Listen Before You Buy

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 Gmail [...]

 Buy the album from Amazon- Vinyl | MP3 | CD Since their inception in 2006, Alaska’s Portugal. The Man have been working overtime.  They’ve produced an album a year and several EPs in between, and with each record have further crafted their explorative, highly creative sound.  Last year’s “American Ghetto” was a trippy gem of psychedelic rock. [...]

I’m not hugely knowledgeable about Belarus, if I’m honest. I know a bit about the Bielski Partisans (of Defiance fame). I know it has one of the largest chunks of primeval woodland left in Europe: the Bialowieza Forest. That’s about it, really. Of course, this being a music blog and not, say, a Lonely Planet web portal, [...]

Allow me to present a simple yardstick to judge how awesome a song is. If it makes me want to dance to it while sober? Hot damn, you got yourself a winner. Which brings me seamlessly – seamlessly! – to Young Montana?, a.k.a. Jon Pritchard. Jon is from Coventry (Editor’s note – This is a [...]

QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like, out into the wide web world (or dubya dots). Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in Gmail and then go back and listen to it a day later.  If it’s still as [...]

A few days ago I posted a mashup that +VIBES sent me back in July and it’s blown up since then. On the back of that I asked him for the rest of his mashups and he sent me not only all of the ones he’s made public, but a couple of newer ones that [...]