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Ok Guys & Girls I think it's time I updated my music collection. What new artists should I be listening to? I'll listen to pretty much any genre of music.
Treats by Sleigh Bells
Find a radio station you like. Find their play list. Buy the albums containing the songs you like.
The new arcade fire ( the suburbs) is a bit of a classic I think.
Having just got into Mastodon, I can wholeheartedly recommend them. If you like metal, that is.
Catch up with some classics... 8)
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On a country/ americana tip, I'm loving these two at the moment
http://www.thecaitlinrose.com/
http://www.secretsistersband.com/
How about anything by:
G Love and Special Sauce
John Mayer
Supertramp
Slobberbone
Mike Doughty or Soul Coughing
Albert King
Ohhhh Dezb I was gonna say that ( saw them last night. They were ace got dates mixed up, near panic)
Try The Fool by Warpaint lovely lushy reverb heavy.
Innerspeak by Tame impala. 60's updated
Odd Blood by Yeasayer. Electronic weirdness
Crystal Castles 2 by Crystal Castles. just awesome
Crazy for you Best Coast. West coast American lo fi
Man Alive by Everything Everything.
Cool emsz. They certainly give it some live, eh?
Caitlin Rose
Laura Marling
Smoke Fairies
She&Him
Freelance Whales
The Like
Stars
Metric
The Dears
The New Pornographers
Wolf Parade
Thea Gilmore
Joan As Policewoman
Jason Isbell and the 400 unit
Ex Drive By Truckers singer songsmith
Dezb god yeah, ears ringing. Alexis is so cool. 8)
Damien Saez
Yodelice
Blackbud
Glasser
Jenny and Johnny
Kate Walsh - Peppermint Radio
Theres a new band on itunes called the beatles ;o)
quite liking marina and the diamonds and biffy clyro at the mo
There isn't any good new music any more apart from the Manics and Andalucia by Doves. It's all been done before.
Old is the new, new...
As an edited response to the previous post. Biffy, are you kidding?
Now a total sell out. Listen to the Vertigo of Bliss and Infinity Land...
each to their own - Saw Biffy supporting Muse at wembley and they were amazing! since bought about 4 of their albums. who cares if theyve gone mainstream- they deserve to make a good living from their work. Or maybe they should keep their kudos and sell 5 records a year in Fife!!
actually forgot the Postcards from a young man - absolutely love that album a real return to form. deserves more recognition but sadly we live in a pop world where shite is king. see cheryl cole/simon cowell etc etc
Manu Chau
Vieux Farka Toure
Robert Plant's Band of Joy
Gilad Atzmon's Orient House Ensemble
and yes..........Arcade Fire!
teetosugars
Thumbs up for the Bukem and COnrad
i've just got 'hard fi' 'stars of cctv' and love it. good indie music.
In the last couple of weeks I have just bought Dark Side of the Moon (well overdue) and the best of Neil Young (some amazing works on that), so plenty of good stuff to be had, if you look back over the decades.
These purchases were alongside Kate Walsh, Lissie and Rumer with some Fink, more Floyd and Everything but the Girl on order.
Hard Fi's debut SOCCTV was also one of my favorites when it first came out.
I really rate the Rumer album, which is odd because whenever there are old clips of Karen Carpenter on TV I wonder what all the fuss was about, plus I have no tolerance for bad 70's dress sense.
Perfecto Fluoro, mixed by Paul Oakenfold.
Nearly 15 years old and it's yet to be topped as a techno/electronic/whateveryoucallit mix album.
Holy F*ck. Yes, that is their name. Or Holy F as they called on the radio. Can't get enough of them just now.
Another vote for Holy F*ck. Loving Interpol at the moment as well asSpiritualised back catalogue.
Asian Dub Foundation
Apache UK
Violent Edge
Opeth
Death
Komeda Live in Brussels
Dead Can Dance Live in Europe
Helloween
Venom
Dave Matthews Band
Soulfly
[s]Jedward[/s]
Test Icicles - For Screening Purposes. Just rediscovered this band. So good.
Kora- uber tight Pacific Islander Metal band that now play a kick ass blend of roots/rock.
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Type in an artist it will prep a playlist of similar stuff, sit back and listen.
I'm really liking the new My Chemical Romance album. Got a bit of a retro 80's feel about it, but very good.
New Manics album is also another stonker
I'm always slightly perturbed when asked 'what music should I listen to?'...if you're into music you won't need to ask because you spend time to go out and find it, you go to gigs, you listen to Marc Riley Mon - Thurs. Most of what people go to the trouble of posting (on here) will be missed or ignored because you will get ALOT of people adding their 2p, and sorting the wheat (Joan as Policewoman) from the Chaff (Biffy Clyro) isn't easy, but then you did ask. Music is a deeply personal and often divisive topic.
My 2p spread bet of old, recent and new:
Field Music
Deerhoof
Dirty Projectors
Smog
Sonic Youth
Rainer Ptacek
Giantsand
Lightning Bolt
Throwing Muses
Everything Everything
Low
I thought the very same thing Naranjada.. but then I just suggested the last album I'd bought 🙂
[i]New Manics album is also another stonker[/i]
"Another"? When was the last one?! (Oooonly jokin, someone has to still like them 😉 )
The album that I've most enjoyed listening to, that I've bought recently is:
It Takes A Thief by Thievery Corporation (their greatest hits)
Listening to British Sea Power at the moment.
Canvey Island is a great track.
Oddly, also into the soundtrack to a film I saw recently, called Flashbacks of a Fool.
I need to find some new bands to listen to as well.
Just bought, and have it on constant repeat in the car, Less Than Jake's GNV FLA which I think is superb.
Any ideas of similar stuff?
Unfortunately I don't get to listen to much music, and the stuff I like is never on the radio anyway.
I do like all sorts but I like my guitars fast and precise, drums too but nor metal.
Listened to the Jazz hour on R2 last night on the way back home and I loved every song! Need to find out more....
Just got an album by a new (ish) band called Erland and the Carnival. They're a cross between Arcade Fire and The Oyster Band, if that makes sense. The leader is ex-Verve, I think. Highly recommended, a bit different.
New Faithless album is good.
Richard Thompson's got a new album out - not his best, but his worst is better than most people's best, IMHO.
Vote number three for Holy ****.
They're much better than their silly name would suggest.
Much better.
[i]There isn't any good new music any more apart from the Manics and Andalucia by Doves. It's all been done before.[/i]
Missed this. What a [u]fool[/u] (unless it's ironic, then "haha!")
Can someone explain Holy F--- to me?
What i heard sound like bland rock instrumentals. Am I missing something, or am I just not swayed by the interesting name?
Odd Blood by Yeasayer. Electronic weirdness
Crystal Castles 2 by Crystal Castles. just awesome
Yes, I've been liking these. CC growing on me after initially thinking it was not so good as debut (it isn't, but it's still good).
Best CD I got this year was Optimo Fabric mix, amazingly subtle and melodic dance music mix.
New LCD Soundsystem is good, so is Four Tet.
Nothing I've heard this year to measure up to my faves from last year though - The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa and The Low Anthem album.
Both instant classics.
Crystal Castles surprised me - I thought they were just ok on "Later", so didn't bother with them.
Then got some free downloads from [url= http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Crystal_Castles/music ]rcrdlbl.com[/url] and listened to the albums - they're actually quite bonkers (in a good way).
Definitely worth checking.
I'm going to post on this thread just so I can find it easily again.
That is all.
There isn't any good new music any more apart from the Manics and Andalucia by Doves. It's all been
Saw this as well and thought “ignorant tw4t”. Sorry, but I see people writing letters into the Daily Wail saying similar things and it's just so much bo11ocks, there's [i]always[/i] something new to be discovered. I listen to 6Music, watch [i]Later...[/i], buy [i]The Word[/i] magazine and read the reviews and listen to the free cd, which always gets ripped into iTunes and put on the 'Pod. I can't afford to buy all the new stuff I keep discovering. Naranjada put it really well, I thought.
Anyway, a couple more artists I've thought of:
The Pierces
Aimee Mann
Andrew Bird
Angus and Julia Stone
Asobi Seksu
Auf Der Maur
Battles
Beirut
Big Star
Black Mountain
Blonde Redhead
Broken Social Scene
Burial
Calexico
Camera Obscura
Camille
Cortney Tidwell
Curve
Dark Star (a very loud three-piece)
Death Cab For Cutie
The Delgados/Emma Pollock
6by9
Eddie Reader
Elliot Smith
Gemma Heyes
Glasvegas
Halloween, Alaska
The Hooters
Howling Bells
Lush
Maria McKee
Mechanical Bride
Pony Up!
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Rosie Vela
The Shins
Sunny Day Sets Fire
Talk Talk
Tiger
Tokyo Police Club
Seal Cub Clubbing Club
Tuung
The Wailin' Jennies
XTC
Those are some I've picked off of my 'Pod. There's many, many more on there, but most are more obvious ones like Elbow, The Foo's, Soundgarden, Faith No More...
XTC
Listened to Black Sea just yesterday.
What a band! What a songwriter! What a chorus!
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Both from their 2nd, and imo by far best album. It really is a great listen. Their new one is taking a while to grow on me though.
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