Listen Before You Buy

Californian band Highlands create the kind of music to dig up concrete with and pile-drive your way down the street to.

The drummer for The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart branches off to do a side-project called Ice Choir, and take a dive inside to hear his latest track, “Teletrips”, from the upcoming “Afar”.

The Sugarette’s song, “Destroyers of Worlds” actually manages to capture what you might think a cross between a song about people who destroy worlds and a band with “sugar” in their name would sound like.

Alpaca Sports isn’t really reinventing the wheel with its musical style, but, then again, when music sounds this good there really isn’t a need to.

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 Gmail [...]

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Set to be released via Slumberland Records on March 29th, “Belong” is the second album from New York’s The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and you can now hear the entire thing below before it’s released in a couple of weeks. Again, this earthquake in Japan is getting me the fuck down so I’m [...]

Photo: Pavla Kopecna The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart flew onto everyone’s radar back in 2009 when they released their self-titled debut album, an album that made it onto many best of the year lists (including my own). With that first album, the band made it clear where their influences came from. They seemed [...]

New song from NY’s finest synth-pop dreamers. ‘ Heart in your Heartbreak’ continues just where “Say No To Love“ left off and just adds to my excitement over their March release ‘Belong’. It’ll be released digitally and physically as a 7″ on December 14th via Slumberland and for now you can stream it below.  Go go [...]

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Fortunately less emo than you might think. This refreshingly unassuming quartet are making some of the catchiest indie pop in the WORLD right now. I can’t get enough of this fuzzy lo-fi sound, it’s the perfect complement to Kip Berman’s softer-than-soft vocals. The guitars slide over the top [...]