SXSW 2013 Day 1 (feat. Blondfire, Bonaparte, Sizarr, Hands, Japandroids, Local Natives & John Talabot)
This year we sent some of our finest writers to witness SXSW first-hand and mingle. there was also...
Personal touch
Cougar Microbes featured on Tastemakers radio show
Earlier this year I was a guest on the excellent IDC Radio program Tastemakers. We listened to music...
Cougar Microbes Writer Picks 2012: Sam
Cougar writer Sam offers his top ten albums for our Top albums of 2012 feature. The XX –...
Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2012: Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city
2012 was a great year for hip-hop. While many big names dropped much awaited albums the best surprises...
Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2012: Beach House – Bloom
Beach House returned after the success of 2010’s ‘Teen Dream‘ with an album that potentially surpasses its predecessor....
Hip Hop shows love for cars
I recently had the good fortune of watching a rerun of the excellent school MTV Cribs episode that introduced...
The xx release new album ‘Coexist’
On 4th July, the XX filmed an intimate version of “Angels” in a Tokyo hotel room, the lead single...
Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know” one year later
It was a year ago this week that Gotye released ‘Making Mirrors‘ in the UK, the album that...
Mo Money, Mo Problems
“Let me tell you how it will be, There’s one for you, nineteen for me, ’cause I’m the...
