Listen Before You Buy

With a range of influences from The Beatles to Radiohead, Emma Grace are the kind of pair us non-musical types look at in envy as they both play multiple instruments and sing. Oh, and create great indie songs like “Stuck In The Air”.

I’ve dug through crates for months in hopes of finding a song like “Don’t Let Me Get Lonely.”

Listen to and download “Velvet Sea” below, a new song from The Vliets.

The first release of 2012 is this new free lullaby EP from our album of the year winners 1,2,3!

Footage of David Bowie performing on Top of The Pops in 1973 has been unearthed, after going unseen for 38 years!

TweetShare Don’t judge a book by its cover. It’s a good life lesson, that – however clichéd it might be. It’s worth bearing in mind when you first encounter My Plastic Sun. Sure, their EP cover might feature a bunch of awkwardly posed Barbie dolls, but Aqua they are not. As it happens, I have [...]

TweetShare If you’re the sort of person who reads this blog regularly, you probably know where Radiohead got their name from; but can you tell where Dallas boys The Vliets (pronounced like “vleets”) got theirs? If this seems like a very obvious question to you, then congratulations: you officially have some serious musical chops. If not, I [...]

TweetShare I feel I should preface this review by admitting that I’ve been a Kanye West fan ever since I heard “Jesus Walks”, and while I don’t admire Jay-Z‘s musical prowess quite as much as that of his protege, I have mad respect for him as a rap legend. Both of them brought their A-game to the table [...]

TweetShare 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 [...]

TweetShare You may never have heard of Ride, but chances are you’ve heard of Death Cab For Cutie, so let me give a little insight as to who the former are. In the late 80′s and early 90′s there was burgeoning Indie scene in the UK, specifically London and Manchester that were churning out talent [...]

TweetShare A quick update on the music news for the week before I get started: The Righteous Brothers‘ cover of “Unchained Melody” is on jukeboxes everywhere; anticipation for The Beatles‘ up-coming album “Help!” is reaching fever pitch; and The Ronettes‘ latest, “Is This What I Get For Loving You?”, has flopped, rather embarrassingly. That’s right: [...]

TweetShare Continuing in the noble tradition of Danger Mouse and his “Grey Album” come Cecil Otter and Swiss Andy – a.k.a. Wugazi. There’s no prizes for guessing who they like to mash up: The Wu-Tang Clan and Fugazi. The result of their prodigious tinkering, “13 Chambers”, has finally dropped – and it’s pretty much every [...]

TweetShare When was the last time you used a pay phone? Seriously, think about it. Putting change into a phone attached to a pole, or in a booth on the street. Pretty antiquated, right? It’s telling that the cover image on Death Cab for Cutie’s seventh album is a key from a pay phone, suggesting [...]

TweetShare There are some bands that I really wish I could have caught early. Bands like The Beatles, The Stones, Nirvana, Sex Pistols… (I’m sure you have yours, maybe you could let me know what they are.). The thing about seeing a band before they make it big is that you get to see them [...]

TweetShare I can’t say that I’m a die hard Death Cab For Cutie fan, but I am a fan. I’ve been listening to them for about six years now and was introduced to them via an online messageboard, my first taste being their (then) just released “Plans”.  If you can wear down MP3s then I wore [...]

TweetShare OK boys and girls, quick musical history lesson coming up. Stay with me, it’s kinda fascinating. Why were singles traditionally 3 minutes long? Our dear friend Wikipedia says “A combination of technical factors combined with the 10 inch diameter of standard discs limited the duration of recording available on each side of a disc [...]