Listen Before You Buy

The first part of some anticipated albums for this coming year includes Alabama Shakes, Azealia Banks, The Beach Boys, Beach House, Fanfarlo, Frank Ocean, Grizzly Bear, Janelle Monaé, The Killers, Marques Toliver, The Miracals, Memoryhouse, MGMT, Michael Kiwanuka, Miike Snow, MIKA and the morning benders!

TweetShare It’s been ten years since The Strokes released the raw, genre-defining album “Is This It”, which has since been named the Best Album of the Decade by NME, among other titles and accolades. Holy shit! Ten years? It still sounds hip today, which cannot be said for a lot of other popular releases from [...]

TweetShare Photo by James Reese When I first googled “Mind the Gap band,” I got a million hits for other bands, so OK, the name is little overdone.  However, this group of four stands out with their music and their aesthetic (think mini-United Nations with instruments).  Made up of Greg Cahn (the Jew), Ozzy Doniz (the [...]

TweetShare The Morning Benders‘ singer Chris Chu has been fairly active lately in giving away covers, remixes, new version of older songs, and unreleased jams we’ve never heard before. Just a few days ago he dropped their cover of Bob Dylan’s “Outlaw Blues” and a day later dropped “Oh Annie”, an unreleased song he regrettably [...]

TweetShare I still remember when I first discovered Bob Dylan, and I think I might’ve spoken about it before but in case you missed it, I’ll tell it again (it’s incredibly exciting!). I used to watch VH1 Classic religiously when I was a kid, all hours of the night and I’d be enthralled by all of these amazing [...]

TweetShare Now before you start giving me shit for posting Britney Spears, I DON’T CARE! Actually I do, but I’m not posting Britney I’m posting The Morning Benders. Just like when ceo did a cover of “Halo” by Beyonce or Frightened Rabbit did “Hit Me Baby One More Time”, remixes are in the same vein. [...]

TweetShare This song could suck donkey balls and I’d still post it.  Why?  Because it’s for a good cause, dammit, that’s why! It was actually released a few days ago as part of an EP The Morning Benders have released where they’re donating all of the profits to help out the relief effort in Japan [...]

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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 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 Last night Twin Sister posted this bangin’ remix of The Morning Benders’ “Mason Jar”, one of the standout tracks from their hugely successful and critically acclaimed album “Big Echo”. The two bands are touring with each other at the moment and as their tour comes to a close Twin Sister decided to commemorate it [...]

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’m starting to get backlogged with music submissions now, and whilst I still listen to everything that gets sent to me, I’m delayed in actually getting to post the stuff I like, which is currently about 70% good, 30% alright, and 12% terrible. Obviously Toronto, Canada’s Strider Hero made it into that highly prestigious [...]

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 [...]