So who ARE that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads?

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i just watched this entire video

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

patreon guy says that in 5 years the 'the starving artist' will be a thing of the past because 'creators' will be 'in charge' - as a result of better admin tools and easy monetization on various platforms. it will be just as viable and respectable to be a 'creator' as a teacher, doctor or lawyer

lame youtube covers guy getting a commercial then turning into a startup guy is some perfect it couldnt get any worse than this type shit

i think he might be jimmy fallon wearing indie drag

seeing this thread bumped is like running into someone at the grocery store that you had a long and embarrassing heart-to-heart talk with while stoned out of your mind back in college. maybe it'll be interesting but it is definitely gonna be depressing

"the woman from pomplamoose sang a cover of "careless whisper" on trent renor's soundtrack for The Watchmen TV program" is a sentence that would have broken my brain ten years ago; we're all so numb

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

This cover is no high and all dry

Morgan James
Morgan James is married to the very good guitarist Doug Wamble so if you want to try to cheer yourself up a bit think about them instead of the titular pair of this thread.

otm

massive lols at
Trying to imagine eight more nausea inducing words than "Nataly Dawn covering “Truth Hurts” on solo banjo"

Scary Pockets should just be called K. Cuz they take the "fun" out of "funk"

what level of mood stabilizers is that lady on

All that Patreon money pays for some incredible research chemicals.

I never picked up the connection until later but I dig the stuff with Larry Goldings with both John Scofield and Robben Ford.

they have some moments. They are tight. Sometimes a little too tight. I dislike the clickbaity videos they make that are like what if cover of x but FUNKY, and then the arrangement is usually a little bit hack and not quite funky enough, even though the musicians play well.

We had a discussion of some of that stuff over here as well, as you may recall: KNOWER: funky, quirky electro duo with jazz chops Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi

The discography of American musical duo Pomplamoose consists of six studio albums, six compilation albums, one soundtrack, one live album, three extended plays, 29 music videos, and over 190 singles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cewUWR7AjYE

La Pamplemousse >>> Pomplemousse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmu4ZR1QX24

re: that High and Dry video, i swear they designed that little logo in the lower right corner to make their name seem different and/or cooler and/or French

GARDENVIEW
A new album by Nataly Dawn (of Pomplamoose)

i am sad to say they are now extracting the blood from popular music to fertilise their garden of creative entrepreneurship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfBwiKITX8Y

Disappointed they weren't doing a tweekulele cover of 'Permafrost' tbh.

lol, this^

https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/336/536/9780671536336.OL.0.l.jpg

Shot by both siides

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0015/2602/products/DAFTPOMP-LPbackground.png?v=1668443881

why have you done this to us

Very depressing to be unimaginably wealthy and still pumping out this dreck.

corny money, corny problems

Too much botheration for me to be involved in.

Then Pomplamoose's upcoming Chuck Berry tribute, Too Pooped To Pomp, is for you!

Hahaha!

magdalena bay

Scary Pockets manages to be worse than Pomplamoose somehow. And here they are.. featuring Joe Bonamassa!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Crbf-BvLM0N/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

that is awful but it's a different vibe from pomplamoose, less cutesy and more berklee

yeah true. There's something that really bothers me about the way they manage to play funk exactly "right" and it still doesn't sound funky at all, like an uncanny valley thing.

Scary Pockets is a bad vibe for sure, like a much smarmier Vulfpeck (they make me appreciate Vulfpeck more on every level fr).

I guess it's a net good that they've presumably introduced many people to the tasteful genius of Larry Goldings.

Is all their stuff covers(??)

it says right in the description that it's a cover band with a rotating cast of guest musicians so...

Sorry - not sure where that description is, I was looking at their catalog in Spotify.

whoops, I went to the instagram account’s main page and it’s the description there

I was interested in hearing this uncanny-valley funk, but less so when I realized they're cover albums with titles like Stank Face.

"Uncanny valley" probably gives it too much credit. It's not uncanny in any interesting sense. They kind of subtly have the vibe of a kids' band though. Jack has a lot to do with that.

I mean it's like the least "stank" it could possibly get

makes sense

at its root the pomplamoose stuff is an exercise in competence, it's just so dry to me. you could maybe do something interesting with that by taking it in weird directions but there's no weird there

which makes it a bizarre approach to play funk covers

'haha we are playing funk, chortle'

yeah, that too!