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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsListen To this! (The ALABAMA SHAKES!))
From SXSW. everyone is raving on this band right now....(including me)
http://www.npr.org/event/music/148530119/alabama-shakes-live-in-concert-sxsw-2012
These guys and girl are gonna be the next big thing for sure.
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Listen To this! (The ALABAMA SHAKES!)) (Original Post)
Bennyboy
Mar 2012
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OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)1. Well now that pretty much kicked total ass.
good call!
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)2. thanks for the link
nolabear
(43,850 posts)3. AND including me! Been following them for a few months.
DAYUM! 
Bennyboy
(10,440 posts)4. Still up, check it out....
you will have a new favorite band when you do.
geardaddy
(25,392 posts)5. Thanks for the link!
My bass teacher's band (The Melismatics) is in Austin for the week.
I'm listening to another Minneapolis band here: http://www.npr.org/event/music/148530653/polica-live-in-concert-sxsw-2012
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)6. Just an FYI......
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101828394
January 9th, 2011 DU Album of the Day - Alabama Shakes self titled album
Hardly anyone replied.
I saw them opening for North Mississippi All-Stars at the Queen here in Delaware. She has an amazing voice. It was like listening to The Black Crowes if they replaced lead singer Chris Robinson with Janis Joplin.
I hope they make it big!
January 9th, 2011 DU Album of the Day - Alabama Shakes self titled album
Hardly anyone replied.
I saw them opening for North Mississippi All-Stars at the Queen here in Delaware. She has an amazing voice. It was like listening to The Black Crowes if they replaced lead singer Chris Robinson with Janis Joplin.
I hope they make it big!
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)8. I don;t even remember that that one -
I promise I woulda replied if I'da seen it...I think...lol
Belated thumbs up!
Bennyboy
(10,440 posts)10. Never saw it..
But thanks.....
MrCoffee
(24,159 posts)7. I'm 20 minutes in and I'm already sad that it will end in a half an hour
They're fantastic.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)9. There's a download link there too
the whole thing in one big mp3...
get a (free still? maybe) program called mp3trim to cut it up into separate tracks.
The point of using mp3trim is that it edits the file directly without decompressing to .wav and then recompressing back to mp3. Othereise, every time you decompress and recompress an mp3 you get generational sound quality loss. Like when we used to make a tape of a tape of a tape of a tape...except it only takes a couple times for it to become unlistenable...
Bennyboy
(10,440 posts)11. Alabama Shakes: The Most Authentic New American Band of the 21st Century
http://weepingelvis.hypervocal.com/
This story originally ran on our objectively badass music site, Weeping Elvis.
Amidst the entertainment industry’s marketing barrage of prepackaged, commoditized entertainment, it’s sometimes hard to find a shred of true authenticity. This is particularly so in the music sector, where this year’s hot new act is often a reheated version of last year’s trend, and the term “derivative” is a marketing strategy, rather than an indictment. In this context, when something truly organic and highly original arises, sui generis, before your eyes, it’s hard not to get downright giddy.
The first night of the music portion of this year’s SxSW Festival, Weeping Elvis was invited by ATO Records to attend a taping of the Austin City Limits TV program showcasing the Alabama Shakes out of tiny Athens, Alabama. The taping took place at the spectacular new ACL Moody Theater, where no seat is more than 75 feet from the stage.
Even though their first LP doesn’t come out until April 10, there was a ridiculous amount of buzz around the Shakes, both at “South By” and on the Internet. Often, when there’s this much advance buzz, the actual experience is less than what’s advertised. In this case, the hype wasn’t nearly ecstatic enough.
As we walked into the Moody Theater, nothing could’ve prepared us for what we were about to hear.
From the instant that 22-year-old lead singer Brittany Howard opened her mouth to sing the first notes of “Hold On,” until the band closed the hour-long set with “Heavy Chevy,” the studio audience was utterly mesmerized. Could something this soulful, soul-searing, and authentic really be happening? Had we been transported back to a Stax Records recording session in 1967?
Her voice is at once throaty yet ephemeral, urgent yet soft and plaintive. Over the course of a verse, she can go from howling and growling to whispering prayerfully, then back to raucous and rollicking. It is as though Janis Joplin and Otis Redding had a baby, and taught her to play Chuck Berry guitar licks on a classic Gibson SG. Backed by the thick Southern soul and vintage garage grooves of the Shakes (complete with an extra helping of Hammond organ, Booker T style), Ms. Howard took the audience through the full range of human emotions, and back again. Then they did it again the next day at Stubbs BBQ, and again later that same day at the Radio Stage in the Convention Center.
http://hypervocal.com/entertainment/...-21st-century/
This story originally ran on our objectively badass music site, Weeping Elvis.
Amidst the entertainment industry’s marketing barrage of prepackaged, commoditized entertainment, it’s sometimes hard to find a shred of true authenticity. This is particularly so in the music sector, where this year’s hot new act is often a reheated version of last year’s trend, and the term “derivative” is a marketing strategy, rather than an indictment. In this context, when something truly organic and highly original arises, sui generis, before your eyes, it’s hard not to get downright giddy.
The first night of the music portion of this year’s SxSW Festival, Weeping Elvis was invited by ATO Records to attend a taping of the Austin City Limits TV program showcasing the Alabama Shakes out of tiny Athens, Alabama. The taping took place at the spectacular new ACL Moody Theater, where no seat is more than 75 feet from the stage.
Even though their first LP doesn’t come out until April 10, there was a ridiculous amount of buzz around the Shakes, both at “South By” and on the Internet. Often, when there’s this much advance buzz, the actual experience is less than what’s advertised. In this case, the hype wasn’t nearly ecstatic enough.
As we walked into the Moody Theater, nothing could’ve prepared us for what we were about to hear.
From the instant that 22-year-old lead singer Brittany Howard opened her mouth to sing the first notes of “Hold On,” until the band closed the hour-long set with “Heavy Chevy,” the studio audience was utterly mesmerized. Could something this soulful, soul-searing, and authentic really be happening? Had we been transported back to a Stax Records recording session in 1967?
Her voice is at once throaty yet ephemeral, urgent yet soft and plaintive. Over the course of a verse, she can go from howling and growling to whispering prayerfully, then back to raucous and rollicking. It is as though Janis Joplin and Otis Redding had a baby, and taught her to play Chuck Berry guitar licks on a classic Gibson SG. Backed by the thick Southern soul and vintage garage grooves of the Shakes (complete with an extra helping of Hammond organ, Booker T style), Ms. Howard took the audience through the full range of human emotions, and back again. Then they did it again the next day at Stubbs BBQ, and again later that same day at the Radio Stage in the Convention Center.
http://hypervocal.com/entertainment/...-21st-century/