I know it's old news and I know it's not extensively indie but I do want to shout out that I just purchased Minus the Bear's Planet of Ice and....damn. I love their previous cd's, but this path they're going down is just phenomenal.
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This is from their new album: TV On The Radio
Seriously, you call that singing? This is a joke.
Works much much better on album than as a single, I think.
But I don't know what to say to people that don't like TV On The Radio.
I used to be like them.
No more.
And when I finally do it
I wanna do the dirt like the dead leaves do
and if you do leave the earth
when the earth leaves you
cold and hard as a marble table top with nothing on top
there's no hip hip-hop hooray
heaping Heaven's golden-barbed gateway
no bright confetti high-step march ticker tape parade
There's no mound of clouds to lounge on
no mound of clouds to lounge on
Only someone like Why? could take a whole song about wanting to commit suicide and not make it sound whiny and melodramatic. Hymie's Basement, his collaboration with Fog, was pretty ace too. Check out 21st Century Pop Song.
Dear Science is awesome and tight and also shit hot.
Cookie Mountain had its moments but sounded like someone with a stomach full of static jammed two fingers down their throat, this time they decided hey that thing we did last album was cool so now let's just peel it down to a series of simple recombinant elements tied together with vocals and oh we can make it political as well because the mechanical structure of the songs can be taken as an appeal to rationality in an uncertain world.
And, Dear Science > RTCM? Because if so then I'll give it a serious chance. Cookie Mountain had about 1.5 songs that I could even bother to sit through.
And, Dear Science > RTCM? Because if so then I'll give it a serious chance. Cookie Mountain had about 1.5 songs that I could even bother to sit through.
It's a totally different animal. The static and ultra-dense production have given way to rigid beatbox-ish drumming and electronica backup on a lot of the songs, and Adebimpe's vocals are way more prominent.
I couldn't take most of Cookie Mountain either but I love this.
I know it's old news and I know it's not extensively indie but I do want to shout out that I just purchased Minus the Bear's Planet of Ice and....damn. I love their previous cd's, but this path they're going down is just phenomenal.
I get so bored so quickly by them. I saw them live with Portugal. The Man, and we left after their third song.
But God Damn do I love me some Portugal. The Man. They never fail to put on a great performance.
So who the fuck is this band NASA that no one has ever heard of before and all of a sudden their debut album is guest starring The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sean Lennon, John Frusciante, Tom Waits, CSS, The Cardigans ,George Clinton, David Byrne, Seu Jorge, RZA, Method Man Cee-Lo, Kool Keith, The Pharcyde, De La Soul, M.I.A., Chuck D, Kanye West, Gift of Gab, KRS-One, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, QBert, The Cool Kids, Santogold and Ghostface? Is this a Pitchfork joke or something?
Yeah, I've brought them up before (I think). I had that album, but there are only a few songs that really clicked for me, Galaxy of the Lost being one. The rest were just kind of same-y and dreary.
He did a string sessions a while back and that is all that I have of him, he had a weird song on it comparing his love to that of various superheroes's love interests, took me a while to realize that. No Suprise is another song of his that i enjoy.
Girl Talk is cool, but I'm always embarrassed to listen to it when friends come round, because I can never remember when it's going to break into hardcore rap.
Also, I'm pretty sure someone mentioned Late of the Pier in here and I just heard 'Focker' by them (well, watched the video clip to be precise), is the rest of the album similar? Should I get it?
Girl Talk is cool, but I'm always embarrassed to listen to it when friends come round, because I can never remember when it's going to break into hardcore rap.
Man, that's the reason I love it. It's awesome it being a surprise what will come on, and having a car-full of friends just jamming to rap mixed with 70's rock is awesome. It's the perfect party music.
I'm pretty sure Mike Watt - Ball-Hog or Tugboat has the best lineup of any album ever
Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Solo)
Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters)
Krist Novoselic (Nirvana, Flipper)
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam, Solo)
Black Francis/Frank Black (Pixies, Solo)
Henry Rollins (Black Flag, Solo)
Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth)
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth, Solo)
Steve Shelly (Sonic Youth)
Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth)
Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets)
Cris Kirkwood (Meat Puppets)
Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust)
J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr, Solo)
Stephen Perkins (Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros)
Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum)
Pat Smear (Nirvana, The Germs, Foo Fighters)
Girl Talk is cool, but I'm always embarrassed to listen to it when friends come round, because I can never remember when it's going to break into hardcore rap.
Man, that's the reason I love it. It's awesome it being a surprise what will come on, and having a car-full of friends just jamming to rap mixed with 70's rock is awesome. It's the perfect party music.
You'll love it TTR. I've been, I was up on stage dancing around sweating my ass off. Was amazing!
Dear and the Headlights' last CD, Small Steps, Heavy Hooves has been on heavy rotation on my iPod ever since I first heard it. Just got the new one last night and I like what I hear.
I just picked up a couple of Bright Eyes CD's. I've come to the realization that Connor Oberst is a Demi-God of music. Lifted or The Story is in the Soil. Keep Your Ear to the Ground. Is so amazing there are no words.
So, in case any of you haven't heard yet, Muxtapes is relaunching, but it's not what it was.
Muxtape is relaunching as a service exclusively for bands, offering an extremely powerful platform with unheard-of simplicity for artists to thrive on the internet. Musicians in 2008 without access to a full time web developer have few options when it comes to establishing themselves online, but their needs often revolve around a common set of problems. The new Muxtape will allow bands to upload their own music and offer an embeddable player that works anywhere on the web, in addition to the original muxtape format. Bands will be able to assemble an attractive profile with simple modules that enable optional functionality such as a calendar, photos, comments, downloads and sales, or anything else they need. The system has been built from the ground up to be extended infinitely and is wrapped in a template system that will be open to CSS designers. There will be more details soon. The beta is still private at the moment, but that will change in the coming weeks.
I realize this is a somewhat radical shift in functionality, but Muxtape’s core goals haven’t changed. I still want to challenge the way we experience music online, and I still want to work to enable what I think is the most interesting aspect of interconnected music: discovering new stuff.
Thank to you everyone who made Muxtape the incredible place it was in its first phase, it couldn’t have happened without your mixes. The industry will catch up some day, it pretty much has to.
Justin Ouellette
25 September 2008
Preceding that is a long and troublesome story about legal trouble and the RIAA. Long story short, there was just too much pressure from above, and Justin decided that if he did everything the labels and RIAA wanted him to do, his site wouldn't be anything like what he wanted, and he didn't have any money for legal actions. So he's relaunching as a band service.
It's better news than I expected, but still a little disappointing.
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Works much much better on album than as a single, I think.
But I don't know what to say to people that don't like TV On The Radio.
I used to be like them.
No more.
And when I finally do it
I wanna do the dirt like the dead leaves do
and if you do leave the earth
when the earth leaves you
cold and hard as a marble table top with nothing on top
there's no hip hip-hop hooray
heaping Heaven's golden-barbed gateway
no bright confetti high-step march ticker tape parade
There's no mound of clouds to lounge on
no mound of clouds to lounge on
Only someone like Why? could take a whole song about wanting to commit suicide and not make it sound whiny and melodramatic. Hymie's Basement, his collaboration with Fog, was pretty ace too. Check out 21st Century Pop Song.
Big kid tested, motherfucker approved
i fail to see how that is any more ridiculous sounding than any other indie band singer
Cookie Mountain had its moments but sounded like someone with a stomach full of static jammed two fingers down their throat, this time they decided hey that thing we did last album was cool so now let's just peel it down to a series of simple recombinant elements tied together with vocals and oh we can make it political as well because the mechanical structure of the songs can be taken as an appeal to rationality in an uncertain world.
So good.
You are scarcely a man, no more than a mass of sentient produce.
And, Dear Science > RTCM? Because if so then I'll give it a serious chance. Cookie Mountain had about 1.5 songs that I could even bother to sit through.
Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
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It's a totally different animal. The static and ultra-dense production have given way to rigid beatbox-ish drumming and electronica backup on a lot of the songs, and Adebimpe's vocals are way more prominent.
I couldn't take most of Cookie Mountain either but I love this.
But Dear Science, is still good and definitely more accessible.
I get so bored so quickly by them. I saw them live with Portugal. The Man, and we left after their third song.
But God Damn do I love me some Portugal. The Man. They never fail to put on a great performance.
It's pretty good.
You know we have a metal thread here, eh? Fun album, but DSBM really doesn't belong in Indie :P Perhaps some post-black metal, but still.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=59739
dream a little dream or you could live a little dream
sleep forever if you wish to be a dreamer
Just listened to Dear Science today, my first TV on the Radio album.
Wow
Dear Science RULES.
also Why is fucking awesome I love that dude Alopecia is so fantastic
i just found them and they rockkkkkk
galaxy of the lost
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Also people need to listen to Fields its suprising and sad to me that not many people had heard of them.
Fields
Fields
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCNh4bj5Rd0
I heard he gives a killer show, anyone ever been?
Also, I'm pretty sure someone mentioned Late of the Pier in here and I just heard 'Focker' by them (well, watched the video clip to be precise), is the rest of the album similar? Should I get it?
Man, that's the reason I love it. It's awesome it being a surprise what will come on, and having a car-full of friends just jamming to rap mixed with 70's rock is awesome. It's the perfect party music.
That song starts a liitle bit like this:
nudey nudey popping popping
booty booty rocking rocking
whooo whooo
it was turned up real loud and I was like
e: I wrote pooping, ha!
Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Solo)
Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters)
Krist Novoselic (Nirvana, Flipper)
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam, Solo)
Black Francis/Frank Black (Pixies, Solo)
Henry Rollins (Black Flag, Solo)
Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth)
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth, Solo)
Steve Shelly (Sonic Youth)
Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth)
Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets)
Cris Kirkwood (Meat Puppets)
Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust)
J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr, Solo)
Stephen Perkins (Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros)
Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum)
Pat Smear (Nirvana, The Germs, Foo Fighters)
NOODY NOODY POPPIN KNOCKIN
You'll love it TTR. I've been, I was up on stage dancing around sweating my ass off. Was amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOhlj-fzWck
E: I don't know how to embed the video in the forum.
E2: Apparently I do.
Also, I
they were really good
Preceding that is a long and troublesome story about legal trouble and the RIAA. Long story short, there was just too much pressure from above, and Justin decided that if he did everything the labels and RIAA wanted him to do, his site wouldn't be anything like what he wanted, and he didn't have any money for legal actions. So he's relaunching as a band service.
It's better news than I expected, but still a little disappointing.
Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
stream
I like the new Marnie Stern record. It's weird, but I find it enjoyable. Never a dull moment on the whole record.