I have a new favorite band - The Slumber Party... what's yours?

[devilgrrl]

My new favorite band is The Slumber Party, they're from Dee-troit.



What are your new favorite discoveries? Let's hear it.

[taterguy]

1. Bare Jr

Not a new band but I've plucked their CD Brainwasher from my dusty shelves and have been digging it all day. Gasoline Listerine, pure power pop bliss, wrapped in a country legacy exterior: "The skeletons hid in my closet have offended me. I am boring and useless my skeletons are fabulously unique"

[devilgrrl]

2. Have you heard of pandora.com?

http://pandora.com/

It's this radio service that tries to turn you onto music similar to what you already like. So far I've picked up CDs of two bands I was turned onto via pandora. One was the Slumber Party and the other was the Flamin' Groovies, there was another one but I forgot to write down their name :blush:. Neither band is new, the Flamin' Groovies have been around forever but there are few resources to hear obscure music on regular radio I would have never heard them otherwise.

[taterguy]

5. I love pandora

Play with the menu. It's got a bookmark feature so with one click you can remember bands you like. It also lets you type in a friend's email address and see what they've been listening to. I also love my Rio Karma 20 gig MP3 player. A few presses of a button and presto: I'm listening to the only Flamin' Groovies song in my collection: Shake Some Action. Ain't technology grand?

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Right now

it's these two.




http://www.thedittybops.com/

[devilgrrl]

4. Hey they sound good...

just bookmarked them :-)

[Ariana Celeste]

6. Blind Melon.

http://www.blindmelon.org/

Here's a video for their song "Change":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAj5ejxZk1k

:hi:

[mvd]

7. My favorite discoveries from 2005 and 2006 include..

Discovered in 2006 -

Camera Obscura
Damone
The Wreckers
Margot & Nuclear So & So
Susan Cagle
Some Girls
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Ingrid Michaelson
Regina Spektor
Broken Social Scene
Holly Brook
Gomez
Muse
Wussy
Cheyenne Kimball
Dirtie Blonde
The Pierces
Stars
Rainer Maria
The Essex Green

And likely these (CDs aren't out yet or haven't bought yet) - Joanna, Sandi Thom, Voigst, The Weepies, Mojave 3, The Cottars, Hem..)

Discovered in 2005 -

Josh Ritter
Stacie Rose
The Like
Hope 7
Sufjan Stevens
Anna Nalick
Leslie Mills
Annie
The Veronicas
Julie Gribble
Miranda Lambert
The Faders
Brandi Carlile
Eisley
Brie Larson
Decemberists
Martha Wainwright
Katharine Schell
Mary Gauthier
Aslyn
Franz Ferdinand
Saving Jane
Hope Partlow
Teenage Fanclub
Rogue Wave
Jerra
Courtney Jaye
Amy Rigby
Go-Betweens
My Morning Jacket

My favorite discovery? That changes. Today, I listened to Camera Obscura and Plumb, another love that I discovered earlier. Still have to get Plumb's Chaotic Resolve.

I think I'll raise Let's Get Out of This Country to an A+ CD.