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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: 100Coogn on December 11, 2014, 04:23:45 PM
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Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1FxxqSQesg)
Never heard of these guys, until I saw them a couple weeks ago on David Letterman. The link above is from Dave's show.
I really like them. They have a lot more videos on youtube.
Coogan
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Reminds me a bit of Amy Winehouse. I like that beat they use.
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Nice. I like.
Here's another band you (probably) have never heard of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvlhYVyfKhw&list=FLfVSmRkYpXaz-xsjqiNgvjw&index=19
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I'm not surprised there's a few bands out there you've never heard of. I spent over twenty years in the music industry and at it's peak, including re-issues, the industry was releasing 30,000 albums per year and maintaining an in-print catalog exceeding 120,000 titles. The vast majority of new artists even then faded into obscurity.
Letterman, for the most part, has done an excellent job in showcasing new talent on a consistent basis. Unfortunately, with the decline and splintering of the industry, it's become even harder for new acts to see the light of day and make a living at their craft although new opportunities have presented themselves to those who are well managed and marketed and can build a cult following.
The rapid decline in album sales removed a critical revenue stream from the aspiring artists income so artists have had to become more resourceful than ever before. Sadly, few posses both the talent and the business acumen to make a living creating their art.
I'll stop rambling. Here's a couple of my relatively recent favorite discoveries that I keep coming back to although probably not unknown or even new at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRUqpgg-8Ps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRUqpgg-8Ps)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxQs84FMWQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxQs84FMWQ)
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Love the Raveonettes and St Vincent. Im Tuned to sirius underground garage and XMU to hear all the indy stuff, because thats where its at IMO.
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Here is my son's band
http://youtu.be/_uwMCTPp7hM
He is on guitar back right of picture (tall white kid with glasses)
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Marillion
They are a British band. Think Rush, Pink Floyd, Genesis, with a touch of Yes and U2 all rolled in to one.
I'm going to Montreal in April of next year to watch them. :aok
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I'm not surprised there's a few bands out there you've never heard of. I spent over twenty years in the music industry and at it's peak, including re-issues, the industry was releasing 30,000 albums per year and maintaining an in-print catalog exceeding 120,000 titles. The vast majority of new artists even then faded into obscurity.
Letterman, for the most part, has done an excellent job in showcasing new talent on a consistent basis. Unfortunately, with the decline and splintering of the industry, it's become even harder for new acts to see the light of day and make a living at their craft although new opportunities have presented themselves to those who are well managed and marketed and can build a cult following.
The rapid decline in album sales removed a critical revenue stream from the aspiring artists income so artists have had to become more resourceful than ever before. Sadly, few posses both the talent and the business acumen to make a living creating their art.
I'll stop rambling. Here's a couple of my relatively recent favorite discoveries that I keep coming back to although probably not unknown or even new at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRUqpgg-8Ps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRUqpgg-8Ps)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxQs84FMWQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxQs84FMWQ)
I really liked The Raveonettes, from your first link. St. Vincent was good too. Very mellow sounding.
Coogan
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I'm not surprised there's a few bands out there you've never heard of. I spent over twenty years in the music industry and at it's peak, including re-issues, the industry was releasing 30,000 albums per year and maintaining an in-print catalog exceeding 120,000 titles. The vast majority of new artists even then faded into obscurity.
Letterman, for the most part, has done an excellent job in showcasing new talent on a consistent basis. Unfortunately, with the decline and splintering of the industry, it's become even harder for new acts to see the light of day and make a living at their craft although new opportunities have presented themselves to those who are well managed and marketed and can build a cult following.
The rapid decline in album sales removed a critical revenue stream from the aspiring artists income so artists have had to become more resourceful than ever before. Sadly, few posses both the talent and the business acumen to make a living creating their art.
I'll stop rambling. Here's a couple of my relatively recent favorite discoveries that I keep coming back to although probably not unknown or even new at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRUqpgg-8Ps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRUqpgg-8Ps)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxQs84FMWQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxQs84FMWQ)
hehehe, it's funny to think of a 'new' artist being 'broken' by Letterman. I think in a modern context it's more of a 'wow, they were even on letterman!' (or 'this band was on letterman, i think it's safe to say they're old news now).
the internet is everything now. by the time a band has been signed by a label with any kind of profile they're probably going to have sold (or given out) hundreds or thousands of EPs or albums that were self recorded. Music no longer makes its way through Rolling Stone and MTV and times square billboards. Now it percolates with tumblr, music blogs, eventually big review sites like Pitchfork and Stereogum, where you'll see artists who recorded their albums out of pocket in their friend's living room compared favorably alongside albums put out by Sony of bands that fill stadiums. It's pretty cool I think.
There's a gigantic amount of (good!) music that's released on a daily basis. You can find exactly what you want, because somewhere out there there's someone who likes the same thing, and now they have the means to record and distribute it to everyone on earth, without some businessman what and how they need to record to turn a profit.
The latter issue has caused some pretty big label-dropping controversies recently, from the huge self-release of In Rainbows by Radiohead after they got tired of EMI several years ago, or very recently (oh I guess like a year or two ago now) when Sony told experimental hip hop band Death Grips that they would have to wait to release their second album (following up an insanely well reviewed debut album earlier in the year)(Death Grips took the recordings and posted them on the internet, using a picture of the drummer's noodle with the album title written in sharpie on it as the cover art. Just to make sure Sony would never be able to seriously release it).
I think in a lot of cases record labels are more there just as a distributor once the album is already recorded. Of course this may be an idiosyncrasy of the brand of indie/punky sort of music I primarily am into.
Alex G is a good example of an artist who really was touring the country for like a year before his most recent album DSU got picked up by a label. He put out hours and hours of music that was recorded in his bedroom before that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuu44Ka9TEY&index=3&list=RDY9MWgkcggX4
http://sandy.bandcamp.com/album/dsu
unfortunately you can't download his album from bandcamp anymore since he was signed, you can still stream it though
elvis depressedly is another band in the same vein that I saw with Alex G a few months ago. They haven't released anything through a label yet which is good because it means they can still release their stuff for free. their 2012 album hotter sadness is something i can't recommend highly enough.
http://elvisdepressedly.bandcamp.com/album/hotter-sadness
(my bad they're releasing their next album through Run For Cover) (video treats 90s aesthetics as vintage in true cutting edge fashion )(I don't like the direction of this sound oh well)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmpazNmUHvI&list=RDY9MWgkcggX4
Also, what a crazily uncharacteristic St. Vincent performance that was :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDh9bp2y14k
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRGz1b9M9u0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2CoBgo7vnY&list=FLfVSmRkYpXaz-xsjqiNgvjw&index=7
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4i41cOv0s&index=13&list=FLfVSmRkYpXaz-xsjqiNgvjw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdBBYRVjlxA&list=FLfVSmRkYpXaz-xsjqiNgvjw&index=15
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgsdblVq8wo&list=FLfVSmRkYpXaz-xsjqiNgvjw&index=18
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http://youtu.be/k6_G5PlEXdk
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http://youtu.be/iAPrUJg4fkE
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Was there... Altar bar.
http://youtu.be/iAPrUJg4fkE
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Courtney Barnett is SWEET
Avant Gardener has really cool lyrics, her deadpan is fantastic
"The paramedic thinks I'm clever 'cos I play guitar
I think she's clever 'cos
She stops people dying
(...)
I take a hit from
An asthma puffer
I do it wrong, I was never good at smokin bongs
I'm not that good at breathin in
Not that good at breathin in"
Here are some bands that'll make you wish you were living in Philly (like Alex G above). Philadelphia's the only city that matters anymore.
Radiator Hospital! This is from their most recent release, Torch Song, which is probably my favorite album to come out this year (free on their bandcamp, listen to it). They are GOOD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trvRhDH4fMA
Hop Along is coming out with a new album soon which is insanely exciting. Frances Quinlan has one of the most emotive voices I've ever heard. When she yells it's ograsmic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yCySkwpXfw
The Hundred Acre Woods - Pennsylvania. Because Pennsylvania is the only state consistently making music that matters (okay that's not true there's also Maryland, New York and New Jersey)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0jWA3t4Vkw
Waxahatchee - Coast to Coast. Philadelphia by way of Alabama. Because if you're not from Pennsylvania and you want to make music you move to Pennsylvania. (Or Brooklyn like her also very talented twin sister in Swearin')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlhFE8-KBDE
Pill Friends - Samael. Suburbia and drugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfvCNm9PleM
And for tolerable Pop Punk there's even Modern Baseball (house shows house shows house shows house shows also going back to your parents house in east PA suburbs over break this video speaks to me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIy2wyEV0qc
And there's sooooo much more agghhhh especially if you count recently defunct bands god why is philadelphia so good?
(here's something from my neck of the woods with University of Pittsburgh darlings Fun Home [good shots of {I think} the cemetery in Lawrenceville, a classroom and the library in Frick Fine Arts building, and the basement of 'the' Fun Home in South Oakland {RIP}{I think})
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWx88SDrRsE
(The drummer also RIPS on guitar in a band called Yes Yes a Thousand Times Yes)
Was there... Altar bar.
http://youtu.be/iAPrUJg4fkE
Ahh man, the first show I ever went to was at Altar Bar (Harrisburg sucks really really bad for music). I was in the front row right next to the kid filming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyvsvrHuvJg
Good place!
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http://youtu.be/UvVuEEPM3j0