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General Discussion => Beer and Queso => Topic started by: Ebby Calvin on April 17, 2017, 10:11:53 pm
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Current rotation:
Kendrick Lamar - Damn. (hip hop)
Spoon - Hot Thoughts (rock)
Real Estate - In Mind (lazy rock)
Laura Marling - Semper Femina (rock/folk)
Ryan Adams - Prisoner (rock/folk)
Bonobo - Migration (instrumental)
Run the Jewels - 3 (hip hop)
...and the best of the year so far:
Thundercat - Drunk (every genre, includes appearances from Kendrick, Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald and FlyLo)
I feel like I'm missing a few. I'm going to check out Sphinx's recs from the 2016 thread, but there's more out there, I know it.
Can't wait for the new Grizzly Bear, whenever that drops.
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I think my only real band recommendation was Public Access T.V.'s debut album.
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Holy shit, the new Kendrick is good.
Also, I still love Run The Jewels, but after someone referred to them as "woke Limp Bizkit", I can't listen to them without giggling a little.
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Holy shit, the new Kendrick is good.
Isn't that supposed to be "Damn, the new Kendrick is good."?
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Isn't that supposed to be "Damn, the new Kendrick is good."?
or: "Damn, Damn, the new Kendrick, is good."
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I'm a little surprised by how much I like the new Father John Misty, Pure Comedy, after not thinking too much of I Love You, Honeybear.
But actually I liked Honeybear a bit more on last listen than I had initially. I just wish he wouldn't sing incessantly from start to finish of every song.
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I'm a little surprised by how much I like the new Father John Misty, Pure Comedy, after not thinking too much of I Love You, Honeybear.
But actually I liked Honeybear a bit more on last listen than I had initially. I just wish he wouldn't sing incessantly from start to finish of every song.
I just can't stand that guy for some reason. I liked him when he was in Fleet Foxes, mainly because I didn't know who he was at the time.
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Yeah, apparently he gets that a lot. A recent story in the Times quoted him commenting on the fact that there is something about him that people just really despise, which he said he completely understands.
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I'm with EC on FJM. I've tried hard because a buddy of mine is a huge fan, but I just do not like anything that guy has done (solo). I don't like his voice or his lyrics or his songwriting. Not in a "I can't believe people like him" way, but he does nothing at all for me.
Spoon and Real Estate are both bands I like a lot but I haven't spent a lot of time with either new album.
I like the new New Pornographers album a lot, though it took a few trips through it to click.
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I'm with EC on FJM. I've tried hard because a buddy of mine is a huge fan, but I just do not like anything that guy has done (solo). I don't like his voice or his lyrics or his songwriting. Not in a "I can't believe people like him" way, but he does nothing at all for me.
Doesn't do much for me either, but I really like the album cover art.
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Other than Texas State's student run radio station, I depend on guys like Drew, Ebby and GBB to keep me informed on the music by new bands, and they do a damn good job. So I'll just include some new releases from some old standbys and one from left field that I've recently enjoyed.
Ray Davies, Americana. I think it's great but he is on my Mt Rushmore so I'm extremely biased, also, if you don't like him, fuck you.
Really digging the newest Robyn Hitchcock, also titled Robyn Hitchcock. I think it's his best in years.
Ron Sexsmith new album, Last Ride, is damn fine pretty music.
Okay, this is one I didn't see coming. Kill me if you want to and maybe I deserve it but, Michelle Branch's newest, Hopeless Romantic, is really catchy with nice melodies and hooks. I love her singing.
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Molly Burch's debut album Please Be Mine is my favorite of the year so far.
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Other than Texas State's student run radio station, I depend on guys like Drew, Ebby and GBB to keep me informed on the music by new bands, and they do a damn good job. So I'll just include some new releases from some old standbys and one from left field that I've recently enjoyed.
Ray Davies, Americana. I think it's great but he is on my Mt Rushmore so I'm extremely biased, also, if you don't like him, fuck you.
Really digging the newest Robyn Hitchcock, also titled Robyn Hitchcock. I think it's his best in years.
Ron Sexsmith new album, Last Ride, is damn fine pretty music.
Okay, this is one I didn't see coming. Kill me if you want to and maybe I deserve it but, Michelle Branch's newest, Hopeless Romantic, is really catchy with nice melodies and hooks. I love her singing.
Ray Davies, the Kinks guy?
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Ray Davies, the Kinks guy?
Yes, of course. The one and only.
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I'll bite cause I'm curious. Who else is on your Mt. Rushmore?
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Okay, this is one I didn't see coming. Kill me if you want to and maybe I deserve it but, Michelle Branch's newest, Hopeless Romantic, is really catchy with nice melodies and hooks. I love her singing.
I dig her. If you haven't heard The Wreckers, "Stand Still, Look Pretty" then go find it.
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I'll bite cause I'm curious. Who else is on your Mt. Rushmore?
Three dead guys, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, and Miles Davis.
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Three dead guys, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, and Miles Davis.
Little known fact. Zappa dabbled in classical music composition. He even went so far as to travel off to study with Pierre Boulez. In that time he wrote a chamber orchestra work that I was fortunate enough to perform a few years back with top shelf professional group. It was insanely difficult for everyone involved but an absolute killer piece! Zappa was a once in a generation talent.
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Little known fact. Zappa dabbled in classical music composition. He even went so far as to travel off to study with Pierre Boulez. In that time he wrote a chamber orchestra work that I was fortunate enough to perform a few years back with top shelf professional group. It was insanely difficult for everyone involved but an absolute killer piece! Zappa was a once in a generation talent.
Do you play cello?
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Opposite end of the orchestra....
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Current rotation:
Kendrick Lamar - Damn. (hip hop)
Spoon - Hot Thoughts (rock)
Real Estate - In Mind (lazy rock)
Laura Marling - Semper Femina (rock/folk)
Ryan Adams - Prisoner (rock/folk)
Bonobo - Migration (instrumental)
Run the Jewels - 3 (hip hop)
...and the best of the year so far:
Thundercat - Drunk (every genre, includes appearances from Kendrick, Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald and FlyLo)
I feel like I'm missing a few. I'm going to check out Sphinx's recs from the 2016 thread, but there's more out there, I know it.
Can't wait for the new Grizzly Bear, whenever that drops.
I'll second most of these recs, although I haven't checked out the new Bonobo or RTJ yet.
Two tracks that I've enjoyed from albums yet to be released in 2017 are Frances Cone's "Arizona" and Perfume Genius's "Slip Away." Both of these artists aren't firmly in my typical musical wheelhouse, so I'm interested to check out the full albums to see if it resonates with me or not.
Have you come across any news or rumors about a Wolf Parade full length album? If I wasn't increasingly old and lazy, I would have tried to catch one of their Texas shows this year.
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Have you come across any news or rumors about a Wolf Parade full length album? If I wasn't increasingly old and lazy, I would have tried to catch one of their Texas shows this year.
Man I'd love that. Last I heard they were working on a full-length but nothing concrete.
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Technically 2016, but just discovered Magna Carda's debut album Cirqlation . The song "The Root" needs you to listen to it, right now.
Right now.
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Today, cinco de mayo, marks the release of Jei Beibi, the latest from the Mexican titans Cafe Tacuba, one of the truly great bands of our time. I am not kidding. Whoever your favorite band is, if you like modern music, modern being anything after about 1956, then you should like these guys. They are the equals of Radiohead or U2 or whoever your benchmark for global greatness is. Maybe not the equals of the Beatles, you know, but they are definitely as compelling as anyone out there right now.
Cafeta is a constantly evolving concern. For me, that's one indication of greatness. Their last album, El Objecto Antes Llamado Disco (the title a sort of ironic nod to Prince) was released in 2012. That record was markedly different from Sino, the previous (and great) release, which was released in 2007.
So they are not particularly prolific. You get something every five years or so. If you don't like it, too bad.
Weird fact: When I brought my son home from the hospital back in 2014 I loaded him into the nave and got everyone buckled in and started the car and tuned the radio in to the local indie sort of station (http://www.radio10pty.com/), Cafeta's Pájaros (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keJSxwpJvso) miraculously began.
Jei Beibi promises to be as relentlessly eclectic as their last several releases. Among the songs they have released there's a futuristic sort of synth freak out, a psychedelic, meandering, melodic, mid-tempo rocker, and an outright homage to 70's soft rock balladry. This last one, Que No (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQpy9TBs1U), may be my favorite of what I've heard.
I wonder if my son doesn't think his name is Que NO! Maybe next record they'll have a song called Bájatedeallí! and really confuse the guy.
Continuing along in the surprisingly rewarding area of rock en español que no chupe, we find ourselves greeted with the latest single from El Mató a un Policía Motorizado, a band from La Plata, Argentina, that I love more than I can possibly explain. They are the perfect band for me. If you like Matador bands from the 90's, any of them, really, then they might be the perfect band for you, too. If you don't like Matador bands but you do like the Pixies or the Velvets, then pay attention.
I love all their records, but their latest album (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdjECfvS0do&t=813s) was the first that I really felt got anywhere close to their potential. If the single (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XTZUooX9Us) off the upcoming record that's supposed to be released in June (recorded in El Paso, of all places) is any indication of their development, well, I'm very excited.
Finally, let's stay in the southern hemisphere. There are some bands that I like more than anyone else I know. I invite friends to see them and we walk away and my friends say, Yeah, that was, umm, great.
OK. That's fine with me. Underground Lovers, a band from Melbourne, is probably just such a band. OK. That's fine with me. I've loved them for twenty five years. They took a long break and are back with their second recent record. Weekend was released in 2013, their first since Cold Feeling in 1999.
Staring At You Staring At Me will also be released tomorrow. I love it. Australia's Rolling Stone has the whole thing up for streaming (https://rollingstoneaus.com/music/post/first-listen-underground-lovers-staring-at-you-staring-at-me/6091).
There are videos out there for The Rerun and Conde Nast Trap; either of those songs is perfectly representative of what the band is all about.
I don't know why this resonates with me, but the first song on the record, St Kilda Regret, sung by their keyboard player, is about the singer's extreme disappointment with the local football team.
I keep refreshing Amazon's Jei Beibi page trying to get them to sell it to me. No me complacen, chucha.
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Today, cinco de mayo, marks the release of Jei Beibi, the latest from the Mexican titans Cafe Tacuba, one of the truly great bands of our time. I am not kidding. Whoever your favorite band is, if you like modern music, modern being anything after about 1956, then you should like these guys. They are the equals of Radiohead or U2 or whoever your benchmark for global greatness is. Maybe not the equals of the Beatles, you know, but they are definitely as compelling as anyone out there right now.
Cafeta is a constantly evolving concern. For me, that's one indication of greatness. Their last album, El Objecto Antes Llamado Disco (the title a sort of ironic nod to Prince) was released in 2012. That record was markedly different from Sino, the previous (and great) release, which was released in 2007.
So they are not particularly prolific. You get something every five years or so. If you don't like it, too bad.
Weird fact: When I brought my son home from the hospital back in 2014 I loaded him into the nave and got everyone buckled in and started the car and tuned the radio in to the local indie sort of station (http://www.radio10pty.com/), Cafeta's Pájaros (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keJSxwpJvso) miraculously began.
Jei Beibi promises to be as relentlessly eclectic as their last several releases. Among the songs they have released there's a futuristic sort of synth freak out, a psychedelic, meandering, melodic, mid-tempo rocker, and an outright homage to 70's soft rock balladry. This last one, Que No (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQpy9TBs1U), may be my favorite of what I've heard.
I wonder if my son doesn't think his name is Que NO! Maybe next record they'll have a song called Bájatedeallí! and really confuse the guy.
Continuing along in the surprisingly rewarding area of rock en español que no chupe, we find ourselves greeted with the latest single from El Mató a un Policía Motorizado, a band from La Plata, Argentina, that I love more than I can possibly explain. They are the perfect band for me. If you like Matador bands from the 90's, any of them, really, then they might be the perfect band for you, too. If you don't like Matador bands but you do like the Pixies or the Velvets, then pay attention.
I love all their records, but their latest album (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdjECfvS0do&t=813s) was the first that I really felt got anywhere close to their potential. If the single (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XTZUooX9Us) off the upcoming record that's supposed to be released in June (recorded in El Paso, of all places) is any indication of their development, well, I'm very excited.
Finally, let's stay in the southern hemisphere. There are some bands that I like more than anyone else I know. I invite friends to see them and we walk away and my friends say, Yeah, that was, umm, great.
OK. That's fine with me. Underground Lovers, a band from Melbourne, is probably just such a band. OK. That's fine with me. I've loved them for twenty five years. They took a long break and are back with their second recent record. Weekend was released in 2013, their first since Cold Feeling in 1999.
Staring At You Staring At Me will also be released tomorrow. I love it. Australia's Rolling Stone has the whole thing up for streaming (https://rollingstoneaus.com/music/post/first-listen-underground-lovers-staring-at-you-staring-at-me/6091).
There are videos out there for The Rerun and Conde Nast Trap; either of those songs is perfectly representative of what the band is all about.
I don't know why this resonates with me, but the first song on the record, St Kilda Regret, sung by their keyboard player, is about the singer's extreme disappointment with the local football team.
I keep refreshing Amazon's Jei Beibi page trying to get them to sell it to me. No me complacen, chucha.
St Kilda lamentation should spawn a box set really, not just a song.
When you said relentlessly electric, I was expecting some more like this? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7XPlWbVTAg)
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Technically 2016, but just discovered Magna Carda's debut album Cirqlation . The song "The Root" needs you to listen to it, right now.
Right now.
Don't tell me what to do, dammit.
But yeah this is really, really good.
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Cafe Tacuba is really a great band.
Tom Heyman has a new one coming out real damn soon. It's inspired by the LeRoi Brothers, among other influences. Fire up YouTube and listen to the full ride of Cool Blue Feeling or at least #9 and Chickenhawks and Jesus Freaks. The man is incredible.
Speaking of incredible, Tom will be opening some shows in the East in June for the great Dan Stuart. Not to be missed.
And the genius that is Wreckless Eric has a new one coming out later this year. It's a bookend to his previous disc about his experiences in the US; this one goes back to growing up in England, moving to France, and then meeting Amy.
Who is in town tonight, preparing for a breakneck zip through Texas celebrating her 20th anniversary of Diary of a Mod Housewife, out on vinyl for the first time. She's at the Townsend in Austin tomorrow night (it's a secret, but she'll sit in with Rosie Flores at the Continental after), then she's in San Antonio, Houston and Dallas. Check your local listings or amyrigby.com for more.
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Ryan Adams - Prisoner (rock/folk)
I just went to see Ryan Adams at the Beacon Theater last week. Awesome show.
But the best show I saw in the past couple of months was the Decemberists who were playing a new venue here called Brooklyn Steel (because its in a former steel fabrication plant in Brooklyn). What an awesome show. Without any announcement, they started the show playing the entire "Hazards of Love" album. I have one of their songs pretty much on repeat on my Ipod -- Mistral off the "What a Terrible World".
I believe that I first starting listening to the Decemberists based on a recommendation on this page. So thanks for that.
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My favorite band I've discovered in 2016/2017 is Larry and His Flask.
They're not new , but holy fuck, can they play.
Hobo's Lament
All That We've Seen
End of an Era
I'll Be Gone
Basically all their stuff is great.
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There have been a couple of interesting interviews with the boys from Ciudad Satélite over the last handful of days. I ran across this one just now:
Mexico's Most Famous Rock Band In the Age of Trump. (http://www.trackrecord.net/features/articles/what-its-like-to-be-mexicos-most-famous-rock-band-in-the-age-of-trump/5603) It's a fairly thoughtful and rangey piece with my two favorite members.
There was also a recoded interview (https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-05-09/aged-well-mexicos-caf-tacvba-still-rocks-hard) on The World that I enjoyed and may better please the tldr crowd.
It amuses me to hear these guys speak English. I've seen them all over the world, but in the US they never address the audience in English, and any time I've ever spoken with them we invariably speak Spanish. I didn't even really know that they spoke any English at all until a few years ago. Taking this whole theme further, it turns out that the single greatest Spanish language lyricist I know of, Julieta Venegas, speaks English more or less like any of us does. I mean, she has a slight accent, but undetectable for most listeners. was amazed when I first heard her give an interview in English.
Anyway, I have to admit that so far I don't really understand Jei Beibi. I like a lot of it and I love some of it. But there are areas where they are doing things I just don't understand. I trust these guys, though, and they don't just slap some shit together to fill an album, so every note on the record has a specific purpose. I just haven't figured out some of it yet. I'll continue to work with it and I'm pretty confident I'll be rewarded.
I had a similar experience with the record Nada Surf released last year. I mentioned how much I loved their The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy, and when I first listened to last year's You Know Who You Are, it was so different sonically and conceptually that I was very resistant to it at first. I really didn't like it, to be honest. But after a while I began to understand why it was so different from its predecessor and in short order I grew to love it, and today I have surely listened to it five times more than I ever listened to The Stars, and some of its songs that I first found fairly horrifying I now love.
There is some weirdness on Jei Beibi that I don't know that I'll come to LOVE, but in time I hope to gain understanding and, who knows, perhaps some form of acceptance.
They're playing a total of six nights in Texas in September, one in Dallas, one in Austin, two each in San Antonio and Houston, so any Texaneck interested in seeing a great band should have a reasonable chance to do so.
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My favorite band I've discovered in 2016/2017 is Larry and His Flask.
They're not new , but holy fuck, can they play.
Hobo's Lament
All That We've Seen
End of an Era
I'll Be Gone
Basically all their stuff is great.
Thanks so much for this recommendation! Got me through a long and late night drive. Much appreciated!
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My favorite band I've discovered in 2016/2017 is Larry and His Flask.
They're not new , but holy fuck, can they play.
Hobo's Lament
All That We've Seen
End of an Era
I'll Be Gone
Basically all their stuff is great.
I got around to checking this out this afternoon. Great stuff! Thanks for the recommendation!
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Just saw that the Lone Bellow is putting out a new album in September. You can hear a preview on their website. (https://www.thelonebellow.com/). Great band to see live.
Also their lead singer has an uncanny likeness to Altuve (https://www.google.com/search?q=lone+bellow&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi62fnm2aTVAhXF8CYKHdy6CuIQ_AUIDCgD&biw=1229&bih=587#tbm=isch&q=zach+williams+lone+bellow). Atleast before he grew the beard he is sporting on the new album.
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Ray Davies, Americana. I think it's great but he is on my Mt Rushmore so I'm extremely biased, also, if you don't like him, fuck you.
When people ask What's the best and worst concert you ever attended?, the answer for me is the same to both questions: The Kinks. It was all a matter of Ray's sobriety. Saw them in '78 and they absolutely kicked ass. A couple of years later, Ray was trashed and spent most of the concert insulting folks in the first few rows.
He was the keynote speaker at SXSW about ten years ago (maybe earlier). Very enjoyable presentation.
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A new Wolf Parade song was released and will be followed by a full album in Oct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRslooNX4Js&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRslooNX4Js&feature=youtu.be)
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A new Wolf Parade song was released and will be followed by a full album in Oct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRslooNX4Js&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRslooNX4Js&feature=youtu.be)
I really like the song. It's a bit more vanilla than some of their other stuff but I think it works.
Can't wait for the album.
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I really like the song. It's a bit more vanilla than some of their other stuff but I think it works.
Can't wait for the album.
I read a quote, I think from Dan, that there will have to be at least one 10+ minute song on the record because it really wouldn't be a wolf parade album without one.
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The new Grizzly Bear album, Painted Ruins, is outstanding. These guys just keep doing it.
Excited to pick up the new National album today too--Sleep Well Beast.
New LCD Soundsystem is good too.
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After 26 years or so, a new Dream Syndicate album is out - 'How Did I Find Myself Here?' - and it's FUCKING GREAT. Snarly, howling, little bit of pop that leavens the good old guitar freakout roar. Can't be turned up loud enough. They're about to tour and will blow through Austin in late January, probably Dallas and Houston around then as well.
OMD's new album came out last week. I love OMD but this one is going to have to grow on me because it's not gripping me like I hoped it would, less of a whore in bed and more of an inexperienced sorority girl wannabe who is too confused to know how to try.
And then there's this (http://www.npr.org/2017/09/05/547854997/first-listen-husker-du-savage-young-du), in the middle of a free online stream sneak preview courtesy of NPR. Advance word was that the sound quality was a massive upgrade and no joke, it is and it's better than any of us had a right to expect. Quantities are going to be limited and the 7" EP is just about already gone via pre-order, so if you haven't snapped it up now is the time for sure.
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The new Grizzly Bear album, Painted Ruins, is outstanding. These guys just keep doing it.
Couldn't agree more. The 3-song stretch of Losing All Sense/Aquarian/Cut Out is phenomenal.
I like the second half of Sleep Well Beast MUCH better than the first half, but that's how I felt about Trouble Will Find Me, too.
Also in my current rotation - War on Drugs and Fleet Foxes. With Beck and Wolf Parade likely to join soon.
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After 26 years or so, a new Dream Syndicate album is out - 'How Did I Find Myself Here?' - and it's FUCKING GREAT. Snarly, howling, little bit of pop that leavens the good old guitar freakout roar. Can't be turned up loud enough. They're about to tour and will blow through Austin in late January, probably Dallas and Houston around then as well.
Excellent. That's just the push I need to pick it up. And . . . I don't want to miss this tour.
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So, I got an email saying the Fratellis will release a new album in March next year (they are giving us plenty of time to save up for it!). The catalouge shows CDs and LPs (as expected) but they are also releasing on cassette. I thought cassettes were done, is it normal for new releases to go on cassette? Now, true confession you old farts, who is still listening to cassettes?
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So, I got an email saying the Fratellis will release a new album in March next year (they are giving us plenty of time to save up for it!). The catalouge shows CDs and LPs (as expected) but they are also releasing on cassette. I thought cassettes were done, is it normal for new releases to go on cassette? Now, true confession you old farts, who is still listening to cassettes?
I have a cassette player/disc player combo that came stock in my 2004 Tundra. I use a cassette insert converter to play my iPhone.
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I have a cassette player/disc player combo that came stock in my 2004 Tundra. I use a cassette insert converter to play my iPhone.
I remember my brother's fancy-schmancy Nakamichi deck. That was a real piece of engineering for a truly shitty format.
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I remember my brother's fancy-schmancy Nakamichi deck. That was a real piece of engineering for a truly shitty format.
Is that the one where it physically flipped the cassette around, rather than moving the heads? That was the shit back then.
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I'm a little surprised by how much I like the new Father John Misty, Pure Comedy, after not thinking too much of I Love You, Honeybear.
But actually I liked Honeybear a bit more on last listen than I had initially. I just wish he wouldn't sing incessantly from start to finish of every song.
I liked the first. When I listened to the latest I thought he sounded a lot like Elton John.
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I really like the bandcamp website.
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For any Frightened Rabbit fans out there, Scott Hutchison went missing last night.
His last two tweets:
Be so good to everyone you love. It’s not a given. I’m so annoyed that it’s not. I didn’t live by that standard and it kills me. Please, hug your loved ones.
I’m away now. Thanks.
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That's terrible to hear. I know he was troubled going back a few years.
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RIP Scott Hutchison. Swim til you can’t see land.
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Terrible. Very, very sad.
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I liked the first. When I listened to the latest I thought he sounded a lot like Elton John.
Exactly how I feel, on both counts. We went to a FJ Misty show in 2015 when my wife was about 38 weeks pregnant. It was good, but I haven't gotten into that newer album at all.
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Also in my current rotation - War on Drugs and Fleet Foxes. With Beck and Wolf Parade likely to join soon.
I abso-fucking-lutely adored that one War On Drugs song, Arms Like Boulders, from about 10 years back. I saw them a few years ago and enjoyed the show well enough but it didn't blow me away, nor did they play that song. Any newer album you'd particularly recommend?