Listen Before You Buy

The second part of some anticipated albums for this coming year includes News Of The Fire, Nick Waterhouse, Passion Pit, Phoenix, POLIÇA, Sharon Van Etten, The Shins, Sleigh Bells, South Of France, Twin Shadow, Vampire Weekend, Woodkid and The xx!

TweetShare 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 [...]

TweetShare After an incredibly long summer here in Madrid, which lasted until mid-October pretty much, the cold weather is starting to kick in. One band that really helps my least favorite transition of the year along is southern California trio The Miracals, or, as their Bandcamp says, The Band Formerly Known As The Smiles (their name [...]

TweetShare Listen to the new Major Lazer song “Original Don” below. Apart from the odd remix track here and there, the last time you heard from Major Lazer, at least on this site, was the immense remix/mashup album he did with La Roux way back in May of 2010 “Lazerproof”. Well now they’re back and trying to [...]

TweetShare New Navy signed with Future Classic less than a month ago and in the short time since we’ve finally seen that push the band has been needing. Their newest album “Uluwatu” came out on vinyl last week and will finally get it’s sea legs when it goes digital tomorrow. “Tapioca” gives off an incredible [...]

TweetShare What do you get when you take a man back from driving round America in an old beat-up Chevy writing songs, a man bored of Glasgow and recently moved to Amsterdam, and a couple of good mates? … Drawing a blank? The answer is Sur Nilsson. This four piece’s origins may sound a bit [...]

TweetShare Buy the album from Amazon – MP3 There’s a little delusion when it comes to punk’s more contemporary and tamed musical alterations. UK trio Fair Ohs (which we previewed last month) interplay a few select variations on it in their newest album “Everything Is Dancing,” from surf, to tropicalia, to disjointed fuzz-pop, evening out [...]

TweetShare Just posted to his Facebook page about an hour ago, Ryan Adams does this romantic little version of one of Vampire Weekend‘s best songs, seemingly in his bathroom. Well, if I was Ryan Adams that’s what I’d make MY bathroom look like, anyway. (via)

TweetShare  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 [...]

TweetShare “Wristwatch” – one minute forty-nine seconds well spent.  In the smallest bit of time we get a hyperactive glimpse of Hungry Kids Of Hungary, new kids on the block from Australia.  This track here’s got an undeniable Vampire Weekend vibe, though I’m not complaining, because they’ve sparked up as much bouncy joyousness as VW’s [...]

TweetShare Ezra Koenig, the bookish frontman of Vampire Weekend, has covered Paul Simon’s “Papa Hobo” for the soundtrack of the upcoming film “Ceremony.”  As far as covers go, it is a nice enough effort, primarily featuring acoustic guitar and Koenig’s unique voice.  Koenig did well to choose “Papa Hobo” to cover, as his voice undoubtedly [...]

TweetShare Meet The Rubbish Zoo. Self-proclaimed cowboys from Cheyenne, Wyoming who moved out to Los Angeles to make it in the big city. Well readers, giddy-yup; we’ve got the golden formula to an indie explosion. Take a bunch of humble hunks and throw their talent into indie-pop hooks and here we’ve got The Rubbish Zoo. [...]

TweetShare In an effort to try to become more relevant, not necessarily to their name but just towards music in general, MTV have launched (March 16th) a new site called MTV Hive which is aimed at music discovery with a slant towards the indie side of things. Just looking at their homepage you’ll see artists [...]

TweetShare Subscribing to a new band’s Bandcamp RSS feed sometimes has its benefits. Usually they’re dormant, or at least the ones I subscribe too, but every now and again you’ll see them update and boom, an entire new album or EP to listen to for free and you’re one of the first to hear it. [...]

TweetShare Artist: Vampire Weekend Hometown: New York City, U.S.A. Members: Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Tomson, Chris Baio Formed: 2006 Released: 2010 Genre: Indie Rock Label: XL Recordings Singles: “Horchata”, “Cousins”, “Giving Up The Gun”, “Holiday”, “White Sky” Contact: Facebook | Twitter | MySpace | Website | Last.fm Buy The Album: Amazon - Vinyl | CD | MP3 Insound – [...]

TweetShare 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 [...]