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20 April 2006
gimme music or I'll shoot this bunny Recommend new music for me. No criteria specified, just what you think I should be listening to.
Second the Dresden Dolls. Their new CD is getting great reviews and everything I have heard so far I have enjoyed. They are also both very polite and well-spoken young people who were very nice to my wife and I when we met them a couple years ago, after they opened for the B-52s at a local minor-league ballpark. No, really!
Heh, Theivery Corporation is still #27 on my last.fm history for the same reason, BP. My friend absolutely loves them and I really like the cover art on their albums, so I tried very hard to like them. But nothin' doin'.
Here! Have some Southern Culture on the Skids. It isn't new, but I posted it on Agro's thread below as the official theme song of the Asheville Meetup & I don't know if anybody grabbed it, so here it is again.
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea came out on my birthday whatever year that was... I was looking forward to it because I was a fan of Mangum and Co., but I had no idea it'd be one of the classic albums of my lifetime.
How could I forget SCoTS?!? Saw them live a few years ago--man, do they put on a great show.
If we're doing local bands, I'm a big fan of Vancouver's The Bughouse Five. Okay, they're also friends of mine, but seriously, ya can't help but dance to them. Just don't call them rockabilly. Or they'll hurt ya. Okay, or the drummer will get all offended.
I always recommend Califone -- Tim Rutili & Co. are a band of motherfucking geniuses. As far as I'm concerned, Roomsound and Quicksand/Cradlesnakes are two of the greatest records of the past decade.
Ok, so I've got minimalist downbeat/ambient via Thinner/Autoplate ...to quote the site "THINNER/AUTOPLATE NETLABEL FOR VERSATILE ELECTRONIC MUSIC". I'm (currently) liking this for minimalist downbeat "Nulleins - Seven Spaces", and "Christian Bloch - New Age" is good too. For the ambient stuff, go to the Autoplate site. Motionfield's "Music for Pictures" is very good, in the Eno/Fripp/Budd vein.
Along the same lines is deepmix.ru From, yep, Russia. Nice minimalist constructions. Their deepmixes v.1, 2, 3, and Bulletproof are all interesting. They did have a righteous 76 minute-long dub/reggae track mixed by dj Face Off, but it's no longer on the site (that I can see). I've got it, so if you'd like that, I can put up a yousendit link.
Still in the downbeat/ambient/groove vein is the immortal SOMA.FM. Listen to their stuff, check their playlists and look/ask for neat stuff on the 'net. weirdenergy plays a lot of eclectic stuff too. As I'm writing this, they're playing...
Pere Ubu CD: Terminal Tower Track: Untitled
The Breeders CD: Last Splash Track: Hag
Jane's Addiction CD: Ritual De Lo Habitual Track: Classic Girl
Overwhelming Colorfast CD: Overwhelming Colorfast Track: Forest
Cibo Matto CD: VIVA! La Woman Track: Jive
Oh and Faithless are really good. Really really. Go 'Music' -> 'Forever Faithless' (album - it's a good overview) and click on the various 'Listen' links. Naturally the site's got sound and vision, so is probably not good for work.
Everybody needs more Brave in their life. Their myspace page has songs.
Guster is amazing. Or, were amazing. Their first three albums, all specactular. The newest made me cry, and not in a good way.
And, if you ever have a craving for some heavier, more complex stuff, my favorite albums of 2005 were Nevermore's "This Godless Endeavor", Opeth's "Ghost Reveries", and After Forever's "Remagine".
Husky Rescue "Country Falls"
Sick of it All "Built to Last"
Toots and the Maytals
Ground Zero "Revolutionary Pekinese Opera"
Magic Sam Blues Band
Test Dept. "The Unacceptable Face of Freedom"
Charles Ives "The Unanswered Question"
Ricardo Villalobos "Love Family Trax"
The Bran Flakes, who were The Avalanches before the Avalanches.
Timothy Monger, who does pastoral pop incredibly well.
The Great Lakes Myth Society, which Monger is a part of.
Charlie Slick, which does New Order meets Duran Duran incredibly well.
The Meters, which if you're not already listening to you should start (dunno if that counts as "new")
Midlake
Richard Hawley
Elvis Perkins
Ulrich Schnauss
M83
Evermore
The Black Heart Procession
The Gotan Project
Samia Farah
Wynonie Harris
Scott Walker
The Fall (you BETTER recognize)
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