Recommend Something New

[Big Generator]

The best new record I've heard is..."12 Songs" by Neil Diamond...produced by Rick Rubin...and after the death of Johnny Cash, this is the next phase of Rubin's American Recordings series.

[Music Wench]

Okay, I can definitely agree with the recommendation on Arctic Monkeys. Just got their album What Ever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.

[Zombeels]

Definitey have to recommend:

Electric President - Self titled debut

Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time

Islands - Return To The Sea

[JBellRules]

Kings of Leon.

They play a cross between Southern Rock and garage rock.

[Big Generator]

"Nico" - Blind Melon

[Big Generator]

Oops...that's not new at all...except it is in my house.

[AboutAGirl]

My brother showed me the most awesomest artist I've found in a while. She's a female blues guitarist & singer just like Jonny Lang only in my humble opinion she's lightyears ahead of Jonny. She was 14 when she recorded her album, and anyone would be proud to put out this album no matter what age or experience level. She plays guitar like Stevie Ray and she sings like an excruciatingly apt superb 23 year old singer (I wouldn't have thought it possible for someone her age to sing like that). I absolutely love her music. It's great melody and I can relate to the love songs more than the macho ones that hard rocking guys tend to do.

http://www.shannoncurfman.com/frames.html

[newdawnfades]

Originally Posted by JBellRules Kings of Leon. They play a cross between Southern Rock and garage rock.

Good band I agree. I saw them live last Fall. Their lead guitarist needed to turn up his amp though. I do like his CCR style though.

[India_Blue]

Here's a great new folksy blues artist I have grown to like. He is from CA. Love his music. If you have a chance to listen to a sample of his work, please do.


Tony Furtado
Bare Bones
Brian Gearing
Monday, May 16, 2005

Merging the shuffling, lead-footed tales of the red-clay south with progressive songwriting and intricate, modern composition, Tony Furtado has joined peers like Kelly Joe Phelps as a new traditionalist genre bender of the finger-picked Delta blues style. His newest release, Bare Bones, captures Furtado alone on stage with nothing but an old guitar and a bag full of songs that span a career spent bridging the divides between American lands and cultures.

While songs like opener “These Chains” and “False Hearted Lover’s Blues” push a weary northern troubadour’s heavy feet down the dry, dusty roads of the depressed deep south, Furtado occasionally takes the time for a break beneath a shady tree. The singer’s sunny melody and stubborn optimism shine ironically through the stormy imagery of “Standing in the Rain” and “Can You Hear the Rain,” which answers itself as late spring showers echo quietly on the windows of an empty house warmed by a hearth and a love that hangs in the air even when its object is miles away.

If there’s one complaint here, it’s with Furtado’s vocal range: while the guitarist’s lightning-fast picking and bottleneck slide sprint in and out of Tom Petty’s “Running Down a Dream,” his droning vocal loses some of the original’s rock soul. On the traditional prison work song, “Oh Berta, Berta,” however, the same monotone lends a fitting resignation to a condemned man’s loving appeal.

In the end, Furtado’s vocal shortcomings are more than compensated for by his flowing, organic virtuosity and storytelling gifts, both often one and the same. The instrumental medley of “St. John’s Fire/Bolinas” sings a wordless story, and Furtado’s sparkling banjo work may likely draw associations with newgrass stalwarts like Bela Fleck, but such short-sighted comparisons miss the spirit of Furtado’s music. On an album that gives equal time to traditional delta blues (“Cypress Grove Blues”), Appalachian anthems (“Rove Riley Rove”) and contemporary composition (“I Will/Hazel Comes Home/Willow John”), Furtado shows that he is merely a vessel, relating stories of other times and places with his own unique voice.

[Music Wench]

Thought I'd give a recommend to Jenny Lewis & The Thompson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat. Kind of country/folky with a weird twist.

Jenny Lewis is the lead singer for Rilo Kiley, btw.

[MilesMingus]

And now for something totally different...Introducing Clap Your Hands Say Yeah...Their self titled 1st record is really a sound for sore ears...I'm not into the current crop of rock music, but this is some good stuff...

[mojoman]

I highly recommend the new Derek Trucks Band album Songlines.

[Music Wench]

Originally Posted by MilesMingus And now for something totally different...Introducing Clap Your Hands Say Yeah...Their self titled 1st record is really a sound for sore ears...I'm not into the current crop of rock music, but this is some good stuff...

Good call. Love that album.

[Foggy Hat]

Beck is very good, i like weezer too
as well at audioslave.

Imjust starting to discover that new rock is not all for emos, although most of it is.

[mojoman]

Check out the new Drive By Truckers cd, A Blessing and A Curse. Highly recommended, hell any of their cds from Southern Rock Opera forward are highly recommended.

The Drive-By Truckers, exhibit A that rock and roll is not dead.