***Alt Music Thread***

LetTigerIn said:
One of my all-time favorite shows was Los Lobos, Fishbone and Tom Waits. Fishbone came out during Waits' encore to do Temptation. So good.
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F'in-A, that's a helluva lineup.

I saw Fishbone play at Crenshaw high school gymnasium a long ass time ago. It was like Fishbone turned to 11.
 
LetTigerIn said:
These seem pretty soundly bluegrass. Granted, I'm not exactly sure how bluegrass is defined, so if I'm wrong, someone could explain that to me.
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Don't particularly care for this video but love the fact that all the vox is the bald guy. And hunky hair guy takes all the cred. So funny yet kind of sad.
 
LetTigerIn said:
These seem pretty soundly bluegrass. Granted, I'm not exactly sure how bluegrass is defined, so if I'm wrong, someone could explain that to me.
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Well, the Dead South definitely has elements of bluegrass, the banjo being the most obvious. They also include elements of rock, folk, roots, folk and blues in their music. Nathaniel Rateliff, on the other hand, doesn't sound anything like bluegrass, really. Soul, blues, R&B, rock, yes. I wouldn't call them bluegrass at all. But, really, there's a lot of cross-pollination in most, if not all, styles of American music. It is often difficult to put something solidly in one category. You can say that punk has its roots in gospel music, and you really wouldn't be wrong.

I mean, this has a banjo, an accordion and a bunch of crazy Finns including a guy playing an anvil with a wrench. You wanna tell me exactly which category this belongs to?

 
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Since we seem to be heading down south...

Alt southern psychobilly...
 
Alt banjo...(in all seriousness, one of my all-time favorite songs and they kill it live)
 
Alt John Woo... (I probably posted this in the punk one, but it's too damn cool not to share again)
 
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