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[Rocha]

Fuck Litter -- Abortionfest. I feel like eating kittens.

Corduroy Jeans - I Am Milk. Pitchfork raved about it. It's like Captain & Tennille for 30-somethings.

Vomitous Entrails - Eat Your Pancreas. I like it because it's virtually indistinguishable from every other death metal record of the past 20 years.

[Rocha]

Fuck Litter -- Abortionfest. I feel like eating kittens.

Corduroy Jeans - I Am Milk. Pitchfork raved about it. It's like Captain & Tennille for 30-somethings.

Vomitous Entrails - Eat Your Pancreas. I like it because it's virtually indistinguishable from every other death metal record of the past 20 years.

Say Yes Yes No - Satin Pants (Satin Heart). They're pretty wonderful. They have this adorable pixie-ish female singer in pig tails who also plays the kazoo and the backing band is her two ex-boyfriends playing Super Mario Bros. 2 on the NES. I saw them at the Williamsburg Bowling Alley last summer.

[rightbug]

Fuck Litter -- Abortionfest. I feel like eating kittens.

Corduroy Jeans - I Am Milk. Pitchfork raved about it. It's like Captain & Tennille for 30-somethings.

Vomitous Entrails - Eat Your Pancreas. I like it because it's virtually indistinguishable from every other death metal record of the past 20 years.

Say Yes Yes No - Satin Pants (Satin Heart). They're pretty wonderful. They have this adorable pixie-ish female singer in pig tails who also plays the kazoo and the backing band is her two ex-boyfriends playing Super Mario Bros. 2 on the NES. I saw them at the Williamsburg Bowling Alley last summer.

Pope Fister -- Anal Trauma. This album makes you want to have root canal, that's how good it is.

[Sed]

Kathrinn Da Grate - Equinilingus.

[rightbug]

Fuck Litter -- Abortionfest. I feel like eating kittens.

Corduroy Jeans - I Am Milk. Pitchfork raved about it. It's like Captain & Tennille for 30-somethings.

Vomitous Entrails - Eat Your Pancreas. I like it because it's virtually indistinguishable from every other death metal record of the past 20 years.

Say Yes Yes No - Satin Pants (Satin Heart). They're pretty wonderful. They have this adorable pixie-ish female singer in pig tails who also plays the kazoo and the backing band is her two ex-boyfriends playing Super Mario Bros. 2 on the NES. I saw them at the Williamsburg Bowling Alley last summer.

Pope Fister -- Anal Trauma. This album makes you want to have root canal, that's how good it is.

The Magic Eggnog -- Feel My Heart Beat Faster. I saw them open for Explosions in Your Pants and hey were amazing.

[Nilan 666]

reason for edit: wrong thread

This post has been edited by Nilan 666: Sep 15 2011, 07:50 PM

[Sed]

reason for edit: wrong thread

I've got 404 errors, but this ain't one.

[Sed]

Trouser Squid - Stinky Ink In Your Winky Pink. They're going a long way toward proving that hardcore rap and the shamisen are a good combo.

[Sed]

Fey To Black - groundbreaking African-American hipster rock. Equal parts Pomplamoose and Chocolate Mousse!

[Charlie]

In death metal's defense, those shows are crazy fun to go to. In China at least. Beijing has a pretty thriving hardcore punk/death metal scene. It's awesome because you get all the energy of the concert, without any of the fear of being murdered in a mosh pit because you are pretty much bigger than anyone.


I really dislike that kind of music, but live the energy of the place makes it amazing.

[Sed]

In death metal's defense, those shows are crazy fun to go to. In China at least. Beijing has a pretty thriving hardcore punk/death metal scene. It's awesome because you get all the energy of the concert, without any of the fear of being murdered in a mosh pit because you are pretty much bigger than anyone.

This reminds me - check out Tienanmen Square Dance 's self-titled debut. Chinese speed bluegrass? Mao that's what I call music!

[leedsy99]

Say Yes Yes No - Satin Pants (Satin Heart). They're pretty wonderful. They have this adorable pixie-ish female singer in pig tails who also plays the kazoo and the backing band is her two ex-boyfriends playing Super Mario Bros. 2 on the NES. I saw them at the Williamsburg Bowling Alley last summer.

Try to check out "Pony Dreams" by Size Four. They're a side project by Kerstyn Mars (of SYYN), Kim from Matt & Kim, and comedian Whitney Cummings. It's not very good, and I think they might have been drunk when they recorded it, but it's pretty empowering.

[xcheck24]

[rightbug]

Just for Pete, the new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah album is now streaming in its entirety on NPR:

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/11/140226001/fi...yeah-hysterical

Also on Spotify:

http://open.spotify.com/album/6YHQqnBujgU2N8z910MThy

[leedsy99]

Please don't tell me that thin bald guy next to Dave Grohl is Bob Mould. That's fucking weird. He looks like a guy that carves birdhouses in New Hampshire.

[Sed]

Please don't tell me that thin bald guy next to Dave Grohl is Bob Mould. That's fucking weird. He looks like a guy that carves birdhouses in New Hampshire.

Seriously - that image is making me sad.

[SorryaboutthatWh...]

I guess I shouldve put this here I'm at the dave concert and I'm feeling like I've finally got to that age where I'm done going to big festivals. I'm enjoying myself but the crowd is just not what it used to be for this band.

Jesus christ I'm an old man

[Bleedin-Blue]

[SorryaboutthatWh...]

I should say this much, I had a blast once Dave finally took the stage. This really is prob the last time I see him for a long time unless he announces he's doing some kind of goodbye tour in which case I'd have to go, and it was a pretty damn good set.

One Sweet World
Big Eyed Fish
Bartender
Break Free
Why I Am
Stay or Leave
Crush
Shotgun
Drive In Drive Out
You And Me
#41 w/Warren Haynes
Cortez The Killer w/Warren Haynes
So Much To Say -Directly into
Anyone Seen the Bridge - Directly Into
Too Much
Stay

E: A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Dave Solo
E: Two Step -They played the SHIT out of this.

Considering some of my favorite songs were in there, I was pretty stoked.

[toph]

That's a great set. "Crush" is my favorite DMB song and "One Sweet World" is great, too.

[Mike B.]

Wilco is currently doing a live spot in the NPR studios, playing their new album, with an interview.

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/13/140429798/mo...3Dfb&cc=fmp

[Mike B.]

Also, Radiohead just announced two gigs at Roseland, to coincide with their appearance on the Colbert Report:

http://www.thealternateside.org/110919/rad...september-28-29

I've never been a huge Radiohead fan, but I feel like I should at least make an attempt to see one of those shows.

[Mike B.]

Wilco is currently doing a live spot in the NPR studios, playing their new album, with an interview.

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/13/140429798/mo...3Dfb&cc=fmp

Didn't love the first few, but the last song, a twelve-minute track called "One Sunday Morning", is pretty amazing.

[Nilan 666]

After The King's Speech is over, the new Mastodon.

[Nilan 666]

Mastodon - The Hunter. This is some good love here.

[Charlie]

Didn't love the first few, but the last song, a twelve-minute track called "One Sunday Morning", is pretty amazing.

You crazy man, the first track is amazing.

[Mike B.]

I try not to let critical reviews color my reactions to music, but something was really bugging me about the latest Airborne Toxic Event album when I had it playing today, so I read some of the reviews of the last album. Needless to say, Pitchfork was not a fan, and they wrote a hilariously scathing review.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12191-...ne-toxic-event/

In a way, The Airborne Toxic Event is something of a landmark record: This represents a tipping point where you almost wish Funeral or Turn on the Bright Lights or Is This It? never happened as long as it spared you from horrible imitations like this one, often sounding more inspired by market research than actual inspiration. Congrats, Pitchfork reader-- the Airborne Toxic Event thinks you're a demographic.

I will never be able to hear a song of theirs again without thinking of that paragraph. And in case you're thinking that Pitchfork was merely being their snotty dick selves, the Onion A/V Club panned it too, and NME eviscerated their latest.

http://www.nme.com/reviews/the-airborne-toxic-event/12000

Shocker! The long-awaited (it says here) follow-up to a sublimely average debut is another half-arsed muppet show executed with the charisma of a terminally ill sloth. Singer Mikel groans and splutters like a man performing something my – ahem – mate’s last girlfriend dubbed ‘thirsty dog cunnilingus’.

Then again, this lot probably can’t be bothered to engage in that practice, either. Don’t just take our word for it – go download ‘Numb’, indie-rock stadium baiting so deeply uninspiring you would need to send a SWAT team down to Ineptitude just to drag it within sniping range of Decent Music. I’m too old for this, and so are they.

[xcheck24]

Thanks for depressing me, Mike, since I like that album.

[Mike B.]

Thanks for depressing me, Mike, since I like that album.

I vaguely remembered that someone posted a clip of theirs in this thread - was that you? Sorry.

This post has been edited by Mike B.: Sep 20 2011, 06:03 PM

[Kusand]

I vaguely remembered that someone posted a clip of theirs in this thread - was that you? Sorry.

Well I'm glad you posted it, because I can't stand them and I feel better about it.

[toph]

I posted "Changing" in here a while ago. I stand by it.

[xcheck24]

I also posted a clip in here too of an acoustic version of one of their songs.

[Kusand]

On 'Sometime Around Midnight':

There's a possibility this is just a po-mo exercise, writing a song about writing a song about how some girl not wanting to fuck you is some sort of epic human calamity, but judging by the out-of-nowhere string section that opens the thing for the first minute, I doubt these guys are playing.


Just hits it out of the park. Articulates why I hated it perfectly. So overwrought and melodramatic with music that begs you to take it at face value.

This post has been edited by Kusand: Sep 20 2011, 06:13 PM

[Mike B.]

Meanwhile, I just run the St. Vincent album over and over at work all day.



So weird, and so beautiful.

Also going to see tune-yards tonight, really looking forward to it (shut the hell up 'bug).

[leedsy99]

I posted "Changing" in here a while ago. I stand by it.

I'm meh to the song, but absolutely love the lines: Days pass into weeks, when we don't even speak; We just lie wide awake, and pretend we're asleep; And you go home alone, and your checking your phone, and you're looking at me like I'm something you own.

[Nilan 666]

OK, if you like a band called Airborne Toxic Event feel free to shut the fuck up about the names of bands I like.

[Mike B.]

OK, if you like a band called Airborne Toxic Event feel free to shut the fuck up about the names of bands I like.

They're named after a section of White Noise, yet another reason to hate that book.

I don't completely hate them, actually. I don't find the latest album to be awful, there was just something really bugging me about it while I was listening.

[Charlie]

I try not to let critical reviews color my reactions to music, but something was really bugging me about the latest Airborne Toxic Event album when I had it playing today, so I read some of the reviews of the last album. Needless to say, Pitchfork was not a fan, and they wrote a hilariously scathing review.

I enjoy reading Pitchfork, but obviously don't agree with everything they write.

That being said, when they tear up a record it is often hysterical. Their ones of Jet's two albums are just classic:

For "Get Born"

"We have a couple songs that sound like the Stones."

"Perfect! Everybody loves the Stones. Just get out there and do them. Maybe throw in a song called 'Get What You Need', which theoretically would sport a pilfered Kinks' guitar riff from 'All Day and All of the Night' and a bassline kidnapped from The Temptations' 'Get Ready'. If there's one thing Americans love, it is Rock-Motown. Just go give them some Stones, which they love, then a little honky-tonk piano because that's awesome, then close with some Rock-Motown."

"Oh my god, this is terrible. Jet! Come here. Stop playing. Listen, you guys are not going over at all. I can count the people out there on one fist. You better bail out quick."

"Dude, I don't understand. We sound like everyone's favorite old rock bands, we have insipid lyrics, we say 'Come On!' and 'Oh Yeah!' every five seconds, we have no discernable identity, and we're from Australia. What could people possibly dislike about us?"

"No idea, brah. Listen, why don't you do one more song, like about how DJs aren't actually musicians and you don't get how they pull tail."

"Oh, you mean 'Rollover DJ'? The one that goes, 'You've been playing other people's songs all night,' right?"

"Yes, that is exactly the song I'm talking about."

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4338-get-born/
For Shine on from Wikipedia

Critical reaction to the album was mixed; British music magazine NME, for instance, called the record "another joyfully old-fashioned rock'n'roll album immersed in the classics,"[9] while the American review site Pitchfork Media posted a review containing only a video clip of a chimpanzee urinating into its own mouth.[2]

[xcheck24]

I don't completely hate them, actually. I don't find the latest album to be awful, there was just something really bugging me about it while I was listening.

Some of it seems a little politically-driven. And then the rest of it does not. It's almost like they couldn't settle on a theme?

[bloodorange]

Fuck Litter -- Abortionfest. I feel like eating kittens.

Corduroy Jeans - I Am Milk. Pitchfork raved about it. It's like Captain & Tennille for 30-somethings.

Vomitous Entrails - Eat Your Pancreas. I like it because it's virtually indistinguishable from every other death metal record of the past 20 years.

Say Yes Yes No - Satin Pants (Satin Heart). They're pretty wonderful. They have this adorable pixie-ish female singer in pig tails who also plays the kazoo and the backing band is her two ex-boyfriends playing Super Mario Bros. 2 on the NES. I saw them at the Williamsburg Bowling Alley last summer.

Pope Fister -- Anal Trauma. This album makes you want to have root canal, that's how good it is.

I DIE.

[Kusand]

New Primus. It's, well, Primus. You're gonna get what you're expecting out of it.



They're on tour, I'd really like to see them, but the cheapest seats are almost $50 after fees, and I'm just not that into it.

[Mike B.]

Tune-yards was absolutely amazing last night. Made me like her latest album even more than I already do. Merrill Garbus is a complete dynamo on stage - she was clearly enjoying herself and the completely amped crowd very much, and the power of her vocals is really something to behold live. Couple that with a small venue, and a great backing band, and that's a good recipe.

Some of it seems a little politically-driven. And then the rest of it does not. It's almost like they couldn't settle on a theme?

It's more the forced emotive vocals and the over-production. Just seems like a lot of screaming over uninventive instrumentation and run-of-the-mill storylines.

And while I laugh at the Pitchfork reviews above, I know that they are way too self-important (the "BNM" acronym is really obnoxious) and vicious toward anything they deem to be remotely mainstream. To build up indie standards and then rip someone for trying to meet them is pretty hypocritical. So when I read their reviews, I keep that in mind. I find that the musicians the single out as noteworthy are usually ones that I really enjoy as well, and the ones they clobber might be ones that I would like if I gave them a chance.

[jburns]

REM breaks up after 31 years. I guess it's time to bust out Murmur.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/r-e...ecades-20110921

[xcheck24]

They're on tour, I'd really like to see them, but the cheapest seats are almost $50 after fees, and I'm just not that into it.

Holy shit.
The last time I went into a mosh pit was at a Primus show when I was in college. We paid like $20 to get in. No fees, nothing.

[Mike B.]

REM breaks up after 31 years. I guess it's time to bust out Murmur.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/r-e...ecades-20110921

Haven't really been in tune with them since Monster, but Document, Green, and Out of Time were standards for me for a decade. Finest Worksong is still one of my favorite all-time rock songs, and still gives me goose bumps when I hear it.

[jburns]

Haven't really been in tune with them since Monster, but Document, Green, and Out of Time were standards for me for a decade. Finest Worksong is still one of my favorite all-time rock songs, and still gives me goose bumps when I hear it.

I haven't bought an album of theirs in many years, but yes, their early work is just superb. Finest Worksong rules. [goes to youtube right now]

[jburns]

Take your instinct by the reins
Your better best to rearrange
What we want
and what we need
has been confused
beeeeeennnnnnnnnnnn confusedddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

[Mike B.]

Take your instinct by the reins
Your better best to rearrange
What we want
and what we need
has been confused
beeeeeennnnnnnnnnnn confusedddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

It's really an inspirational song, you know? Just get up and do something.

[Sed]

Yeah, I've always thought that that was one of their best as well.

[jburns]

It's really an inspirational song, you know? Just get up and do something.

And it builds, you know? You get this slow ramp up that makes you want to run through a brick wall.