Under Appreciated Band: Maximo Park

Does anyone remember my "under-appreciated band posts?" Its been so long since I've written one! I started to get nostalgic. Anyways, rather recently I started listening to all my Maximo Park albums in sequence (after NOT listening to them in about a year) you know that awesome feeling you get when you rediscover a band you really liked and then subsequently forgot about? Their songs are just so catchy and so fun to dance around in my basement to. And since living in Buffalo makes me an anti social recluse its the perfect time to blast music from high school in my spider and centipede ridden cellar...oh wow that sounded horrible. THANK GOD I'm going to Toronto tomorrow, I need to have a really kick ass time somewhere.

Miike Snow

Hey all - new blogger here! I'm very honoured to have been invited to write for this blog! TheMusicGeek and I share a lot of similar music tastes so hopefully this will work out well. So here we go...!

Swedish indie group Miike Snow has created perfection in sound with their first album, self-titled "Miike Snow." I love just about every song and aspect of this album, from its perfect fusion of keys and beats to its wispy yet solid vocals. There's something about Christian Karlsson's voice that really draws me in - it can be very inspiring at times, yet oh-so-sexy during others.

The sexy:



The inspirational: (FYI: "Silvia" is the Latin word for "forest.")



Their latest single (June 2010) - with a VERY strange video: The Rabbit

Can't wait to hear more from them!

The Weeknd

Strange combination of R&B and electronic low-fi...Frank Ocean and this guy are doing weird things with rhythm and blues...a genre of music that has had limited progression since the 90s. I like it.

Oh Yeah There's a New Death Cab For Cutie Song Out...

I didn't even know it was them at first...I've been hearing it everywhere. I thought it was Angels and Airwaves or something...which is why I brushed it off. This is no "transatlanticism" that's for sure. I'm on the fence. I understand the need to progress as musicians, but this doesn't sound cutting edge creatively, it just sounds generic.

Brother - Still Here

Its their new single. It's pretty cool.

Yuck.

Yes that's their name...and I rather like them.

What the Hell Dia Frampton!?

Ok so forgive me but I was just watching "The Voice" one of those post American Idol shows where singers duke it out in front of celebrity judges like Cee-lo Green and Christina Aguilera...ok so not my typical tv show (PBS was having a special on American crafts...) but I WAS BORED AND TIRED. Anyways I could barely believe my eyes when Dia Frampton came singing on stage. "Wasn't she already IN a band? Didn't she have a sister? Haven't I seen this band listed on the WARPED TOUR line up???" So anyways I was perplexed...
I have a few "Meg and Dia" songs! I liked them! Why Dia whyyyy.
 So I did a little digging...apparently the band is on hiatus now after releasing their 2009 album "Here, Here and Here" which I ironically posted on my blog wayyy back in '09. I still don't know how I feel about this...but my best guess is after Warner Brothers dropped them from their label (right after they switched from indie label Doghouse records) that they were label-less and therefore had nowhere else to turn. Then I found out that they had recorded a new record anyways...and it was released in April of 2011! So why aren't they touring? And why is Dia on the voice!? I'm still confused...