Listen Before You Buy

Ok it’s not new, been out for a month or so, but I’m only just seeing it. If you partake in a little bit of the Mary Jane, you might want to get sparking or hit that bong before you watch this video for The Suzan‘s “Home”, because when my sober self watched it I [...]

Sufjan Stevens is a staple when it comes to releasing Christmas tunes, going so far as to even record entire Christmas albums year after year. One of his best Christmassy choons is the one below that came out in 2003 from his “DING DONG Songs For Christmas” volume III.  Now it’s pretty much only available [...]

Admittedly, when I heard Iron & Wine‘s latest three-song single “Walking Far From Home” at the end of November, I liked the first song, was ambivalent towards the second, and did not like the last one at all. Now less than three weeks later we’ve got another new song from their upcoming album “Kiss Each Other Clean”, [...]

I’m not sure where it started but I’ve noticed a strange trend with Scottish acts making music with spoken “vocals” over the music.  I’ve spoken about it on here a few times, likening them to Arab Strap since that’s where I first heard it. An entire album of it would probably become quite trite quite [...]

In anticipation of their next LP “Kiss Each Other Clean”, Iron & Wine dropped this new three-song single over the weekend as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday special. Each of the three songs differ from one song to the next, going from their traditional-sounding Folky roots, to a more experimental electronic groove, somewhat [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sufjan Stevens is like a bus.  You wait years for new music from him to arrive and then there’s a shitload of it all at once. It all started about three weeks ago when an out-of-the-blue, hour-long EP called “All Delighted People” showed up, and then almost two weeks ago there was the premiere of [...]

Late last night (think 3am EST) I was finishing up on some posts for the site when Dodge over at MyOldKentuckyBlog made a tweet saying that he’d have the premiere of a new Sufjan Stevens song called “I Walked” and to catch it early (he’s since removed the tweet). So I hung around impatiently, checking [...]

Chances are you’ve already heard OF this, if not actually listened to the hour-long EP itself, but just in case you didn’t read a single music site yesterday, here it is. Nobody knew this was coming and everyone freaked the fuck out, similar to what’ll happen when the first taster of Radiohead’s next album gets [...]

All of the songs listed below were personally chosen by the artist or blogger above. I got in touch with a lot of artists and bloggers who were all kind enough to get back to me and take part in Desert Island Discs. If you’re unaware of the concept behind Desert Island Discs, check out [...]

I owe this guy an apology. 22 year-old James Cooley (or Mesita under his musical moniker) sent me his music a while ago and it’s taken me this long to get it up on the site.  So apologies, James. He’s been releasing music for a couple of years now, most of which is available for [...]

I’ve been listening to the debut album “Sounds People Can Hear” by The New Limb over the weekend (thanks to Ash for sending it to me!) and one thing that struck me is the various different influences you can hear from various different genres. Sufjan Stevens, Coldplay, The Strokes, and The Shins could all be [...]

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 [...]

The National singer Matt Berninger speaks to Pitchfork about their upcoming album, the process of recording it, why they won’t be calling it “Summer Lovin’ Torture Party”, their appearance in a Google commercial, and their collaboration with Sufjan Stevens. Here are some highlights: Pitchfork: Is the new album finished? Matt Berninger: No, it’s close. We’re scheduled [...]