What is your snowmageddon soundtrack? now playing RAGNAROK edition

[monkeypants]

Buke & Gass - Riposte.

Anybody else heard this?  It's a duo featuring a gal who plays a modified baritone ukelele (strung with 6 strings, so I guess it's more like a small guitar) and a dude who plays a guitar/bass hybrid.  Apparently they also built their own amps.  It's maybe kinda prog folk?  My glib and not very useful description would be Deerhoof-meets-Johanna Newsome.  Anyway, I am digging this lots.   They recently recorded a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR, which can be seen here:

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/06/131645869/buke-and-gass-tiny-desk-concert

[ellaguru]

That sounds interesting, I'll check it out.

I'm now playing Matthew Friedberger's Napoleonette, the first in his silly six part on-instrument-per-album series, this time around featuring only pianos and voice. I think it's pretty good, it sounds like somebody doing solo piano Fiery Furnaces songs.

[Good Intentions]

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

[lucky strike]

its fucking 26 degrees in houston this morning and i am listening to todd rundgren

[ellaguru]

I'm listening to The Supremes, and I gotta say that "Love Child" just reminds me of The Wire now.

[auto-da-fey]

until this very day, I have never had one iota of interest in post-Born Innocent Redd Kross with the possible exception of that time they (allegedly?) had the Godfather III-era Sofia Coppola naked on an album cover (I had a 7th-grade crush on her, but despite gawking at the cover at the time, I never actually bought or heard the album).

now I've got their 1993 album Phaseshifter on its fifth spin, and I can't stop playing it. the album as a whole isn't great, but every few tracks it crystallizes into an immaculate three-minute slab of metal-inflected power-pop that makes me lament the years I spent not listening to this.
key cases in point being "Dumb Angel" and "Saragon."

[auto-da-fey]

(to qualify my not-one-iota-of-interest statement, I guess there was a day several weeks ago when I got drunk and ordered a bunch of their albums used off amazon for a penny each, but this is the first time I'm actually, like, listening to them)

[lucky strike]

wtf, amazon has steals like that?

[auto-da-fey]

with washed-up 90s alt-rock bands no one cares about, "dime a dozen" ain't just figurative. guess Dishwalla's album is just never gonna be a collector's item.

[lucky strike]

yeah, maybe not on a general scale, but someone out there is totally down for a .10c dishwalla cd (not me) and that's awesome. i gotta dig amazon more often. i use it for books with much success, but i never thought to look for music.

[davy]

Over the past decade, I've probably gotten half my music from Amazon.

[davy]

Also, I am introducing myself to The Afghan Whigs' numeous EPs and b-sides this morning.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

Wait.

This is your first time Davy?

Oh man.

I can't even tell you about what the covers are like.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

Ulcerate: The Destroyers of All

First great metal album this year. Technical death metal that is really concerned with wallpapering the whole mix. This ain't your fucking black metal shoegaze Loveless bullshit. It's sort of like they're giving intricate birth to a building.

[davy]

Wait.

This is your first time Davy?

Oh man.

I can't even tell you about what the covers are like.

I'd heard some of them before, but I've never really listened to Uptown Avondale or What Jail Is Like, etc, as whole EPs. I was really really impressed with the latter.

[lucky strike]

that cover looks "salon metal" as fuck

[lucky strike]

also, since this thread is vaguely about cold shit, i am making the music and sound effects for a short video game my friend is making. ice beam, yo!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EN9HA5Q2

can't get the "cracking" right. working in microseconds is weird, too. anyone done anything like this before that can offer general advice (sfx-wise)?

[Good Intentions]

Ulcerate: The Destroyers of All

Ulcerate? No shit. I've seen them a bunch of times, can't say that I like them. I imagine you're getting just a little ahead of yourself, mate.

[coldforge]

Unless I'm misreading you, that might be the most condescending post of 2011.

[Good Intentions]

I dunno, I'm up against some stiff competition.

[Good Intentions]

Anyway, for a few years Ulcerate would open for everybody round here. But perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps they became something other than tedious in the time since I started timing my arrival at shows to miss their set. Maybe I'll pick up their album for shits and giggles.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

It's really good technical death metal! I don't know what to tell you dude! I haven't made a small life from missing their sets!

[Nick Ink]

Stephan Mathieu's A Static Place is really excellent - old 78s stretched and strung out of recognition into an hour of incident-packed drone that played at the right volume hits that sweet spot just between your eye and your ear.



Ulcerate are also excellent, in my view.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

It's been a while. Great album.

[ellaguru]

I am listening to Jessica Lea Mayfield on the strength of Pitchfork's review this morning, that starts: "Ohio neo-country singer Jessica Lea Mayfield writes eloquently analytical love songs."

It's not bad, exactly, but I am having trouble detecting anything remotely country here.