don't hate 'til you've seen 'em live, vb

they're great musicians, especially Jim James

i used to not care about them at all, but since seeing them, i've become a pretty big fan (mostly just because how impressive they were live allowed me the receptiveness to listen to their first three albums a little more closely; still not a huge fan of Z)

[Edited on April 27, 2011 at 7:16 PM. Reason : d]

4/27/2011 7:10:19 PM

yeah they're good.

4/27/2011 7:13:00 PM

they had a pretty good run with at dawn, it still moves and z. and they are definitely one of the best live bands i've seen. i didn't really enjoy their show at koka booth last year that much because the sound sucks there, but that's not the band's fault. 3 years later i'm still convinced i will never witness another show as spectacular as the one they put on at bonnaroo in 2008. that was fucking unreal.

4/27/2011 8:30:25 PM

Quote :

"^Haven't listened to it yet, but just finished watching that DBTs documentary The Secret to A Happy Ending. Fucking phenomenal. If you're already a fan, it'll make you an even bigger fan; if you're not a fan, it'll at least give you some respect for them. They really are the real deal. And it'll make you seriously reconsider preconceptions you might have about southern rock. There's this one part where some professor is talking about the Mike Cooley-penned song "Uncle Frank," which is largely about the TVA and how they displaced the homes of many farmers and the ilk by taking more and more land; he points out that he had a graduate student who spent two years working on a thesis about the TVA, and Cooley does a much better job of describing its effects in three and a half minutes. "

I just got the doc this week so i plan to watch it this weekend hopefully. I absolutely love this band. I don't think i'll make it to their show at Hopscotch but they are playing back to back nights in June at the Orange Peel in Asheville and if I miss those I will probably off myself.

4/28/2011 9:43:53 AM

Really like the new okkervil river. Wish i could've watched them do it live last night but this guy died and i had to go to a wake or whatever

4/28/2011 10:54:05 AM

^it's great. "hanging from a hit" is my favorite track ATM.

how about some love for the new antlers record?

4/28/2011 5:08:21 PM

^^ yeh, the live performance last night started rocky (problems with the sound mix) but quickly became awesome. the female guitarist was ripping up some awesome extended solos, particularly on 'show yourself'. i was so impressed by the performance last night that i decided to buy a ticket to see them with titus andronicus and future islands in atlanta. they're also playing at the cat's cradle, but atlanta is closer to my current location

^ love the instrumentation and song arrangements, not crazy about the vocals on that new antlers record (too melodramatic and theatrical for my ears). i recognize that it's a personal preference thing, though, and overall the album sounds great

4/28/2011 6:58:03 PM

looks like the new Telekinesis 12 Desperate Straight Lines might be my summer album of 2011. good stuff. first track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw9rsZ83r04

(sorry if this is old or something)

4/29/2011 7:56:44 AM

^ it's good

i like the first one better

4/29/2011 4:14:47 PM

^^yea. big fan of them and their new album

Anyone have a link to the new rosebuds? Having trouble finding it.

thxu

4/29/2011 4:18:28 PM

I thought that telekinesis album was pretty boring. Same goes for their live performance when i saw them open for the love language in DC last month

4/29/2011 5:14:56 PM

I haven't seen the new Telekinesis, but I liked the version with Ivan Rosebud on bass.

4/29/2011 5:21:36 PM

^^I thought they were great when they opened for love language at 506

4/29/2011 5:42:43 PM

"Hanging from a Hit" is such a beautiful song

4/29/2011 10:04:09 PM

I saw Tame Impala and Yuck the other night. I can't help but feel disappointed with Tame Impala. They were really sloppy and just seemed like a younger band that i had pictured in my head. They also played slower than the CD which is super frustrating to me.

Yuck was pretty good, though.

4/30/2011 2:34:58 PM

i'm glad noone took up my offer for fellatio, i'm streaming this new Wild Beasts and it is a SNOREFEST.



you've been warned:

http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/more/NID/3404/Album-preview-Wild-Beasts---Smother.utr

Albatross is about the only interesting song, reminds me of CocoRosie's "Lemonade"

5/1/2011 6:46:45 PM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/02/pixies-to-record-new-material

for once, bono does something that doesn't make me want to punch him in the face

5/2/2011 11:18:15 AM

just got around to listening to cold war kids' 2011 release... and it's really good. i don't care how uncool this makes me.

5/2/2011 5:20:20 PM

new portugal. the man single was posted on youtube the other day. it's not bad. pretty catchy. lyrics aren't terribly great, but that goes for a lot of their stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JyZZIQC3v4

5/2/2011 6:02:53 PM

^^wish I could get into it, but couldn't

5/2/2011 8:12:50 PM

new my morning jacket leaked. i'm gonna have to wait til tomororw to listen to it

5/2/2011 11:47:24 PM

New dredg album is painfully disappointing on my first listen.

5/3/2011 8:08:33 AM

not sure how i feel about the new MMJ yet. i think i like "slow slow tune" and "movin away," but there are some real stinkers between "hangin on to black metal" and "outta my system." somehow "you wanna freak out" got cut short. anyone else have this problem if you got it from what.cd?

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 8:23 AM. Reason : .]

5/3/2011 8:22:56 AM

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/01/135740445/first-listen-liturgy-aesthethica

Krallice - Diotima was streaming last and probably better than this, all though whatever Liturgy track starts around 10:30 is badass. They're playing at hopscotch for the 3 people on this forum who are into black metal, although you probably wouldn't like these guys they are definitely hipster black metal, even moreso than krallice

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

5/3/2011 2:08:07 PM

Jenny Conlee from The Decemberists has breast cancer.

5/3/2011 7:31:48 PM

since this thread is checked by music lovers, i didn't want to create a whole new thread

does kickstarter.com look like a good or bad way to go about creating an album independently? on one hand it seems like groveling to say "i won't release new music unless you pay me x,xxx to do so beforehand...and also each stage requires more funding" but on the other hand i'm broke as shit and was thinking about just putting up several raw tracks that ive recorded and just seeing what happens. i'm more curious than anything...

5/3/2011 8:34:05 PM

Making music is incredibly cheap these days (relatively speaking). Putting out records is not. Think of Kickstarter as a record company you run yourself but is financed from outside; when you finish a record and need to put it out, Kickstarter can be a good way to get the funds to have records pressed and sleeves printed, just like hunting for a label is a good way to get the physical media put out into the world.

I wouldn't use it to try and get funds to buy a laptop and Logic, though...mostly because if you don't have those things you don't have enough fans to fund your stuff anyway, and Kickstarter is most definitely an avenue for artists who already have fans. I'll buy a record by someone I don't know if it's on a label I trust or has been recommended by someone whose opinion I value, but I'm not paying up front for something by an artist I have literally zero familiarity with.

5/3/2011 8:41:16 PM

^ I agree 100% with everything he said about Kickstarter.

5/3/2011 8:49:42 PM

thanks for the quick reply. yeah i was wondering if i put up like 20 min worth of live demo if that would be enough to entice into giving to someone who you weren't familiar with at all. i have an mxl mic, several native instrument programs, audacity, and my casio keyboard so i'm not hard up for equipment (at least for my purposes). about the only thing i would say is that if i went $1,000 over my goal i would preorder a misa digital kitar with a quickness.

i just can't think of what i could do for the various gift levels...personalized songs (not on the final album)? lol at what point are you just coming off as desperate?

edit: i should mention i'm in law school and i'm married so my free time is VERY valuable to me. i'm not going to go chasing my childhood rockstar dreams and drop everything else i'm working on on the off chance (read: super mega unlikely) i develop some fans. i'd rather give it away and have people donate what they want if they like it and if not, well it was free and i was going to record it anyway.

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 9:03 PM. Reason : f]

5/3/2011 8:55:53 PM

still can't believe how disappointing this new dredg album is. Huge drop-off.

5/4/2011 5:15:39 PM

^^ If you have the means to record and aren't really looking to make money, why are you considering asking for some? You need Bandcamp, not Kickstarter.

5/4/2011 6:14:51 PM

ok cool i never looked into bandcamp before, i thought it was like a band version of myspace or a soundcloud clone.

5/4/2011 6:38:57 PM

bandcamp is kind of like itunes only they just take 10% of your sales instead of 30%, and you can stream your entire album and set your own prices for songs and albums. they also don't tell you what you can and can't do with album art and song length, and they won't fuck up your track order either

[Edited on May 4, 2011 at 8:37 PM. Reason : .]

5/4/2011 8:36:09 PM

So MMJ leaked...but apparently track 8 is cut off everywhere I've found it. Anyone found a full version?

5/5/2011 10:58:44 AM

^ i asked the same thing the other day, but no one responded, so i guess we're the only ones who listened to it. that song sounded kind of promising. i'm interested in the full version as well

i never got around to listening to the album a second time. i listened to that new robert plant from last year and have been playing it a ton at work this week. shit rules. wish i would've gotten it sooner

[Edited on May 5, 2011 at 1:08 PM. Reason : .]

5/5/2011 1:06:32 PM

Can someone please explain tUnE-yArDs to me? I just...don't get it...

I am digging the new Gang Gang dance, however. And am quite disappointed upon first listen by the new Beastie Boys.

[Edited on May 9, 2011 at 12:47 AM. Reason : herpes]

5/9/2011 12:45:38 AM

what's to explain

replace dave longstreth's penis with a vagina and his guitar with a uke and his non-painted face with a painted one

BAM, tune-yards

5/9/2011 1:19:03 AM

The first song on the Gang Gang Dance album is really cool, in my opinion. There are some others on the album I'm not really digging right now, but could see myself getting into as I listen more.

So, for instance, this got a "best of" on Pitchfork, and I'm wondering in such instances, ...how many go-rounds do these reviewers listen to an album? Guess it all depends...

Anyway, Pitchfork is awesome, in my opinion, because they're not afraid to completely pan albums. It's basically a breath of fresh air and total distinction from promoters disguised as critics. And that's highly important with Indy music and the infinite number of bands releasing things these days. However, if anybody wants to point me in a more reliable (in opinion) review site that is ALSO not afraid to pan and dog, I'm down.

I was recently involved in a discussion with a "blog bro" who essentially claimed that said [collective] blog (and it's a well-known one) won't write about anything they don't see fit to write about, and leaves the negative reviewing up to "sites like Pitchfork." I can sort of appreciate the negative reviews because I can't always assume that if a blog refuses to review something then it's shit.

Anyway, first track, Gang Gang Dance...I like it. And trying to get into the others...

5/11/2011 1:09:22 AM

^^Thank god someone agrees, I've been saying this for weeks.

5/11/2011 1:12:51 AM

When I have to type out that band name, I get frustrated, but I like their album. And can appreciate their jam-band roots...

5/11/2011 1:14:47 AM

fuck their capitalization scheme

type tune-yards

we get it

5/11/2011 1:22:17 AM

gang gang dance is growing on me
i like house jams

[Edited on May 11, 2011 at 1:42 AM. Reason : just realized thats off their old album dur]

5/11/2011 1:37:42 AM

Quote :

"what's to explain replace dave longstreth's penis with a vagina and his guitar with a uke and his non-painted face with a painted one BAM, tune-yards"

this, exactly

(I still like the album though)

[Edited on May 11, 2011 at 1:40 AM. Reason : ^House Jam takes me back to an insanely happy place]

5/11/2011 1:39:15 AM

im not too familiar with this band so i was listening to whats listed on their myspace page

i think i kinda remember jstpack mentioning this band to me back then but i never gave them a chance for some reason or another.

5/11/2011 1:45:05 AM

House Jam takes me back to my year in a log cabin a few years ago. easily the best year of my life

Boone livin' fo life

5/11/2011 1:49:08 AM

Quote :

"fuck their capitalization scheme type tune-yards we get it"

qft

5/11/2011 10:09:55 AM

Quote :

"However, if anybody wants to point me in a more reliable (in opinion) review site that is ALSO not afraid to pan and dog, I'm down. "

i give you http://cokemachineglow.com/

5/11/2011 5:37:17 PM

way into the new antlers

first two tracks and last track especially

5/11/2011 6:21:40 PM

^same here. like the same tracks, too

also, really enjoy track 6, "every night my teeth are falling out"

[Edited on May 11, 2011 at 6:31 PM. Reason : s]

5/11/2011 6:29:13 PM

The question is...

Does Antlers count as a "deer" band?

5/11/2011 6:32:25 PM