What music did you discover this year?

[zachoff]

Forgot about all the damn country I started listening to this year. It's my new "seriously, how the hell did that happen?" moment in life.

Hated country music all my life but I'll be damned if it didn't hit me this year. John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Ryan Bingham, Robert Earle Keen, Willie, Waylon... Crazy, really. I never thought I'd like country but this stuff really hits home.

[Ben Rose]

Originally Posted by toddoutloud

Seth Walker.

+1. Saw him open for Raul Malo. I am now a fan.

[basskidd]

Anouar Brahem, Benedikt Jahnel Trio (and many others from the ECM catalog ), James Kline, Sunn O))), Spiral Architect, Deep Listening Band... Been looking into some new stuff this year haha

[1SHOT1HIT]

I feel like I kinda just found music all over again.

Never played bass, never really cared about bass, never really gave bass so much as a short thought at any point in my life.

Then the pink bass find happened, and over the next two months I finally decided to try it out.

I'm now hooked on EVERYTHING bass, it really sparked my interest in music back to full force, and has allowed me to explore songs I've known for years in an entirely different way.
Finding that bass was by far the best thing of this year that is for sure. Not just because it's a great score, or an awesome sounding bass but, because it's been so much fun learning to play it these past 8 or 9 months.

[Munjibunga]

The Walk - Meyer Hawthorne
Mister Would You Please Help My Pony - Ween

[precijazz]

Via TB:
The Mother Hips
Snarky Puppy

[wiro]

... preparing an audition I rediscoverd the fusion I was into about thirty years ago.
Aaaaahhhh, so beautifull. Feels like coming home:

Pat Metheny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3rjNHDi6Fg

Chick Corea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KfwqHrX4R0

Marcus Miller tributing Miles Davis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2J9yxpSjI

Yes, from the Beatles but now re-arranged:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCC6W2cRj1Y

The beautifull 'A remark that you made' from Joe Zawinul sung by Al Jarreau:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTu6NCFrOvc

to mention just a few I'm preparing and I love it!

[nutso42]

I got heavily into the 'West London Folk' movement this year. Not much exposure in the U.S. but some of the bands are

Mumford & Sons (the best known)
Laura Marling
Mystery Jets
The Maccabees
Pete Roe
Noah and the Whale
Johnny Flynn

Also from watching "Big Easy Express" I was introduced Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show.

Others this year were Black Keys, Regina Spektor, Florence + the Machine, the Naked and Famous, and Syd Barrett

[hieronymous]

Originally Posted by 1SHOT1HIT

I feel like I kinda just found music all over again.

Never played bass, never really cared about bass, never really gave bass so much as a short thought at any point in my life.

Then the pink bass find happened, and over the next two months I finally decided to try it out.

I'm now hooked on EVERYTHING bass, it really sparked my interest in music back to full force, and has allowed me to explore songs I've known for years in an entirely different way.
Finding that bass was by far the best thing of this year that is for sure. Not just because it's a great score, or an awesome sounding bass but, because it's been so much fun learning to play it these past 8 or 9 months.

That's cool! You've tapped into the spirit!

[1SHOT1HIT]

Originally Posted by hieronymous

That's cool! You've tapped into the spirit!

In a major way too, I've definitely been bitten by this bass bug, and wouldn't have it any other way.

Met some really awesome people here in the forum community, BEYOND glad to be a part of it.
Had some ever better debates here and there, learned SO SO MUCH that I otherwise would never have known (thanks to everyone here)
And yes, again, every piece of music I ever heard is being heard all over again like it never happened the first time.

[amablkm]

Band from Sweden called Dirty Loops. No album yet. All on YouTube. Phenomenal bass player.
http://youtu.be/KjVGJ3YFDc8

[TheFenderBender]

The groove juice symphony

Mommy's little monster album by social distortion (love their self titled album)

izzy stradlin's shuffle it all

that's about it I beleive.

[Depth_Charge]

Originally Posted by Ben Rose

So what new bands or albums did you discover this year?

The Flobots.

[BassDoc51]

Marty Stuart
Destruction
Municipal Waste
Tankard