The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 731: Bent Bands
There are some artists about which you might say
https://youtu.be/e5JCp2Hd5L8
You know what I mean? And you probably have a list of such artists rolling in your head right now: groups that are a bit…bent. Odd. Weird. Far left-of-centre. Eccentric. But they’re not novelty acts; they just look at the world through very strange eyes.
I’ve assembled eleven such acts–eleven because it’s appropriate that we pick an odd number–from the alt-rock world that plumb the more bizarre reaches of alt-rock.
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On the podcast there was mention of a full playlist and so added songs. Any chance this is still coming? I realized that this is most of the music I listened to growing up and am looking for more that I missed.
Yes. Just go to http://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com and look up “Ongoing History.” All sorts of posts will appear. Each comes with a playlist.
It didn’t show up when I was looking at in via Mobile. Thanks! Love the show!
It looks like the playlist was hosted on Rd.io, which became part of Pandora, but the content doesn’t exist anymore.
Any chance we could get the playlist migrated to Spotify, since rdio is no more? That’d be awesome!
Funny, I had been drafting an email with a suggestion of an episode of obscure bands which of had listed a few that were on this episode. Glad I didn’t send it as you already nailed it! To add to it, I had also thrown in GWAR and Barenaked Ladies to the list. This was a great episode!