Listen Before You Buy

Have you ever been to Margate?  Have you even heard of Margate? I’ve never been but I have heard of the small English town, just over the water from France on the English east coast.  Being a beach town it’s probably where Two Wounded Birds got a lot of their inspiration, given that they sound [...]

Remember that time when you heard a band you really liked on an awesome music site, and then you checked out more of their music and snagged it on vinyl?  And then you bought a ticket for you and your buddy to see them at a local joint and bought a t-shirt and 7″ from [...]

Hotly tipped and sure to falter if the hype machine continues on it’s buzzing cycle about them without giving them a chance to grow and breath for themselves, The Vaccines have just released the video for their latest single “Post Break-Up Sex”, available for pre-order from iTunes now. So, what did you expect from a video about [...]

Back in October I introduced you to The Vaccines, a four-piece from London making stadium-anthem rock and whilst we’re only just that little bit closer to their debut LP, they have released two videos in the same day for both of the songs I posted. Both videos are really well done, with “Blow It Up” [...]

Poverty and the lack of culture is just as influential in breeding creativity as being cultured and well-off does.  It gives people a way out, a desire to succeed at anything if it means they can escape their life of ennui. Some of the greatest bands of all time have grown up with nothing other than [...]

This new track from Wild Nothing is taken off of an upcoming EP of the same name, due out hopefully sometime this year on Captured Tracks, the dudes who released their stellar debut album “Gemini”  earlier this year.  Even though this track made the rounds about 6 weeks ago, “Golden Haze” wasn’t available as a [...]

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 by [...]

All of the songs listed below were personally chosen by the artist or blogger above. I got in touch with a lot of artists and bloggers who were all kind enough to get back to me and take part in Desert Island Discs. If you’re unaware of the concept behind Desert Island Discs, check out [...]

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 70%. [...]

The last time I featured Wild Nothing the world was a completely different place. A lot’s changed in seven days. Actually things are pretty much the same, except for the fact that we’ve got a new song by Wild Nothing, this time the sound of it more than the Jack’s voice reminds me of The [...]

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 by [...]

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 by [...]

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 by [...]

Oasis It was Spring 1994, I was twelve and heavily into trance, techno, house, acid house and most other forms of house-related genres.  That was until I saw a video on MTV late at night for this new band called Oasis.  Apparently everyone was raving about them, calling them the next big thing, best thing [...]