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

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.

please stfu

there are plenty of punk bands right now wtf are you talking about? columbus discount and tons of other labels like it exist for ppl like you and seem to be more prominent amongst college radio types anyway.

in other words, what jaxon said. stop bitching and post to termbo instead

answering machine are you named after manchester indie band answering machine or are you just tapping into the same part of the collective unconsciousness?

Really, Paperrad did all this infantile VHS nostalgia stuff way better and more interestingly years and years ago. I suppose they are partly to blame for some of this.

arthur beatrice

no, after the mats song

was hoping it was a sly allusion to the james ferraro song

anyway i too hope one day the kids will stop fucking around

has that dude gotten better about sending his customers the stuff they buy from him?

"jichael mackson" is too far.

not ephemeral enough?

i liked voided by guises

has that dude gotten better about sending his customers the stuff they buy from him?

haha what did you order from him? ive never had a problem but i dont think ive ever bought any of his stuff directly and the dudes at oesb are bros

oh, it was a thing that a bunch of people were complaining about on another board - IHM? i think - a few years back. i was never a skaters fan.

i heard that too

i may add that I saw his show at Neon Marshmallow and it was quite possibly the most insulting thing I've ever seen a "performer" do on stage. Literally the one-finger poke n play drones and loops an 11 year old makes when he gets his first toy keyboard, but the man is a grown adult doing it in front of an audience

Neon marshmallow? What is that. Tbh whiney yr grumpy young man schtick is needed now more than ever

Neon Marshmallow was a rad avant music fest in Chicago that just did a version in NYC that was rad too

sweet ive been waiting for you to post about james ferraro

i have a really hard time imagining people listening to his music

i listen to his stuff and associated side projects all the time, why do you have a hard time imagining people listening to it? not sure what your point is, skaters are def on the most defensible end of the hypnagoogly spectrum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hnH2eyxrno

this is the album i heard, maybe it's an exception in his catalogue?

also an xp - ime almost all drone music isn't really about a dynamic performance so much as zoning the fuck out. have seen ferraro live a few times and it wasn't much different than most other bay area diy noise stuff i've seen, except maybe for the theatrics of caroliner et al

i like that album but his 'best' or least best regarded album is probably 'last american hero' which is a lot more layered/composed imo i mean im not a huge fan and theres an extent to which defending this stuff is sorta too personal so w/e but i think hes done some p amazing stuff

whiney i kept looking around kind half-heartedly for u on saturday @ neon marshmellow but then felt it was weird to go and talk to you when i thought i saw you also i mostly convinced myself it wasn't you since i dont really know what you look like.

oh yea he has shitty tracks for sure

i like when he does this type of thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvTMFxZ0SAA&feature=related

lamborghini crystal is cool too

have monopoly child star searchers been mentioned itt yet? not ferraro, but skaters related and p great

monopoly child star searchers have so many amazing song/album titles that seem so perfectly designed to piss off you ppl

this is cool

this track off the new james ferraro cracks me up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2nvbwlCX_k

"there you go, sir"