Fourteenth! Damn! These threads have been chock full of great music from the beginning. Listening to your links is one of the highlights of my week. (Last week's thread.)
I came across a ton of music this week, including one day when I spent roughly nine hours listening to UK grime. Had lots of reading and work and so forth to get through, which lent itself to musical exploration.
I posted here about a bluesy Bon Iver side project -- album's called Grownass Man and represents a completely different side of Justin Vernon.
For something older and somewhat different, how about Magic Sam's West Side Soul? Attached: a classic.
PS: the new Black Angels was very interesting, Indicud was vaguely disappointing but not a bad album, and I saw Iron & Wine last night. His new album was really, really good.
Primarily Destroyer, specifically his albums Rubies and Kaputt. This song in particular blows my mind every time, it seems like such a genuine stream of consciousness thrown over some ambient/disco inspired music. It's got this weird feeling of being unclean to it. Last night I may or may not have spent a good hour listening to DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince, which I am not ashamed at all to admit.
My friend Christian just posted this song of his titled "Camelot". Christian played bass with The New Green and it's great to hear his music evolve. He's a talented fella. I listened to some Cat Stevens this weekend. It was the record that my daughter picked out. I also listened to some Fleet Foxes. -Pretty chill weekend.
You make me excited to have children. Introducing my daughter or son to Cat Stevens, or FF, or anyone really, sounds like fun. I've been listening to Daft Punk all day, so your friend's downtempo track caught me a little offguard, to say the least. It's totally loaded with fun ideas, especially the bit from 2-2:30ish.
Earlier in the week I was listening to Die Antwoord a lot. $O$ is a pretty good album (from 2010) but I preferred TEN$ION, which was released last year. Check out I Fink U Freeky and Fok Julie Naaiers. Actually, Evil Boy is one of my favourite tracks from $O$ - but it wasn't on the US release. Other than that, I've mostly been listening to Oysterhead's The Grand Pecking Order (their only album). Mr Oysterhead is easily my favourite track off the album, but it's pretty good throughout. It was funny; I kept thinking "damn, this guy sounds just like the singer from Primus" and then it turned out that it was him all along. Back to earlier music, I'm really digging Guarantees by Atmosphere.
Music for pieces of wood - Steve Reich
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians I don't know why 18 Musicians is starting part way through the vid, but I think it's worth listening to it from the start.
Heard two new (to me) bands this week that I'm pretty psyched about. First one is protomartyr. Detroit outfit. Can't find much of their stuff, but what I have heard comes off as a cross between Constantines and The Modern Lovers. Second one is Pezzner, whose newer stuff I'm also having trouble finding. This live set is killer, though.
Saw Garbage on Tuesday of this past week, and this band IO Echo was their opener. Really neat sound, a lot of 80s influence with some Portishead mixed in. Check out "I'm on Fire" and "Ministry of Love" for a good intro to a varied band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1By_kO3vMQ
I've been re-harmonizing Concrete Wall by Zee Avi to play with my quartet. It's extremely catchy, and I love the soul in her voice. I highly recommend listening to more of her stuff.
Yeah I agree with you. I very much like her voice and lyrics though. Her song Honey Bee is very nice as well.
Iron Fist of the Sun - Who Will Help Me Wash My Right Hand. I can't find anything better than this excerpt of the title track from their label to link to. Noblesse Oblige - Runaway Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School Of Medicine - White People and the Damage Done. Jello never stops being funny. ... and I've really been digging Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown. I am not proud.
All of Eyedea's songs, particularly Weird Side, Step by Step, Smile, Times Flies When You Have a Gun, Burn Fetish, and Even Shadows Have Shadows. I'm kind of sad because there's no other artist quite like Eyedea, and I want more! But alas... I found some cool hip hop instrumentals online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C1Va5vqcPE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRzPux-kE6Y. Listening to some Mos Def a tad, Blue Black Jack, Mathematics, War, to name a few of the songs I've listened to. Oh, and Blackalicious, but that's nothing new, I said that last week. After I heard Eyedea's music, I feel like I want to make hip hop too, but I don't...really..know...how. Any ideas? All the instructions online discuss putting down other rappers and stuff like that, which I'm just not interested in. I want to know about rhythm and rhyming and cadence and "flow" and inflection and emphasis on syllables.
There's no one like Eyedea, it's true. Always and forever will be the greatest thing to come out of the Minnesota underground. But I like to listen to a lot of those guys in lieu of more Eyedea. No Bird Sing, for one. Hip hop ... hip hop is hard. I guess you could approach it from the rap angle, teaching yourself to spit with flow, or you could approach it from the self-made beats angle, with Ableton and whatnot. I don't know.
This is one of my favorite bands, Harvey Danger. They had a hit in the late 90s called Flagpole Sitta, but they are very much better than that great hit. This is a link to a song they did with Lois Maffeo called, "The Same as Being in Love."