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or if we are waiting for the pickle ball court to open up.

wait i've got a contro/op! THE ONLY 21ST CENTURY INDIE GUITAR BANDS WORTH LISTENING TO ARE ALL FROM AUSTRALIA. its true. dune rats. rolling blackouts. violent soho. hockey dad. drunk mums. total control. the uv race. raw balls. dick diver. lace curtain. rat columns. dag. blank realm. NEED I GO ON??? not to mention famous people like courtney and amyl.

pretty much the only modern indie rock i listen to. everything else is lame. how do they all make their guitars sound so cool and fun? and why does it look like they are having so much fun? aren't all the koalas on fire over there? down there. so infectious. AND NOT JUST THAT SMOKO SONG. they can't ALL be related to the Go-Betweens.

i'm a little behind though. i need to find some new kangarockers.

(i'm listening to the song "dive deep" by rolling blackouts right now and i think could marry the entire band. so good.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=628gXZn-zYw

not to mention Billiam, Gee Tees, R.M.F.C., Busted Head Racket, Tee Vee Repairman, Hagol, etc etc etc

and Terry, and EXEK, and The Lewers

Maybe if you include Canada too. Some of the indie guitar bands from up north: Dumb, Kiwi jr., Ducks Ltd.

ooh yeah aussie recs for me here please. i started a YT playlist ages ago but i should update or create a better one. plus its an old account of mine that i don't use anymore. WOOLEN KITS!

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4uJu4UGWv-Rn0YA53IvBEQTcxQ2E0u1n

SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING RULE. i have one album by them. so great.

i never look at my old account. this is still the best thing i've ever put on the internet probably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFHPsThGQ1E

see also

Lothario
TGRX
Tombeau

"children of dentists selling meth to buy coke?" Anyway, joke or no: dentists, Phish, nitrous, it all adds up.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, February 28, 2024 5:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Actual LOLs because the biggest Phish phan I knew at aforementioned college was the son of a dentist studying to be a dentist who also happens to be the only person I've ever done whipits with so that tracks.

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Power Plant too, forgot them

Feel like there would even be at least one King Gizzard record scott would dig too.

for sure, gotta be at least one lol

i'm a little scared of them. they aren't the phish of stoner rock are they?

they kind of are

Powerplant are from London

hey random ilxor if you have never heard this song and you like the sound of electric guitars..........................ahhhhhhhh!! LUV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93J8FKmrn0

xp thank you CP! my mistake

if there is an indie band that sounds as good as RBCF in this godforsaken country i ain't never heard them.

most of these are more punk than indie but some more Aussie recs: Ausmuteants, Alien Nosejob, Civic, Soakie, Private Function, Cold Meat, Ubik, Enzyme, Straightjacket Nation

love Civic

i'm a little scared of them. they aren't the phish of stoner rock are they?

I mean, yes and no. Similar in that they have a massive dedicated live following and really bring out folks with the collector's bug. But also, no, they don't ever really sound like Phish and are all over the place from stoner rock to thrash to kraut to prog and all points in between.

i haven't done a deep dive but i don't really like how their records sound, recording wise

Physique

i will check out the gizzard guys sometime. i mean i know i must have heard something online at some point.

lol i just remembered I made this meme for some friends in a fb chat a while back

https://i.postimg.cc/90jDfB5y/aussiepunk.jpg

Physique are from Olympia

lol ums

if there is an indie band that sounds as good as RBCF in this godforsaken country i ain't never heard them.

Have you heard Big Thief? They're pretty good...

my kid loves big thief. my kid turns me on to cool stuff. i like Wednesday! and my kid rufus turned me on to the wednesday guitarist's stuff and i dug it. it almost sounded australian!

i like turnstile lollllzzz but i kinda do. don't know why really.

i like western mass indie rock. my friends. its chill. my pal mikey turner had an awesome band called Huevos II but he moved to england :(

and my friend adam had an awesome band that i loved called New Parents but he moved to Philly and now he plays with kurt vile :(

and my pals clarke and wednesday (no relation to the band) had an AWES0ME band called Pigeons but they don't play anymore :(

but my friends patrick and wes have a new band that is awesome called Creative Writing. look out for them.

and my friends rob and bev have an amazing folk/psych band called Stella Kola and their album is one of my faves of recent times. that's online.

but maybe i like them so much because they are my friends. New Parents were SO great live.

hahaha, no way, my kid - whose band is awesome by the way and if you are ever in montreal check them out *Rufus Cesspool* - just sent me this insta message!!

"I'm joining another band with an aussie singer
Get ready for montreal's finest Courtney Barnett -core"

also: i am cleaning and pricing an Exploding White Mice record right now to take to the record show this weekend.

Scott here's a good Aussie band for you to check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjz2DaiMzOU
Featuring a founder member of Warped. (who has sadly since passed away)

They are called 'The Glycereens' btw.

its nice that other than one vote for canada nobody disagrees with me about australia. it must be true! there's something in the water. i listened to so much of that stuff during the pandemic. shit, that reminds me of a thread i wanted to start.

I mean I disagree that the only current guitar bands worth listening to are from there, but it sounds like you're just hyperbolizing :)

haha, yeah, well, that's how i roll.

Backtracking to the discussion of arty, improv-y metal, Stereogum's metal column this month has an interview with Álvaro Domene, a guitarist who's at the forefront of that "movement" (he's on the Catatonic Effigy album I linked, and has his own label, Iluso).

i will check that out.

There's an amazing quote in the middle of the interview that sums up so much of what I love about wild heavy shit:

While Domene may not consider himself a metalhead, he’s still cultivated an intriguing take on the style’s importance in his playing. “There are certain aspects of performing ultra-intense, loud, and highly technical music that I think is likely only achievable, as an instrumentalist, if you spend time working in metal music that features those elements,” he writes. “Incidentally, I think that’s why most ‘jazz rock’ or ‘jazz metal’ groups out there sound like cheesy ’80s fusion to me because the performers tend to be jazz musicians who are attempting to play loud and tricky material, but they, in my opinion, and for the most part, are not even remotely aware of the macro and micro strategies inherently applied in great metal and which make that music blast you in the face and punch your heart in total catharsis, like the many nuances that the picking hand of a competent metal guitarist has, for example, which can turn a flat riff into a chainsaw or freight train. All this to say that metal and punk, not as styles per se but more so as an ethos, are part of my vocabulary, so when the music requires a certain level of intensity and sonic insurrection, that part of me is pleased to come out and burn it all down. I just never think of it as, ‘Oh well, time to play some metal riffs now.’ I actually never think of this. It’s well ingrained.”

i haven't done a deep dive but i don't really like how their records sound, recording wise

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, February 29, 2024 11:09 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yea most of their early records are intentionally lo-fi - easier to get into them when you realize that's how they're *supposed* to sound. but I think Nonagon Infinity was the last record they did like that and the ones I have beyond that sound pretty good

There are def. some King Gizzard tracks (albums?) that sound broadly Phishy, but there are also microtonal experimental records, garage rock records, legit thrash records, and so on.

thanks for the Lewers tip! digging them. would definitely buy that album if i saw it.

digging the Exek record! its like a lost Section 25 album. cheers, nerve pylon.

Here'a controversial musical opinion, so controversial I'm surprising myself: I think I'd much rather hear an album of the Rolling Stones covering the VU than the Feelies one.

what the heck would that even sound like???

I’d rather sit home and listen to Murmur than see a cover band play it live… even a talented cover band with the R.E.M. guys’ endorsement……