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Trig Discipline posted:Man, I was not a fan of the new Tune-Yards album. Having just seen them touring for it live tonight reminded me that Merrill can sell just about anything with her voice and stage presence, but still the juxtaposition of her older songs with the new stuff just threw the shittiness of the new stuff into sharp relief. It's really bad. The sound is just lifeless, lacking the groove that Tune-Yards was known for. And the lyrical content is tedious at best. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever released my favorite song of 2018 so far. Great jangle pop for a summer day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqZPbcJQC2Q Well, it was my favorite song of the year so far, until this song from Snail Mail gave me pause. It's classical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tnTucP1UM
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I wasn't really feeling the new St. Vincent songs until I heard them live. They sound so much better with the over-production and excessively warm sound signature stripped out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baklAZ2Rrt4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeHnPfIEyss
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HD DAD posted:Loving the new Arcade Fire. Probably might end up being their third best for me - I’m a sucker for concise albums. The live version of Rabbit Hole hits way harder than the studio version https://youtu.be/0Zf7Hv-AsDo
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Schremp Howard posted:Saw Japanese Breakfast last night, really awesome live. The band really shreds and comes together live in a way that doesn’t come through on Jubilee, and that was one of my favorite albums last year. Highly recommend going to see them if they’re in your area. The big thing that struck out to me from seeing Japanese Breakfast live is that their pre-Jubilee material is way better in this setting, with how tight the band is, and the lo-fi haze lifted. I haven't yet been able to find a soundboard that captures how much fun Everybody Wants To Love You was live. Michelle's stage presence is also great. The Arcade Fire tour dates scream "we've got a limited window for touring, and we're gonna go to places that we know we can sell out." There are too many gaps in that schedule - no Texas dates, no Denver or Vegas date, no Southern dates, not even a perfunctory Atlanta date - that can be filled in during a 2nd leg based around next year's festival season. Still I'm thinking about gambling for the Brooklyn date and making a trip out of it.
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Nihonniboku posted:Does anybody know of any good online radio stations to discover new music? Spotify's curated playlists just aren't cutting it. Most of my workday listening is through KEXP
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I got the sense that King Gizzard's recorded output is immaterial since they're now the Grateful Dead/Phish for millennials and zoomers as a live act
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Nihonniboku posted:Do we like The 1975? I keep seeing reviews for the new album that are generally positive but all call them the ultimate Gen Z band. The 1975 have always seemed like a big millennial group to me. I'd say that Zoomercore is like, Arlo Parks and Clairo I'm convinced that the current critical reappraisal of The 1975 all stems from the fact that Matty Healy is an interesting character in an age where there aren't very many of those in the rock space. Their new album is perfectly okay pop rock
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captainOrbital posted:Saw the Beaches over the weekend (with Hotel Fiction, who were really great live), and they were amazing as usual. Always a great live band. They said it was their first sold out show in the states, but Schuba's is a super tiny venue. We need more cancon in this country. Speaking of cancon, I loved the kiwi jr album from this year. Great jangle pop-adjacent riffs and fun lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VgVZMqIej0
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mutantIke posted:I was really depressed about missing the Pavement tour until I saw the footage from Austin City Limits. Malkmus looks like he's gonna fall asleep for like half the show lmao Austin was the last show in Pavement's US tour Pavement were great when I saw them in New York. Malkmus was very engaged, the band was tight, and the crowd was excellent. I loved shouting "I know him, and he does!" during Stereo with the other middle-aged guys in the audience. The bonus of that weekend was that I saw Soccer Mommy play Pavement covers at the Pavement pop-up museum, which was a good bit in and of itself
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Ambitious Spider posted:Wow March is stacked with releases Wednesday album is the most interesting by far to me. They might be the band I wished Big Thief were. Wednesday may also get the full firepower of the Dead Oceans PR and marketing machine behind them this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTi7e9gEpN4
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abraham linksys posted:that LCD Soundsystem date is ludicrously stacked. might go to the Boygenius date to see Bartees Strange too LCD is saturated in New York specifically since their Brooklyn Steel residency seems like it's gonna be a yearly thing. As a millennial with disposable income who lives on the East Coast, I am certainly hoping that's the case! Tickets for the Sunday show I went to this December were going for list on reseller sites, and Friday-Saturday shows weren't a big premium over list either I'm gonna try to go to the LCD-Jamie xx show in New York hell or high water. I've always wanted to see Jamie xx and I get to see LCD, who are still such a good live act I feel a little bad for Bartees Strange. That Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo crowd is not gonna give a poo poo about him and will be so annoying
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I got a floor ticket for LCD Soundsystem and Jamie xx in New York. I'm gonna dance myself clean bay-bee. I'm hoping that one of the DFA special guests is The Juan Maclean: https://youtu.be/AokIMW5Ehpo I'll keep an eye out on resale for a cheaper ticket to the boygenius and Bartees Strange night, since I wasn't thinking about seeing them when I initially bought the first ticket. The cheapest ticket for that night right now is $155 after fees, which is too much to pay for a ticket that has Clairo 2nd on the bill
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thehoodie posted:I'm in San Diego later this year when the Re:set Concert Series (https://sandiego.resetconcertseries.com/) is happening. Yeah LCD Soundsystem, and Jamie xx are worth the price of admission. LCD still loving rip as a live band, and there aren't very many opportunities to see Jamie xx live. Big Freedia should be fun too BonoMan posted:It's also based on a great oral history book of the same name FYI! Really fun read. I thought the book was insufferable. It felt like half the book was Let's Remember Some Bars by a bunch of people remembering how cool they used to be, and the Brooklyn scene was shoehorned in at the end to claim a whole decade of New York music
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Nihonniboku posted:What band that had their debut album in the last 5 years is your favorite? Fontaines DC lol everyone's answers are gonna be New British Alternative or NBA-adjacent. America, do better
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Rageaholic posted:
It's been 13 years since Plastic Beach. Damon is cooked
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bows1 posted:This is probably the wrong thread but I dunno where else…. Incant stop listening to Sturgill Simpson. His vocals, his music ; my god he’s good. Totally underrated. In a similar vein, I really liked Zach Brown's American Heartbreak from last year. It's more of a collection of songs than an album so feel free to put it on shuffle and skip around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOWyklcgYVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlNZniQi19I
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I heard we were posting normal opinions about boygenius https://twitter.com/worrystonee/status/1673503800831688705?s=20
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Bright Bart posted:Did the Yeah Yeah Yeahs ever make an album as approachable as It's Blitz! ? The self-titled EP is my favorite YYYs release. Generally, I'm of the opinion that the YYYs are really best appreciated as a singles band. They made some great singles, but their albums always had a few too many clunkers for me to really put any of their albums up as classics.
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This is IDLES to me https://x.com/smokeismedicine/status/1648937326540881920
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I got 3 legacy alternative/indie acts (Wilco, LCD Soundsystem, The Replacements), Beyonce, and MJ Lenderman in my top-5 of the year. No city since I'm using Apple Music The live album that Anti- put out a few weeks ago is a great introduction to MJ Lenderman. It includes nearly everything from his debut album, Boat Songs, plus some of his early material is polished up with a full band. RIYL David Berman, Jason Molina, Being There-era Wilco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kifEh_v1r6o
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One of the most useless jobs I've seen was the person whose job it was to check IDs at the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot anniversary shows in New York https://twitter.com/tonyhawktruther/status/1756734806157672679
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Megabound posted:I've only started listening to pop and indie recently after picking up Magdalena Bay, Yeule, Carly Rae Jepsen's latest album, and boygenius and related acts like late last year so if anyone's got recommendations on where to explore in any of those directions that'd be dope. I like listening to entire albums but singles are alright too. Phoenix are a great bridge between indie and the synth-driven pop you talk about here. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is the album for them, though I'm putting a link of a live performance because they're a kickass live band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STixAvSrnlc Phoebe Bridgers has long talked about the influence of Elliott Smith, one of her favorite artists, on her own work. Starting at Figure 8 and working your way backwards through Smith's work would be the way to go coming from boygenius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hadz9rZH5zI Bright Bart posted:I'm curious if anyone wants to suggest some lyrical indie rock/pop/folk. The poet David Berman is really best known for his work as a musician in his bands the Silver Jews, and Purple Mountains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBAVX1oslEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZKMa-ByLBQ
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The magic in Vampire Weekend left with Rostam. OGWAU has all the trappings of classic Vampire Weekend, but it never really comes together in the way that the original 3 albums did
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