anyways, I like this Austra album. don't care if they are a total Knife rip-off.

5/21/2011 6:11:10 PM

We have a larger music scene than Charlotte, but I still think some of you folks believe if you go outside RDU and front with talking about ...I dunno, fucking Whatever Brains or Cassis Orange or something...nobody's gonna know who you're talking about...

I'd just hope people wouldn't associate being "big" in a music scene with talent of acts coming from the area. The talent that Cats Cradle, Kings, etc etc etc book from out of this area is easily as responsible for how "big" the scene is here. And back to my original point. We're bigger than Charlotte because they don't book shit here most of the time....

RDU is, however, known for how pretentious it is with things like a "music scene."

Exhibit A...

5/21/2011 9:30:18 PM

this dude is rambling

i am drunk, but i will list post-connells nationally-relevant raleigh artists

future islands (first because they are debatable to get it out of the way)
rosebuds
bon iver
megafaun
love language
bowerbirds
annuals
birds of avalon
whiskeytown
scotty mccreery

5/22/2011 3:12:29 AM

some people won't like this, but I'm ok with adding Gayngs to that list

you also might be putting too much stock in the Annuals appearence on the old late night show however many years ago

[Edited on May 22, 2011 at 3:33 AM. Reason : that too]

5/22/2011 3:25:59 AM

i understand annuals' place as it stands now

the fact remains that they were on national broadcast television and were signed to sony

5/22/2011 3:42:19 AM

they were also an internet buzz band before there were internet buzz bands

and yes, I'm referring to the Timothys Weekend days

5/22/2011 3:50:25 AM

Quote :

"anyways, I like this Austra album. don't care if they are a total Knife rip-off."

me too, but i'm not really hearing the knife rip-off.

[Edited on May 22, 2011 at 7:28 AM. Reason : -]

5/22/2011 7:19:29 AM

god, i never liked Annuals... still don't, in fact.

not only was i not very fond of their music, but i actually had them tell a friend who was interviewing them say with a straight face how much more talented they were than Arcade Fire. (this was in between Funeral and Neon Bible).

i lol'd. they were definitely a national name, though. full page spread in Spin in addition to the national tv coverage (the Love Language had one in there, too)

5/22/2011 7:24:30 AM

Quote :

"scotty mccreery"

you forgot clay aiken.

5/22/2011 8:09:22 AM

raleigh (with a slight extension to charlotte for the mere inclusion of the almighty brain f) currently has one of the best punk scenes on the planet. mad killer locals and 99% of good touring bands stop by. y'all some nerds, andrew birds.

5/22/2011 11:25:52 AM

-/-

5/22/2011 12:10:06 PM

Listening to the new Woods for the first time. Really diggin' it so far. Also into the new Thee Oh Sees

5/22/2011 12:19:13 PM

^ yay woods! i listened to all 6 of their lps in succession last night, and to my ear, sun and shade is easily the best. At echo lake is a bit more accessible but sun and shade has a higher quantity of really fucking good songs. i'm stoked about seeing them in asheville in august. their performance last year at hopscotch was mind-blowing

5/22/2011 12:29:15 PM

@vinylbandit: I don't really hate the Rosebuds. I just never really got into them. I was just being an asshole.

5/22/2011 3:32:07 PM

Can you really claim bon iver as a raleigh artist though? i thought justin vernon only lived there for like a year

5/22/2011 3:32:23 PM

After several listens, Erniefork gives the new Bon Iver a 6.1/10

5/22/2011 5:25:27 PM

Quote :

"Can you really claim bon iver as a raleigh artist though? i thought justin vernon only lived there for like a year"

raleigh girl (among other things) made him go all emo and write "for emma. . " so.

5/22/2011 5:31:18 PM

Predicted Pitchfork Scores:

The Rosebuds: 8.2
Bon Iver: 9.1, BNM
My Morning Jacket: 5.9
Woods: 8.5, BNM
Thee Oh Sees: 7.9

5/22/2011 5:36:32 PM

^ those sound about right

^^ does anyone know who the raleigh girl who inspired 'For Emma' is?

5/22/2011 6:22:59 PM

[Edited on May 22, 2011 at 6:32 PM. Reason : also justin's fingers are all over a lot of triangle area recordings from 2006-2008]

5/22/2011 6:29:14 PM

^ interesting. it'd be strange to partially inspire such a huge record, although "emma" is actually the middle name of a high school sweetheart, right?

5/22/2011 6:43:52 PM

[Edited on May 22, 2011 at 6:45 PM. Reason : oops, sorry for the double post]

5/22/2011 6:45:25 PM

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/christy-smiths-flotsam-and-krill-delivers-the-stunning-romantic-flipside-to-bon-ivers-for-emma-forever-ago/Content?oid=1610624

5/22/2011 6:53:10 PM

you can read about it here:
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/christy-smiths-flotsam-and-krill-delivers-the-stunning-romantic-flipside-to-bon-ivers-for-emma-forever-ago/Content?oid=1610624

highlights:

Quote :

"Nearly two years before, she'd broken up with a boyfriend who was her chief musical collaborator; he'd moved out, moved on, and that boy, Justin Vernon, had gotten famous performing as Bon Iver. She could barely read a magazine or turn on her computer without another media outlet reminding her how their breakup had sent him into northern Wisconsin exile, where he made one of the decade's biggest singer-songwriter debuts, For Emma, Forever Ago. Eerily, back in Raleigh, she played drums on one of those songs, "Flume," and he played on some of her Tender Fruit songs, too, singing harmonies and adding guitars. But she was done with music, or so she thought. Smith's Flotsam & Krill—finally out now, after four years of fits and starts—is more than a companion piece to For Emma; rather, it's the other side of the same story and every bit as captivating. "I felt silenced for a while," says Smith, pausing to gather her words at a picnic table just before midnight at the Carrboro bar Milltown. "At this point, I feel like Bon Iver's become legend now, and I'd be debunking some happy, warm story people want to believe. People want to believe Justin was hurt by this girl, who was a bitch. They want to believe this tragic, perfect, stoic figure stumbled off into the woods and came out with this album on this cloud. And in some ways, he did.""

Quote :

""It was living in a black-comedy musical. When he wrote 'Skinny Love,' we were on our couch in our underwear, eating Chinese food or whatever you do at home. He was like, 'I've got this song, and I think it might be one of the best songs I've ever written,'" she remembers. "He played it for me, and I was like, 'I know it's about me, but it's gold.' It's a song about him leaving me, but it's a beautiful song.""

[Edited on May 22, 2011 at 6:58 PM. Reason : ^well the four minutes i was late were to get highlights. so whatevs.]

5/22/2011 6:57:37 PM

that album isn't all about her though, some other girl named Sara Emma Jansen or something like that

5/22/2011 7:12:53 PM

sure it isn't.

[Edited on May 22, 2011 at 7:25 PM. Reason : oh. missed the "all" there.]

[Edited on May 22, 2011 at 7:26 PM. Reason : .]

5/22/2011 7:25:27 PM

cool-- thanks! dunno why i'm just now caring about these details. i've been obsessed with that album since 2008.

anyone know more details about the break-up of DeYarmond Edison? Was it a personal thing or just them wanting to move in different music directions? Was it tense for the Megafaun guys to start working with Justin again or did they remain buds despite the break-up?

5/22/2011 7:44:28 PM

super tense

5/22/2011 7:57:55 PM

so one must assume, that broad has a really good personality, right?

5/22/2011 8:04:02 PM

A++++ on both of the above posts

5/22/2011 8:19:42 PM

^^that and she's got a really good voice and song-writing ability

[Edited on May 22, 2011 at 11:13 PM. Reason : and justin's not exactly a looker himself]

[Edited on May 22, 2011 at 11:14 PM. Reason : not saying christy isn't good-looking. she is.]

[Edited on May 22, 2011 at 11:18 PM. Reason : anyway. she's a friend. so maybe i'm biased.]

5/22/2011 11:13:06 PM

I had no idea Justin Vernon's "Emma" is the Emma from Tender Fruit.

5/22/2011 11:18:22 PM

it's not. it's christy from the tenderfruit.

5/22/2011 11:18:58 PM

Quote :

"^^that and she's got a really good voice and song-writing ability [Edited on May 22, 2011 at 11:13 PM. Reason : and justin's not exactly a looker himself] [Edited on May 22, 2011 at 11:14 PM. Reason : not saying christy isn't good-looking. she is.] [Edited on May 22, 2011 at 11:18 PM. Reason : anyway. she's a friend. so maybe i'm biased.]"

you are biased

she's not good looking

she's not definitively ugly either, though

5/23/2011 12:09:08 AM

Quote :

"[Edited on May 22, 2011 at 11:13 PM. Reason : and justin's not exactly a looker himself]"

hasn't been hurting him the past three years

5/23/2011 12:32:34 AM

Really liking The Naked and Famous "Passive Me, Aggressive You." Released a while back in NZ but new to the US in March. First single is "Young Blood" (sounds kinda MGMT-like)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdO85Qf4Poc



http://www.amazon.com/Passive-Me-Aggressive-You/dp/B004QMW1NM/

[Edited on May 23, 2011 at 1:15 AM. Reason : album]

5/23/2011 1:14:34 AM

anyone want to share the new Thursday album? all the reviews I've read about it have been glowing. i think i'll give it a shot.

5/23/2011 9:24:06 AM

could someone please reup the new antlers record?

5/23/2011 6:44:05 PM

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=the+antlers+burst+apart+mediafire

cults webrip: http://www.mediafire.com/?zydp6l34b3446g3

[Edited on May 23, 2011 at 6:52 PM. Reason : ]

5/23/2011 6:49:55 PM

new death cab for cutie is meh. too many sappy songs about zooey. also, 'monday morning' might be their all-time low

5/24/2011 12:28:42 AM

The new Cults is decent.

Still can't get into the Bon Iver album. I like Michican't and Beth/Rest. Everything else seriously just puts me to sleep.

5/24/2011 12:44:16 AM

streamed like half of the cults album from npr.

kinda wondering if there's going to be a black kids esque effect.

[Edited on May 24, 2011 at 9:21 AM. Reason : ^holocene is the jam]

[Edited on May 24, 2011 at 9:21 AM. Reason : although it does kinda remind me of owen/american football or something]

5/24/2011 9:17:27 AM

wasn't feeling that Cults. after about song 3 every song sounded the same and it got pretty grating about halfway through.

5/24/2011 11:57:12 AM

A good 24 hours for Justin Vernon & Co. First Fallon and then:

http://pitchfork.com/news/42622-gayngs-win-lawsuit-against-tour-bus-company/

I was glad to hear this news.

[Edited on May 24, 2011 at 12:47 PM. Reason : s]

5/24/2011 12:47:13 PM

yeah, not sure how i feel about the cults lp. i mean, i like their sound, but it definitely drags on by the second half of the album.

new black lips is really good (somewhat surprisingly).

5/24/2011 3:01:56 PM

just now realizing how perfect of an intro Lisbon, OH is for Beth / Rest

5/25/2011 1:18:53 PM

Quote :

"although it does kinda remind me of owen/american football or something"

that has me kind of interested to check it out at least

5/25/2011 1:26:36 PM

^ yeh, i had not previously made that comparison, but upon re-listening i can definitely hear it


side note: my girlfriend ordered a manic street preachers lp from amazon, and they accidentally shipped the american football lp with it. we got to keep it for free. i hadn't listened to it in years, and it has definitely withstood the test of time

5/25/2011 7:14:30 PM

I agree with what Tom Wizness said about Cults actually. But I think it's the first 4 songs. Damn, I was thinking this thing had potential. Now I don't even wanna buy it just for 4 songs...

5/25/2011 7:35:13 PM

man

this new my morning jacket is terrible

5/26/2011 10:47:41 AM