The Default Thread: Music Edition.

[TallGuyCM]

At this point, I'm thoroughly convinced that "Cop Shoot Cop..." is the best ending to anything ever. Music, film, television, etc. Feel free to prove me wrong.

[SoulDischarge]

It's close. "The Trilogy" offers some competition.

Those early Boredoms album requires a bit of patience (or zero patience at all). The songs don't really last that long, kind of like hardcore punk, and they switch up tactics so quickly it's easy to get lost. But they're also some of the purest manifestions of the rock & roll id. If you listen enough times, it becomes less like noise soup and you recognize different melodies and effect and shit. Also, they're just pure fun through and through. Listen to Soul Discharge once or twice a day for a week (it's only a half hour) and report back.

[nosurprises12]

Has anyone else seen this Get Yourself Tested commercial featuring No Age playing "Everybody's Down"?

No Age

Los Angeles, CA

“We chose to participate in the campaign because we think relationships with friends, lovers and everyone else should be honest and responsible.”

Dean Spunt and Randy Randall make up the Los Angeles based band No Age. No Age issued a slew of singles on a variety of indie labels in 2007, resulting in the tellingly cohesive compendium, Weirdo Rippers on Fat Cat Records later that year. That widely heralded release inspired such mainstream press as The New Yorker and the L.A. Times to feature the band’s ties to the underground scene surrounding the Los Angeles all-ages club The Smell. They have released two full length records on Sub Pop Records, the Grammy-nominated Nouns in 2008 and Everything In Between in 2010.

http://www.itsyoursexlife.com/gyt/inspiration/no-age/

[Hannahrain]

I feel like Dean Spunt is doing exactly what he should be doing with his given name. The only other options would have been a sleazy people-pleasing British executive or maybe a professional pharmaceutical guinea pig with an alarming physical abnormality.

[Down Rodeo]

Soul Discharge is pure insanity. Pop Tatari almost sounds like them trying to be a funk band that's got serious ADD and is hooked on speed. I love those albums.

Exactly. The joy they have while playing just oozes through those entire albums. It really is infectious when you've listened enough times and gotten over the batshit craziness.

[Drinkey McDrinkerstein]

At this point, I'm thoroughly convinced that "Cop Shoot Cop..." is the best ending to anything ever. Music, film, television, etc. Feel free to prove me wrong.

Assuming you're talking about Spiritualized, yes, i agree with you. Seeing them do an extended (about 25 minutes i think) version at the Avalon several years ago is one of the greatest things I've ever witnessed.

[bballarl]

Jesus Christ died for nothing I suppose.

[SoulDischarge]

Assuming you're talking about Spiritualized, yes, i agree with you. Seeing them do an extended (about 25 minutes i think) version at the Avalon several years ago is one of the greatest things I've ever witnessed.

Massively jealous.

[GeezrRckr]

New Dum Dum Girls yesterday. On one hand -- as Pitchfork picked up on here -- it's a fairly obvious stab at "Fade Into You," on the other hand, I can forgive this simply because Dee Dee crushes the vocal in a way that actually deserves comparisons to Hope Sandoval.

Dee Dee rules. I love this song and I'm sure it will kill live. I can't wait for their next release.

[Drinkey McDrinkerstein]

I randomly met No Age's Dean Spunt's brother, who designs and screenprints most of No Age's shirts, at the ColLAboration beer garden on the Sunset Strip on Saturday after noticing his awesome No Age shirt and asking him if he was the MacArthur park show. Very nice guy! he said he was up until 3am in the shop making shirts the night before and then at the last second was coerced into manning the merch booth for the show.

[brokenDREAMS]

Trans-Love Energies is the first new material from Death In Vegas after a seven year absence. linky

FUCK YES!!

[chiapet]

I posted a video (Max Cooper) in the mnml thread the other day; I've listened to that song more than 30 times today; and I seriously just woke up and got out of bed to listen to the EP again. I need help.

[TomAz]

hey so I just stumbled across this. it's like 4 years old but really fun to read anyway.

Ask a music scene micro celebrity

Apologies if it's been posted before.

[bmack86]

That's one of my favorite reads ever. He also did that on a poker site. He's also doing a food blog now. Albini is the man.

[GeezrRckr]

Do you think bands that are severely derivative, like most garage rock bands, are inferior to bands like Jesus Lizard who sound totally unique?

Yes. In other news, I think Ice is cold, fire is hot and the sun will probably come up tomorrow.

Ha!

[bmack86]

I've used this analogy before, but I like it, so I'll use it again: While the recording is underway, I'm like a gynecologist, and it would be inappropriate for me to be getting turned-on by the vagina I'm working on at the moment. I need to have a different relationship with the vagina.

So good.

[dorkfish]

The Godspeed! sessions were done in two chunks, totalling about three weeks, and were taxing, but inspiring in a couple of weird ways.

The collective aspect of the band is something I'm familiar with and comfortable with, so that wasn't a problem, other than occasionally having to get everybody together and discuss different options at a little more length than usual. It intruded more when trying to decide where the smokers were going to smoke than any recording consideration.

Anybody who has been in even a three-piece band knows how difficult it can be to keep the peace, and I was impressed at the lengths these guys went to to make sure everyone in the band was heard.

The formal elements of the band and the music have their own inherent problems. The band had nine members: two drummers, three electric guitarists, two bassists, a 'cello, violin, various mallet percussion instruments, a music box and a penny whistle. Their music often has crescendos that begin very quiet (ppp) and are eventually hard rock loud (ffff). This mix of loud and quiet sounds, acoustic and electric instruments and a lot of people makes even the physical setup in the studio difficult. We had to try several arrangements of chairs and rooms, often moving everything involved in the session before everyone was comfortable.

The next problem was recording both the very quiet and very loud sounds accurately. Ordinarily, small adjustments can be made in mixing to compensate for louder and quieter parts, but this was an extreme case, with an active dynamic range of better than 28dB. The conventional or hack approach to a problem of wide dynamic range is to use compressors to restrict the top-end of the dynamic range, but I have never liked the artificial sound quality imparted by this method.

The "clamping" action of the compressor is noticeable, and it sacrifices detail at the highest point of the dynamic, when the music is reaching its biggest moments. This would be a particularly inappropriate choice for a band like Godspeed! Still, I needed to be able to ride the gain on as many as a dozen microphones in a smooth, repeatable fashion, so I used the channel grouping feature of our console to create sub-masters for each of the instruments, and I rode the gain on the individual instruments, keeping them at a reasonable level throughout the course of songs as long as ten minutes.

Several of the pieces were meant to flow seamlessly from one to the next, but could not be performed this way because of instrument changes or other reasons, so I needed to be able to knit together several chunks recorded separately while maintaining the illusion that they were performed at once. In most cases there was a transitional moment, where piece "A" ended and piece "B" started, so these transitional moments were scripted into each piece, so there would be a range of editing options. In once case, there was a gradual guitar crescendo, so the edit needed to observe that dynamic and avoid creating a jarring change. This part of the session organization took more thought and preparation than I was expecting, but eventually it all worked out.

There were some additional musicians recorded for a couple of parts, in particular a string section comprising several double-basses, but the original session was still set-up and couldn't be disturbed, so during this period the band were occupying both studios.

As the session progressed, individual players needed to add overdubs, and we would concentrate on one person until finished, and then move on to the next player. This part of the session involved some very long days for me, and it seemed like the band were eating and sleeping in shifts while I worked every minute.

Eventually, the record was finished and mixed, and the band went on their way. I wasn't party to the discussions after they left, but with such a complex project, it isn't surprising that there were things the band were dissatisfied with over time, and they decided to mix the album themselves (there was some additional recording done as well) at the studio they normally used in Montreal, with an engineer (Howard Bilerman) who is a friend and an important part of their extended family. That they were eventually happy enough to release the record is good enough for me.

Any other complications involved boiled down to me not speaking French very well, the US border crossings being a bastard, and Canadians being weird in general.

gy!be tidbits

[ZachTheEskimo]

I'm not really sure where I should post this, so I figured the default thread was generally the right place.

I'm looking for a specific 7". It's a split between Kill Life and 33, Kill Life being made up of members of Integrity and Fucked Up. If anybody has this, and can put it in the group or something, it would be greatly appreciated and I would greatly return the favor.

Thanks alot.

[Sleepingrock]

Edit: Cheaper one - http://allthewayaliverecs.bigcartel....ife-33-split-7

If you want to buy it?

[ZachTheEskimo]

http://thirtythree.bigcartel.com/pro...e-split-7-inch

If you want to buy it?

I'm probably gonna end up buying it. I saw that, but I was wondering if somebody had it so I could hear it first.

[Sleepingrock]

Ah. Fair enough, it isn't on ? so I don't know where to look (but someone made a request, did you?)

[ZachTheEskimo]

Ah. Fair enough, it isn't on ? so I don't know where to look (but someone made a request, did you?)

I didn't make the initial request, but I added to it. I'll probably buy it and then upload it myself now.

[Sleepingrock]

Good idea. I've been meaning to upload some stuff on there, although I don't think many will receive any hits.

[ZachTheEskimo]

Good idea. I've been meaning to upload some stuff on there, although I don't think many will receive any hits.

As long as a few other people enjoy it, right?

[Sleepingrock]

Very true! Eventually it will make its way to someone, hopefully.

[NicoDread]

[kreutz2112]

Are we ever going to be able to embed soundcloud players on this forum?

[GeezrRckr]

That Joanna Newsom rmx is fucking blasphemy. Yuck.

[PotVsKtl]

[Drinkey McDrinkerstein]

Are we ever going to be able to embed soundcloud players on this forum?

Take it up with management. This is the first time I've ever seen it mentioned. Not a bad idea.