What music have you been buying? Old or new?

Thanks ben will look for Love cd - thinking I will pass on the Rock and Roll. Was huge fan of Gold but Demolition just didn't do it for me. Guess I had better contribute a few:

1. Joe Henry - Tiny Voices
2. Ladybug Transistor - Albemarle Sand - great orchestral pop / what the Beach Boys would sound like today
3. Van Morrison - Whats Wrong with this picture
4. my current guilty pleasure - Teenage Fanclub - Four Thousand Seven - can't get this off the cd player - need two one for car and one for living room but always loved that Big Star sound

finally worth noting I bought a copy of the November Grammaphone and it came with two classical compilation cds - can't quite get into classical but this is over 90 minutes of the best of 2003 classical - whole mix of classic genres - sounds amazing on my system too and great sampler for getting into wide range of classical music (all for $10 magazine), although my kids want to know what is that wierd music you are listening to!

I'm 46 and I buy both old & new. I think there is TONS of good new music comming out these days.Just got on vinyl-

Shins-Last 2 albums

Stroks- last 2 albums

My Morning Jacket- "It still Moves"

Mojave 3

Joe Strummer & the Mescalerros- Been playing this almost every day for weeks

Beechwood Sparks

The Band- "Stage Fright" nm

On CD:

Masked & anoum. soundtrack

Emmylou Harris- saw her last month @ UCLA

Neil Young- "Greendale" saw him perforn the whole story live this summer, one of the best concerts i've been to

Fountains of Wyane

And I hit the used record stores one a month for the oldies or buy new reissues, I try to spend about $150.00 a month. I live in LA which has IMHO the best public radio station in KCRW, where I hear the new stuff

I forgot about the new Lyle Lovett, I got that on LP too! It's hard for me to find good new music that I like since when I do listen to music on the radio it's usually classic rock stations, or oldies. When I hear the stuff my kids are listening to I sound like my mother did when I was a kid. They can listen to it, but I don't want to hear that crap.

Elizabeth, where the heck did you find 4,000 LPs? Is that just this year? I need to spend more time in Milwaukee!

Several people have mentioned the new Shelby Lynne and EmmyLou Harris CDs. Are they good? I have some of their older stuff, but haven't heard the new.

Maybe along with equipment reviews we should have music reviews on AudiogoN. I trust the people here more than the mags!

Nrchy-I have offered to provide this very service for Audiogon-a seperate area for reviews and music release and general news.
I am still waiting to hear back from them.

Just picked up "Itzhak Perlman in the Fiddler's House". It's Perlman playing Klezmer music (1995 Angel Video in stereo).

Problem is that it's on VHS tape (PBS special) and I will have to transfer the audio portion to CD for general listening.

Also splurged for:

"Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs", Marty Robbins (Columbia LP CL1349). Don't laugh, it's worth seeking out.

"Indian Street Music, The Bauls of Bengal", (Nonesuch Explorer Series LP H-72035). This is different than the other music of India we have (the cover copy makes it out to be a type of classic "folk" music - lots of vocals).

"Marian McPartland at the Festival", Marian McPartland piano (Concord Jazz LP CJ-118). Don't know much about Jazz (or women in Jazz), but it's a good one, recorded @ the Jazz Festival in 1979.