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
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― canna kirk (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
not a chillwave band, but *This Moment In Black History* reminds me of this.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda like if you named your band *A Very Special Episode Of Blossom*.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 10 February 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Cold Cave - back in the 80s I lived in a cave with no heating
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― some dude, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:27 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Uh, try Fort Thunder
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― some dude, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 10 February 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
stuff from my generation was awesome, stuff from the younger generation is dumb
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, more Hartley hare!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
unsloved mysteries
― anita bonghit (rionat), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
The New Zoo Revue Revue
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
my new band: *Ben Matlock's Season Four Cameo On Diagnosis Murder*
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
ducktails is a really cool band name
― Lamp, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Boards of Canada surely were the first band to do this?
― Groke, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― canna kirk (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
ducktails is a really cool terrible band name
Fixed that for you.
― anagram, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
not all these bands are chillwave. I'll allow it.
7. Crystal Castles
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― some dude, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i was gonna say didn't we explore this idea about 4 months ago
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― canna kirk (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
would if i could, man.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno the rave guys at least came up with bad puns
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
though maybe there were a bunch named directly after bbc childrens shows of the '80s i dont know about
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roobarb#References
― the light hearted poster for light hearted ilxors (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Cosmo & Dibbs was one (wasn't this 4Hero? can't remember)
― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Discogs sez Rob Playford
― the light hearted poster for light hearted ilxors (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
can i blame him for yo gabba gabba? i think i will anyway.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
― Groke, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:46 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
maybe Belle & Sebastian?
― we like the cars. the cars that go burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb. (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
this is about 20 somethings just borrowing the names of annoying, overplayed nostalgia tropes.
ok then:Final FantasyDangermouseCharles The Hedgehog
apparently there is(was?) a venue in New Brunswick called Camp Anawanna
http://i49.tinypic.com/nfk385.jpg
― we like the cars. the cars that go burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb. (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
tanlineslemonade
― jaxon, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
^ both popular when we were kids in the 80s
lemonade, still is, etc.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
man i h8 bands named after things theyre the worst
― ^ now ya head is like *http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/3310/volcanoqa2* (Lamp), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
damn strongo beat me
― we like the cars. the cars that go burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb. (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
The AtarisAtreyuThe Mr. T Experience
― we like the cars. the cars that go burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb. (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Universal Studios Florida is the most irritating band name ever
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 February 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Fall Out Boy?
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
If they were Universal Studios Orlando Flordia I would like them more.
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 10 February 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Win were scottish. They had an album called "Freaky Trigger"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Twin_Freaks.jpg
creatively bankrupt newish mashup/post-Wings bands whose names are just '80s ephemera
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 4 August 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/DDDrewDaniel/status/520338817119977473
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 10 October 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
2 for the price of 1
Adderall Canyonlyhttps://adderallcanyonly.bandcamp.com/
― skip, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
From the depths of Chicago, The Warehouse to Paradise Garage, The Sound Factory to Studio 54 came HOUSE.The Hacienda and Turnmills, Hard Times and The End…HOUSE and more HOUSE.Friday till Monday, HOUSE every weekend and all weekend long.The London Orbital M25, anywhere and everywhere,Every weekend just HOUSE.Space and Amnesia, London, Paris, New York.HOUSE is our history. It overcame racial divides and united the masses,HOUSE music changed the world.HOUSE is a feeling and a release,A tribute to those who work hard every week and let themselves go.HOUSE is hope.HOUSE is working hard to relive that feeling every single weekend. HOUSE is more alive than ever before. This is the story of how a man called David Zowie has captured the heart of HOUSE, and how we live it EVERY WEEKEND.
― pissbaby nobody in the corner (DJ Mencap), Monday, 23 March 2015 10:12 (nine years ago) link
what a wanker
― pissbaby nobody in the corner (DJ Mencap), Monday, 23 March 2015 10:13 (nine years ago) link
May 7th, 2015 - Hopeless Records is thrilled to announce the signing of What's Eating Gilbert, the new musical endeavor of New Found Glory's lead guitarist, Chad Gilbert. Additionally, the band has announced their new album, That New Sound You're Looking For, which is set to release via Hopeless Records on July 10th! The first single, as well as the album pre-order, will be available on June 2nd.
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Charleston, SC's Heyrocco has announced their debut LP, Teenage Movie Soundtrack, out June 2nd via Old Flame Records (US) and June 8th via Vital Music Group (UK/Europe). Influenced by an era when alternative, guitar-driven rock and angst-fueled jams ruled the airwaves, the trio crafts '90s-inspired pop tunes updated for modern times.
Sick Sad World is a lot of things. It’s coming up next on MTV’s Daria and it’s a more than apt summary of where we as humans have taken things and where we’re going. Most importantly, however, it’s a band in a cartoon universe within the mind of Jake Jones, an Olympia-born and Seattle-residing skateboarder, kickboxer, and smoothie enthusiast who, on Fear and Lies, out on 4/21/2015 through Seattle upstart Help Yourself Records, has knocked out 11 guitar pop gems ready for their inclusion on the classic hits playlists of the future.
― clikbait ikatowi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 7 May 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
Fuck you
http://www.stereogum.com/1833992/boosegumps-stole-ur-bike/mp3s/
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
They’ve shared tour bills with Free Cake For Every Creature and I Tried To Run Away When I Was 6
Please, make it stop...
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link
Joe Oxley, the one and only man behind TVAM, describes his sound as Post-Internet, motivational slime-punk and we totally dig it.
― these are my pincers and if you don't like them I have udders (DJ Mencap), Monday, 5 October 2015 09:23 (eight years ago) link
KANYE WEST @kanyewest 6h6 hours agoMy next album is titled "Turbo Grafx 16" as of now…
― just sayin, Saturday, 27 February 2016 10:55 (eight years ago) link
lollllll
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 27 February 2016 13:04 (eight years ago) link
I've intellectually bankrupted five companies
― calstars, Saturday, 27 February 2016 13:22 (eight years ago) link
Holy shits at that Boosegumps name
― van smack, Saturday, 27 February 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
i'm currently playing in a band called Maris Vera, no shame tbh
― some dude, Saturday, 27 February 2016 16:35 (eight years ago) link
Aussie emo band named Ted Danson With Wolves just played here :/
― etc, Saturday, 27 February 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link
lol that one is funny
― sarahell, Saturday, 27 February 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, that one is funny
― van smack, Saturday, 27 February 2016 23:03 (eight years ago) link
NaphtaEltron John
https://transatlantyk.bandcamp.com/music
― skip, Friday, 22 April 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
Naphta is more reminiscent of Naptha
― sarahell, Friday, 22 April 2016 18:12 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/cgijoe
CGI Joe
this band's name is actually really cool
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 14 May 2016 04:09 (eight years ago) link
there is a song called "Sinusoidal Wibbler"
damn this is so Athens. so great.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 14 May 2016 04:11 (eight years ago) link
otm
― sisterhood of the baggering vance (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 14 May 2016 04:58 (eight years ago) link
Gold Panda
― flappy bird, Saturday, 14 May 2016 05:03 (eight years ago) link
oof. hurts.
― Treeship, Saturday, 14 May 2016 06:32 (eight years ago) link
Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobics HVS?Announce UK Tour For October 2016
Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobics VHS? Have announced that they will be touring the UK in October 2016. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE JANE FONDA AEROBIC VHS? is a strange bird in the Finnish rock scene not only because of it's long name, but also because the band doesn't have a guitar player.Instead melodies and distorted sound walls are created by good old Casio and Eco-organs. Packed with 60's girl group/soul-melodies, bubble gum punk riffs and pounding drums, which will make youreardrums bleed, this newcomer is truly something to get to know. HYESTJFAVHS? gets it's influences from a rather wide range of genres: all the way from garage rock to doo-wop, rock'n'roll to80's dream pop and 60's soul and girl groups. Full UK Tour dates below.
― aromantic cuck (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 08:17 (eight years ago) link
having their name spelled three different ways in one short press release is no less than this band deserve tbqh
― aromantic cuck (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 08:19 (eight years ago) link
Not 80s ephemera but there is a 90s cover band in this region that's called White Ford Bronco, and I find it in marginally poor taste (haha, murder, so droll)
There's another 90s cover band called the Bayside Tigers, which needed to be explained to me (hi i am an old)
― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
it continues: Bandler Ching
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 21 January 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link