PUT ON UR F---ING SUSPENDERS - IT'S GAME-DAY, BRAH

you think what the lumineers and mumford and sons are going through is bad . . . check these hijinxs out.  i find the following article and the fact that this really happened, to be funny.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/cutting-for-bieber-twitter-hoax-4chan_n_2426802.html

walkonby wrote:
you think what the lumineers and mumford and sons are going through is bad . . . check these hijinxs out.  i find the following article and the fact that this really happened, to be funny.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/cutting-for-bieber-twitter-hoax-4chan_n_2426802.html

i think mumford and sons and lumineers are overjoyed.  they have a huge fanbase and they are playing big venues and I am sure they don't care about what some guy who has some crappy blog that no one reads has to say about them.  Everytime someone is successful there will be jealousy.  The indie rock thing has died as bands kept getting worse and worse and now the americana thing is what is big.  Sucks for those of us that like it but the bands out now are top notch.  I am sure in 4 or 5 years the genre will start to lose popularity as the bands that come out won't be as good.  Then in another 2 or 3 years people will move on to the next big thing. 

As a longtime fan of Americana, I can say there's much better Americana out there than Mumford or the Lumineers. Search beyond the flavor of the month.

Mumford and the Lumineers are "Americana" now?

He said it, not me.

Does "Americana influenced pop" work better for you?

hutch wrote:
Mumford and the Lumineers are "Americana" now?

James wrote:
He said it, not me.

Does "Americana influenced pop" work better for you?

hutch wrote:
Mumford and the Lumineers are "Americana" now?

Just checkin… next thing you know they'll be calling it Alternative Country.

Actually Mumford and Sons are considered "Indie Rock" by their own label - Universal Music UK…

http://universalmusic.co.uk/gifts/?page=4&utm_source=UniversalChristmas2012011212&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=09-Indie+Rock&utm_content=UMGUK7384-250543

calling it indie music is almost as idiotic


indie music last year accounted for 32.6% of all sales… not very indie if you ask me!

I'm just amused by the fact that a major label is flogging "indie rock"….  Which is now made even more generic of a term…  Most leading "indie rock" groups probably use the same bookers, management and PR firms as those signed to major labels.  The only difference is the size of the label, which is probably distributed by a major label affiliated outfit anyways.  Some of the leading lights of indie rock are now signed to majors, because their indie labels could only take their careers so far… i.e. Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie, Black Keys. 

Far more attention needs to be placed on real indie labels  or independently release material.

hutch wrote:

James wrote:
He said it, not me.

Does "Americana influenced pop" work better for you?

hutch wrote:
Mumford and the Lumineers are "Americana" now?

Just checkin… next thing you know they'll be calling it Alternative Country.

no alt-country is the worst genre of music filled with crappy bands like wilco and drive by truckers.

kosmo wrote:
I'm just amused by the fact that a major label is flogging "indie rock"….  Which is now made even more generic of a term…   Most leading "indie rock" groups probably use the same bookers, management and PR firms as those signed to major labels.  The only difference is the size of the label, which is probably distributed by a major label affiliated outfit anyways.   Some of the leading lights of indie rock are now signed to majors, because their indie labels could only take their careers so far… i.e. Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie, Black Keys. 

Far more attention needs to be placed on real indie labels  or independently release material.

I think the term indie rock is used to describe music that decends from bands like orange juice and aztec camera and later the bands on the nme c86 compilitation and later the smiths. 

If only more indie rock sounded like Scottish Pop, then the world would be better place.  Sadly, the beast that is now Indie Rock encompasses more than the UK indie labels of the past. 

i love the fact, imo, and maybe i am wrong, but i just love that we had the moment where rap blended with heavy rock giving us such gems as 311, papa roach, limp biscuit, korn (who are not bad up until their last two or so albums), linkin park, etc…, as a thing, a time that was there and is now gone.  i wasn't a fan of the era.  now i feel it has reared its ugly head again–i remember i spoke of this before somewhere around here–in the fact that rap music has blended with indie music.  pitchfork is always putting out rap artist props, and that stupid wutang 2.0 band who love making us well aware that anti gay is still alive and well among the genre.  i just don't like rap music, like i don't like country.  both are not music to me.  the whole indie as a crossover medium, is just as bad as when country music was used by taylor swift to become a femine bombshell gabillionaire.

walkonby wrote:
i love the fact, imo, and maybe i am wrong, but i just love that we had the moment where rap blended with heavy rock giving us such gems as 311, papa roach, limp biscuit, korn (who are not bad up until their last two or so albums), linkin park, etc…, as a thing, a time that was there and is now gone.  i wasn't a fan of the era.  now i feel it has reared its ugly head again–i remember i spoke of this before somewhere around here–in the fact that rap music has blended with indie music.  pitchfork is always putting out rap artist props, and that stupid wutang 2.0 band who love making us well aware that anti gay is still alive and well among the genre.  i just don't like rap music, like i don't like country.  both are not music to me.  the whole indie as a crossover medium, is just as bad as when country music was used by taylor swift to become a femine bombshell gabillionaire.

critic

touché

walkonby wrote:
touché

The difference is I don't go around trashing critics and saying don't listen to them, they don't know anything while being one at the same time….

This fits you to a T:

Hypocrisy is the state of promoting or administering virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have and is also guilty of violating. Hypocrisy often involves the deception of others and thus can be considered a kind of lie.

the difference between me and a critic, is that i don't expect anybody to read it and take it seriously . . . that is why i post it on this forum.

Would you two just have sex and get it over with….

walkonby wrote:
i love the fact, imo, and maybe i am wrong, but i just love that we had the moment where rap blended with heavy rock giving us such gems as 311, papa roach, limp biscuit, korn (who are not bad up until their last two or so albums), linkin park, etc…, as a thing, a time that was there and is now gone.  i wasn't a fan of the era.  now i feel it has reared its ugly head again–i remember i spoke of this before somewhere around here–in the fact that rap music has blended with indie music.  pitchfork is always putting out rap artist props, and that stupid wutang 2.0 band who love making us well aware that anti gay is still alive and well among the genre.  i just don't like rap music, like i don't like country.  both are not music to me.  the whole indie as a crossover medium, is just as bad as when country music was used by taylor swift to become a femine bombshell gabillionaire.

I never got how pitchfork hates main stream rock but loves main stream rap. 

To the young white liberal "journalist", black people can do no wrong.

atomicfront wrote:

walkonby wrote:
i love the fact, imo, and maybe i am wrong, but i just love that we had the moment where rap blended with heavy rock giving us such gems as 311, papa roach, limp biscuit, korn (who are not bad up until their last two or so albums), linkin park, etc…, as a thing, a time that was there and is now gone.  i wasn't a fan of the era.  now i feel it has reared its ugly head again–i remember i spoke of this before somewhere around here–in the fact that rap music has blended with indie music.  pitchfork is always putting out rap artist props, and that stupid wutang 2.0 band who love making us well aware that anti gay is still alive and well among the genre.  i just don't like rap music, like i don't like country.  both are not music to me.  the whole indie as a crossover medium, is just as bad as when country music was used by taylor swift to become a femine bombshell gabillionaire.

I never got how pitchfork hates main stream rock but loves main stream rap.