OT: What music have you been listening to lately?

Submitted by Braylon1 on
For me, it's The Black Keys. I gotta rep these guys. They're a 2 piece band and play some absolutely rugged blues rock. Check them out.
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Big Boutros

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...

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Braylon Edwards

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.

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Ernis

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.

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MGoViso

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

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bjk

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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPjkwVdO32A

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Ernis

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!

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bjk

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.

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I miss Spring Lake

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.

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bjk

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):

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QVIST

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

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V-Link

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

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