Listen Before You Buy

Some overdue reflections on this year’s Coachella – not your typical live reviews.

Listen to Feist and Mastodon cover each other’s songs for a Record Store Day 7″ single called “Feistodon”.

Canadian jazz/hip-hop experimentalists BADBADNOTGOOD follow up their debut with another maddeningly good album, this time featuring more of their own compositions. This is a good one. Really.

Check out Feist’s charming new video for album track “Bittersweet Melodies”.

Check out Feist’s rousing performance at last night’s Juno Awards in Canada.

Long after the dance pop and new wave numbers have lost their flavor, artists like Lucy Rose still remain as fresh as they did upon first listen.

Feist drops the video for “The Bad In Each Other”, her latest single from “Metals”.

Brown’s debut album, “This Goes With Us” released in April, presents a collection of songs that fit wonderfully together, and although incredibly short with 9 songs in less than 23 minutes, highlight an artist with an unbelievably clear direction for such young age.

Watch the new video for Feist‘s song “How Come You Never Go There” below, taken from the album “Metals”.

Watch Feist perform “How Come You Never Go There” and “The Bad In Each Other” live on Jimmy Kimmel below. Both songs are from her new album “Metals”.

Listen to Girls‘ new song “Lawrence” below. This year has seen some stellar album releases by already-established artists, most notably by St. Vincent (a personal favourite of mine), Feist, M83, Bon Iver, and of course San Francisco’s Girls with “Father, Son, Holy Ghost”. A couple of days ago Girls announced that they’d be releasing a one-off [...]

Listen to Feist‘s song “Cicadas & Gulls” featuring Grizzly Bear‘s Ed Droste. Last week or so Feist played CBC’s 75th anniversary show performing songs from her latest album “Metals”, and thrown into the mix was her track “Cicadas & Gulls”, in which she was joined onstage by Grizzly Bear‘s Ed Droste. Listen to the gorgeous duet below, as well as watch [...]

Feist hit up Jools Holland the other night at the same time as Bon Iver, and having seen her play “The Bad In Each Other” and “How Come We Never Go There” we now have the final performance from her of “Bittersweet Melody”.

Watch Feist perform “The Undiscovered First” for London’s Black Cab Sessions below, taken from the album “Metals”.

Watch Feist perform “The Bad In Each Other” and “How Come You Never Go There” live for Jools Holland below, taken from the album “Metals”.

Buy the album on Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 | CD We all still clearly remember Feist singing and dancing in a sparkly blue jumpsuit, surrounded by multicolored, similarly-clad dancers, in the iPod Nano commercial that featured her massive pop hit “1 2 3 4” and turned her from indie darling to global sensation.  Since [...]