Looking for new music, and I’m curious what everyone is listening to that I may not have heard of. Here’s my two:
The Chills, ‘Submarine Bells’: Early 90s alterna-pop from a New Zealand band with a handy thesaurus. Very catchy sing-song music.
Jack Logan, ‘Buzz Me In’: roots rockish Singer-Songwriter (and car mechanic) who writes tight catchy songs.
Electronica: Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
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Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight
A Canadian band that hasn’t made it south of the border for unknown reasons. I learned about them from my host family in Penticton during IronWeek of 2000. Matt Good has since gone solo. I almost freaked when I heard a song of his, “Weapon,” used in the TV show “Alias.” Very cool.
Old school punk/alternative: The band is ‘Fugazi’ and I believe the album is ‘10 Songs’ or something like that.
Ray Mason Band - singer/songwriter, kinda rocky kinda poppy tunes.
Coheed & Cambria (both Second Stage Turbine Blade and In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth).
They’ve started to get some airplay since the summer, but they’ve been around for a bit longer. While they might not appeal to the broad range of Slowtwitchers, they’re definitely worth checking out. Easiest way to describe them is a cooler version of Rush.
Sisters Morales - No Perfect Diamond
Willis Alan Ramsey - Northeast Texas Women
( Married one of them!!!)
fal7 in Houston
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I pulled out the Buzzcocks “Singles Going Steady” for the drive to work this morning. Disc hadn’t seen the light of day in 10 years, but it was great.
The name of the album is 13 songs. Any Fugazi album is great pre-race music.
Also John Spencer Blues Explosion: Extra Width
Drive By Truckers if you’re from the south.
Scratch Acid, !!!, Wilco…
Those are the ones that come to mind for training/racing music.
Jimmie’s Chicken Shack - Pushing the Samalina Envolop, Bring Your Own Stereo
Meat Puppets - Too High To Die
The Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass
-bcreager
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Agreed. They are a great live band. Problem is, it takes a week to recover from the hangover. Of course, great drinking music is also great racing music.
Thanks for the correction!
A college metal band from Greenville, NC - Unsound - Don’t remember titles.
The Mermen: Walking (Sleepwalking?) a fine line between jam-band and Surf music.
Palomar: Girl Pop
The 5, 6, 7, 8s: Ooh-Ooh, OohOohOoh. Ooh-Ooh, OohOohOoh.
Nebula / Fu Manchu: If Jesse James puts their tunes on his DVDs, they’re OK with me.
Anything from Fat Possum: Blues the way it really is, not the way Eric Clapton says it is.
38th Parallel - Turn the Tides
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Looking for new music, and I’m curious what everyone is listening to that I may not have heard of. Here’s my two:
I bought two cds from them when they were new - so they were at least known to one Bavarian.
What I do like at the moment is:
Third Eye Blind - Out of the vein
Lambchop - Come on now/Aw you come on
Manic Street Preachers - the new album with “the love of Richard Nixon” on it.
regards,
Frank
My fav two unknown albums are Michael Jackson-Thriller, and Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. I think if they could just get some air time, they could spend some time on the charts and sell a few hundred copies. Maybe some college stations will put them into rotation.
Sorry guys, I'm a country music fan. Not the crap form Nashville, the real stuff. My favorite unkown album: Guy Clark's 1976 release "Old Number One". I loved it then and still love it know. My favorite new unknown singer: Robert Earl Keen, soon to be appearing at a fried chichen stand near you.
As the man said "I like both kinds of music; country and western".
Absolutely the best live band I’ve seen for a long time is Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers from Tempe, AZ. Great Southwestern Rock. Roger and the drummer PH Naffah used to be in The Refreshments and so the Peacemakers play a lot of Refreshments tunes live. Their song Banditos got some airplay in the mid-90s. They are also the band who wrote and play the theme for “King of the Hill”. Check them out at www.azpeacemakers.com. If they’re in your neighborhood I highly recommend seeing them live. You won’t regret it.
buy the Garden State soundtrack.
great eclectic mix of indie and mainstream bands…iTunes for $9.99