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03 June 2008

Discovery! What new (to you) music have you found lately?

post by: Doohickie at: 20:22 | 20 comments

Me: Skream, N-Type, and dubstep in general.

posted by pompomtom 03 June | 20:27

Nothing, I'm in a musical rut :-(

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 June | 20:28

Thanks to signal, The Pipettes.

I have also recent discovered Arcade Fire (I knew of them, but hadn't really listened to them much), Coastal, and Marissa Nadler.

posted by evilcupcakes 03 June | 20:36

Fleet Foxes (see my FPP earlier), all the podcasts at indiefeed.com, and the Modern Skirts from Athens, GA.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 03 June | 20:48

pompomtom.... I listened to Skream Colourful.... the vocalist in there sounds like the vocalist in A Higher Place by Röyksopp..... same person?

posted by Doohickie 03 June | 21:02

And Skream's Summer Dreams is pretty awesome too.......

posted by Doohickie 03 June | 21:03

Voice of Authority
Playgroup

posted by Hellbient 03 June | 21:17

My favorite new CD so far this year is In Ghost Colours, by Cut Copy.

posted by Prospero 03 June | 21:34

Pop Levi.
Jessie Evans.
Teenage Bad Girl.
Lykke Li.

posted by mykescipark 03 June | 22:09

Threw together a few here.

Datarock is just catchy fun.
Los Campesinos! is maybe too clever, but also catchy fun.
(and somewhat less recently, the following...)
Dntel is the other half of Postal Service.
Bon Iver is maybe the best chill music I've heard all year.

Also. If you go to Theatre of Disco's myspace and listen to "On the Train", it's goofy but it's got a funky beat and i can dance to it.

posted by pokermonk 03 June | 22:10

Doohickie:

I don't know enough (read*: any) of Röyksopp... but I'm now going to send myself a reminder to check it out when I get home!!

Also, if you're checking out Skream, and you've either seen "Human Traffic"** or read "Mr Nice", you have to hear Rutten.

* Pronounced: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
** And if you haven't seam Human Traffic, you should.

posted by pompomtom 03 June | 23:12

s/seam/seen/

Must spend lunch notinpub occasionally....

posted by pompomtom 03 June | 23:28

Alejandro Escovado. I can't believe I'd never heard of him until recently.

posted by essexjan 04 June | 00:55

Funny you should ask. I've been boning up on Chinese punk rock, like Brain Failure (MySpace). There quite a trove of video. I'm betting we'll see these guys in a Buick commercial or something right around the Olympics...

posted by BitterOldPunk 04 June | 01:03

I've been really digging hip hop lately, especially this busdriver track Unemployed Black Astronaut.

posted by drezdn 04 June | 10:20

This ain't new but I've been in the mood for it, summer party music. Careful there, the video's got some boobs.

posted by Wolfdog 04 June | 12:35

Nico's solo albums.

posted by jtron 04 June | 14:22

Not new to me, but kinda rediscovered lately: Ella Jenkins, Steve Reich. New to me: the late Rufus Harley, Soundway's newish '70s-Nigeria compilations, Defacto.

And I've been listening to lots of stuff with Hamid Drake on it (especially his recordings with Peter Brotzmann), and loving him lately even more than usual. And, yesterday, somebody forced me to listen to a Devendra Banhart (sp?) song without telling me who it was, and I totally dug it.

posted by box 04 June | 14:39

Yah know when yah just get yer report card
And yah have all F's on it
Yah just want to take it back to the teacher and say
Throw some D's on it.

Souldja Boy, cracks me up.
Sure he may sound a lot like Nelly, but ya gotta love the lyrics and beat. Too funny if it wasn't so sad.

Great stuff, pompomtom, lovin' that dubstep and skream's 'stutter' is wicked and jarring and 'midnight request line' are great. Excellent.

Doohickie, Royksopp came to mind listening to skream also. Good call and yeah, the voice sounds similar.

drezdn, thanks for the busdriver tip. 'Casting Agents and Cowboys', indeed. great./ 'Sun Showers' too.