Shameless Whoring Of Your Favourite Bands!

[Seil]

So I've a choice atwixt a John Butler Trio concert and a family reunion (of sorts.) I thought I'd whore out one of his albums, April Uprising: Revolution (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Ky8zTh6DY), To Look Like You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii1zTOuEY70), One Way Road (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYbvmBj3Q1M), Anything For You (Soldier's Lament) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p13tdjpoTw) are some of the better songs on the album.

Sadly, there's nothing for the newest, bestest band I've heard, The Airborne Toxic Event. Sometime Around Midnight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKEu3EmBCzQ), All I Ever Wanted (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43IpE8AsmMQ), It Doesn't Mean A Thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rx9Nros7M4), The Graveyard Near The House (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBMnE3sWaFA) are (almost) all tracks of their newest album, "All At Once."

And while I've been listening to Ida Maria (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkVy2FeqIyc), Florence And The Machine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4iseF_FBn8), Charlie Winston (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nOd5_Bdc8I), Steven Page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kC2zS_42ZY), Crash Kings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg6P09NiDwA), Cage The Elephant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v27TRan1SBI), Vampire Weekend (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_i1xk07o4g), No More Kings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp6o5I99Idw) and all the other great stuff, there's no one left for me to link.

[Satan's Onion]

So how many of you guys are listening to the Olivia Tremor Control (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUjd6DHAutU)? 'Cos you should. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnPVo0iU7Ks) Especially if you like psychedelic rock reminiscent of mid- to late-period Beatles, like I do.

[Magus]

At first listen I thought I didn't like The Sword, now I decided that "Black Sabbath with generic power metal lyrics" is okay since it's not like they gave themselves the moniker "the next Metallica" and were clearly just trying to do a modest and enjoyable metal style. I cannot blame the band for the media's inherent inability to not give everything stupid labels that make little sense and seem overly grandiose.

I just got Alestorm's latest album, Back in Time. At one point pirates travel back in time and fight vikings. BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Mastodon is pretty good, I've only listened to their first two albums so far but the second one is giving me good hopes for the next two (the first is passable but not memorable).

I really enjoyed Skagos. Deeply haunting slow-paced atmospheric melodic death metal (I think this is an apt description?) that is apparently about Native Americans or something (Encyclopedia-Metallum's summaries are not always to be trusted) but mostly seems to be about musical style, not the lyrics.

Obviously they are no Opeth, but they seem to be doing their own thing, so it's okay that they're not as good as Opeth.

Just got King Crimson's latest. It is almost entirely jazzy but I like it anyway. It is called A Scarcity of Miracles...it is technically not King Crimson but is "A King Crimson Projeckt" featuring Robert Fripp, so...basically King Crimson as far as I can tell. Clearly vastly removed from Fripp's last several albums which have involved huge amounts of electric guitar and "heavier" stylings so maybe that is why he feels he doesn't want to say it is a King Crimson album. But it seems more than in-touch with older albums which had similarly slow-paced mostly jazzy songs ("Islands" off of Islands, "Starless" off of Red, "Book of Saturdays" off of Larks Tongues in Aspic, etc.) And with Fripp being pretty much the only lynchpin of King Crimson through the years, if he is the main contributor to an album and calls it a "King Crimson Projecket", then it's a King Crimson album.

[Seil]

Hannah Georgas is pretty rad. She's done The Beat Stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mxDWj6_VWw) and Gabriella. (http://grooveshark.com/#/s/Gabriella/2xyH3c?src=5) Here's a Gabriella (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57GZGfxEA78) Youtube link.

But if you want a faster paced, spanish guitar thing, try out Rodrigo Y Gabriela's Tamacun. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-qgum7hFXk)

[The Sevenshot Kid]

I was digging through my musical collection and I was amazed by how many bands there are that I listen to that have a bunch of Christian themes in their music whether it's passing references to beak down of faith, refusal of religion, or outright Christian rock.

I am very far from a Christian but I can't deny that some bands have been able to take that religion and craft some good tunes out of it.

The Almost is an overtly Christian band and their song Amazing Because It Is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2c4OyEJeg) one of my favorites due to it's composition.

And The Devil's Tongue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2-1KyJaN1A&feature=related) by Envy On the Coast listens like an open condemnation of Christianity.

Wolves At Night (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOXNgvyPUto) by Manchester Orchestra uses a lot of Christian imagery throughout that serves to create this dreamlike state that I just float in.

So, that kind of music isn't what I usually listen to but it's stuff that managed to impress me nonetheless.

And from my favorite band of all time, there is the song Woe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQClGsN68Zk) which I just adore. Say Anything will always be my favorite band and I have yet to hear a single song from them that I have not liked.