OT: Music Recommendations for Some MGoBloggers
The latest Old 97's, anything by The Bottle Rockets, Neil Young International Harvesters, anything by Alejandro Escovedo and the first Stone Roses
Only Built For Cuban Links. Best album ever put out by the Wu-Tang Clan.
Yep. You just press play and sit back and listen. It almost plays out like a movie in your mind. To this day, whenever it rains Rainy Dayz gets stuck in my head.
Some artists that I've been listening to a lot lately and recommend.
Hip Hop: Hieroglyphics, Deltron 3030, The Pharcyde, Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Wu Tang Clan (and solo albums), Outkast, Joey Badass, etc.
Rock: My Morning Jacket, Black Keys, Wilco, Morphine, The Black Crowes, The Velvet Underground, The Allman Brothers Band (especially given their retirement this year), Primus, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin (re-mastered ablums are worth it with the bonus material), The Wood Brothers, Frank Zappa (start with the album Hot Rats or Joe's Garage and work your way through his stranger material. Amazing artist), and The Band
Jazz: Mahavishnu Orchestra (Holy Fusion), Medeski Martin and Wood, Coltrane, etc.
Bluegrass/Country: Ryan Bingham, Railroad Earth, the Infamous Stringdusters
Funk: Parliament and Funkadelic, the New Mastersounds, Herbie Hancock (Head Hunters stuff), Lettuce, the Meters, and Galactic.
I can't get enough of Galactic these days. Dying to see them in concert.
Love this collaboration with one of my favorite MC's, Lyrics Born:
Dan Deacon - an electronic artist I've been listening to lately. It's electronic, but it's easy to "get." Just an awesome sound. "True Thrush" and "Paddling Ghost" are good tracks to start with.
Of Montreal - I'm a little late to this party, but they're the realest, freshest psychadelic rock I've heard in a while. "Belle Glade Missionaries" is a good start. ***Touring this fall
Los Campesino - Rock band with a lot of electronic beats + synths. Great sound, pretty upbeat. Start with "By Your Hand."
Folk/Country/Alt-Country/Acoustic country/pop:
Jamestown Revival - Utah is a fantastic album. Saw these guys live at a tiny venue in Cincinnati and was blown away. Really talented guys. Anyone who likes the folksy/acoustic sound should listen to these guys.
Whiskey Myers
Josh Abbot Band
Green River Ordinance
Houndmouth
Kodaline
In the Rock genre, the ones I'm listening to lately that haven't already been mentioned are J. Roddy Walston & the Blues - Essential Tremors. Really good album that I only recently discovered. I've also been listening a ton to the REM Unplugged 1991/2001 collection released recently.
J Roddy Walston and the BUSINESS is pretty much all I've listened to for the past few months. Great new album and some other good tunes as well. Apparently they put on quite a good live show.
My bad (obviously)! I was just mindlessly typing here at work and didn't bother proofreading my post. Thanks for the correction.
Next time they're close I'll definitely go see them. Stumbled upon them via Google Music app's "related artists" section and fell in love. Take It As It comes plays pretty much daily on my phone.
Another Hip Hop recommendation, the Dr. Octagon (Kool Keith w/ Dan the Automator) album Dr. Octagonecologyst. Strange, trippy, weird alt-hip hop. The beats and lyrics are different, but gripping and very different from anything you've heard.
Here is a specific list of some of my favorite female singers at this moment:
BANKS
THIEF
Jessie Ware
Sylvan Esso
CHVRCHES
POLICA
Sinead Harnett
Chvrches has quickly become one of my favorite groups. There is not a song on The Bones of What You Believe that I do not like. I've been listening to the album basically since it came out and still find every track amazing. Since you are a fan of groups with female vocalists, I'll recommend the group Broods... Relatively new...They are dropping an album soon and have released a very strong EP as well.
I love female vocalists, especially when it is of the synth pop variety.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'm going to check them out. Looks like they are from NZ. There has been lots of great dream-pop type music coming from AUS and NZ this year.
Rodrigo y Gabriela are pretty darn awesome
So are Strunz and Farah, a very eclectic classical guitar duo with rock, jazz, flamenco, latin influences.
I've been listening to these guys a lot lately.
Maurice Ravel's "Bolero"
It's perfect for, well, you know.
Progressive atmospheric technical death metal. Surely I'm not the only one. Am I the only one?
How about Opeth?
Long time fan of theirs. I like the older stuff the best, Morningrise and Blackwater Park especially.
You're not the only one. Big death metal fan here. Not a huge fan of Fallujah, but I'll be seeing them in a few weeks on the Summer Slaughter Tour.
These threads always make me feel old. Most of the bands that get posted I've never even heard of, and when I check some of them out on youtube, they make me wish I didn't have ears.
Right. I feel out of the loop until I check into some of the bands listed, and then I'm glad to be out of the loop. I'm not saying there aren't some good bands out there, but most of the major label and mainstream stuff is just empty throwaway garbage. No substance, no soul.
ALRIGHT.
To the asshole frantically downvoting every post in here:
JOCKJAMS.
Happy?
Last year we bonded over 21 Pilots and Jake Bugg, (which got her into some Johhny Cash, Dylan) and The Cure. She was so inspired that she bought an electric guitar and is getting pretty good :)
Looking forward to Artic Monkeys, Black Keys and The Kooks this year's year show.
I like the old school bands that are really talented musicians such as Rush and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer but realize my breed is dying off,lol...
but I'm just catching up with some old jam bands. love Umphrey McGee, moe and even some old Widespread Panic. Still enjoy Trey on guitar regardless of who he's playing with. Phish live is still like going back to the 70's to see a Dead show.
In a band that does old classic rock - so I still find that a great way to feel great!
Go Blue!
I've seen those four bands more times than I care to admit. I'm debating going to see Phish in Charlotte this Friday. They are always a good time, and from the recordings I've heard of this summer tour so far, they sound on point. Add to the fact that "Fuego" is their best studio effort in a long time, and they are a must see for me this summer.
Yes, I understand that one of the links is from MySpace and it is currently 2014 and not 2007. Also, the music is not mastered and please do not remind me.
http://www.reverbnation.com/thefancyboys
https://myspace.com/elephantgunfl/music/songs