Music 365 - Day Six - Atoms for Peace

So I'm driving to work the other day listening to channel 36 on my Sirius Radio, the Alternative Station and on comes on this band, Atoms for Peace.  I'm listening to it for a couple minutes and I say, "Wow, that sounds a lot like Thom Yorke".  They sound just like Radiohead, who is this?  So Mrs. Media Room jumps on her Blackberry to find out because I have to know and I have to remember it so I can look into it later. Turns out Mr. Yorke and Flea from Chill Peppers formed this Supergroup.  I had no idea.

I was sad to see that they didn't have an album yet, but thankfully the album Amok gets released in a few short weeks. February 25th to be exact.  I'm a big fan of Radiohead so I'm kind of embarassed that I didn't know about this project.  But I felt the need to share this great tune forward.

Check out the single Judge, Jury and Executioner and enjoy it.

So after reading this I had to look into what Radiohead was doing because it seems like forever since they released anything, it has been a while, King of Limbs was released in 2011.  Everything on the net points to Radiohead releasing something this year.  Fingers Crossed.

Music 365 - Day Five - Dogwhistle - The Life And Times Of An After Hours DJ

This should have been for yesterday, but some days are busier than others.

Back in the early 90's I used to listen to a lot of Techno Music, not electronica, Techno. This was back when it was impossible to find at the local cassette shop. You'd find The Prodigy in the Rock Section. Back before all electronica music sounded the same and became boring.

I can't seem to find this one on Amazon any more, I can only find it here.

Music 365 - Day Four - Howlin' Wolf - Moaning at the Moonlight

I first got into enjoying listening to the blues one Sunday night a few years back after watching the Adrien Brody film, Cadillac Records.

In the film you're introduced to a blues singer by the name of Howlin' Wolf. I had listened to a Blues track here and there, I never really looked to much further into. But in this movie, listening to the Howlin' Wolf songs, I thought to myself I have to read up on this guy. I'm loving his stuff. So after many visits to Amazon, Rate Your Music and Wikipedia I had to get listening to more.

I don't listen to the Blues that often, but when I do, I start here. I actually have a large Sketch Book in which I write down albums, bands and labels of stuff I need to check out further. I would like to get pick up this Chess Records compilation from Amazon.

So if you're looking to get into the Blues or if you just want to check it out, I highly recommend picking up this from Howlin' Wolf

Smokestack Lightnin'




Spoonful

Music 365 - Day Three - Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle

Day three of the project and I'm having a blast.

Sat down tonight in the computer room, opened up my weekly email from All Music and started to read about the weeks new release. Stumbled Upon Archers of Loaf, sounded interesting by the description. Thought I'd jump over to Rate Your Music and start reading about them, hmmm, to my surprise they were a band from the 90's. I don't know how I hadn't heard of them before tonight, seems like something I would have enjoyed back then. Looked at the album over at Amazon and read some reviews. A lot of reviewers said that Archers of Loaf had a real Pavement type of sound. Interesting, jumped over to You Tube to check out some tunes. First band that jumped out at me was Nirvana. Back in the 90's I was a huge fan of Nirvana, still am, I just don't listen to them as much I used to. Listened to my Nevermind tape so much that all the writing wore off and I don't know how it didn't just break apart from being listened to so many times. I listen to another few tracks tonight and I'm reminded of Sonic Youth.

Let me share these great tunes with you, maybe you've heard of them and they'll take you back to your youth. Maybe you hadn't heard of them, but they'll still take you back to those days when you rocked the long hair and enjoyed your plaid.

So here's a couple video's for you to check out and see for yourself.

Last Word:



Wrong:



This is the great thing about music discovery, this album is almost 20 years old and it still gives me as much joy as something new like yesterdays post. Takes me back to the days of walking to High School with Kurt screaming into my ears. Doesn't it just make you said when you hear Nirvana on a classic rock station. Ya, me too.

Music 365 - Day Two - Field Music - Plumb

Here we go with day two of the 365.

Yesterday saw the release of Field Music's  Plumbthe band described as a Indie Pop group that has a great old school rock sound that sounds like something you would have heard 30 years ago. It's got a funky sound at times, a prog sound at other, it's something you can have on in the background or enjoy with some serious volume. It's a solid album from start to finish.




Check out the single, A New Town, it's got a great bass-line that you almost get lost in.










See you tomorrow with the next album.

Music 365 - Day One - Sleigh Bells - Treats

I was on one of my favorite websites to find out about new music, Rate Your Music the other day and someone posted about a project they were doing. Music 365, they would post about a new album or try to listen to a new album every day. I'd heard of people doing Photography 365 projects, but I'd never heard of a Music 365 and I thought it was the coolest thing. A great way to share bands with other people. I love discovering new bands and new music, well, in most cases it's just new to me. I spent way too long the last couple of days thinking of what I'd kick it off with. It's a lot of pressure. So, one of the new releases today was Sleigh Bell's Reign of Terror. I haven't listened to that album yet so I didn't want to recommend that. So I thought, what's the next best thing, recommend their debut album. 

What an album it is. With in 15 seconds of hearing the first track I was hooked on their sound. A great album to listen to while driving as it'll get you in the mood to drive fast and more than likely you'll want to ram into other cars. Like I said, good stuck in traffic music.  


Check out Amazon's Description of Treats, The 2010 debut album from the Brooklyn Noise-Rock duo consisting of Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller. This highly anticipated album is a speaker-imploding, mind-melting mix of noize and melody with the accent on the former. Some say that this is the future of Rock 'n' Roll. Some say that this is the end of Rock 'n' Roll. Either way, it's Rock 'n' Roll! 


Here's my favorite track from the album, Tell'Em. 

 

So that's day one done, tomorrow I'll have something a bit calmer for you to enjoy.  Needed to start it out with a bang.