Listen Before You Buy

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 pile [...]

Hi, I’m Franky B Rockafeller and you might remember Sweet Lights from such posts as “[Introducing] – Sweet Lights” and “[Listen/Download] – New Song By Sweet Lights – “Scopitone Scopitone”. Or maybe you don’t, and that’s alright too, but I won’t let you off a third time though.  The song is gorgeous and you don’t [...]

It’s been almost five months since I last posted about The Moviegoers, introducing you to their Lo-Fi Summer Pop sound, and now they’ve released a video for their single “Avalanche”. It’s appropriate since it’s cold and a lot of the world is covered in snow at the moment, getting trapped on roads or in airports [...]

Last week one of the bestest and bestest of music blogs called it a day. This Swiss blog Delicious Scopitone were apparently having some internal conflicts that caused them to disband and just last week they shut up shop.  Before that though they did a little visual dedication to Philly’s Sweet Lights and in turn Sweet [...]

There was a band a few years back called Cotton Mather who I was turned onto by Noel Gallagher after he proclaimed their brilliance on an early morning TV show in the U.K. Being the loyal Oasis follower that I was back then I swiftly ran out to find their CD, mainly because he likened [...]

Two new songs (the band got in touch with me and mentioned that these two “new” songs were actually done before their demo EP and that actual new songs are on the way.  Fuck yeah!) from New Jersey’s Slow Animal, taken from a cassette-released EP on Trivial Pursuit. Previously featured on the site back in [...]

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 while [...]

When a band can manage to combine the melodies of The Beach Boys, the guitar-noise of mid 90s grunge, and the vocals of Echo And The Bunnymen in one 3:26 song, and make it work seemlessly, chances are that when you get to 3:27 you’re just gonna hit repeat. That’s how The Moviegoers roll on [...]

If you’re unaware of the concept behind Desert Island Discs, check out the basic pitch I gave the artists and bloggers I got in touch with.  If you’re an artist or blogger and want to take part,  just send your submission with the eight pieces of music (not the actual mp3s) and some words about [...]

Although they’ve been around and being spoken about for a good few months now, it seems like only in the last couple of weeks or so that I’m starting to hear about New Jersey’s Alexander and Daniel, the guys behind Slow Animal.  They’ve been showing up on various different blogs and Twitter streams and it [...]