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I like the list of Similar artists on AMG: Arcade Fire
British Sea Power
Neutral Milk Hotel
Clinic
David Bowie
Pixies
Roxy Music
Causey Way
Spoon
The Walkmen
The Olivia Tremor Control
The Polyphonic Spree
Interpol…Talking Heads would be a good addition to this list, as well as Modest Mouse.
the songs seem to be simple on the surface but are more elaborate when you take a closer listen. it’s definitely worth to check them, I’d say
saw two nice new german bands on Saturday, Helter Skelter and Schwarz auf Weiss. the latter has huge Ska influences on a modern sounding basis, which makes the music very good to party to.
Even better I liked the German band Helter Skelter, who have a great classic beat/pop/indie sound with very cool songs, and they seem to really be at the start to live up to their big name
🙂
the guitars kinda reminded me a lot to J, although I’m not sure if they’re even familiar with Dino/J. Maybe it’s just the general lively influence which came through
paint smell, yeah, I have collected my own experiences with this, recently. now I highly recommend to do painting action in the warmer seasons, when you can leave the windows open…
cool idea with the magnetic paint/chalkboard paint!
great idea! I’d definitely join a convention like this.
we have the Dinosaur 101 room on soulseek (to find it, you have to refresh the room list first, because rooms with less than 20 users are only visible after refreshing the list. to join the room automatically with each visit, just right click in the room and "toggle autojoin")
some months back, we used to meet on some Sunday afternoons (US time) resp. Sunday evenings (European time). it seemed to be the day when many have time to be spent with us freaks on soulseek — to look up each others shared folders and exchange recommendations, and talk about whatever comes to mind.
Would definitely be cool to have something like that going again!!!
hey harmacy, what a cool name that is!!!
great list of bands, hope to hear some sounds of your own band some time soon!welcome & have a nice time on the site
actually I found myself playing this album a lot during the last days, and it definitely grows with listening …I have the feeling it could end up in my 2004 top ten
so, thanks again for the hint, fata morgana! thanks for the info about TJO & Sebadoh, I couldn’t find any closer details about it!
guess I’ll check some Rodan audio next, thanks a lot for all the details🙂this is den Buck from Freakscene, I bought a bunch of records by unknown German bands, had a schnitzel and went home.
huge thanks to everyone involved, for making this recording available !!!
I’m looking forward to check it out!"anthony" wrote:…Then he just started playing Out There. I’m not sure if they ever turned off the PA music.
thanks for the great review & setlist, anthony!
I guess I don’t have to mention that I’m jealous like hell these days… 
so cool you’ve heard of TJO before, SG
I don’t know Christina’s last name, I didn’t find it in the show announcement, and on stage she was only introduced with her first name.last night I saw something completely different in a different surrounding, I saw the most wonderful Mercury Rev playing in a big hall in front of 3000 people (…well, that was because Nick Cave was playing after them
)
the Rev show was short, way too short, like 40 minutes, but sweet, they played like they had all time on earth, developing the songs from a mellow start to the wall of sound out of wailing guitars and multiple layers of keyboards, which I love them for. and of course there was the throughout charming singer, who appeared to be happy about everyone in the crowd to be there🙂Nick Cave… I didn’t have him on my list, I saw his name on tour lists, but never thought for a sec to go to his show. I kinda lost him out of sight after in the early 90ies, and never really got back to it. although I admit, I admired him in my teenager years.
the crowd was 3000 people who were willing to pay 45 Euros for the ticket, and they were… normal. anyone of them. I felt eccentric, only because I was dressed in black
…this crowd kinda shocked me 
Nick still has this saturnine and cool aura he’s known for, which was interesting enough to watch, to make me stay. he played almost only new songs, glued together by this gospel choir which I already didn’t like on the new album. some of the sounds were still rough and cool enough to enjoy them, though, so I went home moderately entertained
:aliensmile:Yesterday, I saw the US singer/songwriter Tara Jane ONeil. it’s true, I haven’t heard of her before, but in the description it said, that she has played with Sebadoh, Come and Low, so this kindled me, and I thought it could be interesting to check out. her sound is described as post-rock, which is the quiet sort of eletronic/guitar sound as in Mogwai or Stereolab.
the place was small, I don’t know if it’s big enough for 100 people. it was quite full, and the people were into it, they were all really quiet and polite throughout the performance, which was very calm itself. TJO on electric guitar and vocals was accompanied by Christina who was operating mixed electronic tools and a drumkit (which consisted of a cymbal
) and Samara on violin (Samara also opened with a solo set)
The music was very slow and calm, but at the moments when electronic beats and loops blended into Tara’s guitar, it worked out very well and all in all the show had more than a few beautiful momentsit’s not exactly my kind of music, as it’s quite too calm for me, but I really enjoy to check out new & interesting bands, and it was a nice evening spent
…and again I was wondering about the motivation of overseas musicians who make the long trip to Europe to play in tiny venues in front of a few dozens of people. But I’m glad they do, of courseon Wednesday, I saw David Eugene Edwards of Wovenhand (who is, of course, also singer of
16 Horsepower)
The band consisted of a drummer who did a great job, replacing an entire band. And there was David Eugene Edwards, who played seated as always, he changed between acoustic and elecric guitar and a banjo. The venue was also seated, which marked the show to be a more calm one.
The show was impressing because of the overall intensity, which made every song to either an incantation or even almost exocism. Although the singer remained cool and relaxed himself between the songs, you started wondering, what’s haunting him…the crowd was cheering, devotional, admiring, with big respect to what was shown on stage. it was cool to see so many people being into this, even though it wasn’t comparable to a band performance of 16 Horsepower.
