Listen Before You Buy

With just over 8 minutes of material to her name, Foxes has made a brave introduction into a rather saturated field. But by being so damn good at what she does, she bound to have more staying power.

This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in Gmail [...]

MORE. COWBELL. IN. MY. FACE. Polarsets… I love you. Yes, it’s been done; from the span of one of my favorite SNL Blue Oyster Cult skits to the modern day Klaxons, but god damn what Polarsets does with the cowbell is AMAZING. I often think my internal metronome is a cowbell set to Allegro. Back [...]

On the back of winning the BBC Sound Of 2010 award, Ellie Goulding has rose to fame, been touring, recorded videos, has readied her debut album and most importantly, held Lady Gaga’s hand (although I hope she disinfected it afterwards). Today she paid a visit to the BBC’s Live Lounge and played two songs, her [...]