I've been jamming the Dum Dum Girls a lot. Yeah, not that original (Jesus Mary Chain/Raveonettes [who rip JMC anyway]) but still enjoyable.

i saw them open for some other band (can't think of who) a few years ago and they definitely put on a pretty entertaining show.

lately i've sorrounded myself with spanish metal.
not the most edgy of genres, but catchy and it puts a smile on my face

tierra santa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-b7q1mbl2c

mago de oz (the original folk metal, haha)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlYJuX-JgVw

dark moor (although they sing in english, well, they try anways)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsUI41gGVBM

Like you Lalo, I too have been in a metal mood.

Lately, Tool has been in very heavy rotation. Got to love their videos.

Vicarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQRS1Ryh ... re=related

Parabola
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiV_ue-PbL4

And some others

Lamb of God - Ruin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFm9v0wvEnw

Lamb of God - Black Label (I wouldn't want to be in this pit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQUvJ-wKJok

Soulfly
Rise of the Fallen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0MUQh3lAvc

The Clash !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPcjkgYS ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiVvA9YQpiI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6zcTRAe ... re=related

I did'nt look at the tracklist when I got the cd and when
I heard the first seconds of Refuse/Resist, I went all chilly.
That's a good cover !

Been listening to alot of Black Angels lately.

same here. they redesigned their site (http://www.theblackangels.com/), put a new song out and will hopefully be on the road by fall. great band, i appreciate what they're doing.

Been in a Dubstep mood lately and listening to a lot of Tomba, this is probably his best release in my opinion.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ttymgmnm2y4

Summer's up. Time for oldschool hard-hitting swedish EBM !



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FSlSojr27k



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQp_Mxwo ... re=related

wow, i grabbed this and i'm really enjoying it. dubstep is something i've casually liked but had trouble following because it has exploded recently. thanks for posting that link!

Been in an Opeth mood for the last couple of days. I never watch MTV or any music channel anymore and just discovered these videos.

Porcelain Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfT1A5Caq84

The Grand Conjuration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqcBD2oi ... re=channel

Anyone else listening to the new Big Boi album? Technically impressive (but of course!) but I dunno ... maybe I just need more time with it. I know the last Outkast album sucked but I'd love to see them come back swinging as a team. Big Boi is uber-slick but without Dre3k's raps it feels like something is missing.

Is anyone else getting a little tired of the "every song features a different guest star" gimmick?

Getting into Japanese Shoegaze:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHei9dSn ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOnfHDBW ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RglfEDi3vYo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js7JVXBH_tQ

Years ago. God how annoying! It's like people don't know how to write an album anymore. I can forgive up to 3 songs with "guests" as long as there are 15+ tracks - but when 50% of the songs have other people on them just call the damn thing a compilation. The last great rap album I heard, that only had one person rapping for the entire album, was Aceyalone's "A Book of Human Language", and that was probably '98 or so.
Another thing that bugs the shit outta me in rap are all the "skit" tracks. So dumb and annoying, and they just look like filler. MF Doom has gotten really bad with this crap where you essentially get an EP's worth of music but it's labeled as an LP.
Right now rap is dead to me (with a few exceptions) - I'll listen to my older stuff and wait for rap's next creative wave to hit. Right now there's too much good metal to care about how stale rap has gotten.

I wouldn't say it's dead, but pretty damn near. Only newer hip hop that has been doing anything for me lately is Sole and The Skyrider Band(both albums are great). I'm just glad there's tons of of older stuff on Rhymesayers, Def Jux and Anticon to hold me over until hip hop comes back around again. I need a new Deep Puddle Dynamics release asap. 

My two favorite genres are Hip hop and Electro/Techno.

I listen to lots of stuff in different sub genres of hip-hop. Just some of my favs.

Hiphop
Abstract rap; I like to listen to artists such as El-P, Cannibal Ox and MF Doom.
Hardcore rap; artists such as Jedi Mind Tricks, Non Phixion, Necro, Cage and immortal technique.
West Coast heads; Dilated Peoples, Zion I
South; Little Brother
Don't know where to put him but i loved his latest album; Fabio musta

Techno/Electro
Stephan Bodzin
Oliver Huntemann
Richy Hawtin
DJ Hell
Tiefschwarz

I'm not sure how things got messed up, but I never wrote the words misattributed to me in Aldo's post. I have no idea what's going on in the metal world and I don't feel that rap is dead LOL.

See, I can't even stand new Def Jux or MF Doom - or anyone I use to listen to. And I always felt Anticon, Rhymesayers, etc were the biggest fakes.
I don't think rappers can write more than two albums worth of material before they just start rehashing and sounding stale. My two favorite rap labels went south really quick - Def Jux & Solesides (Quannum).
Cannibal Ox released one (great) album and haven't done anything since. El-P only released one good album and followed it up with an album of (mostly) previously released instrumentals (which I actually like, but isn't a rap album), and then another weak rap album (but he was great with CoFlo). Mr. Lif can't write a full album to save his life - and generally can't write a full song. Aesop Rock's earlier stuff was interesting, but then got boring and annoying really quick. Cage is a wannabe. Camu Tao died.
Solesides released some great singles early on, and then the Latyrx album and Blackalicious' "Nia" and everything since has been watered down at best.
Rawkus, Heiro, Project Blowed, Wu, Solesides, etc really changed rap in the 90s. There aren't any labels/groups like that right now. (Though I do still like new RZA, GZA, etc.) I'd rather listen to Three 6 Mafia than new indie rap.

It happens when there's a quote within a quote, and not all of the tags get deleted. If you quote this post you'll see tags for [quote="Dean"] and tags for [quote="---NT---"]. Aldo just needs to delete the Dean tags.

Oops, Dean, that wasn't directed at you.

I was just saying, hip hop isn't dead, it's just at a low point right now.

Doom Metal

I'll be listening to Tool live...in about two weeks when they play in LA.

Nice! Last time I saw tool was in '97, one guy looked like he was in the Blue Man Group and the singer had a shaved head, painted white face, boxer briefs, and a bra with realistic looking tits in it. It was pretty awesome.

7 tracks about grinding- check
7 tracks about shawtys- check
1 track about 30" rims- check

Bilboard top 20 rap album coming up...