gaslight anthem and eagles of deathmetal are nice

little dragon
stone roses
xx
james blake

What JPantz said plus James Blake

Also you basically have to see The Stone Roses

This been mentioned? New EP late July, sounds somewhat promising IMO.

Passion Pit - Ill Be Alright (soundcloud @ pitchfork)
Passion Pit - Take A Walk (youtube)

lol this is just such a bad reason to stop liking a band. not to mention the walkmen are hardly any more "miserable" than like 90% of bands.

quick thoughts

japandroids - i like it better than post nothing. songs have a little more depth. i thought post nothing was kinda frontloaded and didn't have a lot of staying power for me. this one feels good.

sigur ros - i hate to say it but sigur ros is starting to sound like just another post-rock band to me. nothing on this album grabs me at all.

tallest man on earth - i can tell that this is a very good record but this genre just doesn't tend to hold my attention. i like it but probably won't listen to it a ton.

wow srsly? so strange.
i love it and nothing else sounds the same.
fan from day one, and jonsi and jonsi & alex. saw them several times live and again in august.

Tallest Man continues to grow on me. Seeing him do an acoustic show next week, very much looking forward to it.

Here's a pretty cool shoegaze song:

Trailer Trash Tracys

Read about this on techcrunch and figured some people in this thread would be into it.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/14/tastemakerx-launch/
It's a really addictive music community, will be interesting to see what comes of it.
http://www.tastemakerx.com

Yeah, wish I had checked earlier, The Tallest Man on Earth is in Toronto tomorrow. Seeing Radiohead Saturday, but both have been sold out for months.

Haven't seen anything from Dirty Projectors in a while, here's a new one

Saw GZA last night in Williamsburg, crowd was 99% 20 something hipsters but was a tad impressed by their Wu-Tang knowledge, good to see these youngins are recognizing the classics. Show was pretty awesome too, played most of Liquid Swords and 4-5 wu hits, and really did a good job working the crowd.

Cool idea.

Saw Tallest Man last night. Great show. Caribou/Radiohead tonight, solid weekend.

The Hives best live band ever

Justice, The xx, Marina & the Diamonds, The Kooks and especially The Stone Roses also all have delivered stellar performances so far at the festival

This gets me pumped before I grind, it's beautiful:

Alpines - "Empire"

obv this is your opinion


but this is really just not true, now

not to say that they sound like any other band - you can obviously tell it's sigur ros - and i would say i'm a huge fan of their work overall and still listen to earlier albums a LOT.

but to me this is a record to fall asleep to. it's sigur ros with no dynamics, no rhythm, and very little direction. i get what they are trying to do here, it just bores the **** out of me. i don't think they're really pushing the envelope in any appreciable way - a lot of the sounds and effects are common to either themselves, or the genre as a whole - or adding anything compositionally to what is obviously well-traveled sonic ground. i've heard 20 records recently that are basically in the same vein, the only difference is jonsi is singing on this one.

Yeah, that was pretty crazy. Really sad to hear that the drum tech died in the stage collapse.

What indie rock do you consider 'guilty pleasure' music?

Never warmed to Metric, there's a real flatness to their sound I think. Haven't heard their new album though.

A band I just discovered that remind me of them are The Hundred In The Hands. Really enjoy a few tracks off their debut. They released a 2nd album this year, though it hasn't grabbed me on first spin through.



Brutal lyrics in this track...

They're not Pitchfork approved, which is neither here nor there, but funnily I think this criticism is perfectly applicable to Metric, who they compare them to unfavourably: "As a front-to-back listening experience, however, most of these songs lose any sort of pleasurable impact they'd have as standalone cuts, instead coagulating into a near-shapeless mass of mid-tempo melody. As a whole, the thing kind of feels like a dulled switchblade: it might look shiny, but good luck drawing blood with it."

"New" Silver Jews album released. Its a bunch of early recordings that are really raw and low quality. http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articl...ew-silver-jews

Wish David Berman would stop being so wishy washy and just stick it out with the band for another stretch.

http://youtu.be/nfMMks1N9Kk

yes.