If you wanna judge some more I posted some music interests here: http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=481124&page=81

6/1/2012 5:41:07 PM

what's the consensus on the new Edward Sharpe?

6/4/2012 10:07:49 AM

the new beck third man single is pretty cool

[Edited on June 4, 2012 at 8:29 PM. Reason : http://stereogum.com/1046781/beck-i-just-started-hating-some-people-today-feat-jack-white/mp3s/]

6/4/2012 8:24:14 PM

My band just released an album.

Everyone should buy it because I need the money.

thanks.

http://kenjiurada.bandcamp.com/

6/5/2012 8:57:16 AM

diggin' the new grizzly bear jam.

6/5/2012 10:19:53 PM

^^^Jack White is the man.

His recent interviews with Jenny Eliscu on XM were great.

6/5/2012 11:30:13 PM

mega attracted to Eliscu

(and I've never even seen her face)

6/6/2012 12:31:25 AM

Her face: http://ink361.com/#/photos/359034560_2410118

I was very sad that Josiah lost his night spot but Julia has been pretty good. Music-wise, at least.

[Edited on June 6, 2012 at 1:01 AM. Reason : .]

6/6/2012 1:01:33 AM

well that certainly isn't helping things

6/6/2012 1:10:13 AM

Studio debut from K.R.I.T. is disappointing. I liked his mixtapes better.

6/6/2012 12:27:43 PM

new Hot Chip is super good

6/6/2012 2:18:56 PM

So I just discovered Japandroids today. I got a lot done at work

6/6/2012 7:47:52 PM

that album is a fantastic reminder of how fucking awesome their set at Hopscotch was

6/6/2012 8:54:02 PM

i keep hearing the House that Heaven Built on the radio and it feels super long. but i like it.

6/6/2012 11:48:36 PM

I don't feel like getting somebody to bump the FI thread ... found this on tumblr

6/7/2012 9:52:34 AM

Whoa I saw that on some podcast girl's soundcloud page this morning

[Edited on June 7, 2012 at 11:24 AM. Reason : .]

6/7/2012 11:23:21 AM

Hot Chip sounds good, but nothing really grabbed me other than the song with the weird vocal samples.

The new Liars record is crazy awesome, though.

6/9/2012 1:40:20 PM

Liars did everything right on this one.

6/9/2012 2:20:55 PM

The only new Hot Chip track I've heard is "Night and Day" and it's great

it's so bouncy

6/10/2012 4:31:31 AM

that entire Hot Chip album is good

imo, it's easily their best record

[Edited on June 11, 2012 at 8:47 PM. Reason : .]

6/11/2012 8:43:19 PM

http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/2

[Edited on June 11, 2012 at 9:26 PM. Reason : whole hot chip for listening]

6/11/2012 9:26:14 PM

new tu fawning record is great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-AVopM4mdQ

6/12/2012 5:56:26 PM

this POP ETC (former morning benders) album is a bit ridiculous.

6/14/2012 9:20:03 PM

you don't say

6/15/2012 1:34:55 AM

since when did people start giving a shit about Fiona Apple?

6/19/2012 2:32:29 PM

since she took her shirt off in her first music video

but for real though, she's always been a big deal

6/19/2012 2:34:36 PM

I guess by "people" I meant "Pitchfork"

6/19/2012 2:44:47 PM

like a day old, but Pendulum announced they're breaking up

6/19/2012 4:24:45 PM

Quote :

"since when did people start giving a shit about Fiona Apple?"

I'm really confused about this too.

6/20/2012 12:57:47 AM

I seriously have no idea how anyone could be confused by it

she's been a critical darling ever since she released her first album and is a legitimately unique artist who has had over 15 years of success

6/20/2012 1:18:48 AM

I guess I just thought of her as someone who had a lot of clout with the Rolling Stone and Spin types... but if you followed everything those magazines say, you'd probably think John Mayer was one of the best songwriters of our generation

6/20/2012 12:37:09 PM

I genuinely enjoy a lot of Fiona Apple stuff /shrug

Also, I don't completely hate the new Smashing Pumpkins - er Billy Corgan album.

6/20/2012 1:00:24 PM

Gave it 2 spins, it is decent. I don't think it will ever be something I go back to again and again.

"I Actually Am Billy Corgan" on AV Club is hilarious. I read the review and of course he was the first to comment.

Quote :

"Drink deep o Ghost Children, as I shower you in the baptismal dew of my Oceania, so that you may drown in the glorious depths of My effluvia. And as you lap up My stream, from each note may a single tear of salvation pass from thee, thence to be reincarnated as a salty brine upon Mine own lips, such that I too may sup of the blessed parturition. Finally together we shall be reborn as One: pure, naked, dripping with the placental elixir of My creation. Lo, may Oceania itself finally be reborn from the exquisite mucosa as a garden of tears, casting sparkling tetra'hedral prisms of moist purity in the light of a new dawn. Fear not the shallows. Bathe, slurp, plunge deep. For though the tide is fathomless, the fecund blood of Mine womb lays sweet and warm."

6/20/2012 3:35:25 PM

Quote :

"I genuinely enjoy a lot of Fiona Apple stuff /shrug Also, I don't completely hate the new Smashing Pumpkins - er Billy Corgan album. "

me too.

"werewolf" is fucking awesome.

as for the "Smashing Pumpkins" album.... there's a lot of good parts to several songs, but no real homerun.

"the celestials" got more than one listen, though.

[Edited on June 21, 2012 at 11:51 PM. Reason : .]

6/21/2012 11:48:24 PM

I feel the same way about the new smashing pumpkins. not bad by any means, and certainly more worthwhile than zeitgeist, but "pinwheels" is probably the only song i'd go back to. as much as billy corgan sucks as a human being, I guess i'm glad he hasn't completely gone to shit? I don't know.

6/22/2012 9:36:28 AM

I've actually listened to it quite a few more times. Pinwheels is my fav too.

6/22/2012 10:12:28 AM

Quote :

"I seriously have no idea how anyone could be confused by it she's been a critical darling ever since she released her first album and is a legitimately unique artist who has had over 15 years of success"

Interesting.

I generally consider her a 1 hit wonder for "criminal" and otherwise have ignored the rest of her career.

I'll have to check it out.

6/22/2012 10:15:21 AM

The album with "Criminal" is probably my least favorite of hers.

6/22/2012 10:22:00 AM

All three Fiona Apple records peaked in the Top 15, FWIW. Tidal (the one with "Criminal" and "Shadowboxer") actually did worse chart-wise than the other two.

6/22/2012 12:38:42 PM

ultra, mega douchey post from deadmau5 on his website:

http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/post/25690507284/we-all-hit-play

Quote :

"we all hit play. its no secret. when it comes to “live” performance of EDM… that’s about the most it seems you can do anyway. It’s not about performance art, its not about talent either (really its not) In fact, let me do you and the rest of the EDM world button pushers who fuckin hate me for telling you how it is, a favor and let you all know how it is. I think given about 1 hour of instruction, anyone with minimal knowledge of ableton and music tech in general could DO what im doing at a deadmau5 concert. Just like i think ANY DJ in the WORLD who can match a beat can do what “ANYONE else” (not going to mention any names) is doing on their EDM stages too. have a look, then let me explain: okay, so heres me, in a big silly mousehead.. twiddlin a knob or somethin… okay so heres how it works…. Somewhere in that mess is a computer, running ableton live… and its spewing out premixed (to a degree) stems of my original producitons, and then a SMPTE feed to front of house (so tell the light / video systems) where im at in the performance… so that all the visuals line up nicely and all the light cues are on and stuff. Now, while thats all goin on… theres a good chunk of Midi data spitting out as well to a handful of synths and crap that are / were used in the actual produciton… which i can tweak *live* and whatnot… but doesnt give me alot of “lookit me im jimi hendrix check out this solo” stuff, because im constrained to work on a set timeline because of the SMPTE. Its a super redundant system, and more importantly its reliable as FUCK! And obviously, ive done the show a couple hundred times easily by now, so the focus over the past few runs with the “cube show” has been more revolved around adding new audio / visual content to keep it current. so thats my “live” show. and thats as “live” as i can comfortably get it (for now anyway) of course itll evolve, and change up, but im sure a few key principles will always remain the same. Im just so sick of hearing the “NO!!! IM NOT JUST DOING THIS, I HAVE 6 TABLES UP THERE AND I DO THIS THIS AND THIS” like… honestly. who gives a fuck? i dont have any shame in admitting that for “unhooked” sets.. i just roll up with a laptop and a midi controller and “select” tracks n hit a spacebar. ableton syncs the shit up for me… so no beatmatching skill required. “beatmatching” isnt even a fucking skill as far as im concered anyway. so what, you can count to 4. cool. i had that skill down when i was 3, so dont give me that argument please. my “skills” and other PRODUCERS skills shine where it needs to shine… in the goddamned studio, and on the fucking releases. thats what counts… because this whole big “edm” is taking over fad, im not going to let it go thinking that people assume theres a guy on a laptop up there producing new original tracks on the fly. becausje none of the “top dj’s in the world” to my knowledge have. myself included. you know what makes the EDM show the crazy amazing show that it is? you guys do, the fans, the people who came to appreciate the music, the lights, all the other people who came, we just facilitate the means and the pretty lights and the draw of more awesome people like you by our studio productions. which is exactly what it is. But to stand up and say youre doing something special outside of a studio environment, when youre not, just plain fuckin annoys me."

i know, tl;dr...but seriously, what a fucktard. i guess he's never been to a real electronic show where the artist actually, you know, does shit? i bet guys like the field, sbtrkt, four tet, araabmuzik, etc. are laughing their ass off at this clown.

6/23/2012 1:11:34 PM

i'm not saying you're wrong, but what makes you think that you know more about this than he does?

6/23/2012 1:47:41 PM

I never said I know more about this than he does; I just think he has a really shitty attitude in regards to what electronic artists can do live and I know for a fact that there are TONS of electronic artists out there that do more live than what he's claiming they're limited to.

Mainly I think he's helping perpetuate the silly and untrue notion that electronic artists "just press play" live. And he did it in a really douchey, snotty, and obnoxious way.

edit: plus i hate his music, admittedly

[Edited on June 23, 2012 at 2:04 PM. Reason : /]

6/23/2012 2:04:00 PM

Quote :

"I never said I know more about this than he does"

Quote :

"I know for a fact that there are TONS of electronic artists out there that do more live than what he's claiming they're limited to."

you see what i mean?

6/23/2012 2:24:59 PM

because i've seen other electronic artists live that do more than what he mentions in that post?

can't say i follow your logic here

6/23/2012 2:56:55 PM

i think he's right about EDM being a big fad right now, and he's probably directing that statement at a lot of DJs who aren't that great and are just benefiting from the fact that EDM is the big thing at the moment.

6/24/2012 1:02:10 PM

missed out on first aid kit up until yesterday. been listening to that a lot.

6/26/2012 7:35:20 AM

holy shit the DIIV record is fucking excellent

6/26/2012 9:43:54 AM

There's a short Lonesome Crowded West documentary on pitchfork.tv that's pretty neat

I don't have a link or anything

6/26/2012 11:28:35 AM

I don't have a link, but the new Beachwood Sparks LP, Tarnished Gold, is a fantastic. If you like the Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, or older Beachwood Sparks, you'll love it. I've listened to it nightly since I got the vinyl.

6/26/2012 12:28:45 PM

new dirty projectors is killer as well...i especially love "gun has no trigger"

it definitely sounds more straightforward/traditional rhythmically than their previous records, but i don't think that's a bad thing by any stretch.

[Edited on June 26, 2012 at 8:10 PM. Reason : /]

6/26/2012 8:02:11 PM