Listen Before You Buy

After impressing pretty much everyone with his debut EP “Boyfriend”, James Nee is back with his trees for the followup, “Girlfriend”. This afternoon the dudes over at Turntable Kitchen premiered “I Don’t Believe In Love”, one of the new cuts from the EP, but now you can hear the whole thing from his Bandcamp page. [...]

Fleet Foxes singer Robin pecknold is obviously not content with getting their second album finished up and practicing that he had to go and record some new shit with some buddies, just for the hell of it. As he said on their Facebook page he “recorded three songs in LA a couple weeks ago with [...]

When James (the head-honcho) from We Are Trees sent me the demo for “Afraid Of Love” at the start of February, I was under the impression that it’d be on his upcoming EP “Girlfriend”, but not so! He just sent over the first single from that EP and on his Bandcamp page the tracklist for [...]

That’s We Are Trees up there, at age nine, on the right. Sippin’ on a 40, tokin’ on a doobie.  That’s just how Asian kids roll in Virginia.  Hardcore, all the way across the sky. He’s been working on the follow-up to last summer’s stunning “Boyfriend” EP, tentatively titled “Girlfriend” and last week sent me [...]

This seems to happen, and has happened, with a lot of other music sites and blogs, whereby they post about a new artist who’s trying to get some coverage of their music and over the course of a year or so they watch that artist blossom and grow and get the kind of acclaim and [...]

I like to keep in touch with artists who reach out to me or that I contact about featuring them on the site. When James Nee, the mastermind behind We Are Trees, first got in touch with me back in July we got to email-chatting and have kept in touch since, and the dude’s one [...]

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 [...]

If Ed Droste Daniel Rossen was dead, We Are Trees would be his spirit, his living embodiment. That’s not to say that We Are Trees is just a Grizzly bear rip-off, far from it.  James Nee, the guy behind We Are Trees, may sound like “The Droste” but it’s not just his voice that encompasses [...]

That song title might sound familiar to you and if you’ve been reading this site for the last couple of months or so then you’ve probably even seen it on here. That’s because it’s a cover of the always excellent L.A. band The Delta Mirror. I posted about The Shimmies back at the start of [...]

It’s pretty sweet when a band you really like starts recommending new music to you.  That’s what Craig from The Delta Mirror did with The Shimmies. Not only did he recommend them but he even sent me a couple of their songs too.  The four-piece are from a land far far away in Dagobah System, [...]

This is by no means new, having been released almost three months ago but I’m just getting into the band I thought it fitting to share my discovery with all six of you. Not to be confused with the Welsh mountain (spelled Snowdon), Snowden are named after Catch-22 character Howard Snowden and comprised of Jordan Jeffares, Chandler Rentz, Corinne Lee, [...]

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 [...]

With vocals dark and somewhat incomprehensible, reminiscent of those by The Knife on “We Share Our Mother’s Health”, drums methodic and cavernous, and the sound of someone rhythmically beating the crap out of a steel pipe in the background, Odd Blood’s opening song “The Children” is nothing like the rest of the album, an eclectic [...]

Owen Pallet, formerly known as Final Fantasy and maybe also known for his collaborations/contributions with The Last Shadow Puppets, Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear and others, released his first album as Owen Pallet (Heartland) on January 11th, and since then he’s taken off.  With album reviews that are almost all in the very positives, his brand [...]