The Lumineers

i think I'm between crouching flight goggles, bandana pirate guy and trombone jack. Although the collagen lips girl is pretty annoying too.

each of them holding the item they would be beaten with moments later

wait I think the flight goggles might actually be a sleeping mask. or a very tiny brazierre.

re: that your music is awful post -- i dunno, starting to glamorize the early 90s as some kind of golden age for music taste and community just seems ... wrong.

also hilarious that a blog/podcast urging kids to "grow a pair" are posting about ...
The Smiths
Camera Obscura
British Sea Power
Verve
etc...

is this like that time brooklyn was to blame for dc's band scene going zzz

that post is so terrible it makes me want to like the lumineers and mumford. just saw it on my fb timeline and went here to post it but saw i'd been beaten to it. also Matt & Kim are great and i thought jack white like rocked or something, i dunno?

"the elite establishment like Pitchfork or Stereogum"

"Lets go back to doing what we used to do. Hanging out at record stores, going to shows, talking to actual people about what they’re listening to." they have record stores still what?

i don't like the kneejerk dismissal of "twee" music, especially when terms like "neutered" and "grow a pair" are used which implies that rawk music should be tough and not "feminized." fuck that paradigm. it seems overtly sexist to me.

the problem with mumfords/lumineers isn't "tweeness", it has to do with the fact that theirs is an unimaginative, blandly nostalgic sort of costume theater, and it doesn't communicate anything meaningful to me.

criticizing mumfordeers from the standpoint of 'authenticity' is pretty heavy lulz tho.

i mean, i'm glad i was able to help you experience authentic laughter... something REAL.

but i think i stand by most of the stuff i said on this thread anyway, except for the things i already redacted.

booming post

v authentic

stand by yr old man hat

sweet

good response to that blog post: http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/music-blogs-arent-the-enemy-you-are

not sure that blog post warranted entertaining / a response / being taken seriously

i dunno, i saw it in about a dozen places yesterday, with people heartily agreeing with it.

I've never heard any of the bands cantstop cites as present-day nirvanas; "Destruction Unit, Wiccans, Lamps, Unholy Two or Hoax".... any good?

i dunno, i saw it in about a dozen places yesterday, with people heartily agreeing with it.

lol ok a friend was just "1000 TIMES YES" on facebook with it.

the memification of whiney?

1000 times lol

http://usedwigs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/nolike_0002-440x246.jpg

does that guy play a scroll of paper?

And lo, let it be decreed, what Cometh After us will Maketh you Regret saying a Negative Thing about us.

it's a player piano roll, I believe.

That guy on the left -- I really wanna kick his ass.

consulting the blueprints for their new banjo barn

player piano rolls have perforations in them and are not as wide? i think?

that's just a big roll of paper as far as I can tell

I was making a joke. I like the idea of a guy in Mumford playing the player piano roll. Because screw the machines, right? They do it by hand

http://usedwigs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/aaaTheLastBison.jpg

Hi, we're a band called The Last Bison. We have a lot of money behind us, which is ironic, since you know what we sound like just by looking at us.

lol sorry

http://usedwigs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/nolike_019-440x363.jpg

I think we are somehow to blame for al this too, in some way, so we brought you flowers

I like the idea of featuring a player piano in one of these bands

xxpost okay seriously that's just insufferable

Or the nickelodeon. No one has featured one of those since Sailor. (xpost)

Ahead of the curve:

http://cdn1.gilt.com/giltmanual/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Harrison-Ford-Witness-Amish-hat-Flowers-720.jpg

all bands who dress like amish musicians from now on should be forced to raise a barn

lol it only just hit me that Jenny Conlee was Sparklepony on Portlandia

http://usedwigs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/nolike_0002-440x246.jpg

All their songs begin, "Hear ye! Hear ye!"

who are those people?

i think that's mumford and sons

really tempted to start trolling Revolt of the ILX Brigade: New Post-Fahey Folk For PPL that post in the Takoma & Tompkin's Square Threads in the LOL FOLK MUSIC style of this thread

Pretty bummed because a chum's band has slowly morphed into this sort of Dust Bowl nonsense, replete with stand-up bass and suspenders. Their profile says, ' We've got some Johnny Cash/June Carter going on. We've got some Civil Wars going on', which I thought was some old-timey schtick—oh, god, are they going to be wearing kepis and doing full-on re-enactment—but no, it seems the Civil Wars is some music duo. But that has to be the next step in this progression, right?

irl lol at Civil Wars mix-up

reminds me is there a thread for awful/kward band promo photos on here

yes, and there's also a search ;)

who are those people?

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, April 19, 2013 5:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think that's mumford and sons

― authentically inauthentic (Pat Finn), Friday, April 19, 2013 5:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh by the way, which one's mumford

I stupid looking one.

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTHop0MUrKYDe8c7Fuqy5a6-5HXY4AB_RYK71oJzNvfezZDKs8

I've never heard any of the bands cantstop cites as present-day nirvanas; "Destruction Unit, Wiccans, Lamps, Unholy Two or Hoax".... any good?

hate the "present day nirvana" construction, with all the impossible freighting inevitably attached, but sure, there's some rough commonality in the fusion of punk confrontation, rock kicks and (occasional) pop hooks. still, nirvana covered that last base better than any of the above. d-unit used to be harsh, raging synth punk, but they've gone psych lately. last couple are pretty damn good. wiccans are throwback hardcore. lamps fucking rule. noise rock done right. never got the hang of unholy two, but i've only heard a couple tracks. hoax?