Well the time is here (and frankly almost passed because MAN am I late) to look back at the past year, especially at the music that was released last year. Above you can listen to my annual hand-crafted Best of mix. It might possibly be the best hour and 10 minutes of your 2015, but probably not. It does however feature the best indie talent of the previous year, and you can read the full lineup below! Enjoy!
Tracklisting
"Two Bodies ft Emma Louise" Flight Facilities
"Seasons" Future Islands
"Less Than" The Bilinda Butchers
"Party Police"...
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
REVIEW // Halloween Summer by Neil Jarvis
Happy Tuesday everyone! Are you just the bees knees about today? If not then let me try and turn that around with a new album review.
Today we got Halloween Summer, a new album from Greater Manchester based band, Neil Jarvis, which is now a full-fledged band! Hooray for having all your bells and whistles and stuff! Halloween Summer is the follow up to the Jarvis' 2012 release, Weekends.
Weekends was a good album but it wasn’t...
Sunday, December 14, 2014
NEWS // Modest Mouse announce new album, Strangers to Ourselves
Well the wait is almost over everyone. Last night an apparent special fan of Modest Mouse received his copy of the band's test pressing of "Lampshades On Fire" (which I am beyond jealous about. How much do you want for it?). In a twitter post from the fan you can see that this pressing came with an accompanying letter which read:
"...'Lampshades On Fire' is a new single from our new album Strangers to Ourselves, which will be released on...
Friday, August 22, 2014
REVIEW // Automata by Low Voltage Rangers
Low Voltage Rangers have returned this past month with a brand new full-length, called Automata. The 10 track long LP is the band's second full-length and shows the group continuing to explore different musical techniques. A major exploration in Automata is that of fermatas and other ways of holding notes. Look no further than the very first song and you'll hear this. For the majority of the album frontman Jeremy Toltzman executes...
Friday, July 18, 2014
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT // JTF
Earlier this month, rising Chicago based musician, JTF released his debut single Fuchsia to Facebook and SoundCloud. The single is a synth-filled electronic pop track guaranteed to get you dancing, and while this might be the first release from JTF, it is not the first musical endeavor from the man behind the initials, Jonathon Freund. Assuming the majority of those who read this aren't part of the whopping 88 fans from JTF's Facebook...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
NEWS // Heaven by the Bilinda Butchers is out today!
Earlier this morning California based dream poppers the Bilinda Butchers released their newest album, Heaven, to the public. Heaven is the group's first full-length album and features a different recording of last year's single, "The Lover's Suicide".
The 13 track LP is a concept album that follows the life of "a young woman who lived in Japan from 1836 to 1864. It's entries catalog her catastrophic marriage to a cruel nobleman,...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
MIXTAPES // Up from the Underground presented by Ultimate Underground
I would like to introduce you to the Ultimate Underground. No, this is not an amazing new band that you have to check out. It is something equally as cool though... and it does have to do with "amazing new bands you have to check out". The Ultimate Underground is a project from one of my college friends who's actually just graduated this past spring, (congratulations dude!) and brings together the best in, you guessed it, underground...
Thursday, June 5, 2014
NEWS // New European tour dates for Twin Shadow.
New European tour dates are out for those of you "across the pond" who like Twin Shadow. The presale for the upcoming tour are available now and general tickets are available to purchase tomorrow, June 6th. London fans listen up though, Twin Shadow is offering a special offer for you guys and including a limited edition T-shirt for the "Eclipse Tour" while supplies last! Purchase tickets for Twin Shadow's Eclipse Tour here!
Twin Shadow...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
LISTEN // "How to Walk Through the Fire" by If Anything Happens to the Cat
If Anything Happens to the Cat are back with a new song! Their new track, entitled "How to Walk Through the Fire" is the opening track off their upcoming album, Sun Drunk Moon, due out hopefully sometime this October. The band recently lost their drummer Mikel to his first love, psychedelic punk rock, and he is now part of a group called Mind Rays, so this has no doubtedly delayed the release of the album, but they have...
Thursday, May 15, 2014
NEWS // New album on the way for Cymbals Eat Guitars. Hear the opening track.
This week Cymbals Eat Guitars announced their new album, LOSE as well as shared a new song called "Jackson". LOSE will be the third album from the New York based rock group and possibly their most emotional release to date. This is because the album is about coping with loss, specifically the loss of frontman Joseph D'Agostino's friend and collaborator Ben High. Below is a statement from D'Agostino on LOSE:
LOSE is a very apropos...
Friday, May 9, 2014
WATCH // U Got All I'm Looking 4 by Summer Heart.
Well, the semester is over and all is calm again. Some really cool things have been happening around here, like me not failing out of school! That's always nice. Also, I have recently been elected to Music Director of WMLU, the university radio station. As music director I will be in charge of bringing some really great and unique talent to our biannual music festivals. If you live in Virginia, USA, check it out! One such talent I would love to...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
REVIEW // Dunes by Gardens & Villa
Since Chris Lynch and his friends began making music in 2008, these Santa Barbara-based musicians have been experimenting with a very cool combination of electronic music. Part electro-pop, part chillwave, and part psychedelia is what make up Gardens & Villa and it is a combination bound to get anyone up and dancing, or at the very least tapping their foot and bobbing their head in their chair. Dunes is the band’s second full-length album...
Thursday, March 13, 2014
LISTEN // Hear a teaser of Neil Jarvis' new album
Well, we may still have a ways to go before the warm rays and relaxing days of summer arrive, but with Neil Jarvis' new teaser for his forthcoming album, we can at least pretend it's here already. "Halloween Summer" is the newest track out from Manchester England based band, Neil Jarvis, and is the title track off their upcoming album by the same name, out this May via On the Grind.
This will be the band's second album, who draw influences from bands such as Real Estate, Pavement, Silver Jews and others. I briefly...
Thursday, February 27, 2014
REVIEW // The new Pains of Being Pure at Heart single is simply the best.
It simply just is guys. In the beginning it really doesn't even sound like a Pains of Being Pure at Heart song, but then Kip Berman's soft and fuzzy voice comes in around 0:25 and you're in heaven. What's truly great about this song is the amount of new things present in it. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have always had some elements of pop to them but they have always tended to sway more to the dream-pop or indie rock side of things....
Sunday, February 16, 2014
NEWS // The Drums to release new album.
"celebrating the only way we know how. Album 3 is finished"
That was the word (and photo) from surf-rock group The Drums this afternoon on Facebook. Their new album finished and hopefully on the way relatively soon for us listeners and fans.
It's been a good 3 years since their last release (if you don't count a single they released in 2012 where only the B Side was a new song) and I'm definitely ready for some new drums. It is a long...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
NEWS // Debut album on the way for Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks is a new band featuring (surprise!) Avey Tare from Animal Collective and ex members of Dirty Projectors and Ponytail Angel Deradoorian and Jeremy Hyman, respectively. The group will be releasing their debut album Enter the Slasher House this coming April. Below, you can hear their new single "Little Fang", a sassy psychedelic pop song filled with catchy lyrics and great potential for what's to come.
Enter...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
LISTEN // New single from Cloud Nothings.
Above you can hear Cloud Nothings first single off their upcoming album Here and Nowhere Else. It's reminiscent of their earlier pop/noise rock albums with it's catchy, repetitive choruses (and honestly verses for that matter!) like "I'm not, I'm not you / You're a part me! You're a part of me!" but not at all in a bad way. The song, though a little rough around the edges, shows good potential for the upcoming album and suggests maybe another pop or noise rock release. Hopefully Dylan Baldi will throw in a couple good garage rock tracks in there...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
LISTEN // New single from Bombay Bicycle Club!
Happy 2014 readers! Only less than a month left till Bombay Bicycle Club's new album is released. till then, check out their new single, "Luna" below! In contrast to the other single released last year, "Carry Me", "Luna" falls in line with their previous songs in musical style and sounds just as awesome. So, all you people who were worried it'll be just "techno" as this fan was, you're wrong!.....probably. I mean we don't know till its here so...
Sunday, December 22, 2013
MIXTAPES // Best if Played After 2013
Welcome to This Blog is About Music's second annual Best Of mixtape! As an attempt to improve upon last year's mix, Best if Played After 2013 features over 3 hours of great music from 2013 from an even wider range of genres than last year including Post-Rock, Pop, Dance, Chillwave, Surf Rock, Electronic, Rap, Shoegaze, Metal, and others. Check it out sometime and show it to your friends too! Happy end of the year readers.
Tracklisting
"Stormur" by Sigur Rós
"You Already Know" by Arcade Fire
"Night Drive" by Summer Camp
"If You Didn't...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
LISTEN // Old Flame Records 2013 Sampler
Old Flame Fall 2013 Sampler by Old Flame Records
There is a new Fall sampler out from Old Flame Records. It features songs from a lot of great talent including MillionYoung, Ing, Yuno, Gross Relations, and more. Currently they are selling it on their bandcamp for "Name your price" which is awesome! So all you poor college students have no excuse to not have this gem! Click the above image to listen to or download it. (and if you do listen to it, make sure it starts at number one. Unless you're a rebel like that......
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