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Giuseppe Zangara

2005 thus far

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Really Good

Black Mountain - s/t

Low - The Great Destroyer

The Wedding Present - Take Fountain

 

Good

Black Lipstick - Sincerely, Black Lipstick

Dead Meadow - Feathers

Jennifer Gentle - Valende

Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Superwolf

 

Okay

The Decemberists - Picaresque

The Evens - s/t

LCD Soundsystem - s/t

 

Mediocre, Boring, Bad, etc.

Angels of Light - Sing Other People

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

Doves - Some Cities

Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration

Mogwai - Government Commissions: BBC Sessions 1996-2004

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Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Superwolf

These two are coming to do a music hall show in Charlottesville in a week and a half. I have no idea at all if they'd be worth seeing.

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Just them alone? I've heard Oldham's kinda dull when playing solo (or with one other person), but he's definitely worth checking out if he has a full band in tow.

 

I saw him June of last year; Sweeney was a part of his backing band. On stage, both he and Oldham took a very big hit off a joint this dude from the crowd passed up.

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Really Good

The Tower Recordings - Message from the Celestial Explosions

Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower

Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now

 

Good

Ariel Pink - Haunted Graffiti: Worn Copy

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf

M. Ward - Transistor Radio

Iron & Wine - Woman King

LCD Soundsystem - s/t

Hood - Outside Closer

The Fiery Furnaces - EP

Alasdair Roberts - No Earthly Man

 

Okay

Low - The Great Destroyer

The Books - Lost and Safe

Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration

M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us

Lou Barlow - Emoh

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

 

Mediocre, Boring, Bad, etc.

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart

Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn

 

 

I'm too kind/undiscerning. And have probably forgotten stuff.

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God, I've only heard of two bands you people have mentioned and I work in the CD/DVD/video games section of a Best Buy. Where do you people find this stuff, and what genres are they?

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1. The Decemberists - Picaresque

2. Bonnie "Prince" Billie & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf

3. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

4. Low - The Great Destroyer

5. MIA - Arular

 

I've heard the new Wedding Present and the LCD Soundsystem, but each only once, so I haven't decided whether I like them or not. The Wedding Present album was better on first listen, though.

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God, I've only heard of two bands you people have mentioned and I work in the CD/DVD/video games section of a Best Buy. Where do you people find this stuff, and what genres are they?

I watched The OC and advanced from there.

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I'm still waiting for the new Current 93 cd to come out this year. That out of the way, untill then, I'd have to say the new Antony and the Johnsons album is this years best so far.

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I'm still waiting for the new Current 93 cd to come out this year.

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Yea, it's going to be called "Black Ships Ate the Sky", and will feature Antony of Antony and the Johnsons, Shirlley Collins, Marc Almond, Ben Chasny, William Breeze, Stephen Stapleton, Michael Cashmore, Maja Elliott, Petr Vastl (aka Aranos), Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey), Will Oldham, Baby Dee, John Contreras, James William Hindle, William Basinski, Charlemagne Palestine, Chritopher Heemann mixing, and of corse, David Tibet at the core.

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Really Good

"Funeral" - Arcade Fire

"Warnings/Promises" - Idlewild

"Silent Alarm" - Bloc Party

 

Good

"Employment" - Kaiser Chiefs

"A Certain Trigger" - Maximo Park

"With Teeth" - Nine Inch Nails

 

Mediocre, Boring, Bad, etc.

"Tourist" - Athlete

"Push the Button" - The Chemical Brothers

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I'm still waiting for the new Current 93 cd to come out this year.

!

Yea, it's going to be called "Black Ships Ate the Sky", and will feature Antony of Antony and the Johnsons, Shirlley Collins, Marc Almond, Ben Chasny, William Breeze, Stephen Stapleton, Michael Cashmore, Maja Elliott, Petr Vastl (aka Aranos), Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey), Will Oldham, Baby Dee, John Contreras, James William Hindle, William Basinski, Charlemagne Palestine, Chritopher Heemann mixing, and of corse, David Tibet at the core.

!

 

I've never got around to checking out Current 93. Someone give me some recommendations. In the next ten minutes, because after that I won't be checking this for a month at least.

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Best CD I've heard this year is "Be" by Common. A near-classic.

Did you get an advanced copy?

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Best CD I've heard this year is "Be" by Common. A near-classic.

Did you get an advanced copy?

I found it online and downloaded it. I didn't want to spoil it for myself but once I got into I couldn't stop. So yah, great album.

 

Not 100% sure it's the full album though since it's only 11 tracks.

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