I've been listening to an awful lot of Amorphis lately. They're excellent. Melodic Death mixed with folk music dashed with some rock. They actually put out a professional music video for the title track of last year's album, "Silent Waters," which I will now embed:
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A band that the prog-power fans here should really dig is Cloudscape. I discovered them months ago; they're like Evergrey... but better. Embedded is a promotional video for the song "Demon Tears" off of the 2006 album "Crimson Skies."

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Of course, if you haven't checked out the band and album that's been in my avatar for the past 5 months, then you really should. Here is the music video (just a bunch of CGI nonesense, the song is the important thing) for the song "Beneath the Waves," from the album "01011001." Prepare to be blown away by the bad-ass singers (Jorn Lande, Daniel Gildenlow, Hansi Kursch, Steve Lee, just to name a few).

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Really enjoying Spiritualized - Songs in A&E.
You wouldn't think such depressing fare could soar.
Reminiscent of Billy Bragg, Damien Rice, taking cues from The Band at times, and early Stones at others, shades of ballady Radiohead when the feedback or mellotron makes an appearance.

I just listened to a few of their songs on imeem.com. I like I Gotta Fire, Sitting on Fire, Sweet Talk, and Death Take Your Fiddle.

Thanks Mr. Dole!

Vedera fans in KC: A chance to catch them live. Saturday July 12th at the Beaumont Club. Queen's Club and Roman Numerals are opening for them.

4 of their new songs can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/vedera

Epic will be releasing the full cd soon. Three of the new songs are available on iTunes.

Take your women to this show. Woman are always very romantic after hearing Vedera! (That's my new marketing scheme.....):thumb:

70s Italian Giallo Horror influenced prog

Anima Morte - Face The Sea of Darkness

http://www.myspace.com/animamorte

I broke down and bought the Vampire Weekend CD, and I'm loving it. I'd heard some songs off of it before, but the album stands up in its entirety.

Also listening to Panda Bear's album "Person Pitch", one of the geniuses behind Animal Collective. Good stuff.

Got Tom Petty's "side project" Mudcrutch as well. I'm digging it. Definitely a little different side of Petty.

Currently playing Jay-Z's "American Gangster." Solid stuff from the jiggaman as always.

Finally Steve Earle's "Washington Square," is probably one of his more solid albums to put out in a while.

Didn't know if you knew but Mudcrutch was the name of Petty's first band and if you're a big fan I strongly suggest checking out the documentary by Peter Bogdonavich called Runnin' Down A Dream,it's a full 4 hours and 2 thumbs way up.

I also have the new project Mudcrutch and am absolutely diggin' it as well.

You know, I was really pretty dissapointed by this cd. I think my primary complaints are first, there are far too many vocalists and no one really gets a chance to stand out much, and two: lyrically.. it just sucks. I've never been a big fan of his lyrics but this cd presented me with a lot of "I can't believe he/she actually just said that" moments.

i recently came across a hip-hop/electronica group that i'm diggin

Hyper crush - robo tech

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here's their myspace page

http://www.myspace.com/hypercrush

A now defunct band called "Fissure" <-- their album rules....

Progressive/Rock

RIYL: Tool, Rishloo, Proto, Portal, Staind, Cold, APC,


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did anyone mention Airbourne yet?

I love Amorphis as well,Silent Waters is a freat album as was Eclipse.

I love Amorphis as well,Silent Waters is a great album as was Eclipse.