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Gavin Guss, whose second album On High has become a favourite here at Shindig! Towers, has kindly offered us exclusive presentation of his new video, the darkly humorous ‘Avenue A’.

Our very own Andy Morten wrote of the song and album, “quietly confident tunesmithery hinged around piano and drums and Guss’ appealing multi-tracked vocals."

Laura Marling is a UK indie folk star in the ascendant whose striking melodies and wise-beyond-her-years vocals could melt even the iciest of hearts. The 18-year-old small town girl sings about love, lust and romance, the futility of religion, self-loathing and human psychology. Each one of her songs is a mini-blast of prime poetry, gorgeous melody and sublime songwomanship.

Fans of the wispy tunestrel will be pleased to hear that she hasn't strayed far from her familiar stomping grounds of melodious folk-rockism and tales of love and yearning, the focus (in fine Seventies style) fixing on the singer's emotional trials and torments.

After a brilliant afternoon working with KT Tunstall, on an extremely top secret project, heehee(I’ll tell you in March). I’m sat here with her album “Tiger Suit” on full blast thinking of old times and trying to learn all the lyrics to glamour puss!!!! This rockstrel is not only amaaaaaaaaaaazing…..This post tbc’d in March…xxxx Karen

the tracks on here are, without exception, superlative (and slightly terrifying) slabs of forceful, expressive, rocksmithery

And So What punkstrel Pink is also doing her own live thang.

My source getting the party started on the Funhouse tour revealed: "Pink is really angry at the idea of elephants being carted around on tour, especially with the loud music, lights and craziness that generally ensues on a tour of any kind.

"But she's waiting to see if the rumour about using animals is true and what Britney will be doing with the animals before judging."

Ironically Pink used an elephant herself in one of her own early videos but it was something she's always regretted.

No, we're not speaking of the whiskey-rotted, cowboy-hatted, delusional Americana of a Townes Van Zandt wannabe, nor the wasted Cocaine California decadence of the Jackson Browne-Eagles brood, nor the weepy, terminally depressed Nick Drake-wish-upon-a-Pink Moon-songstrelsy either.

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The Messenger by Johnny Marr, cracking album on first listen. Some great guitarsmithery. Would recommend highly. #johnnymarr

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Fusing ambient soundscapes with global beatsmithery and dubbed-out audio excursions, Masonik utilise disparate instrumentation to meld a soundworld that is truly immersive and exploratory,

Milo, the Philosoraptor. Rap Game Kwame Appiah. Elrond Hubbard, your idiot vagabond brother. He’s not a rapper, he’s a rapsmith. If you can’t discern the difference, you’re thinking too hard.

"It's an insider's celebration of the form, studded with straight-to-camera rhymesmithery from its best practitioners" - DAILY TELEGRAPH.

jesus

that's by tim robey who is not a terrible writer insofar as i am aware, his defence is probably that he is a film critic by trade

Bona has already proven his value to others by lending his bassmanship to an array of artists ranging from Bobby McFerrin (whose scat-informed vocal style is not unlike Bona's) to Paul Simon, Chick Corea, and Queen Latifah.

The Monochrome Set’s dry wit and 1960s pop sensibilities might not have made them fashionable back in the decidedly dour late 1970s, but with the patronage of John Peel and some fine tunemongery, for a while they were one of the biggest “indie” bands in the country.

With an "Ape Shit" D -Boy swag, stupendous lyrical prose and word smithmanship, natural charisma, and an exceptional ability to deliver high quality records with an R&B influence as well as infectious club bangers, and certified street anthems, this new contender may at first glance leave you somewhat baffled.

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Lyrically, Pallot often gets political (particularly on her biggest hit, “Everybody’s Gone To War” and 2009′s beautiful Kate Bush-reminiscent ballad, “English“) but for this special album-launch evening, politics were left behind and, instead, we got a selection of more personal songs, including “Grace” (which the songsmithstress wrote the night before she gave birth to her son, Wolfie, last year) and “If I Lost You Now” (apparently written the day after Wolfie was born).

Wolfie songSmithstress

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It’s been a busy year in the music industry, though sadly it seems labels are putting the majority of their efforts into thoughtless, genre-reversing pop and throwaway, forgettable dance. On the plus side, it means we’ve had a veritable diarrhoea smorgasbord to wade through and make our selections of musical cuntery from, so behold, 2009’s worst singles...

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considering a thread of forgetable dance

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The other day when the death occurred of Percy Grainger—whom, your Lordships may recall, wrote Country Gardens and Handel in the Strand—one of the obituary notices criticised him for being not really a composer, but only a tunesmith. May I remind the author of that obituary notice that Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert all wrote a large number of thundering good tunes!

In this post-world world of ours, it is refreshing to see somebody still cares about good old-fashioned songsmithery.

Tame and Quiet is a trio of giants who harness the power of a million wild, fire-snorting stallions into concise blasts of raw, clanging riffage, epically sweet melodies, and crashing drumsmithery.

ladies and gentlemen, Lauren Laverne

I hadn't given ironic aesthetics a lot of thought since 2003, when the Darkness released their debut album Permission to Land in a blizzard of highlights, catsuits and Van Halenesque axe-smithery and it seemed briefly important whether they actually meant it.

Nearly two decades since his international breakthrough, Per Gessle is still an underrated tunesmith, and En Handig Man shows him to his best advantage.

there are fuckloads of underrated tunesmiths apparently. the ones that get me are the dudes that write it on forums, all casual like

yeah finding vbb people or commenbox mavens trying to write like phil mcnulty or dave simpson lauren laverne is harsh

Andrew Farrell (afarrell) wrote this on thread World in Motion vs Three Lions on board I Love Music on Mar 27, 2003

When it's good populist pop-music (and indeed tunesmithery), no-one can beat an on-form Ian Broudie. His miserabilism also gives it a fantastic hook-em-in factor for people who hate sports: it's the only sports song I've ever heard which is realistic about what "we" are hoping in the face of. "Thirty years of hurt" in a football song!
In a football song, generally the home of "We're better than you, and you know it". Well, we're not better than you, but we could be.
Clearly, the only thing that would make Three Lions better would be if Johnny Cash covered it.

Zurkownian Blogsmithery. By the extraordinary Derek Woods. Watch out everyone!

top pop vocalists polishing their tunesmanship in&around winchmore hill-might that look something like this pic.twitter.com/rAiaTg38Yg.

For all its in-your-face melodramatics and its to-your-gut tunesmanship, the L.A. Opera's take on Puccini's "Tosca" has never yet raised the work

The thunderous riffery, for instance, on the groove-driven stomp of "I Said It" provides a solid foundation for their patented, aggressive style, while Soriano's guttural roar on the fervent "That Day" overwhelms the senses with a heavy dose of dynamics and urgency.

Great lyrics, wonderful tunes-womanship, top-notch collaborations, and far too wonderful to be deemed a diamond in the rough.

Two channels of intercontinental beatsmanship by DJs representing Austin (ACL channel) and parts unknown (OCL).

blends a vintage-soul sound with state-of-the-art beatsmanship

low bassline workouts from 'Hot get Hotter' and 'Jah Glory' to frigged up break beatery from 'The Return of Sleng', 'Dub of the Sphinx', 'Hustlers Choice',

On past album covers, Dumfries folk troubadress Emily Smith resembles Kate McGarrigle, Celine Dion and Suzanne Vega. On her latest album sleeve, she's turned into Dido. See, like all talented folkies, Smith is a shapeshifter. On her delightful fifth album she goes from McGarrigle to the aforementioned dinner-party-botherer in a few bars. The title track is a countrified number with warm pan pipes and violins, setting the Celtic agenda. Guest fiddler Stuart Duncan provides exemplary work on the uplifting love song 'Take You Home', a heart-shattering tune with the weepy refrain: “Put your hand in mine love, and I will take you home.” Smith is a scholar of the folk genre: the emotion, wit, drama and passion are tools at her command. Regard the timeless piano ballad 'Dreams and Lullabies,' with its tingling triangles and bass fluming along a moonlit plateau, Richard Thompson's smoky lament 'Waltzing's For Dreamers,' or Alan Doherty's flute on the gorgeous 'Sweet Lover of Mine' for examples of knockout beauty. 'Still We Dance On' brings the pathos, 'Butterfly' the ceilidh ruckus, and 'Lord Donald' the flair for interpretation. Ending on the a cappella 'What a Voice,' this is a sublime (if a wee bit long) modern folk record

aforementioned dinner-party-botherer

"DRUMNBASSERY", a playlist created by optikalblitz.

There are at least five instances of horrific syntaxmanglery in that review, which is why I posted it in its entirety.

someone on etsy should start making and selling troubadresses.

<3 this thread

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Welcome to the Tunesmith's Forge

The new release Dope Dogs proffers a heady cocktail of roiling rhythms, Hendrixian fretmanship and wild-eyed conspiracy-laced rantings, taking Clinton's peculiar fascination with the four-legged creatures to its illogical extreme. This is a concept album rife with waggish tales.

Andy was awarded Acoustic Guitar Magazines esteemed worldwide silver medal award for his fingerstyle approach. But most fans first exposure to Andy’s guitartistry has been through his youtube presence; the Topeka Kansas native’s 100 million cumulative youtube views puts him in the top 3 most viewed subjects on the site’s storied 7-year history. Listen

Look styling while you rock on your guitar with this Guitartisan Trucker Hat!

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Join us at Salt hill Pub in Lebanon for another New Year's Eve party to remember featuring great food, tons of fun, and an all-night dance party featuring SOUL LINE. Something of an Upper Valley "supergroup," Soul Line is made up of several current or former members of Dr. Burma and Junk in the Trunk, and fronted by none other than journeyman guitarsmith Will Michaels.

Ville Valovirta is the provisor of impossibly creative, yet rock-solid bassmanship.

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"purveyors of a brand of indie they call post-pop and I call, simply, pop, if a strain euphorically indebted to the early 80′s glory days of literate, casually ornate tunesmithery as practiced by writers with names like Paddy and Roddy and Edwyn and even Lloyd, and if that didn’t make you sit up and take notice then you’re reading the wrong review."

Republic of Two – Purveyors of gentle, guitar-based indie

The Cribs tore through a classic energy induced set at The Roxy this past Monday, with new fourth member, legendary guitarsmith Johnny Marr.

Secret History is successor to My Favorite, I believe, led by guy who just wrote a thing in Maura Magazine.

Bollywood has filched tunes from the West for as long as I can remember - check out rip-offs from Chuck Berry, The Beatles, swing jazz and vapid disco for many home-grown hit tunes since the 1950s. But Rahman is not your archetypal tune ripper; he is, instead, an intrepid fusion tunesmith.

This is more Laurabartonry than I can take right now.

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Tippett himself is a classically trained musician who came to jazz via Mingus, George Russell, Coltrane, and Pharoah Sanders, but his compositional element also owes to composers such as Darius Milhaud, Vaughan Williams, and Frederick Delius. His front-line group contains the Soft Machine's Elton Dean, plus Nick Evans and Marc Charig, while his rhythm section contains drummer Alan Jackson and bassist Jeff Clyne -- whose bowing sensibilities are not only highly developed but provocative as well. All eight tracks were composed and arranged by Tippett, but his penchant for writing for a particular group of musicians is very keen here: check the Charig solo in I Wish There Was Nowhere, Tippett's own solo in Violence, and the saxophonistry of Dean in Stately Dance for Miss Primm and both versions of This Evening Was Like Last Year.

Peter Wolf Crier is the product of songwriter Peter Pisano and drummer/engineer/soundscapesmith Brian Moen. "Crutch & Cane," snuck up on me late in the year, but its low-fi aesthetic and catchy melody made a lasting impression.

A Touch of Madness Victorian Quaffery

We are a well established restaurant situated in the heart of bohemian Observatory. This house was completed in the early 1900's so we felt it only fitting that, a century later, we return it to it's former glory and present a Victorian Quaffery.

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What’s better than one kick-ass show at The Monkey House? Two kick-ass shows at The Monkey House! Duh. This weekend, the enterprising lads from Bear Cub Productions have lined up a thrilling two-fer of aural pleasures to slake anyone’s thirst for midwinter rock-foolery.

Spunge have opened up a new avenue in their well-established sound with new material touching on a more serious note, although never served up without an equal helping of ska-punk foolery. Over the years the band have ironed out their songs to live perfection, whilst the soundman deserves a medal or a stiff drink for keeping the sound faithful and clear throughout the night.

After successful campaigns through St Kilda, Northcote and the outer colonies, and a successful return to Fitzroy, the rock gigantonaught Jamo Knoxon takes aim at Revolver for some seriously dangerous rockfoolery. Joined by modern rockers Innerspace, fresh from their album launch, and an intimate solo set from Hew Joseph. Warning: may contain traces of rock. $10 on the door from 8.30pm.

Spunge's live perfection stems from their meticulously planned setlists

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The only complaint I have with this album is the noise at the end of "23 beats off', but this might not be a bad thing if you have the taste for Sonic Youth type guitarfoolery. Still, the lyrics make the choice of music appropriate, since the song is about the noise the general public makes about people with the HIV virus.

My favourite music has been undergound/indie/punk rock for the last decade so I'm the last person who would enjoy sitting through hours of guitar solos - however I think the performance in this broadcast was pretty well balanced, only briefly veering towards unnecessary plankspankery.

that's from a discussion on whathifi.com about Cream live at the Albert Hall

DJ Mencap, your display name is a reference to the shiba snow puppy gif and to Screaming Lord Sutch- is it also meant to be a reference to the pop singer Lorde (lord)?

Precision beer spraying is all about timing ....

I mean, because people have lots of opinions about Lorde, I wasn't sure if that was meant to be part of the joke.

ensions between the city's teenaged "hooligans" and everyone else who's fed up with the invincible aura of juvenescence boiled over in the West Village yesterday, when the 68-year-old owner of Carmine St. Guitars confronted a group of rowdy kids. "They were just causing problems," guitarmonger Dennis Guglielmo told the Daily News. "They think they can come down to the Village and intimidate people." As seen in these breathtaking photos (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/chair-man-block-article-1.1150908?localLinksEnabled=false), Guglielmo approached one teen and brandished the preferred weapon of the West Village: an expensive-looking patio chair.

just the dual reference for my dn sadly, no '12 Inches Of Snow' here

just that extra e would have taken it into junior mertesac territory

Eric and Parish stepped aside to let Scratch steal the show. Scratch did not disappoint, treating the crowd to an incredible display of turntablesmanship.

If you want to hear jaw-dropping percussive vocalizations (without excessive cussing) and world class turntable deejaysmanship, or if you just want an entertaining way to round out your cultural literacy, check it out (y’all.)

TNGHT is the glorious union of sugary beatstrel Hudson Mohawke and puckish Canadian producer Lunice.

In a letter to Alma Mahler dated August 1914, Schoenberg waxed miltant in his zeal for the German cause, denouncing in the same breath the music of Bizet, Stravinsky, and Ravel. “Now comes the reckoning!” Schoenberg thundered. “Now we will throw these mediocre kitschmongers into slavery, and teach them to venerate the German spirit and to worship the German God.”

lol

and to think that Geir always had a bee in his bonnet about him

I think that mongers usage is p classy tbh.

Cracking tunesmith, was Schoenberg.

His unique style of pianomanship shocked the masses of the big city and gave all the women huge orgasms.

It is however still laced with Azagthoth's distinct style of riff-smithery that is unmistakable in its innate grasp of rhythm and tonal dynamics.

(Isn't there some sort of science fiction story called "The Tunesmith" which was what inspired Jimmy Webb to write that song?)

Believe it or not, Tree-X got their start in the Emo School of Rockbandery.

It wasn't all wall-to-wall punksmithery - in fact, such unlikely characters as The
Chieftains and John Miles were seen and heard live in the studio - but that
was really down to the fact that SO IT GOES arrived so early that even the
punk rock movement itself wasn't quite sure what it was just yet.

There is no nod resistance to these heavy duty Chicagoans, for they peddle such high calibre riffometry that it becomes a science of exact prediction, positioning and timing.

god i love this thread

(I haven't come across any of these in the wild recently. I must be reading the wrong stuff)

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Meetings between jazz ensembles and orchestra run the risk of turning the sweet into the saccharine, the dramatic into the melodramatic, but there's no risk of that with vibraphonist Locke, whose melodic disposition has been a constant undercurrent throughout his career, even when he's ripping it up and demonstrating why he's quite possibly the most important mallet-slinger of his generation.

There is no nod resistance to these heavy duty Chicagoans, for they peddle such high calibre riffometry that it becomes a science of exact prediction, positioning and timing.

this in particular is killing me

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Falco once said "the aim is to be the greatest rock band in the world." This honour obviously belongs to Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem but, with song-craftery of this class, FotL literally can't be far behind.

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A little more will.i.am-inspired party rockery

Crow and Wight play fiddle and banjo respectively, with an additional array of home-made curiosities of noise-makery.

Blue Man Sings The Whites » proper blog-type navel-gazery

Navel Gazery sounds like a war hero.

Featuring the brilliant throaty vocals of Marcus Mumford and some nifty tempo switching between angst ridden bitter balladry and rollicking banjo driven hoedownery, it really is one of the NAILED ON RECORDS OF THE YEAR.

Stand out songs and probably the ones that get the least recognition - 'Swing ' and 'My New Career' - these finally bring together Karn's superb Bass mastery with Barbieri's sublime Synthmanship all glued together by Sylvian and his treacle coated vocals.

Songs like 'Stronger Than Me' and 'I Heard Love is Blind' demonstrated her winsome wit while 'Take The Box' stunned and debilitated with its soulfulness. Posthumously, there's no question that 'Frank' will thrive but unfortunately, it's never going to stand up against its follow-up – not critically, at least. Emotionally, it's on par – but it's still a precocious piece of debut-albumsmithery.

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Drowned in Sound live review
Junior Senior
the venue: London Metro
the date: Thu 23rd Jan 2003

Many a soul could be seen skulking around London in the latter half of this week. Invariably it was because they didn't have a ticket to see the Flaming Lips' psychedelic extravaganza on their two-night sojourn to Kentish Town. But for others it was no matter, because for them, there was only one place where the party was at.

The Metro, never the most appealing of places, is packed out, heaving and pretty f**king grim with it with it. However, there are some things that people will endure worsened conditions for and Junior Senior are, at the moment, certainly one of those entities. The vibe is balls-out, punch-the-air excitement, the music is spazzmo whiteboy scando-hop with a big dose of seventies rock-love. Junior, a diminutive love god offering all kinds of guitar sexsmithery, shares vocals with Senior, a giant of a man who, resplendent in the tackiest of multicoloured visors, looks like an oversized CareBear version of Doves' Jimi Goodwin. Between them and their backing band (stars in their own rights), they indemnify this West End hole against its own grimness, showering it with enough unselfconscious delight to render the place a sunshinin' marvel of salacious grooving hedonism.

The duo exchange idiotboy word play on themes as lowbrow as you could hope for, dedicating 'White Trash' to "the greatest show we've ever seen; Essex Wives!". It should be tiresome, but it is utterly brilliant. Recent Radio 1 humping hit 'Move Your Feet' is unsurprisingly the best received song of the evening, but by far the most glorious is their warped and utterly joyful version of 'Twist and Shout' which segues into an industrially charged 'Push It'. The crowd, unsurprisingly, goes nuts. As Junior crashes out a final chord with a frankly majestic flying scissor kick, Senior tosses his microphone into the crowd, and it finishes as chaotically as it began.

Princess Superstar has nothing on this boys; all hail the best electro/glam/hip hop/trash/pop/rock/party band in the world.

~Gareth Dobson

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this is class pure class! amazing!

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Awsome presentation. I'm impressed not only with your beatboxmanship (new
word for dictionary) also for the piece well designed. Good work dude your
rock!

ru learning russian

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there are like 2 russian words there, I think they are incidental

indicates russian language preference on streaming website, either that or the streaming website is russian haha

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Fans of the wispy tunestrel

Thought/hoped this was made up as a joke but no

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Also cackling at anyone who finds Lily Allen sharp, incisive or funny. Her wordsmithery is toddler-level and her insights banal, u know it

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

The Rocksmiths are one of the best young bands in the UK. They are a professional 4 piece indie rock / pop band who specialise in bringing you something a lil different. Their cool contemporary set caters for all, including music from The Killers, Kings Of Leon, The Kinks, Maroon 5 and many more. None of the same old boring songs! These super talented boys will get definitely impress you and your guests! They are mentored by the band The Popsmiths meaning although these boys are young they benefit from over 20 years experience in the business.

http://www.warble-entertainment.com/hire/the-rocksmiths/1164/

None of the same old boring songs!

Alright - Supergrass
Are You Gonna Be My Girl – Jet
Are You Gonna Go My Way – Lenny Kravitz
Babylon - David Gray
Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke
Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy
Boys Will Be Boys – Ordinary Boys
Chelsea Dagger - Fratellies
Crazy - Gnarles Barkley
Dakota – Stereophonics
Dancing In The Moonlight - Toploader
Don’t Look Back In Anger - Oasis
Don’t Stop Believin’ - Journey
Drive My Car - The Beatles
Forget You - Cee Lo Green

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When you die, these cunts will be playing dancing in the moonlight while loads of people piss on your grave.

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Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth is good fun concept album action. My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade, of course. Besides Pink World, Planet P Project's later Go Out Dancing trilogy is great bitter concept albumry. The Wall, natch.

ugh gtfo, ntach

"fun concept album action" vs. "bitter concept albumry"

ban "-ry"

Absolutely. It would be the ultimate in bansmithery.

suggestbannery vs flagpostery

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spazzmo whiteboy scando-hop

underrated

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Or check the quirktronica pulsescape underpinning Beenie on 'Badder Than the Rest', or Elephant Man's amazing '2000 Began' from Comin' 4

Still haven't really found anything to contribute to this thread. Must be reading the wrong stuff.

To my ears, the ghosts of The Soft Machine and Caravan flit through Tusmørke‘s sound, with Ratledgey organ action from organ / Mellotronist Deadly Nightshade, warm, supple bass from Benediktator and nimble drummage from HlewagastiR, joined by the expressive flute of Krizla, adding that ‘Tull feel to proceedings too.

is there usually an apostrophe before Tull?

Master Flow & Bandtronica- je prvi srpski electro swing band, oformljen u Pančevu, u septembru 2013. godine kada DJ Master Flow odlučuje da u svoje electro swing setove uključi i live act saxofona ili klarineta koje svira David Ereš, ubrzo zatim im se pridružuje i basista Nenad Živanov kao i bubnjar benda Putnik u tramvaju , talentovani Ljubiša Milošević koji je gost na ovom projektu. Bend je do sada svirao u Pančevu i Beogradu, Novom Sadu. Široj publici u Srbiji band će se predstaviti nastupom na 20. Nisvill jazz festivalu u avgustu ove godine.

Bolshie Russian-American quirkstrel Regina Spektor is, and always ought to be regarded as something of a fringe player. Sure, much of latest and sixth full-length What We Saw From The Cheap Seats is trimmed with powdery pop propensities that in the wrong, racketeering hands could be sprinkled into a Miley Cyrus record or if tinkled out of the commensurately wrong fingers could be construed as stuff saccharine extracted from some rightfully neglected gobbet of Vanessa Carlton’s discography (A Thousand Miles lamentably, inevitably excluded). But in an era of artificiality in which ears mutilated under the knife are further maimed by unlistenability, we ought to regard Spektor as something of a pop mutineer; a saviour of sorts as those dorky ringlets of hers flounce whilst she hops the fences of convention, flouting contemporary praxis.

jesus christ this might be the worst music writer in the world

AlSaadi’s prominent, romping bass lines recall those of, well, of Montreal circa Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? to begin with but in terms of genre categorisation-cum-compartmentalisation, TEEN are nigh on impossible to pigeonhole or stereotype. Their records have tired many a determined hack when desperately, and with that deplorably attempting to do so, so we’ll spare ourselves the trouble.

Turning from genre to gender a moment, another of the more intriguing differences between tonight and however-many afternoons ago concerns something of a sexual imbalance: maybe it’s merely due to the fact that, generalising, there tend to be more men than women at most London dates. (This far from revolutionary finding might not directly apply to your every-way-average O2, or Wembley Arena pop spectacular, although in those more independent venues, the generalisation largely rings perturbingly true.)

Skirting gingerly around the rather sizeable Latitude perimeter at the heart of Suffolk’s Henham Park, the ‘Friends of Latitude’, charity-geared minibus shuttle driver deems the event “a good, honest festival.”

So irreproachable is the momentarily, overly processed vocal of SOHN, that it sounds as though its beholder has yet to hold a lit cigarette between index and middle phalanges. Returning to the scene of his first UK show, if he was then “under the trees”, then he now enthrals a vast audience underneath the tarpaulin of the BBC Radio 6 Music Stage.

wow this guy is horrific

"Sherman" is great because (A) it's a cracking slice of danceable anger-funk and (B) the video is reminiscent of the best TV show that never was ...

A cracking slice of genre filmmaking that nods to vintage Michael Mann and Martin Scorsese as well as the new generation of Latin American filmmakers

That's a cracking slice of smooth r&b. The guitar playing is great. I really both the tones you've used for the solos, but I thought you could have ...

Truth Lies Bleeding is another cracking slice of the dark side of life from Tony Black and proof that he's got plenty of tricks up his sleeve

A cracking slice of deep-sea unease., 23 April 2004. By. Brian Flange "qflestrin". This review is from: The Kraken Wakes (Paperback).

4.0 out of 5 stars ...a cracking slice of pop r'n'b... The PR bumph is at pains to point out that 2 years have passed since JoJo had her break out hit with "Leave ...

Another cracking slice of original disco music by Drop Out Orchestra. This track is also included on the up and coming 'Original & Unreleased' vinyl...

Here's a cracking slice of nu-disco from the on-form Cosmonauts. Free DL here. If you enjoy this check out Default and Picassio - More Order (although I...

Gan to the secret pizza shop in the cosmo, cracking slice of pizza and then hookers and toot.

omg dying at "Russian-American quirkstrel"

only 2 ilx occurrences of cracking slice:

mark e wrote this on thread Bloc Party Go Dance on board I Love Music on Apr 29, 2010

I like it, more than anything on Intimacy anyway. Especially when he launches into that higher melody to ride out the end.

agree.
once it gets going its a cracking slice of old fashioned rave pop.
bring on the beatmasters radio edit.

mark e wrote this on thread move over mr fopp, there is a new player in your broken town. on board I Love Music on Dec 30, 2013

i am biassed re delakota as most of that crew became the backing band/studio gurus for gorillaz, and had been the senseless things.

so, it was all part of the joining dots process.

that said, its a cracking slice of laid back sample heavy indie dance pop.

Obama Girl came back to help her candidate win Iowa. This is the worst viral campaign of the noughties, wethinks.

Bolshie Russian-American quirkstrel Regina Spektor is, and always ought to be regarded as something of a fringe player. Sure, much of latest and sixth full-length What We Saw From The Cheap Seats is trimmed with powdery pop propensities that in the wrong, racketeering hands could be sprinkled into a Miley Cyrus record or if tinkled out of the commensurately wrong fingers could be construed as stuff saccharine extracted from some rightfully neglected gobbet of Vanessa Carlton’s discography (A Thousand Miles lamentably, inevitably excluded). But in an era of artificiality in which ears mutilated under the knife are further maimed by unlistenability, we ought to regard Spektor as something of a pop mutineer; a saviour of sorts as those dorky ringlets of hers flounce whilst she hops the fences of convention, flouting contemporary praxis.

― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 24 July 2014 00:28 (1 month ago)

that is literally a capital offence

Victoria Aitken, the New York and London-based socialite songstress, has teamed up with the Scumfrog, a New York-based D.J., on her recent single “Sunshine,” which is currently No. 7 on the British dance charts. The light-spirited house track was inspired by a Latin loffer she met on holiday in Spain. “He was very charming, funny and interesting,” she says. “The only problem was that others thought so too, and they were girls who dressed up to the nines in diamonds and couture.” According to Aitken, the song is also a hit with her father, Jonathan Aitken, the disgraced former Tory cabinet minister. (Dad wasn’t a big fan of her last video, “I’ll Be Your Bitch,” in which she danced suggestively while brandishing a whip and in preparation for which she took pole-dancing classes.)

High octane no frills bluesicianship - a solid testament to the enduring power and influence of blues inflected rock - especially the variety in which a wailing Fender Strat comes front and centre.

Very much his own man musically, it's readily apparent from the expanse of his regal tone and his inherent bluesicality that Houston was passed the baton by none other than sax-griot Gene Ammons when he died in 1974.

Q. Why Should Londonist Readers Go And See You?

A. Because for better or worse there is no other band that plays live in the way we play live – it actually is ambientertainment, plus we have a special ghost star

lol I actually recognised that last & have seen the "band" in question

As an artist he believes strongly that art itself should be questioning and bewildering as opposed to patronizing and restricting. As opposed to the current fashion he does not want to dictate a way to the understanding of his art, but rather indicate a path to understanding a story.

His work resonates with the kind of quirkmanship that is very much liked in at the House of Worshipful!

Les Mouches - You're Worth More to Me Than 100 Christians

Clever Cactumus'd from Ish. It's solid quirkoustic most of the way through, with some inexplicable freaking out toward the beginning.

Described as “quirky” and “eclectic” he has logically positioned himself smack in the middle of the Quirklectic genre. “You never know what to expect,” is a ...

blissblog

Thursday, September 27, 2007

In 1978 NME writer Miles wrote about a New Wave sub-style he dubbed "geometric, jerky quickstep"--exponents included XTC, Devo, Ultravox, with tinges in Talking Heads and Pere Ubu. The herky-jerkiness overlaps with Quirk ("geometric jerky quirkstep" perhaps) but with Quirk as Kid Shirt defined the ancestry's more in Genesis than in the cooler things Miles sources his thing in (Eno, Kraftwerk, Cluster).

Oh My God Guys I Think I May Have Hit The Jackpot

http://www.geocities.ws/genresound/week/11-3-8-04.htm

The herky-jerkiness overlaps with Quirk

Andrew St James is an 19 year old singer songwriter from San Francisco's foggy west side.

With a beyond-his-years lyrical vision and a unique gift for melody-making, St James's music lands firmly in the alternative folk world. His timeless songwriting skills will make you second guess his age.

ugh, the Chicago radio station WXRT (which, if it still exists in anything resembling its 1990s form, would be catgeorized as "Adult Album Alternative") had a particular fondness for middle-aged singer-songwriters that were precisely the type to be described as "songsmiths" or "craftsmen." that included pretty great (yet still kind of boring, in a certain view) folks like Elvis Costello and Richard Thompson, but also people like Freedy Johnston and a million others either more obscure or too dull to recall.

the whole tunesmith/songsmith/craftsman meme always bugged me because the range of music described as such was always so circumscribed, and therefore the whole notion had a reactionary flavor, like this certain type (and only this certain type) of temperate rock music with punning lyrics and self-consciously twisty melodies was some kind of pinnacle of aesthetic achievement. like I said, I actually don't mind much of the music made in this vein (see also Aimee Mann) but the attitudes that circulate around it--and the word/concepts of tunesmithery/songsmithery/craftsmanship as they are applied to it--make my stomach churn.

guy clark, whose music i like but don't love, seems to have :ahem: "crafted" a persona that is all about this. in fact at least two of his albums refer to his status as a songwriter/craftsman. now some of that is just marketing, some of it is just plain true... but a lot of it seems like a weird (and unnecessary?) defensive gesture against accusations/anxieties (on his part? labels?) that his music is too even-keeled, too plain, too samey, or just too dull. it's pointing critics and audiences toward a certain kind of appreciation, suggesting that they are smart, mature, etc. for appreciating the modest but true virtues of sincere and patient craftsmanship. again, not sure there is anything wrong with this per se but when this stuff becomes a kind of credo it's hard to take.

The mere sight of Kim Wilde's luscious, simmering smouldering (I could go on and on) pout is enough to reduce the Ed to a puddle of quivering 501s. Her effect on men is more than enough reason for us chicks to resent her, one would think, but it's impossible to dislike either the songstrel or her pert electro-pop dance numbers.

Kate Bush's Babooshka storyline as follows - wife wants to test husband so pretends to be younger foxtrel named Babooshka and seduces him via snail-interweb (i.e. letters). Husband likes Babooshka because she reminds him of his wife. They then meet and he still doesn't twig and falls for wife-in-disguise. This is all meant to be very bad according to KB but she doesn't explain why.
― Tom, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A passionate beatsmith from the start, Roman Flügel’s thirst for inspiration always drives him to where the party is happening

http://crackmagazine.net/music/roman-flugel/

this is written by an ilxor afaik, hope this is a 'shout out' to this thread mb

Solar Motel was received as a singular work of guitarroristic finesse, turning up across many year ends lists (Uncut, New Yorker, etc) and provoking ecstatic comparisons to psychedelic visionaries and the countless champions of guitar-based music who tend to outlive the trends.

https://twitter.com/normalfootyguy/status/560175187879284736

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Solar Motel was received as a singular work of guitarroristic finesse, turning up across many year ends lists (Uncut, New Yorker, etc) and provoking ecstatic comparisons to psychedelic visionaries and the countless champions of guitar-based music who tend to outlive the trends.

― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Friday, December 26, 2014 12:37 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I know someone in this band. Not gonna engage in name-droppery though.

very good album but they could do with a better press release writer

they are not skilled in the art of publicitry

press releasemanship

http://i.imgur.com/r2ltRx8.jpg

It is bands like Embers that blow us away by the mere fact that they are willing to take a risk, which a lot of people never do during their entire lifetimes, and that through doing so we’re reminded of the reasons we love working with bands like them in the first place. Isn’t it just fucking brilliant how things change when you least expect them to? We’re now overjoyed that they’ve allowed us to release their next offering, Part Of The Echoes, via Killing Moon which will be out on Monday 8th July at a limited edition 7″ vinyl and digital download. Now check out the press releasery bit…

'Part Of The Echoes' is another wonderful piece of songwriting, with Embers managing to match those widescreen, Sigur Ros style moments to something approaching a pop song.

oof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqhDF7KfSio

Don't think she's got an ILX mention, but as pedal-steel dreamballadry goes, this is truly astounding. Listen if you like widescreen melancholia (which I often don't, hence the surprising extent to which this has gotten under my skin)

― imago, Friday, 18 April 2014 21:30 (9 months ago)

^obvs tongue-in-cheek, but well played

Equal parts jagged street swagger, frayed country ballads and boozed-up blues, the third record from this NYC quartet seems torn largely from the Rolling Stones playbook, circa 1971. Album opener "The Madman Sleeps” and the rough-hewn "Dead Man” are driven by Keith’n’Ronnie-style interplay between singer (and sole songwriter) Mike Storey and fellow guitarist Steve Strohmeier, while "Slow Drag” finds the two trading ragged, grabbed-at harmonies. The album’s highlight is traditional blues number "Real Cocaine Blues,” given a live-off-the-floor treatment here to gloriously ramshackle effect. That said, The Violent Bear It Away is not simply a collection of Stones-ian riffsmithery. The oddly named "Drinking Who Hit John,” as well as the title track, bears witness to the band’s artier ambitions, while poetic closer "Gone (Like Fighting Fire)” suggests less conventional possibilities for the future.

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^ copy of uncut and a discounted bar of dairy milk

Epic soundscapery formed the backbone of his tracks that would be a fitting soundtrack to watching 300 years worth of time-lapsed sunrises over mountains in a couple of minutes. Vox Mod ended his set in a wall of bass that made our eyeballs vibrate.

Filled with epic soundscapery and singalongability, Eyes Open is one of those albums that was bound to be on 11 when I was trapped at a stoplight singing at the top of my lungs and looking like a fool. Plus, Snow Patrol manages to namecheck Sufjan Stevens along the way.

hopstar 4 points 5 years ago
An epic list of epic songs. I'm not sure I can handle this much epicitude.

Filled with epic soundscapery and singalongability

the urge to punch my monitor was almost overwhelming

The TLS June 30, 1995

A biodegradable art

Germaine Greer

It is not easy to imagine a male poet objecting to appearing in an
anthology of men's poems, as most anthologies have been, though the
fact is not highlighted in their titles. The Amis Anthology, to cite
the most doggedly laddish, does not separate work by gender, but
women would have been better served if it had; out of 242 poems,
eight are by women. One, by Elizabeth Jennings, is included because
Amis published it when he was at Oxford in 1949; another, by Felicia
Hemans, because his class translated it into Latin hexameters when he
was at school; one by Christina Rossetti is accompanied by a sneer,
and another by the unknown Teresa Dooley is used to caricature all
poetessery.

The FTB attack on Ophelia Benson's Alleged TERFery Continues

William Terfery - 1901 England Census - Ancestry.co.uk

seems a bit unfair including the Greer but w/e

she deserves it for her transphobia tbh

Good As You points out the latest bit of transphobery from the Tradition Values Coalition.

Misogyneer by Barba Moreno - from the 2007 album "Weights and Measures"

Her parents must be oh, so very proud of their little bigotette.

http://i.imgur.com/W03DcZP.png

Taking this real life approach and applying it to his style of music, Jeff ’s music is authentic and descriptive. He uses his words not only to incite the masses but to paint a better picture for his own life, “I’m talking about life in general. I’ve gone out and done all that crazy shit but I’m working on making my life better. Right now being Superdope is all about progression in life.” For Fox, the “songer/singwriter,” as he says, being dope is about fulfilling your mission from God.

TO FOLLOW” is a collection of songs unlike anything out in the Christian Industry today. This original, authentic, thinker/songwriter brings God/Faith in a whole new way to music. By crossing musical genres and blending personal resonance with talented, intricate progressions and orchestrations, this musical mastery brings spiritual and faith based music to a whole new level.
This compilation is passionate, upbeat and charismatic with reflective with insightful lyrics. The music is Contemporary, Acoustic, Pop, and Soulful; it's a blend of flavors, genres, and styles beyond Contemporary Alternative. The class of music appeals to people of all ages. This music inspires and defines a genre all of its own.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6vwcl5WwAAQ6z2.jpg

(via https://twitter.com/feelssick/status/841030168550481924)

http://thequietus.com/articles/14949-klara-lewis-ett-review

Klara Lewis may be a newcomer to Editions Mego's much-vaunted stable of electronic craftspeople, but Ett is the work of a gifted and thoughtful sound sculptress, who combines found sounds, field recordings and electronic textures to create beguiling and resonant works that operate on all manner of levels, and in which individual sounds are dissolved of context to create a fresh subliminal narrative.

On first hearing, the first comparison that sweeps to mind is with London-based sonic construction artist Luke Younger, aka Helm, [...]

One of the album's standout creations (the word 'tracks' seems somehow unsatisfying), 'Shine' encapsulates the nebulous reality of Ett.

The latest Tweets from Rob Cottingham (@RobCottingham1). Song-scribbler; keys-twiddler and warblist.

Also cuntisan

Local analogue buzzer Diamond Dagger deals in both ‘boogie’ and ‘electro boogie’ genres (as per the bandcamp page) as well as propagating what sounds like soundtracks to forgotten or possibly non-existent, made-up movies and computer games on Estate Crudele. On Apollo’s Creed for example,layers of vintage synthistry build sweetly over a krauty beat that feels like it could build infinitely. Only complaint: there’s not more of the likes of last year’s What’s Your Friend’s Name, the DD collaboration with Meljoann.

The backstory:

One of our jeansmiths started a batch of our Surry Raw jeans with blue stitching — and they’re sort of gorgeous, so we finished the run (total pairs, 68).

just bumping this thread because I feel a little down and it cheers me up

omg "topical gagsmith," somehow missed that one until now

Milo, the Philosoraptor. Rap Game Kwame Appiah. Elrond Hubbard, your idiot vagabond brother. He’s not a rapper, he’s a rapsmith. If you can’t discern the difference, you’re thinking too hard.

― soref, donderdag 21 november 2013 10:57 bookmarkflaglink

when it comes to rapsmithery, I don't think there's any debate: it's Will Smith or nothing, and #fuckthehaters

(stay tuned for my Sam Smith pun, working on it as we speak)

(give me just a little more time)

It’s back to the Imperial Theatre for more countrified twangsmithery, and the oddly-named Musée Mécanique, who are actually from Portland, Oregon and deeply traditional.

Tunesmithery - the playlist:

https://youtu.be/0FWHavH6IQw?t=17

https://youtu.be/tMG3Hz7pOHY?t=79

featuring minimal unlistenability!

https://www.musicismysanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Bunji-Garlin-Differentology.jpg

https://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/olamide-konkobility.jpg

(not gonna lie: I'm sometimes guilty of this type of writeuppery myself - my most recent “a *** slice of...” was um... last night, and I also don't mind making some words up, it's fun!)