Whatcha Listening To?

Post by **Jim Price** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

We haven't had one of these threads for a while...

I'll start. I'm currently listening to a band called XFactor1 out of Columbus, and their CD American Dream. One of the guys actually handed me the CD in the parking lot at Post Gazette Pavilion last summer during the Metal Masters Tour, and I'm just getting around to checking it out. Heavy monstrous metal in the Pantera/Mudvayne/Slipknot vein, and pretty kickass stuff! The CD is mostly studio tracks with several live concert bonus tracks. I checked their Myspace site, and they're part of the Mayhem Festival in Scranton July 29 with Slayer, Marilyn Manson, Killswitch Engage, Bullet For My Valentine and more.

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

I'm really into going to the live show archive at archive.org. It's awesome! I've really been into Derek Trucks lately, and I've gotten excellent quality bootlegs only a day after a show. The concert-tapers are all high-tech now, many of the recordings sound like perfectly-mixed albums. You can post your own music, too, or give permission for others to tape. There's hundreds upon hundreds of bands doing thousands of shows... jam-bands, blues, folk, rockabilly, punk... classic shows from the 70's, it's pretty cool. They have old 78's and field recordings there, too, it's an online library.
MJB hooked me up with Buddy Guy's latest, Skin Deep. Excellent record, great hooky songs, smoking guitar, and some cool cameos.
This past winter was all about oldtime, though. My buddy Brad and I listen to Charlie Poole, and other oldtime fiddlers a lot while we paint, the uptempo keeps you moving. We keep revisiting Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe, too as always, Louvin Bros., Todd Snider, Greg Brown, Hackensaw Boys, Greensky Bluegrass and other Colorado jamgrass... not much rock at all. Still dig it, just riding the wave I'm on.--->JMS

RobTheDrummer · Post by **RobTheDrummer** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

I've been listening to Halestorm and Death Magnetic.

metalchurch · Post by **metalchurch** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

I usually grab 4 or 5 cd's and put them in my car to freshen the rotation a little cause I dont listen to the radio...here's a few I've been listening to.

Deicide - Scars of the Crucifix
Morbid Angel - Domination
Six Feet Under - 13
Obituary - The End Complete
Sepultura - 'Schizophrenia' & 'Arise'

KeithReynolds · Post by **KeithReynolds** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

Thin Lizzy- Renegade
Roger Waters- Live In the flesh tour '00
Danzig- Danzig 1

EyesOfAnguishbassist · Post by **EyesOfAnguishbassist** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

For The Fallen Dreams
Stick To Your Guns
NEW Bury Your Dead (most ppl hate it but I think it rules haha)
Have Heart

whitedevilone · Post by **whitedevilone** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

Jeff Beck-Blow by Blow & Wired

Metallica- DM (still)

The Embalmed

Bill Frisell-Long Train home...Callin Kent Tonkin hello

John Scofield-Anything lately.

ToonaRockGuy · Post by **ToonaRockGuy** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

I've been listening to the 25th Anniversary compilation from Alligator Records. Awesome 2-disc set of blues, featuring some legendary blues artists like Koko Taylor, Etta James, Johnny Winter, Cyrus Neville, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, James Cotton, Tinsley Ellis, Billy Branch, Katie Webster and many many more. Lovin' it.

Bag · Post by **Bag** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

Spread Eagle- Spread Eagle

The Cursed- Room Full Of Sinners

Overkill- Killbox 13

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

right on johnny! new derek trucks, jimmy herring(cant remember the name of the album) it smokes! i've been kinda diggin alot of stuff from down the atlanta scene. theres some monster talent down that way. not so much jam-band but bands that can jam. and my buddy has turned me onto the missisippi john hurt, library of congress recordings. one guy,one instrument. killer! funny,.... when the guy tracked him down to record him, he didn't even have a guitar at the time.

also looking foreward to the new "chickenfoot"

P MAC · Post by **P MAC** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

I usually listen to my XM radio when in the van. Mostly I turn to the blues channel and the outlaw country channel, but there is a channel called deep tracks that plays classic album tracks that I like a lot as well. If I listen to CDs it is usually a local or regional band that I have some connection to, ie; friend in the band, did production for the band, etc. The Rustlanders CD has been in my player for a while now.

Feelgood · Post by **Feelgood** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

Darkane "Demonic Art"
Dimension Zero "He Who Shall Not Bleed"

PanzerFaust · Post by **PanzerFaust** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

Sirius.....

On Sunday when I drive back to DC there's a channel with Bob Dylan hosting a show that plays kick ass old blues......

Other than that.. my CD players had a CD jammed in it for about a year.. Actually it's a digital copy of my old band Tommi Gunns album that the studio sent me and my Alpine didn't approve apparently...

ZappasXWife · Post by **ZappasXWife** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

Ah yes the Bob Dylan show. I have been listening to it almost every week for the last few years. It is, well to be honest, sometimes hard to take. I love it though mostly for his great sarcasm and stories. And that voice, wow if he could sing as smooth as he speaks. The music he plays is sometimes so cornball and old-fashioned i can't stand it. Don't know what show you heard but believe me its not all 'old blues'. Its entertaining though to say the least.
LOVE Deep Tracks most of the time. Except when they insist on playing Rennaisance and some other things I find obnoxious...Also Jam On. As far as CDs I having been groovin on Joe Strummer & Mesceleros lately. I also like a few Pearl Jam songs I recently downloaded from the Into the Wild movie. I know lots of you don't like that band but I think their lyrics are great and really their style has gone beyond the grunge that they started with. Like any band I certainly don't like all their stuff. I love Derek Trucks but heard the latest album is a departure of style for hime....anyone hear it?

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

ZappasXWife wrote:Ah yes the Bob Dylan show. I have been listening to it almost every week for the last few years. It is, well to be honest, sometimes hard to take. I love it though mostly for his great sarcasm and stories. And that voice, wow if he could sing as smooth as he speaks. The music he plays is sometimes so cornball and old-fashioned i can't stand it. Don't know what show you heard but believe me its not all 'old blues'. Its entertaining though to say the least.
LOVE Deep Tracks most of the time. Except when they insist on playing Rennaisance and some other things I find obnoxious...Also Jam On. As far as CDs I having been groovin on Joe Strummer & Mesceleros lately. I also like a few Pearl Jam songs I recently downloaded from the Into the Wild movie. I know lots of you don't like that band but I think their lyrics are great and really their style has gone beyond the grunge that they started with. Like any band I certainly don't like all their stuff. I love Derek Trucks but heard the latest album is a departure of style for
hime....anyone hear it?

i don't think it's a departure at all, just an artist that is evolveing and not pigeon holed into anything. i mean, he pretty much covers alot of genres so to speak. it's different from his last one, in the case there isn't any of the eastern indian stuff on it, which personally, gets alittle boring to me anyway, although i can appreciate it. the new album totally kicks ass and most of the stuff he did,when you seen him at the state theatre a few months back. that show rocked!

metalchurch · Post by **metalchurch** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

I just stumbled across an old Doom Metal band last night called "Count Raven"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XfGsYb5 ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr2bUcc2 ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAn9MAck ... re=related

Reminds me of old Sabbath so much.

I'm in love!
...There's just so much out there that I havent discovered yet, so there's no use for me to listen to "new" or modern music in order to hear something fresh.

JackANSI · Post by **JackANSI** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

Drunken Sailor and Tacos by Double Negative!!

http://www.myspace.com/doublenegative777

But more nationally known I've been listening to Elva, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Throw the Fight, and The Damned.

orangekick · Post by **orangekick** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

Mastodon - Crack the Skye
ISIS - Wavering Radiant

EErnst · Post by **EErnst** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

as of this morning i've been stuck on Job for a Cowboy....Before that i was stuck on the new Lamb of God record, Wrath. Ask anyone in the band, i think i talked about it for a month straight lol

slackin@dabass · Post by **slackin@dabass** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

i've been watching the coheed and cambria neverender dvd's pretty much on a loop since i borrowed them from a friend. i never realized how talented the band is. they got a pretty damn good bass player.

felix'apprentice · Post by **felix'apprentice** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

slackin@dabass wrote:i've been watching the coheed and cambria neverender dvd's pretty much on a loop since i borrowed them from a friend. i never realized how talented the band is. they got a pretty damn good bass player.

i do like coheed and cambria too....the guitar player is pretty quick too (not as fast as i am hahahah

)

but anyways ... listened to them on my ipod this morning

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

The Gaslight Anthem-The '59 sound
Alkaline Trio- Agony and Irony
The Cancer Bats- Hail Destroyer
American Nightmare-S/T
Blood For Blood- Wasted Youth Brew
Against Me!- Searching For A Former Clarity
Burn The Priest-S/T

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

I recently bought the lastest CD by Decemberadio called "Satisfied" and it is great stuff. Even better than their last CD. Very versatile band covering several styles with a sound like a cross of The Black Crowes meets Lynyyrd Skynyrd meets Led Zeppelin meets Bon Jovi meets something else.

http://www.last.fm/music/DecembeRadio?autostart=1

shredder138 · Post by **shredder138** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

In my home stereo...

Pennywise- land of the free
Strung Out- Blackhawks over los angeles
Iron Maiden- live after death

In my car...

Big Wig- Reclamation
Strung Out- element of sonic defiance

nakedtwister · Post by **nakedtwister** » Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

ToonaRockGuy wrote:I've been listening to the 25th Anniversary compilation from Alligator Records. Awesome 2-disc set of blues, featuring some legendary blues artists like Koko Taylor, Etta James, Johnny Winter, Cyrus Neville, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, James Cotton, Tinsley Ellis, Billy Branch, Katie Webster and many many more. Lovin' it.

Hey Toona where did you find that? I need some more Blue material.