Not much. I haven't been motivated enough to really look for some new stuff to listen to, and I have no idea what's popular lately. Well, what's popular rarely interests me anymore, unfortunately. I can't stand all of that quasi-punk-emo-pop shit on radio.
I did hit one of the old standbys recently, Armin van Buuren's Imagine. You've gotta really be in the right place to like trance stuff, and most of it sucks anyway, but the dude does a pretty good job on a couple of tracks every album. On this one I'm digging "Hold On To Me" and "Intricacy." Not surprisingly, they sound like previous tracks from him, but that's OK.
I revisited the Nine Inch Nails free album, The Slip, and wow has it grown on me. Since it's free, go get it and listen to "Letting You" and tell me you don't want to just kick someone's ass after listening. That's classic NIN.
I dig Portisehead's "Machine Gun," but none of the other track previews interest me.
REM's Accelerate, who knew, they seem to have gotten back to the kind of music they're good at. First album I've bought since Monster, and I really like it.
I'm still listening to James' Getting Away With It... Live quote a bit. It's 2002 old, but it's new to me. "Sit Down" is such a great song, especially the live version with the sing-along. I don't know how you can't smile when you hear it.
Not that I've been listening to it lately, but I got a track on random and I still can't believe just how good Dido's Life For Rent is. That album is almost five years old and it's just so fucking well written.
Imogen Heap, nearly in tears, said on her video blog that she wasn't going to get the album out when she wanted. She's clearly having self-esteem issues about her work, which is odd from the outside view because everything she's previewed is fucking brilliant. I so dig tortured artist types.
That is all. New Jem album coming out finally next month.
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