from a thread on the regular board that devolved into discussing more obscure music. in this thread, feel free to add anything you wish. links to videos, bandcamp, or whatever is fine. i'd imagine illegal download links would get squashed, so probably avoid those. here's a post of recs i made over there to get us started.
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Originally Posted by dawgs
Man, that was quick.
I see you've expanded the parameters of the discussion to include more than just psych. I can dig that. The more the merrier.
Before leaving psych-ish stuff, though, here are the few that popped into my head while checking yours out (other than the ones I mentioned earlier in the thread, like Spacemen 3, Tame Impala, etc.): Broadcast (one of my old favorites regardless of genre; melodic, eerie, and pleasant all at the same time), Bardo Pond (loudest band I've ever seen live), Red Krayola (old, old school noisy, arty pysch), Soft Machine (one of Pink Floyd's contemporaries in the mid- to late-60s in London; proggy, jazzy, interesting), Olivia Tremor Control (sound collages + catchy, fuzzy pop + surreal themes), and Wooden Shjips. All very different, ranging from poppy to noisy to proggy.
Anyway, here's a quick sample of some of those bands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZbKix7UAz4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzhc8MIaw10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFTfMs6obi0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzUSg17yecw
i figured even with the expanded genre discussion, it'll be 90% you and me posting random shit, ha.
here's some stuff from the bands i listed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYaOotIWxu0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCkiIrIucUo
if you think bardo pond is loud, you need to see destruction unit. destruction unit, swans, black dice, and sunn 0))) are the 4 loudest bands i've ever seen live. sunn 0))) caused a shelf behind the bar to rattle off the brackets and sent dozens of liquor bottles crashing on the floor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBPPirEU3hA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irCRrfhvOMk
spent my weekend at pickathon in happy valley oregon. i swore i'd never do another camping festival after my 3rd bonnaroo, but have been eyeing this one for a couple of years now. ~3500 tickets limit per day, every band plays 2 sets, camping is in the woods so you aren't woken up at 7 am by the sun turning your tent into a sauna, some of the best food from around portland + many of oregon's best breweries on tap. an awesome fest.
among the bands i saw, the aforementioned viet cong, cloud nothings, diiv, kamasi washington, ex hex, leon bridges, nathan bowles, meatbodies, broncho, a giant dog, and lots more. can post some vids and pics later.
Though multi-day camping festivals don't appeal all that much to me anymore either, what you just went to sounds great -- great music under the canopy of an old forest. I've only been to one Bonnaroo, but yeah, middle Tennessee in June can be brutally hot just as frequently as it can be wonderfully temperate. (I live about an hour from Manchester, so Tennessee's temperamental late-spring weather is old hat.) The year that I went, it was pretty freaking hot. (It also rained like crazy one night, forcing me and my friend to abandon our leaky tent for the gloriously non-ventilated car.) I remember watching Sonic Youth play and thinking what a jackass Jim O'Rourke was (he was in the band at the time) to be wearing a freaking fur coat and jeans while it was in the upper 80s and humid as balls. Indie cred, I guess. The total lack of shade can be a killer on days like that. Of course, I had a really good time and the bands I saw were great. It was just uncomfortably warm.
Your post reminds me that I recently stumbled upon an event in Wales that would probably make me strongly reconsider my general disinterest of camping festivals. It's called Green Man and appears to be in the most idyllic setting possible for a festival. From the look of it, it's a place you could take your family and just chill out for a few days while listening to great music.
yeah this fest is very very family friendly. kids 12 and under go free, ages 13-18 go for like half price. and it stared like 12 years ago as a pure bluegrass/folk/americana type fest, but has moved to a more eclectic lineup the last 5 years or so. the residents near the farm all get free tickets. probably a solid 20-25% of the crowd are over 60 and have been going since it was just bluegrass/folk/americana.
i've always thought some of the ATP fests could be great for a non-shitshow festival experience.
Here's a few pics i took -
Inside of the barn: http://i.imgur.com/3qgJzdO.jpg
The cover over the main stage and crowd: http://i.imgur.com/SnLsBW5.jpg
Our vantage point thru the garage door of the barn that we posted up at most every night. Saturday night Leon bridges > Ty segall > viet cong from here was pretty much the pinnacle of the weekend, this pic is from diiv: http://i.imgur.com/qTS49cJ.jpg
tune-yards at the woods stage: http://i.imgur.com/ul9NgGO.jpg
Hammocks for open use around the woods stage: http://i.imgur.com/Olm5ZQQ.jpg
here's a pretty awesome article about it too from a couple years ago with more pics - http://noisey.vice.com/read/i-went-t...n-planet-earth
just went to look up the next ATP fest. the lineup looks pretty great.
Thee Oh Sees, Courtney Barnett, Built To Spill, Om, Max Richter (performing The Blue Notebooks), The Notwist (performing Neon Golden), The Album Leaf (performing In A Safe Place), Chelsea Wolfe, Natalie Prass, Jessica Pratt, Total Control, Warm Soda, Holly Herndon, Micachu & The Shapes, Viet Cong, Andy Stott, Lightning Bolt, Braids, Loop, Suuns + Jerusalem In My Heart, Micah P. Hinson, Ought, Pharmakon, Vatican Shadow, F?llakzoid, Warm Graves, Dead Rider, Blanck Mass, Iceage, Dinos Chapman, Death, Xylouris White, Russell Haswell, Andrew Hung, Younghusband, Vision Fortune, Black Pus, Emptyset, Extreme Precautions, Helm, Paus, Fumaca Preta, Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche, Sculpture, Dan Friel, Grimm Grimm plus more to be confirmed.
the bolded one are just the ones i recognize that would immediately be must sees. there's plenty of others i'd definitely want to try to check out, and i'm sure there's plenty of others i haven't listened to that i would enjoy.
Man, I'd forgotten about All Tomorrow's Parties. I remember getting the annual "soundtrack" in every year when I worked in a record store back in the day. Who's curating this year? Used to run the gamut. I seem to recall Tortoise hosting, and maybe Malkmus one year.
Just checked wikipedia. Yeah, Tortoise and Malkmus curated . . . a decade ago. Yikes. I guess I'm dating myself over here . . . .
Just noticed that you didn't bold Built to Spill. They'd be pretty high on my list among the others in the lineup, even if more for nostalgic reasons than a love of their last couple of albums. Not much of a fan?
Used to be a big fan. I would go see them if they played perfect from now on or keep it like a secret in their entirety, but just not a fan of the more recent stuff. I've seen them probably 5 or 6 times going back to the early to mid 00s. But none recently. They've played here in town 3 or 4 times over the last few years and I haven't really thought twice about not going.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prediction? Pain.
Probably gonna figure out at least 1 night of the Portland psych fest to check out this weekend. A lot of the bands are local, but if you see anything you know on here that's a must see, let me know.
http://www.portlandpsychfest.com/
I know of none of the bands at the Portland psych fest. Hope it's good times. (You ever been to the psych fest in Austin? Their lineups always seem to be amazing.)
As for Built to Spill, I understand your feelings. The past couple of albums haven't really grown on me the way the earlier ones did (especially the two you mentioned). And if they played the South nearly as much as they played in the Pacific Northwest, I'd probably feel the same way you do.
Never done Austin psych fest, but hoping portland's can get to the point of having lineups like that one day. Part of the reason I wanna check out at least 1 night to help support it.
I've now listened to most of Eternal Tapestry's back catalog on Spotify. I've dug most of it, especially the first record they made after signing to Thrill Jockey. (I also like that all the songs on their most recent album are named after woodland (and mostly native) plants. As an avid hiker and massive native plant geek, I find that to be in good form.) Thanks for the rec.
Ha, nice, and no problem. Probably my favorite record of their's is the invisible landscape.
listened to thus far this morning while working:
institute (think joy division inspired post punk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFEckqYQWoM
sheer mag (think cheap trick on an old cassette tape, played in a boombox with the volume turned all the way and buried 3 feet underground - in other words, it's one of my favorite things i've listened to all year, especially button up which starts at the 11:14 mark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIwtm1K1F-4
finally, listening to pavement - westing (by musket and sextant) - no description necessary i hope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxXdMZBZVhY
Pavement's been one of my favorite bands since high school. Love their stuff. Only got to seem them once during their original years, on the Terror Twilight tour. They played "Box Elder" as an encore. It was awesome.
Yeah pavement is one of my favs too. Never saw them live unfortunately, even on the mini-reunion in 2010, I was in DC at the time and the only show they played in the area was some shitty festival at merriweather post pavilion. Didn't wanna pay for a full day of mediocre music to have my only pavement live experience to be a 45 min set in a half empty shed at 2 pm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prediction? Pain.
I see malkmus around Portland regularly though. He used to go to a lot of shows like a decade ago, but with kids and everything now, I haven't seen him at many since he moved back from Berlin.
New ought album leaked last night. It's pretty ****ing awesome. After my first spin this morning, definitely gonna be one of my favorites of the year. Their first LP and EP are great too and should be on spotify or something.
http://youtu.be/grU9cr-VrfU
local portland band just released their first LP. i'm a really big fan of it.
http://stillcaves.bandcamp.com/
Going to see royal headache tomorrow. Soulful garage punk. Kinda an Australian dirtbombs if you've heard the dirtbombs. New album due in a few weeks. Can stream their debut LP here though. Psychotic episode > girls is about as good as it gets for this style of music.
https://royalheadache.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-lp
I'd also be interested to hear what other folks think of some of the stuff being posted and post some of your own favorites. There's like 220+ views and not all of them are just us 2. Plus if there's something you like, I can probably direct to to more similar stuff.
Aww yeah, just saw that dan deacon and yonatan gat will both be playing in town in September and October.
http://youtu.be/hqR-3zkBSo4
http://youtu.be/P0Dx4pCOYGc
Nice. That Yontan Gat show will be rocking.
Only live event on my horizon is Sturgill Simpson next month. I'm super stoked.
I've gotten pretty lax about shows, come to think of it. Part of it is of course just being an old stick in the mud. My record store clerk days are passed, and my "new" music now is more often old jazz, blues, or country than new indie stuff. I guess having a young child and regular job-type-job doesn't help either.
And then there's location. Chattanooga's amazing, but just not quite big enough to support a thriving scene for touring indie rock bands. (Population's around 175k, and situated smack between Nashville and Atlanta, both of which bands would prefer to play when passing through.) There was a brief stint in the late 1990s and early 2000s where we somehow got great bands regularly. Acts like Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Radar Bros., Lambchop, Man or Astroman (who came back to town about six months ago and played a killer show at a tiny dive bar), Elf Power, Of Montreal, Cat Power, Smog, American Analog Set, Neil Michael Hagerty, and so on all played here in the span of just a few years. It was a great time, but I don't get the sense that it's being replicated with analogous bands today. (Says a guy with almost no sense of what's happening in contemporary indie rock.) We've gotten some bands to come around recently -- the Flaming Lips, Band of Horses, Dr. Dog, etc. -- that probably wouldn't have come ten years ago, but it's slim pickings overall for indie music. (We do get some solid old-time, string bands performances, so that's a huge plus.)
Granted, that never used to be a problem when I'd just head to Atlanta or Nashville for shows all the time. That's just less feasible for me these days.
Man, this is getting a little melancholy, isn't it? My bad, dude. Glad you've got some good shows on the horizon. Pay no mind to the retired hipster waxing nostalgically about his glory years.
Sounds like the noog was on the old elephant 6 touring route. Having kids can definitely put a damper on shows. 34 and engaged here, but no plans for kids anytime soon.
And yeah that yonatan gat show will be awesome. He came through last spring and I got 1 friend to go with me. Both of us said it was the best $9 show we've ever seen, ha. Now we are both trying to get more friends rounded up this time around.
Congrats on the engagement. Marriage is good stuff. And, for what it's worth, so is having a baby. Indescribable, really. She's only 16 months old, and I'm not sure that a day has passed yet where she hasn't blown my mind.
In the E6's heyday, I feel like Chattanooga was almost like a launchpad for touring bands out of the Athens scene. In addition to the ones I named before, I saw the Essex Green, the Gerbils, Ladybug Transistor, Casper and the Cookies, and the Music Tapes play in Chattanooga in that same period (roughly '98 to '03). You combine those shows with the non-E6 shows from bands like I mentioned before, you get a pretty solid music scene, especially for a town this size in the South.
The days of the $9 show seem long gone. I remember getting annoyed when I had to pay $15 to see the Flaming Lips at a little club in Knoxville in '99 or 2000.
It's been a swell maps kinda morning at work
http://youtu.be/nUp1WFTgkzU
Now on to protomartyr. Live the singer for protomartyr definitely makes me think lane kiffin got drunk at a wedding and stumbled on stage to sing with the band, complete with sloshing around a cocktail the entire time.
http://youtu.be/f2th0SCqOL8
http://youtu.be/1VvfluJXxTg
http://youtu.be/Me1d3Zpzv-Y
Saw a sentence mentioning both big blood and big black earlier today, so that's what I ended up listening to.
Such a good song:
http://youtu.be/mMx1LLltezc
Such a good album:
http://youtu.be/s0xCAZLE7c8
My playlist is toward the end of "S" right now. Today has included the Kinks, the Radar Bros., Spacemen 3, and Spoon, among others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seMc_UaE3FQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDrR5sP3Dbw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jG3ryWjfJs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZwmbyK_7kk
Big Blood sounds nice. Are they a pacific northwest band?
Reminds me a bit of Nina Nastasia and Freakwater, which is nice, because I haven't listened to them in ages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib7GEbYAIS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy3tRxUvuqc
Big blood is from Vermont or New Hampshire or upstate New York. They don't tour much but they put out or at least used to put out albums all the time.
Listened to a little dan deacon earlier in preparation for tonight.
Now listening to the best band ever to come out of New Zealand, the dead c
http://youtu.be/VgrEredBNg8
Walked down the street to see these guys tonight. Probably needed more than one beer in my system before I headed down there because it's very psychedelic shit.
http://youtu.be/tSRi2NJ6Ang
Yeah man, a two-piece drone pysch band that consists of a guitar and a synth is probably a tough sell mostly sober. I didn't watch the full half-hour, but I saw some highs and lows. Maybe it's just me, but I thought some bits would be improved substantially with another musician or two. Drums especially would've been helpful.
Saw Sturgill Simpson over the weekend. As awesome as I thought he'd be. Saw him at an outdoor venue attached to a Harley dealer and BBQ joint in Maryville, TN, the backdrop of which is the Smoky Mountains. One of the more diverse crowds I've ever seen at a show. From hipster to frat boy to top-40 country fan to biker to redneck to late-middle-aged diehard. Seeing a GBV fanboy recoil at the plumes of tobacco smoke coming from a dude smoking a big ass pipe right in front of him was a highlight. Actually got a little rowdy. Standing room only, and people were drinking and smoking (and, um, also smoking) freely. The crowd was raucous the entire night and a surprising number of people knew (and drunkenly sang) the words to every damn song. Guess his appeal has become pretty widespread. Simpson took it in stride for the most part. A far cry from the theater shows he's been playing, I'm sure.
Anyway, the show was great. He jammed out quite a bit, and many of those moments expanded upon some of the spacier sounds on his last record. Even without the foodie stops we took on our way up (the home of Benton's bacon, for example, is about halfway between Chattanooga and Maryville), it was a hell of a day.
Going to lose yr mind fest here in town this weekend. DIY oriented garage/punk stuff. No age is headlining Saturday night.
http://youtu.be/VZhNR8y-k7I
http://youtu.be/iipbOvxjSFA
new psych krautrock band out of japan. minami deutsch. pretty awesome.
https://gurugurubrain.bandcamp.com/album/minami-deutsch
Hells yes
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/1...unite-in-2016/
Edit: well shit, the co-owner of DFA released a statement saying there was no truth to the rumors.
October is a busy concert month for me. Julia holter last night. her first album, tragedy, is one of my favorites of the last 5 years. Live, she's gotten better and better each time i've seen her. nice blend of avant garde pop, free jazz, noise bursts, and ambient drone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAQPzoUjtf0
tomorrow night is some quality scuzz punk by way of australia with ****z (edit: hmm, well let's just say their name is an inappropriate name for female genitalia with a z on the end to make it plural) coming to town.
https://homelessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/solid-mates
and then friday is ought, who put out one of the best albums of 2015 thus far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pMmwS2qysk
oh man, i have a new favorite band of the moment. girl band. this is the most excited about a new band discovery since viet cong started putting stuff out (which i don't know if that counts since they were already on my radar due to 2 of the guys being former members of the band women, which was amazing as well).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxC2-VpIkcg
NSFW video. cover of blawan's "why they hide the bodies under my garage".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRdDTz8wL30
Not sure if this is the right thread, but if you're in MS, MPB (Public Radio) has an absolutely awesome Sunday night lineup If you like Ambient/Chamber music. Starting at 8:00 PM is Hearts Of Space. At 9:00 it's Echoes. I never miss these, they're a great way to relax before the upcoming week.
Not to mention, you get to hear some really cool music.