I have to admit up front that I stole this idea from a couple of other blogs. There are very few original ideas out there, and I don’t have any of them. I just thought this might be an interesting metric to gauge interest in the bands we yak about.
February’s Most Downloaded MP3s:
1)The Temper Trap [...]

Congrats to Heather! She gets a Temper Trap Poster and a copy of their debut, Conditions!

Congrats to Heather!

I talked about missing The Temper Trap train a month or so ago when I finally caught 500 Days of Summer on DVD. I’ve since had a chance to catch up, and ended up really enjoying their debut Conditions. If you’re in a similar position and for whatever reason never looked into these [...]

I’ve taken a sort of vacation from the blog recently. Well, not a vacation exactly, but with the addition of Mark & Keath (and Desiree in the New Year) I’ve felt less inclined to make a mad dash through my inbox to find something interesting. I think it’s beneficial because it’s slowing me down a [...]

Editor’s Note: Here at BIYL we like to wing things. There’s no master plan for our end of year lists, and frankly I don’t even know if I’ll be able to make one. But I imagine we’ll each be tackling the year separately (and possibly in one collective discussion, we’ll see how things go). Mark [...]

Lucky for me the wonderful Temper Trap’s opening night of their sellout UK tour happened to be in my home city. Wow, wow, wow what a gig, with at times four guitars keys and fantastic drums. We were treated to what I think was every track from the debut album all my senses were blown [...]

One of the pleasures of being able to write is to share what’s rocking your musical taste buds. The Temper Trap have been rocking my world all summer. I’m pretty sure that they will be rocking yours pretty soon, too. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, they have been trawling the Summer Festival circuit. They have shades [...]