Listen Before You Buy

Just within the three tracks the “Rawness” EP contains, it’s easy to see how diverse of an artist PONCHOS really is.

Listen to a new (NSFW) track by 1 Minute Miracles titled “Ride My Bike XX Paperboy”, featuring (unknown) rappers Cracker & Ivorie.

James Blake is back to his best, returning to his mastery of beats and bass and bringning it to a whole new kaleidoscope of sounds. It’s invigorating to hear.

Pictureplane delivers another round of eminently danceable electronic tunes, though “Thee Physical” doesn’t offer a whole lot of change.

Carousel are aligned for big things… make friends with them first.

This new Grimes track is ethereal and refreshing. Excellent for a debut track.

Pace hopes to create music that will simultaneously conjure the feelings of melancholy and joy passion that the Julian Casablancas-fronted band instills in him using electronic soundscapes. If his most recent offerings are any indication, those in the LA area are soon to be seeing Pace DJ more than one club very soon.

Watch the video for “I Walked Alone” from YACHT.

Danish electronic musician Jens Lindahl creates a noir landscape that has all the energy to make me walk a little faster, but also a calmness that sedates and mellows the boring calamity that can plague so much drug-addled house music…

TweetShare Listen to The Ting Tings‘ song “Silence” remixed by Bag Raiders below. Two years is a long time in the music world – so much so that I actually needed to go back and listen to The Ting Tings‘ debut album in comparing it to their recent singles on their upcoming album.  Their new [...]

TweetShare Spank Rock is not an artist known for restraint. Since his 2006 masterwork “Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo”, Rock, real name Naeem Juwan, has mixed sociopolitical metaphors with aggressive sexual come-ons, Bmore booty-shaking, and XXXchange’s speaker-destroying production. On his newest album, the immaculately titled “Everything Is Boring And Everybody Is A Fucking Liar”, [...]

TweetShare Buy the album on Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 | CD I’m going to start off this post by being completely honest.  I had no idea who Apparat was before listening to this album. As in, I hadn’t even heard Sascha Ring’s alias in passing. I actually had to Wikipedia him. And when I [...]

TweetShare This is one of those rare occasions where I can’t draw from a bag of artists to compare to because this one happens to be a cannonball of everything that embodies the now, which ironically means a unique composite of nostalgia and digital manipulation. Ladies and gents, the Mozart of bedroom synths and electro, [...]

TweetShare “Re-Introducing”? This is a new feature to fill a little niche on LBYB, bringing some more attention to artists that we thought would explode but haven’t quite yet, or just throwing the limelight on an act that hasn’t had any recent releases that we just love too damn much not to write about. The [...]

TweetShare Listen to The Whip – “Wired Together” below.  Sign up for eMusic and download 25 songs for free! I often judge an album, particularly a dance or a pop album, by how well I can cook to it. This may sound like a weird standard, but just bear with me. See, much like zoning [...]

TweetShare Yesterday evening DOM, the guys who brought us the party summer hit of 2010 “Living In America” dropped two new tracks. “Crazy Girl” has been played live numerous times before and you might’ve seen some of the live versions of it kicking around online, but this time we have the studio version. With a [...]