Listen Before You Buy

Listen to and download the new track from Contrakids, “All The Way Back”, which samples Justin Timberlake’s “What Goes Around… / …Comes Around”.

TweetShare Beyonce has been at the top of the pyramid ever since her days in Destiny’s Child. If you don’t love Beyonce, you obviously don’t like much pop music, and probably aren’t reading this. The rest of us, from hardcore Beyonce fiends who squealed in delight when she debuted “1+1″ on American Idol’s season finale, [...]

TweetShare One of TV on the Radio‘s band members, Gerard Smith, died from cancer in April of this year. He passed away nine days (!) after the release of their latest album, Nine Types of Light. You won’t see him in this video of course, but TVOTR’s latest visual supplement is proof that they are still [...]

TweetShare One of my favourite things about listening to music is that moment when you hit the play button on a band that you know hardly anything about. That moment when this band could be the next biggest thing in your life, the one that quickly takes the number one spot on your Last.FM playlist [...]

TweetShare The wonderful thing about music is its ability to cross national boundaries and yet still appeal to the listener. Since writing for Listen Before You Buy I’ve reviewed music from Romania (The Pixels), Belgium (Hermanos Inglesos), Germany (Malente), Italy (Herr Styler), Sweden (MF/MB/), Mexico (Colateral Soundtrack) and Turkey (Fuji Kureta) as well as the [...]

TweetShare 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 [...]

TweetShare When I first heard the new jams from Matthew Dear’s upcoming fourth album “Black City”, they instantly sounded like Prince had gone dark and ominous Electro-Techno-Pop on us. That’s why I was happy, because it’s better than anything Prince has done in the last 15 years or so. “Black City” is 10 songs  filled [...]

TweetShare Black Eyed Dog is a one man band from Italy, joined by “Q” when playing live and doubling the intensity.  Fabio Parrinello plays all of the instruments on his music (Piano, Synth, Mandolin, Guitar) and writes all of the songs and music, so he’s basically like Prince but without the velvet and the funk, [...]