not at all. reptar sounds like modest mouse. that's it.
― cutty, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 10:33 (twelve years ago) link
We're way past the 80s here, but Xander Harris has/have a new album out: http://xanderfuckingharris.blogspot.com/
― Can't Stop the Rop (seandalai), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
there's a band playing CMJ this year called AC Slater
― crutbeef (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 29 September 2011 05:30 (twelve years ago) link
i wish more bands wrote songs abt sailor moon
― señorita buttstench (Lamp), Thursday, 29 September 2011 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
we need a '90s and '00s version of this thread for all the futurama related band names i keep spotting (today's: calculon)
― minge beat (electricsound), Thursday, 29 September 2011 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
i played a show with a band called ash ketchum once
― señorita buttstench (Lamp), Thursday, 29 September 2011 05:37 (twelve years ago) link
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
― wes2gully (some dude), Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
I'm pretty sure there's at least two DJs called that, one of em is Drop The Lime's buddy iirc
― the wrong terry to fuckwit (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
the xander harris album is fucking great. same with the single on 100% silk
― it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking of AC Slater, there's a bay area band called Kapowski.
― polyphonic, Friday, 30 September 2011 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― whiney g. aimhouse (electricsound), Friday, 30 September 2011 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, my first band were called Kif. In 2001. For one gig. Before we got a less shit name.
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Friday, 30 September 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
xxp - they opened for a friend's band last weekend. i heard they were mediocre.
― sarahel, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― the green manalishi (with the big boobies) (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 08:51 (twelve years ago) link
Total slacker are awesome!
― whiney g. aimhouse (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Picnicant, Friday, 7 October 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
Full House was a shitty, unfunny show and anyone holding that up as something to be nostalgic for is seriously suspect.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
I vaguely recall Eve 6 claiming their band name was an X-Files reference.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
It is. First season. The Eves go up to 10 in the episode.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― answering_machine, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
please stfu
― jaxon, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
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
― it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
answering machine are you named after manchester indie band answering machine or are you just tapping into the same part of the collective unconsciousness?
― ogmor, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
arthur beatrice
― just sayin, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
no, after the mats song
― answering_machine, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
was hoping it was a sly allusion to the james ferraro song
― INDIE BAND (Lamp), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― sarahel, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
"jichael mackson" is too far.
― this is unusual for batman. (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
not ephemeral enough?
― sarahel, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
i liked voided by guises
― INDIE BAND (Lamp), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
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
― INDIE BAND (Lamp), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― sarahel, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Youth Ya Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 27 October 2011 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
Neon marshmallow? What is that. Tbh whiney yr grumpy young man schtick is needed now more than ever
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 October 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
Neon Marshmallow was a rad avant music fest in Chicago that just did a version in NYC that was rad too
― Youth Ya Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 27 October 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
sweet ive been waiting for you to post about james ferraro
― flopson, Thursday, 27 October 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
i have a really hard time imagining people listening to his music
― flopson, Thursday, 27 October 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
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
― it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Thursday, 27 October 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hnH2eyxrno
this is the album i heard, maybe it's an exception in his catalogue?
― flopson, Thursday, 27 October 2011 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
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
― it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Thursday, 27 October 2011 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― INDIE BAND (Lamp), Thursday, 27 October 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
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
― it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Thursday, 27 October 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
monopoly child star searchers have so many amazing song/album titles that seem so perfectly designed to piss off you ppl
― it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Thursday, 27 October 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
this is cool
― flopson, Thursday, 27 October 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
this track off the new james ferraro cracks me uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2nvbwlCX_k
― blank, Thursday, 27 October 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
"there you go, sir"
last american hero is far and away his best release, imo. conjures up so many different landscapes and emotions
― blank, Thursday, 27 October 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link