Audio Muffin

Rad Omen Delivers With Free Album, And Their Secret Identities Revealed

This article is going to blow your mind… But first, let’s talk a bit about Rad Omen’s debut album, Search Party and Destroy. First, you can pick it up for free at their website, there is an Amazon version as well, or you can pay $5 for a FLAC version. The album is fire. When I [...]

The Postelles Cover Buddy Holly

Earlier this year Train sat down with The Postelles. Since then their White Night EP was released and more recently they released a cover of Buddy Holly’s Everyday. And not only do I see The Postelles as the next Strokes, but Everyday is definitely my favorite Holly song. The guys are currently on tour playing shows [...]

Secret Local Natives Songs

I stumbled across two Local Natives songs today that I had never heard before. After the initial excitement I took a look around the internet to see what was up. As far as I knew, the harmonizing rockers had only put out a debut album. Were these songs material from a second album or rather [...]

I’m Feelin’ iFFY

So Wednesday night I was cruising through my Inbox, randomly checking out songs while of course being distracted by the 18 other tabs open in my browser at the time. I cued up another song, went back to what I was doing and about ten seconds later realized that I was listening to a wham-bam-thank-you-JAM. [...]

PVT Contest!

Namaste Muffins. Got a little something special for you today in the bakery, a giveaway from your new favorite band, PVT. Before I get to the goodies let me PVT you fine folks ASAP. The band, consisting of Richard Pike, Laurence Pike and Dave Miller, hails from Sydney, Australia (sorry, I couldn’t resist) and have been [...]

Matt Costa’s September offering

Just a week ago, acoustic marvel, Matt Costa released the single from his upcoming album Mobile Chateau due out on September 21st. “The Season” is going to be the first track on the album and if its any indication of what we can expect, Brushfire Records has themselves another gem. This is going to be [...]

Filligar Record Release Party at The Troubadour in LA

Chicago’s favorite rock band, Filligar, is coming to Southern California this Wednesday night to celebrate their Los Angeles Record Release party. The record of course is The Nerve and Bootsy and I plan to be at the show, which just happens to be at my favorite LA venue – The Troubadour. You can get tickets at [...]

Train x Ace Reporter: Part Three

Namaste Muffins. I’m amped to present to you the third and final series of collaborative sights and sounds courtesy of Ace Reporter and myself, the Train-ster. If you will recall, Part One of the project involved me taking photographs to accompany songs that already existed in Ace’s song library. Part Two involved Ace Reporter writing songs [...]

Sufjan Stevens New EP!

If you’ve ever been asked who your favorite musician is and immediately cringed and thought, “How could I pick just one?” then you are not like me. I wouldn’t even let the question leave the lips of the asker, its easy, Sufjan Stevens. Everything from his stripped down acoustic work on Seven Swans [...]

Moxie Black

I like a lot of the highly produced pop/electro/hip-hop that has made a definite mark in the last ten years. I’m talking about LMFAO, Flo Rida, and the godfather of this sound Black Eyed Peas. I really find it interesting how electronic sounds are really permeating every genre of music to create “electro-something” genres. I’m always [...]