Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare Last week one of the bestest and bestest of music blogs called it a day. This Swiss blog Delicious Scopitone were apparently having some internal conflicts that caused them to disband and just last week they shut up shop.  Before that though they did a little visual dedication to Philly’s Sweet Lights and in turn [...]

TweetShare There was a band a few years back called Cotton Mather who I was turned onto by Noel Gallagher after he proclaimed their brilliance on an early morning TV show in the U.K. Being the loyal Oasis follower that I was back then I swiftly ran out to find their CD, mainly because he [...]

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 All of the songs listed below were personally chosen by the artist or blogger above. I got in touch with a lot of artists and bloggers who were all kind enough to get back to me and take part in Desert Island Discs. If you’re unaware of the concept behind Desert Island Discs, check [...]

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 [...]

TweetShare These guys from Dublin, Ireland have only been around for a few months at most and even though you can tell it’s still early days by the recording quality of a couple of the songs, one thing you can also tell is that they have something.  There’s something there. I can’t quite put my [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

TweetShare This Saturday (17th) is Record Store Day, “the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day, and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various [...]

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 [...]

TweetShareIf 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 by [...]

TweetShareBetween 2002 and 2009, Oasis went through quite a few changes, losing band members, getting new members, being attacked, car crashes, releasing good and bad albums, releasing their last album and most notably, “splitting up”. I put that in quotation marks because noel quit the band and any reincarnation or continuation that Liam does will [...]

TweetShareYesterday I showed you some of the Oasis videos that made them huge between 1994 and 1996, today I’ll show you videos from their next two albums “Be Here Now” and “Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants”.  ”Be Here Now” was a huge commercial success but critics were divided, many of them saying it was [...]

TweetShareYesterday I posted about how Oasis changed my life and today I’m giving examples. I posted a couple of their videos yesterday, the first being Supersonic and the second being Live Forever. The former was the first video of theirs I saw, and with Live Forever I thought it was crazy that Liam could somehow [...]

TweetShareOasis It was Spring 1994, I was twelve and heavily into trance, techno, house, acid house and most other forms of house-related genres.  That was until I saw a video on MTV late at night for this new band called Oasis.  Apparently everyone was raving about them, calling them the next big thing, best thing [...]