Musical Revolutionaries

Latest New Music

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:50:00 +0000

I haven't been keeping up with music at all until lately; I think when I tried listening to new music a couple months ago I didn't find anything good in the little amount of time I gave it. Anyway, some neat things I've discovered recently:

Emiliana Torrini - Birds

She's Icelandic.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction

And, I'm going to take the liberty of posting this, Larkin introduced me to Passion Pit - Sleepyhead:

I also really like Passion Pit - I've Got Your Number. And I also recently got into the Shout Out Louds. =P

The Of Montreal Concert

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:44:00 +0000

Okay, so I previously thought that Of Montreal and their opener, HEALTH were starting to sound strange (like industrial/metal strange). But... I downloaded Of Montreal's new album, "Skeletal Lamping" and it sounds fine, so I think the Palladium speakers were just overbearingly loud, so that every song sounded like a death metal guitar. Anyway I don't like the Palladium; the venue for Deerhoof, Avalon, was much better.

My favorite part was when they played Franzy's 'Take Me Out' as their encore, followed by Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit." They were fantastic covers, as good as or better than Franzy could play. And I don't know about Nirvana, but it sounded good to me =P

Smearing red paint over his almost naked body

A Tantalizing Offer

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:04:00 +0000

I bought 2 extra tickets to the Of Montreal show at the newly renovated Hollywood Palladium for Sat, Nov. 22. Originally, I thought our friend Sean would be coming with us, but it looks like he'll be stuck up in the observatory tinkering with the telescopes. So yes, I have 2 extra tickets to anyone who is interested in a visit to Hollywood combined with a sparkling Of Montreal concert. It's on me! (The tickets)

Deerhoof...

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:59:00 +0000

Was quite good, though not too flashy. I do like it when bands are a little flashy, maybe not as much as Of Montreal, but I like the flashy lights. For whatever reason, the lights were a little bland at the Avalon (the venue in Hollywood), and Satomi was a little shy. But, she plays bass, has a childish voice, and jumps around. So that makes up for it. She's married to the drummer (Greg Saunier), who happens to look like Tyler.

Greg Saunier and Satomi Matsuzaki:

Deerhoof!

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:42:00 +0000

Seeing Deerhoof tomorrow! WEeeeeeeeeeeeeee~~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJkbcrHPABA

we have a show!!!!!!!!!!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:56:00 +0000

http://kdvs.org/shows/view/show_id/592

It was all sorts of funky!

Why I love Zooey Deschanel

noreply@blogger.com (Larkin) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:24:00 +0000

And forgive her for "Tin Man."

She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?

and for those who love the classics:

Zooey Deschanel - Dream a little dream

Tired of the Same Old Music?

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:48:00 +0000

Or tired of being fed music from the radio?

Try Stumble Audio (no they didn't pay me to advertise for them, but I really like their concept) And I've been listening to their music, and it's all quite good.

Their about section, which you can also access here:

StumbleAudio is a social music discovery site with a mission is to help you find music by new and exciting artists that you would like, rather than play or sell you the hits by known artists that you are “expected” to love.

Our catalog has over 2,000,000 tracks by over 120,000 artists ready to be played in full length, high quality, free of charge.

StumbleAudio started to build its recommendation engine by importing massive anonymous data of saved favorites, music preferences and buying patterns from several online download and actual music CD stores. As you use StumbleAudio the system learns from your “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” and constantly adjusts the music offered to your liking.

We are committed to making our recommendation engine more accurate and relevant as we collect more real use data. We will also soon have various social network applications and widgets to share you music discoveries with your friends on Facebook, MySpace, Blogger and others.

P.S. And, yes, artists do get paid when their songs are played on StumbleAudio.

a revisitation

noreply@blogger.com (seana) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:28:00 +0000

I am at my parents place today and just discovered all of my old music on this old desktop we have. I used it in my first 2 years of college. I thought my dad had deleted everything on it so I assumed it was long gone. But when trying to watch t.v. over the internet I found everything was still there. I was so excited I almost peed myself. This discovery of my old favs was the thing I needed to get me revved up about music again. Let's not forget the old dance hits like gravy train!!!! and fucking on the dance floor. All my feelings depression at san diego and angstiness of freshman year of college came back when listening to dead kennedys. Now let's just hope I can get them on my mp3 player okay.

Death Cab

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:31:00 +0000

I went to the Death Cab concert over the weekend, and they were amazing! I was in a trance, tripping out to the music and the lights. Anyway, their latest album is Narrow Stairs. Yes, their last album Plans wasn't quite as amazing as Transatlanticism, providing good excuse for thinking that Narrow Stairs wouldn't be as good either. Maybe I'm starting to sell out, but for bands that enter the music scene with a smashingly good first album, it's difficult to top that with a second album. This period, the period right after they discover their first album is a HUGE hit, probably consists a lot of deciding whether they should continue to pursue this same sound, change the sound, and which is more likely to happen. This isn't quite the case with Death Cab, but Transatlanticism was probably the album that brought them to the public attention. Basically, I'm just trying to say, give their new stuff a chance to be heard and loved. One of my favorite songs off Narrow Stairs is Bixby Canyon Bridge:

They opened with this song, and it was great! Don't mind the video.

Music Styles

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:15:00 +0000

Tyler and I had a discussion about music a few days ago, that I want to share here. Oftentimes, people dislike music because it doesn't sway the way they know it best, it doesn't mold their moods and requires too much thinking, they might say. I want to point out that too much technicality does not override the emotional aspect, and in fact adds to it. I don't think technically simple pieces are bad, I just think the highly technical pieces are not well understood, so would like to shed some light on it here.

Take the classical guitar. Fast, technical finger-picking can be rife with emotion, as much as or, in my case, more so than a cacophany of chords meant to elicit sorrowful emotions. There is an added emotional element to the former style: the technical difficulty. There is an elegance about proper technique, and in the difficulty of producing a beautiful sound when applying these techniques. A classical guitarist who plays a continuous sequence of notes like rain pellets on your roof needs to spend hours and hours and hours working on 1) the agility of his fingers to hit the notes, 2) creating the most beautiful, untarnished sound possible for each note, difficult when the tempo is very fast, 3) finding an over-arching dynamic sequence so the sequence is coherent and fits in with its context - that is, fluid or sticky, loud or soft, and at which places?, 4) finding an emotional context - should this sequence sound scary, soft, shy, excited, bittersweet? All such emotional nuances are considered in this process.

Essentially, what is happening in this process is that the musician has taken pains to channel all of her emotional energy into the form of a highly structured set of notes, and is telling you, the listener, a story, note by note, sequence by sequence. It is not one focused rant or praise, charged with nervous energy and manifested by incessant chord strumming. Instead, it is delicate, nervous, shy, elated, anxious. And the ability of the musician to show her delicacy and care through a technically difficult piece gives me more of a euphoric high than most chord strumming elations.

I also don't believe a simple piece of music needs to be embellished to be stylistic. I like the clean sound of a simple note, a sweet deep sound that is not embellished with a constant frenzy of dynamic and tempo changes. If the musician transfers all her care into creating the deepest, richest, sweetest sound possible for every note, that's all that really matters. I'm referring here mostly to the Bach Partitas and Sonatas for solo violin (or cello). I don't enjoy how many of my musician friends find it necessary to define their own style so specifically. There is much to be interpreted in Bach's pieces yes, but there is also much to be appreciated for what has already been written. That is my style.

I like classical and electronic music for the reason that there are different voices that fit together - they are omnipresent and independent, and you can focus on different voices when you listen to these pieces. So what's happening in a classical or electronic piece? It's up to you to find out. Pick out an over-arching melody, one voice that's playing an accompaniment to the melody, or another voice that's giving the piece a bass boost for added depth, or one that's playing a variation on the melody. There are so many things happening!

That isn't to say I have no love for non-classical or non-electronic music, or that I think classical or electronic is far superior (sometimes, but I might love MGMT more). These two genres are generally excluded in the mainstream, so I like to put a little focus on them.

sa-ra

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:16:00 +0000

i found this group a little over a year ago and somehow let them slip away. well i recently rediscovered them after viewing this video made in support of obama by tisa, the group's front man

and i couldn't find a full length video of my favorite song by them.

Hollywood

but you get the idea...

and this is they're single from a year ago ft. talib kweli and erykah badu

feel the bass

and here's erykah on them

ps. i saw erykah live last sunday and she did something to me. i haven't figured out how to verbalize it yet...but i will say that i left feeling very energized.

What I'm feeling RIGHT NOW.

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole) — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:04:00 +0000

Her name's Hollie Smith and she's from New Zealand and I'm obsessed. I only found out about her a day ago, so I'm still learning about her. So far I love everything I hear. I feel like I've been deprived of good music. At least I have her now. Please enjoy the smooth melodies of Ms. Hollie Smith. Watch all three parts if you can.
Part One

Part Two

Part Three

MGMT

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:16:00 +0000

I'm addicted to this song, Kids

But others may like this better. Of Moons, Birds, and Monsters

Or the radio song (don't mind the video... this is the only embeddable one I could find), Time to Pretend:

Sia: The Girl That You Lost to Cocaine

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:31:00 +0000

I'm kind of in love with Sia right now. She's done a lot of stuff with Zero 7 and I also love love love her song "Breathe Me."

ps. she's dating jd samson from le tigre.

Kiwi - Imagine

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:35:00 +0000

I basically copied and pasted this from one of my favorite music/spoken word blogs.

Nelly?

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:33:00 +0000

Tiga - Hot in Herre

Swedish

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:32:00 +0000

I think I'm getting into a Swedish kick

funk 101

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:28:00 +0000

hopefully this helps you in your quest...
to avoid 30 second clips: login to imeem and then click launch standalone on this playlist.

Funkadelic - I Got A Thing 1970

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:18:00 +0000

hahahaha hell yes

Way Better Than Fish Or Meatballs

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:32:00 +0000

Listen to these two Swedish songbirds

Little Bit- Lykke Li

With Every Heartbeat- Robyn

you may remember Robyn for this:

New Musics

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:52:00 +0000

I'm looking to get into funk... Anyone have any suggestions? Classic funk, funk fusions, anything really that is good to start off with for funky funks.

I also want like Spanish acoustic folk songs. Any ideas/suggestions?

noreply@blogger.com (Larkin) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:59:00 +0000

I really like this: Colin Munroe - I Want Those Flashing Lights

and if you haven't heard the original
Kanye West - Flashing Lights

Chromeo - Needy Girl

noreply@blogger.com (I, Lynnbot) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:49:00 +0000

So Chromeo is this band I discovered from my housemate Derek (again). They're sort of like electro funk. Funk funk with electronic beats. I don't know how else to describe their sound. But this video is awwwwwwesome! Hahahahaha

noreply@blogger.com (Larkin) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:37:00 +0000

After you have sent your cd can you just post a comment to this saying sent, and same thing after you've received yours. (or you can just strike through your name on this post)

Thanks a whole lot

SENT:

~~NICOLE~~
UDAYAN
~~SEANA~~
LYNN
~~LARKIN~~
JOCELYN

RECEIVED:

~~NICOLE~~
UDAYAN
SEANA
~~LYNN~~
LARKIN
JOCELYN