Does anyone like to get into the local music scene around where you live? I personally love hearing what the local bands that haven't really been recognized sound like. There's a few in my area that are pretty good.
http://soundcloud.com/user3278973/except-for-the-view
http://soundcloud.com/user3278973/admit-one
This is a two-man band that calls themself "Ellis" for some reason. They have a few songs on SoundCloud and they've independently released an album which is pretty good overall. I posted the two best individual tracks above. I personally find Except for the View to be utter brilliance, and Admit One is not too far behind. The rest of their album, unfortunately, does not meet the brilliance of those two tracks. They have a very unique sound though and I think they're pretty legit.
http://www.last.fm/music/Cloudcover
[youtube]QwfGsrq8rnM[/youtube]
Yes, this is my band. I have tried to advertise us for a while now. If you're even remotely interested in us there's a free download link for our first album on last.fm. If you'd like an opinion on what it's like, here's a review that a music blogger gave us:
[youtube]4vLgNBqFtxU[/youtube]
[youtube]NweLHUJtmig[/youtube]
These guys are a pretty typical high school metal band, but I personally find this song to be pretty decent. They're not terrible live, either.
[youtube]DrFCjOaN2CY[/youtube]
[youtube]rA4m_Uc3HFw[/youtube]
These guys have a pretty legit indie sound going on. Built to Last is their only decent original song that they've really recorded, but I find it pretty solid. Their live attempt at Jesus of Suburbia was cute too! haha
Post any local bands in your area that you find decent, I love listening to them!
http://soundcloud.com/user3278973/except-for-the-view
http://soundcloud.com/user3278973/admit-one
This is a two-man band that calls themself "Ellis" for some reason. They have a few songs on SoundCloud and they've independently released an album which is pretty good overall. I posted the two best individual tracks above. I personally find Except for the View to be utter brilliance, and Admit One is not too far behind. The rest of their album, unfortunately, does not meet the brilliance of those two tracks. They have a very unique sound though and I think they're pretty legit.
http://www.last.fm/music/Cloudcover
[youtube]QwfGsrq8rnM[/youtube]
Yes, this is my band. I have tried to advertise us for a while now. If you're even remotely interested in us there's a free download link for our first album on last.fm. If you'd like an opinion on what it's like, here's a review that a music blogger gave us:
It took quite a few weeks, maybe even months, for me to truly see what the indie group cloudcover were trying to accomplish with their debut album, ‘Memento.’ On the surface you have a debut studio album by two relatively accomplished and efficient musicians, trying to make their stamp in the indie community with refreshing and interesting music. But is there more? Beneath the meandering though polarizing guitar solos and oddly addictive vocal ramblings of the front man, was there a desire for more? Was the purpose just to send a quick message and hope people listen through tried-and-true marketing tactics? You know, be a big cool rock band kind of thing?
No. there was absolutely more. ‘Love and War,’ one of the most shining tracks on the album, did not exist to be just music. Of course, this sounds like pretentious mockery, but really, the song…
I was left confused and puzzled, and as I continued stretching my hands into other new bands and dipping my habits into ridiculously mainstream hip-hop for that weird weekend following that awkwardly ill-timed break-up, I felt disloyal. My mind kept returning to cloudcover and ‘Memento.’ I couldn’t shake the feeling that I didn’t get everything out of ‘Love, Insomnia’s mesmerizing backbeat. There was still a lot more to be discovered in the thick layering of ‘Ignite’ or the drum-driven and harmonizing that rides ‘Small Talk.’ Some weird albums are weird to be weird. I believe you know what that means. Yet some albums seem purposeful while also being weird. Like a Stephen King novel. Like 80’s synth-goth.
‘Iron Cobwebs’ sounds like an early Beatles b-side. Blasphemy? Maybe. But listen to the song, its eerie vocal effects leaving the vocalist distant, and the absolutely sizzling guitar solo that tickles and worms its way into your ear. It ain’t ‘Money’ or ‘Hard Day’s Night,’ but it sure accomplishes something.
‘Leaving the City’ opens with a calming piano lead, seeming to be taken right from a Coldplay power ballad. Yet when the vocals kick, it’s just a guy annoyed about leaving, growing up, and being what I can only assume is a man facing the realty of reality. It’s a far cry from a Coldplay single.
I get the impression that cloudcover are smarter than me. Their music is odd, but not odd odd. There is an absolute point- a point where the boys of cloudcover were debating what kind of music they needed to make, and if their pursuit of the greatest questions in life could be justified by recording an album so excellent yet so polarizing.
So I return to my initial qualms- what is ‘Memento?’ Sure, it’s a collection of quirky songs that remain oddly substantial. Sure, it’s an eclectic mix of off-rhythm dance songs, piano driven ballads, and folk numbers, all accentuated by a vocalist who finds more comfort in Morrissey and ‘The National’’s Matt Berninger than, like, hitting the right keys. But I feel like the group added subliminal messages- making me question things about the realities of adolescence- making me question my musical tastes and entertainment habits. And after all that time spent thinking about not listening to cloudcover and secretly wanting to, and questioning other musical pursuits, I gave up. There is only so much running one can do. You eventually have to accept that odd little thing that sticks out like a sore thumb- that questions things and remains polarizing and exciting- maybe that is you. Maybe it is exactly you.
No. there was absolutely more. ‘Love and War,’ one of the most shining tracks on the album, did not exist to be just music. Of course, this sounds like pretentious mockery, but really, the song…
I was left confused and puzzled, and as I continued stretching my hands into other new bands and dipping my habits into ridiculously mainstream hip-hop for that weird weekend following that awkwardly ill-timed break-up, I felt disloyal. My mind kept returning to cloudcover and ‘Memento.’ I couldn’t shake the feeling that I didn’t get everything out of ‘Love, Insomnia’s mesmerizing backbeat. There was still a lot more to be discovered in the thick layering of ‘Ignite’ or the drum-driven and harmonizing that rides ‘Small Talk.’ Some weird albums are weird to be weird. I believe you know what that means. Yet some albums seem purposeful while also being weird. Like a Stephen King novel. Like 80’s synth-goth.
‘Iron Cobwebs’ sounds like an early Beatles b-side. Blasphemy? Maybe. But listen to the song, its eerie vocal effects leaving the vocalist distant, and the absolutely sizzling guitar solo that tickles and worms its way into your ear. It ain’t ‘Money’ or ‘Hard Day’s Night,’ but it sure accomplishes something.
‘Leaving the City’ opens with a calming piano lead, seeming to be taken right from a Coldplay power ballad. Yet when the vocals kick, it’s just a guy annoyed about leaving, growing up, and being what I can only assume is a man facing the realty of reality. It’s a far cry from a Coldplay single.
I get the impression that cloudcover are smarter than me. Their music is odd, but not odd odd. There is an absolute point- a point where the boys of cloudcover were debating what kind of music they needed to make, and if their pursuit of the greatest questions in life could be justified by recording an album so excellent yet so polarizing.
So I return to my initial qualms- what is ‘Memento?’ Sure, it’s a collection of quirky songs that remain oddly substantial. Sure, it’s an eclectic mix of off-rhythm dance songs, piano driven ballads, and folk numbers, all accentuated by a vocalist who finds more comfort in Morrissey and ‘The National’’s Matt Berninger than, like, hitting the right keys. But I feel like the group added subliminal messages- making me question things about the realities of adolescence- making me question my musical tastes and entertainment habits. And after all that time spent thinking about not listening to cloudcover and secretly wanting to, and questioning other musical pursuits, I gave up. There is only so much running one can do. You eventually have to accept that odd little thing that sticks out like a sore thumb- that questions things and remains polarizing and exciting- maybe that is you. Maybe it is exactly you.
[youtube]4vLgNBqFtxU[/youtube]
[youtube]NweLHUJtmig[/youtube]
These guys are a pretty typical high school metal band, but I personally find this song to be pretty decent. They're not terrible live, either.
[youtube]DrFCjOaN2CY[/youtube]
[youtube]rA4m_Uc3HFw[/youtube]
These guys have a pretty legit indie sound going on. Built to Last is their only decent original song that they've really recorded, but I find it pretty solid. Their live attempt at Jesus of Suburbia was cute too! haha
Post any local bands in your area that you find decent, I love listening to them!
