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Listen to YACHT’s take on The Velvet Underground’s “I’ll Be Your Mirror”.

When push comes to shove, modern punk bands often aren’t able to recall the original spirit of their own genre. The Men live, embody and wear that spirit like a classy prep school jacket, and “Open Your Heart” is their prized pin badge.

If you like The Velvet Underground, Joy Division, and Dreamers of the Ghetto you’re probably going to love Tyburn Saints

They may be coming soon to a big-time near you. Or they may be heading to the hospital with salmonella, if their latest video is anything to go by. Sooner or later, though, expect to be hearing more from London-based Tiger Love, a.k.a. New York-bred brothers Roy and Gigi, and drummer Loral. Take a look [...]

OK boys and girls, quick musical history lesson coming up. Stay with me, it’s kinda fascinating. Why were singles traditionally 3 minutes long? Our dear friend Wikipedia says “A combination of technical factors combined with the 10 inch diameter of standard discs limited the duration of recording available on each side of a disc to [...]

Garrett Johnson’s previous band was called ‘The Wicked Awesomes!’ Fantastic. His new band’s name might not give it away so quickly, but Garrett’s tongue is still firmly planted in his cheek with Brazilian Money. On “This Is Not A Dream”, their album released last month, Garrett’s mischievous attitude combines with scrappy, experimental, garage guitar, and [...]

“Loaded” is the fourth album from The Velvet Underground, and was released a month after Lou Reed had left the band. All songs were written by Lou Reed except “Ride Into The Sun”, which was written by Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker. Reed left behind some of the best hits the band [...]

After forming in 2008, Factory Kids (Christina Marie and Tim Chaplin) initially released their music via blogs and compilations and then soon after released their debut album “Factory Kids” on Powertool Records. They’ve since released a single and two more EPs on Oddbox Records and 17 Seconds Records respectively.  Their music is simultaneously dreamy and heavily distorted, [...]

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 [...]