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Recommended Artist Cloud
Dez 1 2009, 3h22 por markmangione
Take the 50 top artists in your musical profile, and create a cloud of the similar artists that are not in your top 50. The result is a collection of highly recommended artists for your personal profile. You can generate your own cloud (in BBCode) at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/recommend.php
My recommendations areAbigail's Ghost Amplifier Arena BeardFish Believe Big Big Train Blackfield Carptree Chroma Key Demians Division by Zero Echolyn Enchant Ephrat Frost* Galahad Gazpacho IQ Jadis Karmakanic Knight Area Lunatic Soul Magenta Marillion Moongarden Neal Morse No-Man Nosound Paatos Pallas Pendragon Phideaux Porcupine Tree Quidam RPWL Riverside Satellite Sieges Even Spock's Beard Steve Hackett Steven Wilson The Flower Kings The Gourishankar The Reasoning The Sugarcubes The Tangent Transatlantic Unitopia Wolverine Änglagård -
Download noises! 2009, August
Ago 6 2009, 15h32 por Lemora
Shizuka versus ZNO - Koalition 01

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Beinhaus - Metall::Digital 0.6

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Labtail - Strange World

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Umkra - Festin de Vautours

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CTRLer - Noize 4 America

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Various Artists - Marasm 15

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1 Solar Skeletons - Self Segregate
2 Istari Lasterfahrer - Fucking Noize
3 Pik1 - Extraterrestrial Experimentation
4 Drk et Nyko - Comme un clebart
5 HeliuS ZhamiQ - Lumen Lumen
6 JeRe - VIciously hidden term

Various Artists - TwoCircles

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MJ Himself - MJ featuring Theresa
Proem - Eyes Bursting within My Skull
Proem - Consortion Hammer
Cullen Miller - I Eat Vegans
Simple - Near
Kingsley Maddukka - Mariana's Dub
Lackluster - Reasonable Excuse
soulsonic- Desires
Micecars- Americans (bluermutt remix)
Cullen and Dino - Handwriting
soulsonic - Rainbows Pt.2
Cullen Miller - Glitzy Schizoid
Lackluster - Anything to Declare

Various Artists - Themeless

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01 - Kodek - Teenage Mutant Breakcore Bastards Kickin Reetaards Into Stomachh And Feeling Prouud Of Itt
02 - Arena - Hectic
03 - Den Chaoot - The Fisherman's Wife (Keta Remix)
04 - charly linch - Pump Up The Sound
05 - Rott In Pieces - Down With The King
06 - Kamerat Tord - Moltebær
07 - project serendipity - Left Right Left Right (II)
08 - Microphyst - Disco Biscuits
09 - Main$treaM - Shit Anymotha Fuckers Remix 2008
10 - Rubber Muffin - Blood Clat Dat
11 - AleX Tune - Listen To Your Hardcore
12 - Liar's Rosebush - Blowdarts And Burning Bridges
13 - Siphonaptera - Siphonaptera
14 - CrappyMeal - B6
15 - Tha Fruitbat ft. Remy Gonzales - Noise Shaping
16 - Junglefever - Sensicore
17 - Mr Bad Monkey - Jungle-Sound-Clashin'-Core
18 - Nubbin - Just Forget What I Said
19 - The Untitled - My Miserable Days
20 - Producer Snafu - A Vigalante Of God
21 - Mothball Z - The Rise Of Emo
22 -Capslock - Life Is Beautiful
23 - Tha Fruitbat - Total Cunt Troll (Murdasloth Remix)
24 - Dysphemic - Army Of The Apocalypse
25 - Eraplee Noisewall Orchestra - Desperation Speaks
26 - Tex-nd vs. WSicko - Our Goal Is Crossing Lines (On Grass) Because Soccer Sucks Balls
27 - H.M.M.A.H.H.H. - Like Am'rous Birds Of Prey
28 - SLAM52 - Frosd
29 - nano.strike - Ecranoplane
30 - onken - 8bitbombastic (Onkens Frustrated Mix)
31 - poelvoorde - Hygiene Requise
32 - weyheyhey!! - Allow
33 - The Incredible Hexadecibels - Devil Dogs Guarding The Altar
34 - Shanks Pony - All My Freinds R R Soles
35 - Solypsis vs. Hard Off - Beers, Steers and Queers For Fears
36 -Simon - August
37 - MongrelTeK - Yours Tragically -
Night of the Prog again
Jul 19 2009, 22h57 por trevorrabin
Fri 10 Jul – Night of the Prog Festival IV
Few words about the bands of great follow-up of the Loreley festival
Also Eden - openers, not bad, but a bit amateurish neo-prog compared to others. They have fine Gabriel-like singer.
Arena - together again on stage after two years since small festival in Lithuania. As usually proficient, but in the same time very relaxed and in good humour. Complain there is that sound was sometimes quite uneven, at least in the front. Epic track Solomon was one of apexes of the festival. But I liked the way they covered Michael Jackson's Billie Jean very much as well.
Agents Of Mercy - blues-prog side project of The Flower Kings members, Roine Stolt, Jonas Reingold and Zoltan Csozsz with tall, transvestic singer Nad Sylvan. Aside title great title track of their debut album, I'm not very fond of them. But nice surprise was Karmakanic (Reingold's band) song When the Earth Meets the Sky and Beatles' I am the Walrus.
Riverside - I like how the band have progressed through years, presenting the whole very fine new album (Anno Domini..). Tight, with lot of emotions and technically skillful.
Gazpacho - though headliner of the first evening, the weakest band to me, boring and sleepy, music I really can't get into. We had left it before they ended.
Subsignal - second best (even their debut) performance in my opinion - project founded by former members of great band Sieges Even - german Marcus Steffen (guitarist) and dutchman Arno Menses (singer). Playing similar music to S.E., slightly more accesible and straightforward, but not less beautiful. They played song The Lonely Views of Condors from S.E. masterpiece Art of Navigating by the Stars. Mainly singer was incredible, clearly one of the stars of festival.
Pineapple Thief - decent band, to my tastes much "high school" sounding alternative, nothing groundreaking, I'd say cheaper version of Porcupine Tree
Lazuli - french band, unconventional and very refreshing for the festival, with variety of exotic instruments. Impressive show, though their music itself isn't very deep to me.
Pure Reason Revolution was cancelled without some noticing, shame on the organizators this time.
Pendragon - slightly disappointed by setlist, a bit uneven - nothing from Believe, everything from Pure. Older songs weren't my favorites either. But I liked again very relaxed atmosphere and Barret's funny stories during their show.
Steve Hackett - my biggest expectation belonged to this man, real legend and on of the most important and influental musicians in (prog) rock music. And his performance was even beyond these expectations. Almost sixty years old, still in great form, when he pulled the strings, it had such power, vibrations, emotions like no one else - hard to describe, it has to be experienced...lucky to had such occasion. Big note to his superb band, bassist Nick Bates funnily dressed in the costume of german sterotypical beer girl Heidi. Singing drummer Gary O'Toole was outstanding as well as Roger King on keyboards and Rob Townsend on piccolos, flutes and prominently on wonderful melancholic small soprano sax. They played fantastic full versions of Genesis songs (Firth of Fifth, Blood on the Rooftops, Fly on a Windshield, In That Quiet Earth), short acoustic set and solo classics (such as Spectral Mornings, Please Don't Touch, Every Day, The Steppes, Slogans, Ace of Wands, Mechanical Bride, Serpentine Song). Funny was also when during tuning pause crowd started to sing Smoke on the Water riff, showing nice sense of irony and let's say respect to skills of these musicans.
Mick Pointer's Script for Jester's Tour - though hardly to beat Hackett who played before, great ending performance of Marillion's debut nevertheless. All musicians did excellent job. I was surprised mostly by endurance of guitarist Nick Barret who had lot of work that evening, he was almost 4 hours on stage (incl.Pendragon gig), but till the final note he played with ever lasting energy.
In short - This year was even better than last, and I can't wait what will be prepared for the next one. -
Of hedgehogs, Ickle Pickle and a muscular man.
Jul 15 2009, 19h52 por mosphat
Last year’s event left such an impression on me that I wanted to go to this year’s episode of the Night of the Prog festival as well. I managed to convince my good friend I-Warez to join me, since it makes so much more fun if you can share it. Crow74 who joined me last year couldn’t make it because his own band Steem was playing that weekend. Of course that’s totally irrelevant to this story, since they’re not even a prog band. Yet.
We had booked a hotel about 10 minutes from the Loreley. Had we decided earlier, we might have had found something closer, but because wecan’t make decisionsthink through our decision really well, everything was already booked by the millions of other tourists visiting the region. But 10 minutes is very doable if you travel by car.
After a rainy road trip of approximately 5 hours and having checked into the hotel, we headed for the festival site to witness the opening of the gates. We could, because we were early and they weren’t open yet. The weather was rather cloudy, but at least it was dry and would stay that way for the rest of the festival. While the gates continued being not open yet, we spent some time looking for hedgehogs at the brink of drowning. We didn’t find any.
After we got our wristbands and the gates finally opened, we found us a nice seat close to the stage. That may sound like quite an accomplishment, but really isn’t too hard if you’re early on a festival that has about 3,500 visitors on a terrain that can hold 18,000.
The first band to be announced by Nathalie, as we later learned her name was, was the British Also Eden. They were a very nice first band and left quite an impression on the audience, since they got to play an extra song. They have quite a good singer, who is bald. Apparently he has quite an issue with being bald, since he wrote a song about it and shared it with the fellow bald men in the crowd. And everyone else who happened to be listening. Luckily, it was a nice song to listen to, as were all their songs.
Next band to take the stage was Arena. Clearly a popular band, since a lot more people were drawn towards the stage. It seems musicians tend to come in default sizes. Four of the five band members are pretty much equal in height. Only the singer was towering over them. And it was that same singer who, once the band had settled on the stage, announced that he could see us and how great that was. We naturally assumed he had been blind until 2 minutes before the show, but there’s a remote possibility he was referring to the conspicuous green glasses he was wearing. They played a nice set, but how could they not, with musical masters like Clive Noland on keyboards and Mick Pointer on drums. They also did a tribute to the king of pop by playing Billy Jean, which unfortunately was a song thatcontained too many high notes for the singerdidn’t really emphasize the vocal characteristics of the singer. But it was a nice gesture.
After their show I thought I saw a hedgehog, so I went for the rescue. But it wasn’t drowning. So I talked to Thomas Andersen (Gazpacho’s keyboard player) instead, which happened to cross my path. And that’s one of those striking aspects of the Night of the Prog festival: musicians mix up with the crowd as if they were real people.
The Flower Kings had taken a short time off. But their guitarist Roine Stolt apparently didn’t need time off, because his new project Agents Of Mercy was the next band about to play for us. Another man who didn’t need time off either was the bass player Jonas Reingold, with his famous white hat, who also happens to play bass in TFK. Along with his hat, he brought his wife, because she does some vocals in the band. To make things complete with people not needing any time off, on the drums was Zoltan Csörsz. Yes, the one from TFK.
But to justify the band name, mister Stolt did enlist some non-TFK personal as well. He found a good keyboard player by the name of Lala Something (I didn’t really understand it when he introduced the band) and the leadwizardsinger, Nad Sylvan. He found the latter on myspace. Nad was wearing amagiccolorful hat, which he took off pretty much as soon as he started singing, allowing him tounleash his irritating commentsfocus on his singing. But even though his last name represents a great band, his singing couldn’t liftThe Flower KingsAgents of Mercy to memorable heights. Sure, they had their moments, just not a whole lot of them. The covers of I Am the Walrus and a song by Genesis if my memory serves me well couldn’t change the impression made by the band either.
By now we started noticing the strange choice of music that was played in the half hour or so needed to prepare the stage for the next band. Usually it would start with some decent song that was more or less related to the progressive genre. But soon enough it would switch to silly synthesizer tunes. These were songs that had some resemblance to well known themes from great artists like Jean-Michel Jarre and the likes, but orchestrated as a cheap derivate, using wooly sounds. Too me it was a bit of a atmosphere killer. This way each band had to warm up the audience all over again. We started developing a theory about this, involving a very heavy, angry looking, muscular man with an anomaly in his musical taste, having put himself in charge of the cd-player, butit is a silly theorywe’re still working out the details.
Luckily the wonders of last.fm kept me from pondering too long about that subject, because Igel_in_Seenot managed to find me using the description I carefully planted in her shoutbox: ‘I’m wearing a Gazpacho streetteam shirt’. It’s moments like these that truly makes you appreciate last.fm’s community concept, because once again I made a new friend as a result of a little shoutboxing.
Next was one of my favorites: Riverside. I’ve seen them several times already and they never really fell short. And this time even was one of their better performances. Granted, it took them a while to warm up, but after that things went very smoothly. They played over half of their latest album and the singer/bass player Mariusz Duda was surprised by the amount of response from the audience when he announced they were going to play the track Left Out. Since the album hasn’t been released that long ago, he commented to the cheering: “So popular already? Pirates…”
The band to close this day was another one of my favorites: Gazpacho. This would be the 3rd time for me to see them this year. Can’t get enough of their music. They playedexactly the same as in Zoetermeera very nice set. It felt like they played a bit stronger than previous times, but that might just be the experience settling in. Which is a good thing. The first 6 tracks of the magnificent Tick Tock album got played, followed by
When Earth Lets Go, followed by the entire Night album. Except for Valerie’s friend, which personally I think is a track far too nice not to play, but alas. Next they completed Tick Tock by playing Winter Is Never. The encore consisted of
Snowman and the track that seems to currently be their favorite closing track, most likely because of the violin part at the end, which is guaranteed to leave a smile on people’s faces:
Bravo. A DVD is in the making as well, because both in Zoetermeer and here at the Loreley they have been filming their show.
After their performance we were too tired to stick around for a chance to talk to the band. Maybe next time. After all, I didn’t know what to say anyway besides the usual ‘You were great!’ and similar band ego improving phrases.
So we went back to the hotel for a good night’s sleep. Finding the hotel in the middle of the night can be challenging if the driverhas no clueis relying on you to lead the way andyou’re not paying attentionit’s too dark to see the scarcely lit road signs. But we found it.
The next morning we woke up to sunshine. A perfect day for more music. A perfect day for wearing my Pure Reason Revolution shirt, even though yesterday my friend overheard somebody saying they weren’t going to play. At the breakfast table in the hotel this was confirmed by a guy who noticed my shirt.
When we arrived at the parking meadow at the festival, another guy noticed my shirt and carefully asked whether we already knew they weren’t going to play because their singer/bass player Chloe Alper was ill. I then decided I would freak out the next time somebody made that comment and start crying ‘Noooo! Tell me it’s not true!’. Unfortunately, after I had that thought, nobody dared commenting on my shirt anymore. Even though I noticed several people noticing my shirt. And noticing that I noticed that they noticed my shirt.
The first band for this day was Subsignal. We both didn’t know the band and hadn’t heard any material from them yet, so we had no idea what to expect. They played a remarkably good set, considering they were the first band playing this day and they totally matched the description given to them by their own singer: inexperienced, but cute. Had I taken the time to read up on their last.fm profile page, I surely would have had some expectations, since the band consists of members from Sieges Even, Dreamscape and Sun Caged. So much for inexperience. Their first album, called Beautiful & Monstrous, is scheduled to be released in September, which explains why we haven’t been able todownloadbuy and listen to it yet. Naturally all the songs they played are featured on that album. Except for their final track which is a song by Sieges Even: Sequence II: The Lonely Views of Condors. By the way, if you’re a sound guy, here’s a tip: if the singer uses an extra mic with a different set of effects, try enabling it before the singer has sung half a line into it.
The second band this day was The Pineapple Thief. They played a bit like they were waiting for something interesting to happen. And it didn’t. But maybe it was because we just moved from the stone benches below to a spot under a tree in the back of the area. Until then, we had been sitting under a blazing sun. And up there, the sound is different and susceptible to the fickly winds.
But the longer they played, the more interesting the songs grew and it turned out to be quite all right. And they played long, because there was more time available due to the cancelation of PRR. But still, I couldn’t stop thinking the band had rather been somewhere else that day.
Next was the French and last band to be announced today Lazuli. The only band on the festival who seems to have thought about hair and dress style. The singer very humbly explained in German, while reading from a paper, “Wir sind Lazuli”. In fact, pretty much all of his talking between the songs was in German. Well, it had a German touch to it anyway. The first couple of words were understandable, but after that, it became more and more challenging to grasp the meaning of what he was trying to convey. But it was endearing nevertheless. The music they played was fabulous. Thanks to charming German explanation I now even know what some of their French songs are about. I don’t think too many people in the audience were familiar with this band, but I’m sure they made quite some new fans here today. They’ve got a very distinctive sound, mainly due to the use of their léode and otherwise not too common Warr guitar and marimba. It’s a very percussive band, with a marimba player, who occasionally hits and even kicks the cymbals of the percussionist as well. Their encore is truly remarkable. Every band member plays the same instrument: a collection of bottles, each tuned to a different frequency. At least I assume it was something like that, because they were all standing around it, making it hard to see.
Pure Reason Revolution being cancelled was a bummer. It’s one of my favorites. Yes, I do have quite some favorites. But they are definitely one of them. Strangely enough nothing was said about it. In fact, announcing the bands came to a complete halt. Maybe Nathalie found more interesting things to do.
The next band Pendragon just entered the stage 15 minutes early and started to play, assuming everybody knew them. Their singer/guitarist is very talkative between the songs. He even said that whomever didn’t know who they were, they surely would find out soon enough. He then started talking about a dream where a giant Ickle Pickle had taken over the position of the bass player Peter Gee. Because he wanted to know how Ickle Pickle sounds in German, he had the crowd yell it at the count of 3. However, with such an international crowd of course it still sounded very English. Between all the silliness they played a great show. It never ceases to amaze me how a 4 man band can create such a full, spectrum filling sound.
Steve Hackett was next. The bass player was dressed up in a women’s dress, wearing a blond two-tailed wig. It didn’t take long for the crowd to nick name him Heidi. As for the music, I’m not very familiar with it, so I couldn’t really share in the feast of recognition that a lot of people in the audience seemed to be having. There were some nice songs, but most of the stuff they played was beyond me. Partially due to already having digested quite a lot of progressive stuff this day. In fact, we were so utterly and completely saturated with music and bratwurst when they finished, that we decided to go back to the hotel and get some sleep.
The festival was closed by Mick Pointer and his friends playing Marillion’s Script for a Jester’s Show. I have no idea what it was like, because I was sleeping in the aforementioned hotel.
Once again it was a fabulous festival and unless the heavy, angry looking, muscular man decides on the line up, I’ll probably be there again next year. -
Night of the Progs - Loreley 2009
Jul 13 2009, 19h27 por migwag
Fr., 10. Jul. – Night of the Prog Festival IV
Place:
Loreley at the Rhein.
Concerts:
Friday:
Also Eden, Arena, Agents Of Mercy, Riverside, Gazpacho
Saturday:
Subsignal, The Pineapple Thief; Lazuli, Pentragon; Steve Hackett & Band, Mick Pointer's Marillion mit Script For A Jesters's Tear
Flashlights:
Also Eden was an interesting starter, Arena with bad sound, Agents of Mercy with their first gig. Riverside was a great Headliner of the first day. Gazpacho recorded a DVD that night.
Subsignal with Members of Sieges Even starts fine. The Pineapple Thief was, sorry, not that good as expected. Lazuli, a surprising act, that will be a secret hope for the futur. Pentragon speeded up the atmosphere. Steve Hackett, the legendary guitar player, plays many old songs solo and from Genesis and one track of the coming new album. Mick Pointer and the Band did a great job.
Summery / Fazit:
Special Place. Great Atmosphere. Next Year again!!
In German: Ein fulminantes Open-Air Wochenend-Event mit spektakulärer Kulisse und Stimmung! Ein Muss für Proggis, die auch auf Ihren Geldbeutel schauen müssen (7,50 Euro pro Konzert im Vorverkauf) oder die Neues kennen lernen oder Altes wieder entdecken wollen. -
Something old... something new...
Jun 13 2009, 11h17 por spkr4thdd
Fri 12 Jun – Dream Theater, Frost*
I came to this show not sure what to expect... I'd never heard of Frost* (Shame on me!) even though I love Kino, It Bites, Arena etc who John Mitchell has been involved with... also, although I've been a Dream Theater fan since the first time
Pull Me Under appeared on MTV I've never seen them live!! Needless to say, I was really looking forward to this....
First up were the support band Frost*. After a nice little instrumental intro they opened with
Welcome To Nowhere, that was it, I was hooked! Not knowing their material I can't name the rest of the set, however to say I was impressed is an understatement... neo prog at its most sublime! They certainly played a couple of tracks from Experiments in Mass Appeal which I duly purchased at the merch stall... it's playing now, and it's great! (Having listened to the CD, I know they also played at least
Pocket Sun and
Dear Dead Days... not sure of the others!)
My one caveat would be that they suffered from support bandiitis... crap sound engineering, there were occasions when either John, Dec or Jem were soloing away and the sound was lost in the morass somewhere... but other than that a performance which would have been of headline quality if they were on a bill with nyone other than Dream Theater!
Which brings me to Dream Theater, a 'supergroup' in the true sense of the word. Anyone who believes that the heady days of self indulgent 15 minute solos and extended live jams a la Deep Purple, Yes or Genesis are sadly mistaken... and these guys make it cool to show off your virtuosity with gusto!! Now, despite the aforementioned bands, DT have definitely moved on (progressed?) from progressive rock to progressive metal, a fact which I bemoaned on the release of Train of Thought. I stand corrected, and then some!
I was amazed at the breadth of the set here... everything from Images and Words to the forthcoming Black Clouds & Silver Linings were covered. Opening to a montage of clips before bursting into In the Presence of Enemies, Pt. 1 the setlist would have made a great compilation album, showing off all members of the bands strengths, even James LaBrie's vocals which (IMHO) have deteriorated of late, but not last night, perhaps the longer instrumental sections than usual allowed for him to perform at his peak for the whole gig, or perhaps he's rediscoverd his mojo? I don't know, but it was great to hear tracks such as
Misunderstood,
Caught in a Web and
Hollow Years done justice... Playing for just over two hours, I was transfixed for the entire set even during the aforementioned solos...
Negatives? I think there are always some at a gig, aren't there?
First off, the capacity of the O2 Academy Leeds needs to be addressed... the standing/stalls area was simply to cramped, even behind the desk, maybe I'm getting old but I wanted to be there to appreciate the music and not get whipped by some lad and his stoned chick's hair all night...
Secondly, despite the improvement in his voice, it seemed to take James LaBrie a long time to get 'into' the gig... he had a face black as thunder for most of the night and, despite plenty of interaction with/from the crowd, he never seemed to grow with that response... put simply, he appeared to be going through the motions. (Maybe something to be expected when, in all honesty, this was a warm up for the Download Festival appearance on Sunday).
The compete setlist was:
1) In the Presence of Enemies, Pt. 1
2)
Beyond This Life
3)
Misunderstood
4) A Rite of Passage
5)
Hollow Years
6)
Caught in a Web
7) Forsaken
8)
Erotomania
9)
Voices
10)
Solitary Shell
11) Constant Motion
12) As I Am
ENCORE
13) Metropolis Part I: The Miracle and the Sleeper/
Learning to Live/
A Change of Seasons Medley
High points for me?
The Frost* set in its entirety, it's great to go to a gig and discover something new, I'm hooked!
From the DT set? To be honest it's hard to choose, they were all stunning! If forced then I'd name
Misunderstood,
Hollow Years and As I Am (Told you I'd changed my tune!) as personal highlights, but to be honest, the set was perfect, something for every kind of DT fan. It won't be 20 years 'til I see them again, I can guarantee you that! -
Bands seen live more than once
Abr 24 2009, 11h56 por DrMuller
Feeling slightly bored this afternoon, time for some list-making. This might interest someone... or not! ;-)
The list below mentions the bands I have seen live more than once, which, in most cases, mean I do like to see these bands live. I actually sat through entire shows of all these artists, even though some are not my cup of tea (for instance Chimaira or Lauren Harris, to name but the higher ranked of the artists I don't really like).
Iron Maiden Seen 8 times
Epica 7
Mostly Autumn 7
Porcupine Tree 7
Doro 5
After Forever 4
Morbid Angel 4
Nightwish 4
Saxon 4
Skeptical Minds 4
Slayer 4
Testament 4
Therion 4
Within Temptation 4
AC/DC 3
Amon Amarth 3
Autumn 3
Chaoswave 3
Chimaira 3
Clawfinger 3
Crucified Barbara 3
Dimmu Borgir 3
Erik Norlander 3
Grave Digger 3
Hatesphere 3
Korpiklaani 3
Kreator 3
Lana Lane 3
Lauren Harris 3
My Dying Bride 3
Obiturary 3
Queensrÿche 3
Stream of Passion 3
The Dillinger Escape Plan 3
Tristania 3
Action in DC 2
American Dog 2
Anthrax 2
Apocalyptica 2
Arch Enemy 2
Arena 2
Celtic Frost 2
Children of Bodom 2
Cynic 2
Dark Tranquillity 2
Dream Theater 2
Entombed 2
Evergrey 2
Flowing Tears 2
Gamma Ray 2
Girlschool 2
Helloween 2
Helmet 2
Hypocrisy 2
In Extremo 2
In Flames 2
Jethro Tull 2
Judas Priest 2
Kivimetsän Druidi 2
Koritni 2
Lacuna Coil 2
Leaves' Eyes 2
Legion of the Damned 2
Leng Tch'e 2
Machine Head 2
Mastodon 2
Megadeth 2
Metallica 2
Midnattsol 2
Motörhead 2
Omnia 2
Opeth 2
Paatos 2
Pain 2
Paul Di'Anno 2
Pendragon 2
Primus 2
Rose Tattoo 2
Sabaton 2
Sengir 2
Sirenia 2
Slipknot 2
Soilwork 2
Sonata Arctica 2
Symphony X 2
The Gathering 2
The Silk 2
Tri Yann 2
Yngwie Malmsteen 2 -
My first year with Last Fm
Jan 28 2009, 12h07 por Snowman01
Yeah, more like 1 year and 3 days but whatever. I don't even remember how I one day just stumbled upon (I guess that's my closest guess) this site, and realized that this place could show the world my superior taste in music. Cause that's what's this site is all about right, to show your superior taste and it's really better than anyone else. Fuck the radio, show tips and making new friends, and definitely not to be able to discover new awesome bands.... J-O-K-E :D
My first year here have been very interesting. 2008 was musically for me a year of discovery, I have never discovered so many bands that I listen too now, some new, some old. I have also discarded a great bit of music from my computer, when i realized that I listen to around 500 bands, and that was just too freaking much (it's hard to get around 300 bands time to listen too). I think I now have enough artists to show the world my kinda closed but still diverse taste in music.
In 2009, I guess I will just continue to scrobble music, but maybe not as much as when I was most crazy with Last Fm in late spring/summer 2008. Now I have a good top 50 list in both artist, songs and albums which I really believe is my favorites (but they can absolutely change :P).
Of the bands I discovered in 2008, those are among my new favorites:
3
Arena
Circus Maximus
Cynic
Eidolon
Hiromi
Kingston Wall
November
Opeth
Pagan's Mind
Threshold
Vanden Plas
(I haven't listed bands that I rediscovered, like Kansas, Foreigner or Frank Zappa)
The best concert of the year... well that's gotta be Iron Maiden or Dio. Both had really good set lists and put on a hell of a show!
Rock on! -
Sunflower - Good British Jazzy Rock (Unsigned) - Updated
Jan 14 2009, 19h45 por mellors-
Sunflower (If you didnt already guess from the title,) currently unsigned band from Leicester in the UK, so If you're a fan of quite laid back rock with a jazzy touch and catchy melodies, or imagine that'd be your cup of tea (English cliches ftw) then check them out at the below links. The vocals might take some getting used to, but once you do they work well and the band plays some tightly performed and well written tunes, evoking some nice atmosphere but with a good pop sensibility.
http://www.myspace.com/thesunflowerpage
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sunflower/22138560181
http://www.last.fm/music/Sunflower
You can now find full track plays of 5 of their songs on an album of recordings from their first session a few months ago here:
http://www.last.fm/music/Sunflower/Sunflower+Demo
Sunflower Demo
And also 2 tracks they recorded for a local radio station, Demon FM.
http://www.last.fm/music/Sunflower/Live+at+Demon+FM
Live at Demon FM
There are other artists called Sunflower on that page, but only those recordings so far are the Leicester area group.
P.s. Not my band.
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