Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare I’ve only lately discovered the majesty and charm of Dawes, a four-piece from North Hills, California. Their debut album “North Hills” was released on August 18th last year and they’ve been steadily gaining momentum since.  They’re classed generally as Americana with a bit of soul but think Ray LaMontagne meets  The Coral meets Fleet Foxes, and with [...]

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 [...]

TweetShare I recently sold a bunch of my CDs as I don’t use them anymore.  If I’m buying music it’s on vinyl or I’m downloading it and when I took them to the record shop 10 miles away the owner turned out to be from the U.K. too, the only other person I’ve met from [...]

TweetShare Taken from their upcoming sixth album “Butterfly House”, The Coral just released a free download of the title track by signing up for their mailing list.  It’s pretty standard The Coral with some Beatles harmonies and layers, but with three years since their last album it’s most very welcome. This won’t be a single [...]