Shearwater announce Jet Plane and Oxbow is due out January 22nd, which makes it music of 2016.
However, they have "shared" the single Quiet Americans which technically would be music of 2015. I was confused and decided to go with the new thread. My head hurts.
Not sure how I feel about Quiet Americans. I like guitars and clearly Meiburg has moved toward electronic more and more, but every time I buy the new Shearwater record I find brilliance somewhere, if not everywhere.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
Turns out that Meiburg used very little synth on the record and most of the sounds I was referring to were made with the same guitar he's been using for years.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
Swedish pop legends ABBA reunited on stage for the first time in 30 years last night. All four members of the group attended the launch of their new ABBA-themed restaurant, Mamma Mia! The Party, on 20 January, and found themselves receiving rapturous applause
“Now that you’re all greased up, how about ‘Lust for Life’?” Iggy Pop said in a voice that was part Midwestern twang, part grizzled prospector to his new band as they rehearsed at a North Hollywood studio. Although it was Mr. Pop’s first time singing with the group, which had been preparing on its own, the mood shifted quickly from tension to elation. After each song, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, who assembled the musicians, asked Mr. Pop if he wanted to wrap up, but Mr. Pop kept calling for more: first new songs and then oldies from “The Idiot” and “Lust for Life,” his two late-1970s collaborations with David Bowie. Mr. Pop, 68, wore a dark, patterned shirt, baggy black pants and sandals. He had started the rehearsal seated, conserving his energy, but by the end he was strutting.
“We’re hanging on by the skin of our teeth, but we’re making it through,” Mr. Homme recalled of the group’s initial practice with its singer a few days later. “And by the time we get to ‘Lust for Life,’ we’re all sweating and dancing around with this moronic look on our faces. Iggy looked over at me and …” Mr. Homme mimed a wink and a half-concealed thumbs up. “With Iggy, compliments are not forthcoming. It was a real moment.”
The new songs are from “Post Pop Depression” (Loma Vista), an album Mr. Pop and Mr. Homme wrote and recorded together with utmost secrecy and full independence, which is scheduled to be released in March. Its music shows both songwriters’ clear fingerprints: the pithy, hard-nosed clarity of Mr. Pop’s lyrics and the unflinching tone of his voice; and the crispness, angularity and deft convolutions of Mr. Homme’s chords and melodies. (The group will be making its debut on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” Thursday night.)
What is the role of a white person in the struggle of black people fighting injustice? That's the question posed by Ben Haggerty, better known as Macklemore, as he puzzles out his own role as a white artist in love with hip-hop on a new song called "White Privilege II."Macklemore & Ryan Lewis released the song as a free download overnight via a website that also offers links to "supporting black led organizations," and already, conversation and controversy have begun.
On the song's webpage, Woods writes that she "was honestly wary at first because of what it sounds like: 'Macklemore doing a song about Black Lives Matter ....' When you hear that for the first time, it's only natural to give it a side eye." She says it was challenging "knowing that the song was being created with a white audience in mind," and "The process of making this song is a microcosm of how I imagine white people aiding Black liberation struggles. You can't just have a good intention and run with it. You have to listen to the needs of Black people in your community and in organizing spaces."
Back in October, a rather unexpected collaboration surfaced online between two musicians coming off reunions with their respective bands. Paul Westerberg, fresh off a few touring stints with re-energized ’80s guitar-rock titans The Replacements, joined up with Juliana Hatfield, who was experiencing her own return to tours with ’90s alt-rock staples the Juliana Hatfield Three.
Did you get snowed out of last night’s Springsteen show at Madison Square Garden? Are you getting psyched up for Wednesday’s MSG show or Sunday’s Newark show? Well, the Boss made an announcement last night that’s good for everyone: the MP3s of the official recording of his January 19 Chicago concert are now free to download through January 26.
The MP3s, which will usually set you back $9.99 a show, are right now available at no cost at live.brucespringsteen.net. (FLAC — free lossless audio codec — and the physical CD, which are also available for every show part of the Springsteen Live Archive project, are not part of the giveaway, and will be available later this week.)
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One record I'm really looking forward to is Brian Fallon's solo record in March. He's a relatively unknown artist who I think deserves more attention. His band The Gaslight Anthem is pretty big in the punk/folk scene, their song "45" was in one of the NHL games from a few years ago, NHL13 or 14 maybe? He's in a few smaller bands as well and I love just about everything he's ever put out.
If anyone else is into punk rock I believe a few bigger bands like Against Me! and hopefully Dropkick Murphys (depending on the status of their piper) are putting out new records this year as well, so that should be fun. Also interested to hear the new Falcon record. If you haven't heard of them check them out, it's Brendan Kelly and Neil Hennessy (The Lawrence Arms), Dan Adriano (Alkaline Trio), and Dave Hause.
Hopefully this post makes sense to someone, but it's probably just total gibberish to most. Such is the life of a punk fan these days though!
In non-punk news I enjoyed Megadeth and David Bowie's new records. I'm interested to hear Kanye West's album too. Not a huge fan of his but he does put out a solid tune here or there, and he's hyped it up like no other. Also I hope Drake puts out something not terrible on his new record so I don't ever have to hear Hotline Bling ever again. I usually don't hate Drake's stuff but man that song is horriawful. Other than that I'm not too sure what else is coming out this year. I haven't had much time to look it up.
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