I stopped to get a beer and sandwich for lunch this afternoon at a place downtown and saw a posted advert showing the band will be playing here locally next week. Woo Hoo!

Oh, the band, Rusted Root.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusted_Root 

I'm looking for durable ones to take around with me, preferably not too expensive. Maybe even a "collapsible" pair (that fold up).

Suggestions? 

rofl 

Is it me or is EVERYONE wearing those Koss headphones? 

 

 

To be serious they are decent headphones.
I can't say too much about the sound quality since I'm half deaf, but they're comfy, durable and fold up into a neat little lump. 

Kingston Wall. I picked it up again, thinking naah, it's the third album, it ain't that good. But it is. Gets better towards the end. The godlike drumming, and everything just works. The saxophone.

You guys really should get into it, it's a totally underappreciated band.

They only did three albums. The second one is the best. But get them all. Ultimate feeling music that gets your blood flowing. 

http://niggytardust.com/ (It's free!)
It is brilliant.
Trent Reznor produced it so it sounds like NIN mixed with hiphop. 

Ambitious progressive stuff that also has power and takes you with in the rhythm. It's quite diverse and some songs suck ass, while others are great. :)

Heard them twice live, dunno how it'd work on a record. It probably wouldn't. 

NIN-hop is weird. It's very interesting; but it seems to drift too much into pop-/(too common hip-hop/rnb)-melodies in some parts.

needs a few more listens :o 

Bogdan Raczynski's got a new album coming out on the 19th.
It used to be called Yeeeeehhhaaaaawww but now it's called Alright!

Bogdan said
This one will be funny, I promise. No more of that accordion magic and 'woe is my' mystyness.

The new album is all about joy. It is the music I would play if the universe only had ~45 minutes left. Or if I were to pass, I would be content, knowing that I had unleashed a bit of happy energy onto the planet.

Think 1992 megamixes, trance, math beats, my favorite basil-based kitchen recipes, four to the floor, giggles and an explosive happy energy.

You can download the entire thing as a preview for free in 16kbps mp3.
http://www.bogdanraczynski.com/show/brog/37/0/alright_album_preview.html
I think the embedded player on his site has a bit better quality. 

Talvikuningas

Well, it may be a King Crimson and other seventies proge ripoff in ways but nevertheless they had the ambition and balls and did it. It has some nice rhythms and unorthodox stuff but some of the absolute numbness of that era progressive stuff as well.
The whole album tells a real epic story as well.
I didn't like the music or story at first that much but it's slowly growing on me.

You can look up "punainen komentaja" on youtube to see a video that is a short summary of the story at the same time. WH40K inspired scifi, planets, battles, cyborgs...
Oh and everything in Finnish. So requires some openness of mind. 

sux, typical mtv "angry-young-men-and-they-are rly-serious-omg" stuff.

I�d recommend Brutal Truth or Pig Destroyer, at least their stuff is fun. 

"Converge formed in the winter of 1990."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converge_(band)

how's that angry-young-men-and-they-are rly-serious-omg? 

hey guys i made a mix you might like:

http://www.medusiform.net/mix/dub%20session%20one.mp3

dubstep, techno, ambient 

http://www.jahtari.org
Dub, Reggae etc.
I am just listening to http://www.jahtari.org/music/ID_023.htm
Wow. 

one of my ex-flatmates loved Pig Destroyer, we used to play the drinking game where you take a shot every time a new song starts.... I forget the name of the album but the songs were all like 20 seconds long, it was horrible. Not really my style of music but pretty fucking hardcore, I'll say that. 

ok, just replace "young" with "middle-aged" then (as you might have guessed I�m not a big fan of hardcore)

@starbuck: sounds like a nice way to get wasted pronto heheh 

hehe, well, then the music just isn't for you, i guess. 

I will post a couple of tracks what me and my mate Steevo layed down on my 8-track. All this talk of people making music reminded me (dont have the mp3's at work with me at the mo).

Who likes thrash/NWAHM type stuff?

Also is anyone any good at sequencing beats?

I know this is heresay at the mo. Im gonna post them on the Shub-Hub, for not being arsed to post them anywhere else. Might do it later actually... 

Here they are:

http://shub-hub.com/files/misc/Dialemma.MP3
http://shub-hub.com/files/misc/Pow.MP3

All original stuff guys

You heard it here first!

I Just thought it might go quite well with Quake, except there are no drums or bass. If anyone recons they might be able to stick some cool sequenced drums over them then feel free.

Both recorded in my living room on my Gibson LP Studio through either a JTM45 Re-issue or a MG30DFX (a really good amp or a REALLY shit one!)

I wrote Pow! and Steeve wrote Dialemma, then we both accompanied eachothers ideas. 

I'm listening it right now, Dialemma it is.. Great stuff!
Has the melody richness of more than probably the whole year of these dull noise and ambient repetition listening mappers, summed into one song...
A small bit of cleaning up required. But definitely nice ideas and style there! 

I will tell steve that somebody likes it!

I know about the recording quality! Each song has just two guitars, each part recorded in one take through a couple of vocal microphones in my livingroom.

Apparently theres this thing called 'dig-it-al mod-el-ling'!!?

;-) 

I think Pow is by far the better of the 2, and not only in sound quality. The first one sounds like crap to my ears. How are you recording, via a mic'd amp, or direct into the recording system?

Much better than that hip hop, bop 'till you drop, aint never gonna stop, rap crap, scratchy scratch, chicka chicka, duff duff, yo momma, wazzup, yo bro, who's the ho, synthesized, homogenized, pasteurized, hardcore, softcore, applecore, Club, House, get down, get back up again . . . ,

if the guitars ain't slayin', it aint worth playin' . . . , you know what I'm sayin'

Oh, get a real guitar, LP Custom or SG ;)

Play it loud and Play it proud!!