@hateindierock - opposed to the bourgeois selfish privilege orgy that is modern corporate youth culture worldwide

you know what?
im fed up with you little trolls on the internet saying “omg scenekids are scum” or “omg indies are loser” ect ect
for christ sake, whats so wrong with expressing your fashion,music,personalty or what ever. at the end of the day the people who write these things are nothing but losers and your just going to except the fact every one is different. i mean i hate disney, but ive got freinds who like that stuff. and i dont rub shit in there face.
oh and btw my twin sister is an indie kid but she listens to daft punk and house music

even that dumb l.a. weekly anti-indie rock thing from a month or two ago was better/funnier and that was pretty dumb and dated.

by how he writes, would say he's probably English, or at least hangs on a heavily English board. using words like 'cos' and 'saddos', the nature of the political talk and references, mentioning the state of English indie (Americans don't really care).

and def not serious. seems to be a vague, hazily-inspired strawman of something-or-other, the banaka comparison otm. probably in his 30s or 40s, too informed to be some earnest high school student having his first epiphany or whatever

and also too informed not to be aware of when he's sounding silly

Alfred otm

I've just been reading "indie music" as "stuff I don't like" for seven damn years b/c nobody has any consistency, every alleged indie hater itt, on this board and elsewhere will stan for this or that (except ____ or ____)

I yearn to see some true indie hatred

I cut and pasted my last post from freakytrigger btw

haha you got me

ew bro -- that sincerity!

I was xp'd and didn't catch the freinds ect ect

i'm not the author, i just thought he hit some great points and noticed how many ppl he pissed off

romney using friday night lights indie rock to go after big sun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4vXBSvJxF4&feature=autoplay&list=ULWiE0SkKj_kA&playnext=1

oops this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiE0SkKj_kA

Scenes--the ones you hate, the ones you patronize, whatever--are something you stop giving a shit abt by, oh, 25, so this guy must be at least somewhat young, right?

you'd be surprised how well some people hold onto that shit well past that age

cad is right, dude is def over 30

you have to have some firsthand 90s experience in you to give too much of a shit about this stuff ime

not indie rock in general of course but the particular tack this guy is taking

I liked @hateindierock's early stuff, but these recent tweets don't do anything for me. It's like he sold out and got too commercial. Next thing ya know, he'll be tweeting with Kanye and the Kardashians.

I mean, I sorta get some of this guy's gripes, but I would assume that the point at which you realize that "tastemakers" or whatever are mostly bullshit is the same point at which you get that complaining about them is pretty pointless and silly.

that's the thing, he's not as far outside the matrix as he thinks he is. people like this never are.

i can't stop going back to this godspeed thing to read more, unbelievable. e-mail interviews with overly composed answers tend to indulgent but this is next level.

What's political music? All music is political, right? You either make music that pleases the king and his court, or you make music for the serfs outside the walls. It's what music (and culture) is for, right? To distract or confront, or both at the same time? So many of us know already that shit is fucked.

this seems reasonable but godspeed is certainly not making music for the serfs but for a very rarified, culturally elite listenership. i suspect the music they'd consider king-music, by contrast, has populist appeal

haha oh god c'mon let's not engage its individual points, it's mainly the tone that's hilarious

it has a little of that GREETINGS PEOPLE OF EARTH quality that i enjoy. FOR MANY YEARS WE HAVE WATCHED YOUR BACKWARDS RACE FIGHT AND SQUABBLE...

is montreal really that dusty? their music is pretty dusty and they seem to hate the dust under their fingernails. i always figured it was really tidy there.

haha

They lost me on the "no adult should play videogames" shit.

What's political music? All music is political, right? You either make music that pleases the king and his court, or you make music for the serfs outside the walls

I guess making music for yourself doesn't count?

Reminds me of being in art school and being tasked with having to figure out 'what you are trying to say' while I'm just trying to draw a cool looking picture.

you were the serf, man. it was in you all along.

I read it and thought it next-level indulgent email interview, for the guardian anyway, right, it's not just some blog. Great/amazing/hilarious/o_O. Am very into this album.

Montreal has a very dusty time at the end of winter, and sometimes during winter, when the snow melts and reveals all the sand and little rocks that the city uses instead of salt on the roads and sidewalks. The wind is dry, churns up the grit, the whole city feels dirty, is like that every year.

the more you know! thanks, dusty rrrobyn!

i think that's kinda anywhere where it snows a lot though...

Never really listened to gybe, but didn't they once do an album cover that mapped out how some of the major labels are connected to weapons manufacturers? Cause that's pretty badass.

pitchfork just gave gybe a 9.3 can someone please explain to me what this means

what a complete waste of time... none of this is funny, or correct, or interesting. the few "good points" made on this twitter are so few and far apart. who cares.

if you're going to loudly and publicly hate shit, at least be interesting or funny while you're doing it.

I guess making music for yourself doesn't count?

"We just make music for the king and his court - if anyone else likes it, it's a bonus"

@hateindierock
Grimes and Lana Del Rey are corporate pawns looking to discredit the idea of a woman with imagination or something to say

I realized this person was a dick after this one, which was like the 5th Tweet (and the one RIGHT after this one calls out another band on misogyny)

It's genuinely amazing to me how much attention this thing has gotten - couldn't literally any person on this board do this and way better with their eyes closed??

anyone who says "corporate pawn" sincerely needs to rethink their everything

oh god he RTed a friend of mine

"socialist grovelling"

Fuck off

About 50% of what this guy/girl/whatever is tweeting is vaguely though-provoking and I can agree with it. The other half is short-sighted pious drivel that contradicts the first half. But quite entertaining. Suspect whoever's driving it is aware of their contradictions, if only because they favourited a tweet of mine pointing one out.

From today: "Wouldn't it be amazing to turn on the television and see Noam Chomsky debating Michel Foucault?"

It would be more than amazing, it would be spooky.

It would be black and white.

Dommy P scam?

It'd be far more misogynist if it were.

I wasn't aware Dom had any principles - certainly not the old-school anti-capitalist true-indie ones on show here.

Even though half of what this person says is dubious or straight up nonsense I respect them for throwing so many ideas and questions out there. If this were a new band's manifesto as opposed to just an angry Twitter feed I'd be over the moon.

Dom works for a business journal these days; definitely not anti-capitalist.

anyone who says "corporate pawn" sincerely needs to rethink their everything

― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Monday, October 15, 2012 3:54 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's just lame, some of us are corporate bishops

Oh, not saying these are anything like DP's actual views. The scam would be faking sincerity. Just thought there were a couple of DP-isms along the way. Unlikely, but just this side of plausible.