Listen Before You Buy

I gush, what can I say?  Sorry?  Ok, maybe sometimes a “sorry” is warranted, but most of the time it’s not because I’m not the only one gushing. The latter part of that sentence is definitely true for Cults.  I gushed back in March when they showed up unannounced out of nowhere and turned us all on. [...]

These guys got me all-a-smitten at the start of June with their sumptuous “Automatic”, which then led me on a mission to find more of their music, culminating in me splooging over the interwebs and posting three more of their songs and a couple of videos. Even though this found it’s way online last week [...]

I literally just started listening to this band about 47 minutes ago.  I was going through my Google Reader playing catch-up and between Gorilla vs. Bear and Transparent and I’m now in love with Yuck. When you hear a song like “Automatic” you have no choice but to fall in love with it, it’s such a [...]

Along with Gauntlet Hair, Sleigh Bells, BRAHMS, and Burnt Ones, Cults round out my top five buzz bands of the year so far. They burst onto the scene back in late February, early March with three ridiculously catchy songs, the biggest hit of which was “Go Outside”.  This is what appears to be the first [...]

Another recent signing to the newly created label Forest Family Records is Gauntlet Hair, who now share the label with “Cults”, the excellent new Indie-Soul duo from San Diego. Gauntlet Hair are two BFFs (Andy and Craig) from Lafayette, Colorado who’ve been making music together since they were 15 and it shows, their sound is [...]

Cults, the mysterious and much hyped band that burst onto the scene a few weeks back have signed with Forest Family Records.  FFR is a brand new record label, founded by Gorilla vs Bear and Weekly Tape Deck, and their first release is a limited 7″ run of 400 copies of “Go Outside” (the song [...]

Eight days ago a mysterious, unknown band called Cults uploaded three songs (“Go Outside”, “Most Wanted”, and “The Curse”) to their Bandcamp page that quickly started being passed around the interwebs among bloggers and music fans alike.  The fact that these three songs are pretty damn good but yet little-to-nothing was known about them is [...]

Thanks to Gorilla vs. Bear we now know that Panda Bear (Animal Collective founding member Noah Lennox) will release the follow-up to one of 2007′s best albums “Person Pitch” in September, titled TOMBOY. I still have trouble getting “Good Girl/Carrots” out of my head whenever I play it, so here’s hoping that TOMBOY is equally [...]