Time for a MUSIC NERD Listening Party
A playlist for late-Autumn
S.H.I.T. = Hardcore punk rock from Toronto
S.H.I.T has been playing shows for more than a decade and has an anti-capitalism mentality similar to Fugazi. A fan on Reddit described their music as “the sound of modern society collapsing.”
“Being a hardcore punk band is a really loaded thing,” a band member told an interviewer. “One way or another, by doing it, you’re engaging in an exercise that ultimately failed at its outset.”
LA LOM (The Los Angeles League of Musicians) = modern Cumbia-Soul
On upright bass, percussion, and electric guitar, the members of LA LOM play a mix of Mexican and Peruvian Cumbia, romantic boleros, Afro-Cuban jazz, and instrumental 60s soul that sounds like Los Angeles at 2 pm on a Sunday. Band members grew up in LA and used to play rockabilly music.
boygenius = indie rock supergroup
Grammy-nominated Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus recently performed on Saturday Night Live, and their performance of Satanist — a song based on a “bonehead riff” — is pure gold. Three-part vocal harmonies combine with guitars to form “the supergroup we need.”
Orchestra Gold = African psychedelic art rock from Oakland
Vocalist Mariam Diakite sings in the Bambara language of Mali, surrounded by spaced-out guitars, busy percussion, and brass. “We are at a time in human history of isolation, mass death, and environmental degradation…We intend to create musical landscapes that take the audience on a journey of connection, an affirmation of life, a musical remedy,” guitarist Erich Huffaker told an interviewer. They remind me a little of the Swedish band Goat.
Blu DeTiger = bass-driven indie funk pop
Bass Player magazine called the TikTok star “the future of bass” in 2021, and she made the “Forbes Under 30” list at 25. “I used to think, ‘Oh, I have to do this and this is the right way.’ And that’s just not a that’s true. Once I started doing what I felt was the best for me was when things started going places,” she said earlier this year. Blu has some similarities to LEISURE.
Prince Fatty Meets The Gorgon in Dub = new dub reggae
London-based recording engineer and producer Prince Fatty — Mike Pelanconi — produced new dub mixes and edits of 10 classic, golden-era, 1970s roots reggae tracks. “You can still use digital equipment in an analog way, it’s just down to how you capture the sounds and how you record,” he said in a 2012 Loop TV interview.
Dorothy Ashby = funk-soul-jazz harpist
J Dilla sampled her in 1995 for the song “Drop” by The Pharcyde. Madlib, Pete Rock, Jay-Z, and Flying Lotus have also sampled her. I’ve heard her music pop up in record stores and boutique shops and it always stops me in my tracks. Ashby was a trailblazing jazz harpist and composer from Detroit who put her instrument way up front and showed that the harp could play bebop, soul, and R&B.
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