Listen Before You Buy

The Walkmen’s highly-anticipated new album “Heaven” can be streamed here in full, the band’s seventh studio album.

This makes not one, not two, not three, but FOUR new songs from The Walkmen’s upcoming new album “Heaven”.

Listen to “We Can’t Be Beat”, another excellent track from The Walkmen’s upcoming 7th album “Heaven”.

Listen to “Heartbreaker”, another brand new track from The Walkmen’s upcoming album “Heaven”.

The Walkmen are back with a new album and you can now listen to the title track “Heaven”.

The members of WALK have more than demonstrated they can write a killer rock tune without ignoring catchiness and pop sensibilities.

If Sharon Van Etten’s new album “Tramp” doesn’t make our top five albums of 2012 list, then we’ll have had one of the greatest years of music since 1969.

Listen to and download Sharon Van Etten’s new song “Serpents”, taken from her album “Tramp”.

I’ve noticed I get drawn to recordings that hint at a really visceral core, something that already has that voodoo that gets your blood running, makes you a little hot under the collar. I can see myself in a room with other sweaty people chanting these choruses. What a great thing for music to do. [...]

Austin, TX is regularly cited as the “live music capital of the world”. I was recently there myself, and I have to say it certainly does have an impressive array of venues, bands, and bars where you can ingest many different kinds of music. And I was there on a Monday night. One of the [...]

Generally bands find one type of music they’re good at and stick with it turning out album after album that become the music equivalent of baked beans.  They look and taste identical and too many of them make you sick.  It’s always refreshing then to find a band that’s prepared to try something different.  Young [...]

Whilst not often posted on here, and mainly because a lot of it is shite, Rock music when done properly can be a wonderful thing. Midnight Spin are breaking my run of shite.  Whilst I was trepidacious when I read the email that bassist Ben wrote to me as he described their music as rock, [...]

If you do what I do, which for the most part is a whole lotta nothing, occasionally interspersed with posting some sweet new tunes, then every once and a while you’ll get to hear something that’s just downright fucking awesome. I could end the post right here and just let you listen to the music, [...]

The Walkmen are pretty consistent when it comes to releasing a new album, currently on one every two years, with their latest “Lisbon” being their fifth in eight years. Admittedly my first introduction to the band was probably the same as a lot of other people’s when they released “The Rat” from their 2004 album [...]

The first time I heard The Walkmen was late at night, many moons ago when I was watching Subterranean on MTV2.  The vieo for “The Rat” came on and the song blew me away, spurring me to hunt down everything else this new (to me) band had done.  Back then that was only their second album “Bows [...]