December 2009
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Out of the Crouch
Hailing from Crouch End, London, the Bombay Bicycle Club is comprised of four barely legal lads. They were one of two winners of Virgin Mobile’s Road to V competition in 2006. Their first album dropped this past July. Some have described them as a cross between Vampire Weekend and Devandra Banhart. Not a bad combo!
Bombay Bicycle Club - “Always Like This”
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A Mysterious Beat
Before reading on, amuse your ear caves with 20 seconds of this little ditty. Can you recognize the band before any vocals come into play?
Mysterious mp3
Is it Volcano Choir? Department of Eagles, maybe? Neon Indian?!?!?
The man behind those eeps, bleeps and drones is none other than french horn-toting, silk milk crooning Europhile Beirut (real name: Zachary Francis Condon).
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Tigerlets?
I recently came to learn that Miniature Tigers (sadly) are not a cuddly little duo of tiger cubs. Indeed, they are two chaps from the blah city of Phoenix, AZ that look like any other mustachioed hipsters on the music scene, or the streets of the mission, today.
That said, Miniature Tigers writes some bitchin prose and combines it with catchy pop, not something any old hipster can pull off....
So Beat it, Just Beat it
It has been a long journey to this point. After many years of perusing different music blogs (and hundreds of other blogs for that matter) we have finally decided to make our own. Why? It is not because we dislike other blogs, but rather, well, our tastes are just more unique, harder to fulfill. Here at LTB you’ll get only the freshest music. No overdone hits or flavorless jams. Direct...
