June 2010
83 posts
[Discover/Listen] – MIO MYO –... →
The first thing you might wonder about MIO MYO is how to pronounce their name, and just to clear things up (because I was pronouncing it wrong myself) it’s “Mee-oh Mee-oh”.
[Listen/Download] – Pernice Brothers – “Jacqueline... →
The Pernice Brothers are back with a new album, “Goodbye, Killer”, which showcases their knack for expertly catchy, country-tinged songwriting. The new single “Jacqueline…
[Discover/Listen/Download] – Fitness Club Fiasco –... →
Two things you’ll do when listening to Fitness Club Fiasco; 1.) Dance, and 2.) Dance some more.
Now, they may not be perfect bedroom-dancing music, but if their tunes…
[Listen/Download] – Brand New Song By Klaxons –... →
Now this one I like!
Just over a month ago they played the first song “Flashover” from their highly anticipated second album. Whilst their last single was decent, but…
[Listen] – Brand New Song By M.I.A. – “Teqkilla” →
Even though M.I.A.s latest album “cantbearsedtypingtheactualtitle” was supposed to be released today (it’s now slated for July 13th), she’s only gone and released another…
[Watch] – New Video By Beck, St. Vincent, and... →
This is the last part of Beck’s current Record Club series which this time around focused on INXS’s 1987 album “Kick”.
Hopefully it won’t be too much longer until his next edition…
[Listen/Download] – New Song By Yuck – “Weakend” →
These guys got me all-a-smitten at the start of June with their sumptuous “Automatic”, which then led me on a mission to find more of their music, culminating in me …
[Listen/Download] – Two Brand New Songs By Wild... →
The last time I featured Wild Nothing the world was a completely different place. A lot’s changed in seven days.
Actually things are pretty much the same, except for the…
[Listen/Download] – Brand New Song By Best Coast –... →
It’s less than a month until Best Coast release their debut album “Crazy For You”, which is kinda hard to believe I guess because they’ve been pumping out tunes for months…
[Listen/Rolling Stone's Top 500] – #88 – Johnny... →
By the late 60’s, Cash was ignored by country radio and struggling for a comeback. This album was what reignited his career. The album was a result of a live performance at…
[Listen/Download] – 65DaysOfStatic –... →
Well I am one happy chappy, originally I was hoping to just find some stuff to post from their mind blowing previous albums “The Fall of Math” and “One Time for All Time” in…
[Listen] – #MusicMonday – 20 Songs Of The Week –... →
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…
[Listen/Download] – The Delta Mirror Tour Dates +... →
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…
[Listen/Download] – Brand New Song By of Montreal... →
“False Priest”, album number ten for of Montreal, is fast approaching (September 14th, via Polyvinyl) and in the run-up to the album they’ve done what most bands are doing…
[Listen/Download] – Laurel Halo – “King Felix EP” →
I could’ve sworn that when I was raping and pillaging Arcade Sounds’ free download section that that’s where I had discovered Laurel Halo, but alas that’s not the case….
[Listen/Download] – Slow Motion Shoes – “Brendan... →
You know you’re onto a winner when other people start stealing stuff from your site. That’s exactly what I’ve done to Transparent, quite literally one of the best…
[Listen/Download] – Night Beats – “H-Bomb” →
In what sounds like a cross between The Black Keys, Jimi Hendrix, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club doing Lo-Fi garage rock, Night beats have got a damn fine sound, coupled…
[Listen/Rolling Stone's Top 500] -#153 – Howlin’... →
Wolf was a big man of six feet three and 300 pounds of “heavenly joy” as he stated in his songs. His huge, eerie sound centered around his commanding growl and the…
[Discover/Listen/Download] – Pocket Vinyl –... →
It may not be what you’d normally hear on this site, what with my obsession with all things summery and chilled at the moment, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good, otherwise…
[Discover/Listen/Download] – Manhattan –... →
These guys from Dublin, Ireland have only been around for a few months at most and even though you can tell it’s still early days by the recording quality of a couple of the…
[Discover/Listen/Download] – Felix and Volcano! –... →
Who the fuck knew that fun could be so much fun?
No seriously, who knew that?
Apparently Felix and Volcano! did and it’s instantly evident within the first few bars of…
[Listen/Download] – Brock Enright – “Maybe” →
What was your previous line of employment? For me, I was a dishwasher. When I moved to the states I had the pleasure of dealing with the INS and their ineptitude, so I…
[Discover/Listen/Download] – Wild Nothing –... →
I’m not sure what the weather’s like where you are but right here on the east coast of the U.S. it’s between “Hot” and “Hotter”. That’s pretty hot, but I love the heat and…
[Listen] – #MusicMonday – 20 Songs Of The Week –... →
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…
[Listen/Download] – Librarians – “Candy Season”... →
Librarians come from West Virginia and play uplifting, ethereal electro-tinged indie pop. Their latest album, Present Passed, was released in March 2010, and the two…
[Listen/Download] – Mondrian – [Indie-Pop] →
Were you aware that people in Idaho don’t dance much? Well now you are, all thanks to Parisian duo Mondrian (Roman Oswald and Morning Crash….I’ll give the population of…
[Discover/Listen/Download] – Kissed Her Little... →
Before the first song is even finished you can tell you’re in for something very special. That first song is only 1:23 long and makes way for a reworking of traditional song…
[Listen] – Admiral Fallow – “Squealing Pigs” →
Starting off with a simple folk-y guitar melody, the single from Scotland’s Admiral Fallow then breaks into a shuffling drumbeat, with rousing male-female vocals, jazz…
[Listen/Rolling Stone's Top 500] – #108 – David... →
“Hunky Dory” is the fourth album from Bowie, but the first that was released under RCA records which he stuck with for over a decade. Bowie arrived at the cover shoot for the…
[Discover/Listen/Download] – No Joy →
Another band that I let slip by me. I found them a few months back and liked what I heard, but for some unknown reason I didn’t post the tunes.
Well now I’m rectifying…
[Watch] – New Video By Beck, St. Vincent, and... →
In the penultimate installment for Beck’s most recent Record Club Series, he’s on guitar and Annie Clark is on vocals. I can’t get enough of Annie Clark’s voice, on whatever she does,…
[Listen/Download] – Slow Club – [Indie/Folk] →
Generally lumped into the “Indie-Folk” category, Slow Club manage to not just fill two pigeon holes, but between six and two. Maybe the holes are small so some of their…
[Discover/Listen/Download] – Mesita – [Indie/Rock] →
I owe this guy an apology.
22 year-old James Cooley (or Mesita under his musical moniker) sent me his music a while ago and it’s taken me this long to get it up on the…
[Discover/Listen/Download] – Them:Youth –... →
Sent to me a few days ago was this song by Them:Youth, a new band coming straight outta Compton London.
Whilst the email I got was very explicit in what I could and could…
[Listen/Download] – Wet Illustrated – “Born... →
Can free music ever be a bad thing? Actually, yeah it can. I had someone give me a Michael Buble CD once….I still have nightmares about that day…..
Anyway, can GOOD free…
[Listen/Rolling Stone's Top 500] – #175 –... →
Released after “Toys in the Attic”, ”Rocks” was Aerosmith’s fourth album on May 3rd, 1976. It has been quoted to have had a strong influence on hard rock and heavy metal bands…
[Listen/Download] – Tennis – “South Carolina”... →
No sooner had I made my post about Tennis than Patrick (from Tennis) had sent me a mastered version of “South Carolina”, a song that was previously only available as a demo….
[Listen/Download] – Blackbird Blackbird – His... →
Blackbird Blackbird is going to be huge. I say that unequivocally and without hesitation.
I’ve posted about him before, a couple of times actually. I found his “Happy…
[Listen/Download] – New Song By Black Lips –... →
Another new song from Adult Swim’s “8 new songs in 8 straight weeks” (or something like that) project. Last week it was Washed Out’s fantabulous “You And I” and this week…
[Listen] – Entire New Album By Villagers –... →
Acoustic singer-songwriter stuff isn’t a genre I usually have much time for – there has to be something special to separate it from the pack of sensitive young troubadours…
[Watch] – New Video By MGMT – “It’s Working” →
All I’m going to say about this is that I have no idea what the fuck is going on. If you can figure it out, please let me know.
Listen to their previous singles below.
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[Discover/Listen/Download] – Tennis →
There are three, maybe four songs from Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, this husband and wife duo from Denver, Colorado floating around t’internet. That’s a shame because…
[Discover/Listen/Download] – Kelpe –... →
‘Wobbly/Wobble’. Nope, not talking about jelly here, it’s actually a genre of music. One that is dominated (if such an obscure and little-used genre can be dominated) by Kel…
[Listen/Download] – Two Brand New Arcade Fire... →
Two more brand new songs from their upcoming third album “The Suburbs”.
This time it looks like they were passed around to various radio stations because a bunch of them…
[Listen/Rolling Stone's 500] – #51- Simon and... →
Everybody knows the title track, it won song of the year at the Grammy’s back in 1971 and the album itself topped the Billboard charts. However, in this fifth and final studio…
[Listen] – Entire Album By Perfume Genius –... →
If you squint you can see the horizon and if you train your ears well enough you can hear the gorgeous and fragile nuances that make Perfume Genius’ debut album all the more…
[Listen] – #MusicMonday – 20 Songs Of The Week –... →
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…
[Listen/Download] – The Social EP featuring... →
Four songs from four special bands. Since The Line Of Best Fit announced last week that they’d be dropping this at 9am their time (4am EST) I’ve been waiting patiently for…
[Listen/Watch] – New Song And Video By Mark Ronson... →
The more I listen to this song the more I love it. It’s quite different than the songs on his last album “Version”, more dance-orientated and less horny (pun intended).
I posted a radio rip of the song about three weeks ago
[Listen/Download] – Brand New Song By Brandon... →
On April 29th The Killers had a countdown clock-thinger on their site and when it got to zero the page refreshed and it announced that lead singer Brandon Flowers is…
