Audience participation: A request for music.

[theweaselking]

In regards to my post on Emilie Autumn, pope_guilty comments "If I knew you didn't know about her already, I'd have said something!"

He's got a point.

So, hook me up. Link me to the best band you think I might not know about - with a sample. Website, myspace, host your own MP3, I don't care. Hook me up with new music that you think is great and that you think I might not have heard before!

Comments

[geminiknight.livejournal.com]

I really don't know what your musical tastes are, but one of my lesser known favorite singer/songwriters is Paul Sanchez (http://www.paulsanchez.com). He was part of Cowboy Mouth, which is kind of southern rock, but his solo stuff is more..hrm..bluegrass? The above link is to his website...this (http://www.kevinandtraci.com/paulsanchez/paulsanchez.asp) is to a website that plays his music, which Paul has given his blessing to sharing his music around because he lost all his masters during Katrina.

Again, may not be your thang, but since you were asking, felt I oughta pimp.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Exactly the kind of thing I was looking for!

It may or may not be to my taste, but it's definitely new!

Thanks.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Gogol Bordello!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3Jv3b0VKec8

I may post a few bands as I think of them.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Cracked out polkas. Interesting.

[fortysevenbteg.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite bands I discovered quite by accident a couple years ago: Machinae Supremacy. If you're at all interested in C=64-era SID chiptunes, you'll probably really enjoy them.

Here's a song, 'Attack Music', set to video from a recent Final Fantasy cutscene:



(Of course, it sounds much better in clear stereo...)

Here's one of their other songs, "Hybrid", hacked into Guitar Hero:

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

OH HOLY CRAP.

I like this bad.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

Any particular types you prefer,... or prefer NOT to be introduced to?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Nope! I prefer to avoid "stupid", which tends to disqualify a lot of pop and rap, but apart from that, anything's good!

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

It's not new, but a lack of exposure due to record company shenanigans prevented peeps from hearing Mistlethrush. Kinda trippy, Sky Cries Mary-esqe, but less polished and exploring a greater range of sound.

My personal tastes wander to the much, much harder rock, but I don't have an upload option right now.

Disclaimer: I wouldn't have heard of them if my wife's cousin not been in the band for their last album. Since they disbanded, no longer sell records (IIRC) and provide most of their music free for download, I don't feel badly giving them a mention.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

KMFDM aren't exactly obsure. And I have the complete discography.

The other band are interesting, at least.

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

Continuing in the style of punk fiddle, how about MacKeel? The link goes to a youtube "video" which is just their version of "Star of the County Down" played over a static graphic of their US CD cover, but it gives you an idea of their style.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

Instrumental Bluegrass Covers of AC/DC

[geminiknight.livejournal.com]

Ah..this reminds me of Hayseed Dixie, if it's not in fact, the same folks.

16 Horsepower

[geminiknight.livejournal.com]

Here's an interesting little band that I was recommended when I was running Deadlands. I have no idea what you'd call this. Wish I could find the song I like best from them, "Black Lung".

Re: 16 Horsepower

[jerril]

Ooooo, I like.

[allysonsedai.livejournal.com]

Is 'Killswitch Engage' old news? I'm always the last to hear about bands, so it's likely I'm way behind the times.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I know them well, but that's not the point. They're exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for - relatively obscure bands that you think I might have missed.

[tezoar.livejournal.com]

- ah somebody beat me to Gogol! I'm looking through my music here, and I seem to have a penchant for bands that have split up since I first heard of them... These guys are still around though, they do a damn good live show: fat freddys drop (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=54397587)

[tezoar.livejournal.com]

- I forgot all about mr. scruff! (http://www.mrscruff.com/showscreen.php?site_id=9&screentype=folder&screenid=429)

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Concrete Blonde: Bloodletting, God is a Bullet, and I Don't Need a Hero.

[geminiknight.livejournal.com]

I came upon Concrete Blonde late in the game, and while I don't care as much for some of the later stuff, there's a lot of awesome awesome music in there.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Mindless Self Indulgence- Faggot, Kill the Rock, Bitches.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

You must already know about Gregorian, yes? Loosing my Religion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7hRnPKdQq4)
Boulavard of Broken Dreams (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqxCJJiUvZg)
Engel
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuS2jGBFgMM)

[thathatedguy.livejournal.com]

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

Mmm, the last guy I really got into was a DJ named Mocean Worker, who does very funky jazz/house mixes.

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

Do you know squarepusher?

Music: the only good thing about myspace

[grinnifer.livejournal.com]

I came across this French guy Joakim a few months ago and fell in love with his album Monsters and Other Silly Songs. It sort of reminds me of a cross between a John Carpenter soundtrack, and an NES video game. Most people ask "What the hell is this?!" when I put the cd on, but in a little while, they always ask me if they can... er... borrow it. He has some stuff at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/jimibazzouka

And if I do this right, you can check out My Sister Klaus, who Joakim produced (they also wrote "Rocket Pearl" on Monsters and Other Silly Songs, which just might be one of my favourite songs I've heard in a long time.)



They can also be found at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mysisterklaus

My room-mate won't stop listening to the She Wants Revenge cd, and I'm almost embarrassed to admit how much I also like it. Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/shewantsrevenge

Then there's Senor Coconut who is just... brilliant. If you're into latin-type of music. My co-worker brought in a cd where Senor Coconut redoes all of these Krafrwerk songs... it blew my mind. http://www.myspace.com/senorcoconutuk

And then there's my heavy metal fetish, but all those bands are either defunct or have changed their sound...

[mcpino.livejournal.com]

These guise are from your neck of the woods, so you may already be familiar: Jets Overhead (http://www.myspace.com/jetsoverhead) , but I really like them.

Also, Midlake (http://www.myspace.com/midlake) , from Texas, and tuxedomoon (http://www.myspace.com/tuxedomoon) , who were kindasorta popular in the 70's & 80's, and have re-formed.

Lemme know what you like. I got a million of 'em.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

This is a popular post.

More bands:

Acid Bath - They don't have a general sound; a lot of their songs are completely different. http://youtube.com/watch?v=gkkblPdq0ik

Finntroll - http://youtube.com/watch?v=d3u86DPd7qc

Jag Panzer - You may know these guys. http://youtube.com/watch?v=9mEEVGTSGBM

That's all I can think of now, that you might like.

[jerril]

Finntroll! I got introduced to Finntroll by "the young guy" in our gaming group just a couple of months ago.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

http://www.voltaire.net/

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

My favorite band ever: Okkervil River. Here's my favorite of their albums (http://www.mollygingras.com/dontfallinlove.zip), Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See, and a sample from a later album that's in a pretty different (but still awesome!) style:

Edit: OK, why the heck won't my embed work? I copied the code exactly. Whatever, here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlB2XLmA4Ec

Son of edit:

Turns out I get different embed code in Firefox from what I get in Safari. WTF, Firefox?

[das-prompt.livejournal.com]

Check out Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (http://sleepytimegorillamuseum.com/). It's hard to choose a few samples, because they're all over the board. They're very unique: like Mr Bungle but not like them. Best to listen to a whole album or see them in concert. OMG their concerts.

Here are a few vids.





If you dig it but don't have an easy way to get complete albums, let me know and I'll upload the ones I have to my webspace.

Sampling everything in the world in one big pot of shit...

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

I don't know what your tastes are, but I figured I'd offer a few choices.

You might already know of Venetian Snares (http://www.myspace.com/venetiansnares). You can find more stuff of his on bleep (http://bleep.com/). His Opus Magnum is Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett. But he's got a lot of good shit.

The genre is breakcore, and there's a whole shitload of other artists.

Shitmat (search for him on bleep as well -- Babylon Cutz and Full English Breakfast are the two albums I'm more familiar with (due to these (http://dnb-sets.de/?suche=shitmat) live sets on dnb-sets.de -- in fact, good quality live sets of all these artists I'm mentioning can be found there, just do a search)

Bong-Ra (who's collaborated with V-Snares) and does some excellent Raggacore. Jahba (who does a wicked version of War Pigs). Donna Summer (aka: Jason Forrest), Toecutter (a bit of some crazy noisy sample-based breakcore, some of it is pretty offensive).

Scorpio Scorpio (http://www.myspace.com/scorpioscorpioscorpio) has some tunes (http://www.scorpioscorpio.com/THEBEASTITCOMETH.htm). (also on dnb-sets), though he's definitely not for everyone. A bit on the silly side, but fun, I think.

If you're not familiar with breakcore, Google video has Notes on Breakcore (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4128774194402953175) a documentary about the "scene". Pretty damn good, IMO, and has some other artists to see/hear, as well as those I've mentioned.

Some of the more commonly known artists who can be considered in the same vein are Aphex Twin, Mu-Ziq and Squarepusher, even though they're not necessarily considered "breakcore", per se, but that would give you a an idea. Just add some ragga vocal stylings on some music, more noise and gabber and mashup techniques and you have breakcore.

[joethecabdriver.livejournal.com]

Have you ever heard of Korpiklaani? They are a Finnish Folk Metal band. They are actually pretty catchy and accessible if you don't mind the gruff vocals. Hope you like accordians and violins with with yer blazin' guitars.

www.myspace.com/korpiklaaniofficial

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Folk Metal is awesome - though the band does remind a bit of a lower-budget Finntroll singing in English.

[http://users.livejournal.com/__leka/]

http://www.johnnyhollowmusic.com

[torrain.livejournal.com]

*grin* Saw them Thursday last, and liked them. But they were kind of eclipsed in my mind by Abney Park.

(Which is not to say they were not good. Just that my shrieking fangirlism has found another direction for the moment.)

[xoder.livejournal.com]

Sent via pope_guilty, even though I don't know you...

Brad Sucks (http://bradsucks.net)
and
S.J. Tucker (http://skinnywhitechick.com)

Depending on whether you want some rock or some folk. Both are awesome!