Music Thread

[reinko]

What are people listening to these days?  My iPod is getting borrrriinnnngggg.

[BrewCity83]

Country Roads by John Denver

[Spotcheck Billy]

my listening changes all the time, currently been listening to alot of Otis Taylor and also Graham Parker - I know, both are quite a bit different from each other but so it goes

[Real Chilly Podcast]

I highly recommend getting Spotify Premium... it is worth the $10 a month far more than Netflix is IMO

- no commercials
- entire world of music
- available on mobile devices (not in free membership)
- offline mode allows you to download your playlists to laptop/device for listening when no Internet available (example... I have a list of 200 favorite tracks that I have available offline on my iPad that I listen to in my car, hand picked from any album any artist)


with that said, I'd like to contribute music... my favorite band Dr.Dog just came out with a new album and the best track on it happens to be called Warrior Man

here's the YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7wMiWyj5pY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[reinko]

I highly recommend getting Spotify Premium... it is worth the $10 a month far more than Netflix is IMO

- no commercials
- entire world of music
- available on mobile devices (not in free membership)
- offline mode allows you to download your playlists to laptop/device for listening when no Internet available (example... I have a list of 200 favorite tracks that I have available offline on my iPad that I listen to in my car, hand picked from any album any artist)


with that said, I'd like to contribute music... my favorite band Dr.Dog just came out with a new album and the best track on it happens to be called Warrior Man

here's the YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7wMiWyj5pY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Thanks, right now I am on the Free Spotify for music at work, and like it so far, might upgrade to Premium, but thanks for your thoughts.

To add to the thread, but enjoying Mayer Hawthorne to put me in a solid mood at the office.

[Real Chilly Podcast]

Thanks, right now I am on the Free Spotify for music at work, and like it so far, might upgrade to Premium, but thanks for your thoughts.

To add to the thread, but enjoying Mayer Hawthorne to put me in a solid mood at the office.

as a Detroiter, I approve

[Ari Gold]

just created a pandora comedy station. Aziz Ansari

Also Girl Talk

[Mobot]

Does anybody listen to Bon Iver (hometown Eau Claire)?  I saw that they won a grammy but I don't think I have ever heard any of their songs.   

[jtrash37]

Bon Iver, Air, Florence + the Machine, the Kooks, Vampire Weekend, and Sia (as well as here stint with Zero 7) are on my playlists atm.  I'm also a big fan of Pandora.

[nyg]

The new Evanescence album. 

[JD]

Marilyn Manson

*The Dope show

[Real Chilly Podcast]

The new Evanescence album. 

do you go to MATC?

[wadesworld]

Brett Dennen (recommend "Sydney," "Heaven," and "Ain't No Reason" to see what he's about) and Mat Kearney (recommend "Ships in the Night," "Count on Me," and "Down" to see what he's about).

[nyg]

do you go to MATC?

Nah.  Just an old geezer who loves the voice of Amy Lee. 

[JD]

Nah.  Just an old geezer who loves the voice of Amy Lee. 

I'm not huge into the goth/punk look, but i would do dirty, nasty, uncatholic things to her!

[Blue Horseshoe]

Grimes, Sleigh Bells (new album disappointed me), Girls, Cloud Nothings, Tennis, Iceage, Jeff the Brotherhood, F*cked Up, Washed Out, Yuck, Smith Westerns, Cults, The Misfits, OFWGKTA, Phantogram

[tower912]

Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphy's, Enter the Haggis, Fenians, Great Big Sea, Gaelic Storm, Afro-Celt Sound System.......tis the season, laddie.   

[MUFC9295]

Currently in rotation: Gutter Twins, jezabels, king khan a/t shrines, BRMC, kermit ruffins, madness, selectors, the melvins

[ZiggysFryBoy]

good Christ, outside of Tower's Irish bands, I don't think I've ever heard of 95% of these groups.

[mu03eng]

Fun. 's new album Some Nights is in heavy rotation on my Spotify playlist.  Also anything by The Avett Brothers.  Old school is CCR and Jim Croce.  Also Jay-Z and Kanye album Watch the Throne is great.  

[Hards Alumni]

good Christ, outside of Tower's Irish bands, I don't think I've ever heard of 95% of these groups.

Ziggy, that is what makes it cool nowadays.  If you're the only one that has heard of it, you tell a couple of people and seem cool cuz you are the one who told everyone about 'that band' before they were big.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Ziggy, that is what makes it cool nowadays.  If you're the only one that has heard of it, you tell a couple of people and seem cool cuz you are the one who told everyone about 'that band' before they were big.

Yeah but you have to listen to bad music to be able to do that.

For the record, I did that with Bush and Gin Blossoms. 

[mu03eng]

Ziggy, that is what makes it cool nowadays.  If you're the only one that has heard of it, you tell a couple of people and seem cool cuz you are the one who told everyone about 'that band' before they were big.

Or the less crotchety get the damn kids off my lawn  answer is that with the proliferation of media delivery systems(twitter, facebook, spotify, pandora, itunes, etc)  it is much easier for a new band to get music out there and have someone hear it and like it.  Also means the megabands like U2 or Springstein are a thing of the past because the audience has become so fractured.

[Hards Alumni]

Or the less crotchety get the damn kids off my lawn  answer is that with the proliferation of media delivery systems(twitter, facebook, spotify, pandora, itunes, etc)  it is much easier for a new band to get music out there and have someone hear it and like it.  Also means the megabands like U2 or Springstein are a thing of the past because the audience has become so fractured.

Well I'm 30, so I'd say I am not crotchety.

[tower912]

Yeah but you have to listen to bad music to be able to do that.

For the record, I did that with Bush and Gin Blossoms. 

For the record, I did that with U2.   Also, I was at Verve Pipe's first show back around 1990.  It was a big deal, because two local bands, Johnny with an I and H2O for the Pool had disbanded and merged to form the new local supergroup.     And during my senior year, ASMU scored a concert of two acts that nobody ever heard of.   So for $5, I got to see 10,000 Maniacs and Tracy Chapman.  

[Jay Bee]

I think the fellas listen to most of these artists during warm ups on game day.

Weirdos.

[LON]

Does anybody listen to Bon Iver (hometown Eau Claire)?  I saw that they won a grammy but I don't think I have ever heard any of their songs.   

[mu03eng]

Does anybody listen to Bon Iver (hometown Eau Claire)?  I saw that they won a grammy but I don't think I have ever heard any of their songs.   

I've heard a couple of their songs its like a folk emo fusion in my mind and emo shouldn't stand by itself let alone fused with anything.

[Hards Alumni]

its one dude... my cousin loves him.

I don't get it.

[Blue Horseshoe]

Justin Vernon annoys me quite a bit. Thanks for nothing, Eau Claire.

[Spotcheck Billy]

So for $5, I got to see 10,000 Maniacs and Tracy Chapman.  

back in the olden days of WZMF & QFM there were a slew of concerts priced from $0.93 to $1.98 etc. for bands like Billy Squier, Angel, Ramjam, April Wine, Piper, City Boy the Godz, the Tourists (later morphed into the Eurythmics) Yesterday & Today(later shortened to Y&T) etc. at places like the Palms, and the Riverside and Uptown theaters

I miss cheap ticket prices  

[w0bbie]

Any fans of current punk/pop-punk/hardcore?

Bayside, The Wonder Years, Title Fight, Polar Bear Club, Make Do and Mend, Transit, Handguns, Such Gold, I Am the Avalanche, Living With Lions, La Dispute, Silverstein, Fireworks, Comeback Kid, The Flatliners, The Story So Far, Smoking Popes, Foxfires, Lowtalker

[foreverwarriors]

Fun. 's new album Some Nights is in heavy rotation on my Spotify playlist.

+1

[Blue Horseshoe]

Any fans of current punk/pop-punk/hardcore?

Yeah, I think Cerebral Ballzy, Iceage, F*cked Up, Japanther, The Thermals, Male Bonding, & Japandroids, have all put out some good music (relatively) recently.

[tower912]

All of this talk of bands I've never heard of (getting old happens) reminds me of a funny story.
My roommates and I, after a few beers, wrote a punk song in the style of the 80's with the catchy chorus "Why are you so f-ing posessive (repeated 3x) (pause)...  (w)itch.  Since we had a song, we needed a name.   We called ourselves the Anti-Beats.   We used to sing our anthem in the shower.   Out at the bars, one of my roommates would be engaged in conversation with arty girls.   He mentioned that the Anti-Beats was one of his favorite bands.   One arty girl responded that she liked their earlier stuff but wasn't a fan of their new stuff.     Hilarity ensued over more beers.     We vowed to return to our roots with our new material. 

[Lennys Tap]

Goin' up to Beertown to see John Prine Friday Night...God, am I old.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Any fans of current punk/pop-punk/hardcore?

Bayside, The Wonder Years, Title Fight, Polar Bear Club, Make Do and Mend, Transit, Handguns, Such Gold, I Am the Avalanche, Living With Lions, La Dispute, Silverstein, Fireworks, Comeback Kid, The Flatliners, The Story So Far, Smoking Popes, Foxfires, Lowtalker

The smoking popes were my neighbors growing up. Saw them at the rave opening for local h in the late ninetys

[LON]

All of this talk of bands I've never heard of (getting old happens) reminds me of a funny story.
My roommates and I, after a few beers, wrote a punk song in the style of the 80's with the catchy chorus "Why are you so f-ing posessive (repeated 3x) (pause)...  (w)itch.  Since we had a song, we needed a name.   We called ourselves the Anti-Beats.   We used to sing our anthem in the shower.   Out at the bars, one of my roommates would be engaged in conversation with arty girls.   He mentioned that the Anti-Beats was one of his favorite bands.   One arty girl responded that she liked their earlier stuff but wasn't a fan of their new stuff.     Hilarity ensued over more beers.     We vowed to return to our roots with our new material. 

Was she drinking a PBR?

/I love me some PBR, but I don't drink it ironically

[awilhelmscream]

Any fans of current punk/pop-punk/hardcore?

Bayside, The Wonder Years, Title Fight, Polar Bear Club, Make Do and Mend, Transit, Handguns, Such Gold, I Am the Avalanche, Living With Lions, La Dispute, Silverstein, Fireworks, Comeback Kid, The Flatliners, The Story So Far, Smoking Popes, Foxfires, Lowtalker

I'm a huge fan of The Flatliners.  No Trigger, A Wilhelm Scream, We Are The Union, Strike Anywhere, and Propagandhi have all been in regular rotation on my ipod for the past few weeks as well.

[MUBurrow]

Was she drinking a PBR?

/I love me some PBR, but I don't drink it ironically

We need more of this. Occupy PBR.

[Blue Horseshoe]

We need more of this. Occupy PBR.

Has anyone noticed that PBR tastes better from certain bars? Kinda like how MacDonald's has the best fountain coke. There is one bar in particular in my neighborhood where PBR tastes noticeably better.

[Spotcheck Billy]

Has anyone noticed that PBR tastes better from certain bars? Kinda like how MacDonald's has the best fountain coke. There is one bar in particular in my neighborhood where PBR tastes noticeably better.

maybe that bar actually cleans their tap line/washes the glasses

I've stayed away from PBR since the day I turned 18 and could drink beers that I actually liked instead of stealing PBR or Red White & Blue from my friends father's stash