I've been looking to forward to sharing this guy. I really like his sound:
Here's some happy songs:
and finally some Joni Mitchell:
Also if anyone is looking for an alternative to iTunes, Musicbee is a fantastic alternative. I've been using it for a couple of days now and it's pretty much better in every way.
I've hugged Mac Demarco. It was kind of a weird situation.
That is not the same John Martyn who is covering the finest piece of music ever, is it? This is the only song of my John Martyn I've heard. They sound like polar opposites.
BADBADNOTGOOD - BBNG2 Hip hop influenced jazz from Toronto. This album has covers of James Blake, Earl Sweatshirt, and My Bloody Valentine songs that I like a lot.
I've only listened to it once. I like BBNG2 better, but I feel that's because half the songs are ones I already know and love. I'd need to spend more time with it before giving a definitive statement.
Good stuff! I just got finished playing the drums and remarked to a friend that I pretty much only know two beats. Listening to this music makes me feel like even more of a drum-failure. Great playing.
I saw Kishi Bashi again this past weekend, but one of the openers absolutely blew me away. Bombadil had an incredible stage presence, really well-written songs, and were clearly having a great time playing great music. They did one song a-capella, and blew all of us away. thenewgreen, check these guys out. They're from Durham, not sure how far that is from you.
That's right where I live. In fact, the house I sold at the beginning of the year was in Durham. I'll check them out, thanks for the heads up.
Yesterday I played "pick any record" with my daughter. We listened to Michael Jackson's Off the Wall -so good! Then in a stroke of hilarity, she chose this album that I didn't even realize I owned:
I went to the Reading Festival last weekend and heard some fantastic music, so that is what I have been listening to lately. Here are some bands that I found out about as a result of going to the festival. Clean Bandit are a pop group with some classical influences (well there's a violin and cello) from my home town of Cambridge, UK (although they are unfortunately gownies), who you might have heard of for the song (at least if you live in the UK, not sure about elsewhere):
Cage the Elephant is a alternative rock band and they are really good. Very catchy stuff, e.g. 'AIn't No Rest for the Wicked' and 'In One Ear'.
Metronomy are an electronic group from Totnes, Devon, an area referred to sarcastically as the English Riviera which formed the inspiration for this next song.
I heard it was pretty good. Unfortunately everyone I knew was going to the Blink 182, You Me At Six, Sleeping Sirens, et al. side of things so I passed on it. Looked up the line-up a couple of days before the event started and it looks like I missed out a bit. How crowded were the three bands you've picked? Whilst the line-up wasn't as slanted as I originally assumed, Clean Bandit and Metronomy stuck out like sore thumbs. I heard there were fewer than 50 people who went to see Elli Ingram -- sadness. They really exploded, didn't they? I heard their debut single the night it was released and honestly thought they were going nowhere. Oh, eighty million views? Glastonbury? Reading now? ... DOUBLE ...I went to the Reading Festival last weekend and heard some fantastic music, so that is what I have been listening to lately.
who you might have heard of for the song (at least if you live in the UK, not sure about elsewhere):
from my home town of Cambridge,
Clean Bandit filled up the NME tent, people were standing outside the tent to see them. I hadn't heard of them before the festival but I had heard Rather Be. I was pretty near the front, I have quite pushy friends (the easiest way to get to the front is to start from the side). Cage The Elephant were pretty busy, Metronomy were a little bit less busy. They were all in the NME tent btw. Clean Bandit are playing Bestival next week, they are doing pretty well. It's going to be hard for them to follow the hype up, I'm interested to see what they do now! I chose to go see Vampire Weekend and Metronomy by myself and I'm really glad that I did, being alone did not detract from the experience at all as I could totally focus on partying and singing and everything. Other favourites were Gogol Bordello (crazy), Arctic Monkeys, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Die Antwoord (damn). What exactly do you mean by slanted? I chose to ignore as much of the emo shit and pop rock that I could (e.g. Paramore, Papa Roach, Blink 182). Apparently Foster the People were awful and there was a mosh pit at the Kooks. The fucking Kooks. Anthrax they ain't. There were a lot of twats in attendance... Fortunately I only got piss on me once! Some guy was asking everyone to 'shield him' in the Macklemore concert, then pissed into a cup and threw it. Surprised that he was not smacked round the face but I guess that's the bystander effect for you. Also woo Cambridge! It's so fucking boring here. I can't wait to leave in two weeks. I was at university in Brighton (Sussex) for the last three years and it really does not compare.
Basically I mean from everything I'd heard about it, I thought it was going to be this year's emo shit and pop rock concert collective, which in retrospect was a poor judgement and I probably wouldn't have minded going. The people I heard about Reading from tended to be those who like their rock less arthritic than ACDC and less flexible than prog, which only added to my myopic bias. I heard there was almost no atmosphere at Arctic Monkeys. I like your judgement more though, because if they played R U Mine? and I was in the crowd, I would have gone full Napoleon Dynamite. My flailing epilepsy nearly broke the TV listening to it on Jools. I'll have to check out Gogol later. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I don't have the benefit of perspective.What exactly do you mean by slanted?
Arctic Monkeys,
Also woo Cambridge! It's so fucking boring here. I can't wait to leave in two weeks. I was at university in Brighton (Sussex) for the last three years and it really does not compare.
That was my initial impression, honestly I initially just went along for a laugh and didn't know much about the bands. Which was a pretty stupid thing to do, given how much the tickets cost. I'm glad it worked out OK :P R U Mine? was played at the very end, in an extended form. It was the shit. People were pretty bummed that they didn't play 505 though.
Darius is BLOWING UP right now. The genre is french-touch-electro-funk-deep-house-disco. It's so ill-defined that your intrigue compels you to listen. Le Phunk is a no-name producer who commandeers old 1970's samples in a genius, simplistic way. And if you just wanted some driving nu disco for motivating background music while you toil away at your desk job...
Soundtrack to The Harder They Come. Classic movie, classic reggae.
I just noticed something pretty cool about Hubski. I'm mostly mobile so the original link doesn't always work. If you embed a link in the thread (copypaste the link from YouTube's "share" option) it works like a charm no matter what device you're on. Stops that infuriating "no mobile support" crap.
A link to Lost Cities.
http://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/lost-cities Via Natalie Bar of Re-Arbeiten who herself produces some amazing electronica: Alexandre Navarro says of this album: "I was watching and re-watching 70-80' anticipation / sf movies - that is my favorite genre (Blade runner, They Live, Solaris, Planet of the Apes,THX 1138, Soylent Green etc.)… It inspired me for Lost Cities that is about the search of poetry in an ultra technologic world where happiness becomes fake where human forget about his roots …''
Bitte Orca, how did I never pay attention to this album? Jesus Fun fact, that bananas female vocal line on Remade Horizon that sounds like it was chopped up and sampled is all done live. That doesn't sound very impressive typed out, just find the song and listen to it to hear what I'm talking about and lose your shit with wonder. A little early in the year maybe for fall music, but I've been digging "Atlas" by Real Estate, sad and beautiful. The tones they get from their instruments are astounding to me.
Never post this song and get a reply on it anywhere, but I'll do it once more. Here is a Pakistani song by Laal, it's called "Vo Jaang". It's a poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a poet known for his calls for fighting against the military regime's oppression. Here are the lyrics plus translation.