Turned my ipod on for the first time in ages and there's so much music on here that i forgot about!!! I was looking for some audiobooks but now i'm listening to folk music.

My beloved is unto me ~ a playlist for Jerott and Marthe

Eliza Carthy - Blow the Winds/The Game of Draughts “And there is a flower in my father's garden,It's called the marigold, The fool that will not when he can, He shall not when he would.”  Seth Lakeman - Garden of Grace There's a tree of temptation, From the seed of despair,We know all our attentions, Are for the bodies we bare. Björk - Bachelorette I'm a whisper in water, Secret for you to hear. You're the one who grows distant, When I beckon you near. The Be Good Tanyas - When Doves Cry Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe I'm just like my father - too bold. Maybe you're just like my mother, She's never satisfied. Camille - Baby Carni Bird Je me suis relevée et je lui ai donné la main qu'il me restait. Mais j'avais oublié mon nom de jeune fille, alors j'ai inventé... Amy Winehouse - Love is a Losing Game One I wish I never played, Oh what a mess we made. And now the final frame, Love is a losing game Kate Bush - Song of Solomon Don't want your bullshit, yeah, Just want your sexuality. Don't want your excuses, yeah, Write me your poetry in motion. Iron & Wine - Jezebel Who's seen Jezebel? She was born to be the woman we could blame. Make me a beast half as brave, I'd be the same. Laura Marling - Always This Way It's so hard to say "Is it always this way?" Must every heart break, Like a wave on the bay. Maxïmo Park - Stray Talk You sat there looking like a prize, So I went back on what I'd said. And now we're both left out to dry, Put out to sea and left to drift. Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do? When you've loved so long, That the thrill is gone, And your kisses at night, Are replaced with tears Jeff Buckley - Forget Her Her love is a rose, pale and dying. Dropping her petals in land unknown. All full of wine, the world before her, was sober with no place to go. Tori Amos - Precious Things Let them bleed, Let them wash away. These precious things let them break Their hold over me. Fairport Convention - Crazy Man Michael Oh, where is the raven that I struck down dead, And here did lie on the ground, oh? I see but my true love with a wound so red, Where her lover's heart it did pound, oh.

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Images: ‘Portrait of a Knight of Rhodes’, Francibiago and ‘Vanity’, Frank Cadogan Cowper.

@ataraxetta tagged me!

You can tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people. No skipping!

1. Stark Raving Love - Jim Steinman 2. Bennie and the Jets - Elton John 3. Who By Fire - Leonard Cohen 4. History Has Its Eyes On You - John Legend 5. America - Simon & Garfunkel 6. Take No Rogues - Seth Lakeman 7. Liederkreis, Op. 39 Frühlingsnacht - Schumann 8. Poor Jack - Danny Elfman 9. Tango Til They're Sore - Tom Waits 10. This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan

This is a weird sexist shuffle and does not take into account how much I listen to Tori Amos??? Or all my 591 beloved boybands.

Not tagging, but do it anyway and rec me new music! I only ever listen to my old favourites these days.

Live Picks: 2/16-2/22

Brockhampton

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Here are our live picks for the week ahead, starting with the weekend and ending just before the next one!

2/16: Little Big Town & Kacey Musgraves, Allstate Arena

It’s hard for non- or casual country fans to remember that Alabama’s Little Big Town were around before they were singing about girl crushes on the Grammy Awards. Sure, their breakout and by my ears best album Pain Killer skyrocketed them into the mainstream, but they released five albums before then and have been around since the late 90′s. Though live they certainly play hits from Pain Killer and last year’s even more popular The Breakers, they often throw bones to fans that have been with them since even before 2012′s Tornado, especially when playing songs like Southern anthem “Boondocks”.

A woman deserving of a headlining slot, Texas country star Kacey Musgraves is the second of three acts on this tour (she’ll be opening for Harry Styles in June). She’s released two really good studio albums (2015′s Pageant Material landed in our top 40 albums of that year) and one surprisingly good Christmas album, and she’s planning to release a new record, Golden Hour, early this year. Expect to hear plenty of new songs during her set.

Breakout Texas country band Midland opens.

2/17 & 2/18: Oh Sees, Empty Bottle

Music Frozen Dancing, the Empty Bottle’s annual free winter outdoor concert, always seems to nab a great lineup, and this year’s no different, mostly due to the headliners: Oh Sees/OCS (formerly known as Thee Oh Sees and about a million different other names), whose devoted fan base makes sure they sell out every Chicago show. Memory of a Cut Off Head, their latest album as OCS, is a little different from their raucous punk and sounds like the band’s early stages. It’s a 60′s-indebted, mostly acoustic psychedelic collection of songs from founding member John Dwyer and former member Brigid Dawson. (It notably features horn arrangements and saxophone from Mikal Cronin.) Just before Memory but also released in 2017 came their first album as Oh Sees, their supposed new moniker for the near future, Orc, which is more consistent with the pummeling sound they’ve been known for over the past 10 or so years. (It notably features co-production from Cronin buddy Ty Segall). Live, though, they could play literally anything from their 20+ album discography, even new songs, considering the rate at which they put out music. Of their recent records, I’m a fan of 2016′s A Weird Exits as well as 2009′s Help, 2011′s Carrion Crawler/The Dream, 2013′s Floating Coffin, and 2015′s Mutilator Defeated At Last. And for a nice document of what they sound like live, check out their stellar Live in San Francisco album from a couple years back. Like King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, they’re simply nonstop in their distorted riffing, chaotic drumming, and yelping.

Co-headlining Music Frozen Dancing are Detroit electropunks ADULT. Rounding out the lineup are Brooklyn rockers B Boys, DJ Taye of local footwork behemoth Teklife, and local hardcore band C.H.E.W.

The band is also playing a Music Frozen Dancing after party, a ticketed (and already sold out, of course) club show at the Bottle itself. Opening the show are local noise rockers Rash and garage punks Skip Church.

2/18 & 2/19: BROCKHAMPTON, House of Blues

They call themselves the world’s first Internet boy band, but that’s misleading in more ways than one. BROCKHAMPTON aren’t the first boy band to benefit from the viral tendencies of the web, for one. More importantly, they’re not what you think of when you think boy band. A giant hip-hop, pop, and R & B collective, the band is more freewheeling and prolific than heavily and carefully curated, releasing three albums in 2017, culminating in SATURATION III, the most realized of the three that found a way to be experimental, catchy, and cohesive. Their fourth studio album, Team Effort, is set to be released this year, but you can expect them to perform SATURATION songs almost entirely. 

2/20: Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters, Riviera

At this point, pretty much anybody who vaguely pays attention to guitar music knows about Robert Plant’s full-fledged transition from classic rocker to old folk fogey--Raising Sand, his collaboration with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss, won them Album of the Year at the 2009 Grammy Awards. But lesser known and just as solid are Plant’s two albums with his new-ish band The Sensational Space Shifters, 2014′s Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar and last year’s Carry Fire, which allowed Plant to bend beyond the traditions of rock, bluegrass, or folk, incorporating elements of Arabic and North African influence into his arsenal. Luckily, however, for Zeppelin fans, Plant tends to mix beloved rock radio classics in with his newer material, overall making for a set that exudes old school songwriting, familiarity, and warmth whether you’ve heard the new songs or not.

Sensational Space Shifters band member and English folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman opens with a solo set.

2/21: Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, SPACE

Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn are both prominent musicians in their own name, two of the most proficient banjo players ever, Washburn’s clawhammer composition skills unrivaled, just like Fleck’s technical prowess. Together, the two are more than just husband and wife--they’re natural musical collaborators, having released two albums and an EP of both traditional and original material. They’ll be playing two shows Wednesday at SPACE, but if you miss that, you can catch them at two more shows next Saturday at Old Town School of Folk Music.

2/21: Adam Torres, Empty Bottle

Singer-songwriter and former Southeast Engine member Adam Torres finally released Pearls To Swine two years ago, 10 years after self-releasing cult classic Nostra Nova. He’s a folk singer with an otherworldly voice, his ability to reach high notes and wail with yearning rivaling Jeff Buckley, and his band--consisting of violinist Aisha Burns, bassist/pianist/Molly Burch collaborator Dailey Tolliver, and Swans percussionist Thor Harris. Thankfully, it didn’t take Torres long to reach the follow-up to Pearls; granted, it was a 4-song EP recorded at the same time, entitled I Came To Sing The Song. But it felt different, its songs notably more insular than the expansive, epic Pearls. I can only imagine a Torres live set achieves both ends admirably.

Indie pop band Wild Pink co-headline. Rock band Minor Characters opens.

2/22: Architects, House of Blues

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a tour named after a non-album single, but Brighton metalcore band Architects are doing it anyway. Their “Doomsday” tour, named after, yes, a non-album single that followed their 2016 album All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, the heaviest, darkest, and perhaps best album the band has ever released. They know it, too; in recent live sets, the band has heavily favored that record, even in favor of recent beloved releases like Lost Forever // Lost Together and Daybreaker.

Hardcore punks Stick To Your Guns and Counterparts open.

2/22: Shame, Schubas

Songs of Praise is the debut album from London post-punks Shame that came out just a month ago and is already seeming like it’s going to be one of the best debuts of the year. The band tackles serious subjects with dark humor over pummeling guitars and drums and, when they feel like it, melodies that could rival peak Britpop.

Pittsburgh post-punk revivalists The Gotobeds open.

2/22: Four Year Strong, Concord Music Hall

Worcester pop punk band Four Year Strong just released Some of You Will Like This, Some of You Won't, a collection of unplugged rarities. For hardcore fans, it was perhaps welcome. But for casual fans and in comparison to their Go Down in History EP and especially raw 2015 self-titled record, the latter of which was produced by Converge’s Kurt Ballou, it came across as too soft and tender for a band who proved to be so good at eliciting sore neck headbanging. Lucky for us, live, the band who has been playing 2007 album Rise or Die Trying in full every night should bring the same level of energy they had 10 years younger to a co-headlining set at Concord Music Hall.

Gainesville ska punks Less Than Jake co-headline. Pop punk bands Direct Hit! and Bearings open. 

talk to me about seth lakeman's music plz??

So once upon a time my beloved mother discovered Seth Lakeman, an English folk singer/songwriter/musician. She bought an album, Poor Man's Heaven, and played it on the way to school (and on the way back) for months and months. Me and my mum have a similar music taste so I didn't really have a problem with this.(it's been well over ten years I can still sing almost every song on this album from memory)

His music is based off folklore and stories of real people, he's done retelling of songs from the 1600s, he's written about his grandparents. He writes about ordinary people. It's all very English, in a way it feels like the coast, and the countryside, and all the stories that lie buried in the landscape. Each of his albums has a very distinct sound, I can't explain it in any other way (i love the sound of Word of Mouth). But also as an artist his style as a whole is very distinct, a few years ago he wrote a song for an episode of Midsomer Murders and me and mum recognised it as him within the first 5 seconds before he even started singing (Ballad of Midsomer County is a fun song with trad folk themes of don't trust the pretty woman in the woods she'll kill you)

i've seen Seth play live a handful of times now (thank god that folk artists always have sensibly priced tickets) and it's always an incredible experience. If you have the chance to see him live do it. He's an incredible performer and you can tell how much he loves what he does. Mostly I've seen him perform in churches (which is so cool) but for my birthday one year me and my mum travelled to Cornwall to see him perform at the Minack which is an open air theatre built on the edge of a cliff.

I can't not mention Kitty Jay, his favourite song. He plays it at every single gig and has done for twenty years now. It's always such a moment when he starts playing it because the intro is always a little bit different and the build up is *gesticulates wildly* anyway this is one of my favourite versions though the intro he's been doing more recently is incredible.

If you enjoy folk or folk-adjacent music, if you like songs that tell stories you'll probably fall in love with some of Seth Lakeman's songs.

Blood Red Sky, Higher We Aspire, Divided We Will Fall, The Hurlers, The Courier, Willow Tree

Also as a side note he collaborated with a group called Wildwood Kin on one album and you should listen to their song Warrior Daughter right now