Listen Before You Buy

Buy the album on Amazon - MP3 | CD It’s always difficult when a member leaves a band, especially one that has been together as long as Red Hot Chili Peppers.  And it’s unspeakably difficult when said leaving member is John Frusciante, aka easily one of the best guitarists of our time.  And not only is [...]

It might seem odd that LBYB is just now doing an introducing piece on Alex Winston, but it’s long overdue.   So, may I formally introduce Alex Winston. At first glance, you might be surprised to hear that Alex Winston is classically trained in opera, but after listening to a few of her songs, it doesn’t [...]

“A fashion has come back. Fixed in new version – and here to stay. Imagine Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith and Bob Dylan. Remove 51% old man, two strings and add a new millennium.” Can you imagine it? Me neither. Never let it be said that I don’t give PR emails the benefit of the doubt, [...]

The Mhurs popped up in the LBYB inbox courtesy of Josh Sickels from 1, 2, 3, and we haven’t been so excited about a new band since, well… since we first heard 1, 2, 3. I say new, but The Mhurs have actually been together for four years. They’re putting a proper record together for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 by [...]