Google Reader feed and there’s Pitchfork with the MP3 of the [...]

TweetShare Recorded on August 18th (they had it on their MySpace page as a tour date and I’ve been waiting impatiently ever since) and released today as part of a new Daytrotter session, one song is new and the is part of a 6-song cassette they released. “Pigeon” was featured on the 6-song cassette along [...]

TweetShare You may have heard about Cast Spells’ frontman already, or at least about his other project.  Cast Spells is a side project, you see (and a mighty fine one at that) of David Davison, who also just so happens to be in another upcoming (scratch that, they’ve been around for about 6 years but [...]

TweetShare I posted Local Natives’ session with La Blogotheque a couple of weeks ago but today I’m actually going to post some of their other music.  Formerly known as Cavil At Rest whom they released an EP (“Cavil At Rest EP”) and an album (“Orion Way”) under back in 2006 and 2007, they changed their [...]

TweetShare The Tallest Man On Earth is actually just a regular sized guy. His music on the other hand is huge. Often (and quite-rightly so) compared to Bob Dylan and Bon Iver, his music is folky and insatiably heartfelt, his voice on most songs sounding as if it’s about to break under the pressure of [...]

TweetShareAs the Frightened Rabbit extravaganza week continues I posted a review of The Midnight Organ Fight yesterday, Frightened Rabbit’s second and absolutely stunning album.  Today I’m sharing videos and songs from some of the songs on that album. The first single from TMOF was “Head Rolls Off”, one of the many standout tracks on the [...]

TweetShareYesterday I posted a review of Frightened Rabbit’s debut album “Sing The Greys” with a stream for you to listen to it for free. Today I’m going to show some videos of songs from “Sing The Greys”. They only released one single from that album, a double A-side of “Be Less Rude” and “The Greys”. [...]

TweetShare Ok, granted that the Jimmy Fallon performance was from January 22nd, but there’s still a shitload of buzz following this Baltimore duo, especially since releasing their third critically acclaimed album “Teen Dream” last week.  I’ve yet to read a bad review of Teen Dream and many are saying (already) that it’s the album of [...]