By Your Side

The latest music video from six piece rock/alt band Buffalo Sunn features the single's adorable lyrics held in stark contrast to a video which alludes to the inevitability of the things you just can't change.

The Irish band's throwback to a sixties-esque indie beach sound combined with modern alternative riffs produces an undeniably addictive melody. Sweet lyrics, "don't worry, I'll be there in the morning, by your side, for you", and a prominent guitar riff combine to create a perfectly balanced melody while persistent drums and that final vocal harmony urge you to play the track on repeat.

Catch the music video below, buy the single (from the band's forthcoming debut album, By The Ocean, By The Sea), from iTunes, and head to the websites to find out more about Buffalo Sunn.

"By Your Side" Buffalo Sunn

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Fireworks

Watsky's latest music video is as hypnotically fantastic as his fans have come to expect from a rapper who gives you the unabridged truth without a care to the critics. The video features a simple idea built up by intricate details and careful production, only getting better the longer you watch. 

If you haven't already fallen for Watsky's sound, check out his album Cardboard Castles for songs as perfect as "Sloppy Seconds", "Hey, Asshole" (featuring Kate Nash), and "Strong As An Oak" with great videos to match and make sure to check him on this summer's Warped Tour circuit. 

"Fireworks" Watsky

Reverse

SomeKindaWonderful's "Reverse" offers up a heavy dose of that reggae rock fusion that is coming (whether you like it or not) and lyrics which will lead you to like it because you believe the entire track can be flipped, in accordance with the song title (i.e. he was the cheated, not the cheater); hate the song because you think it glorifies cheaters; or love it for its simple, yet amazing, lyrical ingenuity. 

An opening verse that starts with "she hung up the phone and said 'fuck you, it's over'" and ends with "I started with darling please listen, and then I picked up the phone" is entrancing. It seems like a simple concept, having the entire track written in reverse (the last line of the song being the first line of the story), but the songwriting choice offers up a refreshing change of pace from most of these reggae rock songs that are coming out of the woodwork with dance along verses and easy to memorize choruses. 

The band's already established that they can write a catchy melody, the steady piano chords and added string track makes the single's composition impossible to not love, and the lyric's inverted style hints that there are better things to come from a band that can think through what they're trying to say, rather than sloppily jotting down lines that sound like the norm for a breakup song. 

Check out the track below for something you can easily become addicted to. 

"Reverse" SomeKindaWonderful

5/31

There has not been a monthly playlist in a while, mostly because I've been doing a shoddy job and stocking up on new music, but sharing none of it (because, you know, life) and spending more time cleaning up the new site than updating it so, as a pseudo, two-part apology, this is my personal playlist for the week and I have spent the last several days listening to previously recorded interviews so that I could finally transcribe these things I've been hoarding on my phone's call log for the past however many months. You can check out two newly posted interviews on that page now (and look for two more tonight) and listen to some awesome music from Stargroves, Little Earthquake, and Fairchild below. 

If you're interested in the music and music news you must know to stay 'relevant', make sure to buy Strange Talk's Cast Away and Semi Precious Weapons' Aviation (because boy bands disguised as 'alternative' or 'edgy' are going to be all the rage), check out SomeKindaWonderful before your local radio station makes you hate the absolute perfection which is "Reverse", appreciate the fact that Ariana Grande is the youngest woman ever to debut a single with over 400,000 downloads because "Problem" has been the biggest single debut of the year (or so the email said and I just don't feel up to further sleuthing), and know that two members of One Direction filmed themselves smoking pot and people started to freak the fuck out but it was all very anticlimactic (I think.. probably.. may not have been as inconsequential to the lives of 1D fans who weren't distracted by Snowden's interview or Angelou's passing..).

"Beware the Dog" The Griswolds

"Rosary" Careless Sons

"Reverse" SomeKindaWonderful

"Waves" Sleeper Agent

"Paris" Magic Man

"Eris" Hyper Heart (free download)

"Hats in the Air" Stargroves

"Brightside" Little Earthquake

"The Revolution" For the Foxes

"My Body" Young the Giant

"Try" Hudson Taylor

"Be Brave" You Love Her Coz She's Dead (free download)

"Goodness Gracious" Ellie Goulding

"Burning Feet" Fairchild

"Westfjords" Stargroves featuring Abigail Breslin

"Tandem" Undiscovered Soul