What Are You Listening To?

http://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-2
False - Untitled
Nice Black Metal From 2011, pay what you want at bandcamp.  2 tracks. 12 minutes each. 

http://etxe.bandcamp.com/album/night-and-the-city-etxe04
Silo Halo - Night and the City (2012 release)

autre ne veut - anxiety

totally loving gorilla vs. bear for turning me onto this.

http://open.spotify.com/album/6oIjUe8jYSmhzZUzbjjiqt

The new Kanye.  He's a douche, but his music sure is good.

ive never listened to a kanye song willingly, except for that one golddigger thing, which was, like jay z big pimping good, and thats good.  but for some reason, his personal person ruins any chance of me wanting to take him seriously.  i hate the fact that it is true, but it sure still feels fine to be ok that it is true.

walkonby wrote:
ive never listened to a kanye song willingly, except for that one golddigger thing, which was, like jay z big pimping good, and thats good.  but for some reason, his personal person ruins any chance of me wanting to take him seriously.  i hate the fact that it is true, but it sure still feels fine to be ok that it is true.

I agree with Walky. Also, I did used to love dancing around plastic couches at Kingpin to "all falls down" prior to it burning down.

go listen to this, instead.  good times.

http://www.stereogum.com/1384682/fuck-buttons-the-red-wing-video/video/

how is it a band called fuck buttons . . . can make it in todays society, any society for that matter?  the music/video is very good; they have that going for them.

Angeline Morrison - Are You Ready Cat.

Perfect summertime soundtrack with it's light and breezy 60's samba influences

I have a question for those who were gushing over the Warm Soda record.  Do you approve of the mastering of it?  I dont know if maybe it is what they had on bandcamp, but basically I think it is almost not listenable.   The songs are very catchy.  But the mix balance is WAY off.  Horrible mastering. NO BOTTOM END/BASS at all.  ALL highs/Treble.  Really sounds like garbage.  I was wondering if maybe you all had the vinyl release or the itunes release and maybe one of those had a more balanced mix with more of the frequency spectrum present…

killsaly wrote:
I have a question for those who were gushing over the Warm Soda record.  Do you approve of the mastering of it?  I dont know if maybe it is what they had on bandcamp, but basically I think it is almost not listenable.   The songs are very catchy.  But the mix balance is WAY off.  Horrible mastering. NO BOTTOM END/BASS at all.  ALL highs/Treble.  Really sounds like garbage.  I was wondering if maybe you all had the vinyl release or the itunes release and maybe one of those had a more balanced mix with more of the frequency spectrum present…

I noticed that too and didn't buy it for that reason. It's the band's fault. Bandcamp only accepts WAV and FLAC uploads; all download formats are generated from those uploads. Other than file conversion, Bandcamp doesn't alter the uploads at all (at least AFAIK).

I didnt mean that bandcamp altered anything.  I mean they could submit a different master to bandcamp than they did to iTunes or physical release.  Technicolor Teeth did it with their last release (and they said the iTunes one was better).

And then maybe one of those was better than the Zero low end version i bought. 

killsaly wrote:
I didnt mean that bandcamp altered anything.  I mean they could submit a different master to bandcamp than they did to iTunes or physical release.  Technicolor Teeth did it with their last release (and they said the iTunes one was better).

And then maybe one of those was better than the Zero low end version i bought. 

Gotcha. Perhaps iTunes has additional criteria for the quality of submitted masters.

As for Warm Soda, it's as if they uploaded an RIAA-EQ'ed master (the actual signal cut into the vinyl master) instead of one not EQ'ed. But that would be weird since the RIAA signal is generated between the master playback and the cutting head (again, at least AFAIK).

the big lebowski

http://badfriendrecords.bandcamp.com/album/raw-feels
Raw Feels - Raw Feels
7 track release from 2012.  Recorded by John Fedowitz of Ceremony in his basement.  RIYL shoegaze, post-punk, dream pop… Semi local (from Fredericksburg, Virginia).

beetsnotbeats wrote:

killsaly wrote:
I didnt mean that bandcamp altered anything.  I mean they could submit a different master to bandcamp than they did to iTunes or physical release.  Technicolor Teeth did it with their last release (and they said the iTunes one was better).

And then maybe one of those was better than the Zero low end version i bought. 

Gotcha. Perhaps iTunes has additional criteria for the quality of submitted masters.

As for Warm Soda, it's as if they uploaded an RIAA-EQ'ed master (the actual signal cut into the vinyl master) instead of one not EQ'ed. But that would be weird since the RIAA signal is generated between the master playback and the cutting head (again, at least AFAIK).

or they uploaded a crappy version to Soundcloud on purpose - they don't want to give away the good version, only the bad mix for you freeloading cheapos.

sweetcell wrote:

beetsnotbeats wrote:

killsaly wrote:
I didnt mean that bandcamp altered anything.  I mean they could submit a different master to bandcamp than they did to iTunes or physical release.  Technicolor Teeth did it with their last release (and they said the iTunes one was better).

And then maybe one of those was better than the Zero low end version i bought. 

Gotcha. Perhaps iTunes has additional criteria for the quality of submitted masters.

As for Warm Soda, it's as if they uploaded an RIAA-EQ'ed master (the actual signal cut into the vinyl master) instead of one not EQ'ed. But that would be weird since the RIAA signal is generated between the master playback and the cutting head (again, at least AFAIK).

or they uploaded a crappy version to Soundcloud on purpose - they don't want to give away the good version, only the bad mix for you freeloading cheapos.

Not Soundcloud. Bandcamp, and they want $6.66 for it.

i like the fact that the first apple computer sold for 666.66

Devo - Pioneers who got scalped