Best Underground American Noise Act of the Noise-Punk Era (ca. 1998-2005)

I think DRONEBRO is a SF phenomenon abedded by aughts Aquarius Records and their penchant for writing variations of "DOOOOOOOM" in their descriptions

That Kites/Prurient split disc on Load is great, prob all the Pru you need

ouch, reading moanwave, and thinking about many people I know and/or have dated in the Bay

PLEASURE GROUND is the only prurient you ever need

uh, Caroliner?

and this was actually the first band that came to mind for me

Kites was really cool live. I still play "Peace Trials".

Caroliner = 90snoise

Yeah Caroliner was inactive during this period. Grux was doing Rubber O Cement and Hans Grusels Krankenkabinet, Gregg was in full-on Neil Hamburger mode and Trey was doing Mr Bungle/Secret Chiefs. Not sure what happened to Brendan...

uh Caroliner was active during this period. Pretty sure they did at least one US tour, and I know I saw them play at least a couple local gigs.

The people you are mentioning Al, were members of Faxed Head. Different band.

ouch, reading moanwave, and thinking about many people I know and/or have dated in the Bay

― Dominique, Friday, September 25, 2015 8:52 AM (5 hours ago)

hahaha, i was gonna tell Whiney to ask geeta about her former roommate's music, which is "classic" moanwave

Did she live with Best Coast?

lol she lived with an ex-gf of Dominique

I vote for Faxed head

Dronebro is definitely not just an SF thing, there's a bunch of Portland dronebros. They are all over the country. A couple months back I saw a rarity -- a drumset dronebro who just did paradiddles for 20 minutes to a dronebro effect.

Gasp, though -- "Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People" is THE classic album of this period

this album is weird, schizophrenic, but oddly beautiful

SIGHTINGS

worth mentioning-
needlegun
dj dog dick
narwhalz (of sound)
teeth mountain
grasslung
wzt hearts

― flappy bird, Thursday, September 24, 2015 4:31 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

BMORE ZOO

i find it hard to jam to recordings of this a lot of this shit. just too brutal for almost any conceivable listening context. i put on a hair police bootleg on the way to work the other day and it hurt so much (on earbuds) i had to turn it off. but def some of the rawest live sets of all time. fat worm of error were like the closest to the ideal of the weirdest captain beefheart jams. i still think about that set all the time, there was so much space in between everything, everyone careful not to make their weird squiggly sound at exactly the same time. i opened for wolf eyes once, they were playing some dumbass festival that made them sign a contract saying they wouldn't play any other shows in town within 3 months so they were the secret headliners. they were such fucking pros. i saw sightings once, i actually like their records and their set was impressive but it gave me a headache. love reading whiney's heartfelt descriptions of this scene. i think this scene and the diy sleeping on couches circuit still exists though.

needle gun was sexy as hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKlpzSYhr0M

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good poll; i somehow missed the Yellow Swans during this era, i'll have to check them out.

what is it people like about wolf eyes?

They've heard of them.

Shocked this poll got as many votes as it did. Could an Anthony Braxton fan contingent have pushed Wolf Eyes over the top? Thought Prurient would be higher, but maybe the ILX metal community didn't notice this poll. (Prurient's made some decent inroads into metal-land lately; his last album was on Profound Lore.)

Def worth analyzing the, like, 35 votes

Pretty easy to say "what is it people like about _______" for any of these bands. A highly variable and "not for everyone" list of bands. Wolf Eyes sure were fun to see live in a small room, especially during the Dilloway days, but I mean your fun may not be mine. As far as setting a mood though they were pretty masterful at it.

Def worth analyzing the, like, 35 votes

64. Again, a surprisingly high number.

shocked to see Yellow Swans in second when I didn't even remember to vote for them D:

also I would've expected Hair Police to place higher, if only because their name

Mouthus deserved more than 0

Yellow Swans are/were terrible band, and truly terrible people as well. Yikes ILM.

please describe what makes them terrible people.

One of the members was caught stealing from a business that I was associated with and the way he handled himself throughout the entire episode was pretty... terrible! But even worse: their music.

also I would've expected Hair Police to place higher, if only because their name

― Songs from a One Room House in an Uninteresting Location (bernard snowy), Wednesday, October 21, 2015 12:08 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, also they were awesome. I expected them to be one of the "tied for second place" acts.

Also for the grumbling about Wolf Eyes winning just for being the most famous act here, it's worth saying that they made really good records and absolutely slayed live. They deserved any success they got, even if you're annoyed by there being "one noise band everyone's heard of."

Also, yeah Wolf Eyes won easily, but the voting for this poll is pretty damn diffuse! It's not as though there was a lack of love for the less famous bands, they split 53 votes among them!

as in he shoplifted a razor from Walgreens or ?

lol at "Yikes ILM." Sorry for not knowing about the crimes and personal flaws of obscure Portland noise band Yellow Swans!

truly ilm has lost the moral high ground

I was the Mindflayer voter

can't believe as many as six people forgot the round the clock TV coverage of the police chase xp

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i checked before i voted. thanks, wikipedia.

one of the guys= everyone in the band apparently?

Oh it's two people.

Feel like I missed out on a lot of this

POX or C90 please!

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Keeping with whiney’s criteria (no black dice or lightning bolt, which are 100% the two acts to start with), my POX is:

Sightings: Absolutes
Troubleman Mixtape
Wolf Eyes: Stabbed in the Face
Hair Police: Drawn Dead
Friends Forever: Killball
Neon Hunk: Smarmymob
Pick A Winner (Load Records comp)
Magik Markers: I Trust My Guitar, etc.
Kevin Drumm: Land of Lurches (more from the art-guy side than the punk side, but his rise is concurrent with this and I think he’s worth mentioning here)
Burning Star Core: The Very Heart of the World

Definitely tilted toward the years I did college radio (2001-2005) and which labels serviced my station, tbh. For the bands that were too rock band for Whiney’s list but part of the same scene, I think the best are Pink and Brown and USAisamonster are my favorites.

POX or C90 please!

Co-sign

― A Privacy Reminder From (Mr Andy M), Sunday, October 25, 2015 7:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll make a dope mixtape this week, hopefully

There was always something very "Vice magazine farm team" to me about this entire scene, maybe because it often seemed like a scene full of well-heeled Brooklyn "bros"

Which is maybe why the bands in this scene I liked best (Markers, Leopards, etc) were mostly the bands with prominent female members

is 'Brooklyn' now used as a synonym for 'people I find disagreeable for non-specific reasons'

given that almost none of the bands listed lived there or anywhere near

Slicer is def my go-to Wolf Eyes rec

is 'Brooklyn' now used as a synonym for 'people I find disagreeable for non-specific reasons'

given that almost none of the bands listed lived there or anywhere near

― these are my pincers and if you don't like them I have udders (DJ Mencap), Monday, October 26, 2015 4:27 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a scene is more than bands, you know

and If you expand to "Brooklyn and NYC" and add Animal Collective and Black Dice (and Axolotl, who is missing for some reason), there are more NY-based bands on this list than from anywhere else

also, location of No Fun fest, location of Dom's record store, etc etc etc etc