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When you get something truly fresh and original, you know instantaneously. “A Hammer To The Camera Lens” is exactly that.

Snow Patrol aren’t quite under the spotlight anymore, but they’re not changing a thing. “Fallen Empires” is exactly what you’d expect it to be: upbeat radio-friendly songs, beautiful (but occasionally boring) ballads, and, above all, an hour of perfectly distilled Snow Patrol.

Pterodactyl’s emerging combination of surprise and resolve is a balance that most bands covet. And the ones who don’t should.

Cults’ debut, released in June, is one of my favorite albums of the year. The New York duo share a lot of common traits with Colorado band South Of France, so understandably, I’m really digging their debut, “Kings EP”.

What really sets Marques Toliver apart is that thereis nothing out there that sounds quite like him. Being classically trained has allowed him to find an incredible balance between composers like Bach and global pop/R’n’B superstars like Beyoncé or John Legend.

TweetShare We all know the story by now. The follow up to The Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds”, “SMiLE” was to be Brian Wilson’s masterwork, a guaranteed psych-pop classic that would demonstrate the breadth of sound that could be achieved in a recording studio, throwing down the gauntlet to all other rock and pop artists. That [...]

TweetShare Jinja Safari is the brainchild of Marcus Azon & Cameron ‘Pepa’ Knight, two Australian musicians by way of Sydney. I’ve been a big fan of them since I first heard them on the Australian blog AndPluckYourStrings, so it should be openly noted that this review comes from the standpoint of big fan. They’re one [...]

TweetShare Buy the album on Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 | CD I think it’s safe to say that most of us know The Kooks from the incredibly catchy 2006 single “She Moves In Her Own Way” that earned them a nomination at the Brit Awards.  Now they’re back with their third studio release, “Junk Of The Heart”, [...]

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TweetShare An opening track called “We Will Never Be Discovered” is just asking to be discovered.  How very clever of The City And Horses.  Though, the quirky, catchy tune is hard to ignore – think Architecture In Helsinki meets Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros, combining quirky and poppy melodies with a folksy twist and [...]

TweetShare The last time we did this we gave away every single free MP3 that we posted during the month of July….and even though it was hundreds of megabytes in size, there were over 1,000 downloads of it, but this month, or for last month’s mix, we’re just going to give you the tracks that [...]

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TweetShare Not ones to shy away from getting work done, New York’s Miniature Tigers have already completed the follow-up to 2010′s “F O R T R E S S”, which was the follow-up to their 2008 Indie-Jangle-Pop album “Tell It To The Volcano”, which was the follow-up to them just pissing about in their bedroom. [...]

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TweetShare Up until now nobody knew what this was, other than some kinda of collaboration between Bon Iver and James Blake after Blake threw out a tweet saying about that much, oh, and that it was going down today. It could’ve just been that today they were doing the collab, or that today they were [...]