Not sure if somebody have mentioned 'Diamond Eyes' by Deftones. An excellent album. |
Couple new LP's to add:
Damien Jurado -- Saint Bartlett's
Leonard Cohen -- Songs From The Road
Jamey Johnson -- The Guitar Song
The Bad Plus -- Never Stop
Love Phosphorescent -- Here's To Taking It Easy. Skip the vinyl (possibly the worst pressing I've ever heard) but the CD is excellent |
Pleasantly surprised to hear a song from the Mumford album open the Fox TV series Lone Star. |
Mumford and Sons, Sigh No More is the best album I have found in Years!!!! Buy it. It is astounding!! |
This is redundant because I just posted it in the Favorite New Music thread but I think it belongs on this list as well.
Woven Hand - The Threshingfloor |
Nick Cave's Grinderman 2 way out in front. Well above the first Grinderman project in terms of psyched-out eerieness & grandeur of Cave at his best. LP SQ is about perfect, and the included CD is uncompressed and close enough. Add to this a well-done thick illustrated book and full-sized poster and it becomes clear that he deserves double credit for 12x12. |
Gaslight Anthem's "American Slang"! |
Bongo,
I'll second Tin Can Trust. IMHO, it's the best thing the Lobos have done in a long, long time. |
Second the recommendations(especially the vinyl) of Widespread Panic "Dirty Side Down." I had lost track of this band. Very tasty/tasteful southern rock, at moments with a feel for Clapton circa '73-5. |
Retribution Gospel Choir ( Al Sparhawk, LOW leader is the front man for this Duluth band ). Don't miss it ! This is NOT a mellow album. Also, great HARD BLUES by Sparhawk band, The BLACK EYED SNAKES (THIS IS OLDER). |
Thanks Bongo for the recommondations, I could not have picked a better 3 bands that have not had any affect on my musical journey. AOR at its worst, pap, sheer pap. |
Waaves: Love it. Also like the new Best Coast album. |
That Wavves album that came out a few weeks ago is pretty decent. Some of the members of Jay Reatard's old band so it's kinda got that vibe . |
Gawdbless
I quess your style of music died around 1984. Sorry we have to listen to "indie" music to forget what great contributions Styx and Foreigner made to your life. Or as Boston put it "it is more than a feeling." IMHO, I have no time for your point of view. |
Gawdbless--indeed, and hopefully no one took it as a normal rock album. just since all the indie mentioned on this thread, seems a lot of folks might be interested in it.
Hotchip, LCD soundsystem, etc. would also fit in this category. |
Avi Buffalo. New and fresh.
Surfer Blood - Astrocoast These guys can play!
The National - High Violet Musical, mysterious and hypnotizing
Neal |
'Indie' music (IMO) should not be confused with 'rock' music.
If Caribou is being touted as 'rock music', then both my parents come from Pluto.
Now, where did I park my spaceship?
lol.
The new album from 'Beady Eye' when it arrives, probably more Indie than rock, but what the heck. |
Love the new M.I.A.,Tom Jones, Los Lobos, Wavves, and Arcade Fire. |
We get it--Energizer still listens to Steely Dan as alleged rock.
I'll add another:
Caribou- Swim
This is one great album and quite unique. Even the recording isn't terrible unlike a lot of its indie brethren. |
Thanks for your input Energizer. |
None,there are no great rock bands anymore. |
check out Radio Department's new album. |
Much thanks to Macdadtexas for Black Keys and Widespread Panic recommendations. Both are terrific.
So is Arcade Fire's The Suburbs.
IMO |
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Oh, almost forgot:
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
Totally exceeded my expectations!! Gorgeous. |
Just straight Rock?
Fatso Jetson - Archaic Volumes
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Resistor - Rise
The new Arcade Fire album is a disappointment and I could never get into The National. |
Adam Lambert "For Your Entertainment"
Ok, not really. Can't believe you guys like High Violet that much. It's a nice album but certainly no where near the other National stuff. Actually a little boring and I am a big fan. Saw them Monday with The Antlers here in Columbus and they were spectacular! They are such a mature band in every way...writing, musicianship, performance...Fkn Stellar. |
Black Keys - Brothers
Widespread Panic - Dirty Side Down
Stone Temple Pilots
Vampire Weekend bored me to tears, I have a vinyl copy, cheap, if anyone wants it!! |
Spoon's Transference is really solid
I second the recommendation of the Black Keys and The National records, both nice. I bet the Arcade Fire's new one will be cool too, just waiting for all the hipsters to stop creaming their jeans to listen. |
and the nominees are...
The National "High Violet"
Black Keys "Brothers"
Broken Bells "Eponymous"
Menomena "Mines" (just got this one...weird but wonderful)
Joanna Newsom "Have One On Me" |
yep, MOJO is a good disc indeed(and they were good in Philly last weekend!). I'm liking the latest Widespread Panic too! |
Off 1 day's listen, I'd say Tom Petty's Mojo. I also really like the recent Peter Wolf CD. Not much else has really moved me, so far.
Marty |
Yeah, Besnard Lakes may be the best yet from the Montreal collective scene. Dense energetic orchestration in the vein of Arcade Fire, but with tighter R&R focus. Also some great girl-group vocals. I spun this up after listening to Chris Bell's "I am the Cosmos"-- and heard more of Big Star's genius in Besnard Lakes than in Bell's mostly dismal cul de sac. |
Widespread Panic..."Dirty Side Down" |
my new nominee is the besnard lakes, "the roaring night". they work the same beach boy complex melody/beautiful harmony thing as seemingly every other acclaimed indy band (animal collective, grizzly bear, fleet foxes, etc.), but they meld really nice, spacey guitar workouts that invoke pink floyd or the church. very well recorded; nice stuff.
i've also revaluated "broken bells", which is apparently on constant rotation at every starbucks in the universe. the songs took awhile to seep in, but it really is a great record. |
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record |
JJ25
Nobody told you. It died in 1980. Only AOR radio keeps its bloated corpse alive. Oh, and the odd tour....:) |
If this is the best you can do, rock is dead. |
It has to be Mojo. The first album from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers in 8 years... |
I really like the following for 2010: the XX, the National, the Throwdowns, Vampire Weekend, Solomon Burke, the Soft Pack, remastered Exile on Main Street plus 10. |
Initiate is good nue jazz on the heels of several worthy Cline side-projects(particularly New Monestary and Downpour(live 06.) Or is Wilco the side project?
Enjoying Sea of Cowards and Flaming Lips DSOTM. Dead Weather is a very cool Jack White project and they obviously had a great time making it. Parts of the Lips album are hypnotic and like Cowards a refreshing lark of a project.
Best so far is Magnetic Fields Realism. Whatever one thinks of Stephin Merritt's various incarnations, with Mag Fields he is a ligit rock persona of rare wit & sophistication. |
lots of good picks above. i'd add:
the national
nels cline--initiate (awesome free form guitarist currently slumming w/wilco)
i've spent some time with the xx and broken bells and haven't quite fallen in love. broken bells in particular is a great sounding record, but i'm not sure the songs are as strong as the first two shins records--for whatever reason i forget it as soon as its over. please keep the suggestions coming. |
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also almost embarassed to admit, the new Peter Frampton album is quite good |
hendrix valley of neptune gets my vote 2 |
Gotta add Broken Social Scene "Forgiveness Rock Record" to the list. |
Broken Bells album is great |
I agree with Nilthepill - that Mumford & Sons album is a scorcher (it was released in 09 in the UK, this year in the US). I'm also digging "Brothers" by the Black Keys and Anders Osborne's "American Patchwork." I also like the new Dead Weather release ("Sea of Cowards", which I didn't expect to like as I didn't care for their debut). |
The Fall: Your future our clutter
Blockhead: Music scene |
Mumford and Sons's Sigh no more- check it out should be a candidate |
