Bands to Check Out

You know what's cool about interning at a record label?


Well okay, lots of things are cool about it. But one thing in particular right now is all the music I am exposed to that I otherwise wouldn't know about.


One of the projects I am currently working on is finding artists on http://www.last.fm, a website where you can create playlists and network with other music lovers, and right now I'm looking for bands that have similar styles to the bands at Sarathan. All music, no matter how original it is, is still influenced by other bands, styles, genres, and sounds.


Thus, most of my day consists of listening to artists that appear on the playlists I have created on last.fm. I can type in "'60s garage rock" and bands like the Kinks, Rolling Stones, LOVE, The Beau Brummels, and others will pop up. When a band appears on the playlist on last.fm, you can then read their biography and what other people have said about the song that is playing. To experience more recent music, today I typed in "Grizzly Bear, Local Natives, and No Age", three bands said to have similar styles to Feral Children. The list of bands that I discovered could go on forever, but some of my favorites I heard were The Morning Benders (try the song "Waiting for a War"), The Wavves singing "Convertible Balloon", Volcano Choir's song "Husks and Shells" (cool fact: the musicians in Volcano Choir also make up the band Bon Iver) and FanFarlo singing "Harold T. Wilkins or How to Wait for a Very Long Time." I'll leave it up to you to decide how similar these bands sound to Feral Children, but even if you don't agree, hopefully you'll still enjoy the songs!