Well, I've been DJing for my on-campus modern rock radio station this semester, so the last few months I've heard a lot of music that I hadn't heard before b/c I'm not normally a big "modern rock" guy. One artist that I'm beginning to like in particular is Virginia Coalition. I really like their song "Sing Along" and just heard "Home This Year" for the 1st time today, but I like it too. Anyway, check them out. They're pretty darn good.

 

Some other songs I really like that I've heard on my radio station that I had never heard before:

 

Car Crash - Matt Nathanson

Mr. Pitiful - Matt Costa

Nighttiming - Coconut Records

Riot Radio - The Dead 60s

27 Jennifers - Mike Doughty

All In My Head - Shawn Mullins

Wait For The Summer - Yeasayer

Well, I've been DJing for my on-campus modern rock radio station this semester, so the last few months I've heard a lot of music that I hadn't heard before b/c I'm not normally a big "modern rock" guy. One artist that I'm beginning to like in particular is Virginia Coalition. I really like their song "Sing Along" and just heard "Home This Year" for the 1st time today, but I like it too. Anyway, check them out. They're pretty darn good.

 

Some other songs I really like that I've heard on my radio station that I had never heard before:

 

Car Crash - Matt Nathanson

Mr. Pitiful - Matt Costa

Nighttiming - Coconut Records

Riot Radio - The Dead 60s

27 Jennifers - Mike Doughty

All In My Head - Shawn Mullins

Wait For The Summer - Yeasayer

 

 

Go buy yourself a copy of any Soul Coughing albums. Go nuts

Saw Angels & Airwaves last night. Pretty awesome, they played for 2 hours...

Anytime I have seen A&A live on TV they were so bad I was embarrassed for them, so I have never tried to see them.

Been listening to Evermore quite a lot lately.

 

Never Let You Go is a very catchy song.

I've started getting into Ok Go lately.

 

They're more than the treadmills.

I've started getting into Ok Go lately.

 

They're more than the treadmills.

They're a very good power pop band.

A lot of catchy songs, I like them a lot.

Check out their ping pong "How To" video if you haven't seen it before.

 

Pretty hilarious!

Started listening to Lupe Fiasco a little after reading the recommendation here from a few pages back.

 

Anyone recommend his best songs?

Started listening to Lupe Fiasco a little after reading the recommendation here from a few pages back.

 

Anyone recommend his best songs?

"The Cool" from his first album "Food & Liquor" is my personal favorite. Also if you get a chance try and find some of his earlier mixtape stuff from the "Fahrenheit 1/15" series

I feel like Jack Black when he's listening to the skater kids' band in High Fidelity "It's really....It's really f***ing good..." But the new Panic at the Disco album is actually QUITE enjoyable. It's a total 180 from the sound of the first album. The songs are catchy as s*** with some nice horn and orchestrial arrangments to boot. The lyrics arent anything special, but there are some passages in there that I dig...

 

"That Green Gentlemen", "Northern Downpour", "She had the World" are my current favs...

Bell X1 "flock" has been entertaining so far.

 

Hem "Eveningland" is fantastic.

 

 

and I'm waiting to watch Sigur Ros' "Heima" on DVD.

Anyone heard of The Blood Arm?

 

I'm diggin' the s*** out of them lately, especially "Do I Have Your Attention" with the French chick...

The B-52s have a new CD out? :

Two more acts rumored for Lollapalooza...

 

Rage Against The Machine & Kanye West...and theres word that Kanye's gonna do stuff from the side project he's been working on with Lupe & Pharrell....

 

*Wipes drool from laptop*

i think its so awesome that Lollapalooza is pretty much only in Chicago now.

I feel like Jack Black when he's listening to the skater kids' band in High Fidelity "It's really....It's really f***ing good..." But the new Panic at the Disco album is actually QUITE enjoyable. It's a total 180 from the sound of the first album. The songs are catchy as s*** with some nice horn and orchestrial arrangments to boot. The lyrics arent anything special, but there are some passages in there that I dig...

 

"That Green Gentlemen", "Northern Downpour", "She had the World" are my current favs...

Check out House of Fools if you like the new PATD album. I feel like what PATD was shooting for with 'Pretty.Odd.' is exactly what House of Fools did on 'Live and Learn'

i think its so awesome that Lollapalooza is pretty much only in Chicago now.

 

it's not pretty much only, it is only

it's not pretty much only, it is only

 

Yeah, for now. Who knows if they ever want to cash in again and move it around.

From the "awesome headline" category:

Dr Pepper Will Give Everyone* in America a Free Soda If Axl Rose Releases New Guns N' Roses Album, Chinese Democracy, In 2008

*Guitarists Slash and Buckethead Will Not Be Eligible For Free Soda

And CNN, it's POP! (Maybe we need 2 versions of CNN.com, one for soda country and one for pop country)

Going to see Explosions in the Sky today. Pretty excited.

Check out 2*Sweet, a Chicagoland band. Good alternative/pop-punk w/ some heavier riffs.

 

www.myspace.com/2sweet

 

www.purevolume.com/2sweetil

I just got back from San Antonio and the Taste of Chaos

 

Oh my god, that was the greatest show I have ever been to.. Bless the Fall, Bullet for my Valentine, Atreyu, and Avenged Sevenfold

 

It was incredible

Anybody going to Lollapalooza? I think the lineup is great this year. Besides Radiohead, I'm really excited to see Broken Social Scene, Okkervil River, The National, Cat Power, Stephen Malkmus, Grizzly Bear, Explosions in the Sky, and Wilco.

 

Also, is anybody into Tindersticks? I just discovered them a couple weeks ago and they are quickly becoming one of my favorite bands.

I just got Let Your Dim Light Shine (Soul Asylum), Conspiracy of One (Offspring), and 14:59 (Sugar Ray) today. Hooray for 90s music.

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Went to Reggie's Rock Room last night to see the Anti-Nowhere League - what a great night of punk fun!

Reggie's is a really great room! Holds about 500 people, maybe, with an upstairs lounge area for another 75 people or so. Nice open room, fairly small stage, benches on each side for people who don't want to get in the middle of it all (raises hand) or for kids who've had too much of this (saw a few of those last night as well). Sound was excellent, loud and clear and I had no ringing in my ears afterwards.

They have a nice video screen behind the stage. Overall, a really good setup.

 

First band to play was Everybody Out! from Boston, MA/Leeds, UK. High-energy Celtic punk featuring an ex-guitarist for the Dropkick Murphy's. I'm not a huge fan of the Celtic thing, and thankfully their sound live was much more punk than Irish. The singer started losing his voice almost immediately, which made him sound a lot like Dicky Barrett from the Mighty Mighty BossToneS. I enjoyed their set very much, but then....

 

I became a little concerned when the next band started setting up, and a kid with a kilt started tuning up his mandolin and bagpipes!! (I didn't even know you COULD tune bagpipes!)

Flatfoot 56 hit the stage and it was immediately clear that this was not a bagpipe and mandolin band, this was (unbelievably) a punk band with bagpipes and a mandolin!! They played very loud and VERY fast, with great tunes and catchy choruses.

And I have to say it - that little f***er in the kilt ROCKED the bagpipes and the mandolin!!

They were absolutely great - loud, fast, funny, and ended with a punk cover of Amazing Grace, of all things!

 

The League came out last, and they played everything the crowd wanted to hear and then some! They played every song off their classic debut album,"We Are....The League", opening and closing the set with the title song. They also played their best-known song right away, that being "So What!", which Metallica famously covered. I actually would have liked to hear them play some of the new CD, Road To Rampton, but Animal announced right away that they would be playing only the "old s***". They had a huge sound, much more metallic than their recorded sound, which was fine by me! The band lived up to their reputation, making rude and sexist comments and gestures the entire night. The crowd was insane all night, with tons of stage diving, circle pits, crowd surfing, and everything else the club claims is not allowed. The League tore it up for about 90 minutes and that was that!