i don't think you'd like them. unless the idea of a poppy alternative radio rock band sounds appealing. like a corporate clone of nirvana on happy pills.

to be fair i probably 'should' check out their new stuff but based on seba's assessment i don't think it's necessary. besides, sloan has been successfully playing that style of happy alterna-rock since the late 90s without sounding like crap.

I love this site.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

The Trews are very meh. panbient's post is awesome.

I like Godspeed and don't mind Arcade Fire. I keep seeing Animal Collective coming up and I have a feeling they toured or are going to down here sometime soon...

Aloha sounds good.

I've heard some Interpol before, but it never really struck a chord with me. I'll give that album a listen.

Woahaa? I was thoroughly disappointed when I gave this a listen the first time. Do I need to give it another shot?

I still get hot for the Mars Volta. I didn't realise that Omar had release so much solo stuff.

There are like a million other albums I haven't listened to on Satchmo's lists. This could take a while. lol

TR, that band looks like a Spice Girls incarnation.

1. Skip Interpol and just throw on Joy Division. Although, hard to believe you would have never heard anything by them. Why bother with the watered down sheeeeeit?

2. It's a good thing you made your comments about Era Vulgaris while Guitar Master Grasshoppa panbient is in his "anybody in there?" Zen phase. Back in his Old School days you would have had to gone to the mattresses or become one with the fishes!

3. Omar Rodríguez-López is the Anthony Braxton and Ken Vandermark of Rock....as in, he's releasing 10,000 recordings a year. He just released 2 in the time it took Satchmo to type this post out....and I am not exactly slow.

4. You're welcome. Now get to work, Grashoppa! YO!



P.S. This just in....Omar Rodríguez-López just released a 3rd record (sorry, make that his 4th record) during the creation of this post. He might have 150 more out by the time you read this.

To be fair, I think the track they recorded that sounds almost exactly like Audioslave is actually better than anything that came of that project. The vocal is certainly better than most of what Chris Cornell has been dishing out in resent years. That said, it doesn't seem like they have any musical direction other than trying to sound like every somewhat popular radio rock band they can in the hopes that something will stick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yyTm...eature=related

Whew. The next time I recommend a band I think I'm going to ruminate on it a few days first before deciding. I wasn't quite expecting panbient's response...this guy seriously took time out of his day to hate this band (something I'm guilty of myself).

As far as other new rock goes, I'd say a lot of what has been recommended here is pretty good...as for other suggestions I might make (gulp) I might check out Grand Poo Bah (not exactly new, but still cool and little-known). And I can only hope that somebody doesn't bust my balls on this one too...

And isn't Joy Division VERY The Doorsish but then in a lamer way? Or did I just download the wrong album (namely Substance)?

That's a strange comparison. Substance is a compilation and it has a few good songs but if you want to check out Joy Division get their two studio albums - Unknown Pleasures and Closer. Especially Unknown Pleasures.

Hmm, I'd say Substance has way more than a few good songs. The second half of the CD slows down a bit in quality, but the first half has some pretty essential Joy Division, and I'd say someone would get a pretty good idea of their sound listening to it. What you get from the studio albums is a much more organized, concentrated version of their music; good as the material on Substance is you can still tell it's a bunch of spare recordings/singles thrown together. Not trying to sound like I wouldn't recommend the studio albums first as well (I'd agree on Unknown Pleasures first as well, not only do I like it more but it's a bit more accessible), but any JD fan should get to Substance pretty quick as well.

As for the Door comparison, I dunno. Ian Curtis's voice has a kind of similar tone, but I'm gonna have to agree that it's a stretch, at least for my ears.

Forget that....you found a way to get him to go Old School panbient.

Keep it up!