June 2011
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[Album Review/Listen] – Battles – “Gloss Drop” →
Tweet Buy the album from Amazon - Vinyl | MP3 | CD When New York Post-Rock band Battles start firing on all four cylinders they are a force to be reckoned with….
Jun 30th
[Album Review/Listen] – Vetiver – “The Errant... →
Tweet Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 | CD Andy Cabic’s Vetiver are normally bundled into the ‘freak folk’ scene, probably a result of the fact that …
Jun 29th
[Listen/Download] – Outkast – “Aquemini” →
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Jun 28th
[Desert Island Discs] – Teeel →
Tweet All of the songs listed below were personally chosen by the artist or blogger above. I got in touch with a lot of artists and bloggers who were all kind enough to get back to…
Jun 27th
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[Desert Island Discs] - Teeel
All of the songs listed below were personally chosen by the artist or blogger above. I got in touch with a lot of artists and bloggers who were all kind enough to get back to me and take part in Desert Island Discs. If you’re unaware of the concept behind Desert Island Discs, check out the basic pitch I gave the artists and bloggers I got in touch with.  You can support the artists featured...
Jun 26th
[Watch] – Unknown Mortal Orchestra Perform “How... →
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Jun 26th
[Watch] – Unknown Mortal Orchestra Perform “How... →
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Jun 26th
[Listen] – New Song By Wilco – “I Might” →
Tweet Two things that will always make me melt upon first listen. Hammond Organs, and “Frank, this free sammich is for you”. Admittedly I’m not an organ connessuier so I can’t say…
Jun 25th
yvynyl: The State of Things →
yvynyl: Hello (It’s Me). This is Trung and Brad from TV Girl. Today we were unpleasantly surprised to find that the Warner Music Group started making good on their promise to remove our music from the web. Several blogs reached out to us after receiving takedown notices regarding our music. We…
Jun 24th
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One To Watch: Arrange
Oh, man. You know that feeling you get when you’re rifling through shelves at a record shop, and you stumble on something that sounds intriguing, and then you play it, and it turns out to be amazing? Well, I had a similar experience recently. Of course, in my case it was a bunch of e-mails I was rifling through, but same difference. See, there was this message from a young guy called...
Jun 24th
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Ones To Watch: League
I think you can file the new band, League, under the catchiest band of 2011.  They first grabbed the indie-blog world with their ridiculously infectious track, “Golden Maps,” which has it all - a synthetic loop, fun vocals (think Passion Pit collides with MGMT), and a catchy beat that builds, making it impossible not to dance. This duo, Jorge Ribeiro and José Tornada, comes to us...
Jun 20th
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[Introducing] - Teeel
While listening to Teeel, I’m reminded of a roadtrip I took this last Christmas season through the American Southwest. I had never been to any of the states between Texas to California, but I knew the region was famous for it’s life-changing sunrises and sunsets. The aquired experience of hues I never knew nature could conjure is what I’m reminded of when hearing Teeel’s...
Jun 16th
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One To Watch: Holocron
One aspect of the music scene that the Internet has changed beyond all recognition is the ability to find, own and share new music. More often than not this is done illegally (something that we at Listen Before You Buy are dead against) but it has meant that artists now have to think about protecting their music more if they want to make money from it. Refreshingly though there are guys (and...
Jun 15th
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One To Watch: Young Montana?
Allow me to present a simple yardstick to judge how awesome a song is. If it makes me want to dance to it while sober? Hot damn, you got yourself a winner. Which brings me seamlessly - seamlessly! - to Young Montana?, a.k.a. Jon Pritchard. Jon is from Coventry (Editor’s note - This is a town in England about mid-way between Manchester and London). Stateside readers may not be familiar with...
Jun 10th
[Listen/Download] – New Song By Twin Sister – “Bad... →
Tweet A year and a wee chunk ago, Brooklyn’s Twin Sister dropped “Color Your Life”, a free six-song EP, and last night on Twitter they announced that their album “In…
Jun 9th
[Listen/Download] – Cults – “Cults” →
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Jun 6th
[Listen/Download] – Wild Beasts – “Two Dancers” →
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Jun 6th
[Listen/Download] – Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor →
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Jun 5th
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[Introducing] - White Shoes & The Couples Company
When it comes to music, movies and popular culture, the U.S. is ahead of the curve in many respects.  It usually takes some time for other countries to catch up.  One example is the K-Pop movement in South Korea.  The U.S. went through it’s teen-pop phase in the nineties, and now South Korea is experiencing its wave of underage/illegal looking, teen-pop girl and boy bands.  Each country...
Jun 3rd