Yeah, I'm glad I got to see them play for a crowd of a few hundred before their Grammy performance blew them up.

i seen them in 2009 and they were the first on in the King Tuts tent at T in the Park, just randomly seen them for 20 mins before M83

next year they headlined the tent and there was like 50x more people all singing along and ,for some reason, dancing about with glowsticks.

just thought that was pretty crazy how big they got so quickly

This is a really good song.



Also what do we think of the new Justin Timberlake track? I really like it.

I guess it's attributable to social media, but the speed with which bands can blow up and instantly become commercial is just crazy. In the last few years I can think of 3 bands off the top of my head I saw in a small club or at a festival side stage with a crowd of less than 500 who were able to headline a festival or sell out an arena less than 12 months later:

Mumford and Sons
Florence and the Machine
Imagine Dragons

Also crazy is how little money these bands are making during their blowing up process. Mumford and Florence both shipped it big time with their second album and supporting tours and I am sure ID will do the same. But I work with the brother of Imagine Dragons' lead singer and he says that even though they have a platinum album and their stupid song is played every second of the day everywhere possible they haven't yet seen a check for any real money.

I'm obsessed with this right now. It's three songs from Indians' debut album, Somewhere Else.



tracklisting for video:
1. I Am Haunted
2. Magic Kids (3:43)
3. New (7:34)

Full album preview at NPR.

Mumford & Sons shot up the charts after their Grammy appearance. FATM skyrocketed in popularity after MTV picked them out of relative obscurity and had them perform at the VMAs. Not sure about the third group.

^ niceeeeeee

Yeah was a bit haterish/unnecessary comment by me. He seems like a good guy, but I find his music sorta corny I guess.

But I also think completely opposite of you regarding rap in 2012 - I think it was an incredibly good year, with many excellent releases of both "real" and "ignorant" rap. Just for proper albums that were very good to great off the top of my head: Roc Marciano, Ka, TDE's output, Future, El-P, Killer Mike, Aesop Rock. 2 Chainz album was uneven but very enjoyable overall. And of course there were lots and lots of mixtapes/EPs with great material - Gucci Mane, 100s, Tree, Ty$ and Starlito some that spring to mind as standouts. Also Curren$y's Cigarette Boats is fantastic imo.

I didn't even have a conflict and didn't want to see them then. Might have been at the autograph table for The National or MGMT at the time actually.

Well, to be 100% accurate I showed my friend them on our 8 hour drive to Minn for a $300 cheaper flight to Chicago and they weren't interested only to like them when they blew up...

Also:http://www.thefader.com/2013/01/14/s...rje-lanzarote/ and http://www.thefader.com/2013/01/14/s...break-the-pot/

Thanks for the recs, there's a bunch there I missed. I didn't like skelethon much and 2 chainz isn't my style but we also have a bunch of overlapping tastes so I'll give it all a listen.

Why didn't anyone tell me there's a new Veronica Falls album coming out this year?!?!?!

And holy ****ing **** this song is amazing:

so four tet drop a new(old) album that he recorded between 1997 and 2001, i think its really good

https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/0181-1

Edit: Wrong thread.

I generally enjoy Macklemore's music, except for One Love which I find incredibly trite, but I have no idea why he has gotten so popular and I think he's a pretty boring MC.. He played a small venue in Toronto and tickets were scalping in the $200 range. He's roughly equivalent to Chiddy Bang imo except Mind Your Manners has 6 million YouTube views and Thrift Shop has 60 million views.

While Wain Man and I have some overlap here are my top 10 2012 hip-hop albums
1. Good Kid, m.a.a.d city - Kendrick Lamar
2. R.A.P Music - Killer Mike
3. Habits and Contradictions - Schoolboy Q
4. Life is Good - Nas
5. Reloaded - Roc Marciano
6. El-P - Cancer for Cure
7. Control System - Ab Soul
8. Blue Chips - Action Bronson
9. Greatest Story Never Told Pt. 2 - Saigon
10. A Dream Deferred - Skyzoo

Album's sounding good.

This is the best mixtape I've heard in ages, and maybe the best music I've heard since early last year. Obviously Girltalk popularized this style, but I'd argue that this is better.

https://soundcloud.com/star****er_usa/sets/mixtape-1

The De La Soul remix is epic.

(and Strfkr's new album should be out soon. I didn't really love their first released track from it)

I'm liking the new Fidlar album, streaming at Pitchfork.

Somehow I don't find One Love to be trite at all even though the subject matter is really trite and it's got a lot of just plain cliches in it and the background music is pretty simple "this is supposed to sound deep" music. I think that the story it opens with is just so ridiculously sweet that he gets huge poetic license with me.

Was there a specific name to that Strfcker mixtape rafiki?

I made a new grooveshark account for general thread use http://grooveshark.com/#!/loungemusicthread. Username: loungemusicthread Password: thelounge

Anytime you play a song it gets saved to a Listen Again playlist and i thought it might be easier to have all the songs people are excited about in one playlist instead of a bunch of different youtube videos. If people who are going to be posting a lot itt wanted to start playlists just of their music that would be cool too.

Oops, that was stupid. I changed the display name and the password to EDFmusicthread and eldiablo respectively. Might have to use the email to sign in: 2p2music@mail.com

I didn't follow the 2012 thread so I don't know if this band's known but at the moment i'm liking:

Really digging this track from Elephant Stone today. Hope the rest of the album is this good. I wasn't really into the first one. Been a fan of Rishi's since his days in the Datson's, back in 2000 or so. Great bass player.