The Syndicate

RIP Merle Haggard, the Okie from Muskogee, dead on his own birthday.

Another talented musician gone too early. RIP Prince.

G-Man wrote:Another talented musician gone too early. RIP Prince.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...purple rain.

RIP Prince.

What the heck is up with this year and music deaths? We've lost a huge amount of greats.

thellama73 wrote:What the heck is up with this year and music deaths? We've lost a huge amount of greats.

Gord Downie has terminal brain cancer.

Can anyone do me a favour and check out http://www.thehip.com/, and click Register... when I try to register, the Captcha image is a a broken link, so I can't complete registration.

If anyone CAN see the image, then let me know so I can impose upon you to sign me up please!

The captcha is also broken for me. Did you try a different browser (I am using Firefox; I know my employers website works best with Microsoft browsers)? If that is not the case, did you try "contact"?

I tried Chrome and Firefox. I feel like contacting them right now would get lost in a sea of well-wishing contacts.

I just tried the Microsoft browser, and that did not work, either. I even tried the Facebook log in, and it just returned me to the home page.

i would guess their site is overwhelmed right now.

THE AVALANCHES ARE BACK BABY! NEW ALBUM JULY 8TH! NEW SINGLE TODAY!



with a surprisingly disturbing music video. serious jonestown vibes

and in related news, hell has frozen over

insertnamehere wrote:THE AVALANCHES ARE BACK BABY! NEW ALBUM JULY 8TH! NEW SINGLE TODAY!



with a surprisingly disturbing music video. serious jonestown vibes

I will not sleep well until the album drops.

A Person wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:THE AVALANCHES ARE BACK BABY! NEW ALBUM JULY 8TH! NEW SINGLE TODAY!



with a surprisingly disturbing music video. serious jonestown vibes

I will not sleep well until the album drops.

YOU'RE A NUT! YOU'RE CRAZY IN THE COCONUT!

I just spent over an hour on the phone with Brett Kull of Echolyn. He talked to me about music and about growing up. Just a good conversation. He asked me to send him my music for technical criticism.

He was absolutely gracious. I had to end the conversation because he kept wanting to talk!

Cover me, cover you. Pleasant tracks.

We should start an electronic duo, Ricochet.

Kansas released a new album today for the first time in 16 years.

Bon Iver's new album is out, and check out the tracklist...

Jeff Mangum, the erstwhile Neutral Milk Hotel frontman, has released a series of drawings that prominently feature the letters "D O U B L E A L B U M" and the number 3, as in NMH's third album, and the number 17 which is presumably important for some other mysterious, possibly Anne Frank-related reason.
(Can you spot the hidden "L P"?)
(Awol Bombe....album?)
(This was written on the back of one of the drawings. Presumably a reference to "Aunt Eggma Blowtorch.")

If this is legit, I will make Neutral Milk Hotel Mafia into a thing.

(Sorry for the really big pictures.)

EDIT: (Thank you to whoever spoilered the images, I had a brain fart and forgot to do so myself.)

I would guess the numbers hint at a release date? maybe 3/17 for March 2017?

nutella wrote:Bon Iver's new album is out, and check out the tracklist...

It's horrible.

I disagree. I quite enjoyed it, more so on the second listen.



But then I'm hipster trash, what do I know

Cool. What did it inspire for you? I don't mind hipster, but a 30-minute release after a five years, that sounds about as rambling and intentionally experimental vague, not even sounding too well produced at that either, sprinkled with a bit of "lemme trash talk Beyonce a bit for selling herself out" pre-buzz, sounds a bit too bull for me, as a new artistic endeavour.

I don't have fancy reviewing words or analysis, I just enjoyed it. It sounded nice, definitely some parts more than others. I wouldn't say I was, like, super blown away as much as some fans apparently were, but it was nice.

Not news, but fun.

insertnamehere wrote:EDIT: (Thank you to whoever spoilered the images, I had a brain fart and forgot to do so myself.)

I'm glad you didn't mind. My computer loads these threads really slowly due to the high amount of images and videos, so I like to cut the time down where/when I can.

RIP Leonard Cohen.

Twentysucksteen.

Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

RIP Greg Lake

thellama73 wrote:RIP Greg Lake

Had to squeeze one more in before year's end.

RIP George Michael.

How did Jaki Liebezeit die two days ago and no one told me? You have failed me, music news thread.

thellama73 wrote:How did Jaki Liebezeit die two days ago and no one told me? You have failed me, music news thread.

I figured y'all knew from the bookface site

A Person wrote:

thellama73 wrote:How did Jaki Liebezeit die two days ago and no one told me? You have failed me, music news thread.

I figured y'all knew from the bookface site

I barely use that site.

RIP Mary Tyler Moore.

RIP Butch Trucks.

RIP John Wetton.

Two King Crimson singers dead in as many months.

thellama73 wrote:RIP John Wetton.

Two King Crimson singers dead in as many months.

Adrian Belew is still going strong!

Carl Palmer isn't going to have a bassist to play with.

Kurt Cobain would have turned 50 today. That's a very weird thing to try to wrap my head around. Even if he hadn't killed himself at 27, I don't think he'd have made it to 50.

RIP Joni Sledge

RIP Chuck Berry

My parents and their friends used to get drunk playing pinochle and canasta and sing this song.

Gah! I go on a men's retreat and I miss the death of one of the architects of rock and roll! Good for him to live that long. There aren't many of the original pioneers left. He was going to release a new album this year. I wonder if he recorded the material for it yet.

Rest in peace, you handsome brown-eyed man.

RIP Sib Hashian

RIP Paul O'Neill (TSO)

RIP J. Geils

RIP Allan Holdsworth

Meant to post this yesterday, but Gregg Allman died at 69 yesterday.