and yes def makes it clear that she could do a great full band album
― niels, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
damn, "Bite the Hand" would be at home on the new Mitski, and "Stay Down" is what I was hoping for from the last Baker album. they're touring together, too:
11/04 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium11/06 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel11/07 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel11/08 Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre11/10 Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall11/11 Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre11/12 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall11/13 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall11/15 St Louis, MO @ The Pageant11/16 Madison, WI @ The Sylvee11/17 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue11/19 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre11/20 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot11/23 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom11/24 Seattle, WA @ The Moore Theatre11/25 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom11/27 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater11/29 San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park11/30 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
i mean i think as alpine pointed out the wilburys were more tied culturally than by a certain sound so i think the joke is fine
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/21/639528019/hear-new-music-from-phoebe-bridgers-julien-baker-lucy-dacus-supergroup-boygenius
need soccer mommy and snail mail to join to make a full-blown traveling wilburys situation
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
lol obviously someone made that exact joke hours ago.
a week ago
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
weeks are made of hours
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
Jenny Lewis, Bright Eyes, Ben Gibbard and M. Ward already did the indie-singer songwriter Wilburys
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
so what you're saying is that the bar is really really high
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
next Wilburys has to be aging k-pop stars
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
the ep is out today, and almost frustrating in that it feels like a tiny glimpse at a huge world
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 26 October 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
ep is great, "bite the hand" still my fav track
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 26 October 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
maybe it's where I'm at but the songs of longing for idylls ("Me & My Dog", "Ketchum, ID") are hitting me hardest
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 26 October 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
looking forward to hearing the other 3 songs. weird spotify metadata thing that will hurt their clicks - "boygenius" is an artist, but it only shows their three singles - not the EP. in order to find the EP, you have to type in one of the 3 member's names, where it's then displayed as an album. maybe i'll crosspost this with the spotify thread since someone there might actually be able to fix it.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 26 October 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
bridgers's solo work is certainly my favourite so i'm not really surprised that the tracks she leads here are my favourites, but the collaborative approach seems to elevate all of them and hearing them sing together is wonderful
― ufo, Saturday, 27 October 2018 05:56 (five years ago) link
Dang the boygenius EP is great
― abcfsk, Monday, 29 October 2018 09:32 (five years ago) link
Stay Down needs to be longer. Twice as long.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Monday, 29 October 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
Idly wondering if the EP is ideal length for the streaming age (and may have been all along).
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Monday, 29 October 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
I haven't really kept up since the first Julien Baker album, but I'm listening to the boygenius ep on rotation today and it's wonderful. I need to go back and see what I missed in the interim.
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 4 November 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
I know I slept on the Phoebe Bridgers album last year and have been escaping to that world pretty obsessively lately.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 4 November 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
That other sad parallel world
― abcfsk, Sunday, 4 November 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
Always managed to move inRight next to the cemeteriesAnd never far from hospitalsI don’t know what that tells you about me
occam's razor says they're living in dense urban areas so nothing is ever that far away
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 4 November 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
because all of those dense urban-centred cemeteries...
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 5 November 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
lol there are two cemeteries down the road from my high school!!
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
i live next to a (small) cemetery
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 01:16 (five years ago) link
anyway lucy dacus is the greatest songwriter in indie rock today
the way they trade vocals on "souvenir" is exquisite, and their harmonies at the end!!!
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 01:24 (five years ago) link
oh yeah this record gave me a nervous breakdown
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, November 5, 2015 3:12 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
happy anniversary
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljOonyYsMJI
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 13:13 (five years ago) link
love it
julien is so damn adorable
anyone know why "boygenius"?
― niels, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
policygenius was taken
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
cool that they made Julien's vocals totally inaudible in that clip
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
nice! me & my dog is still my fave. (though they mixed julien super low in that performance, bummer)
also calling them a "supergroup" sometimes makes sense in press outlets that have covered the individual members before and given them lots of praise, but it's kind of weird to hear them referred to that on late night tv
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
xp!yeah, i'm sure they listened back to it later and were a little :/
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
(not to focus too much on the mixing of a live performance but) maybe what happened was that julien's voice was a bit too high in the mix during rehearsal, so during performance the mixer turned her down AND she chose to sing further away from the mic in an attempt to fix it on her end, and it ended up with her pretty much at 0
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
re: the band name
“I felt the need then to qualify that we didn’t want to be in control in a mean or exclusionary way," Baker says. "But the thing about being a woman in the music industry is that you constantly feel the need to qualify yourself. We produced this record and all the players are female. It was important for us to show that there doesn’t have to be a man behind the scenes pulling the strings who is later accredited with the genius.”
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
lmao I can definitely imagine an unfamiliar sound guy assuming she'd have a small/meek vocal presence only to render half the audience deaf xp
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
xp cool, thanks!
― niels, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
to be fair to the sound person, she definitely looks like she's belting it in that performance. maybe he/she overcompensated ... or maybe Karl Malone is right.
but yeah, a bit of a bummer there.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
caught 'em tonight - JB actually has become a much quieter singer, like to the point where she was generally the quietest of the three performers. my guess would be she's had some formal training and it's reigned her in a bit.
anyway, Dacus was fantastic and the group set was stunning. they (apparently for the first time) eschewed amplification for "Ketchum, ID" resulting in a startlingly warm singalong -- now that was something else
I just got home and someone has already put it up on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NxC76FD45M
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Sunday, 11 November 2018 05:23 (five years ago) link
man they kick so much ass
beautiful video
something about julien's voice instantly pierces my heart
― niels, Sunday, 11 November 2018 12:06 (five years ago) link
ok, this is a silly thing to revive with, but imagine boygenius covering the roches' "hammond song"
― Karl Malone, Monday, 26 November 2018 06:07 (five years ago) link
hehe
that would be dope
― niels, Monday, 26 November 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link
I saw them in Vancouver this past weekend and it was really good. It was a pretty sad but beautiful few hours. Very moving. Maybe the best show I've seen this year.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 26 November 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
hell yeah:
https://www.stereogum.com/2023750/watch-boygenius-cover-the-dixie-chicks-cowboy-take-me-away-in-seattle/video/
― alpine static, Monday, 26 November 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
These shows look so great. I got tickets for The Tallest Man On Earth a long time ago so I’m going to miss the boygenius show tomorrow night. :(
― DJI, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Since this is the de facto Boygenius thread now, enjoy a Phoebe Bridgers Christmas song with Jackson Browne(!)
https://www.stereogum.com/2024160/phoebe-bridgers-christmas-song/music/
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 29 November 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
UM
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 November 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
love everything about the story behind it, song's gorgeous too
McCarthy Trenching is singer-songwriter Dan McCarthy’s band. We played a show together in Omaha this last year. They named the band after the trenching company owned by Dan’s uncle so they could sell those t-shirts instead of having to make their own. The first time I heard this song it hit me like a ton of bricks. A lot of McCarthy Trenching songs do that. It’s not that often that I hear a Christmas song that doesn’t make me want to quit music. I played a show in L.A. around the holidays last year where I covered it for the first time. Jackson Browne was there, and he came up to me after the show to tell me how much he loved the song. A couple days later, Dan got a Bandcamp notification on his desktop computer that someone paid 50 bucks for his record and wrote a nice note and signed it Jackson Browne. He thought someone was fucking with him. So when I decided to record a version of the song, I knew who I wanted to sing on it. Plus, I have wanted to make music with Jackson as long as I’ve wanted to make music.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 29 November 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link