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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……

what the heck would that even sound like???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NcJvi5TYEk

#onethread

wowee Exek has tons of albums! gonna play them all. The Map And The Territory is even better than the first one i played.

Na

Not sure what happened there, that was supposed to be:

"Nat King Cole's After Midnight is better than any Sinatra studio album"

Oh totally. Hadn't thought to compare them, but does have the same kind of excellent sequencing and singular mood as 50s Sinatra albums.

My probably not at all controversial Sinatra opinion is that Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely is much better than In The Wee Small Hours.

Only the Lonely got some love here:

Frank Sinatra's Tetralogy of Despair

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……

SAME

feel like Live Music is Better is obviously true on paper (sticker) however the reality of actually attending (or playing) a live music show is more often than not a miserable experience and I am very much over it

therefore Recordings of Live Music is Better

same. but i am old. and cranky. i never really bonded with people at clubs or concerts though. i have certainly seen great music and been uplifted by it and felt as one with the sound but i have also spent a lot of time being uncomfortable or constantly aware that there are people all around me and having that take me out of my enjoyment of the music. getting drunk was the best remedy for that. and i don't drink anymore. i have always preferred listening to music alone though. which is why i was never part of a scene or considered myself a "metalhead" or whatever. i loved the music at punk shows or loud rock shows and pretty much hated everything else.

I go to concerts because my wife likes them, and I like my wife, but I would always rather be on the stage than in the audience.

i mean live music in an intimate venue is great to be honest, it's the large venues that I'm completely mystified by

for sure, love an intimate venue, can't imagine going to a large size thing again unless it's that wild ass sphere out in Las Vegas that looks incredible I just wish it wasn't U2

Toni Braxton had a residency last time I was out that way, give Toni Braxton the sphere

The fact that it's U2 isn't really important though.