What Are You Listening To?

Mac Demarco live session at CKUA

includes new stuff.

https://soundcloud.com/ckuaradio/mac-demarco-cantoo-live-at

Unsanity wrote:
Jeeze that cover really does look a lot like Boris's "Pink" cover haha. But yeah its a great album. You should go see them Walkie, they're playing in Springfield at Empire (Jaxx) in February. Another really cool band called Intronaut is on the bill as well.

thanks for the heads up.  Might check this out.

chaz wrote:

Unsanity wrote:
Jeeze that cover really does look a lot like Boris's "Pink" cover haha. But yeah its a great album. You should go see them Walkie, they're playing in Springfield at Empire (Jaxx) in February. Another really cool band called Intronaut is on the bill as well.

thanks for the heads up.  Might check this out.

No problem dude.

I just scored around 120 vintage psychedelic LPs. I got some Love, Eric Burden & The Animals, Atomic Rooster, Holy Modal Rounders, Soft Machine and a bunch of really obscure awesome things like KAK. I will be hunkering down, cleaning and listening to these for weeks. I'm listening to some band on Uni records called Giant Crab currently.

i just watched this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC4374TkNYo

god, this band kicks major ass, and is slowly becoming one of new favs!  but the people in the audience, scare me.

Deafheaven were pretty good when I saw them open for Alcest some time ago, but I just cant listen to Sunbather on repeat.  I bought it and gave it a couple spins, but it ended up not even being one of my top 40 favorite albums of last year (though it probably would have ranked in the 41 - 50 range).  That album seemed to be the most divisive release of 2013 for my friends on Facebook.  People either clowned on it and thought the band was a joke; or sang its praises like it was the second coming.  I am one of the people who fall in the middle of that spectrum.

While checking out the new Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings jam, be sure to feast your ears on the new
I'm Tryin' by DeRobert & The Half-Truths.  Seriously hard hitting Memphis soul


http://music.gedsoulrecords.com/album/im-tryin

walkonby wrote:
i just watched this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC4374TkNYo

god, this band kicks major ass, and is slowly becoming one of new favs!  but the people in the audience, scare me.

boner

Arguably the best thing to happen to the internet since it became a thing just happened. http://felakuti.bandcamp.com/album/international-thief-thief-1980

azaghal1981 wrote:
Arguably the best thing to happen to the internet since it became a thing just happened. http://felakuti.bandcamp.com/album/international-thief-thief-1980

wow - looks like they've got his entire catalog on the main page - my 1st dc show was fela @ the Kilimanjaro in adams morgan - thanks for that!

Raffi

dyecraig wrote:

azaghal1981 wrote:
Arguably the best thing to happen to the internet since it became a thing just happened. http://felakuti.bandcamp.com/album/international-thief-thief-1980

wow - looks like they've got his entire catalog on the main page - my 1st dc show was fela @ the Kilimanjaro in adams morgan - thanks for that!

I wonder who's profiting off these. Hopefully his family but it doesn't say anywhere which is a little sketch. I've been binge listening all day. Stuff I haven't heard in years. Will continue for the foreseeable future.

Bandcamp purchases for this week:
Ramesh - the King
Pile - Dripping
the courtneys - Lost Boys (single)
Party Trash - Melt

sweetcell wrote:
Raffi

we've been listening to raffi..we listen to so much children's music its crazy…sometimes i feel my head may explode..4 of the 5 cds in the upstairs cd discchanger are children's at this point…

I have Raffi's first on LP…what amazed me was to see that Daniel Lanois plays guitar on it!!!

i found the one with baby beluga a few weeks ago…which was cool cause a few months back at my kids school they were reading the story or singing the song or both..unclear… so i promised my kid i'd get it..just took a while

children's music is a fascinating genre.. there is children's music that isn't really children's music ..more like adult music designed to appeal to kids……i'm thinking for example jerry garcia's not for kids only…but then there are some amazing children's music performers.. Ella Jenkins comes to mind…

i also really like local musician barry louis polisar… very funny stuff.. a bit too sophisticated for my kids i'm afraid…but i still put it on

i listen to my own stuff, honestly, mainly in the basement at night.. or in the car..

azaghal1981 wrote:

dyecraig wrote:

azaghal1981 wrote:
Arguably the best thing to happen to the internet since it became a thing just happened. http://felakuti.bandcamp.com/album/international-thief-thief-1980

wow - looks like they've got his entire catalog on the main page - my 1st dc show was fela @ the Kilimanjaro in adams morgan - thanks for that!

I wonder who's profiting off these. Hopefully his family but it doesn't say anywhere which is a little sketch. I've been binge listening all day. Stuff I haven't heard in years. Will continue for the foreseeable future.

I just cant binge Fela… its all rather samey… i can listen to an album maybe at a time but binge? impossible..

i like Fela..i think he's great.. i've had moments where i've been like "WOW!" when i listen to him..but honestly there's many other international performers i prefer…  fela's music is very funky for sure but the lyrics.. just chanting the same shit over and over again for 10 minutes gets old… actually fela's music in general is fairly repetitive……

i mean lets talk fela.

Haha you're talking to someone who listens to a ton of drone and minimalism regularly. So repetition doesn't bother me. Plus, there are enough subtle changes in the music/lyrics in any given piece to keep a listener's attention.

azaghal1981 wrote:
Haha you're talking to someone who listens to a ton of drone and minimalism regularly. So repetition doesn't bother me. Plus, there are enough subtle changes in the music/lyrics in any given piece to keep a listener's attention.

lyrics?

fela shouting a few anti-colonialism slogans over and over? very simple long-ago discredited stuff.. i mean do you really get into an anti ITT song? Is ITT even around still? the problems with nigeria , i hope we can all agree on now, isn't ITT or even the military dictator/sham democratic ruler dujour (the years go by but all that changes is the name) but the Nigerian people…people never seem to point the finger at themselves..its always the colonial rulers or the few bad apples that come from mars to take over their country against their will or some evil capitalists…its systemic/cultural….the way people relate to each other/get along/do business/the words they use to speak to each other..and I'm not singling out Nigeria or even Africa..i would make the same points with respect to the Palestinians or the Argentines..

and as much as he gets compared to james brown i don't find the music reaches the highs that the jbs do say on love power peace or any of their long jams… sure he had tony allen but did he have bootsy/wesley/pee wee/jabbo/cheese/maceo/byrd on and on and on, etc etc.?.um no.

fela has sort of become the hipsters bible but i doubt many actually even listen to his music…its more like "look, some cool music that one can actually listen to from Africa!"

Speedy Ortiz and Courtney Barnett.

Also the new Cloud Nothings song.  On repeat.

st vincents first song of her new ep.  it sounds so much like siouxsie and the banshees.  she must be pissed about that.