Looks like I've kind of neglected this blog... whoops. Let's get back into it. A whole year has passed since I last posted, so to follow up my top albums of 2010, here's my top albums of 2011! With links included so you can check them out. Not in any order this year, just things that I loved and listened to over and over! Also I should say top releases, 'cause not all of them are albums:
Circle Takes the Square - Decompositions Vol. 1, Chapter 1: Rites of Initiation.
(only an ep/the first part of their upcoming album. But probably my favourite thing of the whole year.)
Bomb the Music Industry! - Vacation!
Adalita - Adalita
Fuck The Facts - Die Miserable
Thursday - No Devolucion
Glassjaw - Our Colour Green / Colouring Book (2 EPs count as one album, right?)
Harmony - Harmony
WILD FLAG - Wild Flag
Battles - Gloss Drop
Russian Circles - Empros
Saul Williams - Volcanic Sunlight
Raein - Sulla linea dell'orizzonte fra questa mia vita e quella di tutti gli altri
Ouch My Face - Build a House / Eyeball to Eyeball (Only a single, but what a single!)
and Death by Death Ray - Here is the Revolution! (only a single again,
and a bit of shameless self-promotion, but it's the best recording I've
ever done, so gotta plug it somehow!)
Showing posts with label Circle Takes the Square. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Circle Takes the Square. Show all posts
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Sunday, 27 November 2005
dammitdammitdammit
Wednesday, December 28, 2005 · Showtime/Doors 7:30PM
Thursday
With special guests Blood Brothers, Me Without You and Circle Takes The Square.
An all-ages to enter, 21 to drink event.
$20 + applicable surcharges
goddamn americans. how fucking cool is that? unfair. that's gotta be one of the best lineups ever. and thursday are previewing stuff off their new album too. who wants to fly me over there, then back here in time for my greenroom gig on the 29th? huh huh? i'll even pay the $20 for your entry. :)
Thursday
With special guests Blood Brothers, Me Without You and Circle Takes The Square.
An all-ages to enter, 21 to drink event.
$20 + applicable surcharges
goddamn americans. how fucking cool is that? unfair. that's gotta be one of the best lineups ever. and thursday are previewing stuff off their new album too. who wants to fly me over there, then back here in time for my greenroom gig on the 29th? huh huh? i'll even pay the $20 for your entry. :)
Wednesday, 18 May 2005
recommendations
not much news to report today as i must be doing homework. but the following are bands i have cds by that more people should listen to:
36 Crazyfists - when i got their debut bitterness the star i thought it was great (and it is), but when their second album a snow capped romance came out, i went for months just wanting to make a band that sounded exactly like this. they'd completely hit upon the style i was aiming for in my music, and i love it. (now i'm trying to move onto something else so i'm not just copying them, but i'm still pissed they beat me to it).
Circle Takes The Square - i still can't understand how these guys write their songs, but i wish i could make music like this. it's like a more punk/indie version of DEP, without the aggression (which really makes no sense but is the best i can come up with). the self titled ep is cool, but as the roots undo is a masterpiece. it's more like one long piece of music with different movements and recurring motif's than a collection of songs. or to borrow a metaphor from one of the tracks, it's like the tracks are all woven together into one big tapestry.
Murder By Death - another band who's first album, like the exorcist... but more breakdancing, i loved, but whose second album has just gone to a different level altogether. it's called who will survive and what will be left of them? it's a crazy mix of indie rock, western soundtracks (ie saloon bar music), concept album and cello. if you want an introduction to this band i recommend their performance on the hellfest 2003 dvd, the sound is horrible and they're a huge contrast to every other band on it, but you'll get a strong idea of the combination of wild passion and controlled musicianship they rely on.
also, i just found out billy corgan is touring. cool.
36 Crazyfists - when i got their debut bitterness the star i thought it was great (and it is), but when their second album a snow capped romance came out, i went for months just wanting to make a band that sounded exactly like this. they'd completely hit upon the style i was aiming for in my music, and i love it. (now i'm trying to move onto something else so i'm not just copying them, but i'm still pissed they beat me to it).
Circle Takes The Square - i still can't understand how these guys write their songs, but i wish i could make music like this. it's like a more punk/indie version of DEP, without the aggression (which really makes no sense but is the best i can come up with). the self titled ep is cool, but as the roots undo is a masterpiece. it's more like one long piece of music with different movements and recurring motif's than a collection of songs. or to borrow a metaphor from one of the tracks, it's like the tracks are all woven together into one big tapestry.
Murder By Death - another band who's first album, like the exorcist... but more breakdancing, i loved, but whose second album has just gone to a different level altogether. it's called who will survive and what will be left of them? it's a crazy mix of indie rock, western soundtracks (ie saloon bar music), concept album and cello. if you want an introduction to this band i recommend their performance on the hellfest 2003 dvd, the sound is horrible and they're a huge contrast to every other band on it, but you'll get a strong idea of the combination of wild passion and controlled musicianship they rely on.
also, i just found out billy corgan is touring. cool.
copyright and creative commons
went to see some free talks today by some of the leaders in terms of thinking about copyright laws and reforms, including Lawrence Lessig and Joichi Ito, both of whom were very good
and interesting.
you can check out a flash presentation of a Lessig lecture from 2002 here, talking about the idea of free culture. it's a bit old, but still really interesting.
since then he's extended his ideas to found the creative commons system of licensing (some rights reserved, rather than all rights), which is really interesting too, and something i'm gonna try to take advantage of, if my band ever gets anything recorded.
then we went to this awesome little function room/gallery/warehouse/everything place to do an interview with Mark Pesce on open source television. coolest room i've seen for a long time. their
lounge area is made up of train seat from the old carriages that have been refurbished. they've got about six rows laid out as they'd be on the train, with window sized cityscapes painted on the wall.. so cool.
now that my political propaganda is out of the way, i'm listening to squarepusher. yay. i've also been watching robot chicken and voltron. new garbage album is kinda boring (aside from the
title track), new limp bizkit album is guiltily enjoyable (if only fred durst wasn't so annoying...), and jakalope are really growing on me. murder by death are still amazing, as are circle takes the square and the blood brothers.
and interesting.
you can check out a flash presentation of a Lessig lecture from 2002 here, talking about the idea of free culture. it's a bit old, but still really interesting.
since then he's extended his ideas to found the creative commons system of licensing (some rights reserved, rather than all rights), which is really interesting too, and something i'm gonna try to take advantage of, if my band ever gets anything recorded.
then we went to this awesome little function room/gallery/warehouse/everything place to do an interview with Mark Pesce on open source television. coolest room i've seen for a long time. their
lounge area is made up of train seat from the old carriages that have been refurbished. they've got about six rows laid out as they'd be on the train, with window sized cityscapes painted on the wall.. so cool.
now that my political propaganda is out of the way, i'm listening to squarepusher. yay. i've also been watching robot chicken and voltron. new garbage album is kinda boring (aside from the
title track), new limp bizkit album is guiltily enjoyable (if only fred durst wasn't so annoying...), and jakalope are really growing on me. murder by death are still amazing, as are circle takes the square and the blood brothers.
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