Musical Discoveries of the Day: Sept 12, 2014

Scott Helman (via Alan Cross)
Cry Cry Cry
(no, not a cover of Johnny Cash)
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That is all for now...

Power Metal?

When i was younger I was into metal.  But back then, what I considered metal is now considered rock.  Lately, I've been getting into this sub genre of metal called "power" or "symphonic".

The first song below is the seed of my Pandora station.  I discovered it as an actuary friend of mine introduced me to it:

Click here for the youtube playlist.

Enjoy:

Blind Guardian - Soulforged


Blind Guardian - Battlefield


Hammerfall - The Templar Flame


Gamma Ray - Fight


Sabaton - Gott Mit Uns



Tyr - The Lay of Thrym

Musical Discoveries of the Day: Luke Sital Singh

There have been only a handful of times where I heard one song and went out seeking an entire album.  It just happened today...twice.  Both from the UK.

At the suggestion of my one reader, here's a youtube playlist with all these songs (only 2 today).

Introducing Luke Sital-Singh
Nothing Stays the Same


and, Royal Blood
Little Monster


Unfortunately, Royal Blood's album is not available in the US yet.  Hmmm...I have a cousin in the UK...

Canadian Music Edition

Everybody seems to know about Arcade Fire, what with their recent album release.  Then there's Justin Bieber.  That's enough about him.

Anyway, here are a bunch of "old" Canadian tunes from the late 90s/early 00s.  I was inspired to do this post after the first song below came up when I put my iTunes on "shuffle".

The Watchmen - Absolutely Anytime


The Tragically Hip - Grace Too


Big Wreck - The Oaf (My Luck is Wasted)


Spirit of the West - Home for a Rest


Treble Charger - American Psycho


Gob - Give Up the Grudge

Great CCM songs from the 90s

To me, cause I'm old, the golden age of Christian Contemporary Music is the 90s.  Funny thing is that even CCM has a mainstream and non-mainstream music. Most of these are not in the mainstream.

Enjoy.

Banquet at World's End by Daniel Amos (on Motorcycle (1993) )


A Place Called Love by Fleming & John (on Delusions of Grandeur (1996) )


Dancing in Concert With The Infinite by DigHayZoose (on MagentaMantaLoveTree (1993) )


Imagine That by The Lost Dogs (on Little Red Riding Hood (1993) )


Christ Saves by LSU (on Grace Shaker (1994) )


Dome of the Rock by Magdallan (on Big Bang (1992) )


Great Lengths by PFR (on Great Lengths (1994) )

Lorde Royals and covers

Lorde's song Royals is fantastic.



Here's a 7 foot tall clown covering it:



And here's another band covering it but with cool instrumentation



While we're talking about 7 foot tall clowns, listen to his voice!  Dude can sing!

Musical Discoveries of the Day

Los Feliz Spiritual #41 by Miracle Parade


Byegone by Volcano Choir


Two Cow Garage - The Little Prince & Johnny Toxic


Snowflake by Malachai


Snow by The Beauvilles

Musical Discoveries of the Day: Covers Edition

Won't Get Fooled Again by Richie Havens (orig. by The Who)


Crazy by Shawn Colvin (orig. by Gnarls Barkley)


The One I Love by Rosie Thomas (orig. by REM)


Islands In The Stream by Constantines & Feist (orig. by Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton)


England by Mumford & Sons (orig. by The National)

Musical Discoveries of the Day

The Lumineers cover Fleetwood Mac's classic hit Go Your Own Way


Volcano Choir - Byegone (fronted by Bon Iver's frontman Justin Vernon)


Treble - Boston


JF Robitaille - Jessie


Sons of Revelry - Born with a Bigger Goal


LUM - Animal / Mechanical


The Stonewolf Band - My Ukelele

Musical Discoveries (to me) of the day

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Wedding Song"



PRIMAL SCREAM - "It's Alright, It's OK"

Einar Flaa Academy - Flaa

Musical Discoveries of the day

Beach Song, by Seryn  (For Fans of Sufjan--song gets progressively better!)


Overdrawn by White Sea (band member of M83)


Gold by Sir Sly

The National Releases New Song!!

First song from upcoming National album, Trouble Will Find Me, available for pre-order here.

[International] Musical Discoveries of the Day

Sweden: Familjen - Det snurrar i min skalle



Portugal: Ana Moura - Desfado



India: Jassi Sidhu - Nai Reesa

India: Raghu Dixit Project - No Man Will Ever Love You

Canada (French): COEUR DE PIRATE - Comme des enfants

Germany: Peter Fox - Alles Neu

Musical Discoveries of the Day

Clubfeet - Everything you wanted



Flume - Sleepless



City Calm Down - Pleasure and Consequence



The Blue Van - Would You Change Your Life


EULA - I Collapse

Musical Discoveries for 10/21/2012

New to me, maybe not to you:

Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land


Thriving Ivory - Angels on the Moon


Alex Clare - Too Close (made popular recently by the Internet explorer commercial)


Carolina Lover - I'm not Over


Noah and the Whale - 5 Years Time


That's all for now.

Musical Discoveries of the Day 2012 07 20

New to me, not necessarily to you. Tiger Lily by Luna At Home by Crystal Fighters The One You Love by Rufus Wainwright

May 31, 2012 Musical Discoveries of the Day: Covers Edition

First up: Julia Stone's cover of The National's Bloodbuzz Ohio Next we have DOA's version of the classic Barry McGuire tune, Eve of Destruction: Finally we have Sinead O'Connor's take of ABBA's Chiquitita One more...just for fun: The Flaming Lips cover originally by Kylie Minogue

Coheed & Cambria Cover Gotye

Musical Discoveries of the Day

Jukebox Ghost - Summer Sun from the Album: Everything Under the sun




A-Ha (yes that A-Ha) - Riding the Crest from the album Foot of the Mountain

The Welcome Wagon!

The Welcome Wagon has a new album coming in June! Very exciting. IF you're not familiar, check out their most famous song, "Sold! To The Nice Rich Man" on youtube at the bottom.

But first, here's a preview of the new album, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices




"Sold to the Nice Rich Man"