Video: Thee Oh Sees - The Dream

As we are beginning to prepare our year-end lists, it's time to look back to 2011 and appreciate the albums that we missed here at Earbuddy. It occurs to me that critics have an often undiscussed power that isn't afforded to artists. Yes, we get to snipe at creative people without having [...]

As the well trodden, often soggy, UK festival circuit bulges at the seams with incredible line-ups, it is sometimes easy to overlook our European counterparts in favour of familiar territory but as the summer months fail to deliver what they promise (namely some sunshine) international soil becomes instantly more appealing. None more so that Belfort's - the idyllic setting for the world renowned, 3-day  Les Eurockéennes . Surrounded by water, boasting its own beach and located right on the France/Switzerland Border, more specifically in the Malsaucy nature reserve, the 23-year old veteran festival giant boast a crowd of more than 100,000 and has played host [...]

Since we’re all a tight-knit music-lovin’ community, we created this segment so that some of our good friends who are doing good things in the industry of human happiness could share the records that they’ve been diggin’ on lately. Our second edition of Grooves Shared comes from PanopticonNYC's  Chris Piazza, whose Panopticon360 webseries captures local bands in live settings via absolutely amazing 360-degree panoramic video.  PanopticonNYC is home to the webseries Panopticon360,  an original live music [...]