Author Topic: Music 2015 (Read 9497 times)

Duman · « **on:** January 23, 2015, 01:43:08 pm »

I haven't seen a new thread started for this year, so here goes.

NPR has a first listen on the new Lone Bellow album - Then Came The Morning. I think I like this better than their last album.

Ron Brand · « **Reply #1 on:** January 24, 2015, 12:51:10 pm »

Mike June's recording a new album. He's been previewing the songs over the last four months or so and it's going to be spectacular. If you like your Woody Guthrie spiced with some Mike Cooley, Mike June just might be your guy.

Ron Brand · « **Reply #2 on:** February 13, 2015, 05:27:26 pm »

The 13th Floor Elevators are reuniting for the Levitation Festival in Austin, May 10. Fest info here, a story featuring a conversation with Tommy Hall here.

toddthebod · « **Reply #3 on:** February 17, 2015, 10:06:44 pm »

Speaking of 13th Floor Elevators, ZZ Top is actually playing at a small concert venue in Englewood, NJ where I live. Ordinarily, I'd probably blow it off, but the Ben Miller Band is opening, and I actually want to see them.

Ron Brand · « **Reply #4 on:** February 17, 2015, 11:41:54 pm »

That's perfect - if you get tired of ZZ Top you can just leave, and not feel like you wasted your money or your time.

NeilT · « **Reply #5 on:** February 18, 2015, 07:16:50 am »

I came across this this morning, thought it's not 2015 it's 2015 internet. 20 versions of Wayfaring Stranger. The Bill Monroe is particularly good. http://www.thebluegrasssituation.com/read/i-am-poor-wayfaring-stranger-20-versions-american-classic

GreatBagwellsBeard · « **Reply #6 on:** February 24, 2015, 09:09:02 am »

It's been floating around for a while, but Raury's "Indigo Child" album finally hit Spotify. Add two parts Andre 3000 to one part R&B and one part lo-fi rock, and you've kinda got it.

Ebby Calvin · « **Reply #7 on:** February 24, 2015, 12:20:11 pm »

Quote from: GreatBagwellsBeard on February 24, 2015, 09:09:02 am

It's been floating around for a while, but Raury's "Indigo Child" album finally hit Spotify. Add two parts Andre 3000 to one part R&B and one part lo-fi rock, and you've kinda got it.

Interesting. Thanks for the rec.

Phosphorescent's live album has been pretty fun. Also the new Decemberists, Punch Brothers, Jose Gonzalez and Lupe Fiasco are worth listens.

Dark Star · « **Reply #8 on:** February 24, 2015, 01:09:18 pm »

Torche - Restarter
King Khan & The BBQ Show - Bad News Boys
Airborne Toxic Event - Dope Machines
A Place To Bury Strangers - Transfixation

I like to lsiten to them TURNED UP.

Ebby Calvin · « **Reply #9 on:** February 24, 2015, 02:56:34 pm »

Quote from: GreatBagwellsBeard on February 24, 2015, 09:09:02 am

It's been floating around for a while, but Raury's "Indigo Child" album finally hit Spotify. Add two parts Andre 3000 to one part R&B and one part lo-fi rock, and you've kinda got it.

This is all sorts of nuts. "Seven Suns" should have (ft: Roger Waters) in the track listing.
Love it.

Ebby Calvin · « **Reply #10 on:** March 31, 2015, 10:41:48 am »

New Sufjan Stevens album out today!
Also, Punch Brothers @ House of Blues Apr 10.

Ron Brand · « **Reply #11 on:** March 31, 2015, 12:44:15 pm »

My music stuff is pretty focused but SXSW gave me the opportunity to see some other folks. I can't explain fully why I haven't seen them before, but if you don't look up and check out Churchwood you might fall prey to plagues of locusts, boils and any number of other maladies. This is the smooth, light song of their set at the Saxon Pub during SXSW. I just posted it, and I've got a couple more I'll add over the next few days if you want to keep checking back on the YouTube channel. Dismiss at your own peril, and do what you can to see them if they ever decide to play outside of Austin.

GreatBagwellsBeard · « **Reply #12 on:** March 31, 2015, 12:58:13 pm »

Quote from: Ebby Calvin on March 31, 2015, 10:41:48 am

New Sufjan Stevens album out today!
Also, Punch Brothers @ House of Blues Apr 10.

This Sufjan album is like vodka. Cold, bracing and warms you up in the opposite way from brown liquor. I love it, but I've got to take it slowly.

roadrunner · « **Reply #13 on:** March 31, 2015, 01:53:29 pm »

I'm enjoying the 3 new Alabama Shakes songs I've heard.

Col. Sphinx Drummond · « **Reply #14 on:** March 31, 2015, 02:40:13 pm »

How To Die In The North the new release from BC Camplight is pretty good. My favorite track so far is "You Should've Gone To School".

Col. Sphinx Drummond · « **Reply #15 on:** March 31, 2015, 02:45:49 pm »

Also the ~~Parkay Quartz~~ Parquet Courts are great.

Ebby Calvin · « **Reply #16 on:** April 07, 2015, 02:27:42 pm »

Quote from: Sphinx Drummond on March 31, 2015, 02:45:49 pm

Also the ~~Parkay Quartz~~ Parquet Courts are great.

Agreed with this.

Also, Lord Huron and Waxahatchee have new albums out today. Both worth a listen.

GreatBagwellsBeard · « **Reply #17 on:** April 08, 2015, 01:31:49 pm »

Quote from: Ebby Calvin on April 07, 2015, 02:27:42 pm

Agreed with this.

Also, Lord Huron and Waxahatchee have new albums out today. Both worth a listen.

That new Lord Huron doesn't mess around.

New singles from Dawes and Passion Pit are both worth checking out, too.

Dark Star · « **Reply #18 on:** April 08, 2015, 02:04:03 pm »

Jon Spencer BX - Freedom Tower

Ebby Calvin · « **Reply #19 on:** April 08, 2015, 02:14:10 pm »

Quote from: GreatBagwellsBeard on April 08, 2015, 01:31:49 pm

That new Lord Huron doesn't mess around.

New singles from Dawes and Passion Pit are both worth checking out, too.

I really like the Dawes single and I'm looking forward to the album. Still need to check out PP.

Also - the wife and I finally finished 30 Rock, so I now understand your "swamp humidity" sig.

GreatBagwellsBeard · « **Reply #20 on:** April 15, 2015, 03:35:28 pm »

Also, Leon Bridges is the ghost of Sam Cooke. It's eerie.

GreatBagwellsBeard · « **Reply #21 on:** April 17, 2015, 04:14:38 pm »

New album by Denton's own Doug Burr: Pale White Dove. There's one song where he does a pretty spot-on "Ryan Adams-circa 2004" impression. His last album "O Ye Devastator" is one of my most replayed albums.

roadrunner · « **Reply #22 on:** April 17, 2015, 06:57:20 pm »

Quote from: GreatBagwellsBeard on April 15, 2015, 03:35:28 pm

Also, Leon Bridges is the ghost of Sam Cooke. It's eerie.

He is great.

Col. Sphinx Drummond · « **Reply #23 on:** May 07, 2015, 01:23:15 pm »

I've been enjoying the new Jack Ladder and the Dreamlanders album, "Playmates" He's an Australian crooner with a baritone that sounds like a mix of Nick Cave and Brian Ferry with a little Leonard Cohen. The songs feature arrangements that are intricately sparse with dark lyrics. Outstanding tracks, Come On Back This Way and In Her Hands

From some Aussie review: There are nods to early ‘80s references like Roxy Music and Berlin-era Iggy. The even more languorous Our Ascension or Slow Boat To China, have David Sylvian’s Japan present in their lush flows. And there is some of that melodrama that can only be described as Nick Cave-ian: A touch of obsession, some bloodletting, an occasional crucifixion – the plea of Let Me Love You or “I’ll set myself on fire”.

Ebby Calvin · « **Reply #24 on:** May 12, 2015, 10:00:30 pm »

Patrick Watson - Love Songs for Robots

Inventions - Maze of Woods

Late Night Tales - Jon Hopkins

Ryan Adams - Live at Carnegie Hall

Good stuff lately.

GreatBagwellsBeard · « **Reply #25 on:** May 13, 2015, 10:58:08 am »

Saw Sufjan Stevens at Jones Hall Monday night. Carrie and Lowell is just as emotionally draining live. Fortunately, he threw in some Seven Swans and other early material to balance it out.

The new Rhett Miller is good.

Dark Star · « **Reply #26 on:** May 13, 2015, 12:15:41 pm »

Snoop Dogg - Bush

Just fucking awesome. This album makes me feel so goo-oo-ood inside when I put it on.

And you can fire one up to it.

Highly recommended, especially for lingering devotees of Parliafunkadelicment Thang-style funk, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson at his funkiest, etc.

Knoxbanedoodle · « **Reply #27 on:** May 15, 2015, 09:28:52 am »

I don't know yet about the rest of the album, but right now Big Data's song (featuring Joywave) "Dangerous" is kicking my ass.

GreatBagwellsBeard · « **Reply #28 on:** June 11, 2015, 11:26:58 am »

Donne Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Surf. It's jazz. It's pop. It's hip-hop. It's undeniably summer-y music. "Sunday Candy" is pretty close to perfect.

Col. Sphinx Drummond · « **Reply #29 on:** June 12, 2015, 05:58:06 am »

Courtney Barnett, an indie artist from Melbourne Australia, is very good at word play. I like her deadpan style of singing too. Her new album, sometimes it sit and think, and sometimes I just sit, is down streaming on youtube.

This song is currently my favorite track, it's called Pedestrian At Best. "my internal monologue is saturated analog it's scratched and drifting I've become attached to the idea it's all a shifting dream bittersweet philosophy I've got no idea how I even got here I'm resentful I'm having an existential time crisis what bliss daylight savings wont fix this mess under worked and oversexed I must express my disinterest the rats are back inside my head what would Freud've said."

Knoxbanedoodle · « **Reply #30 on:** June 12, 2015, 08:35:51 am »

Bahamas latest album, "Bahamas is Alfie", is deep gets-stuck-in-your-head material right from the first track. It's a 2014 album but I don't think it received any mention here last year. My wife and I disagree about him: she hearing something reminiscent of a better Blitzen Trapper, me hearing a different (better) version of M. Ward.

Also Mitski, of whom I'm not sure what to say except: Yeah, keep doing that! Her album "Bury Me At Makeout Creek" leads off with a wonderful, funny song (at least I think it's funny; it features her mournfully declaring that "Texas is a landlocked state") called Texas Reznikoff.

Dark Star · « **Reply #31 on:** June 12, 2015, 09:25:49 am »

I would recommend the Stones re-issue of Sticky Fingers just out. A classic LP re-mastered, plus so much good "new" stuff.

NeilT · « **Reply #32 on:** June 12, 2015, 12:36:20 pm »

Quote from: GreatBagwellsBeard on June 11, 2015, 11:26:58 am

Donne Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Surf. It's jazz. It's pop. It's hip-hop. It's undeniably summer-y music. "Sunday Candy" is pretty close to perfect.

It's new wave hip-hop!

NeilT · « **Reply #33 on:** July 05, 2015, 10:17:08 pm »

I'm sorry, this is really 2014, but I don't care for St. Vincent's music. I'm sure she's a nice person, and her uncle is a incredible guitarist, but I find her music completely forgettable.

Again, sorry.

juliogotay · « **Reply #34 on:** July 05, 2015, 10:28:52 pm »

Quote from: Dark Star on June 12, 2015, 09:25:49 am

I would recommend the Stones re-issue of Sticky Fingers just out. A classic LP re-mastered, plus so much good "new" stuff.

The original was my favorite Stones album. I'll check out the re-mastered.

Bench · « **Reply #35 on:** July 05, 2015, 10:57:08 pm »

The Fare Thee Well shows have been fun. I've only heard sections of the earlier shows but have enjoyed tonight's first set in it's entirety. They sound great.

Ty in Tampa · « **Reply #36 on:** July 06, 2015, 06:39:10 am »

Quote from: Bench on July 05, 2015, 10:57:08 pm

The Fare Thee Well shows have been fun. I've only heard sections of the earlier shows but have enjoyed tonight's first set in it's entirety. They sound great.

I had the good fortune to be at the first Santa Clara show and then we watched the PPV last night. They sounded better, tighter over that 8-day span. It was a fun run.

Ebby Calvin · « **Reply #37 on:** July 09, 2015, 10:31:47 pm »

Do yourself a favor and stream the new Jason Isbell album here:
NPR First Listen

Duman · « **Reply #38 on:** July 17, 2015, 09:57:01 am »

Spent some time with my brother a few weeks ago and he turned me on the the new Dawes album. I have enjoyed the tracks - Thinks Happen and really like All Your Favorite Bands (Title track of album)

WakePhil · « **Reply #39 on:** July 21, 2015, 09:43:05 am »

Quote from: Ebby Calvin on July 09, 2015, 10:31:47 pm

Do yourself a favor and stream the new Jason Isbell album here:
NPR First Listen

Excellent.

drew corleone · « **Reply #40 on:** July 21, 2015, 03:38:21 pm »

Something More than Free has a few great songs on it, but my initial opinion is that it isn is as strong as some of his earlier stuff. I wouldn't call that a knock on the new album as much as a testament to how much I enjoy his full catalog, or the possibility that a song I have been lukewarm about for years will hit me out of nowhere, and - BAM - go into heavy rotation (most recent example: "The Last Song I Will Write," off of the first 400 Unit album in 2009, which never stood out to me until earlier this year after an oh-by-the-way comment from a buddy of mine).

toddthebod · « **Reply #41 on:** July 22, 2015, 09:42:12 pm »

Quote from: Duman on July 17, 2015, 09:57:01 am

Spent some time with my brother a few weeks ago and he turned me on the the new Dawes album. I have enjoyed the tracks - Thinks Happen and really like All Your Favorite Bands (Title track of album)

I love the song All Your Favorite Bands. I have tickets to see them in Central Park next Monday night. Can't wait.