Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare One of the most seriously underappreciated new bands doing the rounds today are Various Cruelties, a previously gushed-over four-piece from London. How often can you say that a soulful Indie-Rock band made you groove, get down, and rock out all within the span of a four minute song? Ok, there are a few, but [...]

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 It’s hard to believe that we’re introducing a band that has only played three live shows together, but such is apparently the case with Various Cruelties.  In a huge stroke of luck, though, the three bands for whom they have opened are Villagers, Mumford & Sons, and The Vaccines.  A four-piece hailing from White [...]

TweetShare Shoegaze with a hint of Motown. That’s how Calm Palm Vapor labeled themselves in their email to me last week, and if for no other reason than because I’d never seen those two words together in a sentence before, I gave them a listen, and you know?  They’re kind of onto something there. Personally [...]

TweetShare If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted [...]