# Discovered any bands lately? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887 "2008-02-01T19:01:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/21 "2008-02-02T03:17:18Z")
I recently joined in a line dance jam with this spontaneous group of 20 somethings in a parking lot to this really cool, hip hop grind, line dance… it’s the new Electric Slide. A Toyota pounding bass and this rather rythmic song by some rap dude… and I was actually keepin’ up. Pretty funkin’ awesome. (Also recently listened to some T. Pain for the first time. Personally I’d rather listen to Bone Thuggs n Harmony.) ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/22 "2008-02-02T03:22:17Z")
I stumbled across [White Whale](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Whale_%28band%29) on eMusic a while ago, and it’s been mad love ever since. That’s a link to the Wikipedia page, which has links to their MySpace profile and their official website (which will not load for me, grrr). They only have [one album](http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A35012), but it’s absolutely wonderful. I don’t know how to describe it – indie sea chanteys maybe? Anyway, my favorite track off it is “We’re Just Temporary Ma’am.” Or maybe “O’ William, O’ Sarah.” ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/23 "2008-02-02T03:25:17Z")
Cha cha slide real smooth. ---
**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/24 "2008-02-02T03:28:22Z")
[QUOTE=simster] I know we’d heard them before, but I downloaded the rest of \*\*Buck Cherry’s \*\* album - 15 - the one song that gets radio (edited) play simply does not do that group justice. [/QUOTE] They have a new song playing on the radio, these days, called **Sorry** , and it’s the best I’ve heard from them! (The running gag at the radio station is that they’re probably apologizing for Crazy Bitch.) S^G ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/25 "2008-02-02T03:41:38Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] I recently joined in a line dance jam with this spontaneous group of 20 somethings in a parking lot to this really cool, hip hop grind, line dance… it’s the new Electric Slide. A Toyota pounding bass and this rather rythmic song by some rap dude… and I was actually keepin’ up. Pretty funkin’ awesome. [/QUOTE] Anybody know the song I heard and danced to? Seems like quite the craze. Very easy to pick up in line. It had the rubbery funk legs… my specialty. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/26 "2008-02-02T04:34:36Z")
I’ve also been listening to the New Album by The Cult, _Born into This_. It’s a very noble experiment by the Cult. A worthy album. I like **Tiger Burning in the Sun**. My favorite album by the Cult is [Electric]([http://eb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric\_](http://eb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_)(The\_Cult\_ album)). Maybe it’s new to you, Wildflower? ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/27 "2008-02-02T04:35:55Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] The OP named a few of my favorite artists: Belle and Sebastian, Neko Case (and the New Pornographers), Rilo Kiley… and you must check out their singer, Jenny Lewis, who released a wonderful alt-country solo album in 2006, _Rabbit Fur Coat_. \ [/QUOTE] It has apparently become my job to come along whenever **Big Bad Voodoo Lou** recommends Jenny Lewis and agree with him. Of course, he neglected to mention how smokin’ hot she so at least I get to do that. I started listening to [Josh Ritter](http://www.joshritter.com/) a couple of months ago after hearing him interviewed on NPR. His \* The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter\* is my favorite disc from the last six months or so. Last July 4th in Lake Tahoe we saw a bluesman from Texas named [Guy Forsyth](http://www.guyforsyth.com/). Brilliant show. Highly recommended. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/28 "2008-02-02T04:46:33Z")
In December I made a list of bands I’d discovered and really liked in 2007. Hail Social Bat For Lashes Lovedrug God Love You For A Liar Paper Models Chris Marsol Chris Price Charlotte Martin Frente! Bad Religion (techinally I’d heard **of** them, but not heard them until this past year) Sophia Arctic Monkeys Armor For Sleep Billy Talent Controller.Controller Controlling the Famous Young Love Sohodolls Matchbook Romance Old 97s Boy Sets Fire Shiny Toy Guns The Photo Atlas The Almost Paramore Hellogoodbye So far this year I’d add: The (International) Noise Conspiracy Enon Say Anything and The Hussys sound promising too ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/29 "2008-02-02T04:54:38Z")
[QUOTE=Ol’Gaffer] It has apparently become my job to come along whenever **Big Bad Voodoo Lou** recommends Jenny Lewis and agree with him. Of course, he neglected to mention how smokin’ hot she so at least I get to do that. [/QUOTE] Great taste, as always. She is INCREDIBLY smokin’ hot. My girl and I have seen her live twice now – once solo with the Watson Twins, where she wore a super-short, silver, sparkly minidress, and once with Rilo Kiley, where she wore kind of a yellow bodysuit with some kind of translucent tights or hose. We were both transfixed! Jenny exudes a raw sex appeal, but there is still a wholesomeness and even innocence to her, rather than grinding her sexuality right in your face like the Pussycat Dolls. And unlike those girls, Jenny has the voice of an angel. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/30 "2008-02-02T04:59:03Z")
[QUOTE=Dignan] MGMT. They opened for an Of Montreal show I went to, but I missed the opening act. I decided to check out their music anyway, and I can’t believe I missed their part of the show. I think they’re going to be huge. The were on Letterman about a month ago. [/QUOTE] They have a several disc, several figures deal with Sony, so they aren’t going anywhere for atleast 4 more albums. And I haven’t discovered anything lately. I’m tired of it all, I’m in a sort of reflective state with regards to music. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/31 "2008-02-02T06:22:30Z")
I found **The Bambi Molesters** doing a random google search, just going by “band name!”-ishness. Surprise, there was really such a band! And they turned out to be good! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxanY3pb11g) ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/32 "2008-02-02T06:59:41Z")
[QUOTE=WordMan] I’m sure they’re buds with Wilco. Oh, and also if you like Neko - have you checked out Calexico? A great Tex-Mexy kinda alt-country band. They backed the lovely Ms. Case up on her Blacklisted CD. I have their CD - Feast of Wire? Something like that - and really enjoy it…and all of that points to Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway is a brilliant CD in that whole genre… [/QUOTE] Actually it points to Giant Sand, the amazing band with the 30-year career that Calexico started as a mere side project of. Check out _Chore of Enchantment_ for starters, a killer record. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/33 "2008-02-02T07:34:43Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] Great taste, as always. She is INCREDIBLY smokin’ hot. My girl and I have seen her live twice now – once solo with the Watson Twins, where she wore a super-short, silver, sparkly minidress, and once with Rilo Kiley, where she wore kind of a yellow bodysuit with some kind of translucent tights or hose. We were both transfixed! Jenny exudes a raw sex appeal, but there is still a wholesomeness and even innocence to her, rather than grinding her sexuality right in your face like the Pussycat Dolls. And unlike those girls, Jenny has the voice of an angel. [/QUOTE] I’ll give you sex appeal. But she’s really not all the good looking. I do love her (and Rilo Kiley) though. I’ll second The Bird and the Bee & Bitter:Sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/34 "2008-02-02T09:27:40Z")
**HazelNut** I remember when Kathleen Edwards’ song _Six O’Clock News_ was on the radio for a while in 2005. That’s a great song. I’d also recommend [Laura Viers.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Viers) Saltbreaker is my favorite of her songs. I always recommend The Sea and Cake. [Crossing Line](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olb55_YEuLE) [The Biz](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79-HCT16LtY) [Parasol](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAmOk0-qoCc&feature=related) Drummer John McIntire also of Tortoise: [Live at Werchter.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sps7YxLeYM) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/35 "2008-02-02T10:52:53Z")
I haven’t discovered any new music since my favorite torrent site went down in October, but I have suggestions. [M. Ward](http://www.myspace.com/mward) \<— myspace linkage. I’ve heard him described as ‘folktronica’. Check out ‘Chinese Translation’, its what got me hooked on him. [Bocephus King](http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=27122687) \<---- moar myspace linkage. Lists only his most recent music which I’m not familiar with, but ‘That Ain’t Love’ sounds great. I own one of his albums _The Blue Sickness_ and love it to death, but I can’t find any samples on his myspace or website. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/36 "2008-02-02T15:04:23Z")
[QUOTE=Ol’Gaffer] I started listening to [Josh Ritter](http://www.joshritter.com/) a couple of months ago after hearing him interviewed on NPR. His \* The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter\* is my favorite disc from the last six months or so. [/QUOTE] I’d second Josh. He’s huge here, seen him live a rake of times and interviewed him once (he’s a sweetheart). I’d also recommend _Golden Age of Radio_ and _The Animal Years_ albums. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887/37 "2008-02-02T15:13:41Z")
[QUOTE=Yookeroo] I’ll give you sex appeal. But she’s really not all the good looking. I do love her (and Rilo Kiley) though. [/QUOTE] Agreed. Jenny Lewis is ridiculously hot in a plain way. I can’t put my finger on why, but I see it too. Here’s a few I’ve recently run across: **Sara Barseilles** - “Little Voice” (it’s just really good “girl with piano” stuff) **Paramore** - “Riot!” (it’s a blast. The song “Misery Business” is one of my new favorites) **The Clientele** - “God Save the Clientele” (I listened to this a while ago, so I can’t really describe it. But I picked it up again and plan to listen to it soon) Oh, and big second on **The Fratellis**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovered-any-bands-lately/435887.md?page=1)