Don’t Sleep On | Givers

During half-time in the Green Bay Packers opening game, I decided to do some real music discovery by checking out some of my favorite blogs and see what they writing about.   I stopped over at Stereogum and came across this Lafayette, Louisiana band called Givers, and I was pleasantly blown away.  The band reminds me of [...]

Don’t Sleep On | James Vincent McMorrow

A few months ago, I featured a singer/songwriter from Ireland by the name of James Vincent McMorrow on Are You Feeling This. He has been Ireland’s answer to Justin Vernon’s Bon Iver, but he is more than that. One one note, both James and Justin recorded their albums in an isolated house. Justin recorded his album [...]

Don’t Sleep On… Space Invadas

Seriously folks, this one may be my favorite of the entire year. While I rarely use that category, I have been listening to the latest project from The Space Invadas, Soul:Fi, an awful lot; in the car, at home, on long bike rides and yes, I’m grooving to it even now. Space Invadas are a collaboration [...]

Don’t Sleep | Sleigh Bells + Free Song + Live in Madison Tonight

There are a few bands, and artists that don’t live up  to the buzz they deserve. Sleigh Bells is not one of them. The Brooklyn based duo have been creating quite of bit of hype since last year’s CMJ festival. The hype continue throughout SXSW.  Unfortunately, I seem to keep missing them in Austin when [...]

Don’t Sleep On | Jake Troth

I recently got an email about this artist by the name of Jake Troth. I don’t really know that much about of them other than that he is originally from North Carolina and apparently he made a buzz with his remix of Kanye’s “Love Lockdown” almost two years ago. Troth is a singer/songwriter that just [...]

Don’t Sleep On | Secondhand Sureshots: Putting New Life in Old Vinyl

There is something really special about going to a thrift store, or used record store and finding something really special that you would never think you would buy.  The art of crate digging is skill that requires a whole lot of patience and love for music.  This skill is a very important skill to have [...]

Don’t Sleep On | Lou Rhodes

Sometimes you come across music, you don’t think you would go for, but when it happens, it is something very special. Lou Rhodes is not a new artist by a long stretch. Originally part of the band Lamb, which fused electronica, trip hop, jazz, and elements of hip hop, Lou Rhodes is an English singer/songwriter [...]

Don’t Sleep On | The Soulphonics and Ruby Velle

You know what happens when you stay up all night looking for new music?  You discover something really special, and that special is Atlanta’s Soulphonics and Ruby Velle. While I was writing the previous post on The Constellations, I saw this intriguing name of The Soulphonics and Ruby Velle on the list of people The [...]

A look into the Lab Partners

For some time now the folks at Mindpool Productions have been featruing some of the coolest artists in Milwaukee and the WORLD as a part of their SOUND PASS web series. This past episode featured Milwaukee’s newest super group THE LAB PARTNERS. This episode “shines a light” (pun intended) on the cool process of how [...]

Don’t Sleep On: Quadron

For the last couple of years, Swedish artist have been dominating my personal playlists.  Now it looks like Sweden’s neighbor to the south, Denmark, is trying to squeeze in. The Danish duo is named Quadron, and I first heard of them through our fam over at The Couch Sessions. Quadron’s sound is what I would [...]