What music are you listening to lately?

Lately I've been spinning the original cast recording (1995) of Victor/Victoria. Julie Andrews was a Broadway legend before this, but IMO Victor/Victoria is her defining role. A great musical.

Some of it (not including what I play in the car, of course)

my usual playlist consists of 60s soul/motown, 50s R&B, 60s ska, and a good dose of punk/oi/hardcore/indie

today specifically, been listening to The Sounds first album and a mix of Detroit Cobras

Freak folk, man. Or New Weird America or naturalismo if you like. I've been heavy into Animal Collective lately.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3BGkF6uNIl0

Cool. I've listened to that song dozens of times, but I've never watched the video because I find that music videos tend to detract from my appreciation of songs. I should've known that Animal Collective would be an exception to this rule.

In a lot of ways, Animal Collective is the most free and advanced, if you will, band working today (to my mind at least.) They seem to me to be utterly unafraid in their musicmaking, above any restrictions of genre or traditional songcraft.

Rilo Kiley. Saw them in concert on Saturday here in Atlanta and they were amazing. Going back to the same venue in 2 weeks to see Minus the Bear which I expect to be equally amazing.

Mostly Do Make Say Think and Tom Waits.

Eluvium
Sunn O)))
Low
Dolorean
The Cinematic Orchestra
Caribou

I've been listening to KISS the past few days.

For some reason, I've been on a Minimalist kick recently: John Adams's Fearful Symmetries, The Chairman Dances, Violin Concerto, and The Dharma at Big Sur. Also, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, because I just saw some bootleg video on YouTube of Darcey Bussell's farewell performances of Song of the Earth.

For some reason I feel compelled to listen to Rachmaninov's symphony no. 2 tomorrow.

--Andre

You might check out Jenny Lewis's solo album, Rabbit Fur Coat, then.

Christie Hennessy - A Year in the Life
Pooka - Pooka
Dolly Parton - Treasures
LaMonte Young - The Well-Tuned Piano
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (Maazel/Cleveland/Telarc) You want brass? This is brass!!


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Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die (this is what Traffic was supposed to be)
Bobby Caldwell - Stuck on You (It's true what they say about Sinatra's old studio.)
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity - Street Noise (ever so smokey on Light My Fire, but on Flesh Failures she makes me want to stand-up and sing along)
Robbie Basho - Falconer's Arm (Recorded in Fahey's legendy Takoma Studios, Robbie used to play in the meadows at UCSC)
Jorge Bolet - Live at Carnegie Hall, I was in the audience that night (listen to the Tannheuser transcription)


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I Muvrini - A Bercy (Corsican polyphony like you've never heard!)
Love - Forever Changes (you had to be there )
Pharoah Sanders - Elevation (this is definitely late night music)
Small Faces - First Step (Ron Wood + Rod Stewart having some real fun!)
South Pacific - London Sessions (Sarah Vaughan, Kiri TeKanawa, Jose Carreras)