Velocities In Music

Listen to the Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/6wdn1EQtwVtrA7aFjYCTgB Featured Albums: Forest Swords - Compassion (2:05) Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog (3:51) Perfume Genius - No Shape (7:03) Slowdive - Slowdive (8:34) The Afghan Whigs - In Spades (10:20) Oxbow - Thin Black Duke (12:21) At the Drive-In - Interalia (13:55) Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions (17:27) Honorable Mentions: Logic - Everybody (19:11) Juana Molina - Halo (20:39) Moon Duo - Occult Architecture, Vol.2 (21:37) Blondie - Pollinator (22:04) John Moreland - Big Bad Luv (22:51) Harry Styles - Harry Styles (23:17) Pwr Bttm - Pageant (24:26) Jim Jones & the Righteous Mind - Super Natural (25:16) Paul Weller - A Kind Revolution (25:58) Girlpool - Powerplant (26:38) The Mountain Goats - Goths (27:14) Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology (28:04) Don Bryant - Don't Give Up on Love (28:42) Paramore - After Laughter (29:15) Sun Kil Moon & Jesu - 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth (29:49) Pumarosa - The

Spoon has been a seminal indie/alternative rock band through the 2000s, with history going back to the early and mid 90s. In this podcast, we cover Spoon's most recent five albums, rank all nine albums, and discuss where we'd like to see the band go next. Best of Spoon Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/7EkcvHhVV4ZNGvv89N9sl2

Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/6uT1oe0dU6Oy5UidtchJrW Featured Albums: Father John Misty - Pure Comedy (2:06) Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (27:57) Gorillaz - Humanz (32:47) The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions (41:14) Feist - Pleasure (43:25) Honorable Mention: Arca - Arca (46:12) Wire - Silver/Lead (47:19) Guided By Voices - August By Cake (48:22) Joey Bada$$ - All Amerikkkan Bada$$ (49:07) Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar (50:10) Andrew Combs - Canyons of My Mind (50:45) Yorkston/Thorne/Khan - Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars (51:19) Future Islands - The Far Field (52:07) Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock (52:57) Fionn Regan - The Meetings of the Waters (54:11) Woods - Love Is Love (55:16) Actress - AZD (55:50) Maximo Park - Risk to Exist (56:25) Timber Timbre - Sincerely, Future Pollution (57:19) The Black Angels - Death Song (58:47) Charly Bliss - Guppy (59:18) Tara Jane O'Neil - Tara Jane O'Neil (1:00:26) Little Cub - Still Life (1:00:58) Willie Nelso

Spoon has been a seminal indie/alternative rock band through the 2000s, with history going back to the early and mid 90s. In this podcast, we follow Spoon through their formation and up to their 4th LP, Kill the Moonlight. Best of Spoon Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/7EkcvHhVV4ZNGvv89N9sl2

On this podcast, Jake and Tom discuss the albums they purchased on their last few vinyl-buying excursions.

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/50GI8eRZ5eRxF4ResrCpjK Featured Albums: Grandaddy - Last Place (1:59) The Shins - Heartworms (3:11) Jay Som - Everybody Works (5:12) Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me (6:44) Laura Marling - Semper Femina (9:38) Spoon - Hot Thoughts (11:19) Mastodon - Emperor of Sand (12:12) Desperate Journalist - Grow Up (16:47) Tennis - Yours Conditionally (18:10) Honorable Mentions: Temples - Volcano (19:53) Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai (20:36) Why? - Moh Lhean (21:15) Nadia Reid - Preservation (2:13) Blanck Mass - World Eater (22:55) Sondre Lerche - Pleasure (23:43) Chicano Batman - Freedom is Free (24:12) Spectres - Condition (24:54) Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator (25:31) Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir (26:02) Valerie June - The Order of Time (27:01) Depeche Mode - Spirit (27:45) Idles - Brutalism (28:49) Obituary - Obituary (29:16) Pulled Apart by Horses - The Haze (30:03) Sorority Noise - You're Not As ___ As You Think (30:36) The Bug &

Velocities In Music started at the beginning of 2010, and since then we've had the privilege of witnessing the release of some monumental albums. In this podcast, we highlight our top 20 albums of the decade so far. Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/41qlohpNu8qObXNg9hcMnw Full List: http://www.velocitiesinmusic.com/lists/best-albums-of-the-decade-so-far/

On this show, we talk a lot about ways of discovering new music. One way that we discover new music is through Music Leagues: friendly, competitive events where everyone playing submits a song and votes for the other songs that they liked. If this sounds like something you and your friends (or coworkers) would enjoy, take a look at our example documents and start a Music League of your own: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxPjHMrv-jexdVBKVnpzWnlqNE0

Listen to the playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/1xzK543YVcqiMbBODahmgP Featured Albums: Elbow - Little Fictions Sampha - Process Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now Lowly - Heba Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors Ryan Adams - Prisoner Sun Kil Moon - Common as Light and Love are Red Valleys of Blood Honorable Mentions: The Menzingers - After the Party Eliza Carthy - Big Machine Moon Duo - Occult Architecture, Vol.1 Duke Garwood - Garden of Ashes Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Backlash The Sadies - Northern Passages Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins Tinariwen - Elwan Noveller - A Pink Sunset for No One Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana Crystal Fairy - Crystal Fairy The Feelies - In Between Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Tourist Lawrence English - Cruel Optimism Molly Burch - Please Be Mine Moire - No Future The Necks - Unfold Xiu Xiu - Forget PVT - New Spirit Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon Peter Silberman - Imper

As music in the latter half of the 90s drifted away from the Britpop style Blur had helped popularize, the band shifted into a noisier and more aggressive style of music. In this episode, we cover Blur's 1997 self-titled album through 2015's The Magic Whip, a period filled with inner conflict, departures, reunions, and transformations from a band who never seemed comfortable doing the same thing twice.

Starting as a young band in London in the late 80s and early 90s, Blur rose to fame in a few short years and helped the Britpop movement reach its peak. In the first episode of this two-part series, we cover their first four albums: Leisure, Modern Life is Rubbish, Parklife, and The Great Escape.

Listen to the songs featured in this episode here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/2333pXtn664J7VXlysgsC1 Featured Albums: Bonobo - Migration The xx - I See You The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody Foxygen - Hang Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in This Town Honorable Mentions: Sohn - Rennen Code Orange - Forever Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day Throwing Snow - Embers William Basinski - A Shadow In Time Michael Chapman - 50 Tycho - Epoch The Proper Ornaments - Foxhole Ronika - Lose My Cool Gabriel Garzon-Montano - Jardin Emptyset - Borders Tift Merritt - Stitch of the World Sacred Paws - Strike a Match Piano Magic - Closure Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness Not Recommended: Sundara Karma - Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect AFI - AFI (The Blood Album) Mark Eitzel - Hey Mr Ferryman

It's official--Jake finally got a record player. In this podcast, we go through the records we bought on Jake's maiden record-shopping voyage. 

Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/1QcB6L0iHx5DskJfkvFkED In this podcast we recommend albums from 2016 that we didn't include in a monthly wrap-up throughout the year. Albums included are: Featured Albums: Beyonce - Lemonade Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner The Amazing - Ambulance Frank Ocean - Blonde Ka - Honor Killed the Samurai Solange - A Seat At the Table Childish Gambino - "Awaken, My Love!" Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3 Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat Honorable Mentions: Rihanna - Anti Basement - Promise Everything Matmos - Ultimate Care II Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Leaves Lucius - Good Grief Gnod - Mirror Autolux - Pussy's Dead The Hotelier - Goodness Vektor - Terminal Redux Little Scream - Cult Following Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life Nicolas Jaar - Sirens Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason The Rolling Stones - Blue and Lonesome Nine Inch Nails - Not the Actual Events (EP) J. Cole - 4 Yo

2016 may have been an even better year for songs than it was for albums. We listened to thousands of tracks throughout the year, and in this podcast we cover the 30 of them that impacted us the most. Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/6e3mK7YoGU7drMJ2ShaWpC

In this podcast we cover our 20 favorite albums of 2016. See our top 70 list here: http://www.velocitiesinmusic.com/lists/top-albums-2016/

In the third and final installment of our Metallica deep-dive, we explore the music the band has put out since the year 2000, as well as where we would like to see Metallica go in the future. Albums covered include: - St. Anger - Death Magnetic - Lulu (with Lou Reed) - Hardwired... To Self Destruct

In the second installment of our Metallica deep-dive, we follow the band into the 1990s, where they polish their sound further, achieve massive mainstream success, and continue to change their style. Albums include Metallica (Black Album), Load, Reload, Garage Inc, and S&M.

We're joined in this episode by Emily and Dan from Cross Record, who share insights on their songwriting and recording process, what it's like to perform as a duo, and the future of their band. If you haven't, be sure to check out their new album, Wabi Sabi: https://open.spotify.com/album/4NtiklQ1pE4FHngLr5pKw8 http://www.crossrecord.com/

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/3kGURT4gOQ5ZJ2xNzCNBv7 Not Recommended: Justice - Woman Bruno Mars - 24K Magic The Weeknd - Starboy Featured Albums: Lambchop - FLOTUS Jim James - Eternally Even Common - Black America Again Sleigh Bells - Jessica Rabbit Loscil - Monument Builders A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service Honorable Mentions: Shirley Collins - Lodestar American Wrestlers - Goodbye Terrible Youth Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions - Until the Hunter STRFKR - Being No One, Going Nowhere Alicia Keys - Here Martha Wainwright - Goodnight City Romare - Love Songs, Pt. 2 Emeli Sande - Long Live the Angels Sad13 - Slugger Animals as Leaders - The Madness of Many Wolf People - Ruins Daniel Bachman - Daniel Bachman