What new music discovery is getting all of your play right now?

[DarlingNikki]

i've been wearing out this van hunt cd. damn, i can't believe i hadn't gotten it sooner! i keep replaying it again and again. in fact, i look at the count on the ituner and i realize i've played him an unhealthy amount of times...

what about you? what artist's cd is playing over and over again in your player?

[Adam Crocker]

Mm, nothing at the moment really. I recently got Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, the album Root Hug by local electro pop musician Maybe Smith, and The Evens' debut album, but my listening of those was interspersed with lots of radio, music on my comp, and today I have since listened to Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story and right now I am listening to Yo La Tengo's I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One.

[Metal-Demon]

Everything by DEATHSPELL OMEGA. :evilsmile

[Patient Boy]

...and The Evens' debut album...

How is it?

[Deathstroke]

Well it's not exactly a new music discovery, but I've been playing Judas Priest's Angel of Retribution CD a lot.

[Sanagi]

Hmm, well two things I guess.

A couple months ago I got some Lord Kitchener collections. He's one of the big names in calypso/soca/steelband music. Most of his songs are sort of old-fashioned and not really my style, but there are a handful that I just love, mainly Pan in A Minor and The Bee's Melody. Here's a link (http://www.sweetsoca.com/calypso/klassickitchenervol3.htm) with some samples.

More recently I've had the soundtrack to Katamari Damacy in my head constantly. The game has a sound test, but when I hook it up to my stereo the bass is waaay too loud. They must have boosted it so you could hear it better on a TV. So I guess I'll have to buy the soundtrack... (http://animenation.com/cocx-32760.html)

[Punchy]

Since getting my iPod I really don't wear out one particular disc as I'm constantly making playlists.

But I have been listening quite a bit to James Brown's "Soul on Top" and a new disc I got called "4sight".

[Core]

Well it's not exactly a new music discovery, but I've been playing Judas Priest's Angel of Retribution CD a lot.

Same here. The more I listen to it, the more it grows on me. These riffs are like some kind of fuzz-box coke I'm hooked on.

Other than that, I've been going back through a bunch of my old Dylan cd's lately (the Budokan and Highway 61 discs in particular), rediscovering why he's one of my favorite musicians. It's really cool how many of the tracks that were distasteful to my palate a decade ago can become so sweet after being steeped in a few extra years.

[Jonathan Bogart]

It's really cool how many of the tracks that were distasteful to my palate a decade ago can become so sweet after being steeped in a few extra years.
That's very true. Absence makes the musical taste grow fonder, or something like that.

Nothing's really grabbed me by the lapels and shouted "you MUST listen to me!" for a while. I'm in the middle of some serious immersion in the music of 1972, and that means a whole lot of stuff I've never heard before and which I don't necessarily have a frame of reference for. It can be kind of unbalancing to listen to record after record of good music that you can't really distinguish from each other. (I'm not sure I could articulate the differences between Ronee Blakley and Chi Coltrane if you held a gun to my head. They both split the difference between Joni Mitchell and Carole King.) It'll take a while for me to be able to sort the great from the merely good, and a while longer to fit it all together and find out what I like best and why. For a breather, I've been revisiting old favorites: Rod Stewart, Elvis Costello, the Beatles -- Magical Mystery Tour is quite an album -- and making playlists on my mp3 player, like Punchy. My '60s British pop, Northern soul, and '80s alternative lists make for good "hit random and go" hours.

[elheffe]

Trail of Dead's Worlds Apart before it got jacked, was constantly in my CD player. That, and like Punchy, I create all kinds of playlists on my iPod. Hey, Punch - do you have some way of connecting your iPod to your car stereo?

[Punchy]

Hey, Punch - do you have some way of connecting your iPod to your car stereo?


Yeah. Just the tape-deck adaptor. Why?

[elheffe]

Yeah. Just the tape-deck adaptor. Why?
Just curious. I had one of those adaptors that played my iPod over an FM station, but it never seemed to work well. The sound quality was always bad, or it wouldn't work.

[Reptisaurus!]

Still diggin' Man Man an awful lot.

Although mostly I'm listening to Fela Kuti. (See thread of that name.)

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Interpol's album Antics.

and thanks to them and the movie 24hr Party People I've gotten right into Joy Division - in particular the album Closer.

Right now it's usually either those two or Pink Floyd: The final cut getting all my music time.

(with the ever present White Stripes, aussie band The Camels and any album George Harrison appears on - even a moog Synth album he does - works well when reading the NukeFace story in Moores Swampthing - though mostly from Harrison at the moment its the soundtrack to the movie WonderWall, which was released before All Things Must Pass).

[MicBK]

man, ever since i got Joanna Newsom's "Milk Eyed Mender" it's been nothing but that - but i've also been listening alot to the new track by Animal Collective and Vashti Bunyan.

[jessecuster]

theres a new Southern rock band named Daybreakdown that I really like.

Im quickly becoming obsessed with Stars out of Montreal

And, having just seen Kings of Leon live I have been listening to them pretty much non stop.


However, I also can be added to the Ipod club.

[berk]

The last few days I've been playing the 2nd cd of "Midnight Mover - The Bobby Womack Collection." This 2-cd collection is a great introduction to Womack's stuff, and a good overview of his output up to around 1975.

[mike rok lok]

The one cd that I can not stop playing is "N'Eloutez Pas" by the Le Fly Pan Am. An absolutely remarkable album that explores dynamic song structures within a miasma of sounds. Taking nods from Sonic Youth, and Can this band is really making experimental guitar based music something of interest once again.

Recent playlist
1. Sun Ra "Lanquidity"
2. Jandek "Blue Corpse"
3. Transistor Transistor "Erase All Name and Likeness"
4. Hot Cross "Fair Trades and Farewells"
5. Empty Silos Echo War "Semantics"

[MicBK]

The one cd that I can not stop playing is "N'Eloutez Pas" by the Le Fly Pan Am. An absolutely remarkable album that explores dynamic song structures within a miasma of sounds. Taking nods from Sonic Youth, and Can this band is really making experimental guitar based music something of interest once again.


isn't one of the guys from Godspeed! You Black Emporer in this band? i haven't heard them. i'll have to check 'em out.

[Adam Crocker]

The one cd that I can not stop playing is "N'Eloutez Pas" by the Le Fly Pan Am. An absolutely remarkable album that explores dynamic song structures within a miasma of sounds. Taking nods from Sonic Youth, and Can this band is really making experimental guitar based music something of interest once again.

I agree, and they're a spectacular live band as well...just be sure you got ear protection before you go to see them, especially if they have any sort of noise rock bands opening for them. I saw them at Amigos with Japanese drone rockers Mono and one of my ears was ringing for two days afterwards. It probably helped that their drummer can only hit the kick drum one way: HARD. (Eventually they had to move one of the monitors further into the stage in order to hold it in place.)

(Though the album is called N'Ecoutez Pas.)

isn't one of the guys from Godspeed! You Black Emporer in this band? i haven't heard them. i'll have to check 'em out.

Yes, one of their guitarists. It seems like GS!YBE has an infinite number of side projects.

[Dennis K]

For me it's more like a musical re-discovery. I hadn't listened to any of my Muddy Waters CDs in God knows how long, now I can't get them out of my CD player.

[Ilash]

For me. lots of Small Faces related albums. So I'm listening a whole lot to the Small Faces, the Faces, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Ronnie Lane. Also, even though I've discovered Led Zep ages ago, I've just discovered a looser, less pretentious, more lighthearted and simply more likable Led Zeppelin with Zep III, so I've been listening to that a whole lot. I've also just discovered the non-Pet Sounds Beach Boys with the excellent two-for-one Sunflower and Surfs Up CD, which I've been listening to a whole lot. Also, seeing as how every Dylan album is a new discovery, I've been listing a whole lot to the damned-near flawless John Wesley Harding.

[DarlingNikki]

Just curious. I had one of those adaptors that played my iPod over an FM station, but it never seemed to work well. The sound quality was always bad, or it wouldn't work.

i have one of those, too. after fiddling around with it and finding the right station, this thing is working like a dream! have you tried changing the station?

[CitizenKing]

This grind-synth-core kinda band called An Albatross has been spinning on my CD player. I'm goina see if I should pick up AIDS Wolf's CD too.

[Ayo]

Go AIDS Wolf, GO!!!




For me, It's between Tegan and Sara (three song sampler--I'm broke), The Postal Service (just the one song with the girl), and the Avengers (pink album--it's new to me) are still going strong in my rotation of musical things.

Is it me, or is that a bunch of girls?

[Adam Crocker]

How is it?

Only listened to it once so far, but it's pretty damn good. If you are coming to this without having heard "On the Face Of It" (which appeared on Thurston Moore's Protest Records (http://www.protest-records.com/)) you may be taken aback at how relatively tranquil and intimate it is. In many ways the album feels like it is coming from the same post-hardcore as Fugazi yet the distortion has been switched off and the sound stripped down to simple yet effective melodies and textures, as well as actual singing and harmonizing. I've only heard his Minor Threat work and early Fugazi so I'm a bit surprised to hear him sing as well as harmonize a bit, and so tenderly. (He's actually a pretty good singer.) I've never heard the Warmers' work, but I'm suitably impressed by Amy Farina both as vocalist and a drummer, especially in the later capacity. It's a lot more subtle and interesting than a lot of rock drumming.

[Voncaster]

I'm really into Massive Attack and Air at the moment...Danny the Dog hardly ever leaves my CD player. Electronic music is sort of new and fresh to me.

[Sage Shinigami]

Most likely, nothing, but if I had to say, it'd be AKFG's new album Sol-fa. Last year it was Kanye West's College Dropout, and during the summer it was that, "I Miss the Hip Hop Shop", and anything by Masami Okui...


Hm. Thinking that over, also mc chris has gotten a lot of play time...til my CD busted...but I played all three of his albums at least three or four times a day...

[zombie]

I've been listening only to the Decemberists' Picaresque since I bought it yesterday. The band isn't really new to me, but this album is, and it's awesome. It's teaching me new words, like "infanta", "consumptive", "purloined", and "picaresque".

[ZombieHavoc]

if you like joy division, get warsaw. leaps and bounds.

not a discovery, but more of a rediscovery- i bought nirvana's bleach and in utero on cassette for 85 cents each and am remembering how good they were. particularly bleach. i've been listening to them back to back, repeatedly, for about a week now.

[Patient Boy]

I'm digging what I've heard from the Go! Team so far. They've got a nice block party feel even in their studio recordings, and from what I've heard it translates well to their live shows.