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Yes indeedy I like Soccer Mommy. Only heard a handful of her songs but each one has stood out. Something just lifts it out of the bland. Which is interesting in itself. Saw a poster recently she was playing round the corner from me, free live in-shop appearance at Rough Trade W11. Yes! Then looked at date. It was two days previous. Noo! I'm always doing that. Did it with the Rutles at the Half Moon not long ago.
If you like Soccer Mom you'll probably know/ like Drugdealer. Carpenters/ Judy Sill vibe. Not sure if this is this year or last year. Not good on dates. Only just realised we're playing tomorrow not today. I blame Easter. And the morphine.
I was not familiar with Drugdealer–checking out The End of Comedy album right now and really enjoying it. Thanks!
Getting to see Soccer Mommy this summer at a fun little festival near where I live in Flyover America. Interesting day: Field Division (CHECK THEM OUT!), Soccer Mommy, Car Seat Headrest, Courtney Barnett, and, curiously, Ke$ha. My son and I will get all that enjoyment for 53 USD.
Best music I heard last year was when I bought a 12 classic albums-on-5 CDs box set of Horace Silver recorded n the 50s and early sixties. Think I'll do something similar this year. Trawling through Amazon now.
Got this me Sen last year. Beautiful and timeless music. Well engineered too.
Two by the Cornish band The Surgeons, one about Kernow and one about our very own Stanley Bowles, just in case there is anybody who hasn't heard that yet...
Speaking of local Kernow Bands, self-titled album Moondragon is now available. I used to go and watch them every chance i got, one of the best bands of all time imo. It's pre internet local band stuff, 1990? So i couldn't find a worthy clip on the internet (the vid at Helston music fayre has me dancing as a kid, not that it's recognisable).
But anybody reading this who appreciates what excellent music is should check that album, so fcuking brilliant. Oz one of the best drummers of all time imo. Actually, Cornwall had the world's number 1 ranked drummer in another local Cornish band at the same time (Tom Hooper(?) Storm Force Ten; excellent), but Oz was the man for me, brilliant drummer. Amazed and delighted to see it on itunes and stuff. Incidentally, the tracklist is incorrect. Whoever has done it doesn't realise all the song names are the other way around. They're, like, 1 behind or 1 forward or something.
We had/have lots of good local bands, it's that sort of place. A little bohemian.
Kernow Bys Veken!
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I'm guessing there was a Ladbrokes next door to B & Q !!!!
Incredible video, he has form for this stuff and whilst I don't pretend to understand every high level artistic concept these guys go for, this one had layers upon layers of symbolism and digs.
There's also a video kicking about of J Cole rapping accapella about rappers that are just following a gimmick and have no substance. Along with the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Run the Jewels it shows that amongst all this nonsense Mumble Rap, etc there's still a lot of social commentary happening via quality rap / hip-hop.
I'm having a bit of a hip-hop renaissance at the moment, although I'm mainly into UK stuff. The Suspect Packages radio show is pretty good for finding new stuff.
Loving this album, and also some new stuff from Jack Diggs and Big Toast (not much on youtube to share here though unfortunately.
Went to see Axel Rudi Pell last Friday, he put on an awesome show but the roach in the joint was the support band Crystal Ball. Melodic power metal that reminded me of Helloween with Andi Deris. New album is Crystallizer, been on regular in the house since I got it, well worth a listen. If you are feeling a bit more adventurous, try out Ayreon Universe by Ayreon. You cannot categorise this stuff in any one genre of rock, this has every style going. 16 different singers, awesome band and loads of Hammond organ, {showing my age now I guess}, if you like great music give this a go, maybe you'll find a new band that you really like as Ayreon seems to be a well kept secret even here in the Netherlands. I guess that is the music industry for you............
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