Post: #1

I am bored with my current selection and I want to hear some new bands.

Any suggestions? Anyone?

Post: #2

did you hear about zero 7?
It's pretty good

Post: #3

I pretty much don't like any music today. We call it 'new' but they're all simply retro or a reinvention of the wheel. It's a little disheartening for me to think that no one is really doing anything original or fresh. My personal feeling is that nothing significant has come out of music since the early 90's. Around the late 90's the music industry has simply plateued and has been on that course ever since.

Usually, you can map significant impacts in music history and they tended to happen every ten years up to mid 90's. Now it's just a flatline with no sign of anything significant to come. I think one of the last few good bands to have emerged is Cake, but I'm not entirely sold on him.

These days I'm listening to classical. That's about as retro as you can get, but I'm digging it because it doesn't sound like any popular music out today. So in that spirit it's different and new. There are some interesting transitions though. I think Classical offers something for everyone. If someone is goth/emo then Chopin and his allotment of nocturnes would probably turn them on. If someone is into pop they might take a liking to Dvorak.

Post: #4

From ACL this last weekend, some I hadn't heard before:
- Gogol Bordello
- MGMT
- Okkervil River

Post: #5

John Bustine
Liam Finn
Liz Durrett
Gist
3 Inches of Blood
Camera Obscura
Canyon (the one with Brandon Butler and Joe Winkle from Boy's Life)
Young Dro

Post: #6

Right now the cool kids are throwing out their copies of the following
- MGMT
- the cool kids
- black kids
- TV On the Radio's newest lp
- Kings of Leon's newest lp
- Cold War Kids newest lp
- Vampire Weekend
- The Black Keys (generally)

I'd peruse the Black Cat/9:30/Rock and Roll Hotel Club's lineup for the past year or so.

On the Radio Hip Hop Tip
- Jeezy's - The Recession
- TI's - Paper Trail
- Lil Wayne's - The Carter III

What I'm repeating on my ipod
- "Swagger Like Us" - TI, Wayne, Kanye, Jane
- Paper Plane Rmx - 50 Cent and Freeway
- "I feel it all" - Feist
- Gold Watch - Lupe Fiasco
- "Unsung" - Helmet

Post: #7

(10-01-2008 05:29 PM)Steve Lurkel Wrote:  John Bustine
Liam Finn
Liz Durrett
Gist
3 Inches of Blood
Camera Obscura
Canyon (the one with Brandon Butler and Joe Winkle from Boy's Life)
Young Dro

Co-sign on Dro. He's criminally under-rated, even by cats that like Southern rap.

Post: #8

anyone hear any "one day as a lion"? apparently its zach de la rocha and the dude from mars volta....

Post: #9

http://www.indie1031.fm/

LA radio station, down with all the new stuff. way ahead of the curve, bitches!

impress your friends, or whatever. but seriously, some great playlists coming out of this station.

Post: #10

Delta Spirit
The Detroit Cobras
The Black Kids

Post: #11

M.I.A--> Cd is called Kala. she's got the illest beats by far and i mean Kanye's sampled her shit pretty hard on that "swagga like us" song.

Justice--> Cd's called Cross. It's pretty ill in general. both of these cds are abt a year old but i mean if you're not on it, it's still fresh to ya. ill beats, some futuristic shit. Not really feelin the radio these days, rap's dead to me...xcept for Young Jeezy, i guess.

Post: #12

Just want to dig up this old thread so that I can mention Nic Jones. He is England's finest folk musician. He made an album in 1980 called 'Penguin Eggs' which many consider the best folk album of all time.

Sadly he was in a car accident soon after the album was recorded - and hasn't played the guitar since.

Anyway - I just want to give it a shout out since his music is so catchy and wonderful. He has a unique style of guitar playing which adds to the pleasure.

The following is his signature song:





My other favourite Nic Jones songs are COURTING IS A PLEASURE and PLANXTY DAVIS. Just in case any of you want to dig into his music some more.

Post: #13

The Who. Won't get fooled again.

Post: #14

Old Cool Jazz. Miles Kind of Blue. Zawinul's self-titled album. Anything without synths which are always so much tonally simpler than physical instruments.