Music artist you love that others may be unfamiliar with.
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i got a few:
Florence & The Machine: A UK band, with a Female lead (Florence) impressive vocals, alternative
Tegan & Sara: Canadian band consisting of twin sisters (Tegan and Sara) altenitive rock (a friend of mine gave me one of their albums; The Con, and she got me hooked)
The Weakerthans: Canadian alternitive rock band, quite subdued songs but nice to listen to
The Gaslight Anthem: American band, from new york. kind of like bruice springseen, but more lively
on i side note, i hate the term "alternitive" it means nothing. what exactly is it alternitive to?
Florence & The Machine: A UK band, with a Female lead (Florence) impressive vocals, alternative
Tegan & Sara: Canadian band consisting of twin sisters (Tegan and Sara) altenitive rock (a friend of mine gave me one of their albums; The Con, and she got me hooked)
The Weakerthans: Canadian alternitive rock band, quite subdued songs but nice to listen to
The Gaslight Anthem: American band, from new york. kind of like bruice springseen, but more lively
on i side note, i hate the term "alternitive" it means nothing. what exactly is it alternitive to?
I figured I could ensnare more people who otherwise wouldn't consider listening to his music. As much as I would've put down deadhead or sunset, most people probably wouldn't have bothered giving it a listen.Duffeknol said:I'm his biggest fucking fan, but why did you have to post the ONE bad song the man has? WHY!?
Coincidentally, are you going to the Ghost/Ki shows in London in November?
A swedish metal band called sabaton.
Nothing better then a metal band constantly singing about world war II and other military conflicts.
Nothing better then a metal band constantly singing about world war II and other military conflicts.
She's very well known in the UK but apparently not so much in the states. Katie Melua, I think she has the beautiful voice i've ever heard.
One of her most powerful songs is The Flood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E4-9yKTv_I
but my favourite HAS to be Twisted (prepare to fall in love): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J9pZo-InA4
Outstanding.
One of her most powerful songs is The Flood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E4-9yKTv_I
but my favourite HAS to be Twisted (prepare to fall in love): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J9pZo-InA4
Outstanding.
Unicorn kid! \o/
Lion Hat and 8 bytes are awesome ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRXczPkGBA0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH0r_ExB1hc
Lion Hat and 8 bytes are awesome ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRXczPkGBA0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH0r_ExB1hc
Yeah the Art of War album was great. I also enjoy coat of arms as well its got some really good songs. I've only seen videos of them live. I am going to see them for the first time in April (i live across the pond and they don't usually come to north america).ffian1 said:
You're in for a treat.Kaytastrophe said:
Not sure how they're doing just now though, because their 2nd guitarist isn't touring with them because his lady's just had a kid (or is about to). Instead you've got Frederik from Dragonforce filling in 2nd axe duties.
Seen them 3 times now (maybe 4?), and they've never failed to impress. First time I saw them, it was an accident at a festival and I was completely blown away by how good they were.
Hell yes... the bizarre thing is that everyone sort-of knows them ... for maybe 4 or 5 songs, all but one off their first album. But they'd had like five more since and most of them fairly interesting. They are also an AWESOME live band.Sacman said:
(It's a similar story with Rammstein ... a lot of folks profess to know them but the knowledge seems to start and end with Mutter and maybe Herzelied - but they're still going and their most recent album is pretty cool as well as still controvertial). Ditto live awesomeness.
My usual defaults in this case will probably do. They're maybe not that leftfield ... people may have heard their stuff from time to time.
MJ Hibbett and the Validators - if I had to get very basic with this, he's the guy who did the music for that old Hey Hey 16k viral, but I was aware of him slightly before that blew up thanks to other bands I was into being associated with his DIY label. I may even have an email squirrelled somewhere notifying of the release of the HH16k "internet single" (64kbit mono and took 10 minutes to download 7 1/2 minutes of music, those were the days). Been writing, recording and performing with and without the band ever since, and though I haven't had chance to catch up with the very latest releases, the last album I got - mail order direct from Mark, with a handwritten compliments slip, nice! - was still good.
Sort of like a not quite as activist Billy Bragg, if he was from Leicester/Peterborough area, lived in London, and worked as a Database Engineer in the daytime. Songs About Life, pretty much, but with a pleasing acoustic guitar kind of vibe. Astonishingly varied musical range too. I do sometimes end up disagreeing with their engineer's decisions on the volume of the vocal mix (either the lead disappears into the mire, or the backing vox are too loud... and sometimes both) and not every single track is a winner, but that's about all.
Spray - sort of lighthearted goth techno outfit, if that's even a description. Made a track "I Am Gothic" that was popular in the underground clubs, and, incongrously, Dance Dance Revolution. Had several singles and remixes and a couple albums, and the members have popped up in The Cuban Boys (did that Hamster Dance thing along with other singles and an album and many, many internet releases - and now resurrected sans the Spray pair), Rikki and DAZ, etc.
And now I've just realised if I have time to write this, I really should also have time to get back in my email and pick up a lost conversation with Ric about getting hold of the latest album on actual CD because I don't have/can't get (long story) iTunes. Oops.
(It's been lost since December. Double oops)
Seven Seconds of Love. Again sort of related to the whole thing but in a different direction. Silly but skilled ska-band centred around Joel Vietch ie The Guy What Makes Those Disturbing "Rathergood" Animations. Get to them through the Rathergood site. Buy discs. Play in car on loud. Make people worry about you. Cease to care about that because you're so damn happy.
Oh and of course all the chiptuners. Dubmood, gWEm, 505, ultrasyd, and even Mad Max is still going (but with an ill-advised trip into general-midi-synthruments land). I get far too much of a groove on to their works and that of their colleagues.
Plus Journey are pretty good once you get past that Don't Stop Believing crap.
Just came back from his show in Tilburg yesterdayffian1 said:I figured I could ensnare more people who otherwise wouldn't consider listening to his music. As much as I would've put down deadhead or sunset, most people probably wouldn't have bothered giving it a listen.Duffeknol said:I'm his biggest fucking fan, but why did you have to post the ONE bad song the man has? WHY!?
Coincidentally, are you going to the Ghost/Ki shows in London in November?
Even had a quick chat with him. Super nice and really approachable guy.
But no, I live in the NL, so I won't be going to London
pretty much any psychedelic rock band of the 60s/70s. That shit is totally unknown in these savage parts
Hello thread made for me:
lush bit o nu-metal
so beautifully chilled
very famous in certain indie circles but unheard of outside of them
and finally some of the best dubstep ever!
lush bit o nu-metal
so beautifully chilled
very famous in certain indie circles but unheard of outside of them
and finally some of the best dubstep ever!
Emilie Autumn is definitely a niche musician. She does a really great job of mixing pop music with a gothic/industrial sound, with a little bit of classical music thrown in (she is a classically trained Violinist, after all). But I'll be the first to admit she is not for everyone.believer258 said:
But I'm glad to hear about the CiM and IATO. Closure's album "First Temple" is my fourth favorite album ever. Its damn near perfect.