Music: Who Needs To Be Heard?

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Permalink Reply by D. Jordan on September 25, 2008 at 4:51pm

Mika Miko sounds great. They've got an old-school punk sound.

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Permalink Reply by tubejay on September 25, 2008 at 1:50pm

several times a week i check out youtube for the best new music i can find. my criteria are that they are not signed, that they make a video (i can't stand the photo slideshows) and that everything is original. not all of it is polished, some of it is more like folk music, but there's some great stuff there. here are some favorites:

madi horne: say you don't want to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm-arzMxrDY
sweetafton23: myhope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avxpn_MsPYs
gregdelinator: the_cameraman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEE-CbetSUc
casey smith: chasing fences
fabthegap: dear lady http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGmL-cearqQ
jackiesguitar: somewhere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utq07RcSQzk
lbguitz2: purple 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIHpNWid1hA
yoyoreb: give me cheek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBXdCXBXu28

i also love adele adkins
and i adore mysti from spellbox
totally unrelated spam, i found this while i was assembling the above list and thought it might interest someone on mix. it's some youtube thing with oxfam, gcap, save the children and comic relief to fight poverty. http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=rTn4yS6thTk

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Permalink Reply by D. Jordan on September 25, 2008 at 4:45pm

I like Adele, also. The video for "Chasing Pavements" was amazing.

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Permalink Reply by Vladimir on September 26, 2008 at 5:08am

the Blue Man Group - http://www.blueman.com/

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Permalink Reply by A Certain Slant of Light on September 26, 2008 at 6:20am

First off, let me say that this is nothing against you or your taste in music. if you love something, go on and keep loving it.

but. . .
on average, tickets for the BMG are 100 bucks. They've been nominated for a Grammy award. hundreds of thousands of people see them each year in Vegas. and as far as painted white people banging on crap like a low rent version of STOMP! you'd be hard pressed to find anyone more famous.

sorry, the fact that they paint their selves blue in some non-committed, half-assed commentary on race, really pisses me off. it's a castrated, disney version of black face that lacks any meaning or edge. especially when you consider that it's just another group of rich white guys trying to pass of a dying trend as something more than a novelty.

they are to painted faced musicians what the Insane Clown Posse is to painted face musicians. a joke that's not so funny and lacks any real purpose. especially when considering the validity of their statement.

for a more relevant group of of percussionists, that have a much more reaching message about class, status and race. I suggest paying a visit to the subway and seeing the local bucket drummer.

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Permalink Reply by tubejay on September 26, 2008 at 6:34am

WOW! maybe it's because i've been hibernating for the past few decades, but i had no idea people were stacked so much against blue man group. i mean i know a few people that went to see them and thought they were fantastic. (i'd love to see a local bucket drummer get a $100 bill sometime too, but that's another story.)

i'm not going to pretend my take on blue man group is more enlightened than yours, i really don't have any clue which of us has a more accurate view here. but reducing them to the blue face paint they wear (as if people like al jolson were the only people that ever wore face paint) seems almost as superficial as reducing black people to their skin color.

i mean yeah, they are the "blue man" group, but i thought they were the flashy, exotic, high rent version of stomp, not the other way around. as for whether they're a dying trend, you could say that about every other artistic idea in history, right? good or bad.

we agree though, it's an odd thing to see on this list, but since i mentioned coldplay as an aside, i really don't have any room to say "why did you mention blue man group, everyone's already heard them?" i didn't want to make an issue of it.

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Permalink Reply by Vladimir on September 29, 2008 at 3:05am

Actually, I only "discovered" the band a week ago (got DVD with their concert) and it was awsome. I love this band! :)

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Permalink Reply by Alex V. on September 26, 2008 at 6:36am

Sienna, an indie artist from Toronto - http://www.myspace.com/siennaband.

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Permalink Reply by Leadpipe on September 29, 2008 at 3:12pm

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Permalink Reply by Opus V on October 11, 2008 at 5:17am

Free Moral Agents-any song
Daedelus-any song
Paper Tiger(from doomtree)-any song
P.O.S.(from doomtree)-any song
Adventure time-any song
Sole-any song
Mike Ladd-"barney's girl","Murder Girl","The French Dig Latinos, Too","Shake It"

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Permalink Reply by D. Jordan on October 12, 2008 at 11:13am

I got "When I Smile" by Free Moral Agents off of one of those Adult Swim compilation albums and I liked it. They're creative.

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Permalink Reply by lmk on October 28, 2008 at 12:43pm

Down The Tiny Steps - http://www.myspace.com/downthetinysteps and http://www.downthetinysteps.co.uk

From Glasgow, Scotland. Go forth and find the electro-folk-pop heroes of the universe!

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