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 - Impermanence
Sherwood & Pinch - Man vs. Sofa
Immolation - Atonement
Thundercat - Drunk
Not Recommended:
Surfer Blood - Snowdonia
Lupe Fiasco - Drogas Light
Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Acceptance - Colliding By Design
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 Your Eyez Only
Noname - Telefone
Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
The Dear Hunter - Act V
Street Sects - End Position
Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
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
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
Metallica has always been one of the most celebrated and yet divisive bands in hard rock and metal music. In this episode, we dig into the four LPs they released in the 1980s, starting with their debut, Kill Em All, and ending with ...And Justice For All.
In this podcast, we cover albums that were released in October 2016. Listen to the playlist here:
https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/30QacVauM8vnCqy5vxCzMu
Albums covered in this wrap-up include:
Phantogram - Three
Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like A Levee
Conor Oberst - Ruminations
D.D. Dumbo - Utopia Defeated
Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
Goat - Requiem
Shovels & Rope - Little Seeds
Julia Jacklin - Don't Let the Kids Win
Phish - Big Boat
Norah Jones - Day Breaks
Green Day - Revolution Radio
Kings of Leon - WALLS
The Orb - COW / Chill Out, World!
Swet Shop Boys - Cashmere
Two Door Cinema Club - Gameshow
The Early Years - II
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
C Duncan - The Midnight Sun
Jagwar Ma - Every Now & Then
The Dean Ween Group - The Deaner Album
Katie Gately - Color
Trophy Eyes - Chemical Miracle
Moby & the Void Pacific Choir - These Systems Are Failing
Syd Arthur - Apricity
NxWorries - Yes Lawd!
Pretenders - Alone
Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth
The Radio Dept. - Running out of Love
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
Lady Gaga - Joanne
American Football - American Football (LP2)
John K. Samson - Winter Wheat
Tanya Tagaq - Retribution
Frank Iero and the Patience - Parachutes
Helmet - Dead to the World
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Third World Pyramid
Marching Church - Telling It Like It Is
Alejandro Escovedo - Burn Something Beautiful
Humans are creatures of habit. We create our own rituals and traditions to look forward to, and music can play a big part of that. Aside from specific holiday music that society has pushed on us for generations, we all have music that we associate with specific seasons or times of the year that is much more personal. In this podcast, Jake and Tom share the music they come back to every spring, summer, fall, and winter, and give their stories on why.
What music do you come back to around the same time each year?
Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/5KVhzgoqiJG07O8hy9j5kF
Helms Alee - Stillicide
James Vincent McMorrow - We Move
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
Angel Olsen - MY WOMAN
Eluvium - False Readings On
Local Natives - Sunlit Youth
Jack White - Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016
Drugdealer - The End of Comedy
Teenage Fanclub - Here
Okkervil River - Away
Wilco - Schmilco
MIA - AIM
Clipping - Splendor & Misery
Preoccupations - Preoccupations
Touche Amore - Stage Four
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years
The Handsome Family - Unseen
Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me
Pixies - Head Carrier
Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
Kishi Bashi - Sonderlust
July Talk - Touch
How to Dress Well - Care
Warpaint - Heads Up
Beach Slang - A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings
Devendra Banhart - Ape In Pink Marble
Merchandise - A Corpse Wired for Sound
Flock of Dimes - If You See Me, Say Yes
Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
Grouplove - Big Mess
Banks - The Altar
Opeth - Sorceress
Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Public Access T.V. - Never Enough
Drive-By Truckers - American Band
S U R V I V E - RR7349
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/7abxk7nBZ77Hza79o3XlT4
Jake and Tom have been touched by the Boognish to create the brownest episode of Velocities In Music yet. Join them as they explore Ween's nine studio albums, from the inane absurdity to the struggling heartbreak that their music represents. It'll be a real good time, mang.
Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/2kpFNDXxf4nniaBDxUqqW2
Albums covered in this podcast:
Wye Oak - Tween
Haley Bonar - Impossible Dream
Russian Circles - Guidance
65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe (Soundtrack)
Wild Beasts - Boy King
Dinosaur Jr. - Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
Nonkeen - Oddments of the Gamble
Hieroglyphic Being - The Disco's of Imhotep
Blossoms - Blossoms
Factory Floor - 25 25
Ed Harcourt - Furnaces
Thee Oh Sees - A Weird Exits
Lydia Loveless - Real
Horseback - Dead Ringers
The Moles - Tonight's Music
Young the Giant - Home of the Strange
Of Montreal - Innocence Reaches
Black Foxxes - I'm Not Well
Bayside - Vacancy
Lisa Hannigan - At Swim
Gonjasufi - Callus
Cass McCombs - Mangy Love
De La Soul - And the Anonymous Nobody
Crystal Castles - Amnesty (I)
Britney Spears - Glory
The Album Leaf - Between Waves
Glass Animals - How to Be a Human Being
Today, Sunny Day Real Estate may be considered a staple in the emo genre, but what they accomplished during their relatively short time as a band spans far beyond the confines of that genre. In this deep-dive, we discuss the band's successes and shortcomings, and what makes them one of today's most influential yet underappreciated bands.
Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/04FgMPfmA7VGpJtHobDRj0
Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/3hVnxbxLt8DwSjoVxkaTdB
Albums covered in this wrap-up:
Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night
Metronomy - Summer 08
Blink-182 - California
Bat for Lashes - The Bride
GOGGS - GOGGS
The Avalanches - Wildflower
Junius Meyvant - Floating Harmonies
Aphex Twin - Cheetah (EP)
Ian William Craig - Centres
BadBadNotGood - IV
Shura - Nothing's Real
The Julie Ruin - Hit Reset
Snoop Dogg - Coolaid
Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
Schoolboy Q - Blank Face LP
Omni - Deluxe
Big Business - Command Your Weather
Clams Casino - 32 Levels
Amanda Palmer - You Got Me Singing
Chevelle - The North Corridor
Rhyton - Redshift
Elysia Crampton - Demon City
Viola Beach - Viola Beach
Billy Talent - Afraid of Heights
Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate
Owen - The King of Whys
Nao - For All We Know
We're joined this episode by Joe Vickers, drummer and founding member of Caspian. Joe takes us through Caspian's songwriting and album-crafting process, along with his thoughts on the post-rock genre, touring, and Pokémon Go.
Be sure to check Caspian's touring schedule to see if they're coming to a city near you this summer or fall: https://www.facebook.com/CaspianTheBand/events
Today in 2016, for all practical purposes, music is free. But should it be? As technology has evolved and music has become more easily accessible to the masses, it has drastically changed the way people listen to music, as well as the way artists write and release music. In this episode, we explore the pros and cons of these changes and how the cost associated with music has gotten to where it is now.
Spotify playlist of all included song clips: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/269DlAU2eCH5SuSSrtesEM
Albums covered in this podcast:
Melvins - Basses Loaded
The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Monolith of Phobos
William Tyler - Modern Country
Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger
Moonface - My Best Human Face
Amber Arcades - Fading Lines
Cat's Eyes - Treasure House
The Kills - Ash & Ice
Tegan and Sara - Love You To Death
The Strokes - Future Present Past (EP)
Sumac - What One Becomes
Dan Lissvik - Midnight
Band of Horses - Why Are You OK?
Brandy Clark - Big Day In a Small Town
Diarrhea Planet - Turn to Gold
Peter Bjorn and John - Breakin' Point
Garbage - Strange Little Birds
Swans - The Glowing Man
The Low Anthem - Eyeland
Mitski - Puberty 2
The Invisible - Patience
Gemma Ray - The Exodus Suite
case/lang/veirs - case/lang/veirs
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
Lone - Levitate
Gojira - Magma
YG - Still Brazy
NAILS - You Will Never Be One of Us
Hot Hot Heat - Hot Hot Heat
Christian Fennesz - It's Hard for Me to Say I'm Sorry
DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall
The Avett Brothers - True Sadness
Deerhoof - The Magic
Broods - Conscious
Blood Orange - Freetown Sound