1. El-P 2. Beauty Pill 3. KMD 4. WanWan (Or OneOne?) (This is the girl from Deerhoof whose name I've forgotten and Saya from Tenniscoats, and is really wonderful) 5. Kool Keith 6. Self 7. Monobright 8. Polvo 9. Beta Satan 10. Cadence Weapon
The Stooges - Raw Power Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze CKY - Carver City The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn
Lots and lots of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, specifically From Her to Eternity, The Firstborn is Dead, and Tender Prey. Really, I've only recently discovered this stuff. I've had The Proposition OST for a while, but I never really "got" the Birthday Party or Bad Seeds stuff until I listened to a Grinderman song on Youtube, now I'm hooked.
Also: Mastodon - Leviathan Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground & Self-titled Sleater-Kenney - Self-titled Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good Diamanda Galas - Plague Mass
Basically, everything up there, especially the Nick Cave stuff and except for the Mastodon and Diamanda Galas, I can listen to while writing, which I've been doing a lot of lately. I'm finding the music helps me concentrate, as long as I'm not doing any editing while I listen.
I got myself some classical CDs to provide an unobtrusive soundtrack to my desk-bound days. Greatest hits packages from Vivaldi, Mozart and Beethoven to be precise. I'm totally ignorant in this field, so I went for the big hitters. Recommendations, esp more modern stuff, are very welcome.
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. I prefer the orchestral arrangement of it, but the original solo piano suite is still excellent. Also Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and Rites of Spring, and Carnival of Animals by Camille Saint-Saens.
If you're after solo piano Erik Satie is always a winner.
Cocaine gonna kill my baby dead. The White Ghost Shivers tell it to you true, son.
I'm missing Austin and all the fantastic live music something awful, so I'm comforting myself with the warm glow of YouTube. The WGS are probably my favorite local band, in terms of musical excellence and their frenetic energy-fueled shows.
At the moment; Deathmole's Album; Conniptions Foo fighters - Everlong Offspring - The kids arnt allright The Distillers - City of angles And in the car The mad capsual markets, pure japanese techno thrash awsomeness.
VA - 5: 5 Years of Hyperdub. Got this the other day, it's great. VA - Teaism. Still in my cd player for the 10th week straight I think. Themselves - theFREEHoudini.
CONVERGE-jane doe 2xlp SEX/VID-communal living 12"ep 9 SHOCKS TERROR-zen and the art of beating your ass 12" ep J CHURCH-horror of life lp RINGERS-hurry up and wait lp DALEK/MEGATON split 12" single