Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare Artist: Gayngs Hometown: Minneapolis, USA Members: Justin Vernon and Mike Noyce (Bon Iver), P.O.S (Rhymesayers), Dessa (Doomtree), Michael Lewis (Andrew Bird), Ivan Howard (The Rosebuds), Ryan Olson (Building Better Bombs, Digitata), Zach Coulter, Adam Hurlburt, and Shön Troth (Solid Gold), Joe Westerlund, Brad Cook, and Phil Cook (Megafaun), Maggie Morrison (Lookbook, Digitata), Jake Luck [...]

TweetShare Female artists are getting a bad rap these days when the likes of Katy Perry and Ke$ha are the ones getting all the press and making all the monies. Thankfully though we have women like Kellee Maize who are doing good things for female Hip-Hop, mixing the flow of Dessa with the bite of [...]

TweetShare I spoke about Dessa nigh-on three months ago now.  If you’re into Hip-Hop she brings something fresh to the table, an extremely smart woman who can actually sing and hold a note, but can rap aaaaaaaannnddddd is also just an all-around good person. How many of them exist? You’ll have to check out my [...]

TweetShareA supergroup of epic proportions, GAYNGS includes members of Solid Gold, Megafaun, Rosebuds, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, P.O.S., Dessa, Mike Lewis, and Lookbook, amongst others.  They’ve been releasing teasers for a few weeks now, short video clips on Vimeo and pictures, not really revealing much at all. Now we actually have some music to listen [...]

TweetShareIf 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 [...]

TweetShare Doomtree are one talented bunch of people.  I’ve long been a fan of P.O.S. (his album “Never Better” was quite possibly the best album (in any genre) of 2008) and that album is what introduced me to Dessa after she guested on the song “Low Light Low Life”.  Doomtree are about 9 or 10 [...]