Gogol Bordello - Live from Irving Plaza (2008) Full Concert

                                        
Gogol Bordello is a Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring.^[1] Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music mixed with punk and dub. The band incorporates accordion and violin (and on some albums, saxophone).The band has appeared in a number of popular films, most notably in 2005's Everything Is Illuminated in which the lead singer, Eugene Hütz, co-starred with Elijah Wood...."Gogol" comes from Nikolai Gogol, a classical Russian writer, born in the Russian Empire in today's Ukraine (Gogol himself used the older common name "Little-Russia"). He serves as an ideological influence for the band because he "smuggled" Ukrainian culture into Russian society, which Gogol Bordello intends to do with Gypsy/East-European music in the English-speaking world.^[3] "Bordello," in Italian, refers to a brothel or a "gentleman's club." The band was originally titled Hütz and the Béla Bartóks, but Eugene Hütz says that they decided to change the name because "nobody knows who the hell Béla Bartók is in the United States..... (Wikipedia)

Combining elements of punk, Gypsy music, and Brecht-ian cabaret, Gogol Bordello tell the story of New York's immigrant diaspora through debauchery, humor, and surreal costumes. Leader and singerEugene Hütz's taste in music was spun out of black market tapes of the Birthday Party andEinstürzande Neubauten in his native Ukraine. After being evacuated to western Ukraine in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster, Hütz became enamored of the mystical, outsider qualities of Gypsy music. Living as a refugee in Poland, Hungary, Austria, and Italy before moving to the United States in 1993, he experienced life as an outsider himself......The group's early gigs involved playing straight Gypsy music at Russian weddings, but their music soon evolved into the hyper-kinetic explosions that earned them a solid following among New York's downtown hipsters..... (All Music Guide)

Their music was also featured in the film Wristcutters: A Love Story and the character of Eugene was based on and partially written by Eugene Hütz. (Last Fm)

The Gogol Bordello band includes people from all of the world. They are truly one of the best live acts ever. I saw them around this time and it was one amazing show. My wife loved Gogol Bordello as well. She always wanted to see them. Since she has passed I haven't seen any concerts.Hopefully, I'll begin to see great shows  like this some time soon again. If you have never seen them before, do your self a favor and see them. You won't be disappointed. (Rhett Taylor)

Gogol Bordello Live From Axis Mundi
Recorded at Irving Plaza, NYC 2008

Track Listing:
1. Live from Axis Mundi
2. Ultimate
3. Sally
4. Not A Crime
5. Dogs Were Barking
6. Wonderlust King
7. Mishto
8. Forces of Victory
9. Tribal Connection
10. 60 Revolutions
11. Start Wearing Purple
12. Think Locally, Fuck Globally
13. Punk Rock Parranda
14. Illumination
15. Baro Foro

Hype Machine Music Blog Aggregator (search engine for music reviews) Review

                                        

Hype Machine is a music blog aggregator that pools from 855 music blogs. It is Located in Brooklyn, N.Y. and started in 2005 . Hype Machine has a great I phone app, but it's $3.99. Otherwise, everything else is free- I think. The site can be a little overwhelming and not everything on here  is awesome. There is though truly something for everyone on here and there is truly awesome stuff on here. Here is a list of some of the features

• Latest: What's going on right now in the blogosphere.
• Popular: The most popular artists, searches and blogs on the internet right now.
• Twitter: Interactive music chart of songs being posted on Twitter.
• Spy: Snoop on what other people are listening to on our site.
• Album Premieres: Weekly premieres of unreleased albums
• Music Blog Directory: The complete list of blogs we track, organized by genre and geography
• Labs: Fresh from the lab: new things we are trying out
• Zeitgeist: The best 50 artists, albums and songs of the past year.
• Your feed and favorites: A customizable view of your favorite tracks, artists, blogs and users. This one's Anthony's.- Hype Machine
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Available also are some of the most blogged videos. None of the songs are available for download . 

The songs are either  full songs or samples. It truly is a great way to get a heads up on up and coming music by pin pointing individual categories.and reading the reviews. The songs can be bought from Itunes and Amazon. . Nowadays with so much music available, it is nearly impossible to find out what is worth while and what's  not with out the help of music bloggers. It can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

With a free user account you can favorite searches, tracks, music blogs and other Hype Machine users by clicking on the hearts that are sprinkled around our site.

Then if you head to your profile page you can play your favorite tracks as a playlist and catch up on what your favorite blogs have been writing about lately.

Your public URL that you can share with friends is simply http://hypem.com/username. You can use this as an easy way to see what your friends are discovering lately.- Hype Machine

I haven't really set up my page yet, but I will shortly (hopefully). My user name is Spacetruckin.. I'll have more sites like this to review soon enough but the Hype Machine is one of the most essential ones. This site is for the aficionado  and the casual music listener. You can't go wrong.  Rhett Taylor

Here is a list of the genres

• 5432FUN
   
• 80S
   
• 90S
   
• ACOUSTIC
   
• ALL
 
• ALT-COUNTRY
   
• ALTERNATIVE
 
• ALTERNATIVE ROCK
   
• AMBIENT
   
• AMERICAN
 
• AMERICANA
   
• AUSTRALIAN
   
• BEATS
   
• BLUES
 
• BRITISH
   
• CANADIAN
   
• CHICAGO
   
• CHILLOUT
 
• CHILLWAVE
   
• COUNTRY
   
• DANCE
 
• DEATH METAL
   
• DEEP HOUSE
   
• DISCO
 
• DOWNTEMPO
   
• DREAMPOP
   
• DRONE
 
• DRUM AND BASS
   
• DUB
   
• DUBSTEP
 
• ELECTRO
   
• ELECTRO HOUSE
   
• ELECTROCLASH
 
• ELECTRONIC
   
• ELECTRONICA
   
• ELECTROPOP
 
• EMO
   
• EXPERIMENTAL
   
• FEMALE VOCALIST
 
• FOLK
   
• FRENCH
   
• FUNK
   
• FUTURE GARAGE
 
• GARAGE
   
• GARAGE ROCK
   
• GLITCH
 
• GRUNGE
   
• HARDCORE
   
• HIP HOP
   
• HOUSE
 
• IDM
   
• INDIE
   
• INDIE FOLK
   
• INDIE POP
 
• INDIE ROCK
   
• INDIETRONICA
   
• INDUSTRIAL
 
• INSTRUMENTAL
   
• INSTRUMENTAL HIP HOP
 
• IRISH
   
• JAPANESE
   
• JAZZ
   
• LO-FI
 
• MALE VOCALISTS
   
• METAL
   
• MINIMAL
 
• MINIMAL TECHNO
   
• NEW WAVE
   
• NOISE
 
• NOISE POP
   
• NOISE ROCK
   
• NU DISCO
   
• POP
 
• POST-HARDCORE
   
• POST-PUNK
   
• POST-ROCK
 
• PROGRESSIVE
   
• PROGRESSIVE HOUSE
 
• PROGRESSIVE ROCK
   
• PSYCHEDELIC
 
• PSYCHEDELIC ROCK
   
• PUNK
   
• PUNK ROCK
 
• R&B
   
• RAP
   
• REGGAE
   
• RHYTHM AND BLUES
 
• ROCK
   
• SHOEGAZE
   
• SINGER-SONGWRITER
 
• SOUL
   
• SWEDISH
   
• SYNTHPOP
 
• TECH HOUSE
   
• TECHNO
   
• TRANCE
   
• TRAP
 
• TRIP-HOP
   
• UK
   
• UNDERGROUND HIP HOP

Parkay Quarts (Parquet Courts)- Content Nausea 2015 New Review

                                 

This album is the ideas behind half of the Parquet Courts Austin Brown and Andrew Savage. From Brooklyn, New York, the Parquet Courts have been churning out D.I.Y. art punk since 2011. This album was created with the moniker Parkay Quarts since the other half of the band was away due to a math degree and creating a family. This is not the first time they have used this name.It took them only two weeks to record and mix this album. This is the Parquet Courts fourth studio album and their second in a year.Clocking in at 35 minutes, it is full of jangle and swagger with loads of messy guitars and vocals.Evident on this album is clearly an attack on modern culture, Helping on the album is Jeff Brown on saxophone from Jackie O-Motherfucker and Bob Jones on fiddle from the Eaters.Every song on this album is great, but I wouldn't say this album is amazing. I still really like it. There is a cover from the 13th Floor Elevators "Slide Machine" and "These Boots are Made For Walking" from Lee Hazlewood (popularized by Nancy Sinatra). Their influences seem to be such artists as Television, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Suicide, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan Wire, Gang of Four, Mission of Burma ,Devo, Pavement, Built to Spill,, The Minutemen, The Talking Heads, Etc Good ole Rock and Roll. Rhett Taylor

"Pretty Machines"

Deep Purple Live at California Jam 1974 full Concert

                                 


This is one of the best moments in rock and roll  history. This is the stuff of pure rock magic.Played in front of 200,000 people at Ontario Speedway in Ontario California. Deep Purple at California Jam 1974  gave a legendary show. Sharing the bill was Black Sabbath, Emerson Lake and  Palmer, The Eagles and others. It was filmed for the late night ABC television  "In Concert" series. The show mainly showed the Deep Purple set. They might have showed glimpses of the others. I don't know. David Coverdale (of Whitesnake fame ) and Glenn Hughes had not been in the band very long in this ("Mark 3"- The third lineup) incarnation of the band when this concert took place.Others in the band included Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Ian Gillian, and Ritchie Blackmore. This was the first time Deep Purple had come to America since the original lineup.

The best tracks are " Burn", "Mistreated", "Smoke on the Water", "You Fool Know One", "Mule",and."Spacetruckin" There are only 7 tracks on this concert clocking in at 119 minutes. Everything past the 40 minute mark is solid amazing. I doesn't even do any justice to describe all the greatest of the concert except the part where Ritchie Blackmore destroys ABC television's camera's and their own equipment towards the end of "Spacetruckin" . The camera crew was getting too much in Ritchie Blckmore's face, so they asked them to stop. As we see in the concert, they didn't stop. He then becomes annoyed and smashes a camera, throws equipment off stage, destroys 3 guitars, catches on fire, plays guitars destroyed with missing strings and with his feet. Ian Paice and Lon Lord are the other two stand outs in the show. In a Rock and Roll History class, this surely would have to be on the curriculum.  Truly a must watch concert. Rhett Taylor

Track listing:
Burn
Might Just Take Your Life
Mistreated
Smoke On the Water
You fool Know one
Mule
Spacetruckin

Thee Oh-Sees - Drop 2015 Review

                                       

Formed 1997 in San Francisco, Thee Oh Sees are one of the main purveyors of modern garage rock, On this album, it is a bit of a departure from some of their their other recordings and not as great as others such as Help or Floating Coffin( but it still has some great great songs). As with their other recordings, this is made to be heard on vinyl. It still sounds great on other mediums as well.John Dwer, the frontman and founder plays the instruments on most of the tracks but there still is quite a few of other musicians as well.  Dwer was also the former frontman for the Coachwhips.There is definite homages to early Pink Floyd, Can, Neu, psych Rollings Stones, etc. It is groovy and a good kind of sloppy with equal parts noise and order. Personally I think it is about half great songs and half okay songs.  The stand out songs are track 1 "Penetrating Eye" ,track 2 "Encrypted Bounce, track 3 "Savage Victory", track 8 "Transparent World" Track 9 "The Lens". In fact, this would probably be a good intro to the band, This was another album I kind of randomly chose to review and I like it.Space Garage. Rhett Taylor

"The Lens"