Songs You Came Across On Some Streaming Service And Thought Your Head-Case Buds Might Enjoy Too. No Critical Endorsement Implied. Fuck Vevo etc.

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[swt61]

Saw them on SNL. They're pretty good. Even though they resemble a female Hanson (of course Hanson resembled a female Hanson).

[Voltron]

The bass playing sister made such bizarre faces during the SNL performance that I couldn't focus on the music.

[Hopstretch]

Yeah I don't know what that's about? Their first album was pretty great though. Keen to hear more of the new one.

[Voltron]

I was going to say that I heard their first album was good, so it is good to have confirmation.

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[Torpedo]

 

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I am so looking forward to this album!

 

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[Dusty Chalk]

Unholy carp, that was great!  If you watch the behind-the-scenes, that's Lauren Wasser, that amputation is real.

 

[Torpedo]

3 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

Unholy carp, that was great!  If you watch the behind-the-scenes, that's Lauren Wasser, that amputation is real.

 

the sad part is that besides this guy and the girl, who else cares? Do Muse care? does anyone else watching this video or listening to the tune care? Life goes on and everyone just takes care of him/her-self

Now just let's pretend the World is wonderful

 

If you're not the blonde or the rich guy, you'll know what's all this about.

[Dusty Chalk]

I think anyone who's seen her TedTalk would probably care.  I know I care. 

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Came up on Shuffle All today. One of the great breakup songs I think.

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Lot of sad news here on HC recently. Made me want to listen to one of my personal favorite reflections on mortality and what's really worth living for*. (Sorry, sounds very pretentious. Not meant to be.)

(* Big surprise. It's love!)

[Dusty Chalk]

 

[HemiSam]

Kind of funky but working for me on a lazy Sunday...give it a few seconds to settle in suggested

HS

[Dusty Chalk]

I like all three of those artists, so wasn't expecting anything less than to like it, and I did.  Unrelated, this is classic Steven Wilson/Lasse Hoile:

 

[Dusty Chalk]

New London Grammar

 

[HemiSam]

Deezer sent this one my way

HS

[Dusty Chalk]

I love the groove of this one:

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Fucking brilliant video

 

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Not their best song but I agree on the video.

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There was some discussion of Royal Blood elsewhere.

They were on Later the other day and killed it as usual. How does he actually do that with a bass guitar?

 

[Dusty Chalk]

1 hour ago, Hopstretch said:

There was some discussion of Royal Blood elsewhere.

They were on Later the other day and killed it as usual. How does he actually do that with a bass guitar?

 

Fucking hell, it's a bit of a mystery.  I'm in a group on Facebook with the maker of his signature pedal, and there isn't a single word on it, and you can't get it -- it was made exclusively for him.  But I have learned a few things -- he splits the signal, and puts the clean sound and distorted sound through two different amps, so that's a big part of it.  I believe he low passes the lead (dirty) sound and high passes the clean, bass sound, but that's obviously not the whole of it.

EDIT:  OH HOLY SHIT, apparently the bassist/vocalist, Steve Fromage, is in the group too, I interact with him all the time.  Unholy carp, I hope I haven't said anything insulting, although I don't think I did, because I really like them and just bought all their CDs.

[Dusty Chalk]

I just ran across this guy (not literally) at my local Wegmans -- he's fantastic.  He did this one thing where he put a capo up real high, set up a riff, looped it, moved the capo down but not off, set up another riff that harmonized with the first one, looped it, too, then played on top of those two guitars and sang.  He has an amazing sense of groove and has a high, androgynous voice that was perfect for the songs he was singing.