Listen Before You Buy

Yeeeaaaahhhhya! Two new songs by the yards of tune in the space of 12 hours?  I’ll have some of that thank you very much. This afternoon the French site Le-Hiboo posted their footage of Merrill and one of her travelling companions playing new song “Doorstep” on the streets of Paris, and at one point she [...]

Recorded for Le-Hiboo, there’s not much more to say about this other than the fact that it’s gorgeous and the song is absolutely wonderful, I cannot wait for this album to come out. If you haven’t heard anything from the Merrill Garbus-led tUnE yArDs, you can hear the first single from her latest album “Bizness”, [...]

This one seemed to slip under everyone’s radar. It wasn’t announced, there was no hype or build up or suspense, and the only way I found out about it was standing in line at the local crack house grocery store, I became impatient at one customer’s inability to scan a fucking banana, so I checked [...]

About five minutes ago (at the time of writing) I left the house to make a short 10 minute walk to the nearest bus stop. Four minutes ago I put my earmuff headphones on and hit play on an album that was sent to me by an almost unheard-of band. Three minutes ago I was [...]

Efterklang have been around for a while (almost 10 years actually) and have released three albums, two on The Leaf Label (as well as their own label) and their just-released third album “Magic Chairs” on 4AD.  4AD have an ongoing series of live sessions by bands currently signed to them, the first being Deerhoof back [...]

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 [...]

01:49.  That’s the length of the opening song “For You” on tUnE YaRdS’ debut album “BiRd BrAiNs, an album that featured on many a “Best Of” list at the end of 2009.  The song starts with an acoustic guitar, plucking a simple refrain that repeats throughout, and ends with a conversation about Blueberries between a [...]