Listen Before You Buy

Remember September?  That month with the days and sometimes there’s rain and sun depending on where you live? Yeah that one, with the days and stuff. Well the last time that came around these parts I posted a radio rip of Jamie xx‘s debut song/single/release beast “Far Nearer”.  Nobody was sure what it was going [...]

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Chances are you have already heard some of Wolf Gang’s songs and didn’t even realize it.  Wolf Gang’s self-titled EP has only been out for a few months, but it has caught on fire fast and the songs are just as intoxicating and hot.  Wolf Gang, not actually a “gang,” is a solo act that [...]

Auto-Tune. If you’ve always wondered what the phrase “a double-edged sword” was all about, Auto-Tune is a pretty good place to start trying to figure it out. Sure, it can make a half-trained amateur sound like Sarah Cracknell. But it can also make will.i.am sound like will.i.am. Hardly a good thing. Quite honestly, I never [...]

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LAZRtag never lets me down. I get all giddy-girl whenever I hear they’re releasing a new track and this one is a banger. Readers, if you’re not familiar- please meet Vinh Chung and Erik Addison, also known as your friendly neighborhood LAZRtag. You may have heard of Vinh under his previous pseudonym, Luvtek. Though I wish [...]

Hercules And Love Affair have a new single, “Painted Eyes”, coming out on April 18th, and for their b-side they have decided it’s their turn to take on a reworking of the minimalism of The XX. Many have tried, many have failed, and a few have had minor successes. For their stab at it, HALA [...]

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 [...]

I can tell you how much fun it is to tell people how much you’re loving the new Shit Robot, but I think you’ve either already been saying it or you’re going to be shouting it from the rooftops in the very near future. Ahh yes, Shit Robot; otherwise known to his mother as Marcus [...]

Last week Gorillaz (or at least Damon Albarn and a bunch of people from the band) stopped by the BBC’s Live Lounge with Jo Whiley and recorded a few songs for her, one of which is a piano-led and more sullen (if you ever thought that was possible) version than the original, as well as [...]

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 [...]

Maybe not what you’d expect from the guy responsible for some of the sickest beats on The XX’s debut and groundshaking album. The beat is tight, that’s for sure, but he takes the song on more of a tropical dubstep, grimy kinda path that doesn’t sound like anything on the aforementioned album, and that’s probably [...]

QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like, out into the wide web world (or dubya dots). Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in Gmail and then go back and listen to it a day later.  If it’s still as [...]

If you’ve been reading the site for for any amount of time then you might’ve seen me mention The Delta Mirror on a few occasions, and on one of those occasions posting a few of their songs and a video.  Well that was back in April and their album “Machines That Listen” is still one [...]

Read a review of The Delta Mirror’s debut album “Machines That Listen” and ten times out of ten you’ll read about each of these nine songs taking place in nine different rooms of a hospital.  It’s true, they do, but it seems to be the focus of many-a-blog and the music escapes their insight.  Craig [...]

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 [...]