[MUSIC]What Artists and/or Bands Have You Gotten Into Lately?

Josh Pyke has been my latest discovery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Pyke

After I saw Into the Wild I really got into the soundtrack by Eddie Vedder's - still doing major rotations in playlist.

 

Radiohead-liked them in the early 90's, lost touch with them, but picked them back up. Their most recent album (In Rainbows) is incredible.

 

Primus
Buckethead
Mike Patton (Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom, Fantomas)
Goon Moon

 

Really been digging some of Kanye's new beats like "Heartless" and "Love Lockdown". Those two singles alone have me considering actually purchasing his album.

I've always been a real big fan of Akon, nothing too specific but Keri Hilson's "Mic Check" has some nice beats from Akon.

 

I've recently been alternating between punk bands like Rancid, Social Distortion, the BC Scottish Punk band The Real McKenzies.

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but have also been listening to Reggae and Dub based music like Matisyahu and Pepper.

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Natty

 

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I'm seriously going to participate in a Manny Ramirez music thread... this is awesome.

I was just introduced to an artist by the name of Apache Indian. The guy's been around since the early 1990's, but doesn't get play here I guess. He did the song Boom-shack-lack on Dumb and Dumber and Scooby Doo 2 soundtracks.

He's an Indian guy, raised (born?) in England, who sings reggae... to Indian banghra music. Wth? I really like some of his newer stuff like Belly Dancing (and other cuts off the Sadhu soundtrack) and "duet" with Dalvinder Singh.

It's not for everybody, but it was so "different" I had to check it out. Here's one where he sings with Desmond Dekker in a remake of the great "Israelites" reggae hit :



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First signs of senility... You start jamming out to Indian Reggae.

 

Last sign you'll never make it in life... you're still working for minimum wage.

 

A little touchy are we?


Must be past your bed time.

 

Doc out of retirement!

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Delta Spirit.

Saw them for the first time at ACL. They were fantastic. Sort of a Southern Rock from California thing. I can't wait for the show in Austin @ Emo's on the 22nd.

 

Redbone: The Essential Redbone

Redbone was a Native American rock group that was most active in the 1970s. They reached the top 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974 with the song, "Come and Get Your Love".

Redbone played primarily rock music with R&B, Cajun, Jazz, tribal, and Latin roots. Their first commercial success came with the single "Maggie" from their second album, Potlatch, in 1970, and two other hit singles followed - "The Witch Queen of New Orleans" (1971, #21 on the Billboard Hot 100) and "Come and Get Your Love" (1974, #5 on the Billboard Hot 100).

Lolly Vegas was one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of the distinctive Leslie rotating speaker effect in his electric guitar amplification setup. Vegas played improvised, jazz-influenced guitar. Drummer Peter DePoe (born 1943, Neah Bay, Washington) is credited with pioneering the "King Kong" style of drumming, which features sharply accented polyrhythms involving the bass and snare drums and is similar to funk styles of drumming. The band referred to DePoe's "King Kong Beat" in their lyrics to the song "Prehistoric Rhythm" on their debut album.

 

love this song for some reason, especially the slow parts

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