Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare I stopped following Beast Coast on Twitter a while ago because I was tired of reading about her getting stoned or how awesome her cat was. It’s a cat, all cats are awesome! Get over it! Anyway, to celebrate herself almost reaching the 50k follower mark on Twitter she’s uploaded a new track called [...]

TweetShare COOLRUNNINGS‘ weird lo-fi tangent jams get an uplifting treatment by percussionist Meg Thomas on this demo released on Dracula Horse’s Soundcloud. Known for making slightly off-the-wall music they do a pretty decent job of bringing that mix together in an offbeat cohesive way. Their latest album “Dracula Is Only The Beginning”, whilst not exactly [...]

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TweetShareHere’s a cute video for “Gone Again” from everyone’s favorite stoner-grrrl band. From under the wing of Adult Swim’s new music endeavor comes this video of the girls launching dessert items at men tied to stakes. Connect with Best Coast: Facebook | Myspace | Twitter | Website | Last.fm

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TweetShare Now, let me preface this with an admission that I haven’t listened to a single song by The Wake, which I’m guessing will be tantamount to sacrilege, being that I’m Scottish and all, and The Wake are all Scottish and shit too. But, just because I’m from Scotland doesn’t mean I should be expected to [...]

TweetShare 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 the [...]

TweetShare Dear Mr Cool and Mrs Runnings;  Why would you make us wait so so long for such an excellent excellent album? Oh, that’s how long “excellent” takes to gestate?  Gotcha.  Well guys, I’m just glad you unleashed this beast.  For those of you who may be about to listen to your first piece of COOLRUNNINGS music, [...]

TweetShare One of the most seriously underappreciated new bands doing the rounds today are Various Cruelties, a previously gushed-over four-piece from London. How often can you say that a soulful Indie-Rock band made you groove, get down, and rock out all within the span of a four minute song? Ok, there are a few, but [...]

TweetShare In an effort to try to become more relevant, not necessarily to their name but just towards music in general, MTV have launched (March 16th) a new site called MTV Hive which is aimed at music discovery with a slant towards the indie side of things. Just looking at their homepage you’ll see artists [...]

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 Subscribing to a new band’s Bandcamp RSS feed sometimes has its benefits. Usually they’re dormant, or at least the ones I subscribe too, but every now and again you’ll see them update and boom, an entire new album or EP to listen to for free and you’re one of the first to hear it. [...]

TweetShare Usually all that La Femme post to their Facebook page is tour dates and other stuff I don’t understand since I took German in school. To be fair though, even if I took French in school I’d still suck at it since all I know in German is the alphabet and how to count. [...]

TweetShare You know what, fuck it; I’ll just say it. MAKE OUT MUSIC. Nobody Wave are just two dudes, Chris Kokiousis and Greg Kestenbaum, from LA (represent!) that are making good ol’ fashioned lo-fi surf-inspired rock. I think it’s so easy to love this music because I feel like I know these dudes; c’mon, we [...]

TweetShare And so it happens again. Last week when I posted the track from their upcoming split 7″ with Wavves I mentioned how the tracks that Best Coast have released after their album came out have all been better than some of the tracks on the album, and here’s another example to prove my point. [...]

TweetShare The Black Tambourines are a band that I stumbled upon after being sent music by someone else, somewhat like the way that We Were Promised Jetpacks were discovered. As I was perusing their MySpace page I noticed they had a Soundcloud player embedded and so naturally I gravitated towards that since MySpace is a [...]