what are y'all listening to?

The album is not bad so far, for some kind of whimsical Brazilian hipster shit.

I'm listening to Mississippi records black metal mix tape called Satan Is Real, it's awesome.

Don't listen to much Americana, but I am enjoying the Kings Daughter's and Sons album a whole lot. Sounds like a more epic and Slint-ier version of the Palace Brothers (no surprise really - the band's made up of members of Rachel's, The For Carnation and the Shipping News). Really good stuff!

Tyler, if you read this thread, you should get in on this btw, think you'd dig it

Should add that when I say "Slint-ier" it's got that sort of lumbering tautness to it, not that it's especially noisy or metal-ish or anything.

Just had a wild weekend with Live From The Old Town School back and forth across the generations (1956 to the early 00s), with Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. Big Bill Broonzy, Pete Seeger (together and sep, much better than expected either way), Van Ronk, pungent as usual (rec for Beefheart vocal fans), Baez, John Hammond Jr., John Hartford (all three meh, but even they have some good effect in context), primo Dan Hicks & band (Hot Licks, Acoustic Warriors, or maybe in between?), Steve Goodman, Jon Langford, Martin Carthy ("Willie's Lady", awes), Malvina Reynolds, Odetta, Doc Watson (with Merle, I think), Oumou Sangare, John Renbourn & Jaqui McShee, Conjunto Cespedes. Mahalia Jackson,Andrew Bird, Ramblin Jack, Joaquin Diaz, Hamza El Din, Merle Travis--well, you get the drift. Great sequences and subsets, for the most part, and lots of fun, if a bit near the knuckle, as old school Brits say (mortality gets its licks in for sure, but so does the fried ice cream). A bunch I'd never heard of as well, not just the folkie pantheon.

Oh yeah, it's about 5 discs-worth I think (listening to download promo),and out Dec 6, last I heard.

capsule - WORLD OF FANTASY
capsule - Fruits Clipper
Ariel Pink - The Doldrums
Rodolfo Caesar - A Arte Dos Sons
Rod Summers - An Occluded Front At Full Moon
R.A.E.D - Straight Through (listening to this a lot actually)

I've been on a big Jim Hall kick lately and I've been listening to his work with Paul Desmond, Art Farmer and Jimmy Giuffre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdxzU00hSGA

This is the list of artists with CDs on my desk right now: John Cale, Muddy Waters, Grateful Dead, The Melvins, Dick Dale, Bob Seger, Bobby Bland and Fu Manchu.

i am listening to a cd by a band called Bold Cabbage. it is very good!

Todd

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― Fake Eyeball, Monday, December 5, 2011 2:40 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark

OMG WANT

van smack is that you?

zola jesus - conatus
kendrick lamar - section.80
goapele - break of dawn
azealia banks - '212' (a lot)

I'm listening to Mississippi records black metal mix tape called Satan Is Real, it's awesome.

This is a joke, right?

Today:
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties, s/t, Tyranny and Mutation
Paul F. Tompkins - Impersonal
Ali Akbar Khan - Morning and Evening Ragas
Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm
Archie Shepp - Blase
bunch of tracks off my iPod - Henry Tree, The Electric Toilet, The Attack, etc.
Cabaret Voltaire - Three Mantras
Hot Knives - s/t (TIP!)

songs on high rotation
Flatlanders - Dallas
Heads, Hands & Feet - Everybody's Hustlin'
Charlie Robison - New Years Day, El Cerrito Place, Big City Blues
Jerry Garcia Band - How Sweet It Is
Buddy Holly - I'm Looking For Someone To Love
Josh Turner - Why Don't We Just Dance
various old-time fiddle tunes via the Appalacian Digital Library

http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/mrc035a.jpg
http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=2732

That looks awesome and I will be downloading it when I get home tonight! Thanks for the heads up.

Muddy Waters - His Best 1947 to 1956

Dallas Orbiter - Monthly Singles Club (they do an A/B side each month online, one side new original, one side a cover, everything from BOC to Al Stewart to John Cooper Clarke - Ned you might like these guys) - http://www.dallasorbiter.com/

A bunch of MP3s I downloaded from a site called Excavated Shellac - which basically dude gets crazy rare old 78s from Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, Mideast, etc and digitizes them...fucking weird/cool/amazing stuff:

http://excavatedshellac.com/

yeah, that excavated shellac guy is great. need to catch up!
he did a great comp for dust to digital -- http://dust-digital.com/black-mirror.htm at least I think it's the same dude?

Black Mirror was done by Ian Nagoski

oh oops, wrong 78 guy. excavated shellac did this one, my bad: http://www.dust-digital.com/cgi-bin/xpresscart/store.cgi?p=Excavated_Shellac:_Strings&s=880226200114

Bitch Magnet, thanks to the nice reissue set from Temporary Residence. I have to say, the trend I love most in 2011 was these 3-disc reissue packages that cost less than $15 - i.e. this, Supreme Dicks.

Babymetal - Doki Doki Morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QbAXXXOJF8

Might have to nominate this for tracks.

Oh wait, looks like it's 2010.

Todd Edwards' FACT mix, bangs so hard. Hit after hit!

Office of Futre Plans' self-titled debut, J Robbins new band on Dischord. I'm liking it a lot on first listen, feels like a decent summation of everything he's done to this point - some more abrasive punk-inspired stuff, some great softer pop moments. The use of a cellist on many of the tracks is actually a nice touch and works really well, eased the fears from when I initially read about that.

I'm loving the distant mechanical grind and thump of the Perc album right now. Really suits my oppressed winter mood. Not even joking - it's like the techno equivalent of Scott Walker's The Drift or something.

Heh, I was JUST reading about that Perc album on Popmatters' best electronic albums of the year, sounds intriguing actually.

"Slowly going mad in a steelworks and loving every moment" is how I tried to describe it the other day. Something very hard and yet hot - like molten lava I guess. "Wicker and Steel" is actually a very good description of the textures going on in it.

The two mixtapes here, by this Finnish jazz dude, one sort of rockabilly and pop and the other really heroine jazz sort of stuff, the latter in particular is really good.

http://soundcloud.com/hayv-mixtapes

Also in a concession to new music I like the Peaking Lights album.

http://open.spotify.com/user/iamronan/playlist/1KqcQRy7SOaUh4SWcDga02

Anyone got any recommendations? For anything whatsoever...tho I am mostly listening to old stuff...

heroin jazz...not sure what heroine jazz would be.

Charlemagne Palestine - Schlingen-Blangen

This morning, I'm really loving Mike Corbett & jay Hirsh and Sam Signaoff.

listening to the Lamb album again; this really is my favorite album of the year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pNzviB_dP0

this song warps time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPI2Qym07iQ

impulse bought this LP yesterday and it came with a poster and a dvd of "water wrackets" which is a bit much really, but it's so pretty and i totally dig the bongos (i don't even know if they're really bongos but it def gives this song a popol vuh vibe, 100% pure catnip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skNz1u9DUhI

Chico Buarque - Chico
Sussan Deyhim - City of Leaves

EOY catch up. Spotify is being relatively unintrusive, too. Oops, spoke too soon.

That Babymetal track and vid are so frickin' ridiculous. Well done.

Joao Gilberto - Chega de Saudade
Orange Juice - Coals to Newcastle (loving most of this, esp the early stuff and Peel Sessions. they kinda owe a nod to Talking Heads as much as Al Green, imo)
Kenny Dorham/Jackie McLean - re-ish of their two records together
also quite loving Poly Styrene's from this year. thx whoever mentioned that recently on their year end list!!

http://i44.tinypic.com/16kdtv5.jpg

John Foxx And The Maths featuring Tara Busch - 'Where You End And I Begin'

http://soundcloud.com/thequietus/john-foxx-and-the-maths

Motion Sickness of Time Travel

whoa. really digging her stuff.

Paul Simon at Webster Hall, June 6, 2011

three late year discoveries that have really enriched my life over the last few weeks:

julia kent (green and grey - thanks lamp)
julianna barwick (magic place)
julia holter (tragedy)

legend has it that if you play all three records at the same time in japan, everyone spontaneously shits their pants

i'm listening to "hero" by chad kroeger feat. josey scott

http://myfoodlooksfunny.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/funny-food-photos-its-a-pita-mergency.jpg

that looks delicious