Yay! Here we fucking go again. No words. Just plain music. I know these posts are boring shit, but today I'm doing what dozens of, hundreds of, the true number is probably closer to a thousand, people are asking me to do; "please give our music a listen" or some different version of that sentence. And since multitasking is not my kind of thing, I cannot write, listen and pretend to be working at the same time. As always I will try to only post the good stuff, though I cannot guarantee that one or two blunders will be included. [...]
Yes Yes Yes - Elsinore [mp3] (iTunes) (site) Upbeat indie-pop from Champaign, IL's Ryan Groff who aspires to channel the work of Ben Gibbard and Sufjan Stevens.Try To Understand - The Gay Blades [mp3] (site) The first single from the their upcoming album Savages, out October 5th. The type of elated pop-rock that infuse brass in the mix.Framebreaker - Return to Mono [mp3] (site) The San Francisco

Seguimos con más solistas femeninas, hoy el turno es para la australiana Tara Simmons, a quien conocimos hace ya un tiempo gracias al blog Let Me Like It . Se trata de una cantante de pop-folk de gran talento y suave voz. Su discografía comienza en ocutbre del año 2006, con la publicación de su Ep "Pendulum", con el que obtuvo cierto reconocimiento en su país, gracias fundamentalmente a su canción "Everybody Loves You" que fue finalista de los premios Q Song Awards de dicho año. [...]

More of my discoveries from the halls of Triple J Unearthed. All of these artists are fairly new and upcoming and are well worth a listen. It's so good to know that there's so many fantastic Aussie music acts out there, just waiting to be discovered. Oh, and this photo is of an abandoned mine, taken yesterday while bushbashing. There are thick spiderwebs criss-crossing the opening of this tunnel, and it extends deep into the rock before disappearing into the earth. Needless to say, I did not get too close! Who: Rounds (Indie) From: Canberra [...]

Tara Simmons is a musician determined never to become bored. Critically-acclaimed, industry-recognised and currently on fire with her songwriting game, her catalogue varies between simple folk-driven pop to glitchy, cut-up sample-based electronic. Listen to her songs and you will wonder how do these remarkable sounds come to be? Well aside from being proficient in traditional elements like voice and keys and occasionally whipping out a cello, Tara has been known to shovel around her bathroom, bedroom or even kitchen drawers to find something new and interesting to sample and feature in her music. Tara first came to prominence through 2006's [...]