Moonlight Graham Posted April 8, 2015 Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 This is my favorite Kyuss song. I really like the down-tempo portion starting at 3:00 and the lush guitar outro starting at 4:00. Stoner rock, much of it has so much potential but a lot of the more popular bands seem to be missing something, hard to put my finger on it. Kyruss for instance, their vocalist just isn't very good IMO. My fav Kyruss song is Green Machine. Two of my favorite stoner metal songs: and Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardner Posted April 8, 2015 Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 I just discovered Sufjan Stevens... pretty late to the game. Reminds me of Owen Pallet, his voice and the frail sounding songs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercoma Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Wow. That is late to the game. Great album though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardner Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 I'm old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty AC Posted April 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Thanks to your post, I see he has a new album out. Sufjan Stevens always sort of reminded me of a low-fi Hawksley Workman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusThermopyle Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 Anyone see this yet? A novelty but entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty AC Posted April 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 (edited) Check out their YouTube channel, they have made some phenomenal videos. The one guitar vid is certainly what kick started their fame though. It got them on the Ellen Degeneres show and caused Snoop to ask them to open for him. I've seen them live twice and just like their videos they put on an incredibly creative and entertaining stage show. They are all talented, multi-instrumentalists plus they turn the show into an interactive, theatrical experience. They are about to tour again, most of the stops are in the US but they will be in a few Canadian cities. It's definitely a show worth seeing. This one take cover of Royals is an example of the neat stuff they do. The making of vid for this one is worth watching as well. It shows the people in the background tossing the Ukes from one end of the line to the other, etc. Edited April 10, 2015 by Mighty AC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardner Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 Library Voices -> Regina indie-pop sweetness... I just love the Chorus of this one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlight Graham Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 This song warms my soul: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GostHacked Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 I am listening to .. me!! Latest track I managed to finish. https://soundcloud.com/openheartmachine-ohm/wwwts-2015-remix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bush_cheney2004 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Closing time at Target Canada..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusThermopyle Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 These guys are pretty good. Four brothers of South African descent. Their father John Kongos had some success with a few hits back in the early sixties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tDjYuqJRJQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GostHacked Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Wow. That is late to the game. Great album though. I am late to the game in terms of rock, punk, stoner groove rock ..... I've been into the electronic music for so long, I have completely missed other genres. Better late than never!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty AC Posted May 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 Does anyone think Mumford and his various sons would have made it if the new album was their first? I don't mind the Coldplayesque single Believe, but I don't love it. I'm glad they evolved as a band, considering they already made the same album twice. However, I probably wouldn't have given the new tracks a second listen if I wasn't already a fan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW6SkvErFEE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimmy Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 I'm not really into big band or accordion, but for reasons not entirely clear to me I've had this kicking around my MP3 collection for many years. It makes me think of sunset on a beach in summer. James Last passed away this week. -k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimmy Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 This has been on my radio lately. I have no idea who Philip Sayce is, but he's definitely pretty handy with a guitar. -k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummindiver Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 (edited) Retro Friday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2r-HwwZQTY How do you get the video to come up? Edited June 12, 2015 by drummindiver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardner Posted June 13, 2015 Report Share Posted June 13, 2015 The kids on my block are all about Florence + The Machine, who played Toronto. Do people here like her too ? What's a good departure point ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msj Posted June 13, 2015 Report Share Posted June 13, 2015 Spotify. I listen to Flo + the Machine on Spotify. But I'm a middle aged man so that's weird if kids are listening to them too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 13, 2015 Report Share Posted June 13, 2015 Spotify. I listen to Flo + the Machine on Spotify. But I'm a middle aged man so that's weird if kids are listening to them too. Me too, and I've posted a video of them in this thread. But I got her from my kids... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimmy Posted June 14, 2015 Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 The kids on my block are all about Florence + The Machine, who played Toronto. Do people here like her too ? What's a good departure point ? They had a big hit a few years ago with "The Dog Days Are Over" Lately they are back on the radio with this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mKLXUxCMdA -k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercoma Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 (edited) Two recent released that I've been loving are Jeff Beck - Live + and Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly. Both excellent stuff. Great engineering on both. It's good to see the Loudness War is starting to disappear. Edited June 15, 2015 by cybercoma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusThermopyle Posted June 16, 2015 Report Share Posted June 16, 2015 I agree Cyber. But I should point out that Hip Hop and Rap are still very much engaged in the loudness wars. I did read a very good article regarding this in Stereophile magazine a few years ago. They held a conference that included the most highly respected Engineers in the business. They then measured different forms and styles of music in order to determine just how much the dynamic range of said music was affected by this trend of ever increasing loudness. Although they concluded that many forms of music were affected in a very pronounced negative way they also discovered that there were a few exceptions to the rule. Two of these were Hip Hop and Rap. They concluded that these forms of music contained so little dynamic range to begin with that cranking up the loudness during recording had very little effect on the quality, or lack there off. Quite interesting actually and affirms what I've been saying for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercoma Posted June 16, 2015 Report Share Posted June 16, 2015 I agree Cyber. But I should point out that Hip Hop and Rap are still very much engaged in the loudness wars. I did read a very good article regarding this in Stereophile magazine a few years ago. They held a conference that included the most highly respected Engineers in the business. They then measured different forms and styles of music in order to determine just how much the dynamic range of said music was affected by this trend of ever increasing loudness. Although they concluded that many forms of music were affected in a very pronounced negative way they also discovered that there were a few exceptions to the rule. Two of these were Hip Hop and Rap. They concluded that these forms of music contained so little dynamic range to begin with that cranking up the loudness during recording had very little effect on the quality, or lack there off. Quite interesting actually and affirms what I've been saying for years. That's really interesting. There's some very poorly engineered rap albums for sure. I think most of the pop stuff I've ever heard is just muddled garbage. This Kendrick Lamar album is fantastic though. The other one I can think of that stands above the rest was The Roots - Undun. There's definitely room for improvement though. There's a dynamic range database site that lets you lookup the range in albums. Here's the Kendrick Lamar one: http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=&album=to+pimp+a+butterflyand The Roots album: http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/13888. As you can see both albums are on the highest end of bad (7), narrowly missing the transition range. But compare that to something like Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (5) or Yeezus (4) and you can see there's a bit of difference in these other artists. There's a long way to go, but Spotify announced recently that they were going to begin using normalization processes in their streaming service. This makes pushing loudness completely unnecessary and actually more likely to make the songs sound worse. Vinyl is still the way to go for now, since as you're probably well aware, pushing loudness on vinyl causes needles to jitter and makes the album sound like absolute garbage. The masters for vinyl are still far and above better than the way they master for digital or CD. I'm still considering getting a Projekt Carbon turntable. Seems like the best price to quality ratio, but I've yet to bite the bullet because I'm afraid it will just collect dust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 17, 2015 Report Share Posted June 17, 2015 (edited) Thought I'd share. This should cheer everyone up. Not that anyone needs cheering up... Edited June 17, 2015 by bcsapper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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