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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Mope on September 01, 2013, 06:15:40 pm
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okay, so its been a good while since we've seriously discussed new music, or atleast I know it has been since I have. knowing the folks around here; you've all probably perused all round the web, radio. etc... and have found some pretty neat shit you have yet to share, heres your chance.
That is really what this topic is about. Music you've personally newly discovered or that is newly released or going to be released, gossip, whatever. I've found a couple I'm gonna start out with.
The Alabama Shakes:
Previously mentioned in another topic. The alabama shakes are a garage rock group from alabama, their frontwoman can out zepp robert plant and they are all generally very very talented. Their debut album is entitled: Boys & Girls and the entire thing is very good. Every song is tolerable and most of them are fucking incredible.
Here are some examples of their bluesy greatness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svZNjhsk2ys (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svZNjhsk2ys)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTLAEI9seMY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTLAEI9seMY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNxWyVAtBiU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNxWyVAtBiU)
Gary Clark Jr.:
This guy has been compared to jimmy hendrix and rightfully so, he is very talented and probably my fav right now. from straight blues, old-school delta style, hip hop, southern rock this guy can pretty much do anything with a guitar. Gary Clark Jr. has been higly anticipated for a couple years now, promoted by Jay Z and alecia keys. Before he released his debut album black and blu, I was listening to eps or live recordings, the same songs recorded on the album sound totally different and you can really see gary's skill, flexibility, and progression since then. That and the whole album's producing is really good too. The album Black and Blu is a masterpiece, each and every song is great and gary cannot fuck anything up.
such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_q5HCm2_WQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_q5HCm2_WQ) - gary rockin' obama's fuckin socks off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZeDn-hHGE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZeDn-hHGE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pOdHIkv-64 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pOdHIkv-64)
Citizen Cope:
Citizen Cope is an indie blues/soul rocker based in washington, he performs, mixes, and produces all of his own music which is real chill stuff. rymefest uses his song and he's worked with a bunch of other well known people. eric clapton, sheryl crow, dido and carlos santana. I like citizen cope and he reminds me of sublime alot for some reason.
Songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fpKncoeF3g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fpKncoeF3g)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUfh5mbjjrw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUfh5mbjjrw)
I've got more music to share later but I'm just gonna let this topic stew right now
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right now in rap: kendrick lamar is a motherfucking monster
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gonna put a dent into my yearly music thread (dibs) hoping for 3 replies this year
right now in rap: kendrick lamar is a motherfucking monster
is this good or bad?? I'm into some recent rap but haven't checked out Lamar beyond that one popular dis track that was pretty bad.
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Good Kid MAAD City is a really awesome album
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warning: this is a No Rock Allowed post.
http://youtu.be/yoJ8lt4Ldak (http://youtu.be/yoJ8lt4Ldak)
don't know much about him, only heard the yugen ep which this is from. he's from glasgow, so i hope i find him playing live somewhere soon.
http://youtu.be/ktoaj1IpTbw (http://youtu.be/ktoaj1IpTbw)
i'm conflicted about whether i enjoy this or not. it's catchy and pretty, but they feel like imitators. they're from glasgow, also, and i think they're probably gonna be very popular. their first album is out in a few weeks. i've heard a few demos, pretty similar stuff. all right on the edge of being too affected, regularly spilling onto the wrong side of it.
http://youtu.be/lD3RHpVfMdI (http://youtu.be/lD3RHpVfMdI)
i really like this song. the album it's from is pretty good, but i might've forgotten about it by now if this song hadn't gotten its hooks in me for whatever reason.
http://youtu.be/WOZFVFF-ATw (http://youtu.be/WOZFVFF-ATw)
i saw dirty beaches live a few months ago and while he's got melodic and varied kinds of songs, the whole set was just stuff like this. i really enjoyed it but my friends got a bired bored and thought it was monotonous. i liked the constant pulsing rhythms. he was pretty intense on stage, i dunno if i would enjoy the album this is from as much if i hadn't seen it performed well live, though.
i feel like i've posted a lot of what i still listen to before though, like twin shadow who i have on my phone most of the time, or otherwise that everyone has already heard or made up their minds on like kanye so i won't post a bunch of that stuff since i dunno how much use it would be to anyone. i have some new things on my phone just now that i'm listening to but haven't made up my mind about yet.
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alabama shakes are pretty great. i was at their sacramento concert and they were really good
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gonna put a dent into my yearly music thread (dibs) hoping for 3 replies this year
right now in rap: kendrick lamar is a motherfucking monster
is this good or bad?? I'm into some recent rap but haven't checked out Lamar beyond that one popular dis track that was pretty bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkZZo0XSm5s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkZZo0XSm5s)
2:58
he and big sean are both pretty awesome. much better than any new kanye I've seen, kanye has been shitty since his last album imo. B.O.B. is pretty good too though.
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I'll check it out. new kanye is junk/pitchfork album of the century literally believe he's jesus
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The XX has released a new album "coexist", I'm a little late on it I think but this is the first I've heard about it. Its growin on me atm.
The weeknd has released his new album "kiss land" which from what I've heard is just a continuation of his other stuff.
Pretty much all of young money is on a steady decline except for nicki minaj who is pretty much the only one not consistantly sucking. Drake takes the cake as worst of the worst imo and I dunno how he's gonna release anything this year that doesn't sound like liquified, audible shit. Wiz hasn't been any different or outstanding imo.
Wale released the "gifted", while I'm very fond of wale and the album which is probably good I have not gotten into. I did not like the fact that he remixed a song with a perfectly good singer which sounded like rihanna, with rihanna; doing the exact same chorus not even as well.
Kid cudi has probably come to the realization that his cannibus use doesn't effect his record sales. His records do....
This is pretty sweet though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg7K6qiK92w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg7K6qiK92w)
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I'm pretty sure everyone here as already heard of macklemore, he's pretty sweet and already all over the radio.
Dropped his debut album which is entitled "the heist"
Macklemore is a white indie rapper, he uses alot of humor in his lyrics and creativity to rap about something other than armani suits and bugattis and he's pretty good at it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0)
I've recently gotten into RL Burnside who is an old school delta blues musician. Towards the end of his career he started playing with a punk blues band and released a remix album entitled "a bothered mind". Its alot of burnside's earlier works with a hip-hop and blues rock feel added to them. Some of this album's gems include one of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gALi97_vqkU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gALi97_vqkU)
The Beautiful Girls
They're an australian roots band that I'm pretty sure at one point I picked up from here. They go from a relaxed, carefree surfer/reggae esque kind of deal to blues rock and execute both pretty well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Me4KIiPLU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Me4KIiPLU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-isA5cWKSg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-isA5cWKSg)
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Speaking of Miley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYWDtXbBB0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYWDtXbBB0)
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If any of you have any bladerunner-esque electronica to send my way I would be appreciative. I have been badly abusing the Kavinsky album OutRun in the past few weeks. It only occurred to me the other day that the main track is used in the intro to Drive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY)
Another OST that I have found entertaining is the Dredd remake. If you haven't seen the film it is actually worthwhile as it has some pretty incredible slow-motion cinematography. The music is done by the same guy who used to do the music for the BBC spy series 'Spooks' which was cheesy as heck but this stuff is from another planet. I guess if you liked the soundtracks from the social network (TR) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (also TR) then you'd find this more musical and more fulfilling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NViqegD3WmA&list=PLF6tW055Hhxf6aEcVRfATH73OXY65hlQD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NViqegD3WmA&list=PLF6tW055Hhxf6aEcVRfATH73OXY65hlQD)
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am i the only one who actually liked yeezus?
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right now in rap: kendrick lamar is a motherfucking monster
he;s nice but my favorite new rapper is danny brown. xxx was an awesome album.
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Another OST that I have found entertaining is the Dredd remake. If you haven't seen the film it is actually worthwhile as it has some pretty incredible slow-motion cinematography. The music is done by the same guy who used to do the music for the BBC spy series 'Spooks' which was cheesy as heck but this stuff is from another planet. I guess if you liked the soundtracks from the social network (TR) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (also TR) then you'd find this more musical and more fulfilling.
I love Dredd, and I like the ost. I was listening to it pretty regularly for a few months and I still sing the music to myself.
am i the only one who actually liked yeezus?
I liked it. It isn't my favourite Kanye album, but I think everything he's done since graduation has been interesting, even parts of watch the throne in spite of jay z. his first two albums are on and off for me. yeezus doesn't really feel like a complete album though, and everything feels underdeveloped but I just took it as a rough idea he had and then spat out half formed. the album doesn't really stick to its core ideas, second half is all over the place, and the lyrics get in the way of taking any of the aggression or darkness from the music that seriously, so it's pretty mixed up i think but yeah, i like it.
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the only ideas I noticed seemed to be taken either from other artists/current rap trends or his super tiresome egoism front that doesn't seem like it went anywhere from last time, but I don't know that much about kanye or rap. parts felt like Yonkers-etc run thru a kanye filter and I remember we both didn't like yonkers jaime.
Macklemore is a white indie rapper
there are lots of white people in the rap game right now, huh? do you have an opinion on any of the others?
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i don't listen to enough current rap to understand trends, so while i knew there was some death grips in there, and that generally dark sounding beats like that exist, i couldn't pinpoint any particular thing i felt like he was imitating. when i heard black skinhead i thought it was gonna be an album of him deciding to be angry about race relations in his own superficial VMA talking about elite media figures kind of way, but none of the tracks are really about anything. the lyrics are just usual kanye pretty much. which i don't mind because i don't find his ego stuff tiresome, partly because it brings out the occasional really funny line whether he intends it to be funny in the way it is or not. i like kanye's whole persona. plus i like almost all of the music he makes in terms of the composition too, and that carries on to yeezus as well even though that part of that album actually is a bit different. i mean he's a lunatic, and a lot of what he says is despicable sure, but i don't really care. yeezus is a bit tossed off. minor kanye west...he's the least boring megastar around. nobody in the UK listens to him, you never hear his songs hear, so i don't have much context for him. i just imagine him sitting in penthouse hotel suites drinking lethally expensive alcohol ranting on about some incoherent nonsense to a room full of half-conscious security personnel, models and whatever kind of posse he has until he gets arbitrarily bored and decides to leave the country for a safari trip or something. mindless excess guided towards nothing in particular, but for some reason he thinks it's all crucially important.
a big kid with no filters and no limits to fulfilling his desires, hurtling towards boredom as an artifact of the fucked up way the world works. best way i can elucidate his appeal to me at this moment. or maybe i just mean i think he's a fun guy. that kanye sure is a fun guy.
i've been listening to good kid maad city and yes i do like that album. i also downloaded earl sweatshirt's new album 'doris' and it's okay. there are a few songs i like, but i feel like he isn't saying much and his delivery isn't entertaining enough for that to be okay all the time. it's a bit boring, probably will switch it out soon. but i like chum and sasquatch on it. maybe i will let it sink in a bit more.
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Macklemore is a white indie rapper
there are lots of white people in the rap game right now, huh? do you have an opinion on any of the others?
they're all corny as fuck. macklemore and mac miller are kinda harmless in their corniness, but then you have shit like riff raff which may as well just be a dude wearing blackface. i think the only new white rapper i liked was that one kreayshawn song.
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Well macklemore is more sincere in his approach and the music holds actual positive content while mac miller is an immature dumbass that got lucky with a couple hooks.
I've never heard of danny brown, riff raff, or kreayshawn so I'll check them out.
Kanye is a hypocritical idiot. I can't even listen to his music since my beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy because he's like a black version of eminem, but instead of aiming his aggression out on women and his infintile problems he rails the white man or the status quo or whatever the fuck while he guest appearences on the kardashians and beats the crap out of the popparazzi and wipes his ass with benjamins fuck kanye
even the music itself. If you listen to like all of the lights or power or pretty much anything earlier it actually sounds melodic and tight but now alot of his stuff is almost dub step sounding I dunno how to describe it but its like a 13 year old playing with fruity loops.
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i don't listen to enough current rap to understand trends, so while i knew there was some death grips in there, and that generally dark sounding beats like that exist, i couldn't pinpoint any particular thing i felt like he was imitating. when i heard black skinhead i thought it was gonna be an album of him deciding to be angry about race relations in his own superficial VMA talking about elite media figures kind of way, but none of the tracks are really about anything. the lyrics are just usual kanye pretty much. which i don't mind because i don't find his ego stuff tiresome, partly because it brings out the occasional really funny line whether he intends it to be funny in the way it is or not. i like kanye's whole persona. plus i like almost all of the music he makes in terms of the composition too, and that carries on to yeezus as well even though that part of that album actually is a bit different. i mean he's a lunatic, and a lot of what he says is despicable sure, but i don't really care. yeezus is a bit tossed off. minor kanye west...he's the least boring megastar around. nobody in the UK listens to him, you never hear his songs hear, so i don't have much context for him. i just imagine him sitting in penthouse hotel suites drinking lethally expensive alcohol ranting on about some incoherent nonsense to a room full of half-conscious security personnel, models and whatever kind of posse he has until he gets arbitrarily bored and decides to leave the country for a safari trip or something. mindless excess guided towards nothing in particular, but for some reason he thinks it's all crucially important.
a big kid with no filters and no limits to fulfilling his desires, hurtling towards boredom as an artifact of the fucked up way the world works. best way i can elucidate his appeal to me at this moment. or maybe i just mean i think he's a fun guy. that kanye sure is a fun guy.
that makes sense, and probably the real difference. I'm bored to heck with his persona.
there are lots of white people in the rap game right now, huh? do you have an opinion on any of the others?
they're all corny as fuck. macklemore and mac miller are kinda harmless in their corniness, but then you have shit like riff raff which may as well just be a dude wearing blackface. i think the only new white rapper i liked was that one kreayshawn song.
I listened to maybe 3 tracks by riff raff, it seemed like he might be interesting. I dunno, it's hard to tell at this point. he might be a manufactured twitter celeb, which I don't dig. I didn't think of his style as blackface, more of a representation of an existing white subculture. I saw an interview where he said he's a mix of redneck and idk gangster or something, and that's a good description of some people from my rural hometown who grew up in a working class family.
I never listened to mac miller and it doesn't sound like I should. there's also action bronson and iggy azalia, tho I haven't really listened to either. and die antwoord
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I can't even watch that without laughing
he should use the psuedonym joe dirt instead
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http://youtu.be/68mInBFcqXo (http://youtu.be/68mInBFcqXo)
a recent rap song i like...
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I'm really liking A$ap Rocky too, his debut is called "long. live. ASAP." Which Ima gonna look for because the four singles he released off of it sound pretty damn good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCf-URqIf0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCf-URqIf0)
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I found this duo on youtube a long while ago when searching for Zero 7 covers, and they did an amazing one of Destiny. Recently they've started making original songs and they are amazing:
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Two notable things have spawned out of wasilla, alaska in the last decade or so. One of them is sarah palin and the other is Portugal. The man.
This band has been named dropped every so often around here and for good reason, they're cool as shit. Having just dropped their album "Evil Friends" this june they're finally actually catching wind and getting some noteriety. Their first full album, also produced by danger mouse; every track on it is exquisite and definitely worth a listen if not several.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8e1sSNsf44 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8e1sSNsf44)
this is probably my favorite video from the album because it portrays some really cool stuff you can only do in alaska for instance blowing craters in permafrost with an automatic shotgun and street legal ATVs.
I'm gonna delve into the backwoods now, because I've found some pretty cool country recently. But not your generic kind, but a rebellious punk offbrand of it.
The first and foremost is the band "Lucero" who you've probably actually heard without even realizing it. If you've played red dead redemption the awesome soundtrack from the game is from a grouping of several southern artists, one of which being a member from the band lucero. They've got a meloncholy and grizzly kind of sound which could best be described as if the clash met johnny cash with a whole lotta liquor. The frontman Ben Nichols is the brother of Jeff Nichols. The writer and director if the movie "Mud", which is an incredible movie if you haven't seen it yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_%282012_film%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_%282012_film%29)
Both are highly talented and most of the soundtrack for the movie mud was done by ben and lucero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBeevjTLtvI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBeevjTLtvI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r4Ymyeuw_E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r4Ymyeuw_E)
And so we come to a familiar name, hank williams. This hank williams is the third incarnation and a little bit different than the others. At first this hank didn't wanna be a country star, he wanted to be a punk and he was for awhile until his blood caught up with him, literally. Because of three years of unpaid child support. the product of a one night stand this hank didn't even know about; he went from playing in a punk and metal band making 50$ a night to signing a country label.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpEo3lWTTYc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpEo3lWTTYc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_vHnVPL5c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_vHnVPL5c)