OK, here's my rant. I can understand Def Leppard being a headliner- popularity wise, they have some of the biggest selling albums in history (Pyromania and Hysteria), and they've got some pretty good songs, although I prefer the hard-rock stuff of High N Dry more than the rock-anthem Big Chorus songs like Pour Some Sugar on Me. They're not better than Cheap Trick, but they're not bad, either. But Poison???? Are you f**kin' kidding me? The song Surrender by itself is better than the entire Poison catalog. That is an absolute joke. I'm going to that concert, and out of respect for the Trick, when Poison comes on, I'm taking a very, very, very long beer and food break. If I were Poison, I would be embarrassed at being slotted ahead of one of the best American bands ever. Let's see: Bands that have Cited Cheap Trick as an Important Influence on Them: Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Weezer, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, The Smithereens, etc., etc. Bands that Poison has Influenced: ________________ (fill in name of big-hair band here). So sorry if anyone out there is a Poison fan, but Bret Michaels and the boys need to do the right thing and demand that they be the opening band. That won't happen, unfortunately.
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if you like Sigur Ros, Godspeed you! Black Emperor, Stars of the Lid, Team Sleep or SayCet The End of Science and these guys <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lByxwtfbljo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lByxwtfbljo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M3NkK4T8Xoc&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M3NkK4T8Xoc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
New Cheap Trick song "When The Lights Go Out". Apparently its a cover of a Slade song. Their new album will be released digitally on June 23. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikLBEJtK6PM&feature=channel_page
surrender i have always liked. first time i saw that matt dillon movie when i was a kid and it played it was awesome. but if this is one of the best american bands ever then i feel sorry for this country.
sonic youth - the eternal better than ezra - paper empire grizzly bear - veckatimest conor oberst and the mystic valley band - outer south all in preparation for groogrux king!!!!
saw these guys in Austin last night.....EPIC. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hXIohxC33hE&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hXIohxC33hE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tkjeKuBwXKE&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tkjeKuBwXKE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> they are on the Pelham 1 2 3 soundtrack also.... <object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LuMAUp2X_NA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LuMAUp2X_NA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>
More Marvin Gaye: "I Want You" - Marvin Gaye "Live at the London Palladium" - Marvin Gaye "Vulnerable" - Marvin Gaye "Here, My Dear" - Marvin Gaye
I get a weekly e-mail from Allmusic.com that lists the CD releases of the current week with some quick reviews on the major artist. It's focused on rock but they at least list the new releases in a lot of types of music with links to their site where most releases have samples. I may be promoting a commercial site or breaking copywrite laws (if that's not cool then delete this) but here's this weeks below. It's just so informative and entertaining I figured the people who frequent this thread might want to sign up for it. Of course the real email has graphics and hyperlinks. 6/2/09 Here are our editors' picks for this week's most noteworthy new releases. For more information, click through on a specific album or just visit the New Releases page on our site. Featured Albums: Elvis Costello Secret, Profane & Sugarcane Hear Music Elvis Costello has spent the back half of his career flitting from style to style, recording everything from opera to R&B, but he avoided the country-folk of 1986's King of America until 2009, when he teamed up with America producer (and fellow Coward Brother) T Bone Burnett for Secret, Profane & Sugarcane. By its very definition, country-folk seems straightforward, but the only thing simple about Secret is the speed of its recording. Costello and Burnett assembled an all-star acoustic string band -- featuring Jerry Douglas on Dobro, Dennis Crouch on bass, Stuart Duncan on fiddle and banjo, and Jim Lauderdale on vocal harmonies -- and cut the album in just three days, its swiftness similar to its knocked-out predecessor Momofuku. Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Country-Folk Dave Matthews Band Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King RCA Tragedy has a way of putting everything into perspective, a truism that's brought into sharp relief by the Dave Matthews Band. LeRoi Moore, the group's saxophonist, died in an ATV accident in 2008, something that shook the DMB to their core and they've responded as any working band does: by carrying on, playing gigs -- including one on the day of his passing -- and finishing the album they were recording at the time of his death, turning Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King into a tribute to their fallen comrade. By saluting his spirit, DMB wind up returning to their roots, jettisoning any of the well-manicured crossover pop of Stand Up and reviving the loose-limbed jams that were their '90s specialty, a sound they've largely abandoned -- at least on record -- since 1998's Before These Crowded Streets. Jam Bands, American Trad Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock Iggy Pop Preliminaires Astralwerks The timing of Iggy Pop's album Preliminaires is probably a product of coincidence and fate rather than careful planning, but it's hard to ignore the fact that just a few months after the unexpected death of Ron Asheton put the Stooges into limbo (at least for a while), Iggy has released an album that almost entirely avoids the issue of rock & roll. In a publicity piece for Preliminaires, Iggy wrote "I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars," and the man whose music helped inspire so many of those thugs keeps a wary distance from electric guitars on most on this album. Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock Rancid Let the Dominoes Fall Epitaph Rancid's seventh album, 2009's Let the Dominos Fall, was released a full six years after Indestructible. In that time much changed in the world (and the band swapped drummers, with Branden Steineckert stepping in for Brent Reed) but not a whole lot changed with the band's sound. Sure, there were a few cosmetic differences here and there but the fire, spirit, and strength the band exhibited since their debut in the early '90s hasn't faded at all. The first four songs on the album showcase everything that's right about the band. Punk-Pop, Punk Revival, Ska-Punk Neil Young Neil Young Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972 Warner Bros. Any project in the works for two decades is bound to generate its fair share of myths and so it is with Neil Young's Archives, a series of a multi-disc box sets chronicling Young's history. Originally envisioned in the late '80s as a Decade II, the project quickly mutated into a monster covering every little corner of Neil's career. With its escalation came delays, so many that it sometimes seemed that the project never really existed; it was just a shared fantasy between Neil and his faithful. During that long, long wait, fans held tight to the idea that Archives was a clearinghouse of rarities similar to Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series, a treasure trove of unreleased songs and epochal live performances that would trump whatever bootleggers had to offer. While rare and unheard music is certainly a key part of Archives, particularly on the first disc covering the pre-history of 1963-1965, viewing this project as merely a CD box set is wildly misleading. Neil Young has designed Archives as nothing less than an immersive multimedia autobiography, an interactive experience where the music, text, video, and pictures feed off each other, creating a virtual journey through Neil's past. Album Rock, Folk-Rock, Hard Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Country-Rock, Pop/Rock Piotr Anderszewski Piotr Anderszewski at Carnegie Hall Virgin Classics Baroque, Romantic & Modern Keyboard Music Ryan Bingham/The Dead Horses Roadhouse Sun Lost Highway Americana, Country-Folk Blank Dogs Under and Under In The Red Indie Rock, Lo-Fi Jeff Buckley Grace: Live Around the World Sony Legacy Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock Marshall Crenshaw Jaggedland 429 Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter Crosby, Stills & Nash Demos Atlantic/Rhino Pop/Rock, Folk-Rock, Singer/Songwriter Da Zoo Da' Zoo Sony Music Latin Pop, Latin Pop, Dance-Pop Ronnie Earl Living in the Light Stony Plain Modern Electric Blues, Contemporary Blues, Soul-Blues, Electric Blues Eels Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire Vagrant Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock Walter Egan Wild Exhibitions Renaissance Pop/Rock, AM Pop, Soft Rock Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail Tooth & Nail Screamo, Alternative Pop/Rock Franz Ferdinand Blood Domino New Wave/Post-Punk Revival, Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock Hoots and Hellmouth The Holy Open Secret Mad Dragon Alternative Country-Rock, Roots Rock, Country-Rock, Jam Bands, Indie Pop Freddie Hubbard Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 Blue Note Hard Bop, Post-Bop J Dilla Jay Stay Paid Nature Sounds Left-Field Hip-Hop, Midwest Rap, Underground Rap Eva Leon Turina: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; El poema de una sanluqueña Naxos Modern Music for Violin & Piano Julie London Sings the Choicest of Cole Porter DRG Traditional Pop, Torch Songs, Cool The Meatmen Cover the Earth Meat King Hardcore Punk, Punk Kent Nagano Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 [Hybrid SACD] Sony Post-Romantic Symphony Paolo Nutini Sunny Side Up Atlantic Contemporary Singer/Songwriter Iain Quinn Variations on America Chandos Modern & Centemporary Organ Music Steve Reich Reich: Four Organs; Phase Patterns Felmay Contemporary Chamber Music Willy Porter How to Rob a Bank Weasel Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Soft Rock Louis Prima Hey Boy! Hey Girl!/Swingin' Pretty DRG Traditional Pop, Jump Blues, Dixieland, Early R&B Jerry Reed When You're Hot 1967-1983 Raven Country-Pop, Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan Duke Robillard Stomp! The Blues Tonight Stony Plain Jazz Blues, Modern Electric Blues Perry Robinson Two Voices in the Desert Tzadik Contemporary Jazz Sad Day for Puppets Unknown Colors Indie Pop, Dream Pop, Noise Pop Frank Sinatra Classic Sinatra II Capitol Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Standards, Swing, Ballads, Vocal Pop, Big Band The Sounds Crossing the Rubicon Original Signal Indie Rock, New Wave/Post-Punk Revival Taking Back Sunday New Again Warner Bros. 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Songs for You, Truths for Me - James Morrison All the Lost Souls - James Blunt A Storm in Heaven - The Verve The Man Who - Travis
Thanks for the Arms and Sleeper heads up. I'm a big fan of the ambient electronica scene as well. They have a mixed sound of Lymbyc System and The Album Leaf. Two of my most favorite bands of this genre. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G7igEeJDMEo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G7igEeJDMEo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wkceToSlzbM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wkceToSlzbM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1jYr2fDgn64&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1jYr2fDgn64&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
dude, I am hopelessly addicted to Post-Rock/Ambient Shoegaze! if you like Lymbyc System, you might like This Will Destroy You, they have done a couple tracks together...(they are on the same Magic Bullet label) <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Nxs4GPflJwo&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Nxs4GPflJwo&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> btw.......LOVE The Album Leaf!
The Best of Blur - Blur Don't Believe the Truth - Oasis A Weekend in the City - Bloc Party Sam's Town - The Killers Agaetis Byrjun - Sigur Ros
KARNIVOOL Greatest band to ever come out of Australia. Look them up and join the wagon. This ride is sweet!
