Pondering in the Pit: 17 Essential Post-Hardcore LPs
You can create a great playlist from this selection. Although I feel there is more grunge feeling and sounds in there than hardcore per se, but still good assembly of bands and album suggestions.
Wojciech Golczewski – Reality Check
Sci-fi horror soundtrack music with retro futuristic synth themes.
Silversun Pickups – Neck Of The Woods
Red Handed Denial – Wanderer
Post-hardcore and prog rock. Music to shout with.
Ocoeur – Reversed
Ambient, piano, strings, soft noises, blue beats if any. Music for watching an asteroid impact, penetrate and destroy earth in slow motion. Music to see rain falling backwards by.
Tim Hecker – Love Streams
Experimental compositions for heartache.
Kangding Ray – Ardent
Dark techno. Yes, please.
Everybody Wants to Rule the World covers
After watching Mr. Robot’s S02E08 and heard Portia Doubleday sing Everybody Wants to Rule the World in a karaoke bar I got totally hooked on the tune and just couldn’t let it go from my head. And since the whole thing started with someone else singing the song and it was not the original Tears For Fears version, I started searching for even more renditions of this track.
This is how I came across the 2014 Spotify Landmark recording of the song with the original band just 30 years after and it’s an awesome video to watch, also the guys just totally kill it even 30 years later. This video is right here below, and then there are some more covers after it that I found interesting.
Spotify Landmark: Tears For Fears plays “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” (in 2014)
Hol Baumann – [Human]
Cyberpunk triphop sci-fi atmosphere thing.
Kurt Rauffer: Star Wars Episode V homage title sequence
This is so truly amazing. Makes me think of the new concept of continuously releasing Star Wars spin-off movies like the upcoming Rogue One, and how great it would be if the SW universe expanded in a way that it allows for some new and unique styles for any of these side projects. So that anything like this homage trailer could be the real and actually used styles of any of the upcoming movies.
I don’t consider myself a Star Wars fan. I watch the movies every now and then, have some SW fun on 4th May, but mostly admire the universe, which expanded upon and after the original trilogy. I participated in Star Wars RPG way back as a child, read some great books placed in the SW universe, played some good video games, and just recently had serious fun with the X-Wing miniatures tabletop.
There is so much potential and the standard movies even with the currently running third set of movies capture so little of all that depth and vastness of the Star Wars universe. And allowing for more spin-off stylings like this fan-made trailer showcases could really blow the whole thing up and allow for even many more new and exciting angles to explore.