Cool bands/artists you have discovered recently......

Not a new group, but I recently came across a group called October Project. Not mainstream, but good easy listening music.

 

if you guys have time, read the review of ryan adams' rock n roll album on allmusic.com
its pretty funny and informative. tells about how he titled his songs and his feud with jack white of the whitestripes.

if anyone can clue me in on what the feud is about, id appeciate it.

 

Drewdog, I picked that up a few weeks ago (Rock-N-Roll) and it's taken me a while to get into it. I'll try again today.

 

Just got a Postal Service CD. It's a side project for the lead singer for Death Cab For Cutie. The songs and vocals are very nice but the electronic stuff is annoying as hell. It sounds like Death Cab For Cutie, the 'house mix'. It is to DCFC what The Rentals were to Weezer.

I don't know, maybe I'll get used to it.

 

Arab Strap - Drunken Irish music.

 

Ryan Adams is pretty cool...

I bought my first real six string
Bought it at the five and dime
Played it 'till my fingers bled
It was the Summer of '69!!!

 

Ryan Adams is my favorite beer.

 

I'm too lazy to write about it, so I'll just give comments from magazine reviews.

Franz Ferdinand's album arrives packed not just with fizzing guitars, disco-influenced drums and intriguing shifts in tempo, but also memorable songs, laden with hooklines and startling riffs. - The Guardian

It marks the dawning of an era of British music that isn’t just for the casual petrol shop consumer, but stuff so important that you can give yourself to it completely. This is the album that’s going kick open the door for all the great British bands that’ll sweep through in their wake. - NME

The most musically rich, catchy, smartly written "new new wave" record since Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights. - PopMatters

 

Him
Josh Todd

 

ima's opinion notwithstanding - I can't wait for this CD to arrive! For those who do enjoy electronic music, you have to get at least one Aphex Twin (Richard James) CD! The guy is a genius and has been a huge influence on Radiohead.

And I know that they have been around for a long time, but the Flaming Lips are a really great band. I listened to "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" last night and I cannot get some of those songs out of my head. Great, great album and I will be picking up some more stuff by them in the near future.

 

Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

this band does a snippet of sound for a Nissan Quest commercial, very etheral, very trippy... the CD is awesome, currently a favorite band right now.

 

CKY
They're not new, and if you've ever seen MTV's Jackass you've probably heard their music. I forgot about them for a long while and just remembered them a few minutes ago. Infiltrate, Destroy, and Rebuild is my favorite album from them, but Volume 1 is good too.

 

Manny, you won't find many bigger F. Lips fans than me! I took the liberty of recommending which albums you should get.

Only for the Completist
1985 The Flaming Lips
1986 Hear It Is
1987 Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips
1989 Telepathic Surgery
1990 In a Priest Driven Ambulance
1997 Zaireeka - This is an expimental 4 disc set where you're supposed to play each CD at the same time on different CD players.
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Not essential, but highly recommended
1992 Hit to Death in the Future Head
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Essential
1993 Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
1995 Clouds Taste Metallica
1999 The Soft Bulletin - Their best, in my opinion.
2002 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

 

Steadman
Zero 7 (my wife actually found them)

About six months ago, I found Maroon 5 (before they got any airplay) and Rooney.

 

Fefe Dobson

It's pop, but she's an angry rock chick with some good tunes. Somewhere along the lines of Pink or Avril Lavigne. You can find her stuff on musicmatch.com, which I highly recommend if you want to listen to tunes at work.

 

Evamore - Dallas product

 

They've been getting radio play(here in Austin) longer than that. I first heard Harder to Breathe in late 2002, but could never figure out who they were until last spring. It was the only song that got airplay until a couple of months ago when radio started playing more of their CD. They also have a couple really good songs I found on WinMX that I can't find released anywhere.

 

You forgot to mention that they were named for the guy who started some war or something.

 

i really liked "show me your blue side" by Rooney, so i electronically obtained some other tracks of theirs. unfortunately, i was disappointed. but blue side is an awesome song.

i've kinda gotten into the jam band sound. just got a double disc widespread panic CD and have been listening to more Dead and bands like moe. and the rest. haven't gotten into phish......... yet.