#jambands

[mokiawa]

[pedaloftheday]

Almost 20 Years since I saw @moetheband at @the_orange_peel…tonight is my 28th show, what will they play?? So excited to hear Nate with the band, and of course to see Chuck back in action🤘🍊 32 Things? Brent Black? Buster? Meat? Awesome Gary? Wind It Up? She? lylelovit? Bullet? Spaz Med? Can’t wait to see some #moerons in Asheville!!!! Cheers!!! (❤️ ya @mjb1004) #moe #moetheband #orangepeel #theorangepeel #jamband #jambands #livemusic #asheville #ashevillenc https://www.instagram.com/p/CqI-hhcg6pl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[posterdrops]

Reposted @gilfaloartdesign Huge thanks to @dogsinapileband for the opportunity to create this linocut print for their stop at @martyrslive in Chicago. We had so much fun making this. Can’t wait to jam with you guys tonight. See you soon Chicago #dogpound🐶 #gigprint #posterartist #linocutprint #bentstrange #bloom #linocut #dogsinapile #jambands #bandprints #posterdrops (at Martyrs') https://www.instagram.com/p/CpYnramJ9FB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[don-lichterman]

On The Rampage, Ransomware, Grateful Dead Genre of Music, JamBands, Live Nation, Editing Songs, Snap Chat, Fentanyl & Challenge Finals Begin, more....

[rjm773]

I don’t exactly know where I stand on anything going into something like God’s 2023rd birthday, and it pains me to again start like this. But I *must* start like this: if God exists, and They were checking out the millennium from a distance for Their own amusement, I have to think the time during which Trey Anastasio decided Phish would play “Sand” was among the favorites. This is probably the peak of cow funk insofar as it existed on its own as a genre, and maybe the all-time peak of Phish as a tightly controlled, undeterred band. It might’ve undone them, at least initially; that’s not strictly attributable to “Sand,” but the subsequent and, to date, only official performance of “Quadrophonic Toppling” could leave awe-struck minds scrambling. Rarely has anyone approached this level of sophistication, moxie and talent combined: we’re talking Messi at the World Cup (already); we’re talking Jimi with the Band of Gypsies, or Coltrane in Miles’ band, or Earl The Pearl with the ‘72-73 Knicks: the perfect fit. I’d said during the final on Sunday that I hadn’t seen God’s face, that I knew of, but I’d seen His left foot: it belonged to Messi. The rest of the angels sang in unison. That very feeling from last Sunday strikes Trey from 23 years ago; you can(‘t) see it in his eyes. Maybe Messi listens to funk; I doubt it, but maybe he does. In any case, the man knows how to dance. Trey has trampolines for that. He also has his guitar.

[valentinobaos]

A.L.M.A

[vocalsynthbdays]

happy birthday Tsutsumi Kanon (supporting character jamband member) !!!!!! [7 nov] !!!!!!

(kanon in Music Maker MX2)

Tsutsumi Kanon is a member of JamBAND, the band that tsurumaki maki is part of (little more about jamband on jul 11 post). kanon does not have a vb as far as im aware, but she is voiced by Himari in jamband products/ software. kanon is illustrated by Umetani Ataro. i assume kanon was introduced in 2010, as her 10th anniversary art was uploaded to the voiceroid fandom wiki in 2020 and i cant find anything else to go off of. kanon is the tallest of all the jamband members. her character birthday is nov 7. she sometimes says self-deprecating things. she is Tsutsumi Rizumu's younger sister.

10th anniversary art

[funkygroovejam]

8/4/24, Madison Square Garden, for Phish. Occasionally, I wear my cardiophile shirt. It shows my interest in hearts.

[digitaltourbus]

The Disco Biscuits' Jon "The Barber" Gutwillig shows off all of the guitar gear that he uses on stage! Watch the video at https://bit.ly/3YMIm7o

[playsdeadband]

November 19 - Live at The Emmet Ray

Join us in Toronto at The Emmet Ray!

Tuesday November 19 9:00pm

924 College St

Reserve a seat by emailing reso@erbar.ca and get $5 off the cover charge!

[therealmattnappo]

The Grateful Dead - A Long Strange Trip #shorts

[frvescent]

“WAGE PEACE”

[plungermusic]

Fuck me, Fuck The Algorithm is fucking fucked-up …

… in a fucking good way, obviously. 

Eclectic is an over used term in music reviews: usually merely indicating that a country/Americana act strays occasionally into CSNY territory, or a blues outfit manage at least once to leaven their relentless Chicago dumpa-dumpa-dumpa-dumpa with a splash of NOLA syncopation … 

And there’s nothing wrong with either of those, but in the eight tracks of manic, maniacal, genre-mangling mash-ups of Fuck The Algorithm Mango Thomas redefines ‘eclectic’ as an ADHD chameleon on acid in a kaleidoscope during a laser-strobe light-show.

The opening track alone, Pjunkle, careens between a blizzard of high-speed machine drum, guitar and incandescently furious growled vox, and Eastern-spiced spacey electronica interlaced with lithe bass lines, burbling synths and melodic harmonised guitar… via a metal-cum-drum’n’bass maelstrom. Oh yeah, plus a closing ferocious excoriation of the www.

Musically that pretty much sets the template (of there being no template) for what comes after: a relentlessly-grinding deconstructed boogie opens Punk Bitch, breaking down to a beats-and-Parklife-on-steroids rap interspersed with fusiony guitar squiggles and playfully venomous music-hall psychedelia; a surprisingly stonery laid-back late-night jazz passage from electric piano and loose-limbed drums gives way first to minimalist jamband death metal twin-guitar lines, then a double-speed pogoing anthem, before a hanging close reprise of the ‘stoner jazz’ piano… 

Hypnotically deep trancefloor bass, bubbling marimba-like accents and textured string synths underpin the increasingly urgent mantra of Whaddya Want, which canters (via some nice 80s samples and a Moroderesque hook) into a wall of melodic prog-fusion guitar and tricksy timings, ending in a staccato, punchy dead-stop.

Headlock almost convinces you it’s just the one thing: the complex percussive techno banger runs nearly half its 4-plus minutes with no more quirks beyond a bit of rapping and an occasional (very accomplished) noodling fretless bass… until that bass line returns in a full-on rendition augmented with guitar and increasingly abandoned multi-voice wordless “Na, na, na-na”s sounding like a terrace-chant Bond theme, rising to a wild peak.

As with Mango Thomas Goes De.EP his previous release, Fuck The Algorithm includes a trio of mini-tracks: Did You Mean’s spoken voice/SFX humorous rant against the Siri-tyranny of patronising suggestions; #fuckthealgorithm, a reprise of the polemic from Pjunkle set over a rather Hawkindish interstellar overdrive start-up; and Frosty Mornings, which actually does stick to its single groove of smoothly-swaying soully electric piano, heartbeat pulse rhythms and lush synth strings (although the swirling modulation, panning and phasing add an unexpected off-kilter spacey edge).

By seven tracks in, we’re all Mango Thomas veterans now, so Algorithms’ light and airy acoustic picking and mellow folky troubadour vox-led ‘love song’ aren’t fooling anybody… sure enough, the expected Oi-meets-Nu-Metal explosion of syn-drum and gutsy guitar heralds a blokey belted-out “We’re all algorithms” denunciation of the foregoing syrupy delusions, topped with very Frippish atonal guitar and a deconstructed brassy jazz-funk finale.

Now, this might all sound like a recipe for disaster, or at least a cacophonous dog’s dinner, and in the hands of someone less adept it could well be... but Mango Thomas pulls the feat off with considerable aplomb. Fuck The Algorithm is one of a handful of home-grown albums that has had me grooving and grinning simultaneously and, even more rare, laughing out loud at its invention, audacity and sheer joyous insanity. It’s fucking brilliant!

Oh yeah, almost forgot…

*****PARENTAL GUIDANCE*****

... both for the album and this review!

First single Pjunkle will be available to stream from 9th February 2024 (with subsequent releases following every 2 months) - click here for links to pre-save singles, buy the album, merch, and much more: https://linktr.ee/mangothomasmusic/