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I was searching for music similar to Mazzy Star and ended up falling into the "Paisley Underground" rabbit hole. This genre is more or less 1980s LA's garage-y psychedelic answer to Velvet Underground. There are a ton of great bands to check out here like The Dream Syndicate, The Three O'Clock, Green on Red, and Game Theory. None of them sound much like Mazzy Star, which was my original goal, but they're all insanely sick. I've been playing The Dream Syndicate album The Days of Wine and Roses basically non-stop.
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Bumping an old recommendation because I've been very Mazzy Star brained for the last week
Perfectly Imperfect Editor Recs on January 5th, 2023
I was searching for music similar to Mazzy Star and ended up falling into the "Paisley Underground" rabbit hole. This genre is more or less 1980s LA's garage-y psychedelic answer to Velvet Underground. There are a ton of great bands to check out here like The Dream Syndicate, The Three O'Clock, Green on Red, and Game Theory. None of them sound much like Mazzy Star, which was my original goal, but they're all insanely sick. I've been playing The Dream Syndicate album The Days of Wine and Roses basically non-stop.
Dec 17, 2023
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the velveteers and pacifica. (if any one knows of more with these vibes PLEASE share ((: )
Apr 15, 2024
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I can't stand music discourse—particularly of the "rock is dead" or "rock is back" variety—because I find that nobody has decent taste, and often they're not even aware of the best bands making music now. I feel like most adults have a period of their life when they discover a lot of music and then they give up searching. I'm relentless when it comes to discovering new favorite bands. I don't think there has ever been a time with as much incredible and timeless guitar-driven music as right now. Nothing, Teenage Wrist, Soft Kill, Ruby Haunt, Ski Lodge, cursetheknife, Jorge Elbrecht, Narrow Head, Sports Coach, Gold Star, Choir Boy, Better Person, Private World, Peel Dream Magazine, Salem, Heavenward, Broken Head, Sweet Trip, Valleyheart, Sculpture Club, Winter, Deafheaven, No Joy, Sheer Mag, Day Wave, Roseville, Kitten, Glare, Amusement Parks On Fire, Soft Blue Shimmer, Black Marble, Provoker, Anonymous Club, Holiday Sidewinder, House of Harm, Superbloom, Softcult, Tigers Jaw, Second Skin, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, NewDad, Failure, Beachy Head, The Chain Gang of 1974, Cindy, Seer Believer, Fearing, and VR Sex are the names of some current bands you should probably be listening to that come to mind. And Drab Majesty's The Demonstration, a melodramatic tragedy pageant in honor of the Heaven's Gate suicides, remains the best album of the last decade. If you want something more electro, go for Real Lies, these two Islington dudes who make the most tasteful club pop since the Pet Shop Boys. Their recent single "Late Arcades" was written as an ode to their old schoolmate, Richard Spencer, who vanished years ago. That shit makes me cry. (Especially in the car.)
Mar 3, 2022
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this site is pro sincerity
Dec 15, 2023
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tomorrow PI.FYI launches to the public
this project is the result of thousands of hours spent coding everything from scratch after I got laid off six months ago
no thiel-bucks or weirdo outsider money, just a pure desire to make something fun and true to Perfectly Imperfect’s day one goal of helping people find new things from real human beings, not algorithms or AI
a pure labor of love that I’ve been quietly plotting for two years and it’s completely self-funded from my (rapidly) dwindling savings account
so thank you for coming along for this weird ride 🫶 let's see where it goes
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