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New Music Discoveries
I just started listening to "From The Wreckage" by The Wind & The Wave.
Great country-rock. I saw them a couple of years ago when they toured with Stereophonics, just as TW&TW were transitioning from indie to a major label. We met them after the show, they were working their merch booth. Really nice, and we left with a handful of CDs to give to friends.
I had totally forgotten about them until this last week, when they suddenly appeared on my playlist.
Has anyone else had any new music discoveries to share?
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/13 16:58:15
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The last one I had was Alabama Shakes. Pleasant surprise the first time I saw them
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/13 17:12:52
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I hear new music every time I pick up a guitar. I'm pretty sure no one else wants to hear it either.  That's why I play bazz.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/13 17:15:07
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My life has very little time to actually listen to much music besides what I'm making. I do listen on the Songs Forum here so that is kind of "new discoveries", ya?
My drive to work is 5.5 miles, barely enough time to catch a new song.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/13 22:35:58
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Since I can't actually play and create new music right now, just about all I've been doing is finding new music. Those "Best of 2016" lists were a great jumping off point to all sorts of bands I hadn't heard of or didn't know they had new stuff out.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/14 10:37:01
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I have found a lot more new music in the last few years, but lets just talk about a few bands I have found in 2016. The Mouletts - They were completly unknown to me until a freind recommended a free concert they gave locally. Quite bonkers really, progressive but not necessarly prog with unusual instrumentation including prominant basson and electric cello. Preternatural was one of my top albums of 2016. Bass player Jim Mortimore's dad was in Gentle Giant and that influence shows! Cairo - Not entirly "new" as I knew Rob Cottingham's work with Touchstone. "Say" was an excellent first album and I and looking forward to the second they are recording at the moment. Ghost Community - I knew bass player Matt Cohen's work in The Reasoning so I was drawn to check out his new band. Another solid first album on the heavier, rockier side of Prog. The Anchoress - A interesting project by Cathrine Ann Davis, its more "poppy" than the stuff I would normally go for but still intresting and unusual. Shades of Kate Bush for sure. Dave Foster Band - Streaching the new thing here because Dave Foster is lead guitarist in one of my favourite bands, Panic Room. I first encountered his solo work at the Panic Room Weekend last May and bought a couple of albums. Certainly not new but a rediscovery for me in 2016 were Marillion I had not paid them much attention and only really knew the 1980's stuff but the last album F.E.A.R. along side BBT's Folklore as my faavourite album of 2016.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/14 10:58:30
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One of my favourite 'discoveries' from the last couple of years is Bros. Landreth. I'm not a huge country fan but I like it when it leans more towards 'Americana' and these guys are just brilliant at that.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/14 11:04:44
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bapu
My life has very little time to actually listen to much music besides what I'm making. I do listen on the Songs Forum here so that is kind of "new discoveries", ya?
My drive to work is 5.5 miles, barely enough time to catch a new song.
Be thankful. My commute is an hour each way on a subway train. Underground with no cell signal, so I can't use things like Spotify or radio to surprise me...
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/14 11:34:40
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One of my favourite 'discoveries' from the last couple of years is Bros. Landreth. I'm not a huge country fan but I like it when it leans more towards 'Americana' and these guys are just brilliant at that.
Couldn't help but be reminded of this old classic. Sharke should love this!
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/17 02:00:49
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I recently discovered the 'Dark Ambient' genre. I was actually looking online for suggestions of music to play in the background to Prison Architect. Really evocative stuff, think longships drifting through mist or spooky crypts. e.g. Atrium Carceri, Nox Arcana, Wardruna.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/17 02:49:52
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I recently discovered Grizzly Bear. They have a really nice sound to them and the singer has a great voice, the whole effect reminds me of a cross between Radiohead and Roy Orbison (best I can do sorry). Great songwriting. I love this track.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/17 02:54:05
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This is another great one from Grizzly Bear
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/17 07:17:49
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I just picked up the album Free from OSI (Office of Strategic Influence). This is the type of music I would create if I had the talent to get the music out of my head.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/17 17:30:08
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I just picked up the album Free from OSI (Office of Strategic Influence). This is the type of music I would create if I had the talent to get the music out of my head.
A good shout. I've got O.S.I.s first three albums. 2016 also got me listening to some nutter called Devin Townsend... Or was that 2015? Oh well... Can't remember...
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/17 20:01:48
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Aztec Two Step. Been around awhile but I found them a couple years ago. "Days of Horses" is a great song if you are from Michigan.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/17 22:08:30
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smallstonefan
I just picked up the album Free from OSI (Office of Strategic Influence). This is the type of music I would create if I had the talent to get the music out of my head.
A good shout. I've got O.S.I.s first three albums.
2016 also got me listening to some nutter called Devin Townsend... Or was that 2015? Oh well... Can't remember...
I'm a huge fan of the OSI self-titled album. Not sure why I haven't given the others a go but I'm on it now. Great stuff!
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/18 06:47:28
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smallstonefan
I just picked up the album Free from OSI (Office of Strategic Influence). This is the type of music I would create if I had the talent to get the music out of my head.
Thanks for pointing them out - I have only had chance to listen to a couple of track on You Tube but its right up my street.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/18 07:33:30
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smallstonefan
I just picked up the album Free from OSI (Office of Strategic Influence). This is the type of music I would create if I had the talent to get the music out of my head.
Thanks for pointing them out - I have only had chance to listen to a couple of track on You Tube but its right up my street.
Cool! :)
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/18 18:10:13
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smallstonefan
I just picked up the album Free from OSI (Office of Strategic Influence). This is the type of music I would create if I had the talent to get the music out of my head.
A good shout. I've got O.S.I.s first three albums.
2016 also got me listening to some nutter called Devin Townsend... Or was that 2015? Oh well... Can't remember...
I'm a huge fan of the OSI self-titled album. Not sure why I haven't given the others a go but I'm on it now. Great stuff!
I've got Blood, Fire Make Thunder, Free and their self-titled album.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/19 00:16:29
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I recently discovered Hubert Sumlin, had never checked him out before. I can't remember whether it was someone on this forum who turned me onto him (probably) or whether he popped up on one of those automated Spotify playlists, but I keep going back to this tune, it's the best minor blues I've heard. Great vocal, amazing guitar playing and some of the most tasteful piano playing you'll hear on a blues record.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/19 08:36:03
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To my shame I missed Russian duo I am the Morning off my list of discoveries (but I have mentioned them several times elsewhere  ). Their music has been discribed as "chamber prog" but it defies a narrow genre classification. https://soundcloud.com/iamthemorningbandhttps://iamthemorningband.bandcamp.com/ I just received the latest copy of "Prog" magazine with the results of the 2016 readers poll and I am pleased to see Marjana Semkina picking up both female vocalist and woman of the wear awards and piano player Gleb Kolyadan coming second behind Marillion's Mark Kelly in the keyboards award. Gleb's piano playing is sublim, the band are well worth checking out even if you would not normally listen to "prog".
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/19 08:57:37
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Animals As Leaders. They are an instrumental progressive 3 piece band and they sound amazing. I've never heard music like this before, 8 string guitars, played that way. Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes are phenomenal players, each on their own. Crazy time signatures they all play so fluidly, and the drummer is not a tom obsessed player either, very percussive and groove oriented, tight and tasteful.
It's great fun to listen to, and the writing is really good. Might take a couple listens to unpack it all, but it's addictive - be careful.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/19 09:09:33
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One of my favourite 'discoveries' from the last couple of years is Bros. Landreth. I'm not a huge country fan but I like it when it leans more towards 'Americana' and these guys are just brilliant at that.
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Very nice. Just one funny thing, and I have not heard anything else by these yet on purpose ... it reminds me of Bob Weir's first album when he put together "It looks like rain", and Jerry Garcia decided to practice his steel guitar, and one comment at the station in Santa Barbara was ... now the GD is doing country music! It's just really nice stuff .. and has less to do with country and anything else, except those folks expression. Just the thought of "country", actually turns me off listening to it, but I trust the words of the folks here and listened to it ... and it was very very nice! I actually thought of Paul Simon some while writing this up, and that's not country!
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/19 09:47:03
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I just got back from a couple of weeks away, behind the wheel most of the time. Armed with XM I did a lot of intentional searching/listening to things I normally wouldn't listen to. Nothing made me want to hear more.
Nothing.
There was one tune that got my attention, I don't remember the name, but as soon as I looked at the dash and saw "Butthole Surfers" I immediately changed the station and gave up.
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/19 10:52:59
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Keep looking, there are nuggets of good out there!
(Oh yeah, and don't judge bands simply on their names. I have several albums from the Butthole Surfers, the F*** Buttons, Bongwater, Bondage Fruit, Alien Sex Fiend, Bare Naked Ladies, Dead Kennedys, Incredible Expanding Mindf***, Kick Bong, Birth Control, CinderVOMIT, Circle Jerks, Club 69, Garbage, Lucifer's Friend, Orgasm Death Gimmick, Premature Ejaculation, Purple Helmets, Rotting Christ, Satan's Pilgrims, Sex Gang Children and the Sex Pistols just to name some, and excluding a few that most people didn't realize were crude like Thin Lizzy and Steely Dan).
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/19 11:12:09
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Kyu Sakamoto, relatively well known for Ue O Muite Arukou.
Fantastic Japanese crooning :-)
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/19 11:22:03
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excluding a few that most people didn't realize were crude like Thin Lizzy and Steely Dan).
[rock trivia nerd] Steely Dan, yes, but 'Thin Lizzy' were named after a character in UK comic 'The Dandy' called 'Tin Lizzie'. It was a kind of backwards joke because Irish people often pronounce 'thin' as 'tin'[/rock trivia nerd]
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/20 00:19:00
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So the female toy was named after the band then? 
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/20 00:35:48
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I've discovered tons of music during the last year, but none of it is very new. I think the only contemporary is Pigovat's Holocaust Requiem... I became a HUGE fan of Penderecki and Lutoslawski. Alexander Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 9 (Black Mass). François Poulenc. Also - Harry Christophers and the Sixteen. I love choir music, especially the darker stuff. I bought 3 or 4 albums of theirs last spring. And many, many others. Otherwise, I'm happy just listening to KISS. :P EDIT - How could I omit possibly my absolute favorite: Beethoven's Late String Quartets. How have I managed to live up to 44 before I discovered those?!
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Re: New Music Discoveries
2017/01/20 01:23:00
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☄ Helpfulby Rain 2017/01/20 03:58:53
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I became a HUGE fan of Penderecki and Lutoslawski.
Aren't they that Polish Country and Western duo? 
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