Posted on 02/13/2014 8:29:59 AM PST by Notary Sojac
Snowbound today, so it's time for a new "new music" thread. As before, I'll kick it off with three bands primarily active in the 21st century, and welcome any and all feedback (except as mentioned below).
This will be a continuing series of posts, every month or so. If you want to be pinged, please freepmail me.
If you think all this sucks and would rather listen to Zep or the Stones, I've already heard from you - please feel to start your own thread!!
Dropkick Murphys - They've been described as the love child of the Pogues and AC/DC, I think that's about right. Hard charging Boston Irish barroom punk that never lets up.
Recommended album - "Sing Loud, Sing Proud", tracks "Heroes From Our Past", "Rocky Road To Dublin".
Donna The Buffalo - Start with a jam band base, but add tight, danceable hooks, wickedly clever lyrics and a prog-bluegrass flavor.
Recommended album - "Silverlined", tracks "Locket and Key", "Forty Days and Forty Nights"
Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles - Just your basic alt-country punk garage band whose lead singer has a whiskey-soaked, dirt roads voice that will bring tears to your eyes. If you like Dave Alvin (from my first post), you'll like Sarah.
Recommended album - "Silver City", tracks "Daniel Lee", "Think Of What You've Done"
It's a pretty shopworn standard now, but after my first listen to Knopfler pulling those luscious chords out of the Strat, I said to myself, "Dear God, can the seventies finally be coming to and end??"
Let me second that, they're fantastic. The Lochloosa album is one of my all-time favorites.
The tried and true method... Tour like hell and be better live than in the studio. See Halestorm for a crash course ;)
Rode it to a Grammy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kXlKWepqsc
Take the money and run.
Taking about oldies Notary Sojac was the name of one of the horses in the race won by Beetlebomb in the Spike Johes classic. The name first appeared in a comic I just learned now called Smokey Stover.
I saw Nicklecreek at the Largo last night in West Hollywood. Great band.. they won a grammy for best new bluegrass band in 2001. just reformed for a new album and tour.. sort of a cross between bluegrass and fusion... wonderful amazing musicians and songwriters.
"Where's the Money?" - the swingingest live album ever recorded, bar none.
"Striking It Rich" - the best studio album by his original late '60s lineup.
"Beatin' the Heat" - the best album by his new '90s Hot Licks lineup.
Do get back to me after you have listened some...
Ah yes, the Dropkick Murphys. I have had some of their music playing at work a time or two. My musical tastes are eclectic, so I might do something like add Atomik Harmonik to this list...
Sad.
Thanks for the suggestion, they are pretty good!
Back in 04, they joined up with Glen Phillips (of Toad the Wet Sprocket) for a bunch of shows under the name "Mutual Admiration Society"
I saw this lineup twice and they damn near blew the roof off the hall. Some of those shows are available for free download here:
https://archive.org/details/MutualAdmirationSociety
Pounding, Instrumental, Electronic Rock. Great for working out or driving a car like you stole it. Check them out.
Like ur new listeners... Been a DKM fan and more The Pogues.
Try these out......
William Elliot Whitmore ~ gutsy soulful hip banjo musician from Iowa
Devil Makes Three ~ this trio is killing it, all Cali shows this month SOLD OUT!
Sean & Zander ~ the Dynamic Duo! Two X Punk Rockers gone acoustic!
Peter Case ~ former lead Plimsouls brings folk alt acoustics like Tom Waits
* been going to many of Dave Alvin’s shows of late he gets better and better...! More so when he is joined by his brother Phil! American Music!
Both Alvin brothers, and the Blasters, are so, so heavy in my playlist rotation....
If you have not heard it, give “Song for Sonny Liston” a listen.(Mark Knopfler)
Then u gotta love The Knitters and X !
Not totally hooked on X (although Exene’s vocals have always sent me), but yeah, the Knitters are great. Hope we don’t have to wait another ten years for the next album.
“x” is an entire different genre..., we’ll kinda.., it’s own! There is nothing finer than Exene and John Doe in harmony... Not since the Cash Family!
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