good new music?

[Yoko Oh No]

Nice I work with younger people, but of the ones I've chatted about music are into stuff that doesn't float my boat.

 

[Canard]

Nice ideas, Canard. I just live a ways from any large city so those options only come into play if I drive for at least an hour toward Los Angeles. I work with younger people, but of the ones I've chatted about music are into stuff that doesn't float my boat. Ramstine, dark metal, and "outlaw country".

I suppose it is hard to find new things if you are just looking for the same. And there is nothing wrong with that. You like what you like. And most definitely you should not take any guff for it.

Myself, I often, well sometimes, find that players/groups who really annoy me at first I end up liking. The Edge - my first impression was not favourable. What is he doing to that guitar? That's not how you play guitar! In the end ... it's a pretty cool way of playing guitar. Andy Summers - first impression - quite lame - then I had to learn some Police tunes - taking apart some the overdub guitar parts - wow, some seriously deep theoretical stuff happening here. The Scottish group, Big Country - uggh - guitars shouldn't sound like bagpipes - after giving the first album more than a couple of spins - well maybe they should. Abba - vacuous empty schlock pop - until I had to learn some tunes for a wedding gig - whoah ... a lot of chords in some of those tunes - Jan Schaffer, a very good guitar player. Joseph Spence - uggh ... why is he playing out of tune? And what's with all that muttering? LOVE him now. And on and on.

I find many young people a lot more open than I was at their age, my kids included. My daughter liberated and loved to unplayable death quite a number of my CDs, Led Zeplin, Hank Williams, Stravinsky, Woody Guthrie, Pentangle, Vivaldi, Bach, Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Patty Loveless, Cream, Mingus, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Willie Nelson, Kate Bush, Rossini, Mothers of Invention, etc, etc. My son has everything in his collection from Abba to John Zorn - I suspect him of liberating my Max Romeo vinyl. LOL.

 

[walrus]

You and I went in opposite directions on The Edge! I loved him at first, but now feel every U2 album is the same one!

But a big +1 on Andy Summers! One of my favorite guitarists. I have a blast playing Police stuff with those crazy but beautiful suspended chords. And he steered me to (at the time) "new" music with his solo jazz guitar albums, which led me into other jazz guitarists like John Scofield.

walrus

 

[gjmalcyon]

All this begs the question....where do you find new stuff if your not into what plays on the radio?

My post from another thread earlier this month:

Several years ago I realized the music world was passing me by - just listening to WXPN wasn't going to be enough and I really didn't want to remain forever stuck in my CSNY Springalo WhoStonesBeatles rut.

So now I try to regularly listen to All Songs Considered, Sound Opinions (although they can be a little hard to take), and the various World Cafe programs. I get occasional email suggestions from Bandcamp that can be really interesting. I think I learned of Tyler Childers either through All Songs Considered or World Cafe's Nashville programming.

NPR has a lot of music programming. The current lineup is at the bottom of this page:

NPR Podcasts & Shows

NPR's home to showcase all of the podcasts from the NPR family. You can listen to recent episodes of your favorite podcasts and subscribe using your app of choice. Looking for more great listens? Browse our entire catalogue by topic or, on each podcast's page, discover similar podcasts.

www.npr.org

 

[JohnW63]

"I suppose it is hard to find new things if you are just looking for the same "

I think you missed my point a bit. I would like to learn about and hear new artists, but that doesn't mean I have to listen genres of music that are outside the range of sounds that keep my interest. That leaves a very wide range of things that are not the same was what I listen to now.

 

[5thumbs]

I use LiveXLive (formerly Slacker Radio).

"LiveXLive allows users to customize one of their programmed stations (for instance, Today's Hits) or start with music similar to an artist or song, and then customize that".

So punch in a favorite artist or song as a station. You can "like" the offered songs, and your tastes will adjust future recommendations.

Try "folk" or "singer songwriter" or "blues" or whatever (or just a favorite artist). You'll be surprised what you might find.

 

[Canard]

"I suppose it is hard to find new things if you are just looking for the same "

I think you missed my point a bit.

Sorry. No offence intended. Either way, I don't see any problem at all with you liking what you like and not liking what you don't.

 

[JohnW63]

Well, that's good. I had no intention of liking Roots-EDM-Metal.

 

[JohnW63]

5Thumbs,

So does the site sort of learn what you might like by what you already do?

 

[5thumbs]

5Thumbs,

So does the site sort of learn what you might like by what you already do?

Yes. I don't remember where I found a description of the algorithm (it was a while ago), but it had decided that I leaned towards acoustic guitars, harmonies and a few other things. It definitely works. I listen to "folk" quite a bit for example. During a twenty minute walk I usually stop at least twice to check what I'm hearing and often end up with a new addition to my collection.

Edit: Returning a "thumbs up" for a song you enjoy fine tunes the selections.

It's worth a try. There's a free version - I personally prefer to pay the $3.99 a month to avoid the advertising.

 

[walrus]

I would like to learn about and hear new artists, but that doesn't mean I have to listen genres of music that are outside the range of sounds that keep my interest.

+1. Exactly my feelings.

walrus

 

[fronobulax]

I have used a couple of streaming sites that will play things based upon what I have told them I like, or don't. I found some new to me music but not a lot of new music. For example, I liked something that had had FM radio play in the 70's and suddenly every suggestion was disco. That was OK because there were things I could not recall hearing at the time but if the goal was to hear music that had been recorded within the past 12 months the suggestions failed. So I have given up on algorithmically generated suggestions until I can find a way to tell the software why I like, or don't like something.

 

[Canard]

Well, that's good. I had no intention of liking Roots-EDM-Metal.

Good.

Why don't you share something (newer/newish) that you do like? I would be interested in exploring "Ramstine, dark metal, and 'outlaw country.'" If that is what you are saying you are into way up above there.

Perhaps we (collectively) could then suggest things that you might like by knowing what you do like.

If dark metal is your thing, I will take a wild stab in the dark here and offer Hedwig Molestad for consideration:



I have seen her a couple of times. About an eighth to a quarter of the audience has been down in front doing the Dio hand-thing and flipping their hair forward - all pretty much, young and male.

 

[JohnW63]

"Why don't you share something (newer/newish) that you do like? "

The point of my posts to the thread was to find new/newer stuff, so having something new to share would indeed be a problem, wouldn't it?

How about this, as the newest thing I have? Snarky Puppy, " We like it here " album. Or perhaps, Mark Lettieri , " Deep ". For "rock" genre, the newest is probably Collective Soul stuff. Although some of Peter Gabrial's stuff is newer than that, but I just have his 2002 record "Up" as my newest. I don't think Joe Walsh's' 2013 album, Analog Man, would count as new because it sounds like Joe's stuff. For Jazz, I would pick Lee Rittenour or Larry Carlton. Tommy Emmanuel is always in the rotation.

"If that is what you are saying you are into way up above there."

Um.. having a bit of trouble figuring out why you say this at all.

 

[Canard]

The point of my posts to the thread was to find new/newer stuff, so having something new to share would indeed be a problem, wouldn't it?

How about a couple of younger Jazz guitarists"

Julian Lage





(Lage at 9 with Santana)

Paquale Grasso - a very scary player

"If that is what you are saying you are into way up above there."

Um.. having a bit of trouble figuring out why you say this at all.

Because I entirely misunderstood what you said here:

Nice ideas, Canard. I just live a ways from any large city so those options only come into play if I drive for at least an hour toward Los Angeles. I work with younger people, but of the ones I've chatted about music are into stuff that doesn't float my boat. Ramstine, dark metal, and "outlaw country".

"Ramstine, dark metal, and 'outlaw country'".

I (wrongly) thought these were examples of things that did float your boat.

There is also Miles Okazaki, who is quite knowledgeable and strange. He annoys me greatly because he is obviously quite talented but I don't get what he is doing.

 

[Canard]

Snarky Puppy
Mark Lettieri
Collective Soul

These are just names to me. It would be interesting to see some clips you like by them.

Peter Gabrial's stuff is newer than that, but I just have his 2002 record "Up" as my newest.

Gabriel is unique. You can find people he's influenced but there is nobody as good at what he does as he is. Words. Music. Rhythms. Synth samples. Kate Bush's The Dreaming or The Hounds of Love, maybe, but for a lot of people Kate is an acquired taste, never quite acquired.

A very weak Gabriel shadow, Gowan:

Tommy Emmanuel is always in the rotation.

Another one of a kind. Hard to find an equal to the pyrotechnic flash and showmanship.

 

[Canard]

I have a young(er) friend whom I have known since he was a 14-year-old work-term student. He is quite a skilled amateur Jazz pianist in the Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson tradition. He is also into DJ stuff, remixes, turntables, House Music, rave stuff, etc. Other than the Jazz stuff, our circles of interest don't overlap much.

He has repeatedly tried to turn me on to one of his favourite groups, Tame Impala.




Maybe there is something I am missing? My friend is quite bright and very talented.

 

[davismanLV]

Okay, I've kinda been avoiding this thread because I know I'll go down a rabbit hole. Not that there's anything wrong with that and heaven knows I've got plenty of time on my hands these days, but it's more of a mood thing. I think today is the day! But before I go back to the beginning and see what y'all got for me, here's an artist that I just found today. So far, I'm only this one song deep, but that's fixin' to change!! See what you think!!

 

[davismanLV]

And this one is stunning to me......

 

[davismanLV]

And of course, I'm still listening to Elle Sera. Found her about a year or so ago. And she plays a Guild!!