Share your new music discoveries here

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I’ve gotten so many great suggestions from the book thread that I thought it would be nice to have a thread for new music discoveries. So … What music have you discovered recently that you are really enjoying?

I just heard this song yesterday for the first time and I really love it:

Wood by Rostam

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f1vl224MyMY

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Does it have to be new as in 2016, or just new to you?

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I have been on an electroswing kick lately. Really liking some of Parov Stelar’s stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkOqXAHLKQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpaOh4poNms

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Just new to you! Or really doesn’t even have to be new to you; just something you’d like to share,

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I go on kicks of listening to different artists…not necessarily new, but I am on a Florence + the Machine one currently. Also, Black Keys, and The Clash

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We’ve been enjoying the new crop of folk/rock artists around Seattle, particularly The Moondoggies and The Maldives. There are a bunch of hyper-talented youngsters with a knowledge and appreciation of the roots of modern music. Concerts will have a real mix of ages.

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My sister-in-law suggested The Old 97s as a Pandora station. I like them and I like the mix that resulted. Texas alt-country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk5gERLx_dg

Another nice group is the Blue Eyed Bettys from Brooklyn - city bluegrass. They do a really nice live show.http://www.theblueeyedbettys.com/Home.html

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Sufjan Stevens’ “Carrie & Lowell” has been my go-to album for the past year. Lately, I’ve been listening to the “Hamilton” soundtrack and Vampire Weekend fairly obsessively.

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I like Vampire Weekend, too. The track in my first post is a solo effort from one of the Vampire Weekend guys who just recently announced he was quitting the band.

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Portishead. They are a band from the 90’s, but my younger D discovered them a few years ago and I really like their music.

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I love Portishead! Haven’t listened to them in ages. I had kind of forgotten about them; I’ll have to dig out the CD again. Thanks for the reminder!

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Wow, a blast from the past! One of my lab buddies used to play Portishead in the lab. :slight_smile:

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Speaking of a blast from the past (and also present!), Bjork had a new album out last year that was pretty incredible (in small doses). It was experimental so not easy listening but some of the tracks are quite interesting.

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Vampire weekend….I have a few of their songs in my iTunes library. I listen to iTunes when I drive, via bluetooth or iPod option …when it defaults to alphabetical list, the first song is A-Punk, which I have grown to hate and can’t shuffle my music fast enough

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My newest favorite music follow: Years and Years. Start with their song “King” - winner. :slight_smile: Or play their playlist on Spotify.

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  1. More proof that @mathmom and I were secretly separated at birth. I love the Old 97s, have since forever (or at least since Too Far To Care). When my daughter was 15, she built a little shrine to Rhett Miller (their lead singer and songwriter) in her bedroom. I think he autographed her bra once. He was her imaginary good boyfriend; Ryan Adams the imaginary bad one. Given their longevity and their failure ever truly to break into the big leagues, the Old 97s are probably the group I have seen live most often (besides the Philadelphia Orchestra). I went up to New York last June to see them at Webster Hall with my daughter, none of whose friends were willing to go with her.
  2. Anyone who hasn't listened to the Hamilton soundtrack should, ASAP.
  3. I really, really like a local (to me) South Asian-American rapper who goes by Lushlife. He has a new album, Ritualize, with some people called CSLSX; his previous one is called Plateau Vision. Check out "Romance of the Telescope" (from the older one), "Strawberry Mansion," "Toynbee Suite," or "The Waking World" from the new one. He went to high school with Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend, by the way.
  4. I have been obsessed with this video recently. Super-cute! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us6k6Iu_3EU
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Too funny @JHS. I also loved the Hamilton soundtrack, I was trying to listen to the top 25 essential songs that the New York Times magazine had a few weeks ago and got totally waylaid by it.

The New York Times thing was really interesting though put together in a very frustrating way. If you listened to snippets of the song sometimes all you got was the long instrumental intro, but trying to switch from the article to spotify drove me crazy, especially since if you use the free version they don’t actually play what you want to hear. (I heard every other song on the Hamilton sound track though!)

Anyway the article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/10/magazine/25-songs-that-tell-us-where-music-is-going.html?_r=0 Worth checking out.It’s got everything from Wilco to Justin Bieber to Rihanna to the aforementioned Hamilton soundtrack.

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Thanks to a suggestion by my kids, I follow Bob Boilen’s NPR All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts. It’s a good way to hear about newer artists I hadn’t heard of before and to stay “young” musically.

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He’s not new, but I just love this guy. We saw him on PBS and just couldn’t get enough of him. I wish I could make more discoveries like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTG-bCMG05E&nohtml5=False

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I keep up through All Songs Considered, too. I did like it better when Carrie Brownstein was part of the panel, and when Stephen Thompson was on every week. But it is still great. I really like Bob Boilen’s musical taste.