Hope is for the Hopers – Philadelphia Grand Jury

I just wanna get out my stick and ride it, such is the feeling that oozes out of Philadelphia Grand Jury’s debut album Hope is for the Hopers. This Sydney duet (a much different sounding duet to Elton John and Kiki Dee, or Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, this one is comprised of Berkfinger and [...]

In The Club – Seduce ‘n’ Destroy

I did a little pointer to this group not long ago, and their debut album came out a few weeks ago. Now, while reviewing this album may be futile, as it’s not available for purchase on iTunes and after a couple of days of searching I eventually found where to buy it. It looked like [...]

Vampire Weekend ready to follow up

Second albums make me nervous. If they come out to fast I get really nervous, but if they take too long they can lose momentum from their big first release. Well, a couple of days ago Vampire Weekend announced their second album Contra will be released on January 12, 2010. I think I feel a [...]

You complete me

Last night I was reading in Rolling Stone about a project Beck is doing through his website. The basic gist of it, I guess, is that he’s covering an album, recording the tracks in a day in collaboration with other artists and then releasing the tracks one at a time through his website. It’s an [...]

Florence + the Machine – Lungs

I really wanted to sit down and have a good solid listen to this album before putting fingers to keyboard for a review. For weeks I’ve been intending to just smash this album, and I’ve been quite excited to, but have only just now got around to doing it. I wish I had done so [...]

In The Club

Have just stumbled across this tidy little French act. Their myspace page is in French, so I can’t get much info from there and Google searches are turning up nothing. iTunes has one track available Turn You On, which was released around July last year. Their debut album, Seduce ‘n’ Destroy, comes out on August [...]

Cage the Elephant

In the interest of not being forgotten, I think I’ll sneak a post in here. I bought this album about a month ago and quite like it. Tend to have it playing in the background but it’s a bit catchy and I get along with it well. These guys have been described as an American [...]

Sometimes it’s good to Gossip

I recently celebrated a birthday and was lucky to receive a couple of iTunes vouchers, which really was perfect timing because finally in 2009, there are some great albums starting to be released. First purchase off the rank was Gossip with their latest album release, Music for Men. A few singles have been stalking the [...]