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Chino Moreno and Far’s guitarist Shaun Lopez have teamed up to proliferate the internet-fueled subgenre of creepy electronic music that is witch house. Moreno is best known as frontman for the alterna-metal band Deftones, but he’s guested on a handful of other heavy bands’ releases also. His new project, †††, or “Crosses” in plain words, finds [...]

It might seem odd that LBYB is just now doing an introducing piece on Alex Winston, but it’s long overdue.   So, may I formally introduce Alex Winston. At first glance, you might be surprised to hear that Alex Winston is classically trained in opera, but after listening to a few of her songs, it doesn’t [...]

Even though they’ve been lauded from wherever you are now, to your antipode, and even though they’re from same fair land as I, Mogwai were just never a band I spent much time with. Maybe in my formative years as a teenager I was more concerned with Blink-182, Bloodhound Gang, and the back catalogue of [...]

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With a childlike stubbornness, Alex Winston takes her love for the inanimate literally in her new single “Velvet Elvis”, off an upcoming EP with the same name. The lyrics are clever enough, the subject of objectum sexuality unexplored enough and her protesting girlish tone is serious enough to make even the most jaded music critic [...]

While their names are phonetically similar, Jonwayne bears no resemblance to the John Wayne.  Just wanted to clear that up. Jonwayne, rapper/producer, recently released his new album, “Bowser”, which is a mind-wrecking glimpse into the future of beats,” so says his album label.  Agreed.  While his style is an obvious comparison to that of Dan Deacon’s, Jonwayne’s [...]

San Francisco’s Melted Toys are a tough band to pin down. They’re certainly a shoegaze band, but their debut EP “Washed And Dried” explores such a variety of sounds within the mandatory, echoing trimmings of that genre that it’s not immediately clear just what form this three piece will settle on when they get round [...]

“A fashion has come back. Fixed in new version – and here to stay. Imagine Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith and Bob Dylan. Remove 51% old man, two strings and add a new millennium.” Can you imagine it? Me neither. Never let it be said that I don’t give PR emails the benefit of the doubt, [...]

One thing that always amazes me about music is how new stuff gets written every day. With a handful of notes, artists still manage to create new songs and tunes and only occasionally do you hear something and think, “That sounds like…”. Some artists look beyond the usual music scale and find other ways to [...]

Austin based four-piece Saints of Valory are a band with a sound much bigger than their reputation. I don’t think it’s too bold to say that these guys are just a few savvy PR moves and a hit single away from breakout success. “Cover Girl (acoustic)” , a snappy, hand clap driven number that measures [...]

Growing up in the 80′s I had a steady stream of electro synth pop bands more than happy to release tracks for me to attempt the robot dance to. Greats like OMD, Kraftwerk, Gary Numan and Ultravox, to name but a few, introduced a whole generation to electronic music played via keyboards and drum machines. [...]

You know those moments when you’ve been having a really bad day and nothing you seem to do makes it any better? Well I was having one of those moments tonight. Work was a total nightmare, the rain was pouring (again!), my bank card got stuck in the atm and when I got home the [...]

I don’t think the music business is quite as glamorous as most of us think really. Sure we’re used to the big houses and fancy recording studios that we see in the movies but for most bands the reality is a little more low key and closer to home. Sometimes it is home, as in [...]

Thank You Volcano is the product of the friendship of American Sam Hersey and Canadian Ryan Lovelock, who met in the Netherlands in 2006 and have been writing tunes together ever since. The guys got a bit more serious about their music last year and “Some Mule And A Rhino”, five tracks of tender, acoustic [...]

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