What music did you discover this year?

[klyph]

Yes! The version of "Something" off the McLemore Avenue album is killer! Possibly the best Beatles cover ever.

[hieronymous]

Originally Posted by klyph

Yes! The version of "Something" off the McLemore Avenue album is killer! Possibly the best Beatles cover ever.

Agreed! And the organ on some of the tunes just kills me. This is coming from a die-hard Beatles fan too - the Beatles are some of the first rock music I really got into... I had no idea - I've known of Donald "Duck" Dunn for at least 20 years - been referred to as resembling his playing by some players, which is the greatest complement. Saw him playing with Eric Clapton on a video of Live Aid around when it was released - didn't "get" his playing until much later, if not only recently, when I came into possession of one of the Fender Signature basses. I didn't even get the Blues Brothers movie until after that! So add it to the list!

[klaus486]

I discovered e.s.t.

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

Best use of FX I've ever heard.

[fivestringgecko]

Originally Posted by klyph

Yes! The version of "Something" off the McLemore Avenue album is killer! Possibly the best Beatles cover ever.

Did you guys hear the Rubber Soulive album? Pretty awesome... Soulive doing an entire album of instrumental Beatles covers. Revolution is hot!

Soulive - In My Life
Soulive - Come Together
Soulive - Revolution

5sg.

[dalahorse]

Originally Posted by Buslady7803

Kamelot!!!!!

Aye - Kamelot! And they kick butt live!

[Doner Designs]

This is a little embarrassing to admit...

I grew up in the golden age of classic rock (went to HS in the 70's). I remember hearing Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin on the radio - same few songs over and over again. Never owned a PF album and only had one or two LZ 8 tracks.

Fast forward to today. I now have a 17 year old son who plays guitar. He's helping me discover all the really great bands that I should be introducing to him.

I started playing bass later in life when he started on guitar. Being a player (however bad) helps you listen to the music in a whole new way (now I understand what "music appreciation" means).

In 2010 I bought all the PF albums along with much of Gilmour and Waters solo works. This year, son and I split the cost of the complete Led Zeppelin set on itunes. JPJ is amazing (duh).

Another one that was earlier this year was the Grateful Dead. A guy from work introduced me to free (legal) live music recordings of jam bands on a site called archive.org.

I was already an admirer of the Dead because of the wall of sound and Phil's crazy wiring Alembic. Now I'm a fan of the music too.

So I'm a late bloomer. Better late than never.

[lwknives]

Funk

[TheEndIsNYE]

Florence and The Machine
Grimes
Lana Del Ray
The Antlers
Bon Iver
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Cannibal Corpse
HAARP Machine
Aesop Rock
Anthrax
Tool
Messhugah

Great stuff!

[Bart Lee]

Originally Posted by hieronymous

Been listening to a lot of "soul jazz" that I never really gave credence to before, including Jimmy McGriff, Brother Jack McDuff (my favorite stuff has Richard Davis on electric bass), Johnny Hammond, Freddie Hubbard's First Light, Lonnie Smith, etc.

But the album that hit me the hardest is McLemore Avenue, Booker T. & the MGs' tribute to the Beatles's Abbey Road!

I also went pretty deep down the "soul jazz" rabbit hole. Bought a bunch of vinyl from Grant Green, Don Patterson and Larry Young. For Latin Jazz, Willie Bobo and Cal Tjader.

Robert Glasper Experience / trio
Black Keys
Radiohead
Death Cab
Kurt Elling
Damon Albarn
Pharaoh Sanders
Brad Mehldau
Herbie Mann
fHIREHOSE / Banyan

Went back and rediscovered:
Spirit
Trapeze
Robin Trower
James Gang

[FloatingHogs]

Lately I've begun listening to more recent stuff than usual -- I'm a classic rock snob. I've found I like Spacehog (obscure mid-nineties neo-glam rock band) and Coldplay. Some Judas Priest too.

[brianrost]

Rock:
Edgar Broughton Band (70s UK band I had heard about but never heard)

Latin:
Rodrigo Y Gabriela "C.U.B.A."

Americana:
Golden Triangle (self titled)

Jazz:
Mary Halvorson "Saturn Sings", "Bending Bridges"
Christian Scott "Christian aTunde Adjuah"
Jason Stein "Story This Time"

[BenBL]

Originally Posted by FloatingHogs

Lately I've begun listening to more recent stuff than usual -- I'm a classic rock snob. I've found I like Spacehog (obscure mid-nineties neo-glam rock band) and Coldplay. Some Judas Priest too.

Dude, Spacehog is awesome I was able to get their CD's for like $0.50 each on a whim and now I love them

[AngryJohnny]

The Raconteurs are probably the most well known that were new to me this year. Never cared much for Jack White before this, pretty damn impressive.

Anna Egge played in one of our local bars back in spring, turned out to be one of the stand outs for the year. I bought most of her CD discography the next day from amazon for next to nothing used.

From the metal/heavier side:

Abysmal Dawn - Great band who I finally looked into this year - Leveling The Plane of Existence has probably got more play than any other album I own over the past 6 months. Love the riffs and general song structures. I don't know that it's anything ground breaking, just well written/composed metal.

Decrepit Birth - technical/extreme group. Seem to be digging them more than a lot of bands in the genre I've checked out. Dudes have chops.

[Unprofessional]

My brother introduced me to this southern fried rock band, Blackberry Smoke. They're on Zach Brown's label and are touring with him.
I got a chance to meet the band and talk to their bass player, Richard Turner, for a few minutes at a recent meet-n-greet. Super-nice people.

[msaone]

Believe it or not, after playing for almost thirty years, Jaco.

Done a lot of different things this year, Mozart, Miles Davis. Been fun.

[rtav]

Flying Colors (Mike Portnoy, Dave LaRue, Neal Morse, Steve Morse)
Between the Buried and Me
Native Construct

[stratovani]

For me, it was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I joined a TP tribute band last March, and other than a couple of TP's most famous hits I didn't know much about him. Now I not only know all of his greatest hits, but a good number of his deeper cuts as well. His songs are fairly simple to play, but he always throws a curve here and there, so it keeps you on your toes.

[AtheistMuffin]

It seems like symphonic metal has risen from the ashes this year.

New bands just flooded in for me this year
Tarot, classic heavy metal
Nightwish, Symphonic power metal
Turisas, Pagan folk metal, really great stuff if you never heard it
Periphery made their second album this year

If you're into metal then it was a great year for music

[wilberthenry]

Some of my favorites this year:
Jimmie Herring-Wow!-great album and great live
Jeff Sipe Group-(with Neal Fountain or Taylor Lee-studio EP with Fountain is excellent)
Larry Keel and Natural Bridge-Classic CD
Old Crow Medicine Show (been around forever, but I just got into them)
Drive By Truckers (see above)
The Floorboards (great local band from Roanoke, VA)
Keller Williams and the Travelling McCourys-Pick CD

[toddoutloud]

Seth Walker.