General Music Discussion Thread (a.k.a. indie lovefest)

[kipin]

Hey all. My roomate found this awesome group called the Soulsavers and I am really digging them.

They have a heavy hip-hop, gospel, rock, and soul influence as well as some experimental sounds at times reminding me of Pink Floyd.

Their new album entitled Its Not How Hard You Fall Its the Way You Land is due to come out in England (No US distributor) on April 5th 2007. The album features Mark Lanegan on eight of the tracks, who has a very unique and powerful voice.

This band is definitely worth checking out.

[NickMPK]

Getting Sirius has really brought me back into the indie loop; I had sort of lost track of a lot of it since college. I've always been really into britpop, and there seems to be a bunch of new bands to my liking.

Anyway, my favorite 6 tracks that they seem to play a lot on the Sirius "Left of Center" station:

1.) The Pipettes - Pull Shapes
2.) The View - Superstar Tradesman
3.) The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
4.) Cold War Kids - We Used to Vacation
5.) Robbers on High Street - The Fatalist
6.) Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby

Actually, over the past week, I've abandoned Siruis in favor of All Pipettes All The Time. Slightly embarrassing, but something about that album just does it for me.

[Jack of Arcades]

Nick,

About a month ago, "All Pipettes All the Time" was essentially what my gf and I did. The CD was in the cd player for a couple weeks. We've sinced moved on to a steady rotation of Modest Mouse, of Montreal, andJustin Timberlake.

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

I was listening to some 2007 releases I hadn't gotten too and was struck by the album Tones of Town by Field Music. It's simply a well-constructed pop album that's more interesting than the usual indie pop fare. I like it a lot and it works well as an album and I really haven't been listening to albums in album format recently, so I think that's a big complement from me.

Anyway, I would listen to In Context on the Field Music MySpace Page . If you want to read more about the album, head over to the AllMusic Page .

Let me know if you like it.

[Marnixvdb]

I've seen the pipettes live a couple of months ago, it was an ejoyable show. I like their tunes even though their music isn't exactly groundbreaking. Yet it has a sweet character and Phil Spector girl bands is not the worst choice of music to refer back to [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Entertaining to say the least.

The show obv also made for good conversations about which girl was hottest/cutest/would make the best girl friend.

Has www.fabchannel.com been mentioned? Features free video recordings of shows in Paradiso, Amsterdam and has some gems in their archives. A pipettes show is on their site, I scanned it quickly and it appears to be on the mediocre side (sound is lacking in presence). A great The Magic Numbers performance can be found as well.

btw All The Pipettes All The Time - is that how the album is named in the US?

[NickMPK]

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I've seen the pipettes live a couple of months ago, it was an ejoyable show. I like their tunes even though their music isn't exactly groundbreaking. Yet it has a sweet character and Phil Spector girl bands is not the worst choice of music to refer back to [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Entertaining to say the least.

The show obv also made for good conversations about which girl was hottest/cutest/would make the best girl friend.

Has www.fabchannel.com been mentioned? Features free video recordings of shows in Paradiso, Amsterdam and has some gems in their archives. A pipettes show is on their site, I scanned it quickly and it appears to be on the mediocre side (sound is lacking in presence). A great The Magic Numbers performance can be found as well.

btw All The Pipettes All The Time - is that how the album is named in the US?

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No, it is just all I've listened to since I got it. The album is not yet out in the US; when it does come out this summer I'm sure it will have the same name as in the UK.

They are actually playing in the US this week...a couple shows in NY and then Austin for SXSW. I really wish I could go, but my work schedule is crazy this time of year. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Jack of Arcades]

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The show obv also made for good conversations about which girl was hottest/cutest/would make the best girl friend.

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Such a tough decision. RiotBecki has the badass librarian thing going on, Gwenno is the classicly hot, and Rosay is the uber cute one.

(pics at the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pipettes]wiki[/url for those who don't know)

[Hoopster81]

Any thoughts on the new Arcade Fire album? I've listened to it a couple times and think it's pretty good.

[Hank Scorpio]

I'll expand on my post later with some specific albums, but people who aren't familar with the Saddle-Creek record label out of Omaha yet need to definetely check it out.

[Event Duality]

I agree. I am a pretty big Saddle Creek fan myself.