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

hm, good point. i guess chillwave is explicitly marketed chillness, so it is (kinda) unique in that sense as a thing that is marketed toward cool people. like grunge music appealed to slackers, but it was all about bitterness, disaffection, anger, and even in some cases severe depression. although there is this undercurrent of melancholy and loss in most chillwave acts (but not in the ducktails album!) that distinguishes it from the great selling "chill" music. i guess it's just the ducktails album that i feel like reclaims afternoon-drinking-corona-on-the-porch music for hipsters.

so basically chillwave is the gentrification of chill, which doesn't sound very good when written out like that, but i'm enjoying my ride on this wave.

maybe chillwave is just grunge to electroclash's hair metal

the timeline is reversed though, because hair metal preceded grunge and electroclash preceded chillwave. otherwise that analogy is fine, i guess. i think chillwave is just a result of the democratization of sampling and similar studio procedures. electronic music can be low budget now, and so more personal than it ever was before.

That was exactly what Adam said

oh yeah, i see now. sorry. good analogy.

why does drinking corona on the porch need to be reclaimed? who stole it from humanity? who is doing this reclaiming?

everything got sunny/beachy/tropical a while back, not just the chillwave stuff. i don't think that vibing out was ever in much need of reclamation, though.

someone quickly reclaim getting high & having a barbecue, summer's almost on us

i think yer first point is kinda wrong -- tbh, at the same time there was the chillwave phenomenon there was also a resurgence in various willfully dark strains of new wave/synth pop/'minimal synth.' tons of reissues of obscure european and american obscurities have come out in the last few years that most decidedly not sunny, even within this post-punk/indie rock/new wave/'underground' framework.

xp to contendorizor

gothwave

i think it's true that the post punk indie synth stuff contains multitudes, but i think the sunnier end of chillwave is still it's own thing, that tried to bring hipster music out of the bedroom/dive bar and onto the lawn.

and xpost i consider best coast/waaves/late 2000s sunny guitar indie pop a part of this trend, but one that is less interesting to me than the more stoned sounding synth end of things

Wasn't the phrase invented as a mock genre by Hipsterrunoff?

it was, but it is still an accurate term to describe a cluster of bands with similar sensibilities that were emerging around 08-09

you can call them hypnagogic pop bands if u want

hypnagogo bands

i think yer first point is kinda wrong -- tbh, at the same time there was the chillwave phenomenon there was also a resurgence in various willfully dark strains of new wave/synth pop/'minimal synth.' tons of reissues of obscure european and american obscurities have come out in the last few years that most decidedly not sunny, even within this post-punk/indie rock/new wave/'underground' framework.

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Sunday, April 28, 2013 12:24 PM (8 hours ago)

in case it wasn't clear, i didn't mean everything everything. just regular everything.

is Robert Ashley a forerunner of chillwave?

yes. this influence was strikingly apparent when the Metropolitan Opera did an orchestral version of Neon Indian's Psychic Chasms last fall

the dude from Washed Out
I think they burned him

Take it Easy is a great song, one of the few great eagles songs

completely missed how dope com truise is amidst all this lolling

the ol come trues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLiJnFS4Hkw

reminds me a lot of DJ Shadow in the way he constructs tunes, but with a different sonic palette

BURT BACHARACH TO THE FUTURE

lol

Bacharach to the Future would have been sufficient.

Now I'm waiiting for a DJ duo, Bert & Ernie Hudson.

I think I like Bleeding Rainbow

i fucken love em

chet faker

Tera Melos premiere "Slimed" video via Brooklyn Vegan

think there's a bit more to tera melos than this, but not as much as I'd hope

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Remember-Lite-Brite/176839312438663

Someone must have told this guy that there's already a band called Twin Peaks: http://www.obscuresound.com/2014/07/pin-tweaks-girl-wire/

AND there's already a Pwin ▲▲ Teaks

http://cinyf.wordpress.com/reviews/pwin-%E2%96%B2%E2%96%B2-teaks-aoxomoxoa/

The British bar band version is Weak Pints.

ha

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Twin_Freaks.jpg

creatively bankrupt newish mashup/post-Wings bands whose names are just '80s ephemera

https://twitter.com/DDDrewDaniel/status/520338817119977473

2 for the price of 1

Adderall Canyonly
https://adderallcanyonly.bandcamp.com/

From the depths of Chicago, The Warehouse to Paradise Garage, The Sound Factory to Studio 54 came HOUSE.
The Hacienda and Turnmills, Hard Times and The End…HOUSE and more HOUSE.
Friday till Monday, HOUSE every weekend and all weekend long.
The London Orbital M25, anywhere and everywhere,
Every weekend just HOUSE.
Space and Amnesia, London, Paris, New York.
HOUSE is our history.
It overcame racial divides and united the masses,
HOUSE music changed the world.
HOUSE is a feeling and a release,
A tribute to those who work hard every week and let themselves go.
HOUSE is hope.
HOUSE is working hard to relive that feeling every single weekend.
HOUSE is more alive than ever before.
This is the story of how a man called David Zowie has captured the heart of HOUSE, and how we live it EVERY WEEKEND.

what a wanker

May 7th, 2015 - Hopeless Records is thrilled to announce the signing of What's Eating Gilbert, the new musical endeavor of New Found Glory's lead guitarist, Chad Gilbert. Additionally, the band has announced their new album, That New Sound You're Looking For, which is set to release via Hopeless Records on July 10th! The first single, as well as the album pre-order, will be available on June 2nd.

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Charleston, SC's Heyrocco has announced their debut LP, Teenage Movie Soundtrack, out June 2nd via Old Flame Records (US) and June 8th via Vital Music Group (UK/Europe). Influenced by an era when alternative, guitar-driven rock and angst-fueled jams ruled the airwaves, the trio crafts '90s-inspired pop tunes updated for modern times.

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Sick Sad World is a lot of things. It’s coming up next on MTV’s Daria and it’s a more than apt summary of where we as humans have taken things and where we’re going. Most importantly, however, it’s a band in a cartoon universe within the mind of Jake Jones, an Olympia-born and Seattle-residing skateboarder, kickboxer, and smoothie enthusiast who, on Fear and Lies, out on 4/21/2015 through Seattle upstart Help Yourself Records, has knocked out 11 guitar pop gems ready for their inclusion on the classic hits playlists of the future.

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Fuck you

http://www.stereogum.com/1833992/boosegumps-stole-ur-bike/mp3s/

They’ve shared tour bills with Free Cake For Every Creature and I Tried To Run Away When I Was 6

Please, make it stop...

Joe Oxley, the one and only man behind TVAM, describes his sound as Post-Internet, motivational slime-punk and we totally dig it.