Obnoxious Listeners is going on a hiatus of sorts, so our normal posts will be sporadic for the next several months. In the meantime, enjoy our back catalog of Reviews , Editorials , and Interviews . Also, we will soon be unveiling a new segment of the site, Comics, which will be updated on a weekly or biweekly basis. Look for that to begin in the next month.
Revivl : Glenn Beck Praises New Muse Album – Muse Ask For Retraction
Wired : "Cellphone Ringtones Are Not Concerts." Did it really take a judge to declare that?!
One of my big issues with downloading music online is that it is almost always in a lossy compressed format. I actually alluded to this in one of my previous editorials, iTunes, shmiTunes . I have come across legal downloads before that were in WAV (uncompressed) format or FLAC ( F ree L ossless A udio C odec) format, but practically all online downloads (e.g. iTunes, Amazon, Napster) are in MP3 or AAC format. And what exactly is the difference between lossy and lossless compression? Well it's quite simple. [...]
Download audio file (kekal.mp3) It should only take a single listen for you to identify this music as something unique and interesting. That said, it may very well take several more listens for you to decide whether or not you actually like it. At least that was the case for me... but I'm pretty sure I do in fact like much of it now. I'm not gonna bullshit you - this band gets into some strange shit sometimes. Then again, it's about as strange as one might expect for an Avant-garde metal group from Jakarta, Indonesia. [...]
Download audio file (the-incident.mp3) I think the only thing regarding Porcupine Tree that amazes me more than meeting supposed rock/metal music aficionados that have never even heard of Porcupine Tree is how many albums they've released and have yet to bore me. This is a band that is constantly growing and led by someone with a very clear passion for music. Whether you've never heard Porcupine Tree before or you're a long time fan, their latest release will not disappoint. The Incident (2009) somehow offered few surprises to me, but at [...]
Economist : Paraplegics from the Congo are trying to use music to make a difference.
Rolling Stone : Record companies desperate to increase revenues have begun selling ad space in cd booklets.
October is a huge month for Obnoxious artist album releases! Check out our Events calendar tab to see the dates for all five of them.
Download audio file (ki.mp3) This post just goes to show that it doesn't matter how much you try to submerse yourself into the search for new music, there is always someone else out there that's been right under your nose. While the casual listener likely has no idea who Devin Townsend is, I may very well be chastised by my Obnoxious counter-parts for admitting I never knowingly heard any of his music until this past Monday. Devin Townsend actually has a rather extensive music resumé, and while I encourage you to check it out, [...]
Beat Crave : Unreleased Jimi Hendrix Music On The Way
Download audio file (apse.mp3) Not many of my posts have been written in the first week I acquired the music. Even for new music I find fresh and exciting, I usually feel it's better to allow some time for the full and proper digestion of it before writing a quality, meaningful review. Between The Buried And Me's Colors was one exception to this personal rule, and Apse is another. Although their styles are polar opposites, the reasons are the same - the music intrigued me enough that I wanted to [...]
Download audio file (rodygab.mp3) This post is a departure from most of our other reviews on this site. Pretty much all of the others are for a rock/metal band or hip hop act. Rodrigo y Gabriela are a Mexican acoustic guitar duo with a background in metal. They just released a new album, 11:11 , last week, although I haven't had the chance to purchase it yet (but definitely will soon enough). I really like the concept of this new album; according to their official page , it consists of eleven original [...]
Stereogum : Two free downloads from the new Pelican album, What We All Come to Need, which will be released 10/27.
Aversion : Satriani's Coldplay Lawsuit Dismissed
Free Download! : Back from a 10 year hiatus, Colepitz is writing new material. They're also giving away their self-titled album for free!
Download audio file (animals_as_leaders.mp3) I'll always have the utmost respect for Joe Satriani, but there is something lacking in his music. Despite the fact that Stu Hamm is a phenomenal bassist, most of Satriani's music focuses so much on his guitar that the presentation is very much unbalanced. Actually, there is a whole slew of guitarists out there with the same problem. Maybe it's just become the style for instrumental rock bands focusing on a stellar guitarist to let him shine, but it can get boring to me real quick if the whole band doesn't keep [...]
Download audio file (melon.mp3) I recently read a god awful review written by Corban Goble over at Adequacy.net about an album I have also reviewed. I'm not concerned that Goble and I disagree. However, I am enlightened by apparently how little effort I actually have to put into writing a review. So I decided to re-write my review of Melon's Never Eat on an Empty Stomach in the spirit of Goble since it seems much more fun and way easier. By [...]
Download audio file (gazpacho.mp3) As I hope I've made blatantly clear, I'm always looking for bands that mix various musical ideas in ways I haven't heard, or at least haven't noticed. I'm also afraid of becoming that guy that has heard so much music that the only thing he can get into is extremely abstract. The only mechanism I have to battle that is to actually restrict the amount of new music I choose to listen to. I kid you not, I actually have a queue of about 20 bands I've never listened to beyond a [...]
Baroness : New track from the Blue Record is up!
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The Shins: “September” (b-side of “Simple Song” 7”)
St. Vincent - 'Cheerleader'
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as In Paris (Explicit)
OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video
M.I.A. - Bad Girls (Official Video)
Circo Voador anuncia shows de The Kooks, Foster The People, Friendly Fires, Gogol Bordello e mais
The Kills on Letterman (Video)
James Blake – Live Album
Download: James Blake Live Album (Unofficial)
