I see a lot of people bashing new music, and if you base your assumptions off of top 40 radio, it deserves it. I can't stand the stuff they play on popular radio, but lately I've found myself stagnating by listening to the same albums over and over.

But I think there has to be good music out there, it's just not coinciding with what's popular at the moment. So I'd like to hear some opinions on good new bands and albums. Mostly looking for rock suggestions, but any genre will do.

~Jason

Tool....nothing pop about it..but I wish they (the radio stations) would play something besides 'Sober' and 'Schism'....

Audioslave.. Not really a Cornell fan ..but good musically...not just the bland ..two string power chords garbage...

the New Country.....not that bakersfield stuff from the 80s and 90's...but the recent stuff....theres more traditional Rock in it than Country...songs about good times...instead of that "tear in my beer " junk... :yes:

No tear in my beer? :cry: :beer: :D

Or "I'm Drinking My Beer and Rolling My Truck Over You" or "It's Been Lonely In The Saddle Since My Horse Died" or "Last Night My Pickup Truck Left Me"....

hehehehehee

I haven't heard much new to catch my ear, except a smattering of indie acts. Bigger Than A Breadbox http://www.biggerthanabreadbox.com/ is a great organ/guitar/drums rock trio worth checking out. They're out of New York, they kick butt. I'd bet they'd get a strong response from airplay if you could ever shove those worthless piece of crap corporate acts out of the way long enough...the world has had entirely too much disposable, inconsequential "music" promulagated by disposable, inconsequential suits. :yes:

TP

I love The Kings of Leon. I have seen them twice and will be going to see 'em again next Thursday.

Death From Above 1979 (DFA1979) is also pretty cool.

speaking of DFA, on the label of the same name, is LCD Soundsystem. really interesting and physically compelling dance/punk. also, just heard some Jaga Jazzist, and man! i'd been reading about them for a while and finally heard and i was just stunned.

so there's two.

I think the White Stripes are pretty decent. I don't listen to them much, though.

Well as far as the radio goes ... it's a sad sad wasteland. Except for the college stations and, I must admit, an oldies station on the AM dial here in the Chicagoland area ... but the over the last couple of years I've been pleasantly surprised by bands like:

Franz Ferdinand from Scottland .... if you like Talking Heads, Roxy Music & Gang of Four - you should dig F.F.

Riverboat Gamblers outta TX .... ass-kickin rock-n-roll! "Something to Crow About" is a killer album & their live performance is exhausting.

The Bellrays - not sure where they're from ... but Imagine Tina Turner just got fed up enough with Ike to beat the snot out of him and then she told Iggy Pop to take a hike and started fronting the Stooges.

Mooney Suzuki has been puttin out some fantastic records ... 70's flavored Rock-Boogie-make-you-wanna-get-naked kind of stuff.

and Chicago's own Phenoms put out a record - literally! - earlier this year that will toss you round your livin' room, make you beg for air then kick you around a little bit more. Wow! the music seems to leap off the disc (it's available on vinyl & cd) and it just go-go-go's. Garage rock, punk rock ... whatever - the album Smokes!

yikes ... I could go on & on - but I think that's good enough.

Enjoy!

Where to begin. Where to begin. Here's some of the recent releases that I've been spinning...

The Trews
Boy
The Killers
The Kaiser Chiefs
Snow Patrol
The Redwalls
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
British Sea Power
Queens of the Stoneage
Jet
Rheostatics
Scissor Sisters
The Thrills
The Zutons

This is all great stuff ranging from metal to pop. Some of it is getting some radio play on the alternative stations and others will likely never make it to radio. But anything on this list is far better than the dreck that makes it to top 40 IMO.

if you cannot find good new music... then either the ears or the mind needs opening up a bit :scratch2:

sure todays mastering techniques are killing dynamics... but I can honestly say as a musician that every week I'm finding something new to digest and enjoy.

just a couple recent 'new release' purchases I've made...

Rob Thomas
Jamiroquia
Brand New Heavies
Medeski, Martin and Wood
Lenny Kravitz

The Czars.
The Kills.
The Yeah,Yeah,Yeah's.
The Meat Eaters.
The Hives.
The International Noise Conspiracy.
The Turn-ons.
The Dears.
The Datsuns
The Come-ons.
The VonBondies.
The Hellacopters.
The Pernice Brothers.
The National.
The Detroit Cobras.
The Strokes.
The Donnas.
The Concretes.
The Magic Numbers.
The White Sripes.
The Shins.
The Ponys.
The Muffs.
The Fiery Furnaces.
The Handsome Family.

Elliott Smith
Soledad Brothers.
Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright.
Smog.
Stephen Malkmus.
Belle & Sebastian.
Lambchop.
Drive-By-Truckers.
Magnolia Electric Co.
Autolux.
Stereo Total.
Wilco.
Marah.
Alejandro Escovedo.
Asian Dub Foundation.
Josh Rouse.
Mercury Rev.
Bright Eyes.
Four Tet.
Tahiti 80.
Willard Grant Conspiracy.
Thea Gilmore.
Richmond Fontaine.
Sufjan Stevens.
Gorillaz.
Nerd.
Radio 4.
Selfish ####.
Tricky.
Havana Guns.
Jill Scott.
El Vez.
Kanye West.
Mando Diao.
Aimee Mann.
Micah P.Hinson.



and many more.

...and do not forget to listen to one beautiful lady called NEKO CASE. :yes:

Enjoy :thmbsp:
clint.

For those of you who love :banana: Rock'n'Roll :

_ The Playmates _ Love is You.
_ The Frantic V _ She lied.
_ Hock Mock Jackson _ Oh! Lord.
_ The Who _ Run run run.
_ The Cybermen _ Snaked Eyed Suzie.
_ The Mocker Monkeys _ SOS Mademoiselle.
_ Music Machine _ Masculine Instuition.
_ Curlee Wurlee _ Born to do dish.
_ The Silencers _ Policeman.
_ Les Sparks _ Rien n'a d'Importance.
_ Dr.Specks And The Optical Illusion _Trying to mess my mind.
_ The Yum Yums _ Girls like that.
_ Refused _ Refused Party Program.
_ Slow Slushy Boys _ Slush puppy.
_ The Tornados _ Stingray.
_ Jet Harris _ Diamonds.
_ The ( International) Noise Conspiracy _ A new language.
_ Tokyo Sex Destruction _ Breack-out Town.
_ Trojans _ Brother can you spare a Pound.
_ Outcasts _ Self conscious over you.
_ The Masonics _ Ooh Poo Pah Doo.
_ The Briefs _ Sex Objects.
_ The Strollers _ Let me come on in.

Please,Please,Please,Please,Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease try to get this singles and than tell me something......... :naughty:

http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44771

Enjoy :thmbsp:

clint.

Clint has the right idea,also might add:

Damian Jurado
Deadman
Robert Earl Keen
Jesse Sykes
Cottonhead
Jolie Holland


Alan

ForeverAutumn, I gotta second that vote for The Trews. House of Ill Fame is my most-spun album of 2004. Catchy as hell, but damn near impossible to locate in the States. I had to get mine through my company's affiliation with the Canadian Inependent Music Awards (at which the Trews won Best Canadian Rock Band).

If you can find a copy, buy it!

-Ben

Hey Alan,
I'm a big fan of Damian Jurado. :yes:
The others i do not no, but i'm gonna find out.

Gracias. :thmbsp:
Alvaro.

ForeverAutumn, I gotta second that vote for The Trews. House of Ill Fame is my most-spun album of 2004. Catchy as hell, but damn near impossible to locate in the States. I had to get mine through my company's affiliation with the Canadian Inependent Music Awards (at which the Trews won Best Canadian Rock Band).

If you can find a copy, buy it!

-Ben

Hi Ben,
Even better....if you get the chance to see them live, do it! They really rock in a live performance!

I'm so glad to find another Trews fan! Outside of Canada that is. I've been giving them quite a push to my American friends but they just aren't catching on. The difficulty in finding the CD may be a big part of that.

FYI. They have a new CD being released on Aug. 16. I saw them live (for the 2nd time) in July and they played a few songs off of the new disk. It's sounding good!

They're starting to get some much better exposure these days. They've been signed to open several shows for Robert Plant. The Rolling Stones are playing a small club in Toronto tonight as part of their tour rehearsal, and guess who's opening for the Stones tonight? Yep. The Trews.

If their second disk is as good as their first, I think that you Americans will be hearing more of them as the new disk gets promoted to a wider audience.

Thanks for helping to spread the word about my favourite Canadian band. :thmbsp:

Hey ForeverAutumn,

what about another Canadian band , The Dears ....?! :naughty:

clint.

Speaking of Canadian bands, Wolf Parade will be releasing thier first full length album at the end of September. They've already gained quite a reputation for themselves based on a few ep's that they've released. The new album is produced by Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse; another good bad worth mentioning.

I also suggest checking out The Sea and Cake as well as Sam Prekop. Jazzy sounds from Chicago. You can't go wrong, however I prefer the Sea and Cake's more recent releases.

Rich

Hey ForeverAutumn,

what about another Canadian band , The Dears ....?! :naughty:

clint.

Hey Clint. I've heard of The Dears, but I can't say that I've actually heard them. I'll check them out though.

Cheers!

P.S. I just visited their website. Probably the worst looking site that I've ever been on. I'd be embarrassed if I were them. :thumbsdn:

Hey ForeverAutumn,

Maybe you didn't notice but :" The Dears this site is under construction " :yes:

" Quote by : The Dears site."

clint. :thmbsp:

P.S. ...their site is under construction but not their music. :naughty:

Bright Eyes ~ I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Al Kooper ~ Black Coffee
Beck ~ Guero
Blue Tofu
Richard Thompson ~ The Old Kit Bag

All rock-n-roll in some way, all from 2005...

Mary Timony - Ex Hex
Medications - All Your Favorite People In One Place
System of a Down - Mezmerize
Gorrillaz - Demon Days
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Billy Corgan - FutureEmbrace

Some of the better albums from this decade...

Tool - Lateralus
Mary Timony - Mountains
King Crimson - The Power to Believe
System of a Down - Toxicity
The Cure - Bloodflowers
Steely Dan - Everything Must Go
Living Colour - Collideoscope
Weezer - Maladroit
311 - Live in New Orleans DVD
Dream Theater - Live at Budukan DVD

I could go on... I used to feel the same way about new music, but once you plug into what's going on underneath the pop mainstream, I have more albums to listen to than I have time to listen... a wonderful problem to have!

_ The Playmates _ Love is You.
_ The Frantic V _ She lied.
_ Hock Mock Jackson _ Oh! Lord.
_ The Who _ Run run run.
_ The Cybermen _ Snaked Eyed Suzie.
_ The Mocker Monkeys _ SOS Mademoiselle.
_ Music Machine _ Masculine Instuition.
_ Curlee Wurlee _ Born to do dish.
_ The Silencers _ Policeman.
_ Les Sparks _ Rien n'a d'Importance.
_ Dr.Specks And The Optical Illusion _Trying to mess my mind.
_ The Yum Yums _ Girls like that.
_ Refused _ Refused Party Program.
_ Slow Slushy Boys _ Slush puppy.
_ The Tornados _ Stingray.
_ Jet Harris _ Diamonds.
_ The ( International) Noise Conspiracy _ A new language.
_ Tokyo Sex Destruction _ Breack-out Town.
_ Trojans _ Brother can you spare a Pound.
_ Outcasts _ Self conscious over you.
_ The Masonics _ Ooh Poo Pah Doo.
_ The Briefs _ Sex Objects.
_ The Strollers _ Let me come on in.

Wow, can you burn me that compilation disc?

Sorry mate,
please ask me this questions in my thread. :yes:
http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44771

Keep Rockin' :thmbsp:

clint.

_Mando Diao.
_The Hives.

enjoy
clint.

The Muffs are still around? I haven't heard them in a decade or so.

Some great suggestions so far. I've thought of a few more.

Air
Frank Black & The Catholics
Chromeo
Country Teasers
The Faint

Speaking of Chicago area acts, I recommend Mahjongg.

I dont buy alot of new music, but here is a couple id suggest:

Son Volt - Okemah and the Melody of Riot (great rocking album) or any previous releases, also they release on vinyl via the website jayfarrar.net

Wilco- A ghost is born, fantastic as well


my 0.002
-j

I was poking around the local music scene listings and found a young new to me group I have got to go see. There are a few full clips here, if you liked Blue Cheer you may like these guys. I guess they have an EP out.

Parchman Farm (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=21098315&Mytoken=20050819113735)

Carl

Evidently this blues guy has been playing at a bar a couple miles from my house and I have been missing out. That won't happen again. :yes:
clip and a radio show:

Steve Freund (http://home.comcast.net/~jlemko/steve/index2.htm)

Carl

I was poking around the local music scene listings and found a young new to me group I have got to go see. There are a few full clips here, if you liked Blue Cheer you may like these guys. I guess they have an EP out.

Parchman Farm (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=21098315&Mytoken=20050819113735)

Carl

Beautiful sounds. :yes:
The prodution reminds me a bit the first Hendrix records,wich is good.
Visceral Psychedelic Garage Rock'nRoll.
Great chops.
Great vocals.
Yes, they are good. :thmbsp:

Gracias.
clint.

Evidently this blues guy has been playing at a bar a couple miles from my house and I have been missing out. That won't happen again. :yes:
clip and a radio show:

Steve Freund (http://home.comcast.net/~jlemko/steve/index2.htm)

Carl

Smells a lot like Chicago blues.Direct,simple and with a lot of soul.
Hey Carl this guy plays, man.
From Spain i thank you ,man. :thmbsp:

clint.

Here are just a few, mostly Texas rock 'n blues:

www.haddensayers.com
www.mightyorq.com
www.tonyvegaband.com

And for a little hard/post-bop organ, try www.hankmarr.com. Hank Marr passed away just last year, but left some great music behind. One of the great B-3 players that nobody seems to have ever heard of!

Given a little more time, I could remember about a zillion more. Well, enjoy these for now anyway!

Nick Luca Trio aka LUCA ~ Little Town
great stuff outta AZ, recorded at the famous Wavelab Studios

The new "stuff" started passing me by around 2000-2001. It was either way too damn much hip-hop, too poppy, or if it was metal, every lead singer sounded like a drill sergeant (Scott Stapp, anyone?). Plus, as my father always said, your tastes change (for pretty much everything; women, booze, music, food, etc.) as you get older, so now I'm leaning towards the more laid back stuff. My pick for my "favorite" band of this decade would be Coldplay (X&Y to me, is weaker than the first two), and I really like Keane. The Keane cd sounds fantastic on the right gear; through my Grado headphones I hear stuff I never heard listening in my car. Fair warning; bands like this are a little melancholy, but still worth a listen.

Ana da Silva :The Lighthouse. :thmbsp:
This is a magic record from the singer of The Raincoats, Ana da Silva. The Raincoats always collaborated on ideas and songs -- and played guitars! With this album, The Lighthouse, Ana da Silva wanted to do something different -- some-thing she hadn't done before. She decided to buy a small digital instrument which has lots of sounds, a mini keyboard, and a sequencer (you can programme all the notes and beats into its memory). All of the album, except 'Modinha', was recorded with this instrument and her voice onto an eight track digital recorder. Sometimes this was all very overwhelming, but at least it's all as she wants it to be, having written, played, recorded and mixed the whole album herself. For her, making The Lighthouse was a really challenging and stimulating experience -- she wants the songs to express feelings and to create worlds in which the listener can roam in their own particular way.
A dreammy electro-folk magical vinyl or cd. :thmbsp:

CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)

Enjoy
clint

Bif Naked has a new CD out, "Superbeautifulmonster". She has a very good voice and actually sings, which seems to be unusual for modern metal music. :thmbsp:

Umphrey's Magee ( sp?)
heard the first time on The Music Never Stops a radio show on KPFK (Pacifica)
Knocked me out with the complexity of comp and articulation of instruments.
Might classify them as prog rock, but IMO just a tight band that plays some 15 min songs.
I believe they are on a compilation known as "The String Cheese Incident" or maybe that's another band and they were guests...IDK.

...and do not forget to listen to one beautiful lady called NEKO CASE. :yes:
Enjoy :thmbsp:
clint.


Hell yeah. Been listening to her since she released THE VIRGINIAN and I keep wondering why she doesn't have a bigger profile than she currently has? :scratch2:

Also don't forget Caitlin Cary. The fiddler, ex-of Whiskeytown. Whilst Ryan Adams continues to throw his career down the drain, Caitlin Cary just gets better and better. Listen to Caitling Cary & Thad Cockerell - Begonias for what I mean.

Umphrey's Magee ( sp?)
Umphrey's McGee.
www.umphreys.com
Yes, they are great!

Try this for a heckuva lot of music that doesn't suck:

http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php

Happy *legal* downloading and listening!

Regina Spektor. :thmbsp:

24 year old,Russian born,New York-bred piano virtuoso and maybe the freshest thing to burst out of the Bronx since Laura Nyro.Her debut proper,Soviet Kitsch, is a compeling collection of piano-pop with the vulnerable intensity of Joni Mitchell's Blue.
Before Soviet Kitsch,she made "11:11" and "Songs",both self-realesed.

clint.

No,they are not from Britain.But,their sound are very British.
The Shins an incredible four piece band,from Albuquerque , New Mexico :yes: and,they play Power Pop. :naughty:
...and their latest album " Chutes Too Narrow " is full of beautiful melodies.
If you like The Beatles and Echo and The Bunnymen....
The Shins.

clint.

No,they are not from Britain.But,their sound are very British.
The Shins an incredible four piece band,from Albuquerque , New Mexico :yes: and,they play Power Pop. :naughty:
...and their latest album " Chutes Too Narrow " is full of beautiful melodies.
If you like The Beatles and Echo and The Bunnymen....
The Shins.

clint.


Let's not forget the comparisons that the Shins got to the Beach Boys and Simon and Garfunkel due to their first album, 'Oh, Inverted World.'

Of course even with the similarities to other great bands, the Shins are still original, and very good. They're one of the greatest bands of modern times if you ask me.

Clint: Have you heard any of their earlier stuff under the name of Flake or Flake Music? The album, 'When You Land Here, It's Time to Return' is one of my favourites.

Rich

Regina Spektor. :thmbsp:

24 year old,Russian born,New York-bred piano virtuoso and maybe the freshest thing to burst out of the Bronx since Laura Nyro.Her debut proper,Soviet Kitsch, is a compeling collection of piano-pop with the vulnerable intensity of Joni Mitchell's Blue.
Before Soviet Kitsch,she made "11:11" and "Songs",both self-realesed.

clint.

My wife and I saw her open for The Strokes and Kings of Leon back in 2003. I bought Soviet Kitsch way back then! I would put her in the Tori Amos school of singer/songwriters...and that is a BIG compliment!

Let's not forget the comparisons that the Shins got to the Beach Boys and Simon and Garfunkel due to their first album, 'Oh, Inverted World.'

Of course even with the similarities to other great bands, the Shins are still original, and very good. They're one of the greatest bands of modern times if you ask me.

Clint: Have you heard any of their earlier stuff under the name of Flake or Flake Music? The album, 'When You Land Here, It's Time to Return' is one of my favourites.

Rich

Hey Rich,
No i haven't heard any of their earlier stuff.But i'm gonna find out. :yes:
Gracias. :thmbsp:
Since you are from Canada,do you know any music from The Dears ?
Their last album "No Cities Left" is simply outstanding.They have a lot of fans in Europe. :)

Adios.
clint.

Hey Rich,
No i haven't heard any of their earlier stuff.But i'm gonna find out. :yes:
Gracias. :thmbsp:
Since you are from Canada,do you know any music from The Dears ?
Their last album "No Cities Left" is simply outstanding.They have a lot of fans in Europe. :)

Adios.
clint.


Clint:

I actually saw the Dears play a few times a couple of years back. They put on a pretty good show. I haven't listened to anything that they've put out since those days. I'll check out the album you recommended.

The album I've been listening to the most lately is one by a band called 'Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.' Here (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/c/clap-your-hands-say-yeah/clap-your-hands-say-yeah.shtml) is a review of the album.

Rich

As far as new rock goes...its too bad the radio around here anyway doesn't spin any 'Porcupine Tree'...

I have been spinning them lately...also something that progger turned me onto a week or two ago...called 'Hidria Spacefolk'.. which could be comparable to early Pink Floyd back in the Syd Barrett days...but more musical and not relying on sound effects...just a good ole Jam Band!....

For some sit back and just listen music...I would recommond either of these bands :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: know what i'm sayin'!!... :D

Coldplay

Take a minute or two to check this guy out. He has audio files and the money goes to him. I have heard about 15 of his songs on our local public radio. I would call him a Country, folk artist with a Zappa sense of humor and the heart of Johnny Cash. Some of his songs will break your heart and others make you laugh out loud. You can't go wrong if you like twangy guitars and clever lyrics. :thmbsp:

Plus he's an ex-pro boxer that fought Reberto Duran on TV years ago, went 6 rounds in 1998 ! LOL !


http://www.paulthorn.com/index.shtml

Paul Thorne fought Reberto Duran in 1988 not '98