creatively bankrupt newish chillwave/post-AnCo bands whose names are just '80s ephemera

Like every time I go to the Whitney biennial, every single artist my age and younger can't seem to make art that doesn't have Nes controllers or Captain Planet in it.

It's fucking embarrassing to think this is how my generation is squandering their talents

― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, September 28, 2009 3:36 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Guys there's a difference between people aping the bands they liked as a kid and building your entire aesthetic around how awesome it was to watch Legends Of The Hidden Temple

― Guerilla Zooey (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, September 28, 2009 6:25 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

gonna stop cloggin the MPP thread with this. no fake band names. only real ones when they occur

1. Reading Rainbow
2. Golden Girls
3. Unsolved Mysteries
4. Ducktails
5. Universal Studios Florida
6. The Pudding Pops

hahaha The Pudding Pops. urge to post fake ones is almost overwhelming.

also read that as 'Whiney biennial'

Roy Division?

Oh hang on, I mean Joy Orbison.

or is it?

NO

yeah, no one post fake ones, plz. i think this is an interesting trend that could stand some actual debate.

I think the Pudding Pops used to be called "Bill Cosby and His White Pudding Pops" and i am not bullshitting about that

i mean, also Joy Orbison i think falls under the 90s punk pop-culture mash-up trend of like John Cougar Concentration Camp and like Clearance Clarence Revolver or whatevs

this is about 20 somethings just borrowing the names of annoying, overplayed nostalgia tropes. it really is the pitchfork generation's version of Young Money "I got her... GROCERY BAG" rapping

.. i wasn't posting a fake one...

saw this coming three or four years ago and feel vaguely guilty for supporting it in utero to be honest

xpost, i was talkin to blueski

i don't know if i've ever even heard a chillwave album. what's the big one to listen to?

Memory Tapes, I guess.

Neon Indian's record from last year was one of the big ones, I think.

has the thing where they "rap" over old volumes of jock jams stopped yet?

atari teenage riot

memory tapes (hey guys, remember tapes?)

neon indian (reference to the seminal mr. wizard episode with the neon indian)

washed out (stonewashed jeans)

toro y moi (preppy fashion label like polo and izod)

and that's all of the chillwave bands, the end

i mean, in Harvell's Wham City piece, I always thought this part rang somewhere between articulate justification of motives and total bullshit

"The melting pot of referential visual materials--all the fliers, the videos we're making, board games, comic books--it's a melting pot of these mythologies that are coming out of what might be called `low cultures,'" Roche says. "And I think that's super important. I think it's something we all share. It goes back to Beauty and the Beast--all of the things we've been talking about feed into that. Instead of it being purely ironic or purely a joke, those mythologies are being seamlessly integrated into more spiritual art."

And now I'm realizing that Wham City is like Marchel Duchamp compared to the laziness of naming your band a fucking TV show

this may not be the thread for Shuki Levy as greatest influence on last 5 years of music musings, but there is probably a band somewhere out there named after every TV show he worked on, just need to bump this thread whenever I find one

not a chillwave band, but *This Moment In Black History* reminds me of this.

kinda like if you named your band *A Very Special Episode Of Blossom*.

yeah wham city was definitely the tipping point or at least an early outlier of this stuff...i think maybe it being in the air in baltimore for so long is why i'm more ambivalent about it than whiney or whoever now, i already went through rolling my eyes and then accepting it and finding people i like who are guilty of it.

Cold Cave - back in the 80s I lived in a cave with no heating

yeah wham city was definitely the tipping point or at least an early outlier of this stuff...i think maybe it being in the air in baltimore for so long is why i'm more ambivalent about it than whiney or whoever now, i already went through rolling my eyes and then accepting it and finding people i like who are guilty of it.

― some dude, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:27 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Uh, try Fort Thunder

i've seen wham city people cite fort thunder as an inspiration but i literally know nothing else about it other than that their best known band is lightening bolt, and i thought they were like a hard rockin instrumental band, not any 80s retro bullshit?

fort thunder dudes like chippendale and paperrad or whatev would do weird and wild stuff in their art with thngs like garfield and bart simps, but it was always really mutated and distorted and weird, and generally pretty awesome.

stuff from my generation was awesome, stuff from the younger generation is dumb

yeah, more Hartley hare!

unsloved mysteries

The New Zoo Revue Revue

my new band: *Ben Matlock's Season Four Cameo On Diagnosis Murder*

ducktails is a really cool band name

Boards of Canada surely were the first band to do this?

okay, really, i'm all for this, i guess. ducktails is a pretty good band name.

not v. chill but (wikipedia time) Crystal Castles were named after ... She-Ra's fortress in the sky

ducktails is a really cool terrible band name

Fixed that for you.

not all these bands are chillwave. I'll allow it.

7. Crystal Castles

fort thunder was never "cute." or at least ONLY cute.

also very few of these bands will ever produce anything on par with the non-musical shit many of the fort thunder guys produced, simply from a scale/intensity/effort standpoint. effort seems to be beyond most of them.

also crystal castles was named for a video game, whatever the band says.

tho both lightning bolt and chippendale's comics made a lot of people of the following generation think they could do what he could do, but they can't, at least not with the ease they think, and they haven't.

isn't Vampire Weekend super proud of the fact that one of the associations w/ the title of their new album is the title of an old Nintendo game?

lol i was gonna say didn't we explore this idea about 4 months ago

I had assumed it was the game too but checked on Wikipedia and it said that. still 80s, -600 points to me for believing wikipedia

btw i know y'all will find this hard to believe but fort thunder's influence has been way more pernicious in comics/visual art than in music

"tho both lightning bolt and chippendale's comics made a lot of people of the following generation think they could do what he could do, but they can't, at least not with the ease they think, and they haven't."

why don't you marry him already.

would if i could, man.

in a way there is a playfulness with this naming trend that i'm tempted to equate with some of the old rave producer/acts. this is all a bit 'tweer' tho perhaps.

i dunno the rave guys at least came up with bad puns

though maybe there were a bunch named directly after bbc childrens shows of the '80s i dont know about

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roobarb#References

though maybe there were a bunch named directly after bbc childrens shows of the '80s i dont know about

Cosmo & Dibbs was one (wasn't this 4Hero? can't remember)

Discogs sez Rob Playford

I think Eye from Boredoms should get some cred too for his influence A) in visual arts with his colors everywhere collages he's been doing for 20 years and B) his use of emerging technologies in ritualistic and tribal ways, which everyone from animal collective on down have been reinterpreting

can i blame him for yo gabba gabba? i think i will anyway.

Boards of Canada surely were the first band to do this?

― Groke, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:46 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

maybe Belle & Sebastian?

this is about 20 somethings just borrowing the names of annoying, overplayed nostalgia tropes.

ok then:
Final Fantasy
Dangermouse
Charles The Hedgehog

apparently there is(was?) a venue in New Brunswick called Camp Anawanna

http://i49.tinypic.com/nfk385.jpg

tanlines
lemonade

^ both popular when we were kids in the 80s

lemonade, still is, etc.

man i h8 bands named after things theyre the worst

damn strongo beat me

The Ataris
Atreyu
The Mr. T Experience

What's up with our generation being so nostalgia obsessed? We grew up in the sunny, booming, carefree 90s, and became adults in the worst decade since the Great Depression ... kinda depressing, really. During my second week of college (freedom, yeah!) I got to watch the WTC towers fall from my dorm window, and watch all my classmates cry their eyes out because their family members couldn't be found. Now nobody can find work and there's no recovery in sight.

So yeah, how great was it being forced to watch Captain Planet in health class? Super awesome!

Universal Studios Florida is the most irritating band name ever

Fall Out Boy?

If they were Universal Studios Orlando Flordia I would like them more.

i have never heard of any of these bands, have never heard the word "chillwave" before, and have only the faintest notion of what any of you are talking about. win?

Win were scottish. They had an album called "Freaky Trigger"

Every generation is nostalgia-obsessed.

Future Bible Heroes always reminded me of Superbook

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Superbook.JPG

Neon Indian album is great fun ftw

One Sunday and one only I managed to convince my mother that if I watched Superbook I didn't have to go to church.

subgenre of synthpop, apparently
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillwave

hadouken

Semi related - that song called "POWER GLOVE"

hahah i was thinking that today

Best Coast =
<img src="http://i2.ebayimg.com/07/i/001/03/70/8398_1_sbol.JPG";>

oh, you know what i meant
http://i2.ebayimg.com/07/i/001/03/70/8398_1_sbol.JPG

http://themicronauts.free.fr/

http://www.micro-outpost.com/

i want to see this "superbook"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTmZrJYF_DE

i have never heard of any of these bands, have never heard the word "chillwave" before, and have only the faintest notion of what any of you are talking about. win?

― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

love you <3

what do we were promised jetpacks sound like?

lolz. second half of stephanie and gia sounds like a shredz vid. and those tights are too slutty for someone her age

xpost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXHWDhk7Hok

became adults in the worst decade since the Great Depression

...

See, people get nostalgic for that depression as well! How great was it really?

in that full house clip, i don't actually hear two guitars -- though they are playing two guitars. how is this possible?

superbook -- is this like veggie tales?

oh i listened to a neon indian song. it wasn't bad.

band names have been awful for decades. sometimes i need to pause and remind myself of that fact. a band named "japan." that's dumb. or "new order." that's dumb too. we just forget because we are so accustomed to them.

You know how it happens. Bands pick a new name every six months or so, then suddenly they get "national acclaim" and are stuck with the name they had at the time.

Like, is "The Crucial Three" a better name than "Echo and the Bunnymen" ?

band names have been awful for decades.

Yeah but the 90s didn't have an influx of grunge/indierockers named The Brady Bunch, Scooby Doo, Happy Days, etc.

band names have been awful for decades. sometimes i need to pause and remind myself of that fact. a band named "japan." that's dumb. or "new order." that's dumb too. we just forget because we are so accustomed to them.

otm

New Order is a good band name

the cartoon was called DUCKTALES, fyi

What's up with our generation being so nostalgia obsessed?

http://icdvd.net/images/american%20graffiti.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nxqgxre5L._SL500_AA240_.jpg
http://cheerbear.webs.com/Happy-Days-Posters.jpg
http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/buddy-holly-story-DVDcover.gif

do you think the band named themselves after the tailfeathers of actual ducks and has never heard of the show? xpost

ducktails are what ducks have on their butt

Yeah but the 90s didn't have an influx of grunge/indierockers named The Brady Bunch, Scooby Doo, Happy Days, etc.

There were the Groovie Ghoulies. I bet there were others, too.

i'm just saying there's an ambiguity there that you guys are seemingly ignoring. the names are different. you are assuming it's referential.

xpost Kenickie, Tuscadero named after characters from "Grease" and "Happy Days" respectively.

xpost:

Silverchair (Narnia book)
Veruca Salt

Weezer's 'In The Garage' is alt.nostalgia 101

http://rockthaspaze.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/hudson-mohawke-butter.jpg

This page is dedicated to the ducktail haircut. Other than the poodle skirt, no other symbol of the Fifties has captured the imagination and endured so well.

Also called the D.A. or duck butt, the style requires that you comb the hair back to the middle of the head, then with the end of a rattail comb, make a center part.

Let us consider its contribution to the term "greasers." To accomplish this look, lots of hair grease is required. In this case, a little dab ain't gonna do ya. In the 50s you may remember, there were no blow dryers to create a look. To make hair stay in a certain style, you had to either spray or grease. Well, real men didn't spray.

The D.A. quickly identified a guy as a rebel, a non-conformist. Although once everyone in a group does an identical thing, such standardization is conformity, but hey, it's remains cool compared to the mainstream.

Although the ducktail was adopted lovingly by Hollywood to represent the wild youth of the Fifties, the fact is that only a small minority of guys actually sported a D.A.

bands whose names are just '50s ephemera

the raveonettes

glad cutty will be in my corner when i go to promote my band Dark Wing Duck's new album and explain the true meaning of the name

gonna name my new post-chillwave band tailspin

i'm surprised that there's no band named Nickelodeon

you'd have to spell it darque wing duque

hardcore chillwave band attack attack! has a song named stick stickly tho

soooooooooo in the 60's you had 20s and 30s revival, in the 70's you had 50's AND 20s and 30s revival, in the 80's you had 50s and 60s revival, in the 90's you had 40's revival and the start of 80's revival and probably more 60's revival too, and in the 21st century so far we've seen 60's and 70's and 80's revival. i'm thinking 2010 should be the year of 1910! its time has come.

Nickelodeonback

i blame Richard Nixon for all of this

^^^ future band name

90s revival is just around the corner, looking forward to the California Dreams

Kings of Nickedoleon

80s ephemera name, check

not chillwave!

http://www.myspace.com/pinwheeltheband

"Influenced by bands such as The Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, KMFDM, and Cold, PINWHEEL hopes to make a name for themselves in an industry that is constantly changing"

did anyone ever actually start a group called Electric Boogaloo? someone must have, right?

There's a band called The Quickening: http://www.myspace.com/thequickeningonline

http://www.songlyrics.com/album_covers/71/five-iron-frenzy-electric-boogaloo/five-iron-frenzy-3896-electric-boogaloo.jpg

if theres not a band called magic: the gathering there shld b

who did the "[Title] 2: Electric Boogalo" joke first?

it's like the first resort of the hackiest dipshits. i almost want to start a thread posting examples of the joke being used 100000 times over

^ Might be getting the name of the album and the act mixed up there. Tagged with 'Third Wave Ska' & 'Christian Rock'!

these guys don't even look like they're serious!!!

http://www.myspace.com/magicthegatheringtheband

lol Dragons, Treasure and Dragons

fort thunder dudes like chippendale and paperrad or whatev would do weird and wild stuff in their art with thngs like garfield and bart simps, but it was always really mutated and distorted and weird, and generally pretty awesome.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:38 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya but http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LU9liRa5stk/SczzSk27cEI/AAAAAAAAAVM/41-CxAFh1IU/s400/CartoonChip+and+Dale.JPG

also how does final fantasy fit into this equayj

There's a band called Mysterious Cities of Gold whose music I never want to actually hear.

it's like the first resort of the hackiest dipshits. i almost want to start a thread posting examples of the joke being used 100000 times over

― tza tziki sauce (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:10 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol please do

i prefer The ____ening or _____ On The Move

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone would be a good band name

url + all

http://www.myspace.com/slushpuppiesrock

i'm thinking 2010 should be the year of 1910! its time has come.

I've been saying this for ages! Falling around Art Nouveau townhouses smashed on absinthe listening to salon music. Doubtless opium would be involved somehow too.

i prefer The ____ening or _____ On The Move

_________ 2: The Legend of Curley's Gold

Super ___________ II Turbo

Legend Of ___'s Gold

___________ 2

Too ______ Too ________ious

Big Bad Beetle Borgs

Lucy I'm Home

pro chillwave in general

ditto. not heard any of the bands in whiney's first post tho.

ducktails r good but i havent heard of any of the others either.

i don't think i like this musical style

tbh this thread has left me with nothing but an urge to name a band after a character from Galaxy High and do covers of "Sail Away" and claim it's ironic

sorry mum

I guess I'd better get onto Bucky O'Hare and "Mr Loverman" so I'm ready for the 90s nostalgia wave though

heeey britishers, is there a band called blue peter?

*snicker*

heeey britishers, is there a band called blue peter?

― goole, Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:34 PM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark

this is just like the american version of ghost box imo

Yeah but the 90s didn't have an influx of grunge/indierockers named The Brady Bunch, Scooby Doo, Happy Days, etc.

There were the Groovie Ghoulies. I bet there were others, too.

Heatmiser

new mgmt cover seems to fit into this

massive, massive lols @ http://pitchfork.com/news/38020-neon-indian-teams-with-mountain-dew/

MANIMAL

Witchypoo

Le Tigre

Yesterday I posted on Facebook that I'd rather listen to Grand Funk Railroad than any rock music released in the last 20 years and I stand by that more than ever after reading this thread.

This thread isn't really about rock music, though.

Tape Deck Mountain

http://vimeo.com/9814265

Summer Camp "Ghost Train". i dig the song, but everything about it from the name to the vid just scream this thread

On Slate today:

I know, Bingham wrote it, but we get to hear him perform it on the soundtrack ever after, and we get to see Jeff Bridges in character as Bad Blake only one last time (unless my dream sequel, Even Crazier Heart: Electric Boogaloo, is currently in development).

(Does Dana Stevens not get that for "Electric Boogaloo" to work as a imaginary sequel subtitle, the title has to end in "2"? Or is this all a sly wink at how played out the joke is?)

how does Electric Boogaloo not work as an imaginary sequel title?

doubting the sly wink thing

que no rhyme

not 'chillwave' (lol genre names keep getting more creatively bankrupt too, this name means nothing) but there was some shitty hardcore band a few years back called rival schools, with an album 'united by fate'. band name is bad enough but the name of the record is also ripped from the same video game title!

Yeah but the 90s didn't have an influx of grunge/indierockers named The Brady Bunch, Scooby Doo, Happy Days, etc.

There were the Groovie Ghoulies. I bet there were others, too.

Heatmiser

sesame's treet (not a band name but still)

Suburban Kids With Biblical Names

I thought that was a Silver Jews reference. What else is it?

80s ephemera?

A band name so vile I wish the members a world of indifference and zero merch sales?

doesn't fit the thread duder

People Asking People to Watch Their Scotch

what makes it 80s ephemera? I appreciate that I am possibly being very stupid here.

(Suburban Kids..., that is)

I don't know, it just seems that way to me.

There were alot of dudes named Zack who lived far away back in the 80s man

Yeah but the 90s didn't have an influx of grunge/indierockers named The Brady Bunch, Scooby Doo, Happy Days, etc.

There were the Groovie Ghoulies. I bet there were others, too.

Heatmiser

sesame's treet (not a band name but still)

― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, March 9, 2010 8:32 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Soup Dragons

was a.c. slater in the bible?

who did the "[Title] 2: Electric Boogalo" joke first?

it's like the first resort of the hackiest dipshits. i almost want to start a thread posting examples of the joke being used 100000 times over

― tza tziki sauce (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:10 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

going a little further back, wikipedia informs me that the second official Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan convention, held in 1996, was named "ConventioCon ExpoFest-A-Rama 2: Electric Bugaloo"

so basically

it's like the first resort of the hackiest dipshits

then again, in the context of shit like this
http://i.rollingstone.com/assets/rs/11/3861/images/23152_lg.jpg
self-deprecating forced zaniness starts to seem kinda refreshing

"chippendale's comics made a lot of people of the following generation think they could do what he could do, but they can't, at least not with the ease they think, and they haven't."

They have done it, just not 900 pages of it at a time.

http://pitchfork.com/news/38147-new-neon-indian-track-co-produced-by-grizzly-bears-chris-taylor/

this pill wonder album sounds exactly like animal collective

self-deprecating forced zaniness starts to seem kinda refreshing

OTM. Maybe getting on the cover of a magazine with a shitty band name shows you think the magazine is stupid and want to further illustrate that point by getting a dumb name printed on the cover.

there is a band called MADDEN iirc

this pill wonder album sounds exactly like animal collective

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:55 PM (20 minutes ago)

it's kind of creepy how real post-anco is. there are already a few local bands in montreal who do it, too.

So according to the SXSW torrent file for this year, there's a band out there called Follow That Bird!

so, out of all the people that posted in this thread whose band is the worst ?

i vote ned's

if alex in nyc posted, his band would've been worst for sure

my band sucks too

8-bit music in general is a perfect example of this

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/sxsw-glow-fi-draws-the-biggest-crowds/

i like art with nes controllers. i like tora y moi and washed out and neon indian. i live on the west coast and am deeply nostalgic for the mid to late 1990s. building your entire aesthetic around how awesome it was to watch legends Of the hidden temple is fucking appealing to me.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/03/is-the-text-and-walk-the-official-chill-bro-position-at-sxsw.html

It’s annoyingly noncommittal music, backing droopy vocals with impersonal sounds–a hedged, hipster imitation of the pop they’re not brash enough to make.

from that nyt article, pretty much my reason for not being into 99% of this stuff. a shame the writer ruined it all by going on to laud jj in the next paragraph.

narrowing in on nostalgia isn't necessarily a dud move, most genres are hedged around or defined by (among other things) emotional content. like you wouldn't be so far off to say "metal: angry music" or "post-punk: depressing music" or whatever--it's reductionist but there's a real basis to it. i just find the way they go about it isn't as nuanced or imaginative as it could be, they paint their emotions in big, obvious strokes (reverb, synths, mumbled vocals) and the resulting uniformity is a bore.

Its cos we grew up in the Home Computer age!

"metal: angry music" or "post-punk: depressing music"

indie: ??

Pareles otm about Tobacco being awesome too

well i did say "most" and i think it really depends on how one is defining indie. 90's indie rock could be unfairly reduced to 'suburban angst' but i wouldn't say the same thing about dirty projectors. anyways this is the creatively bankrupt chillwave thread not an indie thread.

whiney are there any of these bands that you like?

that sentence is so v much otm

I've listened to a few of these bands but the only song that stuck with me after closing the youtube window was "should've taken acid with you"

... and I think that was mostly cuz I saw it with this great video accompaniment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1f1rQ2fNos

This is how boring 80s nostalgia has manifested itself in the Czech 7th-wave Pop Punk scene. http://www.airfareband.cz/en/extras/

Does Delorean count?

truth be told, music writers tend not to know what they're talking about when they mention "presets"

truth be told, music writers tend not to know what they're talking about when they mention "presets"

More 90s bands with 80s-referential name: just remembered that Sweep The Leg Johnny were named after a line from Karate Kid, or maybe I mean I just remembered that STLJ existed, but I liked them before I forgot about them.

None of which has anything to do with chillwave.

i like Zero Merch as a band name

90s bands with 80s references were usually pop punk/hardcore scene bands. Mr. T Experience, etc. Most of the """"""""""hipsters"""""""""" I know were at least familiar with the pop punk/hardcore scene in the 90s, many were part, etc. Probably just a generational thing.

I can't wait until 2019 when "Two Princes" is the latest hip band on the scene.

what he said was "it sometimes seems like they all use the same preset synthesizer tones" which is completely reasonable.

whiney are there any of these bands that you like?

― samosa gibreel, Monday, March 22, 2010 10:40 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I don't like any chillwave bands at all, tho I probably dislike Toro Y Moi the LEAST because dude seems to have an OK idea of beats.

I do REALLY REALLY REALLY like all the artists on the fringe of this, who seem more interested in rhythm than atmosphere/melody: ie, Javelin, Tobacco, Sleigh Bells and Nite Jewel. But no one is really lumping any of them in with chillwave per se, even though they have a little in common soundwise.

javelin is more outwardly poppy avalanches style music, as far as cut-up artists go, i think they're sort of the antithesis of the criticism that pareles levels on neon indian & the like

i feel like nite jewel is more about traditional song structures than most chillwave bands? but i haven't heard enough of her stuff

sleigh bells is not really chillwave at all, they prob just play shows with those bands cuz of indie rock blog ghetto stuff

xp that's pretty much my feelings about it too. i've fallen for a couple neon indian songs but it was way hard to get through the album.

gonna name my new post-chillwave band tailspin

gonna name my industrial meets paisley underground band the creepy crawlers.

Well, just a few years ago, when bands did this lol nostalgia thing, weren't the names usually some sort of subversive twist on the original memory? You did not just name the band "Huey, Dewey, and Louie" but you went with "Scrooge McFuck."

uh

sleigh bells & yacht are two of my favorite bands but they arent really chillwave just same dudes like them probably

really looking forward to the Sleigh Bells LP whenever it comes out

o nm whiney didnt mention yacht but i do like laptop bands generally just less dreamy & uncertain ones

also went 2 see a band called gameboy

saying they all use similar-sounding synthesizer settings would be more accurate. He doesn't know if the synths used even come with "presets"

haha, i generally think the moodier and more ambient the better in terms of this stuff.

not chillwave (grunge morelike) but seriously, Golden Girls. look at these guys

http://www.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/goldengirls.jpg

delorean sounds like lo fi fnk

fucking golden girls, christ

not that i've heard their music or anything, but C'MON MAN

i feel like this tread has made it too far w/o this being posted

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/WHYMUSTICRY.gif

guy on the left is obviously "the blanche" of the group.

thinking l-r: blanche, rose, sophia, dorothy. also fuck these guys.

the Poison t-shirt under the flannel....it's happening...

i wanna hear 'em but can't find them yet

here's GoldenGirls which might be chillwave http://www.myspace.com/goldengirlskill

here's a golden girls song

http://www.thefader.com/2010/03/24/golden-girls-newports-mp3/

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whiney, do you not even like Washed Out?

can't wait till whiney hears that new teddy ruxpin track

http://passionweiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/teddy_ruxpin.jpg

^ lolz

dudes, what does this artwork look like? it's done so well, and i can picture a bunch of 80s covers looking like this, but can't think of one in particular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R31e3Spswk

the original and best Golden Girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuadkqlS5dY

point / counterpoint

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/sxsw-glow-fi-draws-the-biggest-crowds/?src=twt&twt=artsbeat
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/03/in_defense_of_c.php

oh the NYT one is upthread already

I knew blueski would chime in with the Kinetic reminder!

Honestly tho, that NYT piece and some of these yahoos like Golden Girls (and other bands bunched together rather haphazardly as part of this) make me cross on behalf of guys like Memory Tapes and Washed Out - both of whom are just dudes that have been making their music for 2+ years and slowly gained attention.

They're quite humble guys and some distance away from the look of those twerps Golden Girls

Honestly tho, that NYT piece and some of these yahoos like Golden Girls and other bands bunched together rather haphazardly as part of this make me cross on behalf of guys like Memory Tapes and Washed Out - both of whom are just dudes that have been making their music for 2+ years and slowly gained attention.

http://www.myspace.com/throwmethestatue

There's some (emo?) band called Evergreen Terrace, so ppl are already aping the 90s for shit, ugh.

bands named after the Simpsons are their own seperate thing, imo

can i jushttp://www.100xr.com/100_XR/Artists/F/Fall_Out_Boy/Fall.Out.Boy.jpg

Yeah trufax (and depressing tbh)

i remember coming across a band called Screamapillar, probably within a year of that episode

I think there is an interesting conversation to be had about this mini genre, but the inclusion of the "named after 80s ephemera" thing is lumping in bands that are not stylistically related.

My two cents on it: I'm impressed with the technology some of these bands are using, and am way into expanding live sampling and processing into performance which is definitely a post AnCo thing -- I just haven't been into the vibe a lot of the groups have been going for, or their songs for that matter.

I'm totally spellbound by the vibe of many of these bands. Want to live there.

Guys the Chillwave name generator Jackpot:

http://www.inthe80s.com/saturdays.shtml

Get Off Your Block
Super Globetrotters
Casper and the Angels
Thundarr
Goldie Gold and Action Jack
Pandamonium
Shirt Tales
VidKids
Kidd Video
Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

My Pet Monster
Small Wonder
Kissyfur
Saved By The Bell

i'm shocked no chillwavy singer songwriter has replaced the Christopher in his name with fucking Kissyfur

kissfur g. weingarten

90s bands with 80s references were usually pop punk/hardcore scene bands. Mr. T Experience, etc.

Bad example, Mr T Experience started in about '84, so that's a band taking off a current pop-culture phenomenon, not a nostalgic one.

haha we'd taunt the bass player named Chris in my high school screamo band by calling him Kissyfur

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/3923/knightb.jpg
Didn't you guys basically already have this discussion about nostalgia and the effects of mass culture on our lol collective unconscious in the hypnagogic pop thread?

Birth!

Presented by Lots O' Crap

i would have maybe been guilty of this if i had bothered to try and do anything with the tunes i made on my computer of late because i was thinking of using the name "Granny's Garden". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny%27s_Garden

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Granny%27sGardenWitch.gif

would make great cover art imo

Y'see, I wouldn't mind it if they were referencing the less 'hip' relics like Granny's Garden, Droom etc. (But then again I named my album Your Sinclair)

I think I like this stuff, jokey bandnames aside

i really can't be bothered to listen to any of the big bands associated with this stuff to be sure, but now when i go see weird local bands i'm standing there thinking "is this chillwave?"

BACK TO THE FUTURE THE RIDE

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-back-future-ride-sitting-under-pyramid-silence

Holy shit, was that entire project constructed for this thread? That song (as well as the title of the project) is completely creatively bankrupt.

http://i43.tinypic.com/2j5m8zp.jpg

looool

YouTube comment on someone's upload of Washed Out's "Feel It All Around":

this song is a summer classic. right up there with big willy's summer time

there is no way back the to future the ride isn't some fucking prankster. there's no way that can be fucking real.

the actual ride was dope imo

noted music critic Chocolate Grinder wouldn't give us anything less than the real thing

^^still lovin this guy's new steez

i would wager that a good portion of chillwave has started off as a prank

now thinking it would be a good career move to change my musical pseudonym to Morty Maxwell

or my ilx display name to Mordy Maxwell

http://gawker.com/5514620/how-to-invent-a-music-genre

http://i42.tinypic.com/ivwztk.jpg

iTunes --> Electronic, and it's right there

RIP world

so proud of my man carles

seriously.

especially since p4k launched the competing term "glo-fi" like two weeks earlier iirc. u can 'beat the system'

Results 1 - 10 of about 6,700 from pitchfork.com for "chillwave". (0.27 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 8,940 from pitchfork.com for "glo-fi". (0.14 seconds)

what happened to hypnotoad pop was that something else?

is it creatively bankrupt to name your band Omega Flight? (assuming you could find four other humans who would consent to be in a band with that name...)

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,600 from pitchfork.com for "hypnagogic pop". (0.24 seconds)

sounds like a video game for Atari 5200.

xpost

hypnagogic pop was The Wire.

Fucking Simon Reynolds created a damn monster the millisecond he accidentally invented "genre name attributed to rock critic"

what was that, post-rock?

btw, Omega Flight = http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h279/juicyfrt/Omega_Flight_Jaxon_Earth-616.jpg

post-noise present music-guys using the over-artificial and seemingly excessive + trivial aesthetic of 80s massculture to fuck witcha mind, visit Keenan's online Volcanic Tongue shoppe and purchase limited-edition "post-Noise" LPs, CD-Rs, and cassettes by James Ferraro, Spencer Clarke, Lamboghini Crystal, K2, The Skaters, Vodka Soap, Zola Jesus, Gary War, Pocahaunted and other titles on Shdwply and New Age Tapes!!! Awesome!!!!!

what was that, post-rock?

― forgotten funk-uncle (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, April 11, 2010 7:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yep. i think he came up with 'glitch' too

but yeah, once magazines were dotted with "'post-rock, a term coined by music journalist Simon Reynolds'" we've had like a 20 year tail spin of ppl throwing out [x]-core and [y]-fi and post-[z], with approximately 0 examples of it actually being traceable to a specific writer until now.

Shdwply

patiently waiting for this band to become popular so i can use "Al Shdwply" display name

heh i presume it's a label but yeh

Ganglians falls somewhere between hypnagogic pop and chillwave.

Not positive, but I think Philip Sherburne came up with glitch. Or maybe I am thinking of microhouse.

Thinking now, glitch was Rob Young in a Wire feature (not sure if he was first), sorta like Kennan w/ hypno-pop and the Old, Weird America.

except hypno-pop and new weird america never stuck

in america we just lumped that shit in with freak-folk iirc

hahaha "hynotoad pop"

would totally make some killer drone records out w/ hynotoad samples and a delay pedal

There is perhaps a parallel relationship with two of these terms, where the Wire coins a name to describe a more experimental and less tune-oriented scene, and then there's another term coined that's part of that scene but closer to indie rock proper:

Free-folk (actually the term used in Old, Weird cover story) - NNCK, Sunburned Hand of the Man, MV + EE
(connected to)
Freak-folk - Golden Apples stuff, Devendra, Newsom, acoustic Animal Collective, etc.

Hypnagogic Pop - Ducktails, Emeralds, Pocahaunted
(connected to)
Chillwave - Washed Out, Toro, Neon Indian

more like a parallol relationship

i thought hypnagogic pop and chillwave were synonyms

http://www.boomerangshop.com/dvdcover/ImageYo1/BrandNewWorldz3_f.jpg

i heard deej isn't around bc he's busy tryna christen a movement name for the nu-bay cats, t/f ?

hypnagogic guap

hipnogohard-hop

glophy

a few things:

- pretty much all of these bands suck shit live, from my experience. the Washed Out recordings are bad-ass, tho.
- Tanlines are really quite good, both live and on record.
- i don't really have a problem with the names because i won't listen to the bands anyway.
- also, this was happening for years with shit in electro and house anyway. DJ Donna Summer? the AC Slater remixxx? etc etc. WEAK NAMES, WEAK GAMES.
- finally, how is one to name a band nowadays anyway? if i were to start a chillwave band, i'd call it "Stoned Carl Sagan" or something stupid like that. punk bands often take song titles from other punk bands and use them as names...like in the 90s, Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live took their name from a subpar Deicide song. my friends Sister Fucker are named after a subpar EYEHATEGOD song. eh.

hipnogohard-hop

― tbrrprint (2) HD (zvookster), Sunday, April 11, 2010 9:24 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

glophy

― tbrrprint (2) HD (zvookster), Sunday, April 11, 2010 9:24 PM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark

i lol'd twice

big lols @ "glophy"

perhaps this goes w/o saying but 'nerds'

hey they hated on van gogh too man they did not listen they did not know how

Want to hear Stoned Carl Sagan

a few things:

- pretty much all of these bands suck shit live, from my experience. the Washed Out recordings are bad-ass, tho.
- Tanlines are really quite good, both live and on record.
- i don't really have a problem with the names because i won't listen to the bands anyway.
- also, this was happening for years with shit in electro and house anyway. DJ Donna Summer? the AC Slater remixxx? etc etc. WEAK NAMES, WEAK GAMES.
- finally, how is one to name a band nowadays anyway? if i were to start a chillwave band, i'd call it "Stoned Carl Sagan" or something stupid like that. punk bands often take song titles from other punk bands and use them as names...like in the 90s, Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live took their name from a subpar Deicide song. my friends Sister Fucker are named after a subpar EYEHATEGOD song. eh.

― The Portrait of a Lady of BJs (the table is the table), Sunday, April 11, 2010 10:24 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

feeling this post

good deal of love on ilx for washed out

the Washed Out recordings are bad-ass, tho.

― The Portrait of a Lady of BJs (the table is the table)

Do you mean the CD of unreleased stuff they've been selling at his shows?

The thing that's so far ruining it all for me is the vocals. I'm just annoyed that most of these singers are still singing like Panda Bear or whoever came out with the idea of sounding like Brian Wilson singing from the bottom of a water tank? It's like the Vedder syndrome of the '10s (OK, late '00s) and I'm fucking sick to death of it. Just getting a girl to sing would do it for me in most cases.

which band "the raybans" do you guys think would be better?

http://edxmusic.homestead.com/rayban1.html

http://edxmusic.homestead.com/Raybans09.jpg

http://www.carolmarksmusic.com/raybans.htm

http://www.carolmarksmusic.com/raybans2.jpg

The thing that's so far ruining it all for me is the vocals. I'm just annoyed that most of these singers are still singing like Panda Bear or whoever came out with the idea of sounding like Brian Wilson singing from the bottom of a water tank? It's like the Vedder syndrome of the '10s (OK, late '00s) and I'm fucking sick to death of it. Just getting a girl to sing would do it for me in most cases.

^^ this cannot be said enough ^^

I have no idea what to make of PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN whose influences include "super smash bros" and "the support of my friends"

http://www.myspace.com/philipseymourdustinhoffman

haha i saw that band name the other day and just shook my head. i guess that's in the same category as that abe vigoda band, although it's weird that the references have now gone from lol old character actors to someone who's in oscar flicks and hip indie movies now.

yeah at least with Abe Vigoda, I knew right away it was band. With this I was like, "they guy who jizzes on the wall in Happines is opening for Tobacco?"

also, re: bands named after actors, HANE KODDER is kind of the best one going

i'm shocked that there's not a band called River Phoenix yet

each dream is an example

The thing that's so far ruining it all for me is the vocals. I'm just annoyed that most of these singers are still singing like Panda Bear or whoever came out with the idea of sounding like Brian Wilson singing from the bottom of a water tank? It's like the Vedder syndrome of the '10s (OK, late '00s) and I'm fucking sick to death of it. Just getting a girl to sing would do it for me in most cases.

^^ this cannot be said enough ^^

― steev reich (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, April 12, 2010 1:02 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It would actually get tedious and Twilight Zone-y if it were repeated forever by everyone you know.

lol psh r on brkfst of champs iirc. kinda like them tbth

xpost j0rdan turn of the century pop-punkers fenix tx originally went by the name riverfenix but got a cease and desist for using the name

how does one post images on here? because i've just knocked up the best chillwave cover ever on MS paint

under the Submit Post button, click the "Show Formatting Help" link, go down to "For images, use: "

d'oh! not sure why i assumed this place would be different to every other forum ever

http://i41.tinypic.com/j6k46w.jpg

kudos to yr ms paint skiilz

rad times, bros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blEeOvG5uI

SilversunRush OH MAN GUYS NOSTALGIA IS SO COOL
REMEMBER HOW AWESOME EVERYTHING USED TO BE
Fuck this. 1 day ago

pt 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vrkggXuBtk

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/Vomit.gif

song would be a lot better with out the vocals. video is simply *see above gif*

this generation is so whack

...y!

i want to start a chillwave band called Gizmoduck

it would Gizmosuck

http://www.salle.url.edu/~is05562/foro/imagenes/winners_dont_use_drugs.png

what's the song in the second video?

whoever came out with the idea of sounding like Brian Wilson singing from the bottom of a water tank?

Van Dyke Parks - godfather of glo-fi

what's the song in the second video?
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, April 21, 2010 11:43 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"Stay Close" - Delorean

creatively bankrupt newish chillwave/post-AnCo bands whose names are just '00s ephemera

Pirates of the Caribbean II and III
http://www.myspace.com/pirateszzziiandiii

small black:
The winter of 2008/2009 found old friends Ryan Heyner and Josh Kolenik holed up in the attic of Uncle Matt's Long Island home. Those cold weekend days saw Small Black drinking Crystal Light, watching Waterworld, and plugging away on their casios and samplers, while Kolenik's uncle shaped surfboards in the basement.

yo anyone remember hit stixx??

what should these bands or artists sound like then? what music should this generation be making?

COOLRUNNINGS

http://teenagetn.tumblr.com/

furthermore, i've decided to name my chillwave band SILK STALKINGS.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAJNEjZIlTo

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZovqjtZ0dSs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1t24t1qusY

This thread is lol. Maybe you should start another one for "Bitter old indies, who don't like anything post Pavement".

Bitter old indies
Bitter old indies
Bitter old indies
Bitter old indies
Bitter old indies
Bitter old indies
Bitter old indies
Bitter old indies

Exposure: Peter Gabriel/Neon Indian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up5Urqxw6sk

My vision was that Stereogum would film Peter having an “exchange of ideas” with a like-minded young artist, much in the spirit of Scratch My Back and its forthcoming companion I’ll Scratch Yours. I heard that Neon Indian’s Alan Palomo was also a PG fan, and he agreed to join.

http://stereogum.com/361291/exposure-peter-gabrielneon-indian/

watched like 2 seconds of that video!!

the corona lite guy also goes by "blowing in cartridges"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byLgCVuyoPo

is that a parody

r u rly asking

http://img499.imageshack.us/img499/8502/iiam29pb.gif

lollllllllllllll some assholes just started a band called Justin Beiber

www.myspace.com/justinbieber

'10s ephemera

my chillwave project, Scrappy Doo, is coming out w/ its first EP in the 3rd quarter of 2k11

LOL NEStalgia. He really should've video'd an actual TV set tho, for a lo-fi effect.

as tho all this will not just b ephemera tossed on the trashheap of history at some point anyway. chillwave 4e imo

your point would be better made if you weren't using a 2009 posting style

im being intertextual u douche

interlamptual

a 2009 posting style
a 2009 posting style
a 2009 posting style
a 2009 posting style
a 2009 posting style
a 2009 posting style

Ah, it's a parody wrapped in a shameless marketing ploy. Just realized that. For a minute I was convinced there was a chillwave band called Corona Lite.

Tho it'd be far cooler to call a band Coors Lite.

http://www.myspace.com/sunhaus

http://img.skitch.com/20100507-8jnbxmien4gxg9yf733w6aemug.jpg

Thanks to HRO for the image.

http://altreport.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/05/some-shitty-web-radio-company-buys-the-domain-chillwave-com-via-websquatting.html

tl;dr, but:

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/05/are-las-robertas-the-new-best-coast-is-blisswave-the-new-chillwave.html

Just want to get in a blisswave relationship with an authentic post-indie girl.

http://altreport.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/03/neon-indian-bro-interviewed-by-nylon-pseudo-journalist-in-the-back-of-a-van.html

Also funnie when she asks him ‘R u the leader of the glo-fi movement?’
Also funnie when she asks him ‘R u the leader of the glo-fi movement?’
Also funnie when she asks him ‘R u the leader of the glo-fi movement?’
Also funnie when she asks him ‘R u the leader of the glo-fi movement?’
Also funnie when she asks him ‘R u the leader of the glo-fi movement?’
Also funnie when she asks him ‘R u the leader of the glo-fi movement?’
Also funnie when she asks him ‘R u the leader of the glo-fi movement?’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svj_G2tXmeE

ksh you do that 'repeating a quote' thing so often that you are starting to look like an echo chamber!

O_O

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http://www.miniaturesonline.co.uk/ekmps/shops/chadwickhall/images/echo.jpg

I found yr first album cover.

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/images/thanks.gif

ksh you do that 'repeating a quote' thing so often that you are starting to look like an echo chamber!

it's a 2007 posting style thing

Is ksh the Andy Warhol of ILM?

The internet is a home.

http://www.crowncombo.com/articles/2008/04_rudedog/surfsup.jpghttp://www.crowncombo.com/articles/2008/04_rudedog/surfsup.jpghttp://www.crowncombo.com/articles/2008/04_rudedog/surfsup.jpghttp://www.crowncombo.com/articles/2008/04_rudedog/surfsup.jpg

Has the band, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman been mentioned yet? If not, then add that horrible name to the list.

here's the tape:
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-1727274-1239499516.jpeg

I won't show the tape cover because it's pretty sick.. like an Unsane cover.

actually I think Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman is the best name yet

dqmw have a tape called wolfenstein 3D fwiw

thoughts on the new Toro Y Moi song?

(it's middling)

xxp: lol Had to look that one up. I haven't heard a lick from DQMW or don't know anything about it. Here's what the label says about that Wolfenstein 3D

"It's hard to ever take Ryan aka Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman too seriously. In fact, he calls Wolfenstein 3d his 'new age' album. It's not all that new agey but it's definitely new territory. He brings a stellar focus to his usual barrage of bizarre electronics and droning that will make you sea sick and in awe of his mixing mastery. Full Color art + comes with 3D GLASSES!---LABEL DESCRIPTION"

ha

his record is called Wolfenstein 3d . . . ?

-________-

Yeah. but it's his "new age" album

This thread is lol. Maybe you should start another one for "Bitter old indies, who don't like anything post Pavement".

― coolrunnings, Friday, 7 May 2010 05:38 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

xD

Alright. Here's another.

ASTROVAN

Haven't heard their music, but they're a local band from Seattle.

I mean ASTROVAN:

http://www.theautochannel.com/media/photos/chevrolet/96_chevrolet_astro_1.jpg

gonna start a dope new chillwave act called Tommy Pickles as soon as i learn how to make chillwave

butthurtrunnings

astrovan: excellent towing and carrying capacity, half decent mileage, optional sub-light drive

police academy 6

really?

clarissa and the darlings

Was gonna post Police Academy 6, discovered them today.
Pretty low, imo.

even if this is his real name, smh

http://stereogum.com/90861/artist_to_watch_john_carpenter/franchises/band-to-watch/

john carpenter is 80s ephemera now

ok

overexposure to bad music and rock websites has ground down my soul into a fine dust

Upon thinking that there must be a band named Falcon Crest, I had high hopes that they'd be creatively bankrupt coldwave. But they appear to be okay Twin Cities Huskplacments punk.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/chart-glo-fi/

andrew ku0 is some insufferable shit turning the NY Times shit into retarded college freshman mcsweeneys. dud.

http://idolator.com/assets/resources/2008/01/nomorekuo.jpg

via strongo

A+

Looky here

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BTg7O3aGJ_0/TA9ja9iXxsI/AAAAAAAACMI/aMZKRZFoSKE/s1600/ComTCover.jpg

btw, I really like that album cover. It belongs in the best of year thread

http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/7782/52457890.jpg

that latest ku0 graph is unintelligible

Com Truise is a pretty funny pun imo

says the guy whose display name is "krystal chic"

i don't get the pun?

http://30.media.tumblr.com/wwN2LAUi5jg1qdg5bQNf9Uulo1_500.jpg

Whiney, it's a pun on "Top Gun".

is there an actual joke i'm missing or does crut just not know what a "pun" is

Didn't you see Top Gun? It was a Tom Cruise movie.

think he's talking about krystal chic

or maybe schooling ppl on the fact that spoonerisms aren't puns? idk.

Com Truise is a pretty funny pun imo

― Krystal Chic (crüt), Monday, June 14, 2010 3:27 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dome sude, get it

http://i820.photobucket.com/albums/zz124/smck44/Randoms/KalVilmerAlbum.jpg

https://twitter.com/KalVilmer/status/7797292423

http://i820.photobucket.com/albums/zz124/smck44/Randoms/enthonyadwards-album.jpg

Hey does anybody know where that T.Hanks photo is from? I saw it in real life, and I can't place where or when. Is it in Montreal? Or Chicago? or Austin? It seems like some Austin shit now that I think about it.

com truise has a track called "BASF Ace"

lol

com truise = come trues

not really "funny" really. the lesson learned from this is that I should really stop expressing my idiosyncratic sense of humor around sgt. weingarten funny police so he doesn't get into a tizzy

er, only one "really" obv

this com truise EP is fucking awesome!

com truise = come trues

ah yes, excellently play on words off of the common phrase "come trues"

loooool

what an excellent "phrase"

my standards are low

dome sude, get it

― how do i spud webb (am0n), Monday, June 14, 2010

dumb pseud surely #noshots

Com Truise is on AMDISCS, and while searching more artists on that label, I found this gem:

Mickey Mickey Rourke

this com truise EP is fucking awesome!

― cutty, Monday, June 14, 2010 4:43 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Okay I'm downloading this now. It's free on the AMDISCS website.

Tom Hanks garbage can is at the pizza place on bedford ave and like 12th st. #hipster

Crut, I'm sorry if I made you feel bad and I hope all your dreams come trues

there's also a Jichael Mackson. fucking lame. i do like that Com Truise cover image tho.

How about Tina Turner? See what I did there, with the switching of the first letters of her first and last name? (It's just a matter of time.)

jichael mackson has nothing to do with chillwave, relax blueski, you get way too upset these days

So what exactly is Jichael Mackson? I'm inclined to hate it whatever it is.

it's techno

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Hey does anybody know where that T.Hanks photo is from? I saw it in real life, and I can't place where or when. Is it in Montreal? Or Chicago? or Austin? It seems like some Austin shit now that I think about it.

― filthy dylan, Monday, June 14, 2010 10:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

T. Hanks photo is form Vinnie's Pizzeria on Bedford Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Deathcore's newest hit-makers!

http://i45.tinypic.com/erj5oo.jpg

"We're SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS, and we're here to write the heaviest, fastest, and most brutal music we can possibly come up with. As some of you may already know, we were in a band called Fate (ex-Metal Blade Records) for a while but that is no longer the case. We still feel that uncontrollable need to bring you the metal so we hope you guys enjoy. Keep it brutal."

does anyone remember "Wevie Stonder"?

I do :/

Last night phone conversation with my 17-year-old brother:

Bro: I've been looking on eBay for Hypercolor shirts.
Me: Whaaaat? How do you even know about them?
Bro: There's this band I like, where they all wear Hypercolor shirts, and the guy wears a Power Glove in every video.
Me: What are they called?
Bro: HYPER CRUSH.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/22755089/Hyper+Crush+l_f7d621d3329376175b074a746f29.jpg

It looks like that poor young lady has been stripped of her Hypercolor.

not chillwave post an-co at all

Sorry, I was just thinking "whose names are just '80s ephemera," I don't even know what chillwave is tbh.

tell your brother they sell hypercolor at AMERICAN APPAREL now

Hypercolor revival! I bought some Hypercolor space putty as a stocking filler last Christmas and kept a pot for myself. Minutes of fun warming it up and sticking it in the freezer. "Ahh, a faint colour change! well ok then." But maybe I can impress the too-young-to-remember-it-the-first-time-round dude in the office with my set of similarly weak Hypercolor ball-point pens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lh2bDz9h-Q

mathemagic show in TO was loooooooool

what the fuck is going on

This could go on the pitchfork is dumb thread, but I figured I'd post it here....cannot...believe.....

Mark Webber is a busy guy. In addition to being a member of haze-gazers Neon Canyon, the Canadian musician has a like-minded solo project, Memory Screen, as well as a hand in art-pop duo Japan Sue.

it just feels like this shit has doubled back on itself, for real.

the first band to dress up their effects pedals so it looks like a power pad will get a stern, disapproving look from me (although in private I will high five them and say it was a funny idea)

http://i47.tinypic.com/2qn2n84.jpg

as well as a role in haze-gazers Neon Memory Japan Canyon Screen Beta Cassette

not chillwave but

http://www.myspace.com/urkelandthewinslows

URKEL AND THE WINSLOWS

Did I do that?

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

literally just came here to post that

Post the photo of Dale Earnhartdt Jr. Jr. that they sent around

except it's not chillwave and it's not 80's ephemera? there are plenty of threads on SHITTY BAND NAMES.

sounds like wilco with some electronics

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

Duran Duran Duran

apparently there's a newish D.C. band called Connect The Dots (La La Lala)

i mean it's bad enough just to have parentheses in your band name

are they playing here?

http://www.smdh.net/images/SMDH_Entrance.jpg

lol

is there a band called Karate Kid II yet? If not, dibs!

there's a p0rn star called April O'Neil. is she chillwave?

I saw Phillip Seymour Hoffman at a festival last weekend. How does shit like that even get booked on the same bill as Ecstatic Sunshine and These Are Powers?

lately it's come to my attention that there are DJs around here calling themselves Uncle Jesse and AC Slater. maybe DJ names are a whole different category from dumb band names though.

LOL my best friend made an RPG once on some RPG maker game on PS2 and made AC Slater one of the characters...he lived in the Bayside Wrestling Gym...Steve Perry had a House of Blouses, and Teen Wolf was a character too (special skill: ability to surf minivans)

that's weird when DJ Tanner is the obvious choice (ie one that's been used about a billion times already)

I'm really wondering if all of these bands are proving that everyone needs to spend a lot less time on the internet, myself included.

I once saw And Also The Trees supporting the Cure - real 80s pretension

Coolrunnings - "I Am You"

http://vimeo.com/13388931

this is one big joke right? all these bands are the same person going through his 1993 tv guide to make up names?