1. Change All Your Passwords
2. Diffractions and Halos
3. Cold Flame
4. Huntress
5. Soaring Xenharmonic Plantain
A leap into the deepest, heaviest depths of microtonality we've yet tackled. A collaboration with microtonal composer Igliashon Jones (Cryptic Ruse, City of the Asleep) using 23- and 17-note equal divisions of the octave. Stay tuned for the new full-length Mercury Tree album coming this fall! Also, check out Igliashon's other work here: cryptic-ruse.bandcamp.com cityoftheasleep.bandcamp.com credits releases July 27, 2018 Igliashon Jones - guitar, synths Ben Spees - guitar, synths, vocals Connor Reilly - drums Oliver Campbell - bass, vocals Engineered by Ben Spees at College of Wizardry & Bongo Fury Mastered by Julian Silva
So I should include a review here for this show last night Tuesday the 10th of July at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis.
1st off: live reviews are done as often as I can, but sometimes they just don't manage to happen like the Chromeo show a few weeks back. Raphael Saadiq perhaps on the 20th among some others may happen hopefully. Maybe movie screenings like Whitney or the Muse one tomorrow night 7/12.
But this was the 2nd Bent Knee show I've seen in basically 1-year (July 24th last year was the other), and while that show was a huge deal for me to finally see Bent Knee, and also cool to see local band Air Lands with them (and have Sarah from Cloud Cult sit-in); this show included Bubblemath of course, 1 of Minnesota proggiest of prog bands.
Great double bill, and Kai especially is a Bent Knee fan, etc he hosted them last year.
So those 2 along with Gatherers from NJ (not Gatherer, RIP, see previous entry), who I'll say, while I don't know if I'll be pursuing their music necessarily, but they seemed to capture the Post-Hardcore energy and sound well. And a few moments the guitar textures had me turn my head. As I told them, I'm sure some new fans will be made between their and Bent Knee's fan bases.
Bubblemath, played 30 minutes and 3 songs. 2 new ones not on either album. "Refused" in particular I enjoyed, namely the last 1/3 or maybe even half of. Which I told Kai, a lot of their music I tend to focus on the sections in the songs/pieces at times. But also, that tune and the 2nd tune "Everything" are both new, and for some reason the mix for them was not as clear as it was for both Bent Knee and even Gatherers I think.
"Routine" is an epic like the other 2, and from Edit Peptide. And I liked maybe even more than at the show I saw in 2017 at The Triplerock Social Club (RIP).
At any case, 3 songs, 30 minutes. Other than mix/sound issues, it was great to see them again and the 2 new songs are for their next album which I guess is planned to be recorded soon = late 2018 or 2019 release? let's hope.
Bent Knee: the set list I have below likely isn't fully accurate. I'm unsure based on some of the songs they played I didn't recognize and the set lists from setlist.fm vary. They didn't play an encore, and the list below has 12 songs, which I'm thinking they didn't play quite that many. Maybe 8-10?
edit: I think it was 9 songs, as I thought they mentioned the drummer who filled in had to learn "9 songs from their set list" or something.
Land Animal, Hands Up, Leak Water for sure.
Anyway, apologies for the slightly guesstimated set list.
Bent Knee were still really fun, energetic live. And their drummer Gavin Wallace-Allsworth had to leave the tour on June 23rd, after an accident in San Francisco where he broke his foot. But thankfully he had surgery, and is recovering well I guess .
The drummer that filled-in, I forget his name. It may have been Gatherers drummer Adam Cichocki? I forget. But I guess he learned their music really fast, and while they do miss Gavin, the drum work was still excellent last night.
But with the new songs being played and speaking to Ben Levin, they have a new record in the works, which doesn't surprise me, but definitely is one to look forward to. They are prolific, but from album they don't seem to lose any quality in their songs, which says a lot. I see Shiny Eyed Babies, Say So and Land Animal all pretty close, and all having many outstanding tracks that have moments I look forward to and love.
2019 new Bent Knee? let's hope.
Also I picked up the Say So double vinyl, which I hope to show on YouTube soon.
And I met a bunch of really cool fans including this guy Pete and 1 of his sons, from Eau Claire, WI. Also a musician named Mage? who takes a ton of inspiration from Bent Knee and is from MN I guess, but is going to College in LA.
Bent Knee
Bone Rage
Time Deer
Leak Water
Hands Up
Garbage Shark
Golden Hour
Terror Bird
Land Animal
1 of these may have been played:
Holy Ghost
Mother's Day
Give Us the Gold
Being Human
This sucks and I really ought to write an extensive tribute/homage to this band Gatherer, from New Zealand. A progressive band that of all people, Kimbra recommended, likely largely due to she comes from New Zealand herself and knew them due to that.
I suppose I'll just say, their debut from 2012 So Be Itis awesome. It's one of the best albums this decade, especially being a debut album. "Regular Frontier" and "Thrive" among the rest of it, are favorites. And the production is incredibly clear and pristine.
Gatherer found this way to be really heavy, loud, and complex, yet still have dreamy soaring melodies. And the guitars and syncopation was really unlike any combination I'd heard before.
And as they described below, they refused to cater their music to trends.
Heavy Hail their 2nd album from 2015 I recall liking, but my memory was it being a little hit and miss. It used more electronic sides, which I recall the production was quite dense. I wonder if I went back to it now, if I might appreciate it more than I did initially back then as it probably has been 2015 or 2016 when I last gave it a go.
Their new and last song "High Notes" video below) I am enjoying, in a bittersweet way.
Also I think it's worth adding how their previous name/incarnation "This City Sunrise" I also really love, and may be 1 of the best or rarest examples of 'Core music that actually works without the vocals bugging me enough. In fact I grew to enjoy them, almost as much or in different ways than I did with Gatherer.
I forget, but I thought the 2 This City Sunrise EP's I found online to purchase on CD, but never got around to it.
WHY I didn't hear about this until now? (July 11th, per the news/new video+track came out April 3rd), I don't religiously read FB and Twitter feeds (myspace sadly had that setup much better with a blog subscription, etc).
The New Jersey band Gatherers (formerly Gatherer but added the s after the same name of the band New Zealand), I saw last evening with Bent Knee and Bubblemath, and seeing them/thinking about Gatherer from New Zealand, got me curious what they may be up to.
But not shocking, another one goes by the wayside, despite support from Kimbra. O well, maybe Gatherer at the time their music came out, were a bit too unusual to be appreciated. But maybe in the coming years their music will still be discovered.
What the members do next? I dunno. Maybe a reunion of course someday, or other projects perhaps.
In the mean time, I hope to find some other music that pushes boundaries and struggles to resemble other music out there, while maintaining quality songwriting the way Gatherer did.
We would love to introduce you to our latest and last song, 'High Notes'.
The last few years have been a whirlwind for us as we grew into actual adults and became really hungry for something fresh. With so many years of brotherhood, loyalty and history under our belt we dug as deep as we could to find a new way to do this thing, but as we reached the home stretch we ultimately discovered that our hearts just aren't beating to the same drum any more.
That's it, really. This is where we ended up. We're immensely proud of everything we've done, we lasted longer than most bands ever do and we have a friendship that is unlike any other. At the end of the day our mission was to be an incredible band that refused to follow trends and we can rightly say we smashed that goal out of the park.
We love all of you. To anyone that believed in us, helped us, sacrificed anything in any way for us - we'll never forget.
As pointed out there and other places, Pepe Deluxe now joins the likes of Marillion, U2, REM, David Bowie, Tangerine Dream, Depeche Mode, In Flames, Iggy Pop and Nick Cave among many others to have recorded in Berlin's famed Hansa Studios.
2012's Queen of the Wave is all-time favorite of mine, so this only adds more anticipation for their next record which it sounds like it could be coming out finally in the near future (2019?).
also neat 90 minute documentary shows a lot about Hansa here:
A lot of people have seen this already, and I commented on Twitter earlier about it.
I enjoyed this one a ton as I have with all of their Rush videos and many others.
The only issue is the edits for copyright concerns.
I mentioned they should check out the ANIMATED VIDEO that Rush themselves shared a few years ago.
Thanks for making this! This was a ton of fun!, even with having to edit some spots. I would suggest listening to 2112 without edits soon, and actually a great way to do that would be with the ANIMATED VIDEO: https://t.co/NrZTxGxMZUhttps://t.co/AmGJSGpyhc
And then I added another post on twitter tagging them and Rush that echos a ton of comments in support of them making a REACT TO video for Natural Science.
@lostinvegas83 I will echo many requests in the 2112-Reaction video, for your next @rushtheband Reaction Video, NATURAL SCIENCE. would be awesome. I find it simply a perfectly composed piece of music.
It is awesome they love Rush so much, and some of the comments asked about them reacting to some other names in progressive rock. Yes of course (Roundabout, which might make sense, although someone suggested Heart of the Sunrise which would be my suggestion).
And so I chimed in about Genesis and King Crimson which I thought they may have done a video for 21st Century Schizoid Man, but I'm not sure. They could react to Starless or Red I suppose if so.
So Rollingstone.com (and/or Rolling Stone magazine) made a list recently of the "The 100 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century – So Far" list (see towards the bottom of this entry) and of course it's a mostly terrible list. But I thought before going into MY REACT TO List and the RS list, I think it is worth sharing Pete Pardo of Sea of Tranquility on his YouTube channel did one of his "Rants" about not the Top 100 but Top 25 (maybe the top 25 only was shared on Social Media initially?).
I largely agree with Pete Pardo. In 10 or 20 years, a good percentage of these songs, nobody is going to be listening to regularly. And among the things about the list to understand, the list of VOTERS
Bolded = the people I know and actually respect = 6 out of 81?
ARTISTS and EXECUTIVES Cliff Burnstein, Q Prime Artist Management Patrick Carney, The Black Keys Julian Casablancas, The Strokes, the Voidz Charli XCX Wayne Coyne, The Flaming Lips Britt Daniel, Spoon Diplo DJ Khaled Steven Drozd, The Flaming Lips Paul Epworth Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds John Gourley, Portugal. The Man Thom Sonny Green, Alt-J David Guetta Jim James, My Morning Jacket Jidenna Craig Kallman, Atlantic Records Bridget Kearney, Lake Street Dive Greta Kline, Frankie Cosmos Avril Lavigne Dua Lipa Courtney Love, Hole Colin Meloy, The Decemberists M.I.A. French Montana Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine Stuart Murdoch, Belle and Sebastian Rita Ora Rachel Price, Lake Street Dive Quavo, Migos Mark Ronson Santigold Andrew Savage, Parquet Courts M. Shadows, Avenged Sevenfold Patrick Stump, Fall Out Boy Will Toledo, Car Seat Headrest Justin Tranter Lars Ulrich, Metallica Butch Vig, Garbage Adam Weiner, Low Cut Connie Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy JOURNALISTS David Browne Andrew Casillas Cameron Crowe Anthony DeCurtis Jon Dolan Patrick Doyle Michael Endelman Stephen Thomas Erlewine Suzy Exposito Jason Fine Leor Galil Sarah Grant Andy Greene Kory Grow Shirley Halperin Rob Harvilla Will Hermes Christian Hoard Steven Hyden Maura Johnston Joe Levy Alan Light Kurt Loder Greil Marcus Jason Newman Kevin O’Donnell Michelle Ofiwe Jerry Portwood Justin Ravitz Isabela Raygoza Mosi Reeves Austin Scaggs Rob Sheffield Hank Shteamer Brittany Spanos Touré Simon Vozick-Levinson Barry Walters Jonah Weiner Christopher R. Weingarten
Here I will do is come up with 100 Songs that are better and very likely will actually stand the test the time in 10 or 20 years.
edit: 130 songs, lol. As I ended up just thinking of artists with music released since the year 2000, and it ballooned up almost to the point over the last 24 hours, I thought, fuck 100, how about 200 songs and different artists?
But mainly for the sake of just publishing this thing, I am going to stop with what I last counted at as 130.
And I just thought of something, this in a way could be a bit of a precursor to 2 future entries or series.
1 obviously being the Best songs of the 21st Century and even a bit of a guide for those Albums Calendars I mean to do at some point soon from 2001, 2003, 2007-present. Although if I make a fully accurate list of songs, it probably would need to include multiples tracks from many artists.
I also included the year of each track and it sort of gives a little overview of the decade debate of 2000's vs 2010's.
Now the 130 or so tracks listed below, unlike the RS list, ARE NOT RANKED IN MUCH IF ANY WAY. I.E. THESE ARE JUST 130 ARTISTS WITH 1 SONG FROM I LITERALLY JUST THOUGHT OF OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. AND OF COURSE, THERE'S LIKELY DOZENS OF ARTISTS NOT INCLUDED THAT I MIGHT HAVE WANTED TO, OR COULD AT A LATER TIME.
That being said, if i really wanted to invest the time, it would have been nice to include blurbs, even from 10 or 20 of them, but..time of course. Maybe another time.
And I do think these songs in the 2020's and 2030's will be as if not more worthwhile to revisit than literally 75 or more percent of that RS list. Even if most of them are not "radio hits" or have videos on YouTube that have millions of views, shares, likes, etc, etc.
A lot of great art is found decades if not centuries later. Even from obscure or esoteric artists.
I suppose something to consider doing is making another list like this both in 2020 (for 2010-2019 songs) and in 2025 or 2030 just to see if these songs all make sense to include and what all is added both from the subsequent years until then, and from 2000-present from songs that I hadn't discovered yet. I.e. like how I have been discovering 90's albums from The Spent Poets and Dada which I would never have known about making a Best of the 90's tracks literally 2 months ago, lol. RANDOM LIST OF MY FAVORITE TRACKS FROM THE 21ST CENTURY (1 PER ARTIST)
dredg - The Canyon Behind Her (2002)
The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini (2005)
The Dear Hunter - His Hands Matched His Tongue (2006)
Muse - Stockholm Syndrome (2003)
U2 - New York (2001)
Imogen Heap - The Moment I Said It (2005)
King's X - Vegetable (2002)
Kimbra - Cameo Lover (2011)
Emanuel and the Fear - Jimme's Song (2010)
Fair to Midland - Orphan Anthem'86 (Original Demo) (2006)
Marillion - The Invisible Man (2004)
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element (2000)
Fates Warning - Still Remains (2001)
Kaddisfly - Via Rail (2007)
The Reign of Kindo - Til We Make Our Ascent (2008)
Zero Hour - Demise and Vestige (2001)
Bend Sinister - Time Breaks Down (2007)
Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy (2005)
Pure Reason Revolution - The Twyncyn/Trembilin Willows (2006)
Oceansize - The Frame (2007)
Major Parkinson - The Wheelbarrow (2014)
Dream the Electric Sleep - Elizabeth (2014)
Under the Influence of Giants - Mama's Room (2006)
Men, Women and Children - Dance in my Blood (2006)
Kevin Gilbert - Water Under the Bridge (2000)
Steven Wilson - Happy Returns (2015)
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here (2005)
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness (2001)
Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing (2000)
Between the Buried and Me - White Walls (2007)
Three - Amaze Disgrace (2004)
Kiss Kiss - Stay the Day (2007)
Dream Theater - Blind Faith (2002)
Transatlantic - Stranger in Your Soul (2001)
Archive - Again (2002)
Doves - Catch the Sun (2000)
Hotel of the Laughing Tree - Weather Maps for Nikolai (2011)
Pepe Deluxe - A Night and a Day (2012)
Small Leaks Sink Ships - Building Blocks (2015)
Cloud Cult - Running with the Wolves (2010)
The Receiving End of Sirens - This Armistice (2005)
Mutemath - Cavalries (2011)
Umphrey's McGee - Mantis (2009)
Coheed and Cambria - The Willing Well (2005)
Incubus - The Odyssey (2004)
Anathema - Angels Walk Among Us (2010)
Brice Plays Drums - Freight Train Blues (2012)
House of Fools - Need to Be Free (2012)
John Arch - Cheyenne (2003)
Shaman - Fairy Tale (2002)
Anathallo - Without Love (2001)
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Pages Written on a Wall (2008)
The Family Crest - Beneath the Brine (2014)
The Decemberists - The Island (2006)
Dirt Poor Robins - Solemn Dream (2013)
Apes and Androids - Riverside (2008)
Ours - Sometimes (2001)
Enchant - What to Say (2000)
Menomena - Wet and Rusting (2007)
Ramona Falls - Spore (2012)
Opeth - The Grand Conjuration (2005)
Burst - (We Watched) The Silver Rain (2008)
East of the Wall - The Apologist (2011)
Bent Knee - Land Animal (2017)
Unexpect - Chromatic Chimera (2006)
SikTh - Another Sinking Ship (2006)
Long Distance Calling - Lines (2016)
Local Natives - Sun Hands (2009)
Foals - Spanish Sahara (2010)
Warpaint - Elephants (2008)
Typhoon - Remember (2018)
Murder By Death - The Desert is on Fire (2003)
Clann Zu - One Bedroom Apartment (2004)
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Storm (2000)
Janelle Monae - Many Moons (2007)
Annuals - Springtime (2008)
Silverchair - Strange Behaviour (2007)
The Dissociatives - Aangry Megaphone Man (2004)
Fjokra - Infinite Loops (2014)
Wolf Parade - Kissing the Beehive (2008)
As Tall as Lions - Circles (2009)
The Velvet Teen - Chimera Obscurant (2004)
Minus the Bear - Burying Luck (2007)
Bloc Party - Uniform (2007)
The Antlers - Atrophy (2009)
Biffy Clyro - Living is a Problem Because Everything Dies (2007)
Neverending White Lights - Our Final Hymn (2005)
sElf - Trunk Fulla Amps (2000)
maudlin of the Well - Gleam in Ranks (2001)
Black Mountain - Bright Lights (2008)
Fields. - Song for the Fields (2007)
The Faceless - Leica (2006)
Time of Orchids -All We Ever Wish (2005)
Aereogramme - Barriers (2007)
Russian Circles - Death Rides a Horse (2006)
Timmy Sean - Can't Stop the World (2010)
Team Me - F is for Faker (2014)
Anakdota - The Girl Next Door (2016)
Battles - Tonto (2007)
OSI - shutDOWN (2003)
VAST - Free (2000)
Everything Everything - To the Blade (2015)
Jazzkamikaze - Music is My Heroin (2010)
The Flower Kings - I an the Sun (Part One) (2000)
Mayer Hawthorne - Designer Drug (2013)
Grimus - The Hell I'm In (2014)
Josh Rouse - Comeback (Light Therapy) (2003)
Gospel - Tango (2010)
Blackfield - Pain (2004)
Woven - Inhale (2007)
Peter Gabriel - Growing Up (2002)
South - Motiveless Crime (2003)
Bruce Peninsula - Steamroller (2009)
22 - Gotodo (2010)
Gotye - Thanks for Your Time (2006)
The River Empires - Three Tigers (2010)
Judgement Day - Peacocks / Pink Monsters (2010)
Pat Metheny - As it is (2002)
Agalloch - Summerisle Reprise (2008)
Protest the Hero - Blindfolds Aside (2006)
Late of the Pier - Focker (2008)
Crotchduster - Mammal Sauce (2004)
The Chap - Proper Rock (2008)
Timbre - Night Girl: Nycteris Sees the Sun (2015)
Brooke Waggoner - Go Easy, Little Doves, I'll Be Fine (2009)
Vennart - Doubt (2015)
Mutyumu - 火焔鳥 / die Ewige Wiederkunft (2008)
Tokyo Jihen - 秘密 / Secret (2006)
Klimt 1918 - We Were Wed By the Sea (2005)
NewVillager - Lighthouse (2011)
The LIST. bolded = songs or artists I like, although many examples the artist has better songs not on the list (Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Coldplay, New Pornographers). And Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" should be higher than so many of these tracks, including Uptown Funk, Happy, etc. 100. "Gasolina" Daddy Yankee feat. Glory 99. "Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)," UGK feat. Outkast 98. "Archie, Marry Me," Alvvays 97. "1901," Phoenix 96. "Tighten Up," The Black Keys 95. "Can't Get You Out of My Head," Kylie Minogue 94. "Jesus Walks," Kanye West 93. "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)," My Chemical Romance 92. "Stoned and Starving," Parquet Courts 91. "Despacito (Remix)" Luis Fonsi feat. Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber 90. "1 Thing" Amerie 89. "Hate to Say I Told You So," The Hives 88. "Hannah Hunt," Vampire Weekend 87. "We Belong Together," Mariah Carey 86. "I Love It," Icona Pop w/Charli XCX 85. "My Shot," Original Broadway Cast of 'Hamilton' 84. "One More Time," Daft Punk 83. "Lost Cause," Beck 82. "New Slang," The Shins 81. "Hollaback Girl," Gwen Stefani 80. "Ante Up (Robbin-Hoodz Theory)" M.O.P. 79. "Drop It Like It’s Hot" Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell 78. "Young Folks," Peter Bjorn and John 77. "Losing My Edge," LCD Soundsystem 76. "Get Lucky," Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams 75. "The House That Built Me," Miranda Lambert 74. "Letter From an Occupant," The New Pornographers 73. "House of Jealous Lovers," The Rapture 72. "Bad and Boujee," Migos feat. Lil Uzi Vert 71. "Call Me Maybe," Carly Rae Jepsen 70. "American Idiot," Green Day 69. "Thinkin Bout You," Frank Ocean 68. "Springsteen," Eric Church 67. "What You Know," T.I. 66. "Beez in the Trap," Nicki Minaj feat. 2 Chainz 65. "We Found Love," Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris 64. "DNA," Kendrick Lamar 63. "Sugar, We’re Goin Down," Fall Out Boy 62. "Teenage Dream," Katy Perry 61. "Hung Up," Madonna 60. "The Wire," Haim 59. "Bodak Yellow," Cardi B 58. "Ni**as in Paris" Jay-Z and Kanye West 57. "Do You Realize??" The Flaming Lips 56. "Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi," Radiohead 55. "212," Azealia Banks feat. Lazy Jay 54. "Portions for Foxes," Rilo Kiley 53. "Oblivion," Grimes 52. "Chandelier," Sia 51. "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," Beyoncé 50. "The Scientist," Coldplay 49. "Sign of the Times," Harry Styles 48. "Happy," Pharrell Williams 47. "Redbone," Childish Gambino 46. "Cry Me a River," Justin Timberlake 45. "Sorry," Justin Bieber 44. "Stan," Eminem 43. "Cranes in the Sky," Solange 42. "Electric Feel," MGMT 41. "Hurt," Johnny Cash 40. "Beautiful Day," U2 39. "No One Knows," Queens of the Stone Age 38. "Formation," Beyoncé 37. "You Want It Darker," Leonard Cohen 36. "Gold Digger" Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx 35. "Blue Jeans," Lana Del Rey 34. "Mr. Brightside," The Killers 33. "Idioteque," Radiohead 32. "In Da Club," 50 Cent 31. "Wake Up," Arcade Fire 30. "Mississippi," Bob Dylan 29. "All Too Well" Taylor Swift 28. "Umbrella," Rihanna feat. Jay-Z 27. "B.O.B." Outkast 26. "Hotline Bling," Drake 25. "Uptown Funk," Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars 24. "Lose Yourself," Eminem 23. "Ms. Jackson," Outkast 22. "Take Me Out" Franz Ferdinand 21. "Bad Romance," Lady Gaga 20. "Rehab," Amy Winehouse 19. "Dancing on My Own," Robyn 18. "Blackstar," David Bowie 17. "Work It," Missy Elliott 16. "All My Friends," LCD Soundsystem 15. "Crazy," Gnarls Barkley 14. "Toxic," Britney Spears 13. "Alright," Kendrick Lamar 12. "Get Ur Freak On," Missy Elliott 11. "Since U Been Gone," Kelly Clarkson 10. "Last Nite," The Strokes 9. "Royals," Lorde 8. "Rolling in the Deep," Adele 7. "Runaway," Kanye West feat. Pusha T 6. "Maps," Yeah Yeah Yeahs 5. "99 Problems," Jay-Z 4. "Hey Ya!", Outkast 3. "Seven Nation Army," The White Stripes 2. "Paper Planes," M.I.A. 1. "Crazy in Love," Beyonce feat. Jay-Z
Article from popmatters mentioning the August 17th release date.
These 2 tracks below are good, although not surprised how they are not exactly like House of Fools. But just having his voice reminds me how much I love and could go for more House of Fools music.
He cites Jackson Browne, Simon and Garfunkel, and Tom Petty as inspirations for his songwriting, cheekily interjecting, "#WWTPD."
2/20/18
As passionate fan of Josh's with House of Fools I am naturally curious to check this debut album out from him.
Yeah, it's being done per Kickstarter, which per the Goal and time, it seems quite likely to be a success.
I guess a lot of my interest is the fact we haven't seen a new House of Fools album since 2012, so I'm wondering if some of the best songwriting ideas could come on this.
Granted, I do know House of Fools are still active and are working on a new album, but maybe with a lot of song ideas, not all of those tunes will end up as HoF tracks. And maybe most importantly, this thing is already recorded, mixed, mastered and will definitely be coming out soon.
The next House of Fools album? who knows right now.
Also the projected time frame is APRIL 2018 per the pledge section.
About Greensboro, North Carolina native Josh King needs your help to release his full-length album! As the longtime front man of the nationally touring rock band House of Fools, King has been running the musical gambit for 15 years and recently decided to record and release a solo effort. With the album already fully tracked, mixed, and mastered, King is turning to you, his friends and fans, to help with the final details. A variety of pre-order packages are available here at Kickstarter and the exclusive content will be updated frequently!
This upcoming album is being released on October 5th, 2018.
The 1st 2 tracks are available to stream including "The Dark Sentencer" below. Not bad, although I need to hear it with headphones to be more clear.
It is 78 minutes long, and some of the comments are comparing it to Good Apollo 1. I suppose in scope perhaps, and it maybe didn't help they did GA 1 on Neverender in 2017, when they presumably wrote much of it.
But where's David Botrill?
I'm not assuming anything. I hope this may surprise me, but there have been other Coheed albums I got excited for and then just were underwhelmed by.
1. Prologue
2. The Dark Sentencer
3. Unheavenly Creatures
4. Toys
5. Black Sunday
6. Queen Of The Dark
7. True Ugly
8. Love Protocol
9. The Pavilion (A Long Way Back)
10. Night-Time Walkers
11. The Gutter
12. All On Fire
13. It Walks Among Us
14. Old Flames
15. Lucky Stars
'To Cure A Blizzard Upon A Plastic Sea' will be released on September 14th.
Pre-order soon. Stay tuned. x
6/7/18
New album from Vennart titled "To Cure A Blizzard Upon A Plastic Sea" coming soon.
2nd song single coming on June 10th on Radio One "Immortal Soldiers"
More of the details coming soon of course.
Oceansize fans are going to need to hear this of course.
From Vennart's email list:
RADIO ONE ROCK SHOW PREMIERE!
It’s coming, i swear…
A BRAND NEW TRACK WILL BE PLAYED ON THE RADIO ONE ROCK SHOW ON JUNE 10TH! DON'T MISS IT!
Rock Show with Daniel P Carter
Here’s the annoyingly brief teaser…
Immortal Soliders We cannot wait for you to hear this record. It’s called ‘To Cure A Blizzard Upon A Plastic Sea’and you're gonna be so good together.
5/29/18
The long awaited (8 years) 2nd record from Journal, the progressive mathcore band from
Sacramento, CA.
And it seems they went all-out with this thing, in some large multi-format? concept album titled Chrysalis Ordalias.
Their debut album Unlorja, from 2010, while not something I was addicted to, I remember being beyond impressed by all the styles of music and technicality they had.
Even the 30 minute closing piece "Affinity" is a highlight, even if a lot of it is ambient music.
In just looking at some of the comments there, there will be 4 different vocalists on this one, and like the trailer says and Unlorja, an instrumental version.
More details (release date, link to bandcamp, etc) coming soon.
I was thinking about this in a discussion with the wife about her generation of being a fan of The Monkees. How she came along when The Monkees hit MTV and Nick at Nite in the mid 80's ('86-87) and the new studio album at that time was Pool It! for her.
It's not exactly a "1st Generation, 2nd Generation, 3rd Generation" (or 1st, 2nd or 3rd Wave, etc) exactly, but more based on the newest album released.
The 1st new album that comes out either after you become a fan, or I suppose it works best, before if it is relatively recently.
There were some fans that reacted to The Monkees album Good Times! in 2016 as being not nearly as good as Justus, which it was based on partially at least, Justus was the new/1st/most-recent album from The Monkees at-the-time they became a fan.
Mind you, some actually did or do prefer Justus, but my wife and many others thought that album sucked. And many like her and myself really liked Good Times!.
And she also likes Pool It more than Justus, maybe a lot of it just based on how much she likes the music, but also she says based on nostalgia for when it came out around the time she became a fan.
So she's a Pool It!-generation fan of The Monkees. Maybe consider 3rd generation or wave by some, but it seems easiest to just label per the album that was out or came out around the time she became a fan.
So I'm gonna make some more of these entries per time/discipline, etc. But here's 10 artists and the Generation I fall under.
Off the top of my head, I think only 2 or 3 artists I would be in the 1st release/album generation (The Dear Hunter, Kimbra, Janelle Monae kind of..and a few others..Hotel of the Laughing Tree).
Oddly enough though, I told her the whole nostalgia for the new/most recent when I got into the artist doesn't always work for me. Open Your Eyes and Calling All Stations are 2 perfect examples of that. 2 of my least favorite albums from those artists.
Kevin Gilbert: (2004) The Kaviar Demo-generation
Marillion: (1995) Afraid of Sunlight-generation
Fates Warning: (1995) Inside Out-generation
Rush: (1992) Roll the Bones-generation
Dream Theater: (1995) Awake-generation
King's X: (1996) Ear Candy-generation
The Dear Hunter: (2007) Act I: The Lake South, the River North-generation
Yes: (1996 or 1997) The Open Your Eyes-generation
Genesis: (1997) Calling All Stations-generation
Pink Floyd: (1991 or 1992) A Momentary Lapse of Reason-generation
So this track "I Do" from the new Bend Sinister album Foolish Games is 1 of many tracks I've been enjoying on it. But I can't help but think of Kevin Gilbert's "Shrug (Because of Me and You)" and the previous incarnation of that tune from Giraffe "Because of You."
I mean musically and even lyrically they aren't identical in message and tone in many ways. On both songs/versions from Kevin, they are more cynical and criticizing of someone, as opposed to Bend Sinister which seem to be more thankful and I guess positive in a lot of ways.
But the repeated "Because of You" I guess per my obsession and time spent listening to those 2 songs Kevin did, I keep hearing at this point, the "All Because of You' from Shrug and the song from Giraffe.
Actually a remix of 2 of them or all 3 might be cool. I could try with a little time, effort and maybe some software (at KFAI if I ever went back there sometime and found time to do it/reserve the studio).
As far as do I think Bend Sinister and Dan Moxon know the Kevin Gilbert tune? fat chance they even have heard his name. But o well, maybe they could.
This is a work-in-progress/Incomplete list of Movies, Television and other examples in Media of enhanced humans or technology.
I made this with the stuff I've been taking-in over the last 6 months or so involving robots, androids and genetically evolved or advanced humans in Scifi.
I.e. I had some stuff like Logan's Run, Blade Runner and Westworld which I had never seen before, and coming across more about someone like Philip K Dick and his life story. How many things in Hollywood were based-on if not at least largely inspired by his work.
There are a couple of documentaries on YouTube, but I guess they aren't great. Hollywood or some independent filmmaker needs to make a quality documentary or Biopic about him.
Anyway, I'm about to start watching Westworld from HBO, Season 1, after having seen the original movie and sequel Futureworld finally (the new James Franco thing looks awful btw).
I may try and make some kind of Video or Podcast review of Westworld and its umbrella. I don't foresee being able to find Beyond Westworld sadly though as it was short-lived (3 episodes).
Forbidden Planet (1956)
The Twilight Zone: The Lonely (1959)
The Outer Limits: I, Robot (1964)
Lost in Space (1965)
Star Trek: What Are Little Girls Made of (1966)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Westworld (1973)
Futureworld (1976)
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Buck Rogers (1979)
Terminator (1984)
Small Wonder (1985-1989)
Short Circuit (1986)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1986-1994)
Not Quite Human (1987)
Cyborg (1989)
Terminator 2 (1992)
The Outer Limits: Bits of Love (1997)
The Outer Limits: The Camp (1997)
The Matrix (1999)
A.I. (2001)
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
I, Robot (2004)
Blood Moon (2008)
Caprica (2009)
The Archandroid (2010)
Robot and Frank (2012)
Her (2013)
Ex Machina (2015)
Westworld (TV Series, 2016-)
Electric Dreams: Autofac (2017)
Evolved/Genetically Engineered Humans/Mutants
Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966)
Star Trek: Space Seed (1967)
The Clonus Horror (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Total Recall (1990)
Prey (1998 TV Series)
Lucy (2014)
Electric Dreams: Crazy Diamond (2017) MISC
Logan's Run (1976)
Lawnmower Man (1992)
Which more or less means it refers to something insincere or fake.
However 99.99999999999999999999999999999% of the times it is used or has been used over at least the last 5, or maybe more like 10+ years, the word "pretentious" is being used with a meaning of, or acting, thinking like something or someone is better or superior than.
"They are so pretentious"
which translates or really means
"Look at how how much better they think they are"
That shares no connection really with pretending, being fake, lying, etc.
Even the idea of being ego-headed or narcissistic is a better wording or really what those who keep misusing the word "pretentious" really mean.
But I'm about 99.99999999999999999999999999% sure the ignorant masses and media will continue to misuse the word "pretentious" until someone, or more than one person of actual influence (obviously not me) finally realizes this and calls people out.
It's like the spelling of the word "Nite" with "Nick at Nite." There is no word spelled "Nite" yet it was used for decades before I suppose that incorrect spelling use died out.
