What are you listening to?

[tonecrush]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6hvel5vF-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxkRFrHE3Ks

[Shucks]

[bukka]

Montreux Jazz Festival over here
Saturday's concert is going to be huge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE

[pilgrim]

Considered by many to be one of the best, if not the best, guitar player in the world today, Kurt Rosenwinkel has also produced and played on the last two Q-Tip Records. It doesn't get any better than this on the guitar.

A personal favorite:

[kurta]

My favorite album of the year is The War On Drugs' Lost In The Dream. They're a Philadelphia band triangulating Americana (in the vein of Springsteen and Dylan) with indie and psychedelia -- and a lick of Dire Straits. For awhile they were known by many as "the band Kurt Vile was in before he blossomed with Matador," but this is the year they become better known as the makers of a powerful and expansive indie masterpiece. There are synths, there are cosmic moments, and they create beautiful sound beds for the band's main-mind Adam Granduciel to spin out his guitars, his voice, his other-instruments; he essentially played them all on this record. This feels like an a propos moment to talk about them, as they absolutely destroyed on Letterman earlier this week. Catch Paul Shaffer sitting in on keys:



Another great song from the album is "Under The Pressure":



Whole thing's great, though. It's out now on Secretly Canadian. If you like it and want to trace their growth, check out their previous record Slave Ambient -- though you can live with Lost In The Dream for a long time.

I still listen to it like the first time: in a puddle of mush, eyes closed seeing red white and blue.

[Anwar]

200 hundred fallen angels

[sebastian]

http://withfriendship.com/videos/tatiana/scott-walker-farmer-in-the-city.php

[Senpai]

What else is there to do when it's scorching outside besides listen to Noise and drink coffee?

[RK1]

Classic

[550BC]

[1994]

[pilgrim]

[trentk]

(click images to listen)

[mikemikemike]

[gawkrodger]

new Yann Tiersen is good (unlike the last few), especially the song with Aidan Moffatt