Listen Before You Buy

We’ve watched Joywave dribble their food down their chin, progress to chewing and crawling, stand on both feet and destroy our living room with flour, move onto running with scissors in their hands, and drive someone else’s car at the age of 3.

One of the greatest songs of all time has this refrain as its chorus: “If you don’t know me by now, you will be never never never know me”. Yeah, that’s right, I just quoted a Simply fuckin’ Red song (I know it’s a Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes cover, but Mick Hucknall made [...]

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 [...]

So far it seems like the first few months of 2011 have been dominated either by atrociously hilarious pop (you know who I’m talking about), unbelievably awesome comebacks (Beastie Boys), or soul-crushing mixtapes. A recurring theme on the those mixtapes is the mixtaper’s ability to make trite and once-enjoyable-but-now-just-a-parody-of-themselves music, listenable again.  OFWGKTA‘s Frank Ocean released his [...]

I know you’ve all read my drivel, babbling on about god knows what… I’m going to spare you this time. Well, I kind of have to. I heard this remix and lost my shit, immediately contacting Dirty Androids for MORE INFO (my boyfriend, the internet, let me down when I couldn’t muster up all that [...]

So…..I’m sure a few of you are about to react the same way that Joywave member Sean Donnelly did when I told him this, but I haven’t heard a single song by Robyn before. Go ahead, chastise me, give me shit, piss in my Special K…..or just leave a comment with your O-Face (:o) displaying [...]

JOYWAVE has undergone quite the transformation lately.  They’ve grown in numbers (3 to 5) and in sound, which fits their name perfectly.  Their newest single, “Golden State” is light, fun, and, well, sounds joyful.  Drawing influence from Phoenix and MGMT, JOYWAVE distinguishes themselves by infusing grunge with pop, and it works. “Golden State” is one [...]