Best contemporary music coming from the South?

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By which I mean anything new coming out of the South.

Like new RL Burnside would count and probably should

Iron & Wine
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Prefuse 73 (I guess he counts)
My Morning Jacket
maybe Drive-By Truckers (their schtick often seems heavy-handed IMHO)
Centro-matic
Spoon

― Corporal Bubonic (Corporal Bubonic), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

like every hip-hop act from ATL

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Something About Vampires And Sluts
I Almost Saw God In The Metro
We Vs The Shark
Vinyl Are My Pants

― Xii (Xii), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparantly there's this hip hop producer called Little Jon who combines the sonics of slowed-down Miami booty shakin' bass and the nihlistic, Nietzche-esque philosophies of post-punk bands such as PIL and Gang of 4 with the threatening, mysoginistic attitudes of modern day gangster rap. Listening to it is like being in the basement of a strip club with John Lydon on acid shouting at the dancers.

― Taylor K. Franks, Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

every brass band from New Orleans

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

like every hip-hop act from [the south]

nickalicious OTM!

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean seriously this thread started as a joke, right? Fucking SPOON!?

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I really was interested to hear what people thought. Especially beyond blanket answers like, every brass band from New Orleans or every hip-hop act from the South.

― Corporal Bubonic (Corporal Bubonic), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Hot 8 Bras Band
Rebirth Brass Band
Stooges Brass Band
Soul Rebels Brass Band
Louisiana Music Factory

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

dashboard confessional

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

dbt!

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I forgot, Better than Ezra is from New Orleans.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

XBXRX. Quintron & Miss P. Prefuse 73.

― maria b (maria b), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Swishahouse just got signed to Warner for like 15 million or something.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"the south"

(you mean like below the equator, right?)

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

mason-dixon line dude

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, the true south

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mason-Dixon Line probably doesn't work as the border for the South anymore. Unless you consider Washington and Baltimore southern cities.

Anyways, I was pretty shocked to see no hip-hop acts up there in that original list. I assumed that would be the main thrust of this thread.

― supercub, Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the old "first world/third world" "developed/developing" type definitions were threatened for a while by the notion of "north/south" but i think it was an equally problematic schema.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I wasn't trying to be comprehensive with the original post. Just wanted to get the ball rolling. I guess I was remiss not including somebody like Cee-Lo or Timbaland to start, though.

With turning so often to hip-hop, do you all think that there's disproportionaltely more interesting hip-hop coming out of the South than from other genres?

I haven't made any attempts to quantify it, but I don't think do. Southern hip-hop just gets more mainstream exposure.

― Corporal Bubonic (Corporal Bubonic), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops. Just noticed some key words missing.

Well, I wasn't trying to be comprehensive with the original post. Just wanted to get the ball rolling. I guess I was remiss not including somebody like Cee-Lo or Timbaland to start, though.

With the thread turning so often to hip-hop, do you all think that there's disproportionaltely more interesting hip-hop coming out of the South than from other genres?

I haven't made any attempts to quantify it, but I don't think I do. Southern hip-hop just gets more mainstream exposure

― Corporal Bubonic (Corporal Bubonic), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

the reason it gets more mainstream exposure is because the south is just bringing more heat.

Except for G-Unit and the Diplomats, hip-hop is pretty much run by the south right now.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Fair enough, but that's not what I'm asking...

― Corporal Bubonic (Corporal Bubonic), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I don't feel particularly qualified to discuss the output of other genres but....yes.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

NME's review of Iron and Wine to thread

― Symplistic (shmuel), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The South right now is all about DBT and the fringe Dirty South guys (Banner, Lil' Flip, UGK, Bonecrusher, Ying Yang Twins and so on).

― Chris O., Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"fringe dirty south guys"? You just named artists from entirely different scenes and styles....and half of UGK is in jail right now.

Banner has a different style from Lil Jon from T.I. from Flip in Texas from Swishahouse in Texas from N'Orleans etc. etc. etc.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Spoon?

People in other parts of the US are mistaken when they consider Tejas a "southern" state. In truth, Tejas is its own entity and Austin, in particular, is akin to no other place or movement.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

baile funk! that's REALLY south of the m-d line!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Outkast, obviously
Mastodon - a great metal band from ATL
Drive by Truckers - self-consciously Southern Rock
Jim White ("Drill a hole in that Substrate...") from Pensacola, gospel/folk thing

― Jack Bross, Friday, 17 September 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

there's this one hip hop band from Atlanta called crime mob, they have these real hot jawnizzles that sound like they just be samplin' that nigga mike oldfield, that be some ill contemporising nucca.

peace,
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― 187thug life, Friday, 17 September 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

baile funk! that's REALLY south of the m-d line!

thanx matos.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 17 September 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

and oh shit i cant forget them niggas outkast, their last jawn was like a prog-tastic double concept album about shit, and that aquemini jawn aint even hip hop no mo', its on some straight booty collins funk trip.

peace,
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― 187thug life, Friday, 17 September 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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