Pandabear

Industrial horrocore with well thought out lyrics. These guys are the new Marilyn Manson. 

Motionless In White - America

I want Mat's boots.

Bullet For My Valentine - Riot

Excited. Can't wait to hear what the end product will actually sound like. 

Haven't made an account there yet, but I have just finished downloading a new album release from there. I'm using chrome and it got stuck at 93%, refreshed the page and the second time it downloaded without a hitch. it just started up again so bugs are expected. 

These guys rock my face off.

Intervals - Mata Hari

A thread for discussing smartphones. Why you love or hate the ones you own and the ones you wish you had. 

I'm late to the band wagon and want to get my first phone. Haven't even owned a cellphone before, but I've realized it would make my life easier if I did have one. Can anyone recommend me a good one? I don't want an Iphone. Too expensive. Perferably something under $200. I probably won't receive or make calls on it that much.  But I will probably do a moderate amount of web surfing. 

Discovered tons of new awesome bands and artists, but I'll name only my top 3.
 
I See Stars - A young band pioneering the popular electronicore style.They have the heaviness, the catchy choruses and danceable beats. I've seen them live and they are awesome. They have mesmerizing light shows with energetic dubsteps interludes between songs.
 
I See Stars - Electric Forest ( Feat Cassedee Pope)

 
Intervals - An extraordinary talented band from Canada. They play instrumental progressive technical metal with djenty chugs and glitchy sampling. They're music and playing is phenomenal. I haven't been blown away by the sheer technical musicianship of a band since I discovered Animals As Leaders.
 
Interavls - Tapestry

 
The Haarp Machine - Technical Progressive metal with middle eastern instruments like the sitar. They're technical, fast, brutal and beautiful. Awesome metal.
 
The Haarp Machine - Extension To One

I like all of them. There have been great films and stories for all of them, just as  there have been lots of bad ones. They're all cool and fascinating, but yeah, Twilight and True Blood seemed to have ruined werewolves and vampires for most people. I'm waiting for the day when a well written story or film does justice to the deadly vampire or werewolf of yesteryear. 

I'm going for zombies for now. Loved them way before they became as mainstream as they are right now.

Bring Me The Horizon - Shadow Moses. New BMTH 

They've announced a new album in May and a new single in March on their facebook. They've stated said the new album is heavier and is suppose to be like a modern Short Bus.  They also said it's more electronic. Maybe it has something do with Johnny Radtke of Kill Hannah now being in the band. Either way, I'm excited for this.

Psycho-Pass.

About a police force in dark futurestic dsyotpia with action, gore, sci-fi and intelligent writing.  Production I.G with music by Yuugo Kanno = Instant win

Read the title and thought this was a thread of dangerous books because of the taboo subjects they were about or the impact they had on people and society. 

I was wrong.

The books do look beautiful, but what's the point if you can't read them without inhaling deadly lead or jagged gold particles.

Recently acquired a red vintage telecaster to my guitar collection for free. Electronics need fixing but I'm thinking of using it for some shoegazing. And now that I'm writing some shoegaze stuff and perhaps starting a band( if I can find people who want to shoegaze where I live) I started eyeing gear.

Want a Yamaha Spx90 processor. Used by My Bloody Valentine and tons of other shoegaze bands.

TC Helicon Reverb pedal for vocals

Wanna run my guitar out of this little power house tube amp. A Bugera V5 5W 1x8

Need a Flashback x4 delay for seas of analog and tape delays.

Going to wet everything in this awesome Holy Grail Reverb plus pedal.

And a Dirty Rat pedal for tons of fuzz.

And if I ever can, I want this 1964 Gibsom Es300 with tremelo arm.

Tamaryn - Heavenly Bodies.

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I'm seeing this guys again in February. Can't wait.

^ Yeah I thought the same thing when I first saw it. The exploration gave me the Mirror's Edge feel and the futuristic dystopian setting with a cybernetic lead character total reminded me of Deus Ex. I love both of those games, and I'm still waiting for the day when Mirror's Edge 2 is announced, until then, I have this to look forward to.

^ Hmmm, how about Versailles? They have some gothic symphonic thing going on. I don't really know much else besides the ones you've mentioned. Actually I'd be interested in hearing some Japanese metal with some classical influences if anyone comes across any.

That's pretty sick. At first I thought, maybe some accomplished piano players could play this, but then sheer craziness followed and its obvious this wasn't meant to be played by a human.

Remember Me is an upcoming video game, developed by Dontnod Entertainment and published by Capcom, to be released in May 2013 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows.

The player controls Nilin (voiced by Kezia Burrows, an amnesiac 'memory hunter', through the streets of Neo-Paris in the year 2084. This dystopian future features a surveillance state. Nilin's former employer, Memoreyes, erases her memories to neutralize her and she must discover why and how to restore them.

Remember Me features exploration, platforming, and melee combat. The game introduces the mechanic of 'memory remixing': entering and rearranging a target's memories to manipulate them. Players accomplish this by replaying a memory and modifying details to change the target's recollection of the outcome.

This is the game I am most looking forward to in 2013 as of right now. It looks amazing and seems to have an interesting and well written story and a cool battle system/gameplay.

Evanescence - Fallen. Bought it on the first day it came out and it's the best album they've done IMo. Dark rock with heavy metal guitars, gothic overtones, symphonic orchestrations and Amy's amazing vocals and lyrics.

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Before that, I had my walkman and cool rock radio stations to listen to and my dad's vast rock collection to paw through when I got interested in music.

My 160 GB Ipod died. It froze and then when I tried to reset it, a Red X appeared. It useless now. Warranty is up and Apple wants me to buy another Ipod. Hell no.

I'll be taking it to a repair center, to see if it can be saved. But it still sucks, cuz I have no music to listen to. 100 gigs of music all gone.

I can't function without my music. >.<

Yeah, I use guitar pro. There are a ton of other music softwares for composition and note notation. And if your showing it to someone, it's all they should need. If they can't read music then, they probably should learn how to.

If you want the part to be actually played then you would probably have to record the part yourself and give it to the person you're showing. Otherwise the midi playback on guitar pro should be sufficient for them to get the rhythm and time of the piece. You don't need the playback to sound like the actual instrument, unless your creating a backing track or programming something like drums, but that's a different issue.

Yes there is. And it's huge.

I grew up in New York with rock and tons of awesome bands. It's not as mainstream as it was back in the radio days, at least not here, but still prevalent. And when you say rock, do you mean everything that falls under the genre? Like hard rock, alternative, alternative metal, shoegaze, experimental, indie, pop-rock, punk-rock, and all that type? Or do you mean metal? Because there are a ton of bands in both genres. And other bands who can easily be categorized under multiples genres.

I don't know about the hipster music scene. Except for like Foster The people who are meh.

Frankly, you should just look around for good rock and metal bands and you'll find some interesting stuff. Use the internet. It shouldn't be that hard. It really has nothing to do with where you live. There's no shortage of amazing rock bands from the U.S. with unique sounds and styles. Which is why I could never really understand when foreigners say that all american rock or metal bands sound the same.

For 2012 alone, the U.S music totally raped the year with amazing releases.

I recommend stuff like Deftones, Tool, Evanescence (first album), Mastodon, Alice In Chains, Thrice, Silversun Pickups, System Of A Down, Disturbed, The Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson(early stuff), Brand New, Interpol, The National, The Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Garbage, The Bravery, Breaking Benjamin, The Offspring, Kill Hannah, She Wants Revenge, Nevermore, Animals As Leaders.

If you want real heavy headbanging stuff; As I lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, Motionless In White, The Faceless, Periphery, Lamb Of God, Devildriver, The Black Dahlia Murder, Between the Buried and Me, Fear Factory, Born Of Osiris, Converge, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Pig Destroyer, and I could go on forever with the metalz.

Those are good places to start.

This is so awesome with the dreamy atmosphere and Shirley's underwater vocals.. I could listen to it for hours on end.

Garbage - Not Your Kind Of People

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Yeah this movie is nothing like twilight...the movie or book. It looks well acted, with a good story line, comedic zingers and better filmed too. Plus it has zombies! It reminds me more of zombieland with the whole zombie apocalypse comedy thing. I haven't read the original book this movie is based on, but it wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that the book is also tons better than any of the twilight books, which lack writing skill and literary substance.

Yeah...no.

Like people have said before me, I like the culture, the language, the fact they can have cool gravity defying hair, but I like myself the way I am.