[MUSIC]What Are You Listening To?

Dreaming of summer.

Washed Out - Life of Leisure
Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine
Velvet Underground - Loaded
The Drums - The Drums

I hit my winter/snow/ice threshold about a week ago...

 

Just listening to the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.

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I'm only going to buy it because of its awesome name.

 

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Chonkyfire - Outkast

 

Oddly enough, I just finished listening to Ministry - Twitch

 

The Magnolia soundtrack, which has 9 tracks from the terrific Aimee Mann. And if anyone hasn't seen the flick, do yourself a favor and remedy that soon.

 

From the Blackships Facebook;

The Black Ships is an alliance forged between Simon Jones, Nick McCabe, Davide Rossi and Mig Schillace. It was during Davide's collaboration on the final Verve album 'Forth' and the subsequent live appearances by Davide with the band, that it was obvious that the musical chemistry between the three was too strong to remain unexplored. The plans were cemented by enlisting Mig, who in 2006 had instigated the extant Field Theory project with Nick. The Black Ships aim to explore a free, unconstricted, self-sufficient approach to music where all aspects are guided by the four core members, from song-writing to production, artwork, video, image, performance and all that this entails. The foundation of The Black Ships is a shared aesthetic. While The Black Ships is predominantly an instrumental group they choose not to limit themselves to this. The Black Ships have been enriched by sharing vocal duties both within the band, where particularly Davide has found his voice as both a writer and occasional main vocalist, and in collaboration with similarly minded and sympathetic others. Maintaining a state of flux is strategic in avoiding potentially burdensome issues of identity. Outside of the requirements of a particular vocal, the natural musical development of The Black Ships can continue unfettered. While The Black Ships collectively come from a tradition of so called 'guitar/pop/rock bands' their approach is informed by much broader genres, from electronic, classical, ambient etc

 

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Ahhh.....memories. I was always more partial to Psalm 69 (probably because it's more metal), although Stigmata off The Land of Rape and Honey is one of my favorite Ministry songs.

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Black Congress played FunFunFunFest here in Austin last year. I dug 'em. I'll def check out Omotai.

Another Austin band I really like is Eagle Claw. You can listen to some of their stuff on their site:

http://eagleclawhurts.com/

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Spoiler

B.E.P.

 

Stealing my genre Manny

Yes you're right, great album, love this genre. This was Ministry's coming out party for a whole new sound for them. So different from their earlier synth driven material.

Skinny Puppy- Too Dark Park
Front 242- Front by Front
Nitzer Ebb- That Total Age

These three albums were very important with the movement as well. I could go on and on listing album after album, but these three are also must have for the collection.

I'd like to get the futants .02 on his likes during this time.

 

I think there is no doubt NIN started out as an industrial rock band, but they've progressed into much more. They're really an alternative rock band at this point.

Marilyn Manson is a little harder to nail down. They incorporate aspects of what defines industrial music, but definitely are more metal......industrial metal if you will.

Personally I still lump them both into the industrial rock genre.

 

Loves me some industrial.

Got me listening to MDMFK now.

I would say some of NIN is definitely industrial, but much like Ministry who he has been accused of ripping off at times, he started out a little less so. He also ventures outside of that box with the more pop-ready tunes at times.

As for MM, I'm not a big fan. Not to say he doesn't have some tunes that sound good, but I consider them more of a hack band. Flame on, would be fans.