Emo, Blues, Rock, Shoegaze and Post Hardcore.
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So i never see people around here who share my music tastes, but i was curious if they actually exist. Most of it seems to be electronic or metal.
Currently there are a few guys that I'm absolutely digging on.
This thread is mostly intended for live music of recordings btw.
Reignwolf.
The man, and future legend. He played Coachella without having an album out and is currently touring with black sabbath. He is a fucking blues rock machine that stole the powers of Dan Auerback and Jack White and quite possibly a canadian wolf. He plays half his set solo, and the other half with a backing band, featuring a guitarist with 2 bass strings on his guitar.
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Royal Blood. These guys are a new band. Just drums and bass, and they sound absolutely huge. I'm so shitty i missed them when they lived in Brisbane for a while
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Basement. British band from Ipswitch.
They sound absolutely huge, they broke up but are having a reunion tour in the us right now. This is a full show, but fuck if the sound isn't amazing.
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Dinosaur Pile Up.
British Grunge band.
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Currently there are a few guys that I'm absolutely digging on.
This thread is mostly intended for live music of recordings btw.
Reignwolf.
The man, and future legend. He played Coachella without having an album out and is currently touring with black sabbath. He is a fucking blues rock machine that stole the powers of Dan Auerback and Jack White and quite possibly a canadian wolf. He plays half his set solo, and the other half with a backing band, featuring a guitarist with 2 bass strings on his guitar.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=030FGor0IfA"]Reignwolf Studio - YouTube[/ame]Royal Blood. These guys are a new band. Just drums and bass, and they sound absolutely huge. I'm so shitty i missed them when they lived in Brisbane for a while
[ame="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHBJpCjq50E"]Royal Blood - Little Monster - Later... with Jools Holland - BBC Two - YouTube[/ame]Basement. British band from Ipswitch.
They sound absolutely huge, they broke up but are having a reunion tour in the us right now. This is a full show, but fuck if the sound isn't amazing.
[ame="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFYHXhfiLe4"]Basement 'Live In London' 2012 - YouTube[/ame]Dinosaur Pile Up.
British Grunge band.
[ame="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o23sOXSfcHU"]Dinosaur Pile Up - Traynor ( Live at Rock and Roll Circus ) - YouTube[/ame]
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It's not really practical to go through a thread like that sharing music, because our tastes are so goddamn different.
Also the focus here is on live performances.
If anyone is still interested in good live music videos i'd recommend KEXP on youtube. Superbly recorded and a ridiculous number of videos. I go searching for new musicians there all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/user/kexpradio/videos?view=0&shelf_id=1&sort=dd
A few favorite examples
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I'm glad you put it here because I never look in the "what are you listening.." thread.
I must say i never used to be so into all of this stuff until i started playing guitar and existing in bands. It made me appreciate live acts so much more. And it's kind of why i use live performance videos as a litmus test for what the band is really like.
this has some kool live performances in the post-rock/shoegaze area
http://suffocateforfucksake.bandcamp.com/
http://rosetta.bandcamp.com/album/wake-lift and all others albums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ZXXr8ZP3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDYfX5D_O_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0PYwPMnUCM
just for a few. Many more. Too much to list.
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Brick + Mortar
2 piece band, fat poppy / crunchy sound at time, straight up bad asses.
Live Set -
http://audiotree.tv/session/brick-mortar/
Album version -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8c3v06QeE0
Water Liars
3 piecer, a great folk / rock / countryish mix up... great stories and solid / short songs that has me listening to their new album over and over again.
Live Set -
http://audiotree.tv/session/water-liars/
Album Version
https://soundcloud.com/fatpossum/cannibal-1/s-Ao6xy
Also... I see you like Dinosuar Pile-Up (their ablums have been on repeat for a solid month now) check out their awesome live set - http://audiotree.tv/session/dinosaur-pile-up/
Also Muzz - www.Audiotree.tv - You can catch all these bands (and way more) doing great live sets. The audio engineering is super sold too, great production values for great bands.
Thanks man!
Audiotree is pretty sweet. I haven't made enough effort to go through it, so I'm going to do it more!
So you play as well? What sort of gear do you have man?
Yup, I've been playing for awhile now, sadly I don't have much gigging gear these days (should be getting back into it this summer though) but I always mess around with writing / recording shitty songs haha.
What about you?
Are you a fan of Wilco? With Nels Cline on board they are doing some wicked stuff.
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Also this is my current setup.
Kustom coupe 36 tube amp, Gibson Zoot Suit SG.
I'm still building my pedal board up but currently i have a Diamond Quantum Leap, a Walrus Audio Iron Horse and a digitech whammy. But I'm thinking of getting rid of the whammy in favour of a micropog and a good overdrive like a Timmy, or a Walrus Voyager.
I also need to make the pedal board. But i kind of want to make it something special when i do it. Find an old suitcase or something.
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You will probably dig these guys man.
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If a mod reads this can i get a thread title change to "Live Music Performances - Emo, Blues, Rock, Shoegaze and Post Hardcore", thanks!
Also here is probably the best live recording I've found of the black keys when they were just a 2 piece.
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If you can sit through the first song of this to get to the second. It fucking pays off.
Spaghetti western influenced rock, with Karen O esque vocals.
http://audiotree.tv/session/flint-eastwood/
the founding fathers of post rock, love this album.
KEXP just posted an acoustic warpaint set!!! (if you ever get a chance to see warpaint live, fuggin do it. they are awesome)
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Continuing the awesomely talented ladies trend, I'll put up some Land Of Talk -
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And also...
Carolina Hum (my sister's band
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These are some older songs, their new stuff / EP they are working on is sounding awesome me thinks!
And one more newish song from them (not live though) - http://carolinahum.bandcamp.com/
Your sisters band sounds cool. Though i think i don't like the playing style of Land of Cypher, too many open strings in std tuning :P.
Do you know of Chelsea Wolfe?
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http://shawnjamessoul.bandcamp.com/album/the-hawk
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one of my personal favourites, awesome song and an awesome band!
Gotta say i've never much enjoyed bonamassa though. To clean. Blues has to be dirty man.
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I might as well share some videos. Here is a band that deserves more attention:
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Aaand some instrumental stuff:
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http://daylightpa.bandcamp.com/album/jar
Crawl, No ones Deserving, In on it are the songs Id listen to first. They're ace.
EDIT: I tried to find some good live recordings of them but i couldn't.
Maybe i should elaborate as to why i love live recordings so much. If you have ever played in a band, you know just how much stuff goes wrong when playing live, shit breaks, you drop a pick, the singer cant fucking hear over the drummer and sings off key, the bass is too quiet, your cymbals fly off because you forgot to bring the nut to hold it down.
Now taking into account having a good sound guy that is actually able to capture this energy and the skilled camera guys pulling off the work.
Any studio recording you listen to is going to seriously have every single part done over and over again to remove the little mistakes. There will be multiple re-dubs of tracks to thicken the mix, and vocals will be layered. Give me enough time and a shitty garage band and I'll give you something listenable in a studio. It would take years of constant work for the live recording in one take.
It takes a ridiculous amount of skill to pull off a well recorded live set, and it seriously gives me a crazy amount of respect for the musicians who can pull that off.
There are bands that i couldn't care less about in studio performances that I'll listen to live recordings all day long. Reign-wolf is the prime example of this.
It seriously makes me sad when i come across bands that i can't find great live recordings of.
Damn this is freaking awesome.
Last song/gig ever performed by this amazing Japanese rock/post-hardcore band called Number Girl.
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Guess I should probably post something, here's some stuff from Citizen and Modern Baseball, both bands that are under the Run For Cover record label.
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They have an awesome back catalog of bands like Basement, Tiger's Jaw and Seahaven, all worth a listen at some point.
I really liked the first one.
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They are tight as FACK!