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Friend of mine introduced me to Strand of Oaks. His latest album is pretty darn good rock. Shut In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Kmch5w0WA. He also has a song about Jason Molina. It gets pretty heavy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exSbJDbzsak
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I really, really, really like the new Spoon album. They've very quietly grown to be probably my favorite band of the past decade or so. I typically only like bands for stretches of two or three albums at a time before I lose interest, but they just don't miss for me.
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Is the thread where I can post about the new album of The War on Drugs: Lost in the Dream and how awesome it is? It is awesome with the whole eighties rock feeling it has going on.
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Eh it's in my top 5 but I think it would have benefitted from cutting some chaff Suffering and Dissappearing are low points for me. An Ocean In Between the Waves and Red Eyes are some of my faves this year though. I'm really enjoying the Tony Molina Dissed and Dismissed album, it's 12 tracks and the album as a whole comes in at just 12 minutes but all of it is awesome. The whole thing is on YouTube. deletebeepbeepbeep fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Aug 6, 2014 |
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Mr Shiny Pants posted:Is the thread where I can post about the new album of The War on Drugs: Lost in the Dream and how awesome it is? It is great. Anybody see them live? Next month they are about an hour away for dirt cheap.
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CancerStick posted:It is great. Anybody see them live? Next month they are about an hour away for dirt cheap. I saw them a few years ago in a hookah bar and they were v fun and engaging with the crowd.
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deletebeepbeepbeep posted:Eh it's in my top 5 but I think it would have benefitted from cutting some chaff Suffering and Dissappearing are low points for me. An Ocean In Between the Waves and Red Eyes are some of my faves this year though. That's just because the other songs are THAT good.  Eyes to the wind, In reverse and Ocean between the waves are really, really good.
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Any goons going to FYF? Pretty stoked for the line up this year.
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CancerStick posted:It is great. Anybody see them live? Next month they are about an hour away for dirt cheap. i saw them in detroit back in 08 before wagonwheel blues came out. they played like four songs and left, though two were long drony songs ("show me the coast" and "there is no need for urgency" maybe???). anyways it's okay.
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guppiehaus posted:Any goons going to FYF? Pretty stoked for the line up this year. Yes. Also those goons not going the strokes are playing a VERY SPECIAL GIG AT THE SMELL. What is the smell? go into your bathroom, turn a full 360 degrees, and you're in the smell. THATS HOW TINY IT IS.
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Mr Shiny Pants posted:Is the thread where I can post about the new album of The War on Drugs: Lost in the Dream and how awesome it is? This is probably going to be my album of the year by far. And this is coming from a guy that usually wants to immediately turn off any album that chases the 80s aesthetic. The War On Drugs is one of the few bands that has gotten significantly better with each release and I'm really excited to see what they do in the future.
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whatis posted:I really, really, really like the new Spoon album. They've very quietly grown to be probably my favorite band of the past decade or so. I typically only like bands for stretches of two or three albums at a time before I lose interest, but they just don't miss for me. It's so good. I mean Spoon albums are pretty much universially good (and good in more or less the same way), but this is on the high side of that. Way better than Transference and I liked Transference.
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Don't know if this is the correct thread but yesterday I saw Brand New and Modest Mouse and they both were incredible. Go see the tour if you have a chance.
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incoherent posted:Yes. Awesome! Who're you going to see? Can't wait to see how big the gap in Mac DeMarco's teeth actually is.
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Hey guys not only is Death From Above 1979 touring again but they're making a new album entitled "The Physical World" out September 9th!
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I kinda want to throw out a recommendation for something I've been enjoying the poo poo out of lately, Maragold's self titled album. It probably sits in wierd place, the only really notable member of the band is Greg Howe, meaning most people will get to the band through an appreciation for guitar wanking. Greg tones it down, though, there's really only one flashy solo on the album. Also, the lead singer is really, REALLY good. Lots of range, lots of power. They doubletracked her for a couple of tracks, and it feels like overkill, she almost doesn't need it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkuSvLKd75Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke3fkpWZcPk A couple of tracks off the album, though my personal favourite isn't posted to youtube, so you kinda have to buy the album for it. "Story's Ending" is a goddamn gorgeous song.
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Aug 19, 2014 18:32
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New Pornographers album is streaming through iTunes: https://tw.itunes.com/6017WGWD
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Lblitzer posted:Hey guys not only is Death From Above 1979 touring again but they're making a new album entitled "The Physical World" out September 9th! I'm going to say some incendiary statements right now: The new songs don't play very well live. I'm sure they'll sound great on the record, and in 5 years when they get really tight with them. They just sounded so bad. I want to blame the sound guy, but they keep bringing terrible sound guys with them. By all means though go to hear you're a woman, I'm a machine.
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Owl John, the solo project from Frightened Rabbits lead singer, is pretty drat good. Check it on Spotify.
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Girls Who Care - Out Here I can't get enough of this song. The vocalist/guitarist/drummer of the group, who may or may not be a goon (I'm honestly not sure if he is or not but I think he may be) was kind enough to let me listen to the rest of the album, which has not yet been released. In the last week I've probably listened to the whole thing 10-15 times...I seriously can't stop, it's so good. The song above is easily one of the best tracks from this amazing album. I'll definitely be updating this thread when the rest of the album becomes available.
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Well gently caress Yeah Fest in Los Angeles just ended tonight and it was a pretty successful festival in my opinion. I think that was the first time I ever rode the rail in L.A. Anyway, I picked out some pictures that weren't boring back of the crowd shots. First off, let me say that the hype surrounding Future Islands live performance is no joke. I didn't get to snap a better picture, but the lead singer goes loving nuts. He likes to alternate between death metal growls and really weird, almost sensual hand gestures and poses. It was cool in a slightly unsettling way.  That shirt was literally drenched in sweat by the end of their set. Twin Peaks were a lot of fun to watch. They were I think the first band to play on the second day, but still had a decent sized group show up. Really great energy on stage. Their songs sound so much better live! I think this band, The Orwells, and FIDLAR are all fun as hell to listen to and I dream of a day when I can see all of them touring together.     Real Estate was actually mildly disappointing. The singer didn't seem to be having much fun and he sounds pretty bad in person. Just kind of boring.  Mac DeMarco was probably the chillest artist at the entire festival. He held a signing before his performance at the Origami Vinyl booths with some of his merch. They ended up having to close the line early cause there wouldn't have been a way for him to sign everything and still make it on stage. Really nice guy. Was a blast to listen to live. Him and his band mates are obviously all friends and in between songs they'd tell little jokes between each other. Absolute blast and probably my favorite act at the event.    Built To Spill was pretty great. I knew the singer was a bit on the older side, but man he's really getting up there. They were still awesome live and played a lot of fan favorites like 'Life's a Dream' and 'Carry the Zero'.  The Strokes headlined, but I didn't get to snap a picture cause my phone died. I could barely see them from the back since people poached front stage spots by watching Haim's entire set beforehand just to be there. They closed out the festival right that's for sure. As a side note, I watched the middle to end of Haim's set and they're intense live. All three of them have great chemistry with each other, but they added a little twist with some cool group drumming at the end. I think they did a great job and were fantastic at getting the crowd moving. Overall, FYF was a lot of fun. My friend was telling me it apparently exploded in size this year. I can't imagine it getting smaller next year and I'm sure they'll find even bigger acts. Excited to check it out again next summer. guppiehaus fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Aug 25, 2014 |
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Sounds like a great lineup, I saw Future Islands in Brighton and the lead singers enthusiasm is so infectious.
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When future islands recalled their first appearance in FYF 2010 @ in a very sweaty tent I got nostalgic. It was a fight to get in that tent and tin man just blew it up then as it did now. those kids dun all right.For saturdays faltings, its still a good show. Needs to be back at the state historic park though, ffffuuucccckkk that place.
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Glad to hear all the Future Islands praise — seeing them Thursday night in Omaha.ThatsMyBoye posted:New Pornographers album is streaming through iTunes: https://tw.itunes.com/6017WGWD I've never given them much consideration (although people have told me they peaked at Twin Cinema), but I've become a big fan of Dan Bejar since Kaputt and decided to give the new album a shot. It's solid indie-pop fare. The title track is really good.
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By the way if you live or will be in NYC on 9/4, @nprmusic is giving away pairs of tickets to see them play in the Brill Building itself with some trivia Happening now (and other days this week I think too)
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There's an album release party for Tennis two days after that and I think Sirius XMU is giving away tickets. Field Mouse are giving away some kind of Top Shelf records sampler album if you're one of the first 50 people in the door during their current tour, I am seeing them at the Beat Kitchen next month and pretty stoked about it. I thought Hold Still Life was extremely good, although I preferred the demo version of Happy.
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ThatsMyBoye posted:By the way if you live or will be in NYC on 9/4, @nprmusic is giving away pairs of tickets to see them play in the Brill Building itself with some trivia I just won tickets to that show! Unrelated, but I saw Arcade Fire at their last Brooklyn show on Sunday and David Byrne sang a Suicide song with them while dressed up as a vampire: 
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The beach rock band from Philly, Cruiser, just rebranded themselves as CRUISR and released a new single today. I've liked everything they've put out and this track is no exception. It's upbeat, catchy and fun as hell, check it out: https://soundcloud.com/cruisr
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I'm listening to the new Interpol album and it's clear they're just going through the motions at this point.
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m-o-o-n posted:I'm listening to the new Interpol album and it's clear they're just going through the motions at this point. Interpol was one of my favorite bands back in the day, but I've been having a hard time getting into the latest El Pintor and the previously released self-titled. Sad times.
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The first two Interpol albums are great, the rest of their poo poo is boring with maybe 1-2 songs scattered through all that material that are actually decent. Sad from me as well, I was obsessed with them at the end of high school.
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Goddamnit, that's disappointing to hear  I haven't heard it yet but I was really hoping it'd be a return to form for them.
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Not sure if it's kosher for this thread, but I didn't see any rules against it and I think it fits the style of stuff that's been being posted. My project, Rice Cultivation Society, I've posted about a bunch of times in the Musicians Lounge. We just released a new song today called "Cellphone," you can hear it here. It's a little different from what we usually do, we've gone in the direction of a more full band sound, but I think it fits our catalog so far.
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Had the chance to see Washed Out live with Small Black opening for them in Knoxville, TN this past Monday and it was an excellent show. I'm not the best concert photographer but there were lots of pretty lights so I was happy   
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prince rupert's drops, psych rock band from brooklyn, is coming out with a second LP to their debut "run slow", which is really loving cool if you have not listened to it. it's on spotify. today they released a track and it's...pretty cool I guess??? http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/08/prince_ruperts_2.html
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So Deep Time have apparently dropped off the face of the earth, which is a shame, because they were seriously good. I was hoping they'd release another album and maybe get more attention, but I guess I can resign myself to being the guy in 20 years talking about how good this obscure indie band were.
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It was obvious even with Antics that they didn't have anything else to say.
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Alright, I listened to El Pintor. It's not bad, it's just not particularly memorable either. It did have some awesome songs, like All The Rage Back Home, My Desire, Everything Is Wrong and Ancient Ways, but I'm not sure I found those to be more awesome than any of their classic tunes.Ratios and Tendency posted:It was obvious even with Antics that they didn't have anything else to say.
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It's weird how disappointing the rhythm section in the last two Interpol albums has been. Sam Fogarino is still a really good drummer but there's an alarming lack of cool bass lines and interaction between the two musicians. The wall of sound mix and overabundance of effects doesn't help much either.
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I think El Pintor is better than Self-Titled, but that's not saying much at all. They really need to try something different but I don't think they have the momentum, they all seem pretty tired by this point. If their next album was very dancey and upbeat, like the more energetic tracks from Antics, that could be cool... Or if they switched up the instrumentation... Or if the album centered around a few epic 10+ minute tracks... whatever. I think they've explored every possible facet of "the Interpol sound" and now it's boring as hell.
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