the more local the better. like, down the street local. there are local artists threads, but i want a fresh one. your friends count too!
i love love LOVE local Oak Bluffs native Nina Violet. I need to get her new album cuz i keep listening to all her myspace songs over and over. i think she could be huge for real. i don't know how you get huge these days, but, whatever, i love her voice. she has even toured a bit in the u.k. maybe you saw her! she has toured with local boy made good willy mason too as part of his band and opening for him. i think. (but i dig her a bunch more than him. shhhhh, don't tell.)
anyway, if you like alt/oldetyme/folk-ish/americana stuff with lovely vocals and great songs and cellos and fiddles and banjos and stuff you might dig her:
http://www.myspace.com/ninaviolet
OH AND POST SOME OF YOUR OWN NEW MUSIC TOO IF YOU HAVE ANY TO SHARE. YOU ARE LOCAL TOO.
― scott seward, Saturday, 7 June 2008 00:52 (seventeen years ago)
Not so much local music but local-ish zine - this guy: http://only-in-it-for-the-music.blogspot.com/2008/05/excuse-or-notice-you-decide.html is doing a cool hardcore punk zine called Distort Hackney, mainly what I would call "noisecore" but when I started a thread about it, seems like everyone else thinks that's something different.
I wanna hear this band the Wankys that's in it, supposed to be a total Confuse-style noise punk assault. Name obviously a homage to the Swankys!
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 7 June 2008 01:04 (seventeen years ago)
sweet. tons of stuff on there.
― scott seward, Saturday, 7 June 2008 01:08 (seventeen years ago)
Local Kraut Psych band from my hood.
www.myspace.com/lumerians
― oscar, Saturday, 7 June 2008 01:08 (seventeen years ago)
Also check out his Punks Is Hippies site, in the links, which has a shitload of old punk zines scanned on it. Links to old MRR, HeartAttaCk, Flipside, etc etc
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― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 7 June 2008 01:10 (seventeen years ago)
lots of chicago bands i like but most of them are bros so i feel weird about repping for them. um aleks and the drummer are releasing their dave sitek-produced EP today, those guys are crazy ... organ + drums playing crazy polish gipsy rock music. killer whales have been pretty amazing the couple of times i've seen them live, james chancey polyrhythmic no wave type stuff with two drummers and fretless bass, kind of intimidated by them.
― n/a, Saturday, 7 June 2008 01:54 (seventeen years ago)
Well, Julian Berntzen still tops my 2008 list: http://www.myspace.com/julianberntzen
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 7 June 2008 01:57 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.myspace.com/danjonesandthesquids
― sleeve, Saturday, 7 June 2008 02:02 (seventeen years ago)
I was thinking about starting a thread wondering if anyone else had heard/dug the Crystal Antlers myspace.com/crystalantlers
Sort of a woozy Comets on Fire/Blue Cheer thing.
― I eat cannibals, Saturday, 7 June 2008 02:05 (seventeen years ago)
the people down the street from me have a web radio station that seems to be respected and written up. it's not exactly to my taste but i love having people in the neighborhood pushing ambient soundscapes and no-hope singer songwriters and also playing t-rex http://www.hollowearthradio.com/
― jergins, Saturday, 7 June 2008 02:09 (seventeen years ago)
First impression: I like their playlist, Jergins. Thx for the link/recommendation.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 7 June 2008 02:12 (seventeen years ago)
oh yeah, i forgot about radio! maria and i have a new show on every sunday from 9 to midnight called Ben Franklin Airbath Theatre that is all collage/fx/loop/manipulation/noise and that will be fun. on her low power fm radio station:
http://wvvy.org/
local fun!
― scott seward, Saturday, 7 June 2008 02:19 (seventeen years ago)
some of the best rock bands in madison, wi--colony of watts, united sons of toil, and sleeping in the aviary alibini-philes listen up
http://www.myspace.com/colonyofwatts
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=114832742
http://www.myspace.com/sleepingintheaviary
― kamerad, Saturday, 7 June 2008 02:39 (seventeen years ago)
In Brooklyn, these guys:
http://blankdogs.blogspot.com
Also, most everything on Sacred Bones: http://www.myspace.com/sacredbonesrecords
Great thing about the Blank Dogs site is that you can download everything they've got. I'd start with the "Diana the Herald" 12". They ask for a donation. Be cool—make one.
Their "leaving the light on" vid is on you tube. hunt it down.
Other Sacred Bones bands: Pink Noise, Factums, Dead Luke, Nice Face. All worth your time.
― Michael Train, Saturday, 7 June 2008 04:58 (seventeen years ago)
was in this band for a year or so, but now i'm not and they are better for it. awesome rock music influenced by bo diddley and the fall and the germs and etc etc. listen to 'wherever i am' or 'lights out'
http://www.myspace.com/thewolfs
― 6335, Saturday, 7 June 2008 05:22 (seventeen years ago)
i'm taken aback by the new jerusalem and the starbaskets album...so fucking good
― Tape Store, Saturday, 7 June 2008 06:25 (seventeen years ago)
This is a pretty fine Belgian band called Intergalactic Lovers who released their third album earlier in the year:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwlCgXI-lZU
Live:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUW5t1HK_Y
― StanM, Saturday, 8 August 2015 15:46 (nine years ago)
and am I genuinely excited: well, yeah! I first found her peculiar way of singing out of tune (?) verrrrry annoying, but after a while, hearing the singles on local radio over and over again, I started to hear the songs and it somehow all clicked.
― StanM, Saturday, 8 August 2015 15:59 (nine years ago)
I've been getting into Isabel Reidy's band, Izzy True, of late: https://youtu.be/CHVLNOWxVLQhttps://youtu.be/BxTVndYaf7Q
― one way street, Saturday, 8 August 2015 17:14 (nine years ago)
Also, Sarah Hennies (the woman in the red shirt in the video below) is a really versatile and adventurous percussionist and has been playing some really exciting experimental shows this past year:
https://youtu.be/cawIlQfQ2NY
― one way street, Saturday, 8 August 2015 17:18 (nine years ago)