Listen Before You Buy

Just a day after announcing the name and tracklist of their new album, Florence + The Machine dropped another song from the album called “Shake It Out”. The album “Ceremonials” will be out on October 31st in the U.K. with a date in the U.S. still to come, but in the age of the internet [...]

Arguably one of music’s greatest eras, the 50′s and 60′s changed the face of music forever.  Without people ranging from Elvis Presley to Little Richard, Bob Dylan to The Beatles, we probably wouldn’t be listening to some of the bands and music we take for granted today.  One man who grew up obsessed by the [...]

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 [...]

So, cover songs? It’s almost a taboo term in the music blogosphere. It almost goes without saying that everyone who makes a post about them has to start with ‘I’m not usually a fan of covers but…”.  I don’t see the big problem; I’m a massive fan of remixes and covers. I know the standard [...]

If 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 [...]