Geez, I know I'm old but I don't like the idea that I'm actually starting to like some of these artists that I shouldn't like... because I'm too smart... and too hip for the hipsters.... Plus I still listen to a ton of metal, hardcore, noise and underground house and electronica.
But around midnight I start listening to WFUV and I actually like music from:
Santigold Florence + the Machine John Mayer Tycho & Benjamin Gibbard
Oh well. My youth is long gone anyhow. Maybe I can shave off a few years by moshing in the pit next time Exodus comes to play NY.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:Geez, I know I'm old but I don't like the idea that I'm actually starting to like some of these artists that I shouldn't like... because I'm too smart... and too hip for the hipsters.... Plus I still listen to a ton of metal, hardcore, noise and underground house and electronica.
But around midnight I start listening to WFUV and I actually like music from:
Santigold Florence + the Machine John Mayer Tycho & Benjamin Gibbard
Oh well. My youth is long gone anyhow. Maybe I can shave off a few years by moshing in the pit next time Exodus comes to play NY.
Florence and John M are not to my taste at all (though they are a great vocalist and guitar player, respectively), but I love a few songs by Santigold as well. This is a stone-cold classic of late '00s indie and when she was known as Santogold on her 1st album. I haven't kept up with her output at all, though.
This one is great, too. Same era.
I don't know the Tycho/Ben Gibbard collaboration you mentioned, but I've been a fan of Ben and Death Cab since the early '00s. Transatlanticism (especially) and Plans are two of the finest rock records made in the last 20 years IMO.
Labels aren't really important here or in general, but FUV is a AAA station like WXPN in Philly, for example, not adult contemporary at all really. That's mainstream stuff like Celine Dion, Billy Joel, et al. (some of which I like, too).
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:Geez, I know I'm old but I don't like the idea that I'm actually starting to like some of these artists that I shouldn't like... because I'm too smart... and too hip for the hipsters.... Plus I still listen to a ton of metal, hardcore, noise and underground house and electronica.
But around midnight I start listening to WFUV and I actually like music from:
Santigold Florence + the Machine John Mayer Tycho & Benjamin Gibbard
Oh well. My youth is long gone anyhow. Maybe I can shave off a few years by moshing in the pit next time Exodus comes to play NY.
i do like the stuff I've heard where he plays with Dead & Company on the Sirius Grateful Dead channel
jaybird wrote:Never heard of this Santigold chick until now, but I dig it quite a bit... reminds me a lot of 80s new wave-y stuff like Berlin or something.
Another good comparison; more "The Metro" and that era than "Take My Breath Away" but yeah pretty spot-on.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.