Listen Before You Buy

Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music.  The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally please [...]

Look out Girl Talk – Jimmy Fallon, Justin Timberlake and The Roots are about to make it big!  Their “History of Rap Part 1″ went viral, so of course, it was time for an encore performance.  I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the show’s selection of music performances and Jimmy Fallon’s own musical talents (who else [...]

Allow me to present a simple yardstick to judge how awesome a song is. If it makes me want to dance to it while sober? Hot damn, you got yourself a winner. Which brings me seamlessly – seamlessly! – to Young Montana?, a.k.a. Jon Pritchard. Jon is from Coventry (Editor’s note – This is a [...]

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 [...]

There’s one album that I turn to time and time again when I’m need of my arse going forward at great speed. MSTRKRFT’s “Fist Of God” is a straight up banger from start to finish; anthemic electro-skeeze turned up to 53 and hurtled forward at the speed of sound.  There are only a few albums [...]

Are you eagerly awaiting The Kickdrums’ new EP?  Well, I can’t help you there, but LBYB can share with you their amazing new mix, “That’s Them!” The brilliant and ever-talented duo, Alex Fitts and Matt Penttila have teamed up with DJ Eleven to produce and mix some of your favorite (and not-so-favorite) tracks.  While The [...]

Girl Talk might just be the most successful mashup artist around. I think some people get pissed off when mashup artists are actually called artists, but I think taking one form of art and mixing it with another form of art to create something new and different, is art.  In 2006 he released (what I [...]