This year, I haven't been listening to that much new music. Combination of things, I suppose - tinnitus, laziness, Skyrim, fecklessness - but by and large it's been trawling through older music and the cursory listen to favourite artist's new records. And so there hasn't been much action round here, which means my normal end of year round-up would seem a bit odd, what with me going on about records that I haven't really talked about. And there only being about four of them. So instead follows five short-ish essays about the bands who have [...]

Cuando todos dicen que la industria musical está sufriendo una severa crisis y el LP puesto en debate resurge de las cenizas el formato EP y single, a los que los artistas y discográficas se aferran. Tras la publicación de nuestras listas de mejores discos internacionales , nacionales , Hip Hop , y covers y remixes de este 2012, hoy continuamos y os presentamos nuestra selección de EPs que más nos han gustado, todos disponibles para [...]
Brooklyn-based indie-rock act Grizzly Bear have been critics' darlings for the better part of the last decade, releasing three full-length albums of their enchanting brand of lush, psychedelic-tinged folk-pop. After spending significant amounts of time on the road over the last few years, the band's singer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Rossen- the guy who's not Ed Droste - was looking for a way to get his creative juices flowing again, telling Rolling Stone , "When you spend so much time touring around, you can lose perspective on what you're trying to do. All the sudden, I had no [...]