derp

8/10/2010 9:10:30 PM

Oddsac sounds so much better through headphones than a rowdy crowd in Chapel Hill

8/10/2010 9:10:58 PM

The Suburbs hit #1 in the UK and USA

8/11/2010 12:49:00 PM

Jesus, wow. That's a crazy accomplishment for them

8/11/2010 3:13:18 PM

would be more impressive if they weren't selling it for $3.99 on Amazon

8/11/2010 3:20:06 PM

My nutsack runs through it, again and again and again.

8/11/2010 3:24:00 PM

liking the candy claws album.

8/11/2010 9:08:18 PM

who can recommend me some good irish bands? indie, folk, celtic, it doesn't matter. I'm heading over there in 2 weeks

I'm already aware of U2, Cranberries, and Van Morrison as the big names.

I already listen to/have BellX1, Two Door Cinema Club, The Frames/Swell Season, Damien Rice etc..


wouldn't mind some input on traditional irish music too.

8/12/2010 10:51:49 AM

The Pogues

8/12/2010 10:56:57 AM

THIN MOTHERFUCKING LIZZY
MY BLOODY VALENTINE
The Undertones, writers of "Teenage Kicks," one of the world's best songs
Ash
Stiff Little Fingers

8/12/2010 4:17:19 PM

For anyone who's interested, Sasha Frere-Jones wrote an insightful and accurate, but brief, piece for The New Yorker about the success of The Suburbs and what it means for Merge Records, independent record labels, and the recording industry in general.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2010/08/16/100816crmu_music_frerejones

I found these two parts in particular to be on the money:

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"Traditionally, independent labels have been a haven for bands that don’t fit in the mainstream. But musically, at least, Arcade Fire has enough in common with long-established acts like Bruce Springsteen and U2 that there isn’t much of a case to be made that the band is defining itself through novelty or innovation. The difference between major and indie labels now has less to do with aesthetics than with the way bands conceive of their careers. For Arcade Fire, independence and control may be ultimately more profitable."

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"Major labels have another disadvantage. A slow pileup of mergers has made it almost impossible to remember which act is on which label. Independent labels can develop personalities as vivid as those of their artists, and in a few cases mean as much to their audience. Some diehards go as far as abandoning a band when it moves from an indie to a major, though that kind of commitment may wane, since the Internet encourages the idea of free-floating songs stripped of provenance."

8/12/2010 7:45:57 PM

The idea of a label identity is an extremely important one. If I see anything on Merge in a discount bin, I buy it immediately, because the chances are very high that it contains excellent pop songs.

8/12/2010 9:45:34 PM

Right, that's what I took from it, too. Same thing with Matador for a lot of people (but instead of the songs being catchy, you know they'll rock)....and an album on 4AD will probably be darker in sound...I completely agree with his point on that.

8/12/2010 9:49:12 PM

if i had to pick a favorite label i think it would be subpop or carpark

8/12/2010 10:36:41 PM

the new of montreal has confused me.

8/13/2010 7:21:12 PM

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"the new of montreal has confused me."

8/13/2010 7:26:12 PM

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"the new of montreal has confused me."

how so? i haven't listened to it yet

8/13/2010 9:03:36 PM

it's kind of all over the place...it seemed kind of unfocused to me, idk, i'll have to listen to it a few more times

8/13/2010 9:07:04 PM

i think it's pretty great.

8/14/2010 8:55:41 AM

it might be, i only heard it once and it sounded like there was too much going on in each song, but i'll have to listen to it a few more times.

8/14/2010 10:09:22 AM

oh dont get me wrong, i really like it

but it does seems a little... disjointed at times?

but i think that adds to the allure.

8/14/2010 10:59:05 AM

I'm not their biggest fan.

8/14/2010 11:08:27 AM

i have to say, that other than hissing fauna, sunlandic twins and satanic panic, their stuff can be pretty grating.

but i dig false priest.

8/14/2010 11:29:47 AM

i think that other than the early elephant six stuff, their albums can be pretty grating. but i liked hissing fauna.

8/14/2010 12:15:40 PM

it sounds like a full length B side of Skeletal Lamping

8/14/2010 6:46:38 PM

well that's pretty discouraging

8/14/2010 6:47:12 PM

and i really really liked the previous album but this one just doesn't "catch" for me

8/14/2010 11:58:50 PM

false priest has a few very enjoyable tracks ("coquet coquette", "like a tourist", and "girl named hello" come to mind), but i don't think it's going to be getting many repeat listens. that said, i'd still love to see oM perform this material live b/c of how over the top barnes gets with these kinds of sex-obsessed songs.

8/15/2010 11:13:36 AM

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"wouldn't mind some input on traditional irish music too."

Someone said the Pogues but you'll probably also hear a lot of the Dubliners over there as well.

Also, don't forget Rory Gallagher.

Really the best thing I can tell you about music in Ireland is that the stuff you hear on the streets in Dublin is becoming more diverse due to the influx of immigrants. You can hear almost as much Eastern European music on the streets as Irish stuff.

8/16/2010 7:39:04 AM

new (old) soundgarden single was released on itunes. i enjoyed it after the initial listen.

8/18/2010 7:49:07 PM

damn if i'm not lovin me some Frontier Ruckus

8/20/2010 10:43:04 AM

Got the Lost in the Trees record. The songs on it are pretty good (and there's two in particular that I really like), but there's a really long orchestral piece on each side. I understand that it's part of what they do and the pieces themselves are very pretty, but goddamn are they out of place.

8/20/2010 12:14:21 PM

New Cee-Lo. Shit rules.

8/20/2010 2:05:28 PM

Surprise Sufjan EP out on the internet today. It's a long ass EP, 8 songs, 60 minutes. Haven't listened yet.

^damn, that song is really good

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8/20/2010 3:01:02 PM

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/27/lupe-fiasco-fans-demand-more-music/

About Lupe Fiasco's new album "Lasers". No release date set, but he has said that the album is complete. Really looking forward to this. "The Cool" was a great album, IMO.

Also, J.Cole (signed to Jay-Z's record label) is set to come out with an album in late October. He's from Fayetteville, NC and was featured on Jay-Z's "Blueprint 3",Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek's "Revolutions Per Minute", and on Wale's "Attention Deficit". He's definitely one of my favorite new artists.

8/20/2010 3:28:02 PM

Several of the songs on this Sufjan Stevens EP are really gorgeous IMO. Hard to listen to it and not think of Joanna Newsom, but it'd be hard to tell which of the two deserve more of the credit for that. His voice is more unhinged like Newsom's on this EP.

8/20/2010 3:39:06 PM

Sufjan EP is A+++

8/20/2010 5:06:36 PM

i don't think i've listened to an entire Sufjan Stevens album since like 2006. used to be really into the guy, but now it all sounds pretty annoying to me. new EP didn't change my mind.

8/20/2010 7:25:52 PM

"djohariah" is incredible

8/21/2010 6:36:29 PM

I have probably listened to that Cee-Lo song 25 times in two-ish days.

8/22/2010 9:10:32 PM

i have a feeling it's going to get really overplayed in the coming weeks/months and become really annoying after a while, which would be a shame since it's pretty awesome.

8/22/2010 9:21:49 PM

anyone know what noel gallagher of oasis is up to? it'd be cool if he released something solo this yr, my friend heard some of his new acoustic solo stuff and loved it

8/22/2010 11:33:18 PM

I am noticing that arcade fire sounds like a lot of things.

for instance i heard "The Killing Moon" by Echo & the Bunnymen on XM today and was like '...whoa,' during parts of it.

maybe because it's arcade fire weekend on another channel and i had them on the brain.

8/23/2010 3:17:12 AM

new thermals is solid...i like the last one more, but the songs are good, particularly the single "i don't believe you"

streaming the jenny & johnny record off npr. it's not bad, but i'm afraid j.lew will never get back to rabbit furcoat territory

8/23/2010 5:42:39 PM

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"On November 2 (moved from Oct 19, not sure why) both "Death To False Metal... A Collection Of Unheard Songs From The Weezer Vault" (formerly known as 'Odds And Ends') AND Pinkerton : Deluxe Edition will be released on Geffen Records. The 2 disc Pinkerton Deluxe Edition will also be available as a limited Superdeluxe edition, with an additional 3rd CD that will comprise the 3rd Volume of Rivers' "Alone" series of home demos, plus an amazing book of pictures and recollections from that era that Rivers has been putting together. More details about both these releases are coming soon."

8/23/2010 7:51:27 PM

SUPERDELUXE

i'm so in

what a sucker i am

8/24/2010 5:09:00 AM

will it be as good as this, though?

8/24/2010 9:26:10 AM

Currently pretty obsessed with "Djohariah" on the new Sufjan EP. Gets better with each listen. The first 12 or so minutes are a jam that Crazy Horse would be proud of.

8/24/2010 2:13:31 PM

the Sword put out a new disk today. Shit is good, if you like the Sword that is

8/24/2010 7:19:12 PM

Avey Tare album is out there ... meh ...

8/24/2010 7:40:06 PM