Really into Kero Kero Bonito at the moment. Great pop. Think if a J-pop group got started in London.
My wife will not stop listening to the new Kishi Bashi album. Its good, but WOW. She plays it A LOT!!
I have been becoming obsessed with this band At the Drive in, especially with their song One Armed Scissor. And yes, the hair is ridiculous...
Ergo Proxy! I watched that after having seen Texhnolyze and craving more of the same vein. If you haven't seen Texhnolyze and enjoyed Ergo Proxy then it's imperative you see it. The soundtrack is also mesmerizing. If I recall it's the same creator, so there are definitive similarities, particularly in it's bleakness and tone. I definitely feel that Texhnolyze is the stronger of the two.
There's the soundtrack from Texhnolyze. I haven't actually listened to it, but I recall moments when watching that I was totally dazed by the music. I'm a big fan of GITS and Death Note, but I haven't seen the others on your list. In contrast to the perspective in the comment you link, I think anime sometimes has the advantage that it's frequently built off manga. This can (not always, but quite commonly) mean that each series is built off an arc that has a definitive plot. As in it ends. As in each episode moves forward with consequence and purpose. Each one is tuned as a means to an end. Most production TV shows do not have this advantage. They are forever seeking renewal season after season. They mean to go on forever. Naruto is one such case like this and is inevitably garbage for this reason if not many others. But in anime you find so many shows that have one or two seasons, because that's all they were ever meant to have. Don't get me wrong, a lot of anime is garbage. It's the symptom of being a genre historically mostly aimed at young-adults and children. But qualities like the aforementioned one have really helped it to transcend those bounds to tell great stories.
New Tribe album is excellent. And I finally cracked open the new Solange. Likely album of the year for me. Which reminds me. Hubski should do a top ten albums of 2016 thread.
If you aren't sick of three dudes with a bass, guitar, and drums, EZTV is probably my favorite in a while. Found them randomly walking past a bar they were playing in in NC, and I liked every song they played live. A lot. They remind me of Television, Luna, and some other stuff that escapes me.
Live, I heard some Stephen Malkmus guitar work in there. Good stuff.
It's Messiah season! Two and a half hours of rehearsal tonight. Two and a half hours of rehearsal tomorrow and Wednesday. Two and a half hours of performance Thursday through Sunday. Amount of tea to be consumed in lieu of almost all other sustenance: Unthinkable.
For some reason I started researching the hip hop production team The Bomb Squad, which led me down a rabbit hole. I had never heard of Son of Bazerk before: Hadn't heard Slick Ricks' Christmas Story in a long time: And that led me to listen to some of the original songs sampled by some of their productions, like Express Yourself by the Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band : Or Kool & The Gang's Who's Gonna Take The Weight: etc., etc.
Sounds like you're better off! But yeah, they were so much fun (RIP Oderus), and presumably still are. If you haven't seen their cover of "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas, it is amazing, and shows that they're genuinely good musicians on top of everything else. Two stories. First, I went to a small, very white, private university, located in Richmond (where I still live, and where GWAR is from). There was some random program on the music industry, and they wanted someone from both sides, i.e. the musician side and the label side. This would've been around 2002-03. For the musician side, they got Dave Brockie, aka Oderus Urungus. He appeared out of costume, and had some good perspectives. Sadly only two of us in the audience knew who he was. I got his autograph after the talk and we chatted a bit. He was super chill. The first time I actually saw them live was kind of sudden. It was Christmas Break during my first year of law school (which I also did in Richmond), so December 2006, and I was sitting in my living room playing video games. A friend calls me out of the blue and says, "do you want to go see Gwar tonight?" So I do. It was at a now-defunct club down by the river, and was spectacular. (I also have fond memories because we went to my favorite downtown diner afterwards, which has sadly since closed.)
I've seen that! I enjoyed the talk. Richmond is an amazing place. I believe that same TEDx also had a talk by Amy Black, one of our many amazing tattoo artists (one site has us at 3rd most tattooed per capita, which I believe).
Could be, although I confess I haven't been to that many shows in Richmond. Just Gwar a couple of times, plus Assemblage 23 around 2007, They Might Be Giants a couple of times, the Smashing Pumpkins in 2010, and nine inch nails when they played the Richmond Collesium in the spring of 2006. Went to Norfolk sometimes too (twice to see VNV Nation, once to see The Faint).
Not classical, but when I need to chill: anything by MONO (e.g.: Burial at Sea or Yearning)
I have to be in a mood for Debussy. I think that this reminds me too much of Lawrence Welk from when I as at the Grandparents and their neighbors growing up. Something in the brain crosses Debussy and those old TV shows. And now I am Youtubing the old Sominex commercials.
Google is starting to get eerily good at recommending me new music from artists that I've never heard of. This week I've been listening a ton to this song and to Distant Light from Max Cooper's new album. Weird bleeps and bloops but the kind of bleeps and bloops that I apparently really like: Catchy song of the week: I Feel It Coming by The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk. Makes my longing for a new Daft Punk album slightly less painful, and confirms that The Weeknd is actually Michael Jackson in disguise. Impossible to find on Youtube, but it is available on a bunch of streaming services.
Guys, try out some Native American Music... It eases out stress a bit!
Sarah Jarosz in general! Tell me true is a goal song for me and Topher to play together, him on banjo me on vocals and fiddle.
Let's call him a doctor, not cos he's medically trained, let's call him a doctor cos I wanna [censored] his brains I'm seeing PC Music tomorrow evening. It's going to be really good. This is another one of the recent releases, it's so catchy. Like Kero Kero Bonito, PC Music are from London and seem to have appeared out of the same scene of offbeat pop music. Long may it continue.
I've been listening to a ton of bluegrass lately. Anyone else here into that style?
Not as such. I do listen to a lot of what I've variously heard called gothic Americana, death country, etc. Basically it's the folkier side of country music but slower and darker. Eg: