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T Bowl posted:When I dug a little deeper too apparently when he was interviewed when they were touring Europe he was saying that the money returns just weren't good enough and they were almost breaking even with their tour to Europe with all the costs involved. Which is crazy to me because when I saw them at the 930 Club, I'm pretty sure it was two sold out nights, and then when I saw them at The Anthem, an even bigger venue, I'm pretty sure it was sold out there as well. T Bowl posted:So now the band is essentially defunct but there has never been any public announcement and the three other guys are all working on solo stuff. Yeah, I saw that Chris Bear is finishing up a solo project.
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I really want to like the Clairo album more but I can feel the Jack Antonoff. The past year I’ve been listening to early 70’s music like Carole King, Margo Guryan, and Judee Sill though and can appreciate the similarities.
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Thom and the Heads posted:Scored some tickets to the Phoebe Bridgers tour in September! Ticketmaster sucks! Yeah, I haven't been to a concert in a couple of reasons for obvious reasons, and I picked up tickets for Japanese Breakfast. I normally see shows at venues that don't use ticketmaster, so it's been a while. It's amazing how a $35 ticket will suddenly cost $60 for no reason at all. At least they have an option now to see what the price will be with all their extra fees before you go to checkout. They were still trying to get me to buy extra things. $10 for coat check. $20 for early entry to the venue. $30 for access to a special lounge. Not VIP or backstage, just "special." Wanting to help out a struggling business during a pandemic like ticketmaster, of course I paid for all of them.
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Can you believe that I bought tickets to see one of the two shows the New Pornographers are playing with their full band? I have seen them with Dan Bejar before, but never with Neko Case. When they played with Bejar, he would just leave the stage after his songs. It all seemed very chill.
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Twin Cinema posted:Can you believe that I bought tickets to see one of the two shows the New Pornographers are playing with their full band? The few times I've seen them live it was always with Neko, but I'm not sure who else might have been missing.
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Confession time: I've really been coming around on the new Modest Mouse. I still think it's their weakest album, but I feel compelled to keep listening to it. I even got a ticket to see them in October! That'll be my 3rd time seeing them and they'll be my first show since the pandemic started.
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captainOrbital posted:e2: also Let's Eat Grandma The one nice surprise playing Cyberpunk 2077 at launch among all of the many, many terrible ones was hearing LEG pop up in a song in the radio, their vibe fits perfectly into that soundtrack and I would love to see another album from them (and also Snail Mail while I’m making a prayer to the Pitchfork Gods)
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DC Murderverse posted:The one nice surprise playing Cyberpunk 2077 at launch among all of the many, many terrible ones was hearing LEG pop up in a song in the radio, their vibe fits perfectly into that soundtrack and I would love to see another album from them (and also Snail Mail while I’m making a prayer to the Pitchfork Gods) Snail Mail and Alvvays are loving due
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Twin Cinema posted:Can you believe that I bought tickets to see one of the two shows the New Pornographers are playing with their full band? I've seen them live with Dan and live with Neko but not both. It should be a good show! I stuck around after a show to get all their autographs once and they were super friendly.
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Here's that frantic Nigerien psychedelia you wanted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFZobgLF5Vc vvv thanks! Trig Discipline fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Jul 19, 2021 |
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Nigerien. He’s from Niger, not Nigeria. Also check out Tinariwen if you like Mdou Moctar.
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Anyone listen to Inhaler? Bono's son is the lead singer. Debut album came out about a week or so ago and it's really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHJ7jpQKuqs
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stoops posted:Anyone listen to Inhaler? Dang that is pretty good. And as an unabashed U2 fan, I can def see/hear his dad in there.
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Big week for NZ music last week. Most exciting for me was the new album from Anthonie Tonnon, who I will always go to bat for as one of the absolute finest songwriters working in Aotearoa right now, plus he actually lets his accent come through when he sings. Favourite song on the record is probably Peacetime Orders, which is a "meditation on the failure of the Obama years and also a tribute to the Auckland house music scene in the 90s". Grawlixes also released an album. If you're familiar with French For Rabbits, you'll like Grawlixes, since they share a few members. They're another NZ band who you can hear the accent in, which I always appreciate. It's mainly a break up album (the singers are a former couple), but it's not particularly bleak. Not sure if I could pick a favourite track, but City Across The Bay, one of the singles, is one stand out. And speaking of French For Rabbits, they released a new single ahead of an album that's due to come out some time in the back half of the year. If you like French For Rabbits and their dreamy folk sound, then you'll continue to like them with this one. Anyway, that's probably enough kiwi music for the day, but hopefully someone appreciates a little glimpse at what we've got going on down at our end of the world. Edit: fixing bbcode phoneposting fuckups cptn_dr fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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cptn_dr posted:Big week for NZ music last week.
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DC Murderverse posted:The one nice surprise playing Cyberpunk 2077 at launch among all of the many, many terrible ones was hearing LEG pop up in a song in the radio, their vibe fits perfectly into that soundtrack and I would love to see another album from them (and also Snail Mail while I’m making a prayer to the Pitchfork Gods) Let's Eat Grandma's breakthrough was 2018, not that long ago and they're still very young. They could surprise us yet. I'd like to see more, that record was really good. I like Snail Mail, but she's kind of at risk of getting lost in a sea of very similar artists, maybe. What's the thread's take on Dry Cleaning? I slept on them a bit until their album just clicked, and it might be strong contender for record of the year. Its like Life Without Buildings/Sonic Youth/Joy Divison/Television playing at once, I'm seriously addicted: https://youtu.be/6PuqlOTyJt0
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Rageaholic posted:Confession time: I've really been coming around on the new Modest Mouse. I still think it's their weakest album, but I feel compelled to keep listening to it. I dig it overall. Modest Mouse has always been one of those 2-3 bangers per albums sort of bands for me. Not gonna say it's their best, but I think they have worse.
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Well I got my vinyl copy of DARKSIDE - Spiral few days early and really digging all of it. Super glad I picked it up. Just more of that moody ephemeral jammy noise they're good for. Less "Tom Waits" on the singing this time around.
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:I dig it overall. Modest Mouse has always been one of those 2-3 bangers per albums sort of bands for me. Not gonna say it's their best, but I think they have worse. Such as?
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eh, idk, not gonna sift through them When I was traveling abroad I saw an American and Canadian start pushing each other around drunk, and have to walk away from each other for the rest of the night over old Modest Mouse being better than new (this was like 10 years ago) I think it's better than folks are leading on 's all
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Oh wow okay, so I heard the SPELLLING song "Boys At School" on college radio and I was like whoa, what is this. Then I was looking it up and I started remembering that this thread was debating it a few pages back. Gave the album a listen and right now I'm on team "This should be my favorite album in a decade, but... the vocals..." I'm going to have to sit with this one a while. There's so much I love about the music itself, it's so my vibe. That sort of Danny Elfman inspired thing plus some synths, also kind of video game-ish. It's like the music that I would want to make in an alternate timeline where my life went in that direction. But the vocals really are a barrier, they just sound so overwrought a lot of the time. I dunno. Maybe some day it'll work for me. I really want it to. I would still say "Boys At School" is an unqualified masterpiece. Everything clicks on that one.
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:I dig it overall. Modest Mouse has always been one of those 2-3 bangers per albums sort of bands for me. Not gonna say it's their best, but I think they have worse. I miss the days of each album being a classic tho
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I just got tickets to see The Weather Station. Thanks to whoever linked their new album in here
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New The Accidentals feat. goats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIDn8kobeRs They're coming near me in like October and I really wanna see them
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Katana_Warrior posted:la luz put out a video for a song from their upcoming album pffff way to rip off Charlie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o1hjOBpAAk For real though that's pretty great.
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New Tops song is already one of my favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3bMSRbHMJk
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Tops and La Luz are my poo poo — thanks for the tips
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I hope La Luz tours again. Also where are Los Bitchos with their three-song having rear end
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captainOrbital posted:I hope La Luz tours again. Also where are Los Bitchos with their three-song having rear end I like Los bitchos, but do you have any idea what happened to the fifth member? She just vanished last year and they never stated anything about it. Act like it was always just the four.
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The King Gizzard thread has been dead for a month so hopefully someone will care about this here but they've been releasing videos for all the songs on their latest album (2nd album this year, 18th overall) and are about halfway through the record but this latest one has been my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L3-HOdMeuM What's with the eyebrows 
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Rageaholic posted:Confession time: I've really been coming around on the new Modest Mouse. I still think it's their weakest album, but I feel compelled to keep listening to it. I'm feeling the same and am really enjoying about two thirds of the songs on the album. I've also gone back to listen to Good News over the last few days, turns out I love the entire thing now. I never gave it much attention back in the day, partly due to dumb teen logic of 'oh no this is the popular album with the big hit song'. Looking back after another 3 albums have come out since then, I appreciate it a lot more. I love the banjo in a lot of the songs, Satin in a Coffin and Bury Me With It are big hits for me but I don't dislike a single song. I think Lonesome Crowded West is still near the top for me because of when I listened to it, but this is definitely up there. Toast King fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Jul 28, 2021 |
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RedneckwithGuns posted:The King Gizzard thread has been dead for a month so hopefully someone will care about this here but they've been releasing videos for all the songs on their latest album (2nd album this year, 18th overall) and are about halfway through the record but this latest one has been my favorite: Yeah they have been impressing the hell out of me lately. I kind of didn't want to like them because they almost seemed like a gimmick, but really they're just super talented and they're doing what I want more bands to do -- just keep making records and don't worry so much about whether they're the best record ever made. Also, continuing my SPELLLING trip report: when I listened to the album a second time it felt like 90% of my objections to the vocals faded away. It's still going to be a hard sell to anyone the first time around, but yeah. I'm already coming around to really liking this and I'm probably gonna buy it. Though in the back of my mind I'm still, like, worried that I've somehow been tricked into liking it.
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Yes! https://twitter.com/pitchfork/status/1420385726655614976?s=20 https://twitter.com/sleighbells/status/1420386556154728454?s=20 Sounds like its from Treats
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Yes!  I enjoyed Jessica Rabbit. Can't remember Kid Kruschev at all. But Treats was obviously their best.
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