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soyoungmikey



Joined: 29 Jun 2009

PostPosted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Tallest Man on the Earth
Deerhunter
Arcade Fire
Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafetti
Cut Copy
Black Keys
Caribou
Crystal Castles
Destroyer
Dirty Projectors
Dum Dum Girls
Fever Ray
Flying Lotus
Four Tet
Girls
Grizzly Bear
James Blake
Janelle Monae
Joanna Newsom
Liars
Local Natives
Phoenix
Radio Dept
Sharon Van Etten
Sigur Ros
Tame Impala
Tennis
Vampire Weekend
Titus Andronicus
Toro y Moi
Yeasayer

Among others
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calicoe



Joined: 23 Dec 2008
Location: South Korea

PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dengue Fever (truly great - have a listen!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gty6a6_kO-0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQYOGkCk2DA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcdgLclFWOU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z57qQdeLGw4&feature=related


Smog (Bill Callahan)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNbO6DKX2rA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J-WpgOzW9A&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTmzYfzuidw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXCT-aXq8DE&feature=related


Jana Hunter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQVvm73DcWY&feature=BF&list=MLGxdCwVVULXcdn1eIp7DfuifcqZSawJtv&index=7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ubho_GGM7M&feature=BF&list=MLGxdCwVVULXcdn1eIp7DfuifcqZSawJtv&index=18


Cat Power

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UowZbpQkCO8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poGk-bo7Wmc


Horse Feathers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tETpV5RXjtw


Tiny Vipers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Nmx-svXRs&feature=BF&list=MLGxdCwVVULXcdn1eIp7DfuifcqZSawJtv&index=4


Lou Barlow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyJTDb4c1PE

And, of course, the mainstays:

Pixies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mvn0U4lS24&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNrtSWup_Tg&feature=related

Throwing Muses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I50uWUWVUtA

My Bloody Valentine
Cranes
Tom Waits
Portishead (do they count?)
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Kurtz



Joined: 05 Jan 2007
Location: ples bilong me

PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Red House Painters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpYne2su3XM

Ride

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVhNi5cU8mo

Mr Bungle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtDEmtwuTlI

Yo La Tengo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCFWpb8YZJU

Built To Spill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owNtZIn7L4A

The Jesus and Mary Chain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szy5fuKkJJQ

Guided by Voices

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meshV00_Jns

The Rakes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x9Uopr63G0
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matthews_world



Joined: 15 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A lot of these bands people are naming are well-known. Here are a few of mine.

Above & Beyond
Afrojack
Angus & Julia Stone
Artist Vs Poet
Band Of Horses
Burn Halo
Cavo
Coheed & Cambria - perhaps well-known
Green River Ordinance
James Yuill
K-Os
O.A.R.
People In Planes
Phoenix - another shout out!
Ray LaMontagne
Ryan Adams
Safetysuit
Sia
Silversun Pickups
Street Sweeper Social Club
Swedish House Mafia
The Pretty Reckless
The Temper Trap
Ting Tings
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rumdiary



Joined: 05 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

soyoungmikey wrote:
The Tallest Man on the Earth
Deerhunter
Arcade Fire
Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafetti
Cut Copy
Black Keys
Caribou
Crystal Castles
Destroyer
Dirty Projectors
Dum Dum Girls
Fever Ray
Flying Lotus
Four Tet
Girls
Grizzly Bear
James Blake
Janelle Monae
Joanna Newsom
Liars
Local Natives
Phoenix
Radio Dept
Sharon Van Etten
Sigur Ros
Tame Impala
Tennis
Vampire Weekend
Titus Andronicus
Toro y Moi
Yeasayer

Among others
Someone has beed reading Pitchfork.
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nukeday



Joined: 13 May 2010

PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I quite like the Wipers. And the Minutemen.

I actually don't like 90s music much, and I'm pretty ignorant on bands from the 2000s, but there is probably some pretty good stuff out there. I like the black lips, but if i know a recent group, that probably means they are well known.
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matthews_world



Joined: 15 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rumdiary wrote:
Someone has beed reading Pitchfork.


Thanks for that.
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rumdiary



Joined: 05 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

matthews_world wrote:
rumdiary wrote:
Someone has beed reading Pitchfork.


Thanks for that.
Silversun Pickups
Carnavas

5.0 out of 10.0



Given Silver Lake's fashion-forwardness (also absurdity), it makes sense that recent grunge-on-the-runway anticipates a 1990s throwback band straight out of aforementioned L.A. hipster pocket. Silversun Pickups, named in homage to a Sunset/Silver Lake liquor store, spurn the Beach Boys and Thrills approach to California, channeling, instead, the weirder darkness of acts like Autolux. Carnavas, the band's first full-length, comes off as something of an aural spiderweb: glinty, silvery, and vaguely treacherous. Their spidery technique for entrapping listeners is this: wrap them up in familiar noises toward which they feel more-or-less favorably and count on imminent stupo

Carnavas scores points for constructing dreamlike aural shrouds. Those nostalgic for Smashing Pumpkins tunes of yesteryear will find them nestled inside the minutes (and there are so many minutes) of "Lazy Eye". Those desirous of music to play while gazing at Magic Eye pics will appreciate the record for its fuzzy blur; it's possible that they'll even find this album extremely rewarding, and find hidden, wonderful things in it, like crosses or hearts, or whatever it is Magic Eye creators are putting in their images these days.

Maybe it's a prereq for making this sort of racket, but Silversun Pickups too often teeter into melodrama. Consider "Future Foe Scenarios", which seems like it could be about a village raising fists to heaven after plagues of something (Locusts? Boils?), dissolving into screams of "I must stop drinking". And "Common Reactor", which also winds up a screaming, terrifying display of pathos.

Unfortunately, the music fails to justify the histrionics. Songs start out exciting, drag on for too long, and/or become screaming. Lyrics seem like they're poking fun at Corgan, or impersonating a high school version of him: compare "Rhinoceros" ("Open your eyes-- to these I must lie?") and "Tempo" ("She said don't open your eyes/ Don't open your eyes/ And said goodnight"). Words elsewhere are wholly incomprehensible ("What was that scar situated from afar/ What was that light integrated in your mind" on "Well Thought Out Twinkles"). Other times-- OK a lot of times-- Brian Aubert's emo-boy voice gets to be too much, worse than even Corgan's barely-tolerable nasal delivery. Girl parts, offered by bassist Nikki Monninger, are welcome respite; also, she's way cute. In the end, despite the band's valiant and respectable effort, Carnavas ends up too unfocused, too rambly, too boring to make any lasting impressions.

� Rachel Khong, October 2, 2006
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alljokingaside



Joined: 17 Feb 2010

PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rumdiary wrote:
Someone has beed reading Pitchfork.


I'm just glad he's reading.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8fb9QM2kNg
Knowledge is power!

Umm, has no one mentioned Beach House?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHbtR8uO81M
Animal Collective?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylrmS6ayKv8
the Black Keys?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNSzTN7rI5w
the Bieb?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pxChVDym4o

Actually, I'm not entirely sure the last three are "little known," but it doesn't really seem to matter at this point. Like the Pixies have been mentioned how many times?
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alljokingaside



Joined: 17 Feb 2010

PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

umm, ok, i get that you're probably seeing my moniker a bit too much (like who the fcuk is this alljokingaside character? what kind of moniker is that anyway? alljokingaside? who the hell's joking? posting's serious bidness. and hellooo, has he heard of spacing? i get it. i'd be irked too.) in too short a time, but this is actually a kinda cute, pretty fantastic vid, so i feel justified in the mult. messages. so there.

the Black Keys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpaPBCBjSVc
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rumdiary



Joined: 05 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Surfer Blood

Astro Coast


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fHmMvVZtEg&feature=relmfu

There's plenty to like about Astro Coast, the debut LP from the youthful Floridians in Surfer Blood, but first and foremost it's a great guitar album. This is a great guitar album in the way Weezer's Blue Album, Built to Spill's Keep It Like a Secret, or, more recently, Japandroids' Post-Nothing are: six-strings serve as a multiplier for hooks, making it every bit as easy and fun to air guitar with as it is to sing along to.
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Kurtz



Joined: 05 Jan 2007
Location: ples bilong me

PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fans of Explosions in the sky might like this,

This Will Destroy You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR-XXvRpnmg
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rumdiary



Joined: 05 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sleigh Bells

Treats


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhYYd5adVY4&feature=fvst

Once in a while a record comes along that makes you re-think loud: King of Rock; The Land of Rape and Honey; Nation of Millions; Super Ae; I Get Wet; Kesto. Setting aside the quality of the material-- there are classics here, along with albums I never listen to anymore-- these albums are notable for me because the first time I heard them, music just seemed bigger than it had before, like it took up more space and hit with more force and went further than once seemed possible.
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Kurtz



Joined: 05 Jan 2007
Location: ples bilong me

PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Having a party that needs a bit of omph? Chuck on this song, impress your friends with this catchy as hell French ditty

Mickey 3D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBwGaZDw-0g
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rumdiary



Joined: 05 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wrote:
Sleigh Bells

Treats


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhYYd5adVY4&feature=fvst

Once in a while a record comes along that makes you re-think loud: King of Rock; The Land of Rape and Honey; Nation of Millions; Super Ae; I Get Wet; Kesto. Setting aside the quality of the material-- there are classics here, along with albums I never listen to anymore-- these albums are notable for me because the first time I heard them, music just seemed bigger than it had before, like it took up more space and hit with more force and went further than once seemed possible.

This is easily the best unofficial video I have ever seen. Does anyone know what movie(s) these clips are from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1Uuq4F9X0&feature=player_embedded#at=153
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