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The BreakAustralian surf rock featuring most of Midnight Oil plus the bass player from The Violent Femmes.
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Righ
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I'm currently bouncing between 3 bands:
1. Riverside 2. Pure Reason Revolution 3. Bigelf
Cool. All are bands that I've championed in these forums in the past. You may also like Lunatic Soul, which is Riverside singer/bassist/primary songwriter Mariusz Duda's solo project. I'll be seeing Riverside (again) at this year's NEARfest. Saw PRR there a couple of years ago. There's only around a dozen tickets still left if anybody here wants to go. Bigelf are supporting Porcupine Tree in the USA on their April/May tour, but they aren't playing around these parts, presumably to help sell tickets to the BIG DEAL Porcupine Tree concert at Radio City Music Hall in NYC in September. That will be a special "evening with" show where the band will very likely play things they don't usually play live or that they haven't played for many years. My "on heavy rotation" list looks something like this just now: North Atlantic Oscillation - Grappling Hooks (Kscope, 2010) Scorpions - Sting in the Tail (Universal, 2010) Big Block 454 - Bratislava (private press, 2008) Iron Kim Style - Iron Kim Style (Moonjune, 2010) Electric Orange - Krautrock From Hell (Sulatron, 2010) Orphaned Land - Never Ending Way of the ORwarriOR (Century Media, 2010) Shearwater - The Golden Archipeligo (Matador, 2010) Hawkwind - Sonic Attack (Atomhenge, 2010) * Colosseum - The Valentyne Suite (Sanctuary, 2004) * Radio Massacre International - Time & Motion (Cuneiform, 2010) Radio Massacre International will be playing locally next month. Yay. Scorpions will be playing their farewell tour in these parts at the same time as NEARfest. Boo. * remasters of older albums, 1981 & 1969 respectively
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Ozzu
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Cool. All are bands that I've championed in these forums in the past. I'll definitely look into Lunatic Soul. Porcupine Tree/Bigelf are coming through Dallas on the 20th of April. I can still get tickets, but I'm not sure I can get the night off from work. I'd sure love to go though. I'll check out some of the other stuff you've got going there. Just a quick listen to North Atlantic Oscillation and I like what I hear.
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Righ
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Righ
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jakonovski
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Thanks for this, it's great (and on Spotify)! I would also like to point out that the frontman looks like Kratos.
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Sky
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Holy crap, actually a decent band on there between the cookie monsters and emotards. Die Apokalyptischen Reiter is pretty badass. Early Man was decent old school, but kind of repetitive and the vocals weren't great. Several bands were pretty good, but had half decently sung vocals and half cookie monster (Borknagar). Dio and Dickinson should smite some motherfuckers imo. Wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't so hard to find something melodic and heavy with great vocals, and someone like Mastodon moves in that direction and catches shit from fans.
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HaemishM
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Thanks to The Sixty One, I discovered Drugstore Fanatics. I like them. Heavy, yet melodic.
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Selby
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I could get into that Cryptopsy song, if the singer wasn't screaming\growling like that and the snare drum wasn't SO DAMN HIGH in the mix that it overpowers everything else. Seriously, was there any bass or guitar outside of a few noodles here and there?
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Tarami
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In the producer's defense, Flo (the drummer) is the only reason to listen to Cryptopsy anymore. Edit: Oopsie-daisy, I should get my vowels straight.
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- I'm giving you this one for free. - Nothing's free in the waterworld.
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Mrbloodworth
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I could get into that Cryptopsy song, if the singer wasn't screaming\growling like that and the snare drum wasn't SO DAMN HIGH in the mix that it overpowers everything else. Seriously, was there any bass or guitar outside of a few noodles here and there?
I'm not a fan of the vocals as well.
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Samwise
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And now for something completely different (but timely -- warning, strong religious overtones): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz9akqofziEI've had this melody stuck in my head for days. It's like 15th century pop music.
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The VNV Nation show I just went to at Elysium here in Austin is probably one of the best shows I've ever attended. Also 6th street was tonight.
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Selby
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The VNV Nation show I just went to at Elysium here in Austin is probably one of the best shows I've ever attended.
My ex is going to see that this Sunday. Supposedly it will be a good time.
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Hawkbit
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Digging the new Jonsi solo bit. It's amazing how far he and Sigur Ros have come in the 10 years I've been listening.
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Sky
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For my birthday I got tickets for Guy Davis, an amazing acoustic blues guy, and a gypsy jazz group who's name escapes me just now. Both at the local art cafe. Also coming up: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (always a fun show) and Johnny Winter and James Cotton at the Egg (the best venue acoustics I've heard).
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Sky
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I wish I didn't live in the cultural gap between the Lakes and Capitol. Just heard about this show. Fiancee is definitely not interested, which sucks because we'll be vacationing that week. A normal work week, I'd just use a personal day and stay over.
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Righ
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If you party with the Party Prince you get two complimentary after-dinner mints
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Well that sucks, I was close to going and seeing them last time they came threw for old times sake, I really should have I guess.
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Sky
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Rush playing Moving Pictures in its entirety? Oh hell yeah.
Ticketmaster fucking things up so tickets go on sale 7 minutes late and I only get 26th row? Dammit!
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Righ
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Don't know when the Philly tickets for the Rush 'Time Machine' tour are going on sale. I won't be looking to buy seats up front if they're $150 + fees like in some other venues though. I saw "The Camera Eye" live back when they last played it... on the Signals tour. They've played everything else off Moving Pictures in the last few tours.
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"There is dignity and deep satisfaction in facing life and death without the comfort of heaven or the fear of hell and in sailing toward the great abyss with a smile."
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schild
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The Broken Bells album (self-titled) is incredible. It's James Mercer of The Shins with Danger Mouse (doing all the instruments except the strings section). Buy it.
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Don't know when the Philly tickets for the Rush 'Time Machine' tour are going on sale. I won't be looking to buy seats up front if they're $150 + fees like in some other venues though. I saw "The Camera Eye" live back when they last played it... on the Signals tour. They've played everything else off Moving Pictures in the last few tours.
What! How did I miss this! Bah no shows in Chicago though, means I'll have to try and get Milwaukee Summerfest tickets. I've seen them tons of times, be nice to see all of Moving Pictures done in it's entirety though.
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Blows. Very funny dude with entertaining music. Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs. It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun. Don't mistake a lack of talent for genius.
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Tarami
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Scrubs (the show) is truly awesome. It made me finally check out DevilDriver, which I now feel I should have done sooner, eventhough Coal Chamber was completely meh. DevilDriver - Resurrection Blvd... I'm kind of predictable with my music choices.
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Ozzu
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Been listening to the hell out of 'Die Apokalyptischen Reiter'. What a great band. All 3 of their latest albums are good. I've just recently went further back into their catalog and it's not bad either, but I've only listened to them once each so that needs more listens. 'Riders on the Storm' (absolutely not a remake of 'The Doors' song)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnhxo_hfEnw
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Margalis
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I love Cathedral, although their slower more played-straight Doomy stuff bores me to tears. Midnight Mountain is probably my favorite track of theirs just because it's so fun and ridiculous, the last couple minutes of it always put a huge smile on my face.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Fraeg
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Been listening to the hell out of 'Die Apokalyptischen Reiter'. What a great band. All 3 of their latest albums are good. I've just recently went further back into their catalog and it's not bad either, but I've only listened to them once each so that needs more listens. 'Riders on the Storm' (absolutely not a remake of 'The Doors' song)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnhxo_hfEnwDamn you are the first person I have ever seen mention them/know of them. I have just have one of their albums called All You Need Is Love, have you heard that one? If you have based on that album what else do you recommend by them?
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Ozzu
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Damn you are the first person I have ever seen mention them/know of them. I have just have one of their albums called All You Need Is Love, have you heard that one? If you have based on that album what else do you recommend by them?
That is one I haven't listened to all that much yet. I also haven't listened much to 2003's 'Have a Nice Trip'. After that one, 'Samurai' came out in 2004. It's excellent. In 2006, 'Riders on the Storm' came out and it's even better. In 2008, 'Licht' came out and while I don't consider it as good as 'Riders on the Storm', I still love it. I would say that as you work your way closer to present day in their discography, they move towards a more melodic sound that I actually prefer. They have a new album supposedly coming out later this year too. I'm really looking forward to it.
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