Listen Before You Buy

By now I’m pretty sure we’ve heard almost every song from Yuck’s upcoming debut album due out January. It seems like I’m posting a new song of theirs every month or so and I’ve yet to hear a shite one, so I’m just hoping they’re keeping some new unheard ones for the LP itself.  ”Holing [...]

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 it [...]

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.  This [...]

If Gauntlet Hair released a new jam every week they’d still be six jams short of my Gauntlet Hair satisfaction quota, the one that can only be quelled by new tunes every day of the year. Because I know the chances of that happening are somewhat slim, I’m resorted to waiting (impatiently) for whenever they [...]

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 word [...]

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 other [...]

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 [...]

This year (and decade) isn’t even five months old yet and we’ve had some of the best music in the last five years.  Notable albums from LCD Soundsystem, Broken Social Scene, Surfer Blood, Vampire Weekend, Caribou, Sleigh Bells, Joanna Newsom…..I could go on and on.  But in amongst all of those are Harlem, an Austin-based [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]