Listen Before You Buy

The wonderful thing about music is its ability to cross national boundaries and yet still appeal to the listener. Since writing for Listen Before You Buy I’ve reviewed music from Romania (The Pixels), Belgium (Hermanos Inglesos), Germany (Malente), Italy (Herr Styler), Sweden (MF/MB/), Mexico (Colateral Soundtrack) and Turkey (Fuji Kureta) as well as the good [...]

Can you name a Romanian indie rock band?  Nope, me neither, well not until today I couldn’t anyway.  Then I came across The Pixels. This four piece from Bucharest formed in 2006 and are on the La Strada label.  Having played at festivals alongside such names as UNKLE and dEUS, they released an album in 2008 [...]