Musicological banter

Foxygen cancel Eurpoean Tour due to "creative health of the band"  ?????

http://www.clashmusic.com/news/foxygen-cancel-european-tour

Is that code for we went out on whirlwind tours to soon in our careers, when we should have been honing our live chops on a local/regional level first?

kosmo wrote:
Foxygen cancel Eurpoean Tour due to "creative health of the band"  ?????

http://www.clashmusic.com/news/foxygen-cancel-european-tour

Is that code for we went out on whirlwind tours to soon in our careers, when we should have been honing our live chops on a local/regional level first?

They just played the Golden West Cafe.. I don't think is ever too early in your career to play there.  I heard from someone who went to the show that they were awful live.  It probably comes down to not practicing enough before touring.

Foxygen have been around a lot longer than Of Monsters and Men and when I saw them live last year they put on probably  one of the ten best shows I have seen in my life.

RatBastard wrote:
If we are talking suck ass bands again let's not forget…

U2
Rush
Dave Mathews
Boston (for you old fucks)
Journey (for you semi-old fucks)

I love Boston's first and like their second. The funny thing about Boston's first is that it was more indie than most well-known indie bands. Most of it was played by Tom Scholz himself and recorded on 12-track in his own basement and on his own dime. It wasn't "corporate" rock; the sound he invented was copied by everyone else and that became corporate rock.

Journey is actually older than Boston and started as a jazz-rock spinoff of Santana. They went nowhere, so they hired a candyass singer and invented Glee.

I could easily nit pick and tear this article to death but I won't bother.

Shoegaze: the genre that could not be killed
Formerly a UK music press term of abuse for hapless Thames Valley indie types who hid behind their fringes, now everyone's glad to be 'gaze

-Edit-
Just got a look at the Spotify list with the article and it looks amazingly like what I've been airing on Air Atlantic Underground Radio for all these years.  8)

A good list for your next trip into NYC:

Vinyl Sale: NYC Music Stores

I would love to have these, but alas, I must be a responsible human being.  :(

beetsnotbeats wrote:


Rewind! The Cassette is Back.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry released their report of 2 million cassette tapes sold worldwide? Sales in the UK alone tripled last year.

Cassettes suck.

^ I agree and refuse to fall for the hype.

Yeah, that's just retro with the intention of being contrary.

beetsnotbeats wrote:
I love Boston's first and like their second. The funny thing about Boston's first is that it was more indie than most well-known indie bands. Most of it was played by Tom Scholz himself and recorded on 12-track in his own basement and on his own dime. It wasn't "corporate" rock; the sound he invented was copied by everyone else and that became corporate rock.

Journey is actually older than Boston and started as a jazz-rock spinoff of Santana. They went nowhere, so they hired a candyass singer and invented Glee.

I somehow missed these comments when they were posted.  They are both spot on.

An interesting family tree:

Jeez, I never thought about their 'family tree' but it is indeed impressive.

Sober, I can think of a few more they could've included:
Dead Meadow
The Triffids
The Church
The Clientele
The Wild Swans
Dilettantes
The Rebel Drones
Mellow Drunk
Freelovebabies

i think i know like three bands on that page.  and who is bjm?  not everybody knows every band and i hate when people cant just spell out whole band names . . . has it gotten that bad.

Brian Jonestown Massacre and I'm a bit flabbergasted about this tree, having no idea so many of Anton Newcombe band mates went on to so many projects.  Anton BTW is a totally trip on twitter…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Brian_Jonestown_Massacre_members

oh yeah . . . i remember some time ago i made fun of their name, and came up with some other like minded silly band names.  i wish i could remember them.

Slappy, Mellow Drunk is on there. ;) Good band that just never seemed to make it beyond the various musical social media sites. Gotta say that you certainly know your BJM and their history! I would have never realized that there were so many spawns.

Where's Sparx when we need him?

If I'm not mistaken, Daydream Nation are another missing branch.

Don't know when this was created but it is interesting.

Whoa Anton is on Twitter?


BRB

There he is!

weird anton has disappeared from twitter recently… watching him work on remixes with Tim Burgess over twitter and banter with Andy Partridge was fun.  he's a bit like walkie on twitter (conspiracy theories and the like)  but there are no cat pictures involved.

Yeah the last post was on 4/23.