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Tennis throw down a cover of Broadcast’s track “Tears In The Typing Pool”.

This new video by Tennis is a little on the creepy side.

TweetShare Listen to the new Tennis song “Origins” below, from the album “Young And Old”. About a month ago Tennis dropped their cover of The Zombies classic hit “Tell Her No” and announced a new 7″ single at the same time as announcing their new album, produced by The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney. Today [...]

TweetShare Listen to and download the MP3 of the new Tennis song “Tell Her No”, a cover of The Zombies classic, below. Back in 1965 The Zombies released one of their most recognisable songs “Tell Her No”, and now 46 years later Denver, Colorado Indie-Pop starlets Tennis have taken to covering it in anticipation for [...]

TweetShare I often struggle to find the words to describe the music of the last two decades (mostly in the U.S. that is).  The 90′s were defined by Nirvana and Pearl Jam, enter grunge.  The 80′s, regrettably, were the nation’s awkward years of bad hair bands, though a few hidden punk gems.  The 70′s, of [...]

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TweetShare At the end of September 2010 I introduced you to Headless Horseman, a duo from New York who had just released a five-song EP called….”5songs” that was packed with experimental Lo-Fi oddities and layered with unusual vocal hooks and misplaced harmonies. It was this combination of differences that brought everything together so well and had me listening to the EP [...]

TweetShare Uhhh….what the fridge? I can only assume that this was made with the sole intention of having nothing to do with the band name (Tennis), the song name (“Pigeon”), or the theme of the song (love), because it’s a magician, doing magic tricks.  Oh, and he’s in dark room, possibly with his captors in [...]

TweetShare Another band whose upcoming debut album “Cape Dory” is sure to be a monster, is Tennis. Rolling out of obscurity towards the start of the year, everyone instantly latched onto their laid back, Lo-Fi, sweet summer sound and from then on, we were all smitten.  Since then they’ve gone from high to higher and [...]

TweetShare Short, sweet, and to the point. Easy tigers, I’m not talking about myself, although I am fairly short and my head does get all pointy at the top like Dan Aykroyd’s.  I’m talking about Shimmering Stars from British Columbia, Canada.  Whilst their sound is upbeat, harmonious, sunny, and can quench thirst at the drop [...]

TweetShare It’s weird how things happen. I was just looking at the pre-order page for Tennis’ debut album “Cape Dory” (January 18th on Fat Possum) and they have the lead track from the album as a stream.  One minute later I checked out my Google Reader feed and there’s Pitchfork with the MP3 of the [...]

TweetShare When I say that I’ve been listening to this all week it’s no word of a lie. Fareed sent me their stuff last week just as I was going to bed and so before getting there I stopped and gave it a listen, and it turned out to be another of those bands that [...]

TweetShare Recorded on August 18th (they had it on their MySpace page as a tour date and I’ve been waiting impatiently ever since) and released today as part of a new Daytrotter session, one song is new and the is part of a 6-song cassette they released. “Pigeon” was featured on the 6-song cassette along [...]

TweetShare Photography by me. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” – John Lubbock I’ve been toying with the idea of putting together a mixtape for a [...]

TweetShare Back in July I posted one of the best music videos of the year for Martin Solveig’s “Hello”. If you don’t want to give it almost eight minutes of your time, here’s a quick summary: Martin gets ready for a Tennis match against fellow DJ Bob Sinclar and takes to none other than centre [...]

TweetShare 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 [...]