NZM.com is too slow for me today - I need some conversation or something... so I'll post about an awesome overseas band...
Jaga Jazzist is one of the best bands I've come across recently... a 10 peice Norwiegan Electronic Jazz band... kinda like Tortiose by way of Aphex Twin.
What are y'all listening to?
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Also, South San Gabriel are another ...
Also, South San Gabriel are another brilliant find. A many peice Texan country band, their latest album is written from the perspective of the singer's cat.
All members are from another band called Centro-Matic, which is a more rocky version of SSG, I believe.
"That guy is the best drummer in Dallas" - quote from Dr Timmy, in reference to the SSG Drummer.
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OK... One more: Wolf Parade... Sub Pop ...
OK... One more:
Wolf Parade... Sub Pop indy/lo-fi band.
What I've heard has been very cool indeed.
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Some Danger Doom. Danger Mouse teams ...
Some Danger Doom. Danger Mouse teams up with MF Doom meets Adult Swim (Sealab 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman etc). Oh so good.
Cage, damn impressive album, on Def Jux so you have the usual guests and EL-P producing a few tracks. Damn fine track with DJ Shadow producing and Jello Biafra as George Bush.
The new Rammstein album isn't that bad either.
Japanese crazy mofos Melt Banana are doing the trendy crowd and I like a lot. Arigato gozaimasu, indeed.
The latest (I)NC album is decent but is treading water in a bath tub that hasn't been drained in a while. Too many people have washed themselves beforehand.
The new Broken Social Scene is decent too. It hasn't captured me as much as 'You Forgot It in People" but perhaps that is because it isn't a new discovery. It is like getting a present for Christmas two years in a row. The first year, it rocked. The second year it still rocks, but you knew what it was as soon as you saw it.
I watched a band called Bikini Atoll ...
I watched a band called Bikini Atoll support The Dirty Three with a mate last month. Well worth checking out Bikini Atoll, they are amazing live, really fresh sounding shoegazer/noise rock, some of the sonics these guys were coming out with were jaw-dropping.... and obviously The Dirty Three are damn impressive as well- soaring, Hendrixesque amplified violin with phat rhythm guitar and scattery jazz drumming anchoring it to the gound...
Totally obsessed with Erase Errata ...
Totally obsessed with Erase Errata right now. I'm too lazy to explain who they are. But they are really cool...
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saw them last year...pretty cool...
saw them last year...pretty cool
Gosh, lucky! Where was that? Also ...
Gosh, lucky! Where was that?
Also Ex-Models and Blonde Redhead I'm particuarly enjoying at the moment
Gogol Bordello...polka punk from ...
Gogol Bordello...polka punk from NYC
Charlottefield...thela meets shellac from Brighton.
Shooting at Unarmed Men....ex Mclusky....
Sounds weird but I'm really enjoying ...
Sounds weird but I'm really enjoying the Willard Grant Conspiracy at the moment. Now I hate country and western with a passion but this...this is something else. It's like they took anything optomistic and anything clique and threw it in the bin. And burnt it. And fed the ashes to shark. And that shark went and ate a cat who swallowed a fly. I don't know why it swallowed the fly. I guess she'll die. Anyway, these guys have the same feel that first Goldfrapp album did, that smokey, dark, cosy intimate feel about them. Incredibly soulful and beautiful. Give "Regard the End" a listen if you can track it down.
Also, I'm really enjoying the Jaja Jazzist tunes, thanks for the recommendation!
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//the same feel that first Goldfrapp ...
//the same feel that first Goldfrapp album did, that smokey, dark, cosy intimate feel about them
That is a glowing recommendation indeed...
And I think everyone should know about Jaga Jazzist :)