What the hell are you listening to...2011 Edition [Archive]

Young Drachma

01-09-2011, 07:30 PM

2010 Edition (http://operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=76230)
2009 Edition (http://operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=69929)
2008 Edition (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=63628)
2007 Edition (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=57527)
2006 Edition (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=49001)

Well it's another year. Here is Stereogum's list of most anticipated albums of 2011. (http://stereogum.com/582501/50-most-anticipated-albums-of-2011/franchises/listomania/) Naturally lots will get pushed back and so forth, but...it'll be interesting to see how this year flops out musically after what I think was a pretty strong 2010.

Here's metacritic (http://features.metacritic.com/features/upcoming-album-release-calendar/?tag=supplementary-nav;item;3)'s release calendar which is more encompassing.

Matthean

01-09-2011, 07:51 PM

I recognize such a small amount of those artist. I think just about all of the artist I look forward to put out an album last year so the only thing I can think of is The Civil Wars album hitting Feb. 1st.

Drake

01-09-2011, 09:15 PM

Tenth Avenue North - The Light Meets the Dark

(Technically released in May 2010, but since I didn't hear them until Xmas and didn't start listening to the CD until after January 1, it counts for me. ;) )

A nice Jars of Clay vibe here.

Schmidty

01-09-2011, 09:34 PM

I'm really surprised that Destroyer's #12 on that list. Bejar is one of my favorite musicians around today, but I didn't realize he was that popular. Glad to know a new albums coming.

Ksyrup

01-10-2011, 07:34 AM

#1 on my most anticipated list is Storm Corrosion, the long-awaited collaboration between Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt and Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson. Cannot wait for this.

I'm not really sure what else is coming out that I would like.

Qwikshot

01-10-2011, 08:10 AM

Currently, the things I listen to are:

Kanye West "My Dark Twisted Fantasy" - I'm not a big rap fan. This is by far the most cohesive album that I've listened to of Kanye's. It's like a rock album actually and there are layers upon layers here. You can listen to a song and get something further out of it. Now I know he's not everyone's cup of tea, I consider Kanye "emo-rap", but songs like "Power" (cheerleading rhythms, King Crimson), "All of the Lights" (Sounds like an update to Rocky's "Gonna Fly Now") and Runaway (getting crazy with the vocoder, to a point where the lyrics are just an ooze of emotion). There are some filler bits and some of the direction does get lost, which I think coming from someone as emotional as Kanye is to be expected...sometimes he just doesn't have the words to come across.

Grinderman "Grinderman II" - Other end of the spectrum, bluesy, rock, and somewhat unpolished. Nick Cave knows exactly what he wants. Songs like "Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man" are just experiences of loud and emotion but in one solid direction. "Wormtamer" is just as uncoy as it sounds. Unlike Kanye, Nick Cave enjoys a sense of humor about things even when he's in a mocking mood. No real ballads here, or I'm so sorry about me songs..."Palace of Montezuma" though is one of his best low key songs.

Bob Dylan - Rolling Thunder Review 1975 - Not as career defining as the Royal Albert Hall bootleg, but it's a more countrified/electric folk ride. I really like "Isis".

Miles Davis - Round Midnight
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Jobim - Best Of

Jazz is beginning to re-enter my collection. Not so much that I want to be cultured, as much as I want something of an alternate to today's sounds.

Butter

01-10-2011, 09:52 AM

Can't wait for the Tennis album to come out. The 3 songs I heard are so catchy, I want to hear what else they have.

Young Drachma

01-10-2011, 11:20 AM

Can't wait for the Tennis album to come out. The 3 songs I heard are so catchy, I want to hear what else they have.

Same here.

Passacaglia

01-10-2011, 11:28 AM

Looking forward to Tennis, Deerhoof, and Drive-By Truckers on that list.

Young Drachma

01-11-2011, 07:11 PM

Kanye West + Jay-Z: HAM

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sabotai

01-13-2011, 02:25 AM

I'm not the biggest hip-hop, R&B, whatever-genre-this-counts-as listener, but I frickin' love this song.

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chadritt

01-13-2011, 02:34 AM

Girl Talk - All Day. Its an hour long "song" of Mashups. Starts with War Machine being mixed with Ludacris and a little Jay Z. Cant get it out of my head

lordscarlet

01-13-2011, 10:07 AM

Girl Talk - All Day. Its an hour long "song" of Mashups. Starts with War Machine being mixed with Ludacris and a little Jay Z. Cant get it out of my head

Mashup Breakdown - Girl Talk - All Day (http://mashupbreakdown.com/)

MikeVic

01-13-2011, 10:17 AM

Girl Talk - All Day. Its an hour long "song" of Mashups. Starts with War Machine being mixed with Ludacris and a little Jay Z. Cant get it out of my head

I'm with you on this. Probably listened to the entire thing seven or eight times now.

Draft Dodger

01-13-2011, 10:30 AM

Mashup Breakdown - Girl Talk - All Day (http://mashupbreakdown.com/)

that's awesome

FrogMan

01-13-2011, 01:25 PM

Kanye West "My Dark Twisted Fantasy" - I'm not a big rap fan. This is by far the most cohesive album that I've listened to of Kanye's. It's like a rock album actually and there are layers upon layers here. You can listen to a song and get something further out of it. Now I know he's not everyone's cup of tea, I consider Kanye "emo-rap", but songs like "Power" (cheerleading rhythms, King Crimson), "All of the Lights" (Sounds like an update to Rocky's "Gonna Fly Now") and Runaway (getting crazy with the vocoder, to a point where the lyrics are just an ooze of emotion). There are some filler bits and some of the direction does get lost, which I think coming from someone as emotional as Kanye is to be expected...sometimes he just doesn't have the words to come across.

I'm also not a big rap fan although Eminem's latest did get a lot of play in my car but my wife often has the TV on some video request channel and some of Kanye West's song have caught my ears. I loved his Stronger from a while back and I really like Power. Monster from the same album was used in a choreography of my wife's dance studio so I decided to give that album a shot and I'm glad I think. Likes most of the first 6 tracks on first hearing so thanks for the comment about it here.

Girl Talk - All Day. Its an hour long "song" of Mashups. Starts with War Machine being mixed with Ludacris and a little Jay Z. Cant get it out of my head

Had never heard about it, downloaded it over lunch and listened to maybe the first couple minutes and yeah, I'll want more. Will also want to share this with my wife. Thanks.

FM

Draft Dodger

01-13-2011, 01:42 PM

if you're new to Girl Talk, definitely check out Feed the Animals as well.

FrogMan

01-13-2011, 01:48 PM

if you're new to Girl Talk, definitely check out Feed the Animals as well.

yeah, new to the whole mashup world, and to Girl Talk specifically. I looked around on the Illegal Art website and was planning on picking up a few of the GT releases. Will look at this one, thanks for the recommendation. For some unknown reason, Night Ripper caught my eye.

FM

Easy Mac

01-13-2011, 01:52 PM

Can't wait for the Tennis album to come out. The 3 songs I heard are so catchy, I want to hear what else they have.

don't know if you knew, but its on itunes for $8.

currently streaming on npr:
The Decemberists, Joe Lovano Us Five, Simone Dinnerstein, Smith Westerns and Gregg Allman

over at spinner:
Mew, British Sea Power, Cage the Elephant, Broken Records, Cake, Tapes n Tapes, Hang Glider, Empresarios, Madison, X-Ray Press, Clive Tanaka y su, and Abigail Washburn

over at aol music:
NERD, Californication soundtrack, Steel Magnolia, Die Krupps, Madison, Rebelution, Turkauz

over at hype machine:
Braids

Easy Mac

01-13-2011, 01:52 PM

yeah, new to the whole mashup world, and to Girl Talk specifically. I looked around on the Illegal Art website and was planning on picking up a few of the GT releases. Will look at this one, thanks for the recommendation. For some unknown reason, Night Ripper caught my eye.

FM

Night Ripper is the best of his 4 main albums.

Butter

01-13-2011, 02:58 PM

don't know if you knew, but its on itunes for $8.

I did not know it had already come out, thanks.

whomario

01-13-2011, 03:44 PM

Have been listening to the Girl Talk album recently again as well, real good fun :)

really love the new decemberists album (First Listen: The Decemberists, 'The King Is Dead' : NPR (http://www.npr.org/2011/01/03/132436422/first-listen-the-decemberists-the-king-is-dead%29). Was very curious what they´d do next after doing such an art-style concept album. Love to hear that it´s less (melo)dramatic than the previous effort. While i loved Hazards of Love i was sure i wouldn´t enjoy them go that route twice, seems i won´t have to worry about it :)

Also very much looking forward to the 2nd White Lies album called Ritual which is out in a few days.

Also looking forward to Death Cab, Foo Fighters, Lykke Li and Nick Cave.

Oh, and british girl and grammy winner Adele also will release her 2nd album, one of the songs (imo the best on it) from her debut :

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terpkristin

01-13-2011, 04:53 PM

I guess it technically came out in 2010, but the Tron: Legacy soundtrack is the only good part of that movie...and it's on sale at Amazon MP3 (in mp3 format) for $5. I bought it when it came out and really like it.

Amazon.com: Tron: Legacy (Amazon MP3 Exclusive Version) [+Digital Booklet]: Daft Punk: MP3 Downloads (http://www.amazon.com/Tron-Exclusive-Version-Digital-Booklet/dp/B004EI3ON4/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294959178&sr=301-1)

/tk

jeff061

01-13-2011, 04:58 PM

Yeah, that soundtrack was very good. Watched it on an iMax and the musical score still stood out.

FrogMan

01-18-2011, 11:40 AM

In the mashup genre, DJ Earworm's United State of Pop 2010 is cool
DJ Earworm - Music Mashups (http://www.djearworm.com/)

FM

MIJB#19

01-18-2011, 11:50 AM

I'm not the biggest hip-hop, R&B, whatever-genre-this-counts-as listener, but I frickin' love this song.
[removed youtube plugin]Bruno Mars is soooooooo 2010...

stevew

01-18-2011, 11:54 AM

In the mashup genre, DJ Earworm's United State of Pop 2010 is cool
DJ Earworm - Music Mashups (http://www.djearworm.com/)

FM

I find songs like this unnerving. Too much jumping around from track to track, it sounds like an extended commercial.

MIJB#19

01-18-2011, 11:56 AM

Speaking of 2010, I've been playing Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance: Year Mix 2010 quite a lot lately.

Young Drachma

01-18-2011, 12:17 PM

The new Tapes 'n Tapes Outside is good.

Easy Mac

01-19-2011, 10:02 AM

Currently streaming on NPR first listen:
Wanda Jackson, Gang of Four, Joyce DiDonato

spinner.com
The Decemberists, Social Distortion, Two Door Cinema Club, Klaxons, Tennis, Eulogies, Dolorean, Gregg Allman, Audio Bullys, Braids, Oh No Oh My, Seafarer, Triumph of Lethargy, Moon Hotel Lounge, David Gergen, Bryan Greenberg, Charles Bradley, Only Son

AOL Music:
The Script, Kidz Bop Kids, Gregg Allman, The Aquabats, Benjy Davis Project, The Memorials, Audio Bullys, Turkuaz, Bryan Greenberg, Scars on 45, Blackmore's Night, Stratovarius

hype machine:
Destroyer

Conan obrien's website:
Iron & Wine

Pitchfork has a list of others: http://pitchfork.com/news/41253-stream-new-albums-from-iron-wine-destroyer/

Easy Mac

01-27-2011, 08:02 AM

Streaming This Week:
Spinner.com
Iron & Wine, Deerhoof, The Get Up Kids, John Vanderslice, Cloud Nothings, Amanda Palmer, Fujiya & Miyagi, Say Hi, Bag Raiders, Only Son, Caroline, Ensemble, Charles Bradley, Funeral Party, papercranes, Lia Ices, Chikita Violenta, Exray's, I Was a King, My Disco, David Berkeley, Ultra Dance 12, U.S. Royalty, Dave Hause, The Ex, Gregg Allman

aol music:
Amos Lee, Talib Kweli, The Shadow Theory, Bag Raiders, Casey Spooner, Roger Miret and the Disasters, EkoTren, Astral Doors, David Berkeley, Telepath, The Bronx Casket Company, Attackhead, Cold Snap, Magnum, Junior Sanchez, Charles Bradley, The Very End, Tuck from Hell, Roach Gigz, Gregg Allman, Scars on 45.

NPR first listen:
Demdike Stare

hypem:
The Go! Team

The Guardian:
Hercules & Love Affair

Passacaglia

01-27-2011, 08:17 AM

ooh, Deerhoof and Hercules & Love Affair. Rock. I don't care if the song I nominated by them for the "suggest music to..." tournament bombed, I'm still excited.

Easy Mac

01-27-2011, 08:27 AM

Also, find the new Cut Copy streaming below on Grooveshark (http://listen.grooveshark.com/playlist/Zonoscope/42829417?src=5)

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Butter

01-27-2011, 08:30 AM

Thanks for the heads-up, Easy Mac. Listening to the John Vanderslice album right now. I have his last 4 albums, and he has yet to disappoint in any of those. The orchestra in this one is a little different, but I am liking it.

Ksyrup

01-27-2011, 08:48 AM

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Qrusher14242

01-28-2011, 06:19 PM

Porcupine Tree's "The Incident"
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I've also been on a King Crimson kick lately:

In the Court of the Crimson King
Red
In the Wake of Poseidon

Never realized how good they were, just amazing stuff.

DanGarion

01-28-2011, 06:20 PM

Just downloaded the new Get Up Kids album, although I haven't been able to listen to it yet.

Lathum

01-28-2011, 10:32 PM

Dropkick Murphys has a new album coming out I am really looking forward to. Beeon occupying myself with their latest concert DVD in the meantime.

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stevew

01-29-2011, 01:51 PM

Scoobz0202

01-29-2011, 02:35 PM

Not a hip hop guy, but that really is a good song. The section starting at 2:00 is pretty fucking good.

Easy Mac

01-31-2011, 12:28 PM

Streams for 1/30 (might be amended later)

NPR First Listen:
Earth, Telekenesis, Bright Eyes

Spinner.com
Bobby Long, The Civil Wars, David Lowery, Hotel for Laughing, John Shipe, Kotchy, MEN, Young the Giant, Tristen, The ACBs, Seefeel, The Insane Warrior

AOL Music:
Bobby Long, The Civil Wars, The Young International, Tiger Riot, Red, YANNI!!!

NPR is streaming the Wavves, Best Coast concert tonight: Live Tonight: Best Coast, Wavves In Concert : NPR (http://www.npr.org/2011/01/31/133309067/monday-best-coast-wavves-in-concert)

Also, Fleet Foxes have announced their new album for May 3, with the new single out now. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues by subpop on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free (http://soundcloud.com/subpop/fleet-foxes-helplessness-blues)

DataKing

01-31-2011, 02:32 PM

I've been getting into Anarchy Club lately. Good heavy stuff if you're into that sort of thing. They remind me a bit of Type O Negative.

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Ksyrup

01-31-2011, 02:37 PM

Never heard of them, but just from that song they remind me of an electronica version of Godsmack.

DataKing

01-31-2011, 02:40 PM

Never heard of them, but just from that song they remind me of an electronica version of Godsmack.

I actually first heard of them via Rock Band. They have three albums out so far. Other tracks that have found their way to my favorites list are:

Get Clean
Graveyard Stickshift
Collide
Blood Doll
Enemy Ace
Kill For You
Assassins

Easy Mac

02-01-2011, 08:09 AM

You can now stream the new Cut Copy on their site, you have to login using twitter first.

CUT//COPY ZONOSCOPE (http://cutcopy.heroku.com/)

Matthean

02-01-2011, 03:19 PM

The new The Civil Wars album can be streamed. I'm getting it when I get back home from vacation.

Listen to New Releases and Free Music CDs - Spinner (http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/2)

rowech

02-01-2011, 06:16 PM

A former student of mine is in a band that released their first mid-major album today. Band name is Vanity Theft. I have a feeling they might actually make it. It's not for everyone but I think it's kinda unique.

Easy Mac

02-02-2011, 06:31 AM

Lots of music streaming at 3voor12 (google it)

Andre Afram Asmar, Faust, James Wailbourne, Resoe, Jeans Wilder, Akron/Family, Isolee, Jonny, Seefeel, Amplifier, Diverse Artjesten, Johan Borger, Duke Garwood, The Go! Team, Talib Kweli, How to Dress Well, Gang of Four, Hercules & Love Affair, Charles Bradley, VENcE, Esben and the Witch, The Dirtbombs, Kaizers Orchestra, Kutmah, COlossa, Gaby Moreno, John Vanderslice, Ilanois, Novack, Amos Lee, Nobody Beats the Drum, Lia Ices, Thank You, The Phoenix Foundation, Robert Pollard, Sidi Toure & Friends, Me & Stupid, My Disco, Caroline, Cloud Nothings, Dissapears, Monotonix, Architects, Cold War Kids, Templo Diez, Family of the Year, Stranded Horse, I Was a King

Easy Mac

02-04-2011, 03:32 PM

some more from 3voor12
James Blake, The Bony King of Nowhere, The Get Up Kids, Ben Ottewell, Milligram Retreat, Stranded Horse, Happy Camper, Ponderosa,

Easy Mac

02-05-2011, 03:58 PM

What I won't be listening to in 2011 or beyond, new records from The White Stripes and LCD Soundsystem, since both recently announced they're done. I can't believe how old I feel right now, that bands I love are breaking up.

MikeVic

02-05-2011, 04:33 PM

Young Drachma

02-07-2011, 03:48 AM

some more from 3voor12
James Blake, The Bony King of Nowhere, The Get Up Kids, Ben Ottewell, Milligram Retreat, Stranded Horse, Happy Camper, Ponderosa,

I can't get into James Blake, but he's getting a lot of tumblr buzz lately.

In other news, apparently Linkin Park blasts this over the PA after their shows.

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kurtism

02-07-2011, 07:17 AM

Easy Mac

02-07-2011, 11:04 AM

Young Drachma

02-07-2011, 12:58 PM

Matthean

02-09-2011, 06:55 PM

The new The Civil Wars CD I saw was #3 on iTunes for downloads. Sweet.

New Burlap to Cashmere video for all of the two people who remember them. :lol: This is reaching Chinese Democracy levels of delay if it hasn't already.

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Scoobz0202

02-11-2011, 10:45 PM

Young Drachma

02-11-2011, 11:41 PM

This is Action Bronson. This guy is Queens born and bred and sounds like it.

I'll just quote someone else:

Bronson brings back that Nautica jacket and Timbs at the Fulton Street Mall music. The is type of music you rocked while hanging out on the stoop all day, while putting down an order of four wings and pork fried rice from the Chinese food spot – get the 20oz Peach Arizona Iced Tea pairing for a complete hood tasting menu at 5.25 (circa ‘95).

Alternatively if you weren’t around for David Dinkins’ New York, this is the type of music you’d imagine that Bishop and Q would be rocking in Juice as they cut school to play Street Fighter I.

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He also has cooking videos on YouTube:

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Young Drachma

02-14-2011, 03:03 PM

Matthean

02-14-2011, 08:06 PM

New The Black Keys video.

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Easy Mac

02-15-2011, 08:57 AM

cthomer5000

02-15-2011, 10:46 AM

Passacaglia

02-15-2011, 01:24 PM

streaming this week:

NPR First Listen:
The Psychic Paramount, Julianna Barwick, The Low Anthem, DeVotchKa

Spinner:
Bright Eyes, Drive-By Truckers, PJ Harvey, The Dears, DOM, The Rat Pack, Asobi Seksu, Win Win, Ben Ottewell, Yuck, Shugo Tokumaru, Zoey Von Goey, Buffalo Tom, Cowboy Junkies, Eddie Spaghetti, Stockholm Syndrome, Kasey Anderson & the Honkies, Gay for Johnny Depp, Gwyneth & Monko, Lifeguards, Powerdove, The Forms, Loch Lomond, Mumford & Sons, Band of Horses

AOL Music:
Pretty Little Liars Soundtrack, The Best of the Rat Pack, Ian Axel, Diddy-Dirty Money, Runner Runner, A Skylit Drive, SIMS, Buffalo Tom, Cowboy Junkies, Jarrod Gorbel, Saigon, Clandestine, Stockholm Syndrome, Birdsong at Morning, Blu, Eek a Mouse, Marty Party, Blanco, Wake Up Lucid, Yung Lott, Dancehall Playlist, Warm Ghost, Chris Brown, R. Kelly, Usher

hypem:
The Dears, Banjo or Freakout

Luisterpaal:
Paulusma, Rottz Vol. 2, Sean Rowe, The Skull Defects, Counquering Animal Sound, The Babies, Gruff Rhys, Semiomime, Bright Eyes, Pien Feith, Mogwai, Drive-By Truckers, The Twilight Singers, Sonic Youth, Win Win, Treefight for Sunlight, RB Djan, PJ Harvey, Austin Peralta

Asobi Seksu was so-so. Drive-By Truckers was great -- this is the third album of theirs I've heard, and with each new album I keep thinking I'll finally get sick of them, but I haven't yet.

JonInMiddleGA

02-15-2011, 06:15 PM

As a change of pace (since those do seem to occasionally be appreciated in this thread), here's a link to the Sleaze Roxx Readers Top 20 albums (http://www.sleazeroxx.com/bestof2010fan.shtml) of 2010.

Wouldn't normally drop a list in this thread but the vast majority of these I've spent a relatively decent bit of time listening to over the past year'ish & several still get some time from me. I figured the synopsis included with each entry might help the unfamiliar decide whether it was something worth checking out.

FTR, only three of my personal five (which is what reader's submitted) made the top 20. That would be Airbourne, Scorpions, and Accept. I also had A7X at #1 and Fozzy at #4.

Matthean

02-15-2011, 08:11 PM

What happens when Willow Smith's song "Whip My Hair" gets violated by Kreator's "Phobia."

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Marc Vaughan

02-15-2011, 08:29 PM

Three tunes which I've come across recently, the last two can be a bit risque - so you've been warned:

The Way It Seems - Rosco Wuestwald
This is a very acoustic track and really kinda neat imho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHvpRYidLAM

The Grant Spectacular - being a Di**heads cool
Its a fun upbeat track - simply a fun mickey take on being trendy, I tend to work out to tunes like this
(slightly dodgy lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

The Rubber Bandits - Horse Outside
This is an irish band, bit like the pogues with a touch of sex pistols ...
(very dodgy lyrics - you've been warned)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8

Drake

02-15-2011, 09:03 PM

Ksyrup

02-15-2011, 09:08 PM

New Protest the Hero comes out March 22nd:

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Matthean

02-16-2011, 06:49 AM

Holy Shit! I loved Burlap to Cashmere! I've still got Anybody Out There? in regular rotation on my playlist.

Are Philippidis and Delopoulos still involved, or is this a franchise reset?

Delopoulos released a solo album in the fall of 2007, originally titled As If Love Were A Sword but changed to Straightjacket (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straightjacket) before release. He and Philippidis are planning to make new music re-united as Burlap to Cashmere following that.
There were Winter/Spring 2007 dates for Burlap to Cashmere touring with Jars of Clay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jars_of_Clay) and NEEDTOBREATHE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEEDTOBREATHE), with Delopoulos and Philippidis performing an acoustic set as a duo. The two have since reunited with original drummer Theodore Pagano the rumored new Burlap to Cashmere album is well under way with its title track having recently been written. Burlap to Cashmere signed a deal with Sony Music Entertainment and are recording their new record with producer Mitchell Froom.
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Ksyrup

02-16-2011, 10:04 AM

Ksyrup

02-16-2011, 10:09 AM

What happens when Willow Smith's song "Whip My Hair" gets violated by Kreator's "Phobia."

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I'll have to show this to my daughter. She practically turns blue in the face singing along to this in the car. So the last time, I got so annoyed/bored by it that I started singing, "I wet my hair with a fork" over and over until she started laughing and the song mercifully ended.

Passacaglia

02-16-2011, 10:10 AM

JonInMiddleGA

02-16-2011, 10:18 AM

Have you heard the new Whitesnake song? Not bad at all, kinda harkens back to a combo of the Slide It In sound with the gloss of the Still of the Night era. Coverdale sounds good, but looks like an unnatural freak.

Heard it once to this point, didn't reach much of a conclusion on it at the time.

Listened again prompted by your question & I think I've put my finger on what threw me on the first listen. I come away from it feeling like the vocal doesn't quite go with the music. I like the groove of it, thought the vocal was solid & especially for this stage of his career (he'll be 60 later this year for crying out loud), but somehow the two things don't quite fit together exactly right. Maybe that's coming from the production, maybe it's something else, but whatever it is I think it throws me off from being able to complete sell out for it.

And Coverdale looks like Alice Cooper's half-brother after bad plastic surgery.

For the rest of the thread, here's the song in question Love Will Set You Free, from next week's release of "Forevermore" on Frontier Records (Italian label that's steadily resurrecting the 80's and early 90's)

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DeToxRox

02-16-2011, 12:01 PM

I don't listen to much new stuff anymore but I am digging the new Foo Fighters song "White Limo". Very much a throwback to their first record.

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Matthean

02-16-2011, 12:15 PM

Heard it once to this point, didn't reach much of a conclusion on it at the time.

Listened again prompted by your question & I think I've put my finger on what threw me on the first listen. I come away from it feeling like the vocal doesn't quite go with the music. I like the groove of it, thought the vocal was solid & especially for this stage of his career (he'll be 60 later this year for crying out loud), but somehow the two things don't quite fit together exactly right. Maybe that's coming from the production, maybe it's something else, but whatever it is I think it throws me off from being able to complete sell out for it.

And Coverdale looks like Alice Cooper's half-brother after bad plastic surgery.

For the rest of the thread, here's the song in question Love Will Set You Free, from next week's release of "Forevermore" on Frontier Records (Italian label that's steadily resurrecting the 80's and early 90's)

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I think it's Coverdale with a bunch of younger guys so it comes across as a cover band sound even with Coverdale singing lead. From just a musical standpoint, you won't pick it out as being Whitesnake. It's just another hard rock band. The song suffers from too much repetition as well.

JonInMiddleGA

02-16-2011, 12:39 PM

I think it's Coverdale with a bunch of younger guys

Reb Beach (48 in August) & Doug Aldridge (47) thank you for that ;)

Younger than, say, John Sykes or Adrian Vandenburg, but at worst it's a push in terms of ability to play the style. The drum slot is weaker but Cozy Powell is dead, Aynsley Dunbar is 65, and Tommy Aldridge is 61 & lost his last gig (Thin Lizzy) after breaking his collarbone in 2009. Original bassist Neal Murray has been gone from the group for more than 20 years, although Rudy Sarzo was stable as his replacement for most of a decade before they've gone through three in the past 5 years.

All of that though is mostly just par for the course with the band, which starting with Slide It In in 1984, never had the same lineup for two straight albums, and that album had a different lead guitarist for the UK vs US versions. The constant switching continue with 1987's Whitesnake where the album was recorded with one set of musicians (basically the '84 lineup) but the videos & tour were with a largely different cast.

In the end, I'm not sure that the sound difference you're hearing isn't mostly intentional and/or production driven. If you listen to a lot of the Frontier Records releases of the past few years, there's the same sort of thing on much of it, regardless of how many original members are left.

Ksyrup

02-16-2011, 01:25 PM

I picked it out as Whitesnake for sure. Almost a bit too much like some of the 80s stuff, actually. But for some older bands, that's a much better route to go in 2011 than trying to forge a new sound that fits in with what's currently in.

Drake

02-16-2011, 08:13 PM

Burlap to Cashmere stuff...

Thanks for all of this, man. I'm definitely looking forward to the new album now. You made my day. :)

Draft Dodger

02-17-2011, 06:07 PM

wow, Coverdale looks absolutely horrible

Young Drachma

02-18-2011, 04:08 AM

Revisiting Melancholy and The Infinite Sadness (Smashing Pumpkins) and realizing it came out 16 years ago. It holds up well, but I can't believe it was SIXTEEN years ago.

stevew

02-18-2011, 11:26 PM

All 2010 releases but I'm still digging Kanye's latest. I think the 5 star ratings hold up. Pink Friday by Nicky Minaj has a bunch of really good moments, but too much of it is forgettable. Kid Cudi's Man on the Moon2 is pretty uneven as well. I think he needs to cut back on the weed, as the first album just worked as some emo sci fi concept album. The new CD still has some top notch stuff on it.

JonInMiddleGA

02-19-2011, 01:13 AM

I'm getting the feeling I'm going to listen to a lot of Hinder's All American Nightmare for the rest of the year. I've liked every track from it I've heard so far & find myself liking the songs more each time I hear them.

Reminds me of a lot of the more-rock-than-metal good stuff from the 80's, just updated.

Recoil

02-19-2011, 01:28 AM

whomario

02-22-2011, 07:13 AM

Adele is soooo amazing, great 2nd album ("21") and deservedly having massive success with it, which has only been aided further by a stellar performance at the Brit Awards :

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if embedding doesn´t work again, here´s the normal link :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZtUjFJvYkA&feature=player_embedded

also a big "thank you" to Easy Mac for compiling the streams :)

FrogMan

02-22-2011, 11:46 AM

Adele is soooo amazing, great 2nd album ("21") and deservedly having massive success with it, which has only been aided further by a stellar performance at the Brit Awards :

if embedding doesn´t work again, here´s the normal link :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZtUjFJvYkA&feature=player_embedded

also a big "thank you" to Easy Mac for compiling the streams :)

I wanted to comment about Hometown Glory when you posted about it because I've been in love with that song ever since seeing a dance group from my wife's dance studio do a number to it. Just listened to the one linked here and goosebumps... That was a very emotional performance. Will be probably getting this and her first album.

Other than that, been listening to some stuff from before 2011 but that is new to me. Among those, The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place from Explosions in the Sky while playing FMHi2011 and also from B.o.B, The Adventures of Bobby Ray.

FM

Butter

02-23-2011, 10:40 AM

PJ Harvey's new album is REALLY good.

Easy Mac

02-23-2011, 11:38 AM

also a big "thank you" to Easy Mac for compiling the streams :)

Thanks. This weeks big dump, a day late:

Spinner (http://www.spinner.com/new-releases)
Adele, Johnny Cash, The Cave Singers, Colin Stetson, Darwin Deez, James Yuill, Malachi, Earth Girl Helen Brown, Los Chicharrons, Phil Spector, Darlene Love, The Crystals, The Ronettes, Tera Melos, The Builders and the Butchers, Katie Costello, G. Love, Yellowbirds, Tahiti 80, Innerpartyststem, Billy Preston

hypem (http://hypem.com/#!/artist/Lykke Li)
Lykke Li

First Listen : NPR (http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen)
Papercuts, Lucinda Williams, Anna Calvi

3VOOR12 - Luisterpaal (http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/)
De Staat, Juliana Barwick, Sir Randall, Dropkick Murphys, Stephan Bodzin, Long Distance Calling, Enemy Earth, Ghostpoet, Sic Alps, Earth, The Luyas, Delicate Steve, Chain & the Gang, Low Vertical, Discodeine, The Psychic Paramount, Gil-Scott Herron, The Cave Singers, Nicholas Jarr, The Low Anthem, Tim Hecker, Secret Handshake Club, Ringo Death Star, Le Corps Mince de Francoise, Pandit, Stateless, Arbouretum, Moddi, Asobi Seksu, A Hawk and a Hacksaw

AOL Music (http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/#/1)
Adele, Bayside, Johnny Cash, Darkest Hour, Drew Seeley, Evergrey, Joell Ortiz, John Waite, Rachel Goodrich, Red City Radio, The Defaced, Tino Coury, Timo Tolkki, Katie Costello, Water and Bodies, Glee Episode 14

Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority (http://exclaim.ca/#albumoftheweek)
The Rural Alberta Advantage

ISiddiqui

02-23-2011, 01:50 PM

Easy Mac

02-25-2011, 01:28 PM

Urban Outfitter's latest 25 song indie sampler: Urban Outfitters - Music - LSTN #13 (http://lstn.urbanoutfitters.com/13/)

Easy Mac

03-01-2011, 06:30 AM

Ksyrup

03-01-2011, 08:35 AM

Who the heck does INXS have singing for them now? I assume the reality-star-turned-homeless-guy is still homeless.

Easy Mac

03-01-2011, 04:01 PM

seems he's back

samifan24

03-01-2011, 04:40 PM

The Beady Eye album came out today aka Oasis minus Noel. Not bad so far. Liam's songwriting has come a very long way.

Young Drachma

03-03-2011, 12:53 AM

Young Drachma

03-04-2011, 03:17 AM

BYU 14

03-04-2011, 08:06 AM

A friend sent one of Hayseed Dixies videos to me and as appalled as I was at first they have grown on me......Poor Lemmy

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JonInMiddleGA

03-04-2011, 08:07 AM

A friend sent one of Hayseed Dixies videos to me and as appalled as I was at first they have grown on me......Poor Lemmy

Some twisted dudes right there, been listening to them for years although to be honest I think the novelty of them kind of wore off with me. Talented musicians though, which they come by honestly (2 members are the sons of bluegrass legend Don Reno)

BYU 14

03-04-2011, 08:12 AM

Some twisted dudes right there, been listening to them for years although to be honest I think the novelty of them kind of wore off with me. Talented musicians though, which they come by honestly (2 members are the sons of bluegrass legend Don Reno)

LOL, yeah they are a bit off, but I agree, talented guys that found a niche 99% of us would never think to explore. I will definitely try to catch them next time they come out to Phoenix.

Ksyrup

03-04-2011, 08:28 AM

seems he's back

Ha, yep! JD Fortune. That's a name I haven't heard since... the homeless articles, I guess.

JonInMiddleGA

03-04-2011, 04:07 PM

Hey, whaddya know? 5 songs I'm listening to this afternoon are vid linked on the blog in a new 5 o'clock Whistle. Got Danko Jones, got Saliva, a trip back with Dangerous Toys & more.
Friday 5 o’clock Whistle (3/4/11) | Jon's Three Cents (http://jonsthreecents.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/friday-5-oclock-whistle-3411/)

DrAFTjunkie

03-04-2011, 07:19 PM

JonInMiddleGA

03-04-2011, 09:31 PM

LOL @ Dangerous Toys.

Of the bands I met or at least had brushes with back in the day, none were any nicer & more normal than these guys. Ugly bunch of mothers, but very cool.

Ksyrup

03-04-2011, 10:35 PM

Most amazing thing about Dangerous Toys was finding out that the lead singer was formerly in progressive metal band Watchtower and almost ended up in Pantera (replacing the guy who eventually ended up in Lord Tracy),

FrogMan

03-05-2011, 07:11 AM

been listening a bit to Slash's new solo effort with a bunch of different singers. Very interesting, liking it a lot.

FM

Easy Mac

03-08-2011, 06:22 AM

Passacaglia

03-08-2011, 10:02 AM

Thanks again, Easy. My first impressions of The Do's new album are positive.

Young Drachma

03-10-2011, 11:51 PM

I've been enjoying the following LPs:

Rival Schools - Pedals
Wye Oak - Civilian
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx - We're New Here (a remix of Gil Scott-Heron's album from last year "I'm New Here")
Loch Lomond - Little Me Will Start A Storm
The Builders & The Butchers - Dead Reckoning
Ellie Goulding - Lights (I didn't expect to like this)

DataKing

03-11-2011, 11:40 AM

Given the date, I think I'll listen to a little 311 this afternoon...

JonInMiddleGA

03-11-2011, 04:04 PM

Another Friday, another 5 o'clock Whistle ... including the new Seether from their forthcoming album, classic AC/DC, Warrant, Alice Cooper, and some Avenged Sevenfold & Alter Bridge to go with the Seether since I picked up tickets today for their May 5th appearance in Atlanta. Cinco de RockYourAssOff Mayo baby :)

http://jonsthreecents.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/friday-5-oclock-whistle-31111/

Easy Mac

03-15-2011, 06:31 AM

Julio Riddols

03-15-2011, 10:43 AM

Reptar the band: http://www.myspace.com/reptarathens (The only place I know of to find more than one of their songs at this point. Very nice.)

Matthean

03-16-2011, 05:54 PM

Peter Bradley Adams's sampler CD can be streamed at Noisetrade. He's one half of the former duo named eastmountainsouth, who only made one album, but it's my favorite one shot album by an artist. He's early stuff post break up was ok, but I'm liking this a lot.

https://www.noisetrade.com/peterbradleyadams#

Passacaglia

03-16-2011, 09:04 PM

Ksyrup

03-16-2011, 09:14 PM

I guess this would explain why I don't listen to disposable pop music, because that song is virtually indistinguishable from every other tween-directed pop song I've heard. I don't like it, but it doesn't sound any worse than most of the other stuff I hear on Radio Disney. I can't tell the difference between the shit and the supposed high quality stuff. That song is certainly not on the Chocolate rain level, though.

DataKing

03-16-2011, 09:31 PM

path12

03-17-2011, 12:01 AM

You are listening to Los Angeles (http://youarelisteningtolosangeles.com/)

Two simultaneous streams -- one random ambient tracks, the other live LAPD radio traffic. It fascinates me.

Easy Mac

03-17-2011, 09:20 AM

Can't believe no one has posted this yet:

Is YouTube Sensation Rebecca Black's "Friday" The Worst Song Ever? - Video Ga Ga (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/videogaga/71429/is-youtube-sensation-rebecca-blacks-friday-the-worst-song-ever/)

I was going to wait until it's Friday, Friday. Then we could have fun, fun, fun, fun as we look forward to the weekend.

I'm just amazed they couldn't find a songwriter who could rhyme in the slightest. Even the "rapper" doesn't bother rhyming.

Ksyrup

03-17-2011, 11:01 AM

That's because when you are trying to communicate a message, a true artist doesn't feel constrained by the silly conventions of typical song structure. :D

Fidatelo

03-17-2011, 11:05 AM

Ye gods is that ever bad! Are we sure it isn't a parody? It feels like a parody.

Easy Mac

03-17-2011, 11:28 AM

That's because when you are trying to communicate a message, a true artist doesn't feel constrained by the silly conventions of typical song structure. :D

So she's like the ELO of pop music

Matthean

03-17-2011, 03:53 PM

Ye gods is that ever bad! Are we sure it isn't a parody? It feels like a parody.

Nope. It's a company out in Cal., Ark Music Factory, that is basically taking young kids who have big dreams of stardom and then trying to see if any of them can catch on like Bieber.

Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide (http://gizmodo.com/#!5781802/the-music-factory-thats-creating-the-worlds-saddest-teen-music)

Matthean

03-17-2011, 03:56 PM

To make up for it, and this may have even been posted before, but it's worthy of a repost.

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Ksyrup

03-18-2011, 08:58 AM

So she's like the ELO of pop music

ELO is pop music.

Young Drachma

03-20-2011, 03:32 PM

Nope. It's a company out in Cal., Ark Music Factory, that is basically taking young kids who have big dreams of stardom and then trying to see if any of them can catch on like Bieber.

Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide (http://gizmodo.com/#!5781802/the-music-factory-thats-creating-the-worlds-saddest-teen-music)

#10 song in Britain this week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/indiesingles

Matthean

03-20-2011, 04:19 PM

#10 song in Britain this week.

BBC - Radio 1 - The Official Chart with Reggie Yates - UK Top 30 Indie Singles Chart (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/indiesingles)

Considering what's on the chart, I don't give it any credibility.

Passacaglia

03-20-2011, 06:43 PM

George Michael has a cover of True Faith?!?! How did I not hear about this before?

path12

03-21-2011, 06:53 PM

ELO is pop music.

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JonInMiddleGA

03-22-2011, 06:57 AM

I can picture Axl Rose doing this cover 30 years ago.
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Ksyrup

03-22-2011, 07:01 AM

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Rock and roll can be, and often is, pop music. I don't know what the point of that was, other than to highlight that Randy Newman can't sing.

path12

03-22-2011, 09:02 AM

Rock and roll can be, and often is, pop music. I don't know what the point of that was, other than to highlight that Randy Newman can't sing.

It's about ELO and I think it's a fun song. Lighten up, Francis.

Ksyrup

03-22-2011, 09:13 AM

OK. I didn't really get the song, so I wasn't sure what the purpose was.

Passacaglia

03-22-2011, 09:52 AM

George Michael has a cover of True Faith?!?! How did I not hear about this before?

Finally giving this a listen now. Thumbs down.

whomario

03-23-2011, 02:55 PM

Young Drachma

03-23-2011, 03:57 PM

Matthean

03-23-2011, 09:40 PM

Finally giving this a listen now. Thumbs down.

It came across as being auto tuned to hell.

Suicane75

03-23-2011, 10:24 PM

I really like the new Bright Eyes album.

path12

03-24-2011, 07:36 PM

I really like the new Bright Eyes album.

It's growing on me, I didn't think much of it at first.

Also listening to the new Cave Singers disc and remastered versions of the first two The Books discs -- Thought for Food and Lost and Safe.

I thought James Blake would be right up my alley but so far its not clicking.

But mostly I've been listening to You Are Listening to Los Angeles (http://youarelistening.to/chicago) most every night this past couple weeks....well, the Chicago feed anyway.

JonInMiddleGA

04-01-2011, 04:21 PM

Got a new 5 o'clock whistle up on the blog
Friday 5 o’clock Whistle (4/1/11) | Jon's Three Cents (http://jonsthreecents.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/friday-5-oclock-whistle-4111/)

Fits the "what am I listening to" well with 5 newer bands/newer songs from
Black Stone Cherry, Adelita's Way, Halestorm, Pop Evil, and a band I hadn't heard (or heard of) until today, West Virginia based Bobaflex

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DataKing

04-01-2011, 04:37 PM

Really liking this one by AWOLNATION...
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JonInMiddleGA

04-01-2011, 04:46 PM

Really liking this one by AWOLNATION...

First few notes, I thought they were covering Foreigner's Cold As Ice ;)

bob

04-01-2011, 06:37 PM

The new Foo Fighters album is streaming at their website:

Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (http://wastinglight.foofighters.com/)

JonInMiddleGA

04-02-2011, 12:37 AM

I can't believe I never thought of listening to Eddie Trunk's Friday night show on Q104 in NYC until tonight.

Great stuff, as good a three hours of radio as I've ever heard basically, in spite of the fact that his producer was basically unconscious (aka passed out drunk) after the Trunk book release party at the Hard Rock earlier in the night.

Friday nights, 11p-2a eastern at Q104.3 - New York's Classic Rock (http://www.q1043.com/)
If you like hard rock/metal, you'll love this stuff.

Ksyrup

04-02-2011, 04:34 AM

He's got a show on XM every Monday night from 6-10 on Da Boneyard. I rarely hear it because I'm rarely in the car at that time, but from what I've heard, it's basically the same thing.

Ksyrup

04-03-2011, 12:18 PM

I can't decide whether Hawksley Workman or Jon Crosby is the coolest motherfucker on the planet right now. I guess they're like 1A and 1B in my book.

Not new, just some music I'm groovin' to today. The second song is probably my unofficial theme song with my wife and kids in Florida until next Sunday.

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http://<IFRAME title="YouTube video player" height=390 src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rd2RhkT1Cj8" frameBorder=0 width=480 allowfullscreen></IFRAME> (http://<iframe title=)

Easy Mac

04-04-2011, 10:19 AM

I've been a bit slack on my weekly album streams, but in case I don't get to this week... new Panda Bear on NPR's first listen

First Listen : NPR (http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen)

Easy Mac

04-05-2011, 01:03 PM

Passacaglia

04-05-2011, 04:20 PM

New TV on the Radio is streaming

TV On the Radio â€“ Nine Types of Light: exclusive album stream | Music | guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/apr/05/tv-radio-nine-types-light)

Sweet, I'll have to listen to this tomorrow. I really dug the Maximum Balloon album last year, and hopefully this is just as good.

Young Drachma

04-13-2011, 05:47 PM

Lots of new stuff out today that I've been listening to including TVOTR's Nine Types of Light of course. It's good and I think it should be well received. It's not fitting my music mood right now, so I'll probably spend more time with it later.

New LP from Alison Krauss & Union Station (Paper Airplane) but I'll probably be overplaying Vivian Girls (Share The Joy) and Crystal Stilts (In Love With Oblivion) for the next bit. I
found a Norweigian band that I'd never heard before called Madrugada and have been enjoying i a lot.

kurtism

04-19-2011, 07:21 AM

Bunch of new stuff on AOL/Spinner. The new Del the Funky Homosapien is well worth a spin: AOL Music (http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/#/5)

Fidatelo

04-19-2011, 09:34 AM

kurtism

04-19-2011, 09:48 AM

I've been really into Ruckus Roboticus lately. Here are a couple of my favorite cuts from his Bandcamp site:

Pushy - Pushy | Ruckus Roboticus (http://ruckusroboticus.bandcamp.com/track/pushy)

Everlasting Ghettoblasting Gobstopper - Everlasting Ghettoblasting Gobstopper | Ruckus Roboticus (http://ruckusroboticus.bandcamp.com/track/everlasting-ghettoblasting-gobstopper)

Have you listened to the album he produced for Adam Warrock?

The War For Infinity (Deluxe Edition) | Adam WarRock (http://adamwarrock.bandcamp.com/album/the-war-for-infinity-deluxe-edition)

Fidatelo

04-19-2011, 01:39 PM

Have you listened to the album he produced for Adam Warrock?

The War For Infinity (Deluxe Edition) | Adam WarRock (http://adamwarrock.bandcamp.com/album/the-war-for-infinity-deluxe-edition)

I have now! Thanks for the link!

JonInMiddleGA

04-20-2011, 01:24 PM

Local newspaper hyped a fairly new website today, seemed like something that folks in this thread might enjoy.

Rank your favorite songs by your favorite artists | Rank 'em (http://gorankem.com/)

Basically you register & then rank up to 20 favorite songs from your favorite artists. Those are compiled & then, for example, if you wondered what songs you should check out from an unfamiliar artist then you'd be able to get recommendations from others who like that artist. The track listings aren't perfect (entire new EP from Halestorm missing for example, just one I spot checked) and the versions available to be ranked are curious to say the least (several live bootlegs from Ratt are listed, tracks from the original album are missing) but considering the scope, it isn't really terrible.

Personally I don't know how useful the site would be for actually finding new music but that's the theory behind it. I figure at worst it's a reasonably interesting time waster, especially when you start trying to figure out which song to drop or keep in at #20 when it's an artist that you've followed for decades.

edit to add: I'm registered as JonsThreeCents

Young Drachma

04-20-2011, 01:58 PM

Lester Bangs' Basement
What it means to have all music instantly available.

http://www.slate.com/id/2291532/

stevew

04-22-2011, 11:47 PM

Young Drachma

04-23-2011, 12:19 AM

Anyone got Plan B's "Defamation of Strickland Banks"? I guess he was the hot shit in Europe and just got released in the US. Best I can tell is that it's like a bastard lovechild of Jamiroquai, Cee Lo and MIA. But rolling stone trashed it in reviews and I'm torn on whether or not to buy it.

Listening to it right now on rdio. Never heard of him before. (I guess that embed is only going to play excerpts if you don't have an account, but you can do a free trial with no credit card if you wanna check it out)

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So far, it doesn't sound terrible. Here's one of the reviews from the site from a person I follow:

I disagree it's "distressing to hear yet another artist hop about the retro-stylized British soul-pop bandwagon" as stated in the review. That bandwagon has been rolling since the 60s, when it wasn't "retro" at all, but a contemporary homage to the sounds the Brits heard coming out of Motown. Northern Soul, anyone? It's been a pervasive, ongoing, and huge influence on British pop ever since. Nothing new or opportunistic about it.

Anyway, this album is fairly pleasant. Plan B sings in a Smokey Robinson falsetto, with some raps, and does not embarrass himself doing it. That's one thing I've always really liked about the British take on American soul-pop -- they do it with commitment.

To me, it sounds more like Daniel Merriweather meets a more pop version of Jamie Cullum sans pianos.

Easy Mac

04-25-2011, 09:56 AM

New albums from Fleet Foxes and The Antlers are streaming on NPR. Halfway through the Fleet Foxes album. Don't really re-invent the wheel, but if you enjoy them, you'll enjoy this. I'm fairly so-so on them. I enjoy it, but for the most part they don't enter into my steady rotation (except Mykonos).

First Listen : NPR (http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen)

kurtism

04-25-2011, 02:58 PM

Two good links for today:

Grace Potter sings Beyonce:
Grace Potter Belts Out Beyonce - Mashup Mondays | Billboard.com (http://www.billboard.com/column/mashupmondays/grace-potter-belts-out-beyonce-1005152602.story#/column/mashupmondays/grace-potter-belts-out-beyonce-1005152602.story)

Beastie Boys release stream of new album:
BEASTIE BOYS HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART TWO (http://hotsaucecommittee.com/)

Young Drachma

04-25-2011, 03:11 PM

JonInMiddleGA

04-25-2011, 03:43 PM

Kinda randomly, I'm in a run of "not listening" at the moment. Awfully weak batch of rock singles at the moment, not a lot of new album releases that have truly captured my fancy either. One of the deader stretches of music I can recall in at least a year, probably closer to two years now. Just a lot of "eh" if not downright "meh".

Kind of odd about the what's being pushed to radio at the moment too, this time of year is usually more uptempo that what's getting played/released right now. Instead, it's a run of mid-tempo or less & that just seems like entirely the wrong mood. Maybe we'll have a great May or even June to get things rolling again.

sabotai

04-26-2011, 11:53 PM

The new Airborne Toxic Event album, All At Once, released today (well, yesterday as I write this). This is the first time in at least a decade that I bought a CD on the day it was released.

kurtism

04-27-2011, 09:07 AM

Nighty Night | Amanda Palmer (http://music.amandapalmer.net/album/nighty-night)

Ben Folds, Damon Kulash, Amanda Palmer, and Neil Gaiman created these six songs in one day for charity. Pretty interesting stuff from some of my favorite artists (particularly Ben Folds and Neil Gaiman).

whomario

04-28-2011, 08:46 AM

new Explosions In The Sky is out (titled take care, take care, take care ). Little different approach in that the structure develops a little faster within the songs (if that makes any sense ...), some vocal-like snippets and even a short single-type song of just 3 1/2 minutes, but overall same old EITS sound which i don´t mind quite frankly, gives me chills and after 4 years it´s nice to have some new sounds to play in my head :)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F0QsjIflZw (the shorter track named "Trembling Hands")

Butter

05-04-2011, 08:12 AM

Two thumbs up on the new Beastie Boys album.

Ksyrup

05-04-2011, 08:19 AM

Incredibly stoked for this one, a long time coming:

http://<IFRAME height=349 src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KVAxGQX9ZZg" frameBorder=0 width=560 allowfullscreen></IFRAME> (http://<iframe width=)

AENeuman

05-06-2011, 12:29 PM

The Drums It is as if Joy Division and The Smiths had a child. Friend went to Coachella and said they stole the day.

korme

05-08-2011, 02:19 PM

MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA
SIMPLE MATH

Easy Mac

05-08-2011, 03:22 PM

The Drums It is as if Joy Division and The Smiths had a child. Friend went to Coachella and said they stole the day.

Get the EP. I think the album as all the same songs, or most of them, but it was just filler.

If you like The Drums, you'll like Beach Fossils latest EP. It's like the Dums, but a little slower and more reverb.

Easy Mac

05-08-2011, 03:24 PM

The new Okkervil River and Wild Beasts are streaming on luisterpaal.

Easy Mac

05-10-2011, 12:10 PM

First off, sign up for an invite to google music (https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=sj&passive=1209600&continue=http://music.google.com/music/listen&followup=http://music.google.com/music/listen). If accepted, you can upload up to 20,000 songs and listen anywhere (as long as you have flash and/or an android phone). It supports FLAC, so it automatically hops to the top of my list (nice that I don't have to convert my 9500 flacs to mp3).

<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mhViRRmCvTI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Spinner (http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/4)
Fleet Foxes, Manchester Orchestra, Raphael Saadiq, Bridesmaids, The Antlers, Okkervil River, The Cars, Booker T. Jones, Beastie Boys, Lee Scratch Perry, Wild Beasts, Ben Sollee, The Felice Brothers, Yael Naim, Man Man, Sloan, Balkans, Psychadelic Horseshit, Warren Haynes, Colourmusic, Joan of Arc, Sam Roberts Band, Bill Well & Aidan Moffat, Delay Trees, El Obo, EMA, The Wilderness of Manitoba, Le Butcherettes, Moving Mountains, Other Lives, Pulseprogramming, Ravishers, Pearl & the Beard, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library

AOL music (http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds#/1)
Bridesmaids, Raphael Saadiq, Beastie Boys, Hugo, Urge Overkill, Christopher Cross, Lee Scratch Perry, The Cars, Booker T. Jones, Warren Haynes, Yael Naim, Sparks the Rescue, Black Label Society, Balance and Composure, Clutch, D-Block, Farewell Continental, Oh No Fiasco, OhGr, Kafani, SKOLD, Sarah Fimm, Hafdis Huld, Moonshine Bandits, Glee - Prom Queen

NPR (http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen)
Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi, The Book of Mormon, JD Allen Trio, Austra

Luisterpaal (http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/)
Gabby Young and Other Animals, Eredivisie, Who Made Who, Mick Harvey, The Wombats, Krystl, Hokie Joint, Secret Cinema, Dennis Coffey, Young the Giant, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, Gang Gang Dance, Gavin Friday, Africa HiTech, Miles Kane, Rebekka Karijord, Ezekiel Honig, Man Man, Dominik Eulberg, I Am Oak, Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi

Fleet Foxes Concert tonight (http://www.npr.org/2011/05/10/136144278/live-tuesday-fleet-foxes-in-concert)

Friendly Fires (http://hypem.com/#!/artist/Friendly Fires)

Let's Wrestle (http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/paste_station?station_track=track_23332_3823&mode=normal)

Africa Hitech (http://africahitech.com/)

Balance & Composure (http://www.balanceandcomposure.com/)

path12

05-11-2011, 09:44 PM

It's not new at all, and I usually hate things that are labeled as "beatle-esque", but damned if Dusk at Cubist Castle by Olivia Tremor Control isn't just that. Really awesome.

And thanks for the heads up on the Tally Hall, ksyrup. Looking forward to that too.

samifan24

05-12-2011, 11:16 PM

I've been enchanted by Adele's sophomore album, "21," for the last few weeks. Here are the two singles:

"Rolling in the Deep"
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"Someone Like You"
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FrogMan

05-13-2011, 11:40 AM

I've been enchanted by Adele's sophomore album, "21," for the last few weeks. Here are the two singles:

same for me, discovered her through Hometown Glory, then picked up 19 just before 21 came out and finally picked up and started to listen to 21 a few weeks ago too and I've loved it a great deal. Lots of soul in that voice.

Did you see her on Dancing with the Stars this past Tuesday? Was kinda neat. My wife knew about nothing about her and she had to agree that her voice is something special.

FM

Butter

05-13-2011, 06:28 PM

Of the 20 albums I have gotten this year that are from 2011, here is how I am ranking them.

1. Fleet Foxes
2. PJ Harvey (but this is a CLOSE #2)
3. Tennis
4. John Vanderslice
5. Tune-Yards
6. The Strokes
7. Radiohead
8. Panda Bear
9. Here We Go Magic
10. Lykke Li
11. Smith Westerns
12. The Kills
13. Beastie Boys
14. Yuck

Unremarkable: REM, Klaxons, Gil Scott-Heron (XX remix), ...Trail of Dead, La Sera, Vivian Girls

Man, I have been trying HARD to love the new Radiohead, but it just fades into the background every time I listen to it. If you do not have the new Fleet Foxes or PJ Harvey yet, I plead with you to check them out, at least a little bit. Fleet Foxes is not much of a progression from their last album, but it is just enough that I absolutely love it. And PJ Harvey, I have never really liked much outside of a single here or there, but this album just fits together so well. It is truly outstanding.

As far as Tennis goes, it reminds me some of The Sundays. Bouncy, light songs that get in and out. The singing and songwriting is nowhere near that level, but it is an album of solid, fun pop songs.

John Vanderslice... if you've ever liked his music, the incorporation of an orchestra really fits in well with his style.

Tune-Yards is growing on me... only 2-3 songs now are actively skippable. That odd experimentation in the songs takes some getting used to, but I am there and really enjoying it.

The Strokes are getting not very good reviews for Angles, and while they don't really tread much into new territory, I like this album more than any of theirs since their debut.

Past #10, my recommendations get kinda meh, and I really haven't revisited the "unremarkable" pile since my first impressions of them.

Young Drachma

05-13-2011, 06:55 PM

Easy Mac

05-13-2011, 09:18 PM

God I hate that Tennis album the more I hear it.

My top five at nearly the halfway mark would be Fleet Foxes, The Dodos, Beach Fossils, Smith Westerns, and Cut Copy. 2010 was a much better year for music. I think only Fleet Foxes may have even gotten into my top 10 from all of last year.

I haven't really listened to the Strokes, TVoTR, or Okkervil River much yet, but they all seemed a step down from their last albums. In my brief listen, the new Wild Beasts sounds pretty good. The antlers whole album sounds like a Radiohead B side.

Ksyrup

05-16-2011, 02:23 PM

These guys make the best videos these days - this is for a new song:

http://<IFRAME height=349 src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zo8NFrmQ_S0" frameBorder=0 width=560 allowfullscreen></IFRAME> (http://<iframe width=)

Last album:

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korme

05-16-2011, 02:32 PM

kurtism

05-17-2011, 07:21 AM

New Adam Warrock EP out today. Free preview at This Man... This Emcee! | Adam WarRock (http://adamwarrock.bandcamp.com/album/this-man-this-emcee)

JonInMiddleGA

05-17-2011, 09:21 AM

2011 Uproar Tour lineup released. Not bad at all, except I really think A7x probably needs to come off the road for a bit.

From the press release ...
Rockstar Energy Main Stage:
Avenged Sevenfold
Three Days Grace
Seether
Bullet For My Valentine
Escape The Fate

Best Buy Music Gear Stage:
Sevendust
Black Tide
Art of Dying
Back Cloud Collective

Catch it 8/26-10/15. Cities, venues and ticket information will be announced soon!

Easy Mac

05-23-2011, 06:17 AM

So you survived the rapture? Why don't you listen to some new music.

NPR (http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen)
Death Cab for Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Cults, and Los Tigres Del Norte.

Pastehttp://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2011/05/album-stream-art-brut---brilliant-tragic.html
Art Brut

Butter

05-23-2011, 06:44 AM

I haven't really listened to the Strokes, TVoTR, or Okkervil River much yet, but they all seemed a step down from their last albums. In my brief listen, the new Wild Beasts sounds pretty good. The antlers whole album sounds like a Radiohead B side.

I thought the Wild Beasts album sounds like a Hercules and Love Affair session gone bad. Just not what I was expecting.

stevew

05-23-2011, 02:26 PM

Lady Gaga's new CD for .99 today only on Amazon. The download traffic is so extreme that it's crushing their servers. I wonder what the projection for first week sales is for her new CD.....gotta be like a million plus.

JonInMiddleGA

05-23-2011, 03:16 PM

Lady Gaga's new CD for .99 today only on Amazon.

And yet still overpriced

Butter

05-23-2011, 03:26 PM

I bet you feel like an idiot if you bought it full price.

Or just bought it at all. But especially at full price.

JonInMiddleGA

05-23-2011, 03:33 PM

I bet you feel like an idiot if you bought it full price. Or just bought it at all. But especially at full price.

I can almost guarantee that my FB wall will see a post by tomorrow that explains how this one particular friend paid full price because she didn't want to cut into Gaga's revenue by getting it so cheaply & she'll have her little monster paw completely up about it. Nice gal otherwise, just completely irrational when it comes to this one particular "artist".

Of course nothing I just said changes or even dilutes your original point ;)

Matthean

05-23-2011, 09:20 PM

And yet still overpriced

This.

Ksyrup

05-25-2011, 10:17 AM

New Fountains of Wayne song:

Fountains Of Wayne – “Richie & Ruben” (Stereogum Premiere) - Stereogum (http://stereogum.com/710891/fountains-of-wayne-richie-ruben-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/)

Scoobz0202

05-29-2011, 09:11 AM

Easy Mac

06-01-2011, 09:31 AM

Some streams for the week:

Battles - Glass Drop (http://soundcloud.com/warp-records/sets/battles-gloss-drop/s-Jdxcf)

Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See (http://t.co/uguEHuP)

NPR First Listen (http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen)
F-cked Up, Givers, Tombs, Eddie Vedder

Spinner (http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/1)
My Morning Jacket, The Vaccines, Cults, Black Lips, Ozzy Osbourne, The Melvins, Ocote Soul Sounds, Robert Pollard, The Black Swans, Robert Fairfield, The Macrotunes, Poison Control Center, Hospital Ships, SebastiAn

AOL Music (http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds#/1)
Jordan Knight, Ozzy Osbourne, Beginners Soundtrack, Flogging Molly, PFC2, The Melvins, Wharf Rats, Egypt Central, James Torme, JD Souther, Julie Feeney, The Orphan/The Poet, Pagans Mind, Gabby Young and Other Animals, USX, Marty Party, Leftover Cuties, Messy May, Rappin 4-Tay

Woods - Sun & Shade (http://soundcloud.com/alteredzones/sets/woods-sun-and-shade/s-nR5vZ)

Lots of Music (http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/)

kurtism

06-21-2011, 02:23 PM

New Tally Hall streaming in its entirety for a brief period at Good & Evil Preview / Theme Song Contest (http://www.tallyhall.com/goodandevil/)

JonInMiddleGA

06-21-2011, 02:27 PM

JD Souther

He's still alive?

(Not a shot at the guy, I guess I'm just surprised if he's still around, haven't thought about that name in years)

Rizon

06-21-2011, 02:29 PM

JonInMiddleGA

06-21-2011, 02:32 PM

Not listening to yet, but currently looking forward to hearing the debut of Adrenaline Mob, the just-announced new project featuring Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater), Russell Allen (Symphony X), Rich Ward (Stuck Mojo/Fozzy), guitar virtuoso Mike Orlando, and bassist Paul DiLeo (Nena, Billy Joel).

Samples were released on their FB page (http://www.facebook.com/adrenalinemob) yesterday but you gotta "like" the page & check the Welcome tab to hear 'em.

Scoobz0202

06-21-2011, 03:07 PM

Rizon, you are a horrible person.

:)

Rizon

06-21-2011, 03:10 PM

Rizon, you are a horrible person.

:)

Nah ... if I was a horrible person I would have posted one of her ... not so better ... songs. And yes, she has songs much worse than that. She makes Rebecca Black sound like pre-crackalack Whitney Houston. :D

stevew

06-21-2011, 03:23 PM

I'm depressed that at age 35 I'd have to wait on a 1 year old in order to get to that magical 51yr old/16 yr old thing that chick has going on

Matthean

06-21-2011, 03:48 PM

Matthean

06-21-2011, 03:50 PM

JonInMiddleGA

06-21-2011, 04:05 PM

Samples tend to be a little too short

Yeah, I thought so too, you kind of have to work at it to get a lot from them ... and the whole "randoms clips from 3-4 songs mixed up out of sequence" thing was a bit overdone for my taste.

and it falls in the copy/paste metal sound, but it's still done well enough to stand out.

I thought the guitar work was interesting, the drums were clearly Portnoy, and the thing that appealed to me most was the 80'seque/melodic rock harmony that we got a glimpse of a couple of times. That's something that actually isn't used hardly at all today outside of some prog rock/metal & retreaded melodic rock artists, so it had some real appeal to me.

JonInMiddleGA

06-24-2011, 10:47 PM

1st cut from the forthcoming new Anthrax album is available for free d'load from their website

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whomario

06-27-2011, 05:01 PM

best cover song i´ve heard all year and of a brilliant original (Phoenix - Lisztomania) no less :

<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vCsf3BvcgsI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

JonInMiddleGA

06-27-2011, 05:31 PM

Free d'load of full album from light post-grunge band Abused Romance. Not earthshaking but I figured free was free, especially for our musicphiles. Ran across them pretty randomly, checking the weekly active rock chart & spotted them at #48, did a little Googling and voila.

Hit their FB page for linkage
Incompatible Browser | Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/AbusedRomance)
(seemed easier to find on their FB than on their website

Ksyrup

07-01-2011, 05:16 AM

Wow, what a stunner. New Opeth record, which comes out in September, is totally free of death/harsh vocals and is heavy on the 70s prog sound (no real stunner there, though). It features a clarinet solo. I'm not sure what to think. Ten years ago, I would have said this is the only way I'd llisten to them, free from death metal vocals. Now, though, I feel differently, as I've grown to accept the sound and particularly with this band, how well it initegrates into the music and really highlights the heavy/soft dynamics in the music.

I hope this gives them a better shot at a wider audience, though, because they are the best band on the planet right now, IMO. At least I'll be able to play something other than Damnation in the car when I'm with the family...

Opeth are no strangers to stepping far away from their death metal sound, what with writing the chilled-out progressive rock album Damnation and having the odd song here or there void of any sort of death metal influence. Opeth have always carried a classic prog rock influence about them, which definitely came out in the album artwork for their upcoming album Heritage (above), leading many to speculate that the album might further explore those 70′s rock influences. Now, it would appear as though Opeth mastermind Mikael Akerfeldt is done with the death metal sound and went all out classic progressive rock on Heritage.

This weekend during my regular perusal of the internets, I came across this particular post (http://www.reddit.com/r/progmetal/comments/hrscy/mikael_bored_of_death_metal_since_90s_and_its/) on the Prog Metal sub-Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/progmetal/) that links to Finnish metal zine Inferno (http://www.inferno.fi/blogi-opeth-heritage-ilm-20-9-4914/), where one particular writer attended a press listening party of the album. Here’s my paraphrasing of the good bits from Google’s translation (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inferno.fi%2Fblogi-opeth-heritage-ilm-20-9-4914%2F). If I’m off base here, let me know:The album was presented in 5.1 surround sound “for the first time, until today. I didn’t even know they presented it to journalists in surround sound. I had my doubts, but the end result gave me goosebumps, “said Mikael Åkerfeldt. The album is about 56 minutes in length, and a lot happens in that time frame—it all feels very tight. The following things came to mind, among others: Black Sabbath, The Beatles, jazz, King Crimson, Cream, Rainbow, Floyd, funk, Purple, Piirpauke, classical music, My Dying Bride, folk, Love, Jethro Tull, Iron Maiden …The disc does not have any death metal or harsh vocals. The sound carries a lot of 70′s influence, and isn’t very powerful by modern standards. Keyboards, piano, and mellotron appear often.”Intro,” for example, features keys alongside double bass and clarinet. “We don’t care what others think,” Åkerfeldt said, “and if the fan’s don’t enjoy it, that’s their problem.” The frontman also said that he’s been tired of “extreme metal” since the 90s, but could not explain why. At this point in time, as far as Opeth is concerned, the death metal sound is over.“I wanted to make an album like this since my twenties”, Akerfeldt said, adding that exploring these influences further would have been possible sooner had it not been for Opeth’s popular death metal roots. Not a single journalist had a bad word to say about Heritage. Regardless, it’s safe to say that the album will create a stir with its 70′s Prog style.I couldn’t be any less shocked, but I am a bit apprehensive about it. It just figures that the greatest voice in death metal is sick of death metal. Cruel irony…

Heritage will hit stores this September on Roadrunner Records. It’ll probably still be pretty damn sweet.

- JR

http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/248860_10150260186353410_7496603409_9002103_5549670_n.jpg

Ksyrup

07-01-2011, 06:15 AM

Just got the new Drake Bell EP, A Reminder, on Wednesday, and it's really good. I know I get a ton of shit for being a 40-year old male listening to Drake Bell, but the dude is really a talented musician, not just an actor thrown behind a mic to make Disney/Nickelodeon a ton of money. Sadly, he is one of very few artists waving the power pop banner these days, and you can tell it's authentic because (a) his original songs are solid (the major/minor chord progressions on Terrific are, well, terrific), and (b) his covers show a deep appreciation for the genre. Not only has he covered Jellyfish before, but on the EP, he covers a song from the band The Argument, who put out a fantastic album about 7 years ago.

If you can get past the fact that he's an actor with a fanbase consisting of nearly entierly screaming tweens and you like good pop/rock that has a Beatles/70s power pop vibe to it, check him out. He's by no means the greatest thing on earth, but he's more than just an actor who sings.

JonInMiddleGA

07-01-2011, 10:31 AM

{shudders to think at how many of the fans are going to rip Opeth for the change} This could get ugly.

Hell, A7x catches considerable crap for even their style shift, I can only imagine some of the shit this might get after almost 20 years of gathering fans.

Ksyrup

07-01-2011, 10:40 AM

It's been a pretty slow transition that's been coming, though. They already did an entirely clean vocal album once before, and the last album had several songs that were entirely or almostly entirely devoid of death vocals. So it's not THAT big a shock, I guess. The bigger shock for me is the idea, if true (dude has a sharp sense of humor, so you never know), that he's been over extreme metal for years and is completely done with death metal vocals.

I would have thought this side of him was satisfied by side projects, such as the upcoming Storm Corrosion album with Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree. Get out the mellow stuff there, and still hit hard with Opeth. I guess we'll see. As much as I love Burden, I don't necessarily need an album of it.

As far as fan reaction - most of that will occur in Europe. The band isn't known enough in the US to create some sort of huge backlash that will really be felt. If anything, the positive I take from this is the opportunity for the band to be heard by people who never heard them before, or who refused to listen because of the death metal vocals.

Ksyrup

07-01-2011, 10:42 AM

New Dream Theater (no embedding):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oasnbzEMV08

Sounds like a return to the older stuff - the first 2:30 sound a lot like variations on Metropolis Part I and Pull Me Under from Images & Words.

JonInMiddleGA

07-01-2011, 11:21 AM

I would have thought this side of him was satisfied by side projects

That's what I'd been thinking about Corey Taylor too, but there sure does seem to be a lot of smoke about the possibility of him leaving Slipknot altogether (and where there's smoke yada yada). I guess we never really know what's in the heads of a lot of these guys.

As far as fan reaction - most of that will occur in Europe.

Most definitely. But those are some intense folks about their d.metal, especially the Scandanavians.

StrangeWay

07-04-2011, 03:30 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOZz_puHGj4&feature=related

JonInMiddleGA

07-04-2011, 11:26 AM

Another sign I'm getting older ... just got tickets for what will be my son's first club show.

7/21 at The Loft (Center Stage)
Black Stone Cherry + Pop Evil + two unsigned bands (at least one of which, Lansdowne (http://youtu.be/cLJkU_Ln6CQ), sounds pretty good, the other I haven't found much from yet)

Been a fan of BSC since their debut in '06 (a rare debut CD purchase for me at the time) & Pop Evil at the very least has a catchy hit at the moment.

How's this for a time machine trip: Last time I was at this venue it was to see (and eventually end up having a drink with) Dangerous Toys.

edit to add: Found linkage on the fourth band, Kyng, (who is also on FB with an interesting interview clip that makes them likable if nothing else)
First album due this fall but here's a link to the first single "Falling Down". Significant Sabbath influence here but with different vocals
http://www.noisecreep.com/2011/07/01/kyng-falling-down-song/

Ksyrup

07-05-2011, 06:41 AM

I've been listening to Kyng on XM Liquid Metal for months now. They got some big backing as an unsigned band from LM, I guess because they have members from the band Ankla and another band.

They sound like Sabbath/LZ with a Chris Cornell sound-alike vocalist. Good stuff, although they tread on Soundgarden a little too closely at times. But heavier.

korme

07-06-2011, 04:54 PM

TAKING BACK SUNDAY
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JonInMiddleGA

07-06-2011, 07:14 PM

Not sure how many FOFC'ers ever use playlist.com but I've tinkered with it a few times after an old radio buddy recommended it.

Not many hard rockers here but if you find yourself in the mood for something fairly aggressive here's 101 songs that ought to work for you. I figure it's around 7-8 hours worth give or take a little.
Playlist.com | July Playlist (http://pl.st/p/22192571403)

Built on a core of current active rock, there's also some classic metal, a dash of prog, some obscure stuff, some legendary artists.

Matthean

07-18-2011, 11:27 AM

http://mashable.com/2011/07/18/mutemath/

New song by Mutemath. Album won't out until the fall.

Videos: News, Sports, Entertainment, Technology & More - USATODAY.com (http://www.usatoday.com/video/index.htm?bctid=1032353450001#/Band+Burlap+to+Cashmere+reemerges+after+tragedy/1032353450001)

Burlap to Cashmere's new album after a Chinese Democracy type break partly due to one of their members being nearly beaten to death is out tomorrow.

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Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken's TN EP is out now.

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bob

07-18-2011, 05:26 PM

JonInMiddleGA

07-18-2011, 06:28 PM

The single from the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album is out today (streaming at this link: The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ New Single “The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie” From Their Upcoming Album, ‘I’m With You’ (http://kroq.radio.com/2011/07/15/kroq-exclusive-world-premiere-of-the-red-hot-chili-peppers-new-single-the-adventures-of-rain-dance-maggie-from-their-upcoming-album-im-with-you/2/) ).

Heard it over the weekend, I'm still stifling the yawns. It's not terrible, it's just ... there. Not even bad enough to warrant changing the station.

YMMV of course.

And LOL (not at you, at them) at the "exclusive world premiere" business. It played on radio in Atlanta Saturday morning & I'm sure if a half-assed station like the one here had it then there were plenty of others.

Drake

07-19-2011, 06:59 AM

Burlap to Cashmere's new album after a Chinese Democracy type break partly due to one of their members being nearly beaten to death is out tomorrow.

Pre-ordered it last week. Already downloaded in iTunes this morning. Listening now.

It's very, very good.

Easy Mac

07-20-2011, 01:34 PM

I've spotify-ed my top 5 albums of the year so far.

http://open.spotify.com/user/christophermarciano/playlist/4oV3bpBZDTwSzl9CAuFc7d

1. Beach Fossils - What a Pleasure
2. The Dodos - No Color
3. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
4. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
5. Givers - In Light

Maybe it's just me, but it's been a pretty mediocre year in music so far. I struggled to come up with 5 albums I've enjoyed enough to even get to 5 albums. By this time last year the cup was running over with damn good records (at least in indie rock circles). Last year we have The National, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, Los Campesinos!, Local Natives, Surfer Blood... and those are the ones I can think of that I know came out early in the year. There's been nothing even approaching those albums for me.

JonInMiddleGA

07-24-2011, 03:04 PM

Blogged a review of the Black Stone Cherry show, in case anyone is interested
Concert Review 7/21/11 – BSC/Pop Evil/Kyng/Lansdowne | Jon's Three Cents (http://jonsthreecents.wordpress.com/2011/07/23/concert-review-72111-bscpop-evilkynglansdowne/)

Young Drachma

07-24-2011, 03:55 PM

I've been listening to the new albums from Girls Names, Roadside Graves, The Dangerous Summer, Brown Recluse, Crystal Antlers, Shabazz Palaces and Cults. Still enjoying Raphael Saddiq's "Stone Rollin", Wye Oak's "Civilian" and Seapony's "Go With Me"

Matthean

07-24-2011, 04:12 PM

Pre-ordered it last week. Already downloaded in iTunes this morning. Listening now.

It's very, very good.

It's been getting numerous good reviews. Just waiting for the whole lack of job thing to be done with.

Fidatelo

07-24-2011, 10:24 PM

You know what I've been listening to lately? The 20% of my music collection that was previously unavailable to my Windows Phone 7 device thanks to iTunes bitch-ass DRM.

Thank you, Requiem.

Ksyrup

07-26-2011, 11:26 AM

HOLY CRAP - new Opeth song leaked (or was recorded off the radio and uploaded to YT). I think I just got a chubbie!

If you like 70s prog, check this out. Not a single bit of death metal vocals will be on the album.

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Ksyrup

07-26-2011, 12:08 PM

Damn, that got yanked quickly. Good stuff, though.

EDIT

Found another one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr1IGSKd4u0

Julio Riddols

07-26-2011, 02:44 PM

Oh shit yeah.. THIS is the Opeth I want to hear.

I've been listening a lot to the Nirvana "Newermind" covers album released by SPIN magazine and this new band from Seattle I am really excited about hearing more from, Absolute Monarchs.. Also Cunninglyguists new album is outstanding as well.. They continue to be the most underappreciated hip hop group out there, IMO.

JonInMiddleGA

07-26-2011, 04:34 PM

Okay, having now sampled the new Opeth, I'm overwhelmed with one thought

"You are witnessing the birth of Opeth Mark II ... on the bass, Mister Derek Smalls, he wrote this"

QuikSand

07-31-2011, 04:16 PM

I am basically the opposite of the "hey look at my weird musical tastes" guy (though I'm glad he's here), as my deal is basically to wait until something persuades me to buy an album, then I listen to it with full intent of giving it enough spins to really judge what I think. And I am a committed album-listener, too, not a pick-and-choose type.

Anyway, from fairly recent music, I think there are two albums in my general area of tastes that have potential to be regarded as all time greats, and both are on my regular rotation right now.

Avett Brothers - I and Love and You

Excellent artist and a genius producer, album is off the charts good and plenty deep.

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Theme albums are tough to pull off, this one works awfully well.

JonInMiddleGA

07-31-2011, 09:57 PM

What I won't be listening to later this week: Oni Logan singing for Lynch Mob :(
Sleaze Roxx: Lynch Mob Singer Oni Logan Quits Band, Replacement Singer Has 'Rock Star' Movie Experience (http://www.sleazeroxx.com/news/00606.shtml)

What I might be listening to fairly soon: New Christian rock/metal project featuring Rich Ward (Fozzy, Stuck Mojo) & Frank Fontsere (Fozzy) ... In the same vein as musical groups "Stryper", "Skillet", and "Red"
http://www.walkingwithkings.com/

korme

08-01-2011, 12:58 AM

KANYE WEST / JAY-Z
ft. Otis Redding
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Really fresh song, no set verses, and no chorus. Just them trading bars back and forth.

Matthean

08-01-2011, 07:54 AM

I hate the fact that the Otis Redding part continues on and you get this cross conversation thing going on and it really takes away from the track for me.

kurtism

08-02-2011, 07:48 AM

Couple notes:

First, the new Fountains of Wayne is 3.99 at Amazon mp3 today (8/2/11).

Second, Spinner has the new FoW streaming, as well as the new Guster EP and the new Wu Tang.

Ksyrup

08-02-2011, 08:20 AM

What I won't be listening to later this week: Oni Logan singing for Lynch Mob :(
Sleaze Roxx: Lynch Mob Singer Oni Logan Quits Band, Replacement Singer Has 'Rock Star' Movie Experience (http://www.sleazeroxx.com/news/00606.shtml)

That is one poorly written headline and article. I thought it literally meant the new singer sang in the movie Rock Star, so I assumed he was the guy from Steelheart. The article made no sense until I kinda unraveled it all.

JonInMiddleGA

08-02-2011, 09:26 AM

That is one poorly written headline and article. I thought it literally meant the new singer sang in the movie Rock Star, so I assumed he was the guy from Steelheart. The article made no sense until I kinda unraveled it all.

Ditto my confusion ... but that's roughly the same version that ran everywhere I saw it.

And it's compounded by not entirely trusting George's side of the story (although given Logan basically being too drunk to perform & falling down/off stage late last year during a short stint on the road, I suppose there's some credibility there).

Ksyrup

08-24-2011, 03:06 PM

New Ben Folds Five track (1 of 3) released by Ben for a career retrospective coming out in October. First new songs from BFF since '99.

The Sing-Off | NBC Official Site: Ben Folds Profile & Bio (http://www.nbc.com/sing-off/about/benfolds.shtml)

WSR

08-24-2011, 10:10 PM

I'm digging on the Band of Skulls album <iframe width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_tl3zhbWrBY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

WSR

08-24-2011, 10:13 PM

Another one:

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JonInMiddleGA

08-25-2011, 06:08 PM

Now I know country isn't a big favorite around the FOFC, hell I listen to very little of it myself these days, but this is a special case afaic.

From left to right, that's Jason Aldean (Macon, GA), Colt Ford (Athens, GA) and Brantley Gilbert (Jefferson,GA). The song was written by Ford & Gilbert and eventually taken to #1 by Aldean.

This live version comes from a recent event, organized by Ford, that raised $85,000 for the families of two police officers shot in the line of duty here in Athens earlier this year. One died, the other is still recovering. An unusually large singer/songwriters event - 9 in all - that also included Edwin McCain & Rhett Akins among others.

The way I figure it, if they're willing to donate their time & talent (some of them coming off the road for a night to participate) then the very least I can do is spread the word a little bit. They deserve some hype afaic.

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stevew

08-25-2011, 11:42 PM

Tha Carter IV on Monday? Tha Carter IV (Deluxe Edition) by Lil Wayne - Preorder Tha Carter IV (Deluxe Edition) on iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/tha-carter-iv-deluxe-edition/id459912709)

I guess it was inevitable that it would come out, I just figured that he would have released it by now and it seems very random how the release seemed to materialize out of nowhere. I kind of thought he was just going to keep milking people for singles as it seems to be a very profitable means to earn income.

CrimsonFox

08-26-2011, 12:27 AM

Genesis of course....Firth of fifth from the album Selling England By the Pound (with Peter Gabriel still singing lead)

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And here is a later version with Phil Collins on lead vocal live (albeit without the piano intro and flute solo), it's still a great version.

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johnnyshaka

08-26-2011, 02:57 AM

The Rural Alberta Advantage

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Ramzavail

08-26-2011, 11:05 AM

i was impressed with that.

Julio Riddols

08-29-2011, 10:54 AM

Ksyrup

08-29-2011, 12:33 PM

Acoustic version of the new single from Pugwash, one of my favorite British power pop bands no one's ever heard of. They have a distinct McCartney sound, and the lead singer looks kinda like a fat balding version of Paul (maybe he's the original Paul rumored to be dead but incognito):

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Young Drachma

08-31-2011, 03:52 PM

This has been a weird music year for me, because I've been listening to a lot of albums that weren't released this year.

But if I had to put a list together right now of 2011 releases that I've been rocking out to, my favorites would look like this:

(in no specific order)

Girls Names - Dead To Me
Wye Oak - Civilian
Cults - Cults
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
Crystal Antlers - Two-Way Mirror
The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
The Dangerous Summer - War Paint
Rapheal Saadiq - Stone Rollin'
Brown Recluse - Evening Tapestry
The Narcoleptic Dancers - Never Sleep
Craft Spells - Idle Labor
The Wilderness of Manitoba - When You Left The Fire
Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion
Trivium - In Waves
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks - Mirror Traffic
Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
Adele - 21
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing
Cymbles Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
Sister Crayon - Bellow
The Wooden Birds - Two Matchsticks