Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare Recorded by Yours Truly in July during the inaugural Gorilla vs Bear fest, it’s one of the best tracks from one of the best albums of the year by Shabazz Palaces. (via/via)

TweetShare This pleases me greatly. Greatly,  I tell thee! Last year the two dudes from Lafayette, Colorado that compromise Gauntlet Hair burst onto the “scene” with the pitch-perfect noise-concoction of debut single “I Was Thinking” and a couple of other jams equally as raucous.  The pair then released the single on vinyl via the newly-minted Forest [...]

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TweetShare For those of you (mainly bloggers and writers) who’ve had this album for the last few weeks you’ll know just how good this is. For those of you who haven’t then you’re about to be bedazzled. It’s been over a year since Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin sauntered onto the scene as Cults with [...]

TweetShare I think it’s only fair that since they pushed back the release date of their eagerly-awaited debut album, that they put a new non-album track out there for us to hear, right? The song “Make Time” is listed on the Irish iTunes store as a single with a release date of May 6th meaning [...]

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TweetShare 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 [...]

TweetShare With every new song that I hear from Cults, my anticipation-chubby gets that little bit more anticipatory. Does that even make sense? I don’t fucking know, but with the rash of new bands that came out last year and released/are releasing an album this year, Cults and Yuck might be the only two who [...]

TweetShare I might have a little treat for you from Keep Shelly In Athens in the next week or so, but for now we have some new music courtesy of Japanese cassette label Sixteen Tambourines we have “Yellow Man”. Taken from an upcoming cassette featuring songs that were on the Forest Family 12″ release from last [...]

TweetShare Unless you’ve seen Cults live in the last 12 months then this new song is the first in close to a year (except that “Oh My God” one they did with accompanying weird video). This time in 2010 they had only just come bounding onto the scene, layered-guitar-driven-dream-pop in tow.  They had upload three [...]

TweetShare Follow Friday is an “event” on Twitter where users suggest other Twitter users to follow.  It’s a great idea but so many awesome sites and blogs and users get lost in the noise, so for everyone who doesn’t follow LBYB on Twitter, I’ll do this every Friday and highlight one site or blog I frequent [...]

TweetShare Ok, so it’s not new, but relatively few people have heard this as it was the accompanying b-side on their second 7″ single “Out, Don’t..” that was released back in October on Mexican Summer. When I initially got the 7″ I had just a shitty 1979 Light & Sound machine portable turntable that I [...]

TweetShare Apparently they’re gonna just release a new song every week. Even though I’ve been posting new stuff from Yuck on a fairly regular basis lately I still haven’t heard a bad song yet and this one’s up there too. It’s been around since the start of the year and the few blogs who had [...]

TweetShare Like I said yesterday (or the day before) about MillionYoung, if these guys keep releasing tracks for free then by the time the album drops we’ll have heard it all already. I don’t give a shit, good music is good music, and Yuck are making some of the best that I’ve heard all year. [...]

TweetShare One of my favourite new bands of the year is Yuck.  They’ve been consistently churning out awesome new tunes for free over the last few months and this morning they announced that they’re releasing the below song as a 12″ along with B-sides “The Base Of A Dream Is Empty” and “Dark Magnet.” No [...]

TweetShare In what’s gearing up to be album-of-the-year-contender, in whatever year they release it, Yu(c)k are releasing gem after gem after gem. All of their songs so far have been free, accompanied by some astoundingly disturbing artwork, and each and every song has been astoundingly beautiful.  We’ve had “Weakend” a few weeks back and four [...]