Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare Listen to “Bambi” and “Red Song”, the two new songs by Suuns below. Perhaps if the teacher in the first grade had played me “Bambi” I would have absorbed the alphabet more quickly. Too bad my teacher wasn’t Ben Shemie, and I’m not from Montreal, Canada. The meditative effect doesn’t go off in “Red Song”, on [...]

TweetShare At the time of Beirut’s debut album release it didn’t take long for me to find out, and subsequently feel extremely unaccomplished in life about, the fact that Beirut‘s songsmith and main man Zach Condon was only 19 years old. Add into the mix the fact that he did everything himself just made me want to [...]

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TweetShare Holy mother of god damn shit balls! I’m sure there’s someone who read that and was (slightly) offended but trust me people, it’s completely justified.  You’ll understand once you’ve made your way through the track, but between the two recent songs released by Beirut over the week’s end it’s the b-side “Goshen” that has [...]

TweetShare Saturday is now (at the time of writing) six minutes old, but on Friday afternoon we got wind of a new single release by Beirut, the New Mexican (a dude from New Mexico, not a newly-anointed Mexican) otherwise known as Zach Condon. In 2009 Zach graced us/disgraced us with his double EP “March Of The Zapotec”/”Holland”, [...]

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 [...]

TweetShareWhilst looking for Jools Holland videos of some of my favourite bands I stumbled upon this one from New Year’s Eve.  There’s something awesome about a tuxedo-clad Dizzee Rascal waxing lyrical (and rocking out) to Smells Like Teen Spirit.