Listen Before You Buy

Seeing as how The Pass is originally from Louisville, KY, it seemed only natural that they’d play at the Kentucky Derby this past weekend.  There, they debuted a new track, which has a harder rock and roll edge than their previous stuff.  The guitar trill effect in the beginning, I assume and hope, will turn [...]

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You haven’t heard from me about California Wives since I introduced them in August of 2010. Unfortunately due to Soundcloud account limitations you can no longer hear the songs they sent to me, but you can hear them over at the The Hype Machine and giving them 20 minutes of your time is 20 minutes [...]

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Yeah…….no. Still not feeling this new ish from the brothers Fab, and the video does nothing for me either.  I think it’s unfair for the rest of The Strokes to have to be all dolled up only for Julian to be prancing around in his after-work-jammies throwing cards around and disrespecting tables, but what do [...]

The fuck? No seriously, the fuck?  Hey, The Strokes!  What the hell is this?  I’m glad this is a b-side because it’s pretty piss poor, but thankfully it’s only a couple of minutes long because if it lasted for anything more than that I’d picking up pieces of speakers from my floor, and floors are [...]

Cover versions.  The musical equivalent of marmite, you either hate ‘em or love ‘em.  I have to admit I have a soft spot for a good cover version.  To me that would be one that retains some of the character of the original but allowing the covering artist to stamp their own authority on it.  [...]

Five years in the making and the waiting (and for a lot of us the wait was agonising) we now have the first piece of new music from The Strokes’ newly-announced and hopefully-awesome new album “Angles”. Unfortunately, on first listen, it kinda sucks. I saw The Strokes at the Reading festival in England back in [...]

Back on Christmas Eve I posted the latest video by Fujiya & Miyagi, a completely new discovery to me last year, even though the dudes have been around for years upon years, and years. Their new album “Ventriloquizzing” came out this week and to accompany it they’ve released one of the best tracks from the [...]

Having only just recently appeared on my radar even though they’ve been around for years, Fujiya & Miyagi are getting set to release their next album at the start of 2011, and as well upping a couple of songs on t’internet, they’ve now released a video for “YoYo”another jam from said album, coming out on [...]

Like The Trans-Siberian Orchestra meets Post-Punk/New-Wave, The Futureheads’ Christmas song is just that. “Christmas Was Better In The 80′s” is the kinda song you can see yourself singing along to with your family, draped in Christmas sweaters, drinking and huddled around a piano, electric guitar, four mics and a drumkit.  The song might just be [...]

Little known, not-nearly-enough spoken about, but very much deserving of both, Cusses are sparking a New-Wave-Punk-fueled bonfire that shows no signs of being put out or having the fire department called before anyone can even warm their strong hands. So far this is song number four and post number three about Cusses, first coming to [...]

You know what’s enjoyable?  Yelling.  Yelling is enjoyable, especially when you’re yelling along with one of your favourite songs in a room full of sweaty guys trying to “accidentally” grope the only girl in the joint. I’ve done that on occasion; yelling along with a giantess of a song, not the gropey part.  Although I [...]

So yesterday when I posted Cloud Nothings’ new track from his/their upcoming self-titled album it got the attention of Kevin Greenspon. If you’re a fan of Cloud Nothings then you’ll know who he is, but if not, they released a split album earlier this year comprising of five songs each, and he also released the [...]

My boy Anthony “Soft 8″ Fantano (he likes it when you call him that)  kinda gave Future Islands’ latest album “In Evening Air” a poor review, but thanks to him enjoying this song it’s now being posted here, because I wasn’t even aware of its existence. When I say he gave it a poor review, [...]