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current bands you NEED to be listening to
zekterellium:
lucida console. they aren't even signed yet, but when they are, they'll change the music scene forever. catchy emo music with keyboards and 3/4 bars. hell fucking yes.
saturnine1979:
I concur with the reccomendation of The Boy Least Likely To.
Really great Twee Pop.
I add to the list of reccomendations:
Thunderbirds Are Now! - Kinda like Les Savy Fav, but with ADD. Also: the lead singer tends to sound like a girl. Makes indie kids shake dat ass.
Song to hear: "Better Safe Than Safari"
The Russian Futurists - Fuzzy, dreamy indie-pop with phat beats. Wha? Trust me on this one, it's pretty.
Song to hear: "Precious Metals"
Kanda - Think Architecture In Helsinki (Twee Pop) done electronically. Male and female singers trade duties over sugar-overloaded synths and clickin' drum beats.
Song to hear: "They'll Need Cocaine"
Final Fantasy - This guy did the strings for the Arcade Fire's Funeral... obviously he knows his way around a violin, which is the main instrument on the album. It's really pretty music, but it can be a bit melodramatic at times, what with all the violins and whatnot. I'd still reccomend checking it out anyway.
Song to hear: "This Is The Dream Of Win and Reg"
(which, by the by, is a quasi-cover of DNTEL's "(This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan" written about Win and Regina Butler, singers of the Arcade Fire)
Edan - I don't know how many of you here are fans of the... "Hip Hop", but I happen to like me some underground flowin'. Edan's flow is flawless, but the real star is the samples. The beats are thrown under a cornucopia of guitar licks, vocal samples, and drum sections from the 60's/70's.
Song(s) to hear: "Funky Voltron (ft. Insight)" and "Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme" are both worth checking out. Don't know anything about hip hop? "Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme" is the complete idiot's guide for your ivory booty, tracing the history of hip-hop as it's evolved over the decades.
Can't really think of much else right now... But that's a pretty decent list of some recent good stuff.
KharBevNor:
There's loads of things I listen to, but these are the genre-transcending awesomecore bands most people are seriously missing out on.
Skyclad - Seriously the best band in the world ever. No contest. Gone downhill a tad under their new singer, but still good. Get the old singers stuff (everything between 'Wayward Sons of Mother Earth' and 'Folkemon') though. What should you expect? The attitude of Oi!, the rockingness of classic British metal (they progress backwards through their career from Sabbat, to Iron Maiden, to Thin Lizzy, roughly), the pizzazz of British folk music, the lyrical skills of a good modernist poet, and paganism, radical environmentalism, anti-capitalism, puns and whimsy to taste.
Songs: so hard to choose... I'd say 'Penny Dreadful', 'Vintage Whine', 'Polkageist!', 'Our Dying Island', 'Womb of the Worm' for a good cross-section. Their discography is HUGE though.
Ewigkeit - Lock a slightly unhinged conspiracy theorist in a basement full of recording equipment and hallucinogenic drugs. The result is Ewigkeit. It's like throwing Pink Floyd, Dark Tranquillity, Coil and a David Icke book into a big blender. Goodness knows what genre to place it in. Earache Records neatly file it away under 'post-metal', a genre which covers a multitude of sins.
Songs: 'Tired Face', 'Strange Volk', 'Journey to Ixtlan'.
Inkubus Sukkubus - Best goth band of the 90's, no question. Probably the best pagan band with any sort of mainstream appeal. Wonderful vocals, dancy machine drums, processed eighties guitar, atmospheric keys, odd flourishes of folk and classical experimentation. This is a band that still uses tubes to get that classic darkwave sound. One of the bands that, imo, most embodies what goth should really be about: playing up to cliches, writing some angsty poetry, then going out and doing the light-bulb screwy dance all night, with optional goddess worship on the side for your teenage female.
Songs: 'Beltaine', 'Midnight Queen', 'Woman to Hare'
Ayreon - Prog lives, and it's name is Arjen Lucassen. Great music with an intricate storytelling approach with up to about 15 distinct characters singing on each album. 'The Human Equation' is probably the best introduction to his work, but it's really best to begin at the beginning.
Songs: 'Day Sixteen: Loser', 'Carried By The Wind', 'Out of the White Hole'.
Star One - Arjen's also keeping space rock alive! Busy guy. There's only really one proper Star One album, but it's fucking amazing.
Songs: 'Intergalactic Space Crusaders', 'Lift Off/Set Your Controls', 'Hawkwind Medley'.
Nightingale - More great prog. Dan Swano brings broad touches of metal and goth rock to what started out as one of his endless solo projects. They recently ended a quadology of concept albums, their last release just being randomly themed songs. Again, you really need an album. 'I' and 'Alive Again' are great. 'The Breathing Shadow' too, but that's almost pure goth rock.
Songs: 'Forever and Ever', 'Losing Myself', 'Falling', 'Recollections'
That's enough for a moment I should think.
ebullientsoul:
--- Quote from: My Aim Is True ---Walking Concert- NY Hardcore godfather Walter Schreifels has been listening to a lot of The Kinks, The Smiths, and Elvis Costello. But still fast.
Biirdie- Absurdly cute and melancholy. Like throwing Bright Eyes, Mates Of State, and the Flaming Lips in a blender with a barbershop quartet.
Pilot Scott Tracy- Former cult members The Causey Way, still making fuzzed out surf/synth rock with dual vocals. More poppy this time.
Paint It Black- This is what emo used to be. Hardcore that blurs the lines between the personal and the political. Short songs, gruff vocals, former members of Kid Dynamite.
I Object- They stink. As in, needs a shower. Dirty dirty punk rock. Female vocals, radical politics, heartfelt and light hearted.
The World/Inferno Friendship Society- Fuck. I can barely describe them. Songs that tell beautiful/sad/bizarre/drunken stories, opera quality vocals, swinging horn section, mandolin, accordion, and more literary references than you can shake a stick at, yet somehow, still feels like punk rock. I have still not described them very well. Shares members with The Hold Steady.
--- End quote ---
World/Inferno Friendship Society, short version is a couple of the dudes used to be in Sticks and Stones, a seminal Jersey group. (They used to play with [and influenced] the Bouncing Souls and Lifetime, back in the day.)
On Paint it Black...Yemin used to be in Lifetime, who wrote the blueprint on modern emo.
Walking Concert-Its one of the guys from the Gorilla Biscuits.
Freezey:
Walking Concert is basically Walter Schreifels (SP? Guitar/songwriting in Gorilla Biscuits/Youth Of Today, vocals/guitar/songwriting in Rival Schools/Quicksand ect...) playing really fun and catchy 2-3 minute pop songs. Their record is really fantastic and I highly reccomend it.
ditto to World/Inferno and PIB. I'll check out the other ones listed sometime.
anyways, something I'm listening to a lot of nowadays is Fifth Hour Hero. Melodic mid-tempo punk rock with some damn fine female vocals. Think if Strike Anywhere was slower and focused more on intricate melody. Hot Water Music and Discount also come to mind.
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