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

new CD showed up at my radio station today by The Hanna Barbarians...

was the artwork by this boner? Id love to have beeen in some of the crits he had during his 2 years at the RCA

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/tag/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/

Could have sworn I saw a band called Com Truise opening for Neon Indian.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6150/6022263442_e6db2cd19a_z.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6146/6021707579_75f035ca90_z.jpg

Saw these at a recent art show. Actually kinda cool.

Could have sworn I saw a band called Com Truise opening for Neon Indian.

discussed upthread. Com Truise is actually pretty good though.

the hannah-barbera reference is not 80s ephemera so much as general 'vintage' nostalgia, seems more like a 90s band name than anything

and yeah, com truise has grown on me lately (still much prefer ford + lopatin tho)

Reptar

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/91/l_78831749441c4c488aef8372b08f3589.jpg

ah, reptar

would totally smash dude on our right, but their music is pretty much like foster the people 2.1

The thought if three grown men agreeing to name their band "Reptar" makes me sick to my fucking stomach

there's one press photo where dude is dressed up like a teletubby

http://flagpole.com/images/jpgs/2011/06/01/Threats-Reptar_b.jpg

hey, remember teletubbies?

what a fucking terrible band name

i also have interesting opinions on rap music

and an orange beard

what's the dude in the gold suit dressed up as

http://i.imgur.com/ZILM6.jpg

would you say that it was "reptarded?"

man

just got it, the dude is wearing a c3po costume

hence the cables that kind of look like the cover to the loon

is the dude holding a big fish to remind us all of "big mouth billy bass" or w/e

like if the bandmembers referred to themselves as reptards, and their music as reptarded, i think it would be funny

The last one is kind of poetic in it's tragedy

I don't think you're looking hard enough

I want to go back in time and hire some bullies to pound on them because they clearly did not get their asses kicked enough in school

All those band pictures look like Pianosaurus.

File under "indefensible."

BUT ARE THEY CHILLWAVE?

Apparently they're on tour with Foster The People.

I am currently listening to their music.

It's like...if you thought Foster The People were "the absolute worst" YOU WERE WRONG

And they spend an entire song/career proving that point.

their music is pretty much like foster the people 2.1

― J0rdan S., Friday, August 19, 2011 9:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

not at all. reptar sounds like modest mouse. that's it.

We're way past the 80s here, but Xander Harris has/have a new album out: http://xanderfuckingharris.blogspot.com/

there's a band playing CMJ this year called AC Slater

i wish more bands wrote songs abt sailor moon

we need a '90s and '00s version of this thread for all the futurama related band names i keep spotting (today's: calculon)

i played a show with a band called ash ketchum once

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.

― some dude, Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:45 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

maybe whiney is referring to some other band though -- it wouldn't surprise me if more than one person thought calling yourself "ac slater" was a good idea

I'm pretty sure there's at least two DJs called that, one of em is Drop The Lime's buddy iirc

the xander harris album is fucking great. same with the single on 100% silk

Speaking of AC Slater, there's a bay area band called Kapowski.

i keep reading AC Slater as AC Temple and getting very confused

there was a passable brit indie band from five years ago called Kapowski too.

we need a '90s and '00s version of this thread for all the futurama related band names i keep spotting (today's: calculon)

Ha, my first band were called Kif. In 2001. For one gig. Before we got a less shit name.

xxp - they opened for a friend's band last weekend. i heard they were mediocre.

Tracks 'Stealing From Salvation Army', 'Time Traveling High School Dropout', and 'Stuck in '93' fill out the picture of a band thoroughly at home with its atavistic pop culture swagger. The latter song is a sustained shout out to the gutter gastro-entertainment junk of the Nineties: Full House, the Olsen twins, Doritos (in fact, the indecency of the artificially-flavored chip is a recurring trope throughout Thrashin), Crystal Pepsi, Sega – one is unsure whether to fall into a nostalgic swoon or shudder in revulsion. That's probably as intended: Total Slacker take a special pleasure in rubbing our noses in the paltry excess of pop culture's past.

Total slacker are awesome!

lol zack attack band's myspace got taken down

i was thinking people need to be a little less obvious & at least be on some parker lewis can't lose shit or something, but since these kids are all like 20 they wouldn't know what that was.

Full House was a shitty, unfunny show and anyone holding that up as something to be nostalgic for is seriously suspect.

The whole conceit of that show being "nostalgic" is such a fucking non-starter because I literally haven't gone a month since it was cancelled in 1995 without someone referencing Full House. I'm really totally "nostalgic" for this thing idiots never shut up about. YOU GOT IT DUDE

I vaguely recall Eve 6 claiming their band name was an X-Files reference.

It is. First season. The Eves go up to 10 in the episode.

I'm just waiting for the backlash from all this when kids (er, people my age) stop fucking around on laptops/ableton per default of making independent music and try to write a song on an actual instrument. This is a rock-ist rant, sure, but it's honestly a real bummer for me that kids nowadays would rather make 'chill' computer music than start a punk band or, really, ANY kind of band.

Guitar/analog-based music is dead only so long as creative people abandon the art of writing songs and improving the songwriting form. While I know non-pop music isn't all about writing great songs, I do think the song form is the most affecting. Sorry if this isn't the venue for this rant, but the chillwave set--while making some interesting stuff every once in a while--is revealing itself to be pretty aesthetically bankrupt, and nothing but a half-assed rehash of post-ironic nostalgia. It's collage art, and it's not very good.

And you know what? Legends of the Hidden Temple wasn't that cool -- Kirk Fog was a twat.