Animal Liberation Orchestra. They still exist. They have or had three musicians that I played with in University Jazz Ensemble (Steve Adams, Dan Lebowitz and Zach Gill) and Jack Johnson (who I saw play in a college band) ... Adams, Lebowitz and Gill were in D'Jango and Johnson was in Soil
Imagine my thrill when I saw that they all created their own band.
Animal Liberation Orchestra. They still exist. They have or had three musicians that I played with in University Jazz Ensemble (Steve Adams, Dan Lebowitz and Zach Gill) and Jack Johnson (who I saw play in a college band) ... Adams, Lebowitz and Gill were in D'Jango and Johnson was in Soil
Imagine my thrill when I saw that they all created their own band.
Neat!
Never heard of them, though it reminds me of one (Animal Collective) I haven't heard in a really long time, and yes, we are talking obscure here...
Animal Liberation Orchestra. They still exist. They have or had three musicians that I played with in University Jazz Ensemble (Steve Adams, Dan Lebowitz and Zach Gill) and Jack Johnson (who I saw play in a college band) ... Adams, Lebowitz and Gill were in D'Jango and Johnson was in Soil
Imagine my thrill when I saw that they all created their own band.
Neat!
Never heard of them, though it reminds me of one (Animal Collective) I haven't heard in a really long time, and yes, we are talking obscure here...
I don't know of them but I posted about ALO because I knew Adams, Gill and Lebowitz...we lived in the same dormitory at UCSB and we played together in the UCSB Jazz Ensemble. I never knew Jack Johnson but I saw him perform several times in Soil.
But I posted this because I didn't know that people in D'Jango and Soil collaborated and that Jon Nathan, their initial drummer, was my Jazz Ensemble director in my freshman and senior years, between when Earl Stewart was the director.
I don't know of them but I posted about ALO because I knew Adams, Gill and Lebowitz...we lived in the same dormitory at UCSB and we played together in the UCSB Jazz Ensemble. I never knew Jack Johnson but I saw him perform several times in Soil.
But I posted this because I didn't know that people in D'Jango and Soil collaborated and that Jon Nathan, their initial drummer, was my Jazz Ensemble director in my freshman and senior years, between when Earl Stewart was the director.
Roger.
I've been checking them out on YouTube, and as you say, they have a jazz ensemble kind of sound, very upbeat and technically skillfull.
Animal Liberation Orchestra. They still exist. They have or had three musicians that I played with in University Jazz Ensemble (Steve Adams, Dan Lebowitz and Zach Gill) and Jack Johnson (who I saw play in a college band) ... Adams, Lebowitz and Gill were in D'Jango and Johnson was in Soil
Imagine my thrill when I saw that they all created their own band.
I don't know of them but I posted about ALO because I knew Adams, Gill and Lebowitz...we lived in the same dormitory at UCSB and we played together in the UCSB Jazz Ensemble. I never knew Jack Johnson but I saw him perform several times in Soil.
But I posted this because I didn't know that people in D'Jango and Soil collaborated and that Jon Nathan, their initial drummer, was my Jazz Ensemble director in my freshman and senior years, between when Earl Stewart was the director.
Roger.
I've been checking them out on YouTube, and as you say, they have a jazz ensemble kind of sound, very upbeat and technically skillfull.
I don't know of them but I posted about ALO because I knew Adams, Gill and Lebowitz...we lived in the same dormitory at UCSB and we played together in the UCSB Jazz Ensemble. I never knew Jack Johnson but I saw him perform several times in Soil.
But I posted this because I didn't know that people in D'Jango and Soil collaborated and that Jon Nathan, their initial drummer, was my Jazz Ensemble director in my freshman and senior years, between when Earl Stewart was the director.
Roger.
I've been checking them out on YouTube, and as you say, they have a jazz ensemble kind of sound, very upbeat and technically skillfull.
Very listenable!
I'm Stoppit Smith and Honest Mike....I don't know if you want to agree with me... but I had to be fair
Gotta be Guided By Voices. Robert Pollard is an alltime indie rock legend. Man could drink a cooler of miller lite every night on stage and churn out 200 songs a year, all of which had critical merit. Bee Thousand. Alien Lanes. You can get lost in those albums for a weeks, and the songs will just continually be looping in your head. Untouchable in their own way.
Spoon. Another great group. Probably the most consistently good rock band over the last 25 years (take that Wilco!). Britt Daniel has the coolest voice in rock music.
Yo La Tengo. Indie icons. Their 90s run of Painful, Electro Pura, I Can Hear The Heart Beating as One, and Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out is sort of unmatched.
Going back a little further, obviously The Replacements should be on the Mount Rushmore of American Rock. Paul Westerberg was a brilliant songwriter and those guys just kicked so much ass.
A friend played one of their songs on her college radio show. She also played Wintersleep, who became maybe my favorite band, but I'm not sure they meet the obscurity threshold.