Listen Before You Buy

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 [...]

TweetShare Frankly I’m shocked and appalled that it’s taken three movies for Vampire Weekend to appear on the soundtrack for what’s arguably the greatest and most important movie franchise in human history (Twilight).  I mean they have the word “Vampire” in their name for fridge-magnet’s sake. Anyway, the song below, “Jonathan Low”, is on the [...]

TweetShare Mumford & Sons have been a round for a couple of years now, playing gigs in and around London along with buddies of the same scene like Johnny Flynn and Noah And The Whale, but they’ve only just (October 2009) released their debut album “Sigh No More”.  Polarising critics (some saying their music is [...]

TweetShareVampire Weekend have released the new (and much talked about) video for “Giving Up The Gun”. It features the band with RZA, a Jonas Brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Lil’ Jon. The end of the video has RZA grabbing his ghetto blaster and playing (faintly) “Holiday”, the third track on “Contra”.  Maybe that’s a hint that “Holiday” will [...]

TweetShare“Forget the second coming/I need you in the here and now/Instead of dreamin’ up a way to/Spread your name across the world somehow”.  The opening line from Surfer Blood’s debut album “Astro Coast” is sung with such a soft tone against a fuzzy repeating guitar riff that you can’t help but feel like it’s summer [...]