So I signed up on Twitter a few months ago just to see what it was all about...and found some great bands I otherwise wouldn't have found (so quickly). Here's my current playlist thanks to Twitterama.
1. Bauer
Youtube Channel: bauerunbreakable
Official Site: Bauer
2. Mutineers
Official Site: Mutineers
3. Toy
Official Site: Toy
4. One Night Only
Youtube Channel: OneNightOnlyOnline
Official Site: One Night Only
5. Our Fold
Youtube Channel: Ourfold
Myspace: Our Fold
Soundcloud: ourfold
6. Amida
Bandcamp: Amida
7. I Dig Deneuve
Soundcloud: I Dig Deneuve
Twitter: I DIG DENEUVE
(unfortunately couldn't find any youtube vids for this band)
8. Gem and the Deadheads
Youtube Channel: Gemandthedeadheads
Official Site: Gem and the Deadheads
9. Run RIOT
Youtube Channel: RunRIOTband
Facebook: Run RIOT
10. Vascular Symphony
Youtube Channel: vascularsymphonyband
Official Site: Vascular Symphony
11. LOW LEVEL FLIGHT
Youtube Channel: lowlevelflight
Official Site: LOW LEVEL FLIGHT
12. Kodaline
Youtube Channel: Kodalinemusic
Official Site: Kodaline
13. Silvergun & Spleen
Youtube Channel: silvergunandspleen
Official Site: Silvergun & Spleen
14. Clive Barratt
Youtube Channel: Clive Barratt
Myspace: Clive Barratt
15. Stop The Blackout
Youtube Channel: stoptheblackout
Official Site: Stop The Blackout
16. The Cornerstones
Youtube Channel: THECORNERSTONESUK
Official Site: The Cornerstones
17. My Friend Eject
Myspace: My Friend Eject
Official Site: My Friend Eject
18. Only You
Youtube Channel: OnlyYouBand
Official Site: Only You
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p.s. Hey. Man about words and d.l. Misanthrope is here today to prove in his own inimitable way that the reports of alternative rock's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Please place your headphones securely in or on your ears and invigorate his carefully considered selections with your cursors and then put words to the results, thank you. And, of course, thanks among thanks to you, big M. Otherwise, one Xmas buche is now under Kiddiepunk's, Oscar B's, Yury's and my belts. A pic is on my Facebook wall, and I'll add others pix here once Yury's belt and mine and whoever else's has locked down our buche selection #2 on Xmas day. ** Misanthrope, And there you are, guest-house d.j. and tastemaker. Thank you for rocking the joint. Oh, good, ear diagnosed and being righted in a premium style. That's what we like to hear, and soon you will hear it too. Thoughtful is the way to go, yeah. Thought that gives all the faculties a shot to make their points maybe. It's way complicated. And it's hard not to be personal about it. Listen, my beloved George shot himself in the head with a gun, and if he hadn't had access to a gun and its finality, well, the rest goes without saying. ** Allesfliesst, Hey, Kai. I read about the election results in Japan, and it was very disturbing, but, of course, I hesitated to draw complex conclusions not knowing the full deal about the situation there, but your diminished enthusiasm boosts my disturbed guess-work. That's very good to know about the lessening of the expense of visiting. That's helps the daydreams go viral, and I guess I'd like to go when there's someone there whom I know and who would be up for introducing me to there a bit because I imagine my confusion, rightly or wrongly. But, yeah, you make it sound much more doable than I had thought. Thank you for that, man. As I may have said, I had a chance back in the 90s when my books were trendy there for a couple of years to go and do some promo, but I couldn't or didn't for reasons I can't remember. Thank you for offering to make the alert. It might be that we have Japan gig or two lined up for the new piece, I forget. Maybe not. I'll have to ask Gisele. Anyway, you're very kind. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. He probably got tired of being asked about surrealism's connection to memory, or he could have been marking his spot amongst his surrealist contemporaries, or ... who knows? The marriage equality march here the other day was a biggie. Legalizing gay marriage here is basically in the bag. The question is whether adoption/ procreation rights will get through. It looks like it, but, realizing that fighting the marriage thing is futile, the right and religious types are trying to fight that part of the law rather noisily. We'll see. ** xTx, Yay about that! Hey, we're both in the Metazen Xmas book, right? Shoulder bump! Yeah, I feel all right, and you? I bet you do. Are you excited about Xmas? I am, it's weird! ** Billy Lloyd, I think the noodles must have turned the tide. They're going to be my go-to cold cure from here on out. Oh, shit, I need to get my Bjork tickets. I totally spaced. I hope it's not sold out. Crap. Awesome if you get yours and can come over for that. You probably know it's happening in a circus tent on Isle St. Louis, which is really cool in and of itself. Dude, your noodles sound fresh as spring rain, and I think I'll try your recipe tonight. You do start on the piano, that's interesting. And sometimes with the lyrics in place first, huh. Interesting. Writing lyrics is such a strange process and form. To me, I mean. I've been asked to do that, and I found it way too hard. So I just give them a pre-existing poem usually and say, See if you can twist this around into lyrics or something. Very excited to hear 'Cycles', man! I'm just going to stay here in my room and walk around outside on Xmas, I think. If I hadn't been to LA so recently, I might have gone there/home and done it with my sister, nephew, et al. But, yeah, my Xmas is going to kind of barely happen and in the usual place this year. Tree decorating is sweet. I miss that part of being family-ed up. Great Tuesday! ** Scunnard, Yeah, the cool thing about being an artist asked to do lectures about your stuff is that you can fill most of the lecture time with power point and videos and stuff. When you're a writer, you have to speak the whole time, sucks. Some of my favorite artist lectures have just involved them projecting their stuff and going, 'Oh, yeah, that one wasn't too bad, was it,' and stuff like that. But I fetishize the casual and inexpressible, of course. Man, apologies for my starry eyes, but that is so cool that you got to work and collaborate on ideas with Denis. What an awesome story. Thank you for that, J. Shaken makes sense, yeah. I sense that, yeah. ** 5STRINGS, Me too, b&w ones from back when tech only involved keeping the zippers on the monster costumes away from the camera. But actual teched-up horror is great too. Horror is great. There really isn't a bad horror movie. It's kind of an impossibility. At least when you watch them at home. In theaters sometimes they can seem boring. But not at home. Home is where the horror is. I'll take your imagination's word for it re: Navarro and Ferrell 'cos, yeah, my imagination goes yuck. But I'm not into masculinity. I prefer fem if I have to choose between them. I don't really know what bromance is. I saw some thing about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's 'bromance' right before I did the p.s., so it wound up in my comment. If you don't know Gawker, you're lucky, keep it that way, I say. ** Cobaltfram, Thanks, bud. Re: 'MLT'. Good, good, about the draft done and the confirmation. Oh, really, about those two guys? That really does fundamentally change what you were planning, wow, yeah. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss, but I'm sure you'll find the way to make the new info as interesting as the total mystery would have been. My book is being very, very obstinate. No, no way in hell that I'll have the first draft done by New Years. I'll be lucky just to be back up to speed on writing the draft by then. Ugh. I just lost that pen I was telling you about. Wtf?! I need to find another one today or go to Office Dept -- they have them in France -- I guess. Not having a pen in my pocket is really scary. I have this terrible feeling that I'm going to get the best idea I've ever had between here and Office Depot and then fall and hit my head and get amnesia before I get there or something. Love, me. ** Carles, Hello, welcome to the blog, and thank you so very much for your list! And of course for including me. Amazing list. I've read some of those in English, and I wish I could read the ones I don't know, and I'm going to try to find out if there are translations. Yes, thank you again, and please come back anytime. Take care. ** Rewritedept, Hey. I'll at least scan the Danielewski with a wide open mind in the store, for sure. Gosh, thanks for passing along my book to your coworker. The company is a real honor. We've got rain here and rain in the forecast for every day from now until Xmas, so that doesn't look too good. I really disagree with you about the guns thing, but that's life. No, I wasn't going to post the year-end lists. Huh, I didn't even think about that. Probably not, though, just 'cos ... I don't know. Hope the drink made your day-off a total off day in the way you hoped. I like the author's statement thing. Weirdly or not, when I was young, and when the Beatles were extant, most of my friends liked Ringo best, which I guess says something about my friends, something nice, I think. I've never heard of 'It's Always Sunny ...'. I hardly ever watch TV, and, when I do, it's French shows that you would have never -- and will likely never -- hear of in your life. ** Steevee, Oh, cool, about 'Easy Rider'. Please report back, if you don't mind. I don't know when I'll get to see that. And I'm, of course, curious to hear what you think of the Cabin film. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Gracq is great. He really is. Oh, the Peter William Holden work does sound really cool. I'll see if I can find a video of his stuff in motion somewhere. I love kinetic work. I just put together a galerie post about Jon Kessler's kinetic sculptures, which I love. Santa was a nice guy to you. Gotta love that guy. And, speaking of nice Santa-like guys, thank you for the present. Yes! Everyone, Xmas is now in the bag because the new issue of that wonder of the zine world Yuck 'n Yum is ours for the heavily perusing thanks to the mighty efforts and link pasting abilities of our own _B_A. Go here and see everything as richly and lengthily as possible. Thank you, and you're welcome! Awesome, Ben, excited! ** Flit, Hey, pal. Got your email. I'll try to set it up today, and I'll let you know if I have any problems or anything. It looks like it will be a snap, and, not to mention, holy shit, it looks incredible! Thank you! ** Bollo, Hi, Jonathan. Wow, yeah, nice day right there. 'Envelope' is an awesome title/lure. A touch of envy is in my eyes, if you could see them. Yes, a Jean Paul Hévin buche got damaged beyond repair and bagged in the old stomach. Next, Yury and I will pick out a second one. We have a bead on one, and I'm going over to the place where it is today to get an in-person look just to be sure before we fork out the Euros. I guess it'll be a secret for now. Wish you could be here to indulge. Maybe next year we can organize a d.l. buche testing/tasting Paris tour. We really could. We really should. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Ah, you've read Gracq. Finally, a d.l. Gracq reader. It's hard to pick a fave Gracq because he really is consistently great every time, but 'Castle' is definitely up there. As is 'The Opposing Shore'. Yeah, it's pretty astounding, really, if you like his work. So, do pull it down off the shelf if you're in the mood. I've never heard of 'Wake in Fright', I don't think. Wow, it's a serious must. Okay, I'll watch that absolutely for sure. I'll look for a download or the check its DVD status. Thank you, Jeff. Sounds crazy. My writing is really tough right now, but I'm staying at it, progress or not, and hopefully it'll open back up asap. A lot of it, I think, is my fear of going back into that dark place again, but I have to. Thank you for asking. ** Alan, Hey. Oh, I see. Well, if you thought I was saying disarm the population and give the state a monopoly of violence then I guess you did misunderstand my drift, not that I was or am being super clear since I don't feel super clear about that issue. 'I was Born, But .. ' is great. Great title too. One of my favorite titles. ** Bill, Yeah, nice house, right? Dense. Hong Kong, ... so it is halfway around the world. Or maybe only a third of the way. My geography leaves much to be desired. Wow, Borneo. Now, that's very interesting. Why and what are you going to do there. That's trippy. Borneo, wow. Nice, even with the family along. I have never once found an escort based in Borneo. Or a slave. Strange. ** Un Cœur Blanc, Hi. Thank you! I'm glad Gracq interested you. Is your NYC visit continuing to go splendidly, I hope? ** Sypha, I'm glad your health is on the upswing too, man. Sweet about hitting the 400 page mark. Yeah, that's big. How is the book different now? Can you say? Totally down with the idea of you starting something as yet unknown to you next year. Excited to hear what the unknown ends up conjuring for you. ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris! Yeah, Gracq is really special. He comes out of surrealism but he ends up more in the realm of the Nouveau Roman, but what he does is neither, and it's quite unique and very rich. A kind of singular writer, somewhat akin to but not really comparable to other writers. I think you'll find rewards as a writer/deviser if you decide to read him. Or I did, obviously. Really interesting thoughts on Blake's work. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. It's something I very greatly admire about his work and his goals. I think I feel kind of in the middle like you do. On the one hand, I'm stuck with this voice that I managed to make for myself, which is a problematic voice that requires a lot of work to get legible, and I'm really interested in exploring my particular illegibility to find and use its strengths, but I have this deep need to try to be as clear as possible. I aspire to write something on the order of, say, 'Skysaw', but 'TMS' is what I ended up with when I tried, and I'm super proud of it and think it's probably the best thing I will ever write, but I can't let go of wanting to find the intersection between my shit and my idea of accessibility, and I feel like I have to work there. Blah blah, I don't think it's a weakness to aim to serve both one's own perfect master and one's idea of the mechanics of others' attention spans, but, oh, to hallucinate on paper with clarity wagging in the background like a dog's tail is such an interesting prospect. I saw your list. It's great, man! I'll pass it on. Everyone, Chris Dankland, prose magician, has posted a list of, in his words,' a lot of Alt Lit type things I liked this year', and it's both very interesting and a guide, so I highly recommend that you click this and go over and read/follow his leads. Thanks, Chris. And, on the super awesome thing, it takes one to know one, man. ** Postitbreakup, Hi, Josh! Mm, you don't think you could fiddle with what you have, move things around, change names and details and stuff, and then use the fragments as parts to build a larger narrative around? That's worked for me sometimes, and it can be interesting way to build a larger narrative without having to feel like you need to start at the beginning, you know? Connecting pre-existing dots can lead to odd, interesting formal stuff. Or maybe that's an idea. Or maybe the fragments really are very okay as a group. My novel is fighting me off, but I'm using my fingertips on it kind of like they're knives and hoping. Ha ha, there is a little 'Twin Peaks' guy in that photo. Nice day, Josh. ** Right. Get yourselves back up into Misanthrope's concert hall now and dig his festival from now until tomorrow when I will most certainly see you next.