Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare It’s only been a year or so since The Drums released their debut self-titled album to much praise and now they’re readying the release of its follow-up. A couple of months back they released a new song as part of a charity effort to help with the Tsunami relief effort in Japan after the [...]

TweetShare Buy the album from Amazon – CD Sitting on the tube with a friend the other day, I spotted a poster for Benjamin Francis Leftwich‘s album, pitching him as “Brit-folk’s pretty new voice.” My friend turned to me and said: “Mumford And Sons are already Brit-folk’s new voice”. True, indie-folk, whether Brit or otherwise, [...]

TweetShare The Horrors second album was not only one of the biggest surprises for me in 2009, but it ended up being pretty much my favourite album of that year. The way the went from being a band who wore their garage influences on their sleeve and annoyed me a little bit to being a [...]

TweetShare Whilst the song title leaves a little to be desired, the song hits the spot. When they released “Live Those Days Tonight”, their first single from their upcoming second album “Pala”, I wasn’t really feeling it.  I mean it was good but I couldn’t get into it like I did with almost every song [...]

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TweetShare Just premiered on Zane Lowe’s BBC One Radio show, new Death Cab For Cutie music is now here. Taken from their upcoming eighth album “Codes And Keys” on May 31st, “You Are A Tourist” is our first new music from the band in far too fucking long.  There’s been quite a bit of chatter [...]

TweetShare It’s been a long-time-coming, for me it’s been too long, since Friendly Fires released new music from a new album and now that wait is over. It’s been two and a half years since their self-titled debut dropped and almost four years since their “Cross The Line” EP, the tunes that first introduced me [...]

TweetShare  It’s funny how little things can please you so much. I spent my early years in London, living very near the Elephant & Castle (in the London Borough of Southwark, fact fans) and have many happy memories of there. Imagine my pleasure then when I discovered that a new band had made a video [...]

TweetShare Zane Lowe must have a pretty good life, huh? I remember watching him on MTV2 when I lived back in Scotland in the late 90′s and early 2000′s.  He was the only guy that I knew of who had an unbridled and unmatched passion for music with impeccable taste, and he knew exactly what [...]

TweetShare 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 [...]

TweetShare It hasn’t even been two weeks since I posted Noah And The Whale’s first new song from their upcoming third album (and has since been played more than 47,000 times) and there’s another new tune from the London five-piece. This time around it’s nowhere near as upbeat and catchy as L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N., but it’s still [...]

TweetShare Now, let me be clear, I’ve never been much of a PJ Harvey fan, kinda just picking up on her stuff over the years, pecking at her discography and liking the odd tune here and disliking the odd song there, but maybe that’s about to change, maybe I’ll just start getting stuck into her [...]

TweetShare Taken from their upcoming third album “Last Night On Earth” set to drop in March, “L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.” is our first listen at what we can expect from the quintet outta London. I was big into these guys when their first album “Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down” was released back in 2007 and then kinda [...]

TweetShare A couple of weeks ago I was asked if I’d be interested in a contest to give away a Funeral Party 7″ and a copy of their new EP, but I’d never heard of the band. So I gave them a listen and hot dayum, these guys can rock the fuck out!  I’ll probably [...]

TweetShare You know what’s enjoyable?  Yelling.  Yelling is enjoyable, especially when you’re yelling along with one of your favourite songs in a room full of sweaty guys trying to “accidentally” grope the only girl in the joint. I’ve done that on occasion; yelling along with a giantess of a song, not the gropey part.  Although [...]

TweetShare Apparently they’re gonna just release a new song every week. Even though I’ve been posting new stuff from Yuck on a fairly regular basis lately I still haven’t heard a bad song yet and this one’s up there too. It’s been around since the start of the year and the few blogs who had [...]