Monday, March 24, 2008

The Best Music You've Never Heard


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ohnnytwentythree

From: Cincinnati, Ohio
Sound: Imagine Godspeed You! Black Emperor with the live ferocity of Fugazi
Album: JXXIII
Investigate: www.johnnytwentythree.com, Myspace



Sleeptalker

From: Nashville, Tennessee
Sound: Dark and moody alt-rock reminiscent of a simpler Bends-era Radiohead
Album: Simplifysimplify
Investigate: www.sleeptalker.net, Myspace



Snowglobe

From: Memphis, Tennessee
Sound: Brian Wilson and Flaming Lips experimental pop without surfboards or robots
Album: Oxcytocin
Investigate: Makeshift Music, Myspace



Roh Delikat

From: Boston, Massachusetts
Sound: Think stripped-down Blonde Redhead meets a more serious Giant Drag
Album: Sunny
Investigate: Sadly they've broken up, Myspace



The Early Evening


From: Nashville, Tennessee
Sound: Neil Young's down to earth songwriting with Paul McCartney's sense of melody
Album: Same Amazing Person
Investigate: www.theearlyevening.com, Myspace



Motion Decay

From: Nashville, Tennessee
Sound: Mix the thunder of Black Sabbath with the instrumental precision of Pelican
Album: NA
Investigate: Myspace



Aaron Robinson

From: Nashville, Tennessee
Sound: Ryan Adams without the bullshit meets the Counting Crows and Mark Kozelek
Album: We Are Racing Ghosts
Investigate: www.aaronrobinsonmusic.com, Myspace



The Slow and Steady Winner

From: (surprise!) Nashville, Tennessee
Sound: A mellower, more organic Explosions in the Sky
Album: Narrative Euphony in Nine Parts
Investigate: Myspace

Now go listen to some music and maybe get your ass to a show or two.

3 comments:

Mike said...

hey, thanks for the shoutout :) i'll list you in my top 10 blogs to read.

K. McCallister said...

dude, sweet.

you should check out Future Clouds and Radar if you haven't. they were pretty unknown at this time last year, and even though I still classify them as 'super-unknown Austin indie' I actually think they won like best album in Spin magazine or some weird shit like that.

anyway, it's cool.

Emily Michelle Jones said...

Excellent. What about Brooke Waggoner? :]