The "Other" Music Thread

[chippered]

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Finch Is Writing New Music
"So, we had a band meeting on friday night and we decided that we’re going to try and record our new song to put up on our site and myspace as soon as we can. This will be our first truly indie release even if its just one song… whatever still exciting to me. We’re so DIY now a days it rules."
-R2K

"Masters Of Tomorrow / Jesus Chords - That is the working title to our first new finch song. In my opinion it is one of the best songs we’ve ever done. Just to fill you in, I had been toying with this song for the last five years and today at practice we finished it. Its fast, big, loud, and heavy. We’ll be playing it on our upcoming tour with tera melos. I can’t wait."
-R2K


I'm really pumped for some new Finch music. Hopefully the break helped them with new ideas for songs. I expect big things out of their next album.

I was really disappointed with their second CD, but I loved their first one. What It Is To Burn is a great song. Hopefully they go back to the style of the first disc.

I really need to give the second another listen. I've tried twice since I bought it the day it came out, but I just cant get through it in one listen, it was that bad for me.

[ex carrabba fan]

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Cat Power is set to release "Jukebox" in about a week. The album is composed of pretty much all covers ala their 2000 record "The Covers Record". That Covers Record was amazing, plain and simple. Chan Marshall, the singer of Cat Power has pretty much moved atop my list of favorite artists. If you at all like Feist, then give Cat Power a listen, you'll probably fall in love.

[Miles_Yuhas]

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I'll keep my eye on a Seattle date for Radiohead. The new album is great imo

[soltrain]

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Hey guys, I don't know how many of you follow them; but the website I run just did an interview with Motion City Soundtrack.

http://www.heavemedia.com/heaviews/interviews/index.php?25-Interview:-Motion-City-Soundtrack

[Husker_OS]

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Completely agree with Kearnzo on Submersed. First got into them when their acoustic version of "Hollow" was in Electra.




A band that I found by way of iTunes is The Vitamin String Quartet. They cover all kinds of bands. My recent downloads of theirs include covers of Breaking Benjamin, The Eagles, Zeppelin, Skynyrd, and Tupac.


Desperado by the Vitamin String Quartet is BEAUTIFUL.

[elicoleman]

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I know there's some Paramore and Jimmy Eat World fans on the board so I thought I'd pass along this news...

They will be co-headlining a tour in the spring. No dates have been announced yet.

Regardless, if they come to Nashville, St Louis, or Little Rock...I'm absolutely going to go.

[Beantown]

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Yeah...I'll have to try and get tickets to that.

[ex carrabba fan]

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Datarock - "Datarock Datarock" is an awesome cd!!!

Wow, they're like The Postal Service with different vocals.

[ex carrabba fan]

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OMGZ. New Death Cab will arrive in May.

According to a recent blog posting on the Hall Of Justice website, Chris Walla claims that Death Cab For Cutie's new album is "in full swing; we're six songs in." The posting went on to say "thus far it's pretty weird and pretty spectacular; lots of blood. It's creepy and heavy... we've got a ten minute long Can jam, and had you suggested that possibility to me in 1998, I'd have eaten your puppy's brain with a spoon."[1] It is planned to be released in May 2008. Ben Gibbard, lead singer and guitarist, claims that "I just don't feel like we really have anything to prove of it other than to ourselves and to making a record we really enjoy." [2] In a recent Billboard piece, the band is promising a "curve ball" and though it will have a number of slower songs, the band is promising some surprises: "It's really weird. It's really, really good, I think, but it's totally a curve ball, and I think it's gonna be a really polarizing record. But I'm really excited about it. It's really got some teeth. The landscape of the thing is way, way more lunar than the urban meadow sort of thing that has been happening for the last couple of records." "[It's also] louder and more dissonant and ... I think abrasive would be a good word to use. [We were influenced by] heavy, sludgy, slow metal [and] synth-punk band Brainiac."[3] In January of 2008, Spin Magazine reported that Death Cab For Cutie's new album will be titled, Narrow Stairs.

I was somewhat disappointed with their major label debut, I am optimistic that they'll be getting back to their roots in their follow up.

[elicoleman]

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We've had a listen to 'Pretty. Odd' at Abbey Road Studios in London, where the band recorded the strings.

It's due out in March, but here's our sneak preview.

NB: These song titles are subject to change.

1) 'We're So Starving'
A knowingly tongue-in-cheek introduction to the album – "We were busy writing songs for you… You don't have to worry/We're still the same!" sings frontman Brendon Urie –but, what with the Queen-esque multi-tracked vocals and bombastic backing track, one that sets the tone for what's to come all the same…

2) '9 In The Afternoon'
…Which is, essentially, 'Sgt. Pepper' had The Beatles taken a Magical Mystery Tour to the Bellagio Casino on Vegas' strip. This first single features clanking bells, fairground horns, lush orchestration, joyous handclaps and a vaguely lysergic lyric ("Nine in the afternoon / Your eyes are the size of the moon"). Moping emo rock this ain't.

3) 'She's A Handsome Woman'
The Beatles' references take a detour into 'Revolver' territory as Ryan Ross embellishes a tight-but-disarmingly off-kilter rhythm with George Harrison-esque guitar stabs and squeals.

4) 'Do You Know What I'm Seeing'
Idyllic birdsong, lilting, folky guitar lines and a nursery rhyme melody herald yet another stylistic curveball, as Panic come over all early-Pink Floyd and embrace eccentric English psych-pop. Yet another killer chorus is ushered in by swooning strings, rich vocal harmonies and a faintly nonsensical lyric: "I never gave a damn about the weather/But it never gave a damn about me". You can't but admire Panic's ambition.

5) 'The Green Gentleman'
God knows what the budget was for 'Pretty. Odd', but if it cost anything less than a million dollars to record, then the band have done well, because it certainly sounds it. This one sounds HUGE, as though Disney had decided to re-record 'High School Musical' with The Polyphonic Spree. Only infinitely better than that sounds.

6) 'I Have Friends In Holy Spaces'
Another shift of gears, as Panic adopt the personae of an old Mississippi river boat band, complete with banjo, clarinet and authentic scratchy period sound. The lyric, however, appears to be bang up to date, Urie seemingly struggling with the affects of fame: "You remind me of a few of my famous friends/Well, that all depends on what you qualify as 'friends'".

7) 'Northern Downpour'
Noticeably more traditional in structure that what's gone before, 'Northern Downpour' borrows heavily from classic American AOR bands - think The Feeling, but with the plastic veneer replaced with warmth and soul. Urie's surprisingly soulful vocals carry the tune to its gradual yet joyous crescendo.

8) 'When The Day Met The Night'
Given the all-encompassing nature of this album, it was surely only a matter of time before Panic dabbled in eastern-tinged melodies. What is surprising, however, is the way in which they subvert your expectation - again - by shoe-horning in another show-stopping showtune-esque chorus. Brilliant.

9) 'Pas De Cheval'
Arguably the most conventional song on the album, 'Pas De Cheval' starts with a cheeky nod to Neil Diamond's' 'I'm A Believer' before building to a chorus carved from '70s American FM rock radio. Will surely rule the airwaves if released as a summer single in the States.

10) 'The Piano Knows Something I Don't'
And then we're back on familiar ground as Panic plunge headlong into Beatles' territory for a bombastic '…Mr Kite' style collage of bells, brass and woodwind instruments, before slamming on the brakes for a psychedelic pastoral breakdown, complete with woodland sounds and lush vocal harmonies. Even on an album positively preoccupied with variations in pace and arrangements, this song stands out.

11) 'Behind The Sea'
And so the Panic TARDIS touches down in Haight Ashbury at the height of the Summer Of Love for a late-night love-in (and, indeed, Love-in – the spirit of Arthur Lee is much in evidence here). Panic's musical ADD soon kicks in, though, and with a 'Whooaah!' we're swept off into a Danny Elfman-inspired fantasy land for the song's second half.

12) 'Folken' Around'
Surely they're taking the piss now… A fiddle-inspired back porch country reel? Amazingly, it doesn't sound ****, either.

13) 'She Had The World'
Just when you thought there wasn't' a genre of music left for Panic to appropriate, they wheel out a harpsichord for a spot of stately chamber music (albeit more Muse than Mozart). Once again, the lyric is quite deftly juxtaposed with the music, Brendan singing a variation on the classic 'it's not you, it's me' get out clause: "I don't love you/I'm just passing the time/You could love me/If I learned how to lie/But who could love me?/I'm out of my mind".

14) 'From A Mountain In The Middle Of The Cabins'
You can't help but wonder what Panic's established fan base will make of their heroes' musical excursions. As evocative as this deceptively dark whirlwind of Dickensian strings and olde worlde ambience is, it's been some time since we last heard a guitar…

15) 'Mad As Rabbits'
Phew – here's one, now. Admittedly it's playing a tight-as-you-like '70s style funk motif, but there you go. The song eventually settles into another slice of classic Americana, albeit one peppered with a lyric about a "poor son of a chimney sweep" whose "arms were the branches of Christmas trees". There's just time for some more horn stabs, and another belter of a chorus, and then that's it.

If that all sounds like an astonishingly ambitious but potentially confusing rag bag of moods, genres and styles, then that's probably because it is. 'Pretty. Odd' will undoubtedly surprise and piss off Panic fans and haters alike, but it'll take plenty more playing to determine whether it's actually any good…

With this review, I'll be picking up the new PATD (they removed the ! from their name) album. Sounds like it'll be something different.

[elicoleman]

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Lead singer of Strata (Eric) has left the band.

I would imagine it'd be pretty damn difficult to continue without your lead singer.

[elicoleman]

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http://www.myspace.com/panicatthedisco

Nine In The Afternoon is up finally. It's a really good song.

[elicoleman]

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Just found out that Coheed and Cambria is doing a four night show in both New York and Los Angeles that covers everything on all four albums, in chronological order.

Amazing thing is tickets are only $120 (for NYC) and $100 (for LA) but you do get a little more extra in NYC.

I'm seriously thinking about making the trip. So many songs I have yet to hear live that I want to.

[Bornindamecca]

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Just found out that Coheed and Cambria is doing a four night show in both New York and Los Angeles that covers everything on all four albums, in chronological order.

Amazing thing is tickets are only $120 (for NYC) and $100 (for LA) but you do get a little more extra in NYC.

I'm seriously thinking about making the trip. So many songs I have yet to hear live that I want to.

**Name Drop**

I was talking to Claudio at the last New York Comicon. We were discussing me doing some work for the comic he's doing. My schedule is locked up now, so it's probably not going to happen, but he's a nice guy and was enthusiastic about my stuff.

[CS10029]

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Crash Romeo!