Skyclad - The Parliament of Fools
The Killers are releasing a new album this fall. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LOeImx0kW4
Their last album was no where near as good as Hot Fuss or Sam’s Town, but it had its moments (I liked Dustland Fairy Tale). So I am excited this one comming.
Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of Loretta Lynn. Aside from decent music, I think it also represents a window into a certain time and place and its mode of thinking and values, and perhaps into womens’ way of seeing things.
A Tumblr I have that focuses on a variety of not so popular acoustic music (neofolk, prog folk, alt-country, etc.)
I currently like Lupe Fisco’s Streets on Fire and I am also really liking the White Stripes (My Doorbell, Denial Twist, Fell in Love with a Girl)
Riot Folk?
Syndicalist yes, but i like the anti government message.
Just a chill guy with a guitar.
Econstories?
Keynes vs hayek Rap songs?
Maybe a little of that what is it called
the dubstep?
Things I’m listening to this week:
Franz Liszt’s solo piano transcription of Carl Weber’s Konzertstück (repeatedly. I will master playing this piece of music or die in the attempt)
The Who: Who’s Next
The Company Band: self-titled album
Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers: Rip a Dip
Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um
Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um
I was obsessed with that specific album 6 months ago. Mingus is awesome, Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is one of the greates things I have ever heard. He is one of the few Jazz greats I really “get”. Maybe because he is so compositional, and that’s more my thing. I keep telling people his name (and Duke Ellington and a few others) ought to be compared to people like Ravel and Debussey as well as Coltrane and Parker
Deep House anyone?
http://soundcloud.com/stratospherik/pablo-fierro-just-break-it-alvaro-hylander-remix
(LISTEN WITH HEADPHONES UNLESS YOU HAVE GOOD COMPUTER SPEAKERS SO YOU CAN ENJOY THE GROOVE )
@ vive, I totally agree. I would have named all those others, too, if you hadn’t! I’ve learned that most music I will eventually love starts out a little offputting to my ear. Pithecanthropus Erectus was my first (and thus far, only other) Mingus album. There’s just so much to dig into. Coltrane and Monk, same thing. BTW, my parrot’s clear favorite album of all the music I own is Ellington at Newport. He dances, improvises solos, marches around…Such Sweet Thunder is a close second.
Anything but metal. And I don’t mean hard rock. I mean heavy distortion, double kick drums, and screaming.
That’s the stuff that I associate with chain-adorned Hot Topic pants and being an awkward teen.
Also, does anyone know why John James, who seems to be a very well-informed and intelligent person, has a picture of Akon as his avatar? There’s something that just doesn’t quite add up in that equation…
I’ve often wondered the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf711o8jAQA
Listen to it all the way through once - I promise it will be six minutes of your life you won’t regret.
Of course, there’s his all-famous Lacrimosa from Requiem, a staple of movie soundtracks:
And while we’re at it:
The circle of fifths rules all.
Clayton -
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Romantic music + Piano = Heaven
Some of the great romantic era piano concertos…
Chopin’s 1st piano concerto… filled with fire and youthful energy, it was written when Chopin was still in his teens at the very beginning is his career. Chopin’s artistic repertoire was already overflowing and it only matured with age.
Most of Dvorak’s music is so beautiful and refreshing it’s like a splash of cold water in the face. The second movement from his piano concerto is no exception.
Saint-Saens’s piano concerto just starts right out with the theme and grabs your attention immediately.
Grieg’s piano concerto is one of the most listened-to concertos of the romantic era. The opening is jarring and yet beautiful at the same time.
Tchaikovsky is a composer with an enduring voice; Ivo Pogorelich is perhaps the best pianist in the world not only in terms of his peerless technical ability but also in the depth and care of his interpretations, particularly with an eye to conveying the music to the audience in the most effective manner, something that is incredibly rare nowadays. His “accessible” interpretations of the piano repertoire have made him persona non grata with the classical music establishment which prides itself on impeccably mediocre interpretation.
What can be said about Rach 2 that hasn’t been said. It doesn’t just grab your attention, it punches you in the face right from the first line and doesn’t let up for the rest of the first movement.
Clayton -
Local band Moutheater that I did not find out about til recently, which is absurd. Steve Albini helped record their first EP (which is also pretty crazy). I suppose you could listen to their albums in chronological order, but right now I’m pretty hooked on their No Ballet EP.
Anything but metal. And I don’t mean hard rock. I mean heavy distortion, double kick drums, and screaming.
That’s the stuff that I associate with chain-adorned Hot Topic pants and being an awkward teen.
- You’re ill informed on metal. 2. Jackasses at Hot Topic have nothing to do with it.
For example, Faustian black metal by Agalloch, some Electric Wizard, some Neurosis, some Sunn O))), but I digress…
Just because it has heavy distortion (a lot of bands/genres can/do), or double kick drums (again, a lot do), and screaming (this ranges from every punk sub genre to every metal sub genre and everything in between) doesn’t mean it sucks (which is sort of what you are indirectly saying). Post-metal, black metal, post-hardcore, stoner metal, and even some shoegaze, so yeah…
[view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsZBX2RhDZE]
Great song, great movie