Definitely one of the best bands.. my favorite album is their first one, which had Alan Bishop on nearly every song. But they do "PSYCH ROCK" without any cliches. THey're just amazing.

Fugazifan, FUNERAL MARIACHI should be available "online" today or tomorrow... bet you're psyched!

Yeah, here's da yonkers: http://www.mediafire.com/?gz4qzoem2y5

(Drag City) This is crazy fucking good! This strange, beautiful ball of weird miraculously never falls into the novelty zone, Yonkers' earnestness transforming absurd juxtapositions and strange voices and ideas into something that makes perfect (non)sense. Recorded by (the now lauded by psyche-heads, freak folkers, and obscuro-philiacs) Yonkers in 1977, and unheard since then, this song suite contains sweet songs. It alternates between strange pop, folk, old time rock 'n' roll, gospel, madrigals, goth, yodels, and Detroit punk that would scare the Stooges...all on one record in a half hour! Yonkers' vocals recall Roky Erickson, Jandek, Lux Interior, Moe Tucker, a puppet, Roy Orbison with a cold, Froggy from Andy Devine, and Klaus Nomi when he just woke up, and I know I'm missing about 900 others. Yet it's also delicately, strangely distinct. This is like outsider art done by someone who is actually a brilliant technical and formal expert on everything but just can't help making music that sounds like someone who lived in a cave and has never spoken to anyone but his friend the rock, was involved in all the decision making. Gold indeed!

so far:

1 Daughters - Daughters
2 Punch - Push Pull
3 Zola Jesus - Stridulum II
4 Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
5 Walls - Walls
6 Naked on the Vague - Heaps of Nothing
7 The Books - The Way Out
8 Giant Drag - Swan Song
9 All Kinds of People ~Love Burt Bacharach~
10 Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
11 The Hundred In The Hands - The Hundred in the Hands
12 Sightings - City of Straw
13 Broken Water - Whet
14 anbb - Ret Marut Handshake
15 Bettie Serveert - Pharmacy of Love

I look like a terribele hipster now....so I'm gonna cry while smoking.

thanks for the link, although i already found one. i will give it a listen tomorrow.
and yeah i am psyched about the new and last SCG. although i would like to purchase it. is it coming out on CD or only vinyl?
and its not really the last SCG album for me, soince there are still like 80 that i have never heard.
btw- group inerane is amazing.

oh and although the new MMOB album is amazing, totem one is my favorite so far, if only for people of the drifting houses which is one of my favorite songs.

Hey Adam, who are these crazy talented rifftastic rock bands?

I got some cool ones on my list... new Trumans Water, for example. At the top of my head.. whatever John Reis (Night Marchers) or Rick Froberg (Obits) is doing (formely of Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu -- two of the best bands ever; I've probably listened to Hot Snakes more than any other band ever), or involved in (Beehive/Baracuda, Sultans, Marked Men) is always worth a look. Tons of awesome j indie bands (Yolz in the Sky, Sparta Locals, Toddle, Zazen Boys, Number Girl, Gaji, Bloodthirsty Butchers). Druid Perfume, Vapid, Contaminators, Outer Spacist, Herman's Rocket, Human Egg, Krallice, Piranhas, Manikin, etc. are pretty great mostly recent examples. As far as stuff from a few years ago that no one really paid much attention to despite being amazing, I HIGHLY reccomend Ikara Colt (fast art punk, like early Fall, y'know "Steppin Out" "Firey Jack" but really sloppy and arsy) and Theory of Ruin (like an evil, damaged, quivering Shellac that sounds like they're going to fall apart any second). That Heroin Sheiks album that came out a few years ago is a classic.. that no one paid attention to. Halo of Flies reformed as HoF and are fucking awesome. Just too many to name. New Necrophagist album should be coming out any day, and will likely be the guitar album. I'm sure that Daughters album is awesome, too, they always had great riffs -- thanks for reminding me of it, Lou.

And hey if you want to hear a lot of crazy riffs, check out the new Scissor Shock album :) http://www.mediafire.com/?b28upiail4y5a57 ... the title track alone has around 350 riffs.

So, who's digging the new Reich disc, "double sextet/2x5"? I think it rules. There's a part where all the instruments come together perfectly, creating this really staccato drum/organ thing, with every organ note perfectly on the beat of the drums, and it kicks ass.

Listened to that Michael Yonkers album and loved it. Its like a Greek pirate doing acoustic lo-fi elvis covers with some american indians as the backing vocalists.

glad you like!!

anyone got a link for Group Inerane - guitars from agadez vol3? Loved the other ones.

Another seriously good 2010 release on Sublime Frequencies:

Ecstatic Music Of The Jemaa El Fna ♥♥♥

just get it on slsk. add DerekMcA or godisalive

trumans water has a new record?

Lightin the Shadows by Kaly Live Dub is fucking awesome. For those who loved High Tone's Out Back, check this out. Another french dub band inspired by dubstep, another double album released on jarring effects, another killer. Blows my mind !

The steve reich is, well, very steve reichey. I'm more of a fan of the second half of the record, but overall if you like steve reich or are a fan of other contemporary minimalist composers, you will probably enjoy the pieces.

Right now listening to the sufjan stevens' new one ''Age of Adz'', its typical stevens but electronic. Usual chord progressions and harmonies that make all his stuff recognizable, but with bleeps and boops instead of violins and horns.

Oh yeah on the last track which is over 20 minutes long there is some autotune. No comment.

Has the Puffy Areolas record been mentioned already? It's so ridiculously good it makes me forget The Stooges ever existed.

^I keep forgetting to mention it, but yeah, I like it a lot.

I'm enjoying the following:

Angels - Epileptical West
The Books - The Way Out
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
The Claudia Quintet - Royal Toast
The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Rush to Relax
The Fall - Our Future Your Clutter
Fred Frith w/ Cosa Brava - Ragged Atlas
Gun Outfit - Possession Sound
Holy Fuck - Latin
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit
John Zorn - In Search of the Miraculous
John Zorn w/ The Dreamers - Ipos: The Book of Angels Vol. 14
Kurt Vile - Square Shells EP
Liars - Sisterworld
Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern
Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem Two
The Megaphonic Thrift - Decay Decoy
Moon Duo - Escape
Neil Young - Le Noise
The Nels Cline Singers - Initiate
No Age - Everything In Between
Nothing People - Soft Crash
Sun Araw - On Patrol
Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime
Ty Segall - Melted
Univers Zero - Clivages
Zs - New Slaves

YES

also I forgot the circle pit album which is a great mix between vaselines and (later) royal trux

the best thing i've heard so far this year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnYq-cAKtS8

as expected, new rustie's ep fucking delivers. might be my record of the year, seriously. can't find any flaws in it. it's just totally incredible.

okay, blank dogs - land and fixed is one of the best of the year, definitely.

Damn. I definitely need to check these out. I feel so out of the loop.

joe, my slsk is godisalive

If you're wondering about the lame name, it was just some random shit I typed in.

Haha, I thought that might have been you! I just cancelled my Rhapsody account, and am starting to d/l mp3's again. I'm Merzbong666, if you didn't already know. Currently downloading Blank Dogs, and the Mega Man sndtracks from you.

cool, get as much as you want!!

My username is DerekMcA. Isn't that rad?

i got this through the post yesterday


after giving it a few listens i'll conclude that it is indeed a decent record, however in some ways it is still a bit of a disappointment for me as i know mark can do so much better based on previous releases (amethyst waves, guitar meditations, a pocket full of rain, dream team...). having said that, brain storm (for erin), clear the cobwebs, and brothers (for matt) are a few of the best jams he's had.

some other records i have enjoyed recently,

laetitia sadier - the trip
hype williams - untitled
alastair galbraith - mass
julian lynch - mare

New Blank Dogs is pretty cool so far. The guitarwork reminds me a lot of Robert Smith's, especially on tracks like Longlights, and Northern Islands or Another Language. Which is a definite plus in my book.



Very much so, thanks for the lovesliescrushing! I'll be mooching off you a lot, actually, seeing as you have such a broad selection. Thanks to Rhapsody, I only have a handful of cd's that I've actually held onto. So I'm still in the process of building my essential core artists/albums.

You should snag Natas' Doubelievengod off of me. It's the freshest fucking hip-hop album of all-time, and hardly anybody has even heard of it! East Side Hoes and Money the Unholy, Mastamind, and TNT fucking destroy on every track. It's one of the few albums that I can honestly say is perfect from start to finish. Dat Detroit wicket shit.

While you're at it, why not check out the new Esham? It certainly is an outstanding release of 2010. The production is INSANE.

I downloaded the Odd Future related album by Earl Sweatshirt yesterday since Earl Of Slander keeps hyping that shit up. But once it was dl'd (from their official site) it left me with an empty folder. Maybe it's a joke?

new squarepusher album is great, of course..

Another great album....

Messenger Girls Trio: Excelsior Salon




Sir Richard Bishop is in this band... and they're awesome. Guitar heaven.

Man this year seems slow compared to the last few. I don't think anything has come out that I really love.

Has anyone heard the new The Dead C album yet?

Funeral Mariachi by Sun City Girls, I can't stop listening to it. It's so good. One of the best albums of the year, without a doubt.

In hip hop related albums, ''Black Sabbath''by Blacastan is a complete burner of a record. Nice gritty boom bap beats with precise flow and throwback storytelling. For fans of quality hip hop, don't sleep.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yzzal2ywmtn

the Iridion II sndtrk got a digital re-release this year. It was originally available as a German import only in 2003. Very very very hard to find a physical copy.

B A D P L U S

keep meaning to pick up the new one

okay, so, neil young - le noise is amazing... I'm not a huge Neil Young fan (having said that, I like quite a bit of his work -- just don't find myself listening to much aside from RUST...). But this album rules.

the new Trumans Water kicks gigantic ass.

of course! They don't make music like that anymore!