Name a Band / Song We Should Know About

band: Murder by Death
song: Until Morale Improves
genre: indie rockish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OPK5...

Band: Hot Leg
Song: Cocktails
Genre: "Man Rawk" - this is the former lead singer of The Darkness

Napalm Death
New CD: Time Waits for No Slave
Genre: Grindcore

Band: Jason Webley
Song: Dance while the sky crashes down
Genre: Polka? Folk? I think it is hard to pin down, hehe.

I just can't get enough of the complaints choirs. Only the first one's in english, although fotunately the other two have subtitles.

Burmingham complaints choir:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w84q...

Helsinki complaints choir:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXV3...

Hamburg complaints choir:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=569qb...

Cowboy Mouth (from New Orleans, LA)

Soo many good songs/albums!

Here's one about our beloved city: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqoTIeZ5x5U

tagg wrote:

I just can't get enough of the complaints choirs.

Weirdest/Most entertaining thing I watched this week. I found myself liking it but mostly for the video that accompanies it

Here's one, just in case you guys and girls have never heard of them

The Decemberists - The Legionnaire's Lament

I strongly encourage anyone who likes it to check out their other stuff. They're a very constant band, putting out one great album after another and most of their material is really good

interstate78 wrote:
tagg wrote:

I just can't get enough of the complaints choirs.

Weirdest/Most entertaining thing I watched this week. I found myself liking it but mostly for the video that accompanies it

Here's one, just in case you guys and girls have never heard of them

The Decemberists - The Legionnaire's Lament

I strongly encourage anyone who likes it to check out their other stuff. They're a very constant band, putting out one great album after another and most of their material is really good :)

Another good Decemberists track: The Mariner's Revenge Song on Picaresque

And the video for Sixteen Military Wives is awesome as well.

Band: New Blood Revival
Song: He's No Good for You
Genre: Ska/punk

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsLIg...

I love this band, but sadly they only put out one CD and I don't think they ever sold it just had radio station promo's. My girlfriend found the CD when they where cleaning house at her colleges radio station. Quite the lucky find.

I posted this in the "Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread" thread, but it would probably get more traction here (from the Decemberists talk)... I also edited it a little.

New Music! Progressive music!

First up is Mastodon's Crack the Skye. They are a metal band that moved away from playing fast and screaming into more Tool-like prog-metal with the release of concept album based on Moby Dick (Leviathan).

With Crack the Skye, they weave a story of a guy who travels too far away from his body while astral projecting and his struggle to get back, initially mind blowing, but ultimately impenetrable like most prog before it. The real star here though is the music. This sounds like something that has been forged meticulously over time by musicians that understand each other. Their ability to create soundscapes and then to seamlessly and instantly propel you through it at face melting speed is impressive. Also like most progressive music, the longer songs are the most rewarding, with the 13 minute album closer being my favorite.

Second is the Decemberists The Hazards of Love. Whilke it is about as far away from Mastodon as you get get while still being prog, it is every bit as good.

THoL is a 59 minute composition, broken up into 17 movements, it's about a woman named Margret who saves a fawn that's actually a shape-shifter. They fall in love, she is kicked out of her home, she moves to the forest with him... I think. It's a Grimm's Fairy Tales sort of story that is hard to get in the mere two play-throughs I've put into it. It sort of like A Midsummers Night Dream.

This is more of a thematic work, like Peter and the Wolf or Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. Characters, events and moods are all established musically, encouraging the listener's imagination to fill in the details. The Decemberists started down this path with The Train and now have finally gone full bore into using music as a story-telling medium.

Also:

Matt & Kim's Daylight.

And if you check them out on Pandora Radio, you'll get a lot of other really good bands (Peter Bjorn and John, Los Campesinos, Bloc Party, others) into the mix. Here's the Pandora station I made from them.

And not exactly a band or song, but listen to Henry Rollins DJ'ing on KCRW (KCRW.com for those outside of LA) Saturday nights at 6pm. Awesome old school punk and crazy eclectic stuff that you would never think would come from the collection of Henry F'ing Rollins. Repeats of his previous shows available on KCRW's internet "Legacy" player.

Manic Street Preachers getting possessed by the ghost of Richey James: Peeled Apples

Man! With Faith No More reuniting and Manics apparently going from complacent irrelevance to The Holy Bible-esque form, it's like my adolescence returning to haunt me.

First time I heard Manic Street Preachers was in the first Gran Turismo. I was so stoked when I finally found the Chemical Brother's "Brothers Gonna Work It Out" mix CD containing the track.

Alien Love Gardener wrote:

Manic Street Preachers getting possessed by the ghost of Richey James: Peeled Apples

Man! With Faith No More reuniting and Manics apparently going from complacent irrelevance to The Holy Bible-esque form, it's like my adolescence returning to haunt me.

I didn't even know Manics still play, this is a great find! Unlike the new U2 album, which could as well have an all-gray rainbow of total boredom painted on the cover.

wanderingtaoist wrote:
Alien Love Gardener wrote:

Manic Street Preachers getting possessed by the ghost of Richey James: Peeled Apples

Man! With Faith No More reuniting and Manics apparently going from complacent irrelevance to The Holy Bible-esque form, it's like my adolescence returning to haunt me.

I didn't even know Manics still play, this is a great find! Unlike the new U2 album, which could as well have an all-gray rainbow of total boredom painted on the cover.

What did you expect from a band whose creativity only managed to spew out a name like "You too"? Don't get me wrong, I used to like U2, but then I heard Stiff Little Fingers and realized good political Irish music doesn't muddy issues for the sake of catchier dance beats.

The resurrection of this thread is fortuitous, as I came across a new band today.

Band: Alestorm
Genre: Scottish Pirate Music

Title track of their album 'Captain Morgan's Revenge'.

Band: The Appleseed Cast
Some Songs: Here We Are; Fight Song; Steps and Numbers

After quite a time I once again put on one of my favorite wake-up songs this morning:

Band: Trio Mocoto
Song: Os Orixas (can't seem to find the original on YouTube, this one is an interpretation, but the video is comparably joyous)

Alright I have another

Those who watched Chuck this week might have got a taste at the end

Here's a song

Glasvegas - It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry

or Live

If you've ever wondered what a Scottish rock band (displaying their accent prominently) sounds like, have at it

It's pretty good!

interstate78 wrote:

Alright I have another

Those who watched Chuck this week might have got a taste at the end

Here's a song

Glasvegas - It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry

or Live

If you've ever wondered what a Scottish rock band (displaying their accent prominently) sounds like, have at it

It's pretty good!

Good call-- been hearing them on KCRW lately, it is pretty good!

Recurring Dream by the White Oaks

Seconds for the following albums (my stars are out of 4):

Mastodon - Crack the Skye ****
The Decemberists - Hazards of Love ***

2008 albums I'm just getting around to checking out (new jobs, kids, and all) but REALLY digging:

TV on the Radio - Dear Science ****
Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid ****
Annuals - Such Fun ***
Apes & Androids - Blood Moon *** (**** if you're feeling all funky-fresh-robot-gangsta-sexmachine like I do sometimes)

For the more prog/rock types:

Fair to Midland - Tales from a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True **** (EPIC - I can't find another band/album that sounds like this)
3 - The End is Begun ***

Getting crazier now:

Protest the Hero - Fortress ****
Between the Buried and Me - Colors **** (careful, the wife and kids will wonder what's gotten into you, but the music behind the growl is PHENOMENAL)

I highly recommend looking these bands up on Myspace - they all have some epic stuff streaming. I have samples of many on my page (see sig) as well.

Wow, some love for 3. I love me some 3.

Band: MGMT

Song: Kids

Style: Radiohead meets Flaming Lips with a dash of M.I.A.

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

A couple of random things that I've been enjoying lately:

Telefon Tel Aviv -- You Are The Worst Thing In The World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juzeh...

Tim Hecker -- Borderlands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ1Du...

The former is essentially synthpop; the latter is an atmospheric distorted ambient kinda thing.

pneuman wrote:

A couple of random things that I've been enjoying lately:

Telefon Tel Aviv -- You Are The Worst Thing In The World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juzeh...

YES. I didn't know about TTA but I love it. thanks!

interstate78 wrote:
pneuman wrote:

A couple of random things that I've been enjoying lately:

Telefon Tel Aviv -- You Are The Worst Thing In The World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juzeh...

YES. I didn't know about TTA but I love it. thanks!

No worries Their most recent album, Immolate Yourself, is definitely worth checking out. It's just a shame that it'll probably be their last; one of the band's two members was found dead not long after it came out.

The Hold Steady - Stay Positive - Slapped Actress

Man, if you ever get a chance, see The Hold Steady live. Order a bourbon and a beer, sit back and enjoy high-quality bar room rock.

Found some great stuff in this thread (particularly Katzenjammer) so I thought I'd contribute a few, all generally Indie Rock.

Tilly and the Wall
Bad Education

Bishop Allen
Click, Click, Click, Click

The Kooks
Naive

The Essex Green
Don't Know Why (You Stay)

Artist: Lykke Li
Song: Little Bit
Song: I'm Good, I'm Gone

Her album is called Youth Novels and it's pretty good. It's kinda like chill dance music.

Band: Phoenix
Song: 1901

Phoenix is not a new band but the few songs off their new album I have heard sound really good. I think it comes out in May. They were also on SNL last week and were great.