Listen Before You Buy

Say Anything take a personal shot at “scene kids” and get me all sorts of stoked to hear them return to angsty all out emotional lyrics in “Admit It Again.”

TweetShareWatch Wild Beasts‘s absolutely gorgeous performance of “Reach A Bit Further” and “Bed Of Nails” for La Blogotheque in Paris for Pitchfork’s Paris Music Festival.

TweetShare A quick update on the music news for the week before I get started: The Righteous Brothers‘ cover of “Unchained Melody” is on jukeboxes everywhere; anticipation for The Beatles‘ up-coming album “Help!” is reaching fever pitch; and The Ronettes‘ latest, “Is This What I Get For Loving You?”, has flopped, rather embarrassingly. That’s right: [...]

TweetShare You haven’t heard from me about the band in Heaven for nigh-on nine months now, and you might not have even heard about them at all, so for those of you who fall int that category here’s what you need to know. A duo from Florida, they use their craft to bundle up snappy [...]

TweetShare  Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD Tapes ‘n Tapes have had a strange journey so far – they began as a buzz band with hype pumped full of saline solution by Pitchfork and an appearance at SXSW. Then they signed to XL Recordings and released a second album, which [...]

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TweetShare If the world’s supply of wax runs out then you know who to blame; Yuck, that’s who. Why?  Because they’re releasing a new frickin’ vinyl every two weeks.  Or at least that’s what it seems like.  Part of me is complaining (the part that holds the wallet) and part of me is rejoicing (the [...]

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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  I’ll tell you this right now; If Yuck don’t release a single and video for every song on their debut album I’m gonna flip my shit. Thankfully they’re well on the way to do doing that, what with latest single and video being “Get Away”, filmed (presumably) on their recent tour of the U.S. [...]

TweetShare Obits – a band born from the ashes of several beloved acts: Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Edsel, Shortstack, and Pitchfork (no, not that Pitchfork). The common thread running between the majority of these bands is Rick Froberg, the vocalist and guitarist who lends Obits their familiar, yet exhilarating, sound. And it is Obits’ guitar [...]

TweetShare One of my most anticipated albums of this year is down below for you to hear, and it was just given an excellent 8.1 on Pitchfork. It’s an album I’ve spoken a lot about over the last past 12 months but Yuck‘s debut self-titled is finally here, even if it does omit one of [...]

TweetShare Quite possibly the best track on his blinding and stellar debut album, James Blake has released a video for “The Wilhelm Scream” over at Pitchfork. There’s only a week left until his self-titled LP drops (less than a week if you’re in the U.K. or reading this more than 12 hours after I post) and it’s [...]

TweetShare “Causers Of This”, Toro Y Moi‘s debut album released in early 2010, was a good album, it just wasn’t great. I listened to it multiple times whilst laying out in the sun over the course of last summer and every time I fell asleep, not because it was boring, but because it was so [...]

TweetShare Sic Alps made some minor waves back in 2008 when their track “Message from the Law” appeared at number ninety on Pitchfork’s top 100 tracks of the year.  ”Message from the Law” was a gritty garage anthem, perhaps most notable for its ability to eschew the trappings of ‘garage rock’ that had become so [...]