What are you listening to?

[Ed Anger]

The Ryan Adams covers of Nutshell and Down in a Hole. Not bad.

Up next: Kyuss - Green Machine

[Eddie Teach]

Charlie Daniels Band- Devil Went Down to Georgia. You know, I think the Devil really should have won that contest...

[Eddie Teach]

George Gershwin- Rhapsody in Blue

[garbon]

Sade - Skin

[garbon]

Metric - Artificial Nocturne

[PDH]

The Kinks - Do It Again

[Admiral Yi]

On my drive out I listened on CBC to a taped concert of The Big Sea, sort of Irish-y folk music by three guys from the Maritimes.  They sounded pretty good.

[Savonarola]

On my drive out I listened on CBC to a taped concert of The Big Sea, sort of Irish-y folk music by three guys from the Maritimes.  They sounded pretty good.

There are a lot of bands out of the Maritimes like that.  My parents listened to Ryan's Fancy (out of Newfoundland) a great deal when I was growing up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owy0__HhQ3U&list=PL3EBC0B18AC4FBDE0


I've read that there are more Scottish Gaelic speakers in Nova Scotia than there are in Scotland.    One of my personal favorite Nova Scotia Gaelic singers is Eilidh MacKenzie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQPCv5qukOo

[Ideologue]

Went to go see Rancid in Charlotte.  Was pretty sweet.

[Eddie Teach]

Miley Cyrus- Wrecking Ball. Seems she's intent on becoming the new Madonna.

[DontSayBanana]

Went to a 3-act concert last week, and been on a binge of Kamelot albums since then.  Currently listening to the album Epica.

The concert's acts were:

Eklipse - a string quartet from Germany who cover pop/rock songs.  Also appeared during the Kamelot song they originally featured on, My Confession (damned catchy song).  More into playing than working the mic, but they did surprisingly well by the audience with covers of Dead or Alive's "Spin Me Round" and The Eurhythmics' "Sweet Dreams."  Very young for an international tour, and it was kind of cute to see these girls, probably barely out of their teens, with shit-eating grins the whole time they were on stage.

Delain - a splinter group brought together by a former member of Within Temptation, they've got a sound similar to a more mature version of Nightwish.  I really didn't know this group going in, but the songs "Invidia," "We Are the Others," and especially "Get the Devil Out of Me" had me pretty well hooked.

Kamelot - doing pretty well for a band on their third vocalist (their last frontman had an epic meltdown and quit after dragging out his sabbatical for almost a year).  With their newest album, Silverthorn, the new singer (Tommy Karevik) is really coming into his own quickly.  "My Confession" is, as I said, really catchy, especially with the string hook by Eklipse.  "Sacrimony," the album's other single, is also a strong contender; the whole album harkens back to an older album, Epica.  "Veritas" was a welcome addition to the concert; choral backing vocals, more orchestration... only beef S and I had with the concert was that they went a little crazy on the crowd-rapping, but out of the last 4 times I've seen these guys in concert, it was the first time their bandleader looked happy, and I got into the crowd-rapping, even if S complained that I tend to deafen whoever's unlucky enough to be standing next to me.

[Admiral Yi]

One of my personal favorite Nova Scotia Gaelic singers is Eilidh MacKenzie:

Nice looking broad.

That's probably enough Gaelic music for me for 2013.

[Barrister]

On my drive out I listened on CBC to a taped concert of The Big Sea, sort of Irish-y folk music by three guys from the Maritimes.  They sounded pretty good.

Do you mean Great Big Sea?

They've been going for, oh, 20 years now.  In my long-ago club going days there was one song of theirs that would inevitably be played (despite it not being club music in the least) and draw a huge crowd to the dance floor.

[Josephus]

Peter Gabriel...San Jacinto

[Admiral Yi]

Do you mean Great Big Sea?

Yup.

As an aside, when I first heard the band mentioned I thought they were "Great Big C," some kind of weird patriotic Canadian band.