good ol "bands you be diggin on lately" thread
 

me:

robedoor-out of all these newish bands making tribalist orgiastic psychedelic noise jams, these guys are my far my favorite. totally freaked out. love the 'greater heresy' cassette and the 'totem pole' cdr.

smegma-my love of smegma has been renwed by some live bootlegs i downloaded (specifically, my favorite, live in paris 2005), they truly blow me away like few bands can. most psychedelic bands ever? possibly.

greyskull-i recently found out there is some pop punk band from texas named greyskull, this is not them. this is a band from my lovely home state of massachusetts, western mass to be exact, where my grandparents live, and this is some total blast in your face chaos inducing dire-y power electronics meets hardcore type shit. the s/t casette rules. vaguely harry pussy-ish, but way more electronics

halflings-one of my favorite newer harsh noise acts. rule.

curse of the birthmark-very skronk-y synthed out neo no wave. loud as hell, excellent live. hints of extreme metal. weasel walter on keyboard.

bela bartok-amazing underrated composer

curlew-the live at cbgb album rocks my world. bill laswell is in the band, so they cant really be bad.

impiety-excellent metal

pussy galore-believe it or not, i had never listened to more than 5 songs by this band up untill a couple months ago, and what i heard didnt impress me. it just sounded like the rolling stones re-imagined as a nihilistic chaos loving junkie collective who dont know how to create music at all, they do it anyways. then i thought, "wait a minute, thatd be like the best band ever, get your head outa your ass". i did, and bought dial m for motherfucker, and theyre now one of my favorite bands. (not to mention me loving royal trux and TLASILA, i had to see where tom and neil had thier beginings)

the rolling stones-ive been getting into them again hardcore, ive always loved them, but havnt listened to them much in a year. last week i broke out all thier records. people on here seem to hate them a lot, but frin 62-72, they were making the greatest, most pure rock n roll i have ever heard. granted, they have become horrible parodies of themselves now, but i dont see how someone who loves rock n roll could hate what these guys were doing when they were young. everything from grimey garage-esque blues-rock (exile on main street), throwback blues (all sold out), psychedelia and relative occultish wierdness (aftermath, at thier satanic magesties request), beautiful ballads (wild horses, moonlight mile), and hauntingly melodic classics (gimme shelter, monkey man, paint it black). so yeah, good band.

well thats what ive been digging on.

tut taylor
lenny breau
night marchers
eniac
marc riley and the creepers
legendary pink dots
fast n bulbous [jazzy covers of captain beefheart songs]
tim hecker

im checkin out the night marchers right now, really good anthemic rockin stuff so far.

Haha. You don't hear them mentioned much here (or indeed anywhere).

DRUNKDRIVER
Afrirampo
Fudge Tunnel
Earth
Derrick May
The Acid Age mix Demonrail666 linked here.

afrirampo is soooooooooooooo great

iggy is all i'm listening to today.

I was listening to a compllation called Nigeria Rock Special, which sounded pretty interesting. Sort of afrobeat-ish psychedelic fuzz rock from the 70's.
No idea of the bands on it though.

Pookie - "Dare to dance on an Aussie Dancefloor/Bloody nose, bloody bore!"

batreleaser - totally w/you on P Galore. I have one of two things you may be interested in - please PM me for more details.....

television
the stooges
the runaways
brigitte bardot

Cantanky - have you got P Galore's "Exile On Main Street" stuff?

I'll second Television.

Also:
Asobi Seksu
Astrobrite
lovesliescrushing
The Damned
Buzzcocks
Dino Jr
The Doors

I'll second The Damned too - have been rinsing "Machine Gun Etiquette" at Melly Towers a lot recently - the title track is especially fab.

somewhere

Ah, that's cool - I got the full tape recently off Soulseek. good, innit?

Other oldies I be listening to:

Skullflower
Birthday Party
Ramleh/Broken Flag stuff
Loop
Electric Wizard
also: a CD of Vietnamese street musicians.

yeah it's pretty goood

Caribou mainly. No Age also. I'm also really into Abe Vigoda lately - and still Dizzee Rascal.

Cantanky - I love the between song arguments between Jon Spencer and Julia Cafritz - no love lost there, eh! Their version of "Turd On The Road" is almost as great as the Stones'....does that count as blasphemy? :D

Black Flag
Captain Beefheart
Slowdive

other things

Gods.

Big Black
Jandek
Pocahaunted
Peter Wright
J Dilla

I've been listening to the MC5 alot, mostly Back in the USA, which really is a far better album than a lot of people seem to say.

But then, I only ever really listen to old stuff anyway, so I'm not sure that my choice really counts.

i love 'kick out the jams', its a perennial no lofi garage/punk rock masterpiece, and probably the most influential live album in rock. but, everything after blows. i cant make it through the first track on 'back in the usa', tutti frutti, corny as aerosmith.

Jeff Buckley's live covers of Kick Out the Jams were fucking incredible. That's how I found out about MC5.

Witch Hats

ac/dc

but i mean. that's kind of a given for me.

Indian
The Sword
Baroness
High on Fire
Alabama Thunderpussy

Night Wounds
Ponytail

Andrew WK

Alice Cooper - Love It To Death. This album absolutely rules, it's like if Rocket From The Tombs were signed to a major label and got a bit glammy.

JFA - Killer skate punk / hardcore.

Yo La Tengo - Just got the best of + rarities 3xCD. I love some of their songs and can't stand others. "Sugar Cube" is one of the best songs ever though.

Now that's terrifying.

Boris
Ed Kuepper
The Aints
Fimbulwinter
Darkthrone
Emperor

2Pac
Animal Collective
Clipse/Re-up Gang
Frank Zappa/Mothers
John Coltrane
Les Baxter
Lil Wayne
Pink Floyd
Sonic Youth
Yesterdays New Quintet

And also some Dipset.

Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Rodan - everything
Big Black - Atomizer
Harvey Milk - Life...The Best Game In Town
Ruins - Vrresto
Suishou No Fune - Prayer For Chibi

among others.

GravitySlips, every single album you mentioned in that post is amazing.

Yeah, pygmalion is probably in my top 15 of all time.

Ruins - Symphonica is definitely my favorite Ruins album... a future CLASSIC ALBUMS post from me :)

And Suishou No Fune is probably my favorite album of the year so far.

I've been on an Irish tip:
Seamus Ennis
Tommy Potts
Seosaimhin ni Bheaglaoich [I'm assuming that's her name, that could easily be the title for all I know]
Siobhoan Armstrong
'Highland Paddy'.

Also, dipping in and out of the proms. Nothing's really blown my mind, but then I've managed to miss all of the Messiaen and the Stockhausen, like a dick.

Ryoji Ikeda's test pattern is pretty special.

Yes, the entire discography of Ryoji Ikeda is essential!

"Matrix" is so great; just a single tone.

I generally don't like 'concept' 'sound-art' stuff - I can't stand 'sound walks' or a lot of 'look! I made an album using only my armpit!' type record. But Ikeda is pretty exceptional.

There's a lot of great stuff on raster noton that I have a strange inability to buy. Poor.