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Neogaf Rock/Indie/Alt Music Thread (RockGAF?)
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Jedeye Sniv
Banned
A bit obscure.
Ceramic Dog - Your Turn (my favorite jazz/punk/experimental rock album of the year)
Listen
Savages - Silence Yourself (that's some hard post-punk)
Listen
Messo! Did not realise you had such good taste my friend. Love these two songs you've posted, will seek more for sure. Impressed by this Savages song especially, usually I think of post-punk as brittle instrumentation with no sustain on the guitars, but this is real purdy.
beato_angelico
Member
that's a hard to defend opinion when the same album has both all my friends and someone great, plus other very good more dance tracks like get innocuous! and north american scum
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
For Screaming Meat and RobotNinjaHornets especially, do you know Alpha Male Tea Party? Remembered they ave a new ep out, and they are very much the balls out chunky indie band we were hoping for.
http://www.alphamaleteaparty.com/
Like it? Let me know, I have other stuff in a similar vein to recommend. I keep forgetting that the best stuff I heard this year I found by accident on Bandcamp.
http://www.alphamaleteaparty.com/
Like it? Let me know, I have other stuff in a similar vein to recommend. I keep forgetting that the best stuff I heard this year I found by accident on Bandcamp.
RobotNinjaHornets
Banned
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
ooo Brummy math rock produced by Eskil Lovstrom? Yes please
That last track on the AMTP EP is fucking incredible btw, I can't even comprehend what they're doing with the time sigs at the end there, it's beautiful. I need to give it to my drummer who insists on trying every riff in 7/8
Carrying on the mathy goodness, check out Nope. I found them earlier this year and the record is really interesting. Two drummers playing mostly exactly in time gives it a really weird percussive feel, and the guitar sound is just lovely. A good record to read to.
I have a couple more records in a similar vein, I'll dribble them out in this thread though, keep it bumped and give y'all time to digest the goods.
squidhands
Member
Rollo Tomasi
Member
Ah yes, I'm seeing the Savages here in DC in a couple weeks. It shall be grand.
Anyone checked out the two new singles, 'Mercy' and "Million Miles' from TV on the Radio? They're both very good.
Check out 'Mercy' here.
I hope this means they are going to record a new album. As far as I know these two new songs are just something to tide us over until they start recording.
Anyone checked out the two new singles, 'Mercy' and "Million Miles' from TV on the Radio? They're both very good.
Check out 'Mercy' here.
I hope this means they are going to record a new album. As far as I know these two new songs are just something to tide us over until they start recording.
Cameron122
Member
Tool is my favorite band.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Just listened to It's All About The Throat. Pretty cool. I'd love to see them live. Something of the Don Cabellero about them that has me intrigued.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Ohdeargod that sounds fucking great! I'm in! They still operating?
Yep! New record coming soon.
http://whores.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Whores/108004672554176
Of the ones you posted, I like this one the best. Somehow t's like I heard Karma to Burn & Beefheart in one song
Speaking of panda's, there's a glaring omission in this thread... DEERHOOF
Spirit Ditties (dat riff)
+81
The Trouble With Candyhands
Super Duper Rescue Heads!
Cast off Crown (!!)
We do Parties
Odyssey
I can go and on with these guys, they're so awesome. I finally saw them live this year and it rocked. Though I guess Satomi's voice might make them a hate it or love it deal... If you're looking for an entry album in their big discography, start with The Runners Four.
We should add each other on last.fm btw, I'm here
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Deerhoof is one of the best bands around right now.
The Old Haunts put out some great records a little while ago, but are now broke up. People might know of em cuz Tobi from Bikini Kill played drums on their last album:
http://youtu.be/LBp539X6Ggk
http://youtu.be/LBp539X6Ggk
This is so wrong in so many levels.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Stream The 1975's Self Titled Album
...Nevermind it sucks and doesn't sound angsty at all.
The Fader said:
...Nevermind it sucks and doesn't sound angsty at all.
Messofanego
Banned
Thanks!
Tall Ships sounds great, thanks jedeyesniv!
First time hearing Deerhoof, very quirky. I like.
Yndi Halda (English) and Samuel Jackson Five (Norwegian) are my favourites right now.
Kinski (Seattle, USA) is a must, even though their newest album is more accessible rock.
I Think I Blew It
Schedule for using Pillows and and Beanbags (~12 min of mastery)
Along with God is an Astronaut (Irish), and This Will Destroy You (Texas). Grails (Portland), too.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I played with these guys a few months back. They were very nice and obviously there was a bit of a buzz about them, but watching their set felt like being at a gig at the Bronze in Buffy.
Awesome, happy to spread the love. Seeing these guys in a couple of weeks, very excited.
Andrew Korenchkin
Member
Any body here a fan of Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea?
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Hell yes. Funnily enough, I only got into it a few years ago after seeing context-less covers all over the Internet and giving in to curiosity. So glad I did, it's a mind blowing record. If you're interested in it, there's a book about the making of the album that is very insightful and inspirational, put out in the 33 1/3 series. The background and context have made the record mean so much more to me. And the final two pages is about the best motivational speech about making art I've ever read, it actually changed the way I think about art and music in a very real way.
Andrew Korenchkin
Member
I should really pick up more of those 33 1/3 books. Since so many of my favorite albums have their own books, it sounds like something I would be naturally interested in.
Shorty11857
Member
Saw Tall Ships open for The National, they were really great still need to listen to their album though
Managed to get tickets to Haim yesterday despite them selling out in 5 minutes, should be good they sound fantastic live (from the recordings I've heard)
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - Oct 16
God is an Astronaut - Oct 26
Russian Circles & Chelsea Wolfe - Oct 27
The National - Nov 10
Frightened Rabbit - Nov 14
Sigur Ros - Nov 16
Television - Nov 21
Yo La Tengo - Dec 5
Haim - Dec 13
Villagers - Dec 17
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I think they vary wildly in quality, the OK Computer one is dogshit, just a really dry analysis of the music. With charts and shit. But the NMH one is fantastic - it has interviews with everyone except Mangum which actually helps in a way, serves to make him even more of a mysterious figure, and is a nice oral history of the whole movement he was involved in.
No, no one likes that album.
"AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA IS OVERRATED?"
- Every NeoGAF music thread.
Red Blaster
Member
hey does anyone here like siamese dream by the smashing pumpkins
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
My favorite of theirs followed by Gish. I used to like Mellon Collie more when I was younger, but my interest in the album has greatly diminished over the years.
Yes, but not as much as Gish.
Plasticine
Member
I love the first four Pumpkins albums. After that, though... I just pretend the band ended with Adore. Out of those, Siamese is probably my favorite. Such a solid record front to back, with "Cherub Rock", "Today" and "Soma" being among my favorites.
<----------------- these guys right here
I also just heard Diarrhea Planet for the first time recently and while they have a truly awful name, they have this awesome early 90's indie rock sound and I look forward to hearing more of their stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhUSTv0HGhs
I also just heard Diarrhea Planet for the first time recently and while they have a truly awful name, they have this awesome early 90's indie rock sound and I look forward to hearing more of their stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhUSTv0HGhs
beato_angelico
Member
next nirvana? the market has changed way too much for a rock band to be that big. also, let's not forget that just ten years ago the indie landscape was dominated by interpol, white stripes, strokes, etc. , all definitely "rock" band and not twee in any kind of way, it was just that their sound was very different from the big alternative band of the early 90s with their loud (metal) guitars.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
By "next Nirvana" I meant more a band that comes along and changes the landscape completely rather than be "big" fiscally. You're right about ten years ago, though. That was definitely a seismic shift. We need another one!
I have to say though, those bands you mentioned wore their influences/old musical styles a lot more obviously than Nirvana did.
I have to say though, I was never a fan of the Pearl Jam/Alice in Chains set. They had too many 80s Hair metal tropes still hanging over their music. Contrary to popular opinion, I wouldn't put Nirvana in the same category as those, more with Pixies and Sonic Youth.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I do think there is something coming, if only because when you look at the cycles of music, the mainstream seems to be just over the tipping point of the current pop scene, the big fish like gaga and beiber and rhianna aren't nearly as big as they were a couple of years back and something's going to have to topple them and take their place soon.
No idea what it'll be though, and chances are I'm too old to get it properly anyway and it'll sound like shite to me (see: chillwave). But really, out whole culture could do with a new grungey, DIY movement, especially with how different the tech is these days.
IMO Nirvana weren't grunge in the same way as PJ et al. In my mind there's more of a crossover with the alt rock stuff like the Pumpkins and Pixies etc. Something about tone, Nirvana were sharp and cutting and abrasive, whereas the grunge stuff for the most part was slower and rounder. That's my impression of it at least.
Funnily, I much prefer mid to late PJ than Ten and Vs, the overtly grunge stuff they did is just a bit dull, they wrre much more interesting when they went a bit country or let the guitars get spikier.
No idea what it'll be though, and chances are I'm too old to get it properly anyway and it'll sound like shite to me (see: chillwave
). But really, out whole culture could do with a new grungey, DIY movement, especially with how different the tech is these days.IMO Nirvana weren't grunge in the same way as PJ et al. In my mind there's more of a crossover with the alt rock stuff like the Pumpkins and Pixies etc. Something about tone, Nirvana were sharp and cutting and abrasive, whereas the grunge stuff for the most part was slower and rounder. That's my impression of it at least.
Funnily, I much prefer mid to late PJ than Ten and Vs, the overtly grunge stuff they did is just a bit dull, they wrre much more interesting when they went a bit country or let the guitars get spikier.
Nirvana were way closer to grunge than the other bands mentioned (who weren't grunge at all).
beyond_death
Member
The guitar on it is fucking orgasmic.
Anyone agree In Utero is Nirvana's best album?
Alcotholic
Banned
Been listening to these guys recently-
Their new album is releasing soon. I just got tickets to see them live with Frightened Rabbit.
Their new album is releasing soon. I just got tickets to see them live with Frightened Rabbit.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
I do think there is something coming, if only because when you look at the cycles of music, the mainstream seems to be just over the tipping point of the current pop scene, the big fish like gaga and beiber and rhianna aren't nearly as big as they were a couple of years back and something's going to have to topple them and take their place soon.
No idea what it'll be though, and chances are I'm too old to get it properly anyway and it'll sound like shite to me (see: chillwave
^This. So. Freakin'. Much. We've had a hegemony of shiny X-Factor Pop and twee anesthetic indie for too long. I need some goddamn dirt, spit and blood.
Also, what the hell is Chillwave?
No way, man.
Exactly. This is gonna sound a teeny bit pretentious but it's the progressions and harmonies, too. PJ and AiC still have that 80s metal harmony, whereas Nirvana mixed ceratin Beatles-esque progressions with a ton of dissonance.
Vedder's fucking voice, though. Him and Chris Cornell sound like X-Factor contestants to me. They sing a little too well. Gimmie Black Francis' latino piggy screech any day. XD
Yeah, I never know if it was that Nirvana were closer to being grunge than them or the other way around. XD In any case, they have little to do with each other sonically.
Absoltely not. It's the best album of any band (at least in my opinion). XD Steve Albini was the perfect choice to record them.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Well this is what I'm saying, if you look at the generic conventions, Nirvana weren't very grunge either. Closest was prob Kurt's voice, and even that got gnarlier than most grunge bands. Nirvana were a scrappy punk band with great pop songs.
Chillwave is atmostpherics minus tunes.
Yeah I see what you mean, I can't dig Cornell at all, he's way too 80s metal for me. But I love me some Pearl Jam. IMO they're more in line with just a classic 70s rock band like the Who or something. And they write straigh up great songs.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Get some Cake. I'm sure it'll make sense after that.
Fair enough. I only ever bought Vs, I think. Didn't really settle with me.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Yeah Vs is ok but not great. Try Vitaology, very different feel. That's where 'my' PJ starts.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
I'm open to giving it a shot, but I don't think I'll get past Vedder's vocals.
In other news: That Tall Ships stuff is alright. Pretty eclectic, aren't they?
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Yeah, I don't even know what genre you'd call them. Occasionally a bit mathy and big chunky guitars, but the vocals are really pastoral and almost folky. And then that last tune is full on electronica. Very surprising group, and I just love the sound of the record. One to watch, that's for sure.
edit: been listening to this over the weekend, new record from Crash of Rhinos who are another one of them bastard awesome northen bands - http://crashofrhinos.bandcamp.com/
I'm gonna have to go with Austra, I honestly can't listen to anything else right now.
I'm listening to the Deluxe version of Feel IT Break and it's just as good as always, very timid and dark in nature. Olympia definitely kicks it up a notch, "Painful Like" is such a groovy tune!!
I'm in loooove with these guys.
I'm listening to the Deluxe version of Feel IT Break and it's just as good as always, very timid and dark in nature. Olympia definitely kicks it up a notch, "Painful Like" is such a groovy tune!!
I'm in loooove with these guys.
beato_angelico
Member
Olympia is really good, dance pop without the bullshit of mainstream dance pop