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The Long Sea from good ol' Milwaukee:

[www.last.fm]

Late posting...hopefully some people still see this!

As I post, I'm listening to Gillian Welch... folky like Sunday morning. But, on another the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey will change you life, man... Radiohead meets Pink Floyd meets Brian Eno!

Japancakes' cover of My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" album, done all instrumentally with steel guitars and cellos and so on. It goes really really well.

Also if you find Solid Space's "Space Museum" album from 1982 floating around the blogosphere (only released on tape) it's some really good synthpop.

I'm also starting to listen to The Depreciation Guild and their "4AD meets 8 Bit Peoples" sound. Pretty good so far.

Heaviness

Last year they released one of the best/most consistent shoegaze records I've heard come out in probably a decade.


[heaviness.se]

After you recently featured "Breakfast" in the Summer Jam Tournament I'll go ahead and, from Amsterdam, recommend you the entire Le Le album, called Flage. Smartcrazy eurohouse in four languages. From their MySp[ace player I especially recommend their "International Pants" anthem. [www.myspace.com]

The title track on Black Moth Super Rainbow's Zodiac Girls 7" is blowing my mind right now.

C-Mon & Kypski

Meiko


Rebekah LeBeau


Buddy


Brett Young


Joe Purdy


Slayer


Iglu & Hartly


Brendan James


Lionel Neykov

@fabulousrobots: yeah, i have heard or seen a lot of those bands (tulsa drone, hex machine, snacktruck, and ultra dolphins) and they come off as the same sort of uninspired instrumental/experiemental stuff i have difficulty liking. i will check out those other bands though. thanks!

I'm digging:

-Patrick Wilson - Close to Paradise (Polaris Prize winner that no one listened to)


-Oh Astro - Champions of Wonder (glitchy laptop-ish on illegal art)


-I liked Jamie Lidell, but after seeing him live now I seriously love him. Holy. Shit.


-I've always been partial to Austin rockers Zykos but they never got much appreciation


-Cut Chemist particularly his track "What's the Altitude?"


-Earlimart aren't obscure but their Silverlake/Elliott Smith sound is pretty sweet and the new record Hymn and Her sounds like it's gonna be a pretty good follow up to Mentor/Tormentor which was great.

@TheRunningboard7: Damn, forgot about CRAC Knuckles. Gotta pull that album out.

LEON THOMAS!!

This Kid was in the Flick AUGUST RUSH and he is an extraordinary talent, his song "Time Machine" is incredible, he's got the "Urban Country" thing down way better than Terrence Howard's upcoming sure-to-be-a-disaster.

Please check out "Time Machine" here and let me know what you think of Leon

Being from Champaign/Urbana, IL (THE 217!), the only local bands I can think of are Headlights and Shipwreck, and I really don't care for either of them. Shipwreck is alright, but I don't listen to them more than they are on XMU

CRAC, and Blu's solo album from last year are awesome.

Lykke Li is stuck in my head a lot.

@walkmasterflex: There's good stuff in Richmond!

I love the Mermaid Skeletons:[www.myspace.com]


I think Liza Kate is pretty amazing: [www.myspace.com]


And Hex Machine, Tulsa Drone, Dead Goats, Snacktruck, Ultra Dolphins and a slew of other experimental and noise bands.

band of horses - everything all the time

casey donahew band - casey donahew band


the draft - in a million pieces


gogol bordello - super taranta!


jets to brazil - orange rhyming dictionary


matisyahu - youth

that's what is in my disc changer for the first leg of the road trip i'm about to take. and i recommend them all.

Things I love out of Toronto right now:

Bonjay (www.myspace.com/woyoyoy)
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Thunderheist (www.myspace.com/thunderheist)
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Whale Tooth (www.myspace.com/whaletooth)
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Plus one not from Toronto:

Walrus - I have a weakness for mall punk and emo, and this band fits that bill. Except there's a girl in the band. A girl! (www.myspace.com/walrus3)
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Big fan of Torche - Meanderthal (sorta like Karp, but more radio friendly), The Cool Kids, Sun Kil Moon - April, Cheap Time, and Travis Morrison's last one, All Y'all. Really solid stuff.

@walkmasterflex: Dark Meat's Universal Indians has been blowing my mind lately, though

Yeah, and totally friendly folks too! Recommended.

swivel is awesome. they've been playing in LA for the last couple of months and just recently added two more members.

@Cosmic Kid: I know of a trumpet player named "Dizzy" who uses a bent horn! And his cheeks get all puffy when he plays! It's f-in' awesome!

Weather Is Happening

Imagine if you will some crazy kids in love with 80s vintage SST and Homestead bands, who managed to channel some of that energy and still sound original?

And I got a good live recording of them too. God bless the Zoom H4 and it's ability to withstand dangerous sound pressure levels.

Robes. Ripping off Primal Scream and JAMC. I'm ok with that.

www.myspace.com/robesphiladelphia

I'm also hooked on Rye Rye.

I got into an act called Aetherlone that is pretty awesome, he's realeasing his EP for free if you're interested.

linky! [www.myspace.com]

nice mellow folky electronic with vocals, beautiful stuff!

@loudersoft:
I second the Kay Kay luuurve!

artists I love whom I wish would get more love:

Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground

Graham Weber


The Third Man


Memphis Pencils


Cory Branan


Meg Hutchinson


The Hereafter (John Elliott)


Anthem In (RIYL Rogue Wave, Pinback)


and Voxpop

@baconfat: thanks, i'll give them both a listen. there's a show out of charlottesville called "acoustic sunrise" i listen to on my ride into work that play a lot of local artists, but i can never remember what any of their names are.

@baconfat: Oh, I should add: Sarah White from Charlottesville. Great singer-songwriter. She's got a new guitar player and they've got a real Gillian Welch+David Rawlings vibe going on. Excellent.

@kisskisskiss: I can't wait for that album to get a domestic release (speaking of Swedes, I'd also be happy for Kocky, Jenny Wilson or Juvelen at non-import prices). Here's Andreas Kleerup and Titiyo backstage in Stockholm helping Ron Sexsmith cover Springsteen's "I'm On Fire":

@walkmasterflex: The Marsupials are from RVA and they're effin' awesome.

Kleerup. But he's Swedish and I'm from New York so getting my hands on a legit paper-and-plastic copy of his album is proving to be slightly too expensive for my blood (£24? Hmm. No).

Richmond may have a music scene that has developed past country/bluegrass or hardcore/emo circa 1994, but I have yet to hear it, so I have nothing local to suggest, really.

Dark Meat's Universal Indians has been blowing my mind lately, though

There is this local jazz musician, Miles Davis, who I can't get enough of. He blows his trumpet through a wah-wah, you gotta see it!

Cashville represent!

Here's Rebecca Lynn Howard:

Jeremy McComb:

Anne McCue:

Aside from the Once soundtrack, I've mostly been listening to Bats and Redneck Manifesto; both from the Dublin area, naturally. Bats play the sort of oddball, jazzy freak punk we used to call post-hardcore before the term became synonymous with overproduced pop punk, while the latter are sort of similar in that they play really tight and intricate post rock.

I'd never heard the Stones' Black and Blue until a week ago and it is so delightfully dumb I sorta love it. Awful!/awful hot!

And a song called "Every Little Move She Makes" by someone called Tony Burrows that i got from a bubblegum comp.

Mitch Easter.

"Police Story" by Black Flag. Summer!

Oh, and PSB doing "My Girl" by Madness is a number one in a world that doesn't suck.

Down here in OC I've been singing the praises of Dan Marriner for a bit, really friendly and thoughtful guy. If you're not into lo-fi/acid-folk type stuff, steer clear, but I think he does more things with the early Marc Bolan sound in the end than Devendra does, say.

Cyne - "Starship Utopia." I actually made some beats on their first ep around 2000. The new album is very good. "Conscious" hip-hop without being too preachy.

Cavalier - "The Breaking." Found this online. Just a pure hip-hop album.

Despite Pitchfork's 6.5, I think that Okay's Huggable Dust is unbelievable.

And I second the Botticellis.

Milwaukee Presents:

Codebreaker. ex- Citizen King, Wild Kingdom and hordes of other bands present the slickest space-pop-dance-rock this side of Hot Chip.

Chief. More scene vets having fun. Why be a rawk cover band when you can pen original (albeit better) rawk tunes yourself. Awesome live. Self released disk out now.

The Danger. Great Mod-pop. Hell, we I used to help fix their Vespas...before they had the band.

Polkacide. Uncle Kenny in leather pants an accordian with a rotating crapshoot of dudes playing Bobby Vinton and Sabbath covers in 4/5 time.

Alot of vets still "get the band together" for giggles. Couch Flambeau, F/I, the Speedfreaks, all get their gig on. I'm sure you can find them all on Myspace...

devon williams is bringing some ruling jangle-pop. that new jim ford collection on bear family is killing it too (swamp-country-soul-rock). upcoming clutchy hopkins disc (under the name misled children). and, to get all self promotional for a second, the botticellis (www.thebotticellis.com), on tour now.

also, not ruling, no age can go suck it!

Metro Detroit pure-pop magicians The Pop Project just put out an LP entitled "Stars of Stage & Screen." It's loaded with the hooks and harmonies ears crave!

Meho Plaza is a cool L.A. band, somewhat in the noisy vein of No Age and HEALTH. The band just released a self-titled full length. The opening song "I Sold My Organs" is really fun.

That Vivian Girls LP hasn't left my player in weeks.

I'm also really enjoying:

Au


Girls


Wale's new mixtape


Frightened Rabbit


Dan Friel


the new Bodies of Water

I <3 Ear Pwr!

ear pwr from asheville, nc, is doing some pretty awesome stuff these days. i call it "twee-juke music".