What’s the latest musical act you’ve come across that you just can’t keep to yourself? I have a couple of them:
Lake Street Dive - Just stumbled across them on a YouTube playlist I was listening to, stopped me dead in my tracks and I went and tracked down everything they’ve released. here & here are good places to start.
Stewart Mann & The Statesboro Revue - Saw these guys open up for Ray Wylie Hubbard last month. Not finding a lot of good sounding performances from them on YouTube, but here’s a pretty good profile of them on Texas Music Scene. This one ain’t bad.
Kate Covington, who records as Erutan. Her original work is strongly influenced by Celtic traditional themes, and she also does covers of music from video games, anime, and movies. She has a stunningly beautiful voice, in my opinion; the first time I heard her singing, I froze and just listened. Then I played the video it was attached to several times over before setting out to track down more of her music.
Nothing terribly wild for me–Pandora served up Imagine Dragons’s “Radioactive” as one of the very first songs on my Paper Planes station, and I loved it at first listen. (Note that my Paper Planes station has remained unsullied by anything that vaguely resembles M.I.A. or the specific song, Paper Planes.) The video was almost as delightful a discovery as the song: an illegal muppet deathmatch ring, ran by Lou Diamond Phillips.
Not a new “discovery,” but I’m getting into the music of Russian composer Reinhold Glière. I already had “The Bronze Horseman” and the very popular “Red Poppy.” Now I’m branching out to his other works. Not very prolific, and some of his music has titles like “Festive Overture for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution.” But overall, his music is very melodic, rhythmic and colorful . . . very Russian.
