I was wondering- what sort of music have you all been listening to as of late? I got a vip grooveshark account and have been trying to sample as much new stuff as I can while my trial lasts (my friend intern'd there a few months ago and had the ability to give out 4 month freebies, which he gave to his friends before his term was over)

To start off, Broken Bells (Lead singer of the Shins working with dangermouse, who has the midas touch imho) has been on loop in my apartment alongside of Beats Antique almost all day. These two bands play exceptionally chill yet pretty involved music, backed by very nice beats. Also, i recently found a band called the Engine Earz Experiment which is really amazing indian dubstep that was featured on bbc.

I generally tend towards rock (most of its incarnations) and mild electronic music, but i'm interested in hearing whatever you all like, genre aside.

Have a good one
-SG

Mumford & Sons. Listen. They're freakin' awesome. Every frickin' show around is sold out, though. /sadface

Also, Jakob Dylan's latest album, Women + Country is fantastic.

As is Ray LaMontagne's latest, God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise.

Omnia

Klazz Brothers - No Wiki entry, but its some German brothers and a Cuban band that do Bossa Nova versions of classical music. This stuff was hardly seeded on what.cd so it took longer than normal to get it, worse still I had to get it in FLAC and I dont have the space to be burning on FLAC stuff anymore.

Schandmaul

Nouvelle Vague

In Extremo

Video game music, by and large. Got a hold of a Castlevania complete discography, have been listening to that for a while.

Some Massive Attack, always good.

Amin Van Buren.

And, of course, the always amazing Beardyman. Can never get enough of this guy.

Random Halloween-themed music, along with some songs that aren't quite but will fit in a pinch. Yes, I have strange tastes in music.

I'm also currently trying to decided what Nox Arcana CD's to pick up to play as ambient music for Trick-or-Treater's.

For example:

American McGee's Alice Score - Chris Vrenna
Various Danny Elfman soundtracks
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
Nightmare on My Street - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Dracula - Gorillaz
Re: Your Brains - Jonathan Coulton
Creepy Doll - Jonathan Coulton
Threatened - Michael Jackson
Thriller - Michael Jackson
No Good Deed - Cast of Wicked
Magic Dance - David Bowie
The Lady Lee - Hobo Jim
Sweeny Todd Soundtrack
Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack
I'm Going Slightly Mad - Queen
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Abracadabra - Steve Miller
Disneyland Haunted Mansion Holiday Soundtrack
Disneyland's Haunted Mansion Ride-through
Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean Float-through
Twilight Zone Tower of Terror Theme
Bury Me Not On the Lone Prairie - William Elliot Whitmore (Red Dead Redemption soundtrack)

Van Canto

A capella metal band.

Also a cover of Metallica's Battery:

If you like those, FarSky, they've both been playing on rotation on my "Lost in the Trees" pandora station, they're also awesome.


I'm loving this indie folk movement.

Motown.
Motown.
More Motown.

I'm on an EastNewSound kick. Youtube links:

Lucid Dream

Proof of River

緋色月下、狂咲ノ絶　-1st Anniversary Remix-

Versailles
Candlemass
Malice Mizer
Barcelona
Area51
Dream Theater
Matenrou Opera
Green Carnation
D'espairsRay
Profanum
Riverside
Summoning
Rush
Spheric Universe Experience

Oooh, very cool, gracias.

Also, if you havn't already stumbled upon them, check out Fleet Foxes:

LIIT has to be my favorite pandora station so far, in addition to all the other previously mentioned artists, it has healthy sprinklings of the beatles, beruit, the decemberists... etc.

Probably the station I've had the fewest proportional skips on so far.

Also, fleet foxes = good stuff,

more LIIT, bit more melancholic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZV7NQqn-wY

I found Pandora ended up playing the same stuff far too often. I prefer Last.fm. You might check it out.

Jumper by Third Eye Blind over and over again. I saw it in a commercial at the movies and I can't get it out of my head

I'm forced to listen to what my wife plays (over and over and over) and her list is currently:

Kings of Leon
Blue October

Every now and then I'll stumble across something that's half decent.
and of course:

The newest Whitechapel and Parkway Drive.

God, so sorry about the Kings of Leon thing, I wish the Brits had kept them, we never wanted them in the first place.

Nightwish.

Old singer:

New singer:

You should know this one, haha:

Listen to just their first 2 albums and try to say this with a straight face.
Unfortunately, their more recent albums don't hold a candle to those first two.

Nightwish is so full of win. I got to see them in concert twice (both with the new singer, unfortunately. I would have preferred 1 and 1)

I've been listening to things I don't normally give a chance. Today I'm trying out some French Jazz: Charles Aznavour and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Its pretty kickass.

Ive actually been listening to Sinatra, Dean Martin, and classic rock

Teen pop too embarrassing to list and David Guetta for the most part lately -- though Foo Fighters and Darkness have been the only two CDs in my car for a while.

Thanks for linking the Nightwish stuff! Hadn't really been following much and hadn't heard anything with the new singer yet.

Currently watching my niece and nephew for the week, so...

deep inside the jungle where nature's running wild
coming to the rescue is a very special child
talking to the animals and swinging from a vine
this rough and tough adventurer is working all the time
there goes DIEGO, DIEGO, DIEGO, GO DIEGO GO!

Aside from that, I have been listening to old Everlast and Flobots cds that are in my car. (And then you might know what it's like to be able to... ride your bike with no handlebars).

Indeed.
<3

Ever listened to/watched videos of k(orea)-pop? It is ****ing entrancing...

No joke, I was listening to Genie by Girls Generation when I opened this thread.

You're a badass. Did you have your pants off? I bet you did.

I cant decide which video has the hottest asian girls
SHINee(샤이니)_LUCIFER_뮤직비디오(MusicVideo) HD
or Girls Generation.


either way its hurting my brain

An offering to cleanse the pallet of pop music:

Wait. There's girls in the Lucifer video?!?!

EDIT: that's what I thought. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinee

Buckcherry. I saw these guys with Kiss several months ago and just love their sound. Before then, I had only heard "Lit Up." Been listening to a lot of classic Judas Priest too.

I listen to satellite radio exclusively these days, so I miss most mainstream stuff.

Gonna have to check their stuff out instead of just the Nightwish cover :D

Good stuff, thanks!

*shuffles off looking for more of their stuff*

That is hilarious and awesome.

edit: Oh ****, their Master of Puppets Cover is even better


Oh and another group I have been listening to is Die Irrlichter.

Dr. Dog
Freelance Whales
Josh Ritter
Sarah Jaffe
The Hope Trust
Rogue Wave

I'll second Mumford & Sons

Pretty much listening to the NPR Music station here in Dallas http://www.kxt.org and they've got a great mix of stuff, and some wonderful local Texas bands as well.


Jaesin - they played "Fireplace" by Lost in the Trees on KXT, great song by them, i'll have to listen to more of their stuff.

I'm laughing uncontrollably at work. Tears were involved.

I'll second Rogue Wave. They are awesome and I've seen them twice.

You all might like Discovery. Singer from Ra ra riot and keyboardist from vampire weekend. Good stuff.

Yes, both bands are great, Discovery is very good. A tad too electronic for me, but still enjoyable.

I think you got whooshed, those are some seriously girly looking guys is what I was saying

And here I thought it was YOUR gaydar that was broken.

Hm, lets see:

Metallica
Van Canto (saw them live in concert about 2 weeks ago - AWESOME!)
Blind Guardian (same concert as Van Canto - AWESOME too!)
Schandmaul (seen them countless times live on stage)
Rammstein
Eisbrecher (quite similar to Rammstein)
ASP (gonna see them on their unplugged "Krabat" tour in December)
Subway to Sally (Toprem, if you like Schandmaul & In Extremo, you might like StS too, esp. older stuff)
Letzte Instanz (Toprem, check it out too)
Limp Bizkit (saw them on stage in August)
Linkin Park (concert in Nov)
Evanescence
Nightwish
Within Temptation (concert in march 2011)
Unheilig
Gorillaz
Queen

plus basically anything rock/metal, esp. classics and well known bands.. from 60s to 90s (ac/dc, alice cooper, foreigner, deep purple, guns&roses, depeche mode, dire straits, aerosmith, the verve, etc etc etc)

Lucky, I wish I lived in Germany

Ill check out Subway to Sally.

Oh yeah, forgot another one I should have suggested, Max Raabe.