January 14th, 2010 at 5:43 PM ^
Michigan's spring break coincides with the East Coast swing of The Resistance Tour. I'm from DC; I was planning on following them from DC to Baltimore to Philly to Madison Square Garden from March 1-5. Then I realized that trip would cost like $6,000 so I settled on two tickets to the Patriot Center woo
We'll be back in school by the 13th...hmm...and it's a Saturday...
January 13th, 2010 at 11:34 PM ^
If you're into the Black Keys I suggest you look into their album blackroc, it's them doing there thing with guys like Mos Def, Raekwon, and RZA rhyming over it. Also, underground hip-hip, like Atmosphere and Cunninlynguists. On a rock standpoint, Grizzly Bear's album Veckimest is solid.
January 14th, 2010 at 12:11 AM ^
Stay off the Fuckin Flowers is great.
January 14th, 2010 at 8:24 AM ^
sage francis is pretty good for underground hip hop, even though you wouldnt expect it.
January 13th, 2010 at 11:32 PM ^
Then you might like this...and yes, if Gollum from LOTR sang, he'd sound like the guy singing or strangling for this band. But if you can get past his singing and like melodic metal, this band rocks.
January 14th, 2010 at 1:40 AM ^
Inis Mona by Eluveitie
January 14th, 2010 at 1:44 AM ^
But you can't bring them up without paying homage to Immortal!
http://www.youtube.com/v/32n1AK6o5i0
it's just so... so... AWESOME! Mountains, snow, headbanging, loud guitar, blastbeat drums, corpse paint, spiked gauntlets. What could be better? What's that? Not repulsing all the attractive women? You've got a point there, my friend.
January 14th, 2010 at 9:05 AM ^
Till I collapse. Tupac-Picture me rollin... Picture me rollin in my 500 hundred benz..
January 13th, 2010 at 11:33 PM ^
Brand New - Daisy
January 13th, 2010 at 11:40 PM ^
i've been listening to the Notorious Cone drop palms
January 13th, 2010 at 11:45 PM ^
Tool
Slayer
Grizzly Bear
Matt and Kim
Rites of Spring
Best Coast
Arcade Fire
Joy Division
Fugazi
January 13th, 2010 at 11:51 PM ^
Lots of Fanfarlo and The XX. I second Grizzly Bear, as well.
January 13th, 2010 at 11:52 PM ^
I'll bite: The Jackson Five.
January 13th, 2010 at 11:54 PM ^
I know not everyone will agree, especially the old timers, but the brother question/ ?uestlove is the greatest drummer. Plus, The Roots are sick.
January 13th, 2010 at 11:58 PM ^
Ich will.
January 14th, 2010 at 11:17 AM ^
is amazing. It was our football team's victory song after games
January 13th, 2010 at 11:58 PM ^
Indigenous
lagwagon
mogwai
January 14th, 2010 at 11:01 AM ^
what about NOFX and the descendents? come on!
+1 for lagwagon
January 14th, 2010 at 11:25 PM ^
Oh yea them to. Plus ALL
ps that's to bad about frank passing
January 14th, 2010 at 12:04 AM ^
Sea Wolf
Jay-Z
Matt Costa
January 14th, 2010 at 12:38 AM ^
Vampire Weekend
Decemberists
MGMT
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Kings of Leon
Lil Wayne
Dashboard Confessional
The National
Muse
Motion City Soundtrack... just to name a few
January 14th, 2010 at 10:23 AM ^
Sounds like my iPod. I'd +100 you if I could! 3
January 14th, 2010 at 1:02 AM ^
Stoney LaRue
Reckless Kelly
Cross Canadian Ragweed
and some
Robert Earl Keen
Good times!
January 14th, 2010 at 1:23 AM ^
Brahms, Brahms, and more Brahms
Rounds by David Diamond
Haydn/Halvorsen Passacaglia
All of the Bach suites (basically required listening for cellists)
Stamitz
Lots of Philip Glass and Arvo Part
Elgar Introduction and Allegro
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras
Mendelssohn Cello sonatas
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Occasional Sibelius
Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer
Favorite nonclassical music is Thursday and Evans Blue
January 14th, 2010 at 2:01 AM ^
If you haven't already, you must hit this YouTube link (Feuermann):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NMBh47mGw
I have been a Navarra partisan for decades, but after hearing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60dX1ssh1L4
alongside the above, I realize you have to put someone like Feuermann on a whole other shelf.
BTW, if you are ever working on the Haydn D, you must investigate F's own rendition of his warhorse of a cadenza:
January 14th, 2010 at 1:25 AM ^
It's been a lot of Carnatic and Hindustani lately. Just gets me in the mood for life.
And black metal, because it's winter.
January 14th, 2010 at 2:10 AM ^
Who in particular?
My later faves have been Sundaram Balachander and Ali Akbar Kahn (son of Shankar's teacher). Brief YouTube of Balachander:
January 14th, 2010 at 3:17 AM ^
is my favorite Indian musician. Garden of Dreams is in my top 5 albums of any genre. The compositions map perfectly onto my consciousness... give it a listen if you haven't already
I recently saw Shankar and his daughter at Hill Auditorium. Perhaps the best display of musicianship I've ever seen. The nuance of the tonal scales boggles the mind
I've just recently been getting into Carnatic (South Indian) but really enjoying Lalgudi G. Jayaraman. Fascinating use of the violin.
Balachander is good; I was not previously familiar. Thanks for the tip!
January 14th, 2010 at 4:18 AM ^
the "Notable Vainika" series on YouTube; YouTube is becoming a cultural treasure-trove the last couple of years.
I have a 2-CD raga by Kahn, but I still haven't dug out from moving so it is in a sort of deep storage at the moment.
I saw Shankar (w. Alla Rakha) at the Atlanta Civic Center in '84, and it was as celestial as I could have expected.
I was looking for a Carnatic violin/vocal duet on YouTube to link here, but come to find there is a HECK of a lot of Carnatic violin on YouTube these days!
I was disappointed to find out a while back that the chromatic Veena fretboard was derived from guitars brought to Southern India by Portuguese explorers; this implies that it is at odds with the delicate system of just intonation we associate with all Indian music. On the other hand, the violin is a perfect vehicle for music requiring a vocal standard of pitch sensitivity. Carnatic violin music is a further vindication of the creation of the Tuscan luthiers of the 1500's. Go fretless.
January 14th, 2010 at 1:51 AM ^
Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons - Death Won't Send a Letter
The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
Langhorne Slim - Langhorne Slim
The National - Boxer
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Kid Cudi - Man On the Moon
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
I've been on a iTunes binge lately. Hard to find time to fully digest all of these, but fun to try.
January 14th, 2010 at 8:04 AM ^
I just discovered these guys. Really great. I've had "Mignonette", "Gleam", and "Four Thieves Gone" going incessantly.
Also, Steve Earle's "Washington Square Serenade" and Cass McCombs.
January 14th, 2010 at 9:40 AM ^
Love his music. He had a concert in Ann Arbor this past Monday, did you happen to go?
January 14th, 2010 at 12:28 PM ^
I live in California.
What's he like live?
January 14th, 2010 at 1:56 AM ^
Right now, in no particular order, its:
Isis (mostly Red Sea and Celestial)
Pelican
Hank Williams (the Mother's Best Flower Show lost recordings)
always some Johnny Cash
old skool Neurosis
Between the Buried and Me
Bill Monroe
isis latest (with Tool's Adam Jones on keyboards):
January 14th, 2010 at 3:28 AM ^
1.) Shostakovich -- sounds like a nightmare set to music. Don't believe the comments; this rendition is by the quartet S. worked with throughout the Stalin Terror and the WWII years; all fever dream and no polish (4:00):
2.) You'll laugh -- Forqueray viola-da-gamba music played on harpsichord (transcription by F's son). But this rendition simply kicks ass (albeit, eighteenth-century harpsichord ass) (4:04):
3.) Furtwängler/B[erlin]PO/Brahms Sy. 4, in London, 1948 (5:03):
4.) Furtwängler/BPO/Beethoven "Coriolan Overture" ; live war-time concert recording (8:56):
January 14th, 2010 at 12:32 PM ^
I'm a big fan of Dire Straits. Mark Knopfler is an underrated guitarist, IME.
January 14th, 2010 at 7:03 AM ^
and Andy Hull's solo project, Right Away, Great Captain.
January 14th, 2010 at 8:34 AM ^
I've been all across the board lately:
The Dear Hunter (AMAZING stuff for Muse music fans. Check them out.)
Mumford & Sons
Polar Bear Club
Muse
Have Heart
Aesop Rock
Comeback Kid
The Snake the Cross the Crown
Two Tongues (side project of vocalists of Say Anything and Saves the Day)
Starflyer 59
Able Baker Fox
Small Brown Bike
Lupe Fiasco
January 14th, 2010 at 8:14 AM ^
Anything loud enough to drown out the constant slurping by the guy next to me for 8 hours.
My latest remedies:
Dropkick Murphys
Johnny Cash
Civet
Ducky Boys
3rd Bass
Cypress Hill
January 14th, 2010 at 8:19 AM ^
Needtobreathe
Big Daddy Weave
January 14th, 2010 at 9:09 AM ^
Belle & Sebastian
The Bravery
Cold War Kids
Interpol
The Killers
Modest Mouse
Muse
Silversun Pickups
January 14th, 2010 at 9:10 AM ^
to anything except country or nickelback....
some of my favorites are:
pearl jam
STP
nirvana
weezer
blink 182
golfinger
tupac
eminem
dr. dre
January 14th, 2010 at 9:14 AM ^
Lady Antebellum, they are awesome, look'em up.
January 14th, 2010 at 11:25 AM ^
They formed in 2006 and their first hit, "Love Don't Live Here Anymore", was released as a single in Spring of '08. But yes, they are awesome, and as I type this I'm listening to "I Run To You"
January 14th, 2010 at 9:19 AM ^
Lock the thread.
January 14th, 2010 at 10:20 AM ^
Have you seen the Lawrence Welk SNL sketches with Judyyyy? They're hilarious!
January 14th, 2010 at 9:22 AM ^
Of Montreal. In Boston 1/27 at the Paradise.
Among others on my playlist:
-Fuck Buttons
-Junior Boys
-Animal Collective
-Wilco
January 14th, 2010 at 9:32 AM ^
check out my brothers band, the best shit out right now......
January 14th, 2010 at 9:35 AM ^
Alec Ounsworth (singer of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
Spoon
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Belle & Sebastian