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There's a real death rattle going on for indie rock or whatever we're calling the kids who play guitars. So self-serious, so self-respecting, so self-important. Dour and dreary. Image conscious and with so much inhibition.
Where is our Tom Waits or Lucinda Williams or Silver Jews or Smog or...? I mean, fuck. Even the National would kill a bottle or two of sauvignon blanc on stage.
We deserve a better class of bands. We deserve the Replacements getting shitfaced and lamenting (stammering?) mid-song about losing a girl's number again or trashing David Bowie's dressing room. Or, y'know...Being blackout on SNL
Jan 25, 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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- Pinback
- Girls in Hawai
- Purple Mountains / Silver Jews (RIP David Berman)
- Guided by voices
- Madrugada
- Kaloomé
- Morning Star
- Red House Painters
- Vic Chestnutt
- Strangelove (& his singer Patrick Duff)
Why ? Because
Feb 5, 2024
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you know, that one indie band from like 2010-ish that p4k indie types really liked
i haven't even listened to them in over a decade, i just have mad respect for them for putting out two albums over the string of like three years and then just taking to social media to write a short note that they'd finished as a band forever because they felt like they'd accomplished everything they'd set out to. which is something countless other artists will just never realize... well past the point at which they should
(i'm sure girls ~not the band~ are pretty cool too though
Jan 23, 2024
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Go off I guess but also do you know your arms are flopping around all over the place
Mar 5, 2024
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I love walking around the city and seeing like a full blown rockabilly kid or a Robert-Smith-eyeliner-goth (the clown-core thing is EXEMPT from this I hate seeing you clown makeup mf'ers)
Apr 16, 2024
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A bunch of teenagers in Seoul, South Korea in 1997 made the best pop-punk tape of all time. It's everything I've ever wanted.
"My Mommie is a Commie" and "I Wanna Kill Alex Trebek" are particular highlights.
Mar 5, 2024