recommend me some rock.
 

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Overhang Party

http://www.overhangparty.com

Mute Era

http://www.myspace.com/muteera

Michael Yonkers and The Blind Shake have also just released a new album that is pretty awesome.

i love broken boy soldiers by the raconteurs. it's strait up rock. and uhh.. shit.. i dont know, it's hard for me to name good contemporary acts that are strait up rock

What about the new Pearl Jam?

Hm. I've always viewed pyschadelic rock to be it's most straightforward, purest form. But that's on your list, so it makes the question difficult for me.

Hendrix.

www.myspace.com/bluebottlekiss definitely give The Judas Hands a listen. The link to their website then has more tunes. They're more than a 'rockband', but I think they're just what you're looking for.

www.thedrones.com.au

the raveonettes always fit my need for just basic rock and roll


http://www.myspace.com/theraveonettes - just give love in a trashcan a try, or one of those great demos....

here's a variety of stuff, the last 6 things on the list are are metal of sorts, don't know where you stand on that, but i know metal isn't popular here... most of the list isn't metal though, but it's all good stuff either way. all contemporary too.

can can heads
circle
paik
tivol
moping swans
lightning bolt
coachwhips
thought forms
afri rampo
COA
oshiri penpenz
doodles
up-tight
LSD March
bardo pond
on
so so many white white tigers
major stars
comets on fire
sanhedolin
ectogram
pumice
times new viking
jesu
enslaved
velvet cacoon
lair of the minotaur
high on fire
leviathan

T&b pretty much listed all I was going to toss around, but it's not the first time that happens.

For more noisier type of stuff I suggest:

A-Frames
Part Chimp
Die! Die! Die!
Trumans Water
Silver Daggers

Paik has struck a chord with me lately and made it's way on my "to get -list".

Also, not contemporary, but more like timeless, High Rise who are possibly the rockiest band ever.

I really, really like this band. No one knows who they are though.

I just downloaded some of their stuff last night, the A-frames. They're cool.

Well, they're promising. Dunno what's their best album and is it worth buying. If you like them, you shoud probably check out Karate Party, who have at least one good song (out of the two I've heard)...

A-Frames 2 is the title I think. Strange lyrics.

I'll second this.

comets on fire new one is rad, I heard the promo copy a few days ago.
The drones
The Duke Spirit
High Rise
Big Business (bass and drum two piece members formerly in Karp, Murder City Devils. They are currently touring as a part of the melvins)
Rockets from the Tombs (like the stooges but rougher, members went on to form pere ubu and the dead boys)
Hot Snakes
True Radical Miracle (seriously post-punk/pigfuck infuenced shit http://www.myspace.com/trueradicalmiracle)

i got so tired of a frames after a while...

rock:
boris (akuma no uta, pink)
guitar wolf
dmbq
motörhead
be your own pet
kyuss
horse the band
dead meadow
electric wizard
fu manchu
rah bras
cows
polysics
wires on fire
your enemies friends
converge
pink fairies
down
slayer
mastodon
thin lizzy
discharge
darkthrone
loose fur

if you like high rise, check out offshoots such as mainliner and musica transonic (both featuring kawabata makoto)

Oh man I haven't heard Fu Manchu in forever. Seems all of a sudden they sell their CDs at Best Buy now, though.

pink&brown
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broken social scene

Pink & Brown? Not quite rock, more of the noise that bunbry is trying to avoid. They do have some pretty dancy guitar shit going on though.

dunno, they're not that noise to me. I mean, they're fuzzy and shit, but still straight up rock'n'roll anyways. Might be just my opinion though.

I love that stuff nevertheless. 'Shame Fantasy II' is one of my records of the year so far.

Try :

Deerhoof - Milkman

oh yeah. kyuss, melvins, a perfect circle, tool(intellectual metal), bardo pond, converge(hardcore), probot(king diamond, max cavalera, etc, etc...), anything by neil young, pearl jam, dillinger escape plan, failure, the hives, the racounteurs, white stripes, jane's addiction, jesus lizard, machine head, flaming lips?, meshuggah, nine inch nails(with teeth, very entertaining, IMHO), primal scream, the fall, massive attack(100th window)

the kills no wow or, van halen.

Not exactly new, but:

Melvins - Houdini (1993), Ozma (1989)

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (71) and Exile (72)

Liars isn't what I'd call straightup rockandroll. It's good, but it's more experimental. Rather noisy, disorderly, but ultimately beautiful. Definitely on the avant edge.

I'm not into too much current straightup rock, becuz to me much of that kind of thing sounds too derivative of 60s, 70s, 80s stuff I like. I'd rather go back and listen to the Stones or the Replacements or Modern Lovers than listen to people making pale copies of that. The best in contemporary music, I feel, is in noise and more experimental stuff rather than in the more traditional approaches.

The Sound of Urchin is the best straight-up rock band out right now. The Diamond is a great album from start to finish.

duke spirit
kyuss
'pink' by boris, but not any of their other stuff
amusement parks on fire
the first liars record
rather ripped
at the drive in

why?

saying that the only boris good boris album is pink and not the others because they are so different is like saying that the only good sonic youth album is daydream nation and not the others.

and yeah, amusement parks on fire are pretty swell for simple guitar rock pop with dream pop touches.

i forgot the notwist on my list, they are awesome riff rock that's very different and original.

Return to Cookie Mountain is fucking awesome. It might take a little time to get into if you haven't listened to them before but it's sooo rewarding. I mean, c'mon, guest appearence by Bowie? Of course it's awesome.

I've heard big things about Tv on the Radio, then I gave them abit of a listen to (just from the net) and I didn't really like what I heard (it was off the new album). So I'm glad I didn't do a guess purchase.

new tvotr has a more expanded sound than their previous stuff and they have fine tuned their songwriting skills, the sound isn't as dark (gone are the pere ubu/suicide/throbbing gristle influences) but it's certainly more varied. i haven't really had a chance to really get so much into the album as i haven't heard it much but it does sound interesting.

desperate youth...was definitely a grower for me.

Their vocals are very... have a very... somewhat... reggae feel? Alittle like Michael Franti. I didn't dig the vocals. In it's defense, I ownly heard one song, though.

love desperate youth, poppie and staring at the sun are amazing.

the velvet underground. they are obscenely great.

johnny thunders & the heartbreakers