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Post by masshysteria on Apr 7, 2007 11:01:31 GMT -5
Ok, I know a good amount of these bands that are playing this year, but a lot of them I have no idea who they are and what kind of genre of music they represent. I was going to see if any of the inforoo members has already made a list or could create a list of all the jam bands, the indie bands, the jazz bands, the hip-hop acts, the bluegrass bands, and so on? I think it would be a good idea and I can keep updating my first post to keep it organized for everyone to see. This also gives you a chance to listen through all of your music again if you do not know where to classify a certain band. If you like this idea post up!
Genre Classification (number of bands in each genre so far)
-Jam Bands (10) Bob Weir & Ratdog Widespread Panic The String Cheese Incident Gov't Mule Galactic (Jam-electo-hopish?) Hot Tuna (members of Jefferson Airplane) North Mississippi Allstars Tea Leaf Green Railroad Earth The Slip
-Psych Rock (5) Tool The Flaming Lips The Black Angels Tortoise Haale (Cafe Artist)
-Alternative Rock (11) Ween The White Stripes Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals Fountains of Wayne Mute Math Kings of Leon Clutch Sam Roberts Band Manchester Orchestra (Cafe Artist) Bang Bang Bang (Cafe Artist) Cage the Elephant (Cafe Artist)
-Indie Rock (18) The Decemberists The Black Keys Cold War Kids The Hold Steady Spoon Regina Spektor Annuals Apollo Sunshine The Nationals Dr. Dog Feist Hot Chip Sam Champion (Cafe Artist) Piers Faccini (Cafe Artist) Dixie Dirt (Cafe Artist) Tenderhooks (Cafe Artist) The Whigs (Cafe Artist) Dave Barnes (Cafe Artist)
-Acoustic Alternative (4) Pete Yorn Daimien Rice John Butler Trio Elvis Perkins in Dearland
-Hip Hop (7) The Roots Aesop Rock El-P DJ Shadow Lateef & Headnodic (unannounced) Gift of Gab (unannounced) Tim Fite (Cafe Artist)
-Trip Hop (1) Benzos (Cafe Artist)
-R&B/Gospel (1) Mavis Staples
-Funk (2) The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker (Cafe Artist) Jescoe (Cafe Artist)
-Electronic/percussive (1) EOTO (End of Time Observatory
-Latin Music (2) Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System Rodrigo y Gabriela (Acoustic)
-Jazz/Singer-Songwriter (1) Ornette Coleman
-Folk (7) David Bromberg and Angel Band The Nightwatchman Gillian Welch The Richard Thompson Band Martha Wainright Langhorne Slim (Cafe Artist) Alexa Ray Joel (Cafe Artist)
-Folk Rock (2) Xavier Rudd Pieta Brown (Cafe Artist)
-Blues (1) James Blood Ulmer
-Brit Pop (3) Franz Ferdinand Lily Allen Paolo Nutini
-Pop Rock (2) Rocco DeLuca (Cafe Artist) Angel and the Love Mongers (Cafe Artist)
-Bluegrass (5) Old Crow Medicine Show Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys Charlie Louvin Uncle Earl The Biscuit Burners (Cafe Artist)
-Country (3) Junior Brown T-Bone Burnett Dierks Bentley
-Alt-Country (2) Wilco Smokin' Dave and the Premo Dopes (Cafe Artist)
-Punk/Ska (1) RX Bandits
-Romanian Gypsy Pirate Punk (1) Gogol Bordello
-Klezmer (1) The New Orleans Klezmer Allstars
-Southern Swing Quartet (1) Christabel and the Jons (Cafe Artist)
-Mardi Gras Indians (1) The Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indians
-Burlesque Show (1) Yard Dogs Road Show
-Comedy (5) David Cross Lewis Black The Flight of the Conchords Dave Attell Dov Davidoff (unannounced)
-Artists with no homes yet:
Main Stage Artists: Sonya Kitchell, The Little Ones, Ryan Shaw, & Lynne Koplitz.
Cafe Stage Artists: Favourite Sons, Fiction Plane, Jennifer Niceley, Brandy Robinson, Salvador Santana Band, Jonah Smith, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Tin Cup Prophette, & The Westside Daredevils.
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I wouldn't consider Ween as a Jam Band, even though they play on the Jam Band scene sometimes. I would just label them more alternative rock just because they are a mish mash of several genres. Here are a few more you may want to add to the list:
James Blood Ulmer- Blues(could fall under jazz as well from what I was told) Fran Ferinand and Lily Allen- Brit Pop David Bromberg- Folk- He can fall under a few categories, but his music is very folkish. Ralph Stanley- Bluegrass Mavis Staples - R&B/Gospel Tea Leaf Green & Railroad Earth- Jam Bands
INDIE -wilco (had it been pre YHF alt-country would be ok) -the white stripes -the hold steady -spoon -feist -regina spektor (technically she is anti-folk, but no need to make a new genre just for her) -annuals -apollo sunshine
ELECTRONICA/MASHUP -girl talk
POP -lily allen
PSYCH ROCK -the black angels
that is all i can think of for now, and i decided this is pretty unreadable so i fixed it
Ben Harper is more adult contempary isn't he... jam band really? acoustic folk rock??? i dunno
seems it will be to get everyone to agree.. but thanks for starting this!!
I am not sure what to label him as well. Like the Flaming Lips and Ween, Ben Harper is one of those artists that can go back and forth between the alternative and Jam Band scene.
Post by BonnarooDetective on Apr 7, 2007 12:55:49 GMT -5
I suppose Gypsy punk is a pretty fair classification . . . some songs lean more on the punk side and some more on the gypsy side. One way or the other, I'm getting their tears . . .
I really can't put The Police in Classic Rock. Yes, they've been around for years but Classic Rock to me conjures up Lynyrd Skynyrd, Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.
Gillian Welch and The Nightwatchman are Folk - though very different from each other! Folk spans a super-wide spectrum! The Nightwachman is protest music more in the vein of Bob Dylan than traditional Folk though.
Foutains of Wayne is Alternative, though kinda pop-ish (you know "Stacy's Mom").
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Post by chewtheangels on Apr 9, 2007 11:16:51 GMT -5
I really think many of this years (and past years as well) artists are quite unclassifiable. Some more than others, and some really fall into many categories for me. Ween can be called Alt rock as they rose to prominance in the early to mid nineties alt rock seen. Anyone who has been to a Ween show will tell you they jam, and anyone who has ever listened to Morning Glory can attest to ween's psychadellic appeal. I dunno, just my two cents.
I don't know if I'd call STS9 electronica....but yet, I also don't know what I would call them....I'm torn....
i've also heard them called both livetronica and jamtronica. for me its all pretty much interchangable, but maybe someone's aware of some kind of subtleties that differentiates the genres, shrug
Maybe I'll throw myself to the dogs, but my back's not to the wall Maybe I'll lay some bricks for the man, but the days just aren't that long So if I settle back and chill will I see far enough to feel the angel's dream? I thought it was the Story of the World!
I don't know if I'd call STS9 electronica....but yet, I also don't know what I would call them....I'm torn....
i've also heard them called both livetronica and jamtronica. for me its all pretty much interchangable, but maybe someone's aware of some kind of subtleties that differentiates the genres, shrug
well, yeah...electronica is a pretty broad, general genre. I'd say both of those are sub-genres are electronica, just like, say....hardcore or emo is a subgenre of punk, or say...thrash or black metal are subgenres of metal. Probably best to go broad, and know that its covered correctly than specific...the more specific you get, it seems that the more people have a problem with it.
