Alison Krauss & Union Station
Nickel Creek
Doc Watson
John Mayer
Norah Jones
And a few I’m listening too right now and really like…
Jamie Cullum
Peter Cincotti
Gavin DeGraw
Damien Rice
At the minute…
The Mad Capsule Markets
Our Lady Peace
Less Than Jake
And a bit of:
Franz Ferdinand
Scissor Sisters
Your faves doing political songs…
MoveOn.org is co-sponsoring an album featuring powerful and political songs – most of them unreleased until now – from some of the best artists around. It’s called the “Future Soundtrack for America.”
For a donation to MoveOn PAC of $25 or more, we’ll make sure you get the album before it hits the record stores. These donations will make a real impact, allowing the PAC to run ads that counter the Bush campaign’s negative attacks on Kerry and present a vision for how our country ought to be.
You can order a copy of the “Future Soundtrack for America” online right now at:
https://www.moveonpac.org/future/index.html?id=3153-3323526-tTVt31_mJvXbNGON_OQodQ
The album features a pretty amazing line up of artists: Blink-182, Bright Eyes, David Byrne, Laura Cantrell, Clem Snide, Death Cab for Cutie, Mike Doughty, The Flaming Lips, Fountains of Wayne, Jimmy Eat World, Ben Kweller, The Long Winters, Nada Surf, OK Go, Old 97’s, R.E.M., Sleater-Kinney, They Might Be Giants, Tom Waits, will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are all featured. In addition, the family of Elliott Smith contributed a mix of “A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free,” a song from Smith’s as-yet-unreleased last record, and the first release of new material since his death in late 2003.
Together, the songs present a passionate rallying cry for all of us to take our country back. Mike Doughty’s song “Move On” hones in on the passion that drives all of our activism, singing “I love my country so much, like an exasperating friend.” Tom Waits’ contribution is a heartbreaking song about a letter home from a soldier in Iraq. R.E.M. takes on Bush and the war in Iraq, and They Might Be Giants (whose John Flansburgh pulled the project together) revisit a campaign song from the Presidential campaign of 1840.
The album is a joint project between MoveOn.org and the good folks at Music for America and Barsuk Records. MoveOn PAC has purchased a large quantity of CDs from Barsuk Records to give away to PAC contributors. You can order the album right now and help run ads to defeat Bush at:
https://www.moveonpac.org/future/index.html?id=3153-3323526-tTVt31_mJvXbNGON_OQodQ
Enjoy.
Billy
I’ve been folowing Flansy’s progress since he announced it. it sounds really cool.
Bands
my Favorite Bands are
Pomeroy
Point defiance
Much the same
System of a down
Rage Against the Machine
& DMX
Dead Kennedy’s
Neil Young
Black Sabbath
Eagles of Death Metal
Grateful Dead
The Meatmen
Re: Re: sublime
your dumb dude
Concert schedule–your town?
http://www.moveonpac.org/vfc/?id=3226-3323526-yD4bw_NaNHoNMebSmbXoFw
Death cab, Keb Mo, Bruce and many others will be coming to your town (if you live in a purple state) soon!!
Re: Concert schedule–your town?
Hey, they’re actually coming to NC, that really surprises me being that we’re such a Conservative state…of course they are only hitting Asheville which has a fairly large hippie population. Unfortunatly it’s gonna be Pearl Jam, who gives a rip about seeing them, they need to hang it up???
Re: Re: Concert schedule–your town?
PJ with Death Cab!!
Re: Re: Re: Concert schedule–your town?
Doesn’t float my boat…the only band on the whole venue I would give money (to a cause I don’t agree with) to see is REM
the next cd I buy will be Billy Idol with the song “rebel yell”
And I cry, less, less, less.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
Have you checked out David Grier or Matt Flinner? If you like the instrumental elements of those bands you list, check out Matt Flinner’s “The View From Here” or David Grier’s “Lone Soldier”.
you have to give it up for Soundgarden, they play the only song I have heard with a spoon solo.
right now I really only have one favorite band
“GRITS” best song ever on that cd, Ooh Aah, you all need to get that song
Whoa, aren’t they like crazy japanese electronic punk? If it’s the same band i’m thinking of, they’re awesome.
i forgot to mention that modest mouse is the suckiest band that i have ever heard in my whole entire life and the deserve to burn in hell
Heres mine
Mushroomhead
Cradle Of Filth
Slipknot
The Clash
Toxic Narcotic