Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare 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) [...]

TweetShare Now I know what you’re thinking when you read that title, you’re thinking “Oh that’s cool, one of my favourite new Indie-Electronic-80′s-Stylin’ bands are covering the 1995 classic of the same name by Britpoppers Cast!“, to which I say “No”. I never played Four Square as a kid, I guess it’s a North American/Non-Scottish [...]

TweetShare It doesn’t quite make sense to have an introduction piece on a band as their second post on the site, but this is Listen Before You Buy, we roll all unconventional, likes.  As I mentioned in my post about their new video I’ve been meaning to make this post for months now and it [...]

TweetShare 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 [...]

TweetShare You won’t have seen this band featured on this site before and I for one am appalled.  Please contact the site admin to complain and demand monetary compensation (he will ignore your requests). Awnyhoo, amongst all of my other discoveries last year these guys got lost along the way.  Months and months ago I [...]

TweetShare When you open your EP with a downright party rock ‘n’ roll song, the likes of which haven’t been seen since The D4, and then mosey on into an MGMT-esque electronic, part slow-jam, part Christmas tune, then before the third song even starts you’re gonna leave your listeners wondering what the fuck to expect [...]

TweetShare I recently got introduced to the brothers Perlick-Molinari, best known under their pseudonym, French Horn Rebellion. This genetic win of a gene pool are two extremely talented brethren, well-versed in the tone of awesome. Robert on lead vocals, synth, and the inevitable French horn paired up with kinsman David, on vocals, programming, and keyboards [...]

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 [...]

TweetShare If you’ve read this site for at least a couple of months you’ll likely have heard of The Pass, but unfortunately not enough people have. Releasing one of the standout albums of the year takes a huge amount of talent and some mediocre-sized balls, especially when it’s your debut album.  But that’s what The [...]

TweetShare Photography by me. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” – John Lubbock I’ve been toying with the idea of putting together a mixtape for a [...]

TweetShare The first time I heard about The Pass was from WeListenForYou a few months back when they released their “Colors” EP. A few months down the line though and they’re now about to release their debut album “Burst” on September 21st, but just yesterday (very early hours of the morning) they uploaded the entire [...]

TweetShare All I’m going to say about this is that I have no idea what the fuck is going on.  If you can figure it out, please let me know. Listen to their previous singles below. MGMT – “Flash Delirium” MGMT – “Congratulations” (via WeListenForYou) No seriously, someone tell me what the fridge was going [...]

TweetShare I’ve already spoken about DOM and how they’ll light up your summer, but now The Hood Internet, with their wily musical mashuping ways, have gone and taken that to the next level by mixing DOM’s “Living In America” with T-Pain’s “Reverse Gowgirl”.  The result?  Well it’s either an MGMT-sounding T-Pain, or a Coolio-sounding DOM, [...]

TweetShare Have you seen this video yet?  It’s pretty freaky, with talking throats and shit, but before you watch the making of, watch the whole thing in its original form first.

TweetShare MGMT are playing Letterman tonight but they’re also doing a live webcast of the entire gig, a 45 minute set “encompassing songs from both albums”.  Their second album “Congratulations” was released last month to completely polarising reviews, many either hating it or loving it.  A lot of those who said they hated it were [...]

TweetShare If you’re not ready for summer yet (personally I’m ready for summer as soon as the fucking snow shows up) then DOM is about to remedy that. DOM is a band of musical renegades from Worcester, Massachusetts, much like Lorenzo Lamas (not from Worcester) and fronted by Dom, who looks nothing like Lorenzo Lamas, but he [...]