It’s a rainy Sunday, so I decided I would camp in front of the computer and demand new tunes from the intertubes. I wasn’t especially impressed with what Amazon or iTunes had to recommend, so I went back to my adopted roots, britpop. When I want britpop news, for better or worse, I go to NME.
NME told me that there is this thing called The Download Festival, which looks awesome. Now, because I’m an old curmudgeon, I don’t go to festivals. Festival line-ups are, however, great places to look for new tunes. My review process is simple:
- Get name of band
- Search for band in iTunes or at AmazonMP3
- Listen to the 30 second samples
- File under: Yes, No, or Maybe
Now, the festival site has a download section where you can download one track from each artist. While that’s a cool gimmick, I’ll stick with my process. Here are my results (Remember, you will file music in your own way and that’s okay! This just happens to be my take.):
Yes
While I would buy or have already purchased tunes from these bands, White Lies and Louis XIV were the ones that I immediately knew were for me.
- White Lies (Amazon, iTunes)
- The Duke Spirit (Amazon, iTunes)
- Ghostland Observatory (Amazon, iTunes)
- The Airborne Toxic Event (Amazon, iTunes)
- Cut Copy (Amazon, iTunes)
- Louis XIV (Amazon, iTunes)
No
- Yeasayer
- Mates of State
- Brand New
- Mutemath
- Rjd2
- Blitzen Trapper
- Alberta Cross
- Vedera
- The Parlor Mob
- Caribou
Maybe
- Datarock
- M83 (I still can’t pull the trigger on these guys)
- The Whigs
- Tapes ‘n Tapes (latest release doesn’t seem as strong as the previous release)
- Elephone
- The Night Marchers (if I run out of Social D, these guys will be perfect)