Listen Before You Buy

Ok it’s not new, been out for a month or so, but I’m only just seeing it. If you partake in a little bit of the Mary Jane, you might want to get sparking or hit that bong before you watch this video for The Suzan‘s “Home”, because when my sober self watched it I [...]

Back in August I posted about the insanely upbeat and wildly exciting new Japanese all-girl band The Suzan, who, even though they only had less than a handful of songs that we could hear without having to see them live, were making some fairly large waves around the music world. In my post I had their song [...]

This four piece, all-girl band from Japan (Saori, Rie, Nico, Ikue) have been exciting the western world over the last few months with their take on xylophone-induced Power-Pop-Punk. It amazes me how these bands whose native tongue isn’t English can sing in pretty much perfect English, and The Suzan are no exception.  With only two publicly [...]

Acoustic singer-songwriter stuff isn’t a genre I usually have much time for – there has to be something special to separate it from the pack of sensitive young troubadours with guitars. But Villagers’ new album “Becoming A Jackal”, is something quite special. It’s all the work of one guy – Conor J O’Brien – layering [...]

If that title made any sense to you then you can just stop reading and watch the video, but if, on the other hand, you have no idea what I’m talking about then read on. You may already know Alex Ebert (singer) from such bands as Ima Robot and….that’s it.  He is/was the singer for [...]

Last October LCD Soundsystem released “Bye Bye Bayou” on vinyl, an almost 8 minute cover of Alan Vega’s 1981 song, and now, seven months later they’ve gone and done a video for it.  It’s pretty trippy, so before you drop that acid tab, watch this.  Then drop it, and watch it again. Their supposedly last [...]

Today’s review is a guest post by our good friend Stephen over at The Crosshair.  Check them out for some really great reviews of music, film, games and TV. In 2001, James Murphy sang “I hear you have a compilation tape of every great song by every great group ever” on the reputation-cementing “Losing My [...]