Listen Before You Buy

The Brooklyn music scene was being nicely represented in Austin, Texas this week at SXSW. Lucky Number Music’s Caged Animals, played as part of Pianos/Prefix Mag’s SXSW showcase earlier this week and, as usual, they did not disappoint.

To celebrate Hardly Art Records’ fifth anniversary Seapony is releasing a brand new track, “Prove To Me” which you can get at the label’s SXSW showcases and anniversary shows.

In anticipation of the SXSW music festival next week, we’ve picked out 233 of the best artists playing, complete with a free MP3 of each one.

Buzzed about Chicago trio Gemini Club releases a brand new song from their upcoming EP “Here We Sit”.

It’s hard to believe after listening to Il Abanico’s five-track indie rock “Crossing Light” EP that the group is still unsigned. But something tells us this won’t be the case for much longer…

“Neighbor Crimes” from Capybara is one of the best songs to come out this year so as I’m getting more and more stoked for SXSW this video just seems fitting. The guys performed this a few weeks ago for Fortheloveofbrooklyn.com and it is everything I’m hoping to take part in next week. Connect with Capybara [...]

Site favourites Brick + Mortar are playing SXSW this year and the organisers put out this video to accompany their artist showcase.

“Melt” is the highly-anticipated debut album by Young Magic, streaming here for an entire week before its release.

Superhumanoids go from strength to strength with every new track we hear.

It’s time for us to gush on Zulu Winter again, at least until the rest of you are on board.

We’re almost there.  It’s almost time, time for We Were Promised Jetpacks to drop the follow-up to their fiercly raucous debut album “These Four Walls”. Monster songs like “Quiet Little Voices” and “It’s Thunder And Lightning” seem to have been replaced with equally as gargantuan songs like “Act On Impulse” and this new song “Medicine”, [...]

Having signed to Sub Pop, Memoryhouse are getting ready to re-issue their EP “The Years” in September and as an incentive to buy it it’ll include two new songs. The first of which, “Quiet America” can be downloaded for free below with accompanying video edited by unofficial third member Jamie Harley. It’s everything you’ve come to expect [...]

The Wooden Birds are a reincarnation of a number of different acts – Western Keys, American Analog Set, and Matt Pond PA - coming together to create an organic, unique and folk sound.  This quartet - Andrew Kenny, Leslie Sisson, Sean Haskins and Matt Pond – comes to us from Austin, TX.  Definitely not a stranger when it comes [...]

Buy the album from Amazon – MP3 | CD Ask anyone in Knoxville, Tennessee who the best local band is, and they’ll tell you, hands down, The Dirty Guv’nahs.  They’ve been voted “Best Band” by the city’s leading alternative newspaper, Metro Pulse, for three years in a row now, and for good reason.  After all, [...]

It hasn’t even been a week since Twin Sister offered up two new songs from their “Bad Street” 10″ single. The b-sides were both a step down from the baby-funk of lead track “Bad Street”, one being an instrumental (“In Heaven”) and the other being a delicate acoustic number (“You Remind Me Of”), and with [...]