Listen Before You Buy

Jack White and The Alabama Shakes put on an unforgettable show at Roseland Ballroom on May 22, 2012.

Watch Jack White perform for and be interviewed by Stephen Colbert. You know it’s going to be good.

A little more romp-‘n’-roll than rock-‘n’-roll, “Blunderbuss” starts bitter, finishes sweet, but manages to be a total blast the whole way through. No need to worry, White Stripes fans.

Listen to Jack White’s new song “Freedom At 21″, previously only available via helium balloon.

There’s some good soul and blues to be had here, and Brittany Howard’s voice is as stunning as you’d expect, but for all of its climaxes, “Boys & Girls” could be a much more muscular album. Still, Alabama Shakes have big things in store for them.

Alabama Shakes finally announce the release date of their highly-anticipated debut album.

Back in the 90s and early 2000′s there was a show on VH1 called Pop Up Video. They’d show videos with little pop-up bubble and give you facts about the video and how it was made as well as cool little snippets of information about the artist. Simple put, it was probably the most addictive music TV [...]

Listen to Damien Rice‘s cover of U2‘s classic “One” below. It’s only been a couple of days since I showed you guys Jack White’s cover of U2′s “Love Is Blindness” from the upcoming U2 tribute album, featuring a plethora of well-known artists covering songs from U2‘s career-changing album “Achtung Baby”. Jack White took his version [...]

Listen to Jack White‘s cover of U2‘s 1991 song “Love Is Blindness” below. Since The White Stripes split up back in February Jack White‘s been keeping himself busy with collaborations with a group of face-painted….”Juggalos”, as well as releasing and producing music via his Third Man Records label, and now he’s taking part in a [...]

The Mhurs gave us a generous preview of their album “In Another Tongue” a couple of months ago. The four tracks they shared, two of them tender emotional outpourings and two of them loud, adventurous rockers, had us pretty excited for the full length, but they did beg the question: can these two styles be [...]

 Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD Tapes ‘n Tapes have had a strange journey so far – they began as a buzz band with hype pumped full of saline solution by Pitchfork and an appearance at SXSW. Then they signed to XL Recordings and released a second album, which didn’t [...]

I’m just gonna come out and say this: RTB2 could kick The White Stripes’ ass. If The White Stripes were still together. But since they are not, this little gem of a duo from Denton, Texas are at the top of the game. They are the new dons of the bluesy post-punk mafia. It’s a small [...]

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 [...]

Photography By Tom Sheehan This came outta nowhere.  Who even knew The Vines were still alive, never mind still making music? When they blew up back in early 2000′s during part of the “The” revolution of bands whose name all seemed to start with The; The Vines, The Strokes, The Hives, The White Stripes, The [...]

Hailing from North London, Alice Gun is a classically-trained, self-taught multi-instrumentalist who can play guitars, glockenspiel, double bass, cello, E-bow, accordion and a lopsided upright, apparently.  Oh and she can sing, boy can she sing! Alice records at her home and in an isolated farmhouse in one of the only places in the UK that [...]

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 [...]