The Webby’s are coming up, and while I voted for The Black Cab Sessions for best music site, Pitchfork.tv is pretty fricken good (maybe even better). Being able to watch a bunch of bands in a bunch of different settings may not be as orignal as making them play in the back of a London [...]

Dinosaur Jr’s Beyond is a great album and a fantastic return from the troubled 90′s threesome. Their upcoming album ‘Farm’ is due at the end of June, and from the early excerpts, sounds amazing. Check out the more mellow, mature Dinosaur team in the studio, thanks to Pitchfork.tv

I haven’t heard huge amounts from this Brooklyn twosome, but what I have heard, I kind of like. ‘Lessons Learnt’ (from their recent release ‘Grand’) will no doubt get them some serious milage – I’m picking everyone would have heard of them by the end of May thanks to this video. The song is a [...]

I’ve always enjoyed the cataclysmic noise that is Mogwai. They have manage to bridge the gap between shoe-gaze noise and indie guitar heroics like no other band has since…well, has any band? The 16 plus minute closer of ‘Young Team’ still ranks as one of their greats, and I understand, is still a live staple. [...]

PB&J’s new album ‘Living Thing’ is on my soon to be purchased list – the tracks that have been ‘leaked’ already are enough to sell the album to me, even though I probably would have bought it on the back of the very excellent debut ‘Writers Block’. Remixes and mash-ups seem to serve as much [...]

While his albums have been a little hit and miss for me, Rhymefest does some bangin’ mixtapes. ‘The Man In The Mirror’ (his Michael Jackson tribute album) was fan-fricken-tastic. With ‘The Manual’ he manages to do it again. ‘Fest always knows how to get the best out of the greats, whether it’s a creative sample [...]

The upcoming release of ‘Outer South’, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band’s sophomore album has me mildly excited, even though the debut has had a long time in-between spins. Embarrassingly I thought this album was already out (even to the point where I managed to send a friend on a wild goose chase to [...]

Deerhunter has been rocking my world alot lately. I was a late purchaser of “Microcastle”, so the idea of a new EP has me feeling a little disorientated. Thanks to the nice folks at Stereogum, you can take in the title track from the EP for free. Woohoo. Rainwater Exchange Cassette – Deerhunter (via Stereogum)