Newest Review- THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND – SO DELICIOUS- (Country Blues Americana Punk)- 2015

                                              

Hailing from rural Indiana, The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band take their cues from the rural south. They are truly a hybrid of Americana (Country and Blues) and Punk. I hear influences from Southern Culture on the Skids, Charley Patton, Mojo Nixon, Bukka White, Black Oak Arkansas, John Spencer, R.L Burnside, etc. Most sites say that this is their 5th album, but some state that it is their 8th. I'm not sure. Prevalent on the album is a simple driving bass and straight ahead basic solid drumming. That being said, The Big Damn Band are not experts on their instruments but the music is great. Rev. Payton is a pretty good guitar player though.  They also make use of a washboard and a bucket for musical sounds. The Big Damn Band constantly tours and hopefully I'll be able to see them at some point.  All in all, the whole album is great.  It's not genius material, but it  sure is fun. This is backwoods party music.  Rhett Taylor

Raise a Little Hell-

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