Dizzee Rascal.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 27 August 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe acts from the 90s who got lost in meme chasing like Flaming Lips, Weezer & Liz Phair during the past 10 years.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 27 August 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
New answers? Let's say 2003 is the cutoff for their debut.
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
The Books debut was in 2002 so they just miss that cutoff but I think they'd be very interesting to read about. Though on the other hand they've done blogs with 1000+ words on every single song so I guess it's all out there if you want to read about it. Maybe LCD Soundsystem are also in that same boat, they're definitely fascinating on some level but there is no shortage of information on the life of James Murphy.
Andrew WK on the other hand... (at least if it pulls the curtain back!)
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
Also it would probably be really fun to read the memoirs of PSY fifteen years down the road
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
I'm really interested in a post-Stripes Jack White bio for some unknown reason. Like, how he runs Third Man Records, his business/production methods, his solo/side projects, restraining order etc.
― DDD, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
Coil, Chris & Cosey and Gen. Into the reunions, splits and deaths. I'd love to know more about that.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
The forthcoming reissue of England's Hidden Reverse is supposedly updated so will probably contain some stuff about the deaths.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 30 January 2014 09:59 (ten years ago) link
xp those aren't from the past 10 years
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
I haven't read it, but 33 1/3 just released an "I Get Wet" book.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
that would be a pretty good read (though "Close Calls" is the one I'm really interested about). lately I've come up with the theory that most sections on IGW are actually two seperate recordings of the same song mashed together. the "live" tracks seem to be produced in the same way.
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
I think Andrew WK is probably the best answer to this question for me. He's been continuously interesting and unpredictable over the past 10 years, yet little seems to be known about his off-stage life.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 30 January 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
lately I've come up with the theory that most sections on IGW are actually two seperate recordings of the same song mashed together. the "live" tracks seem to be produced in the same way.
he's pretty much said that there are hundreds of layers of tracks, and that they spent a shit-ton of time making it sound like they were all one-takes.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 30 January 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
yeah there's something very unique in the sound there. I can see it being hundreds of layers (almost similar to the Mike Oldfield trick on Hergest Ridge!) but it also feels like two seperate but very similar completed recordings overlaid on top of each other.
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 January 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
They all made music in the last 10 or so years and this is the period I'm saying I'm interested in. I understand my post might not be in the spirit of the thread though
― kraudive, Thursday, 30 January 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link
ariel pink, animal collective, dan deacon, black dice, interpol
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 30 January 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
Janelle Monae all day
― Fiery Falcon, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
not not fun / hipster noise etc
― brimstead, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link
Pink
― brimstead, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
oh wait Pink put her first records out like15 years ago
― brimstead, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link
two seperate but very similar completed recordings overlaid on top of each other.
there's an early version of "It's Time to Party" out there that seem to have the same backing tracks but less fleshed out, and the vocals are very, very different-- higher in pitch and far less gruff. I'll see if I can find it.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:07 (ten years ago) link
you can hear it in this weird Steev Mike commercial from, I guess, before IGW came out
http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Andrew+W.K.+Steev+Mike+Radio+Commercial
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
Surely the obvious answer here is "lit-pop" titans The Decemberists
― sheesh, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:17 (ten years ago) link
St Vincent teaching soccer tricks would be good readhttp://vimeo.com/85067428
Re: awk there's a series of videos where awk personally teaches you to play awk songs
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:27 (ten years ago) link
I'm not sure why, but I just can't imagine an interesting book being written about any band that came out after 2000. I can't imagine the personal narratives of these bands being interesting enough, or the music being worthy enough of such a detailed dissection.
Isn't this because music acts close to us in time either have lives that resemble our own, or have lives that we know a lot about?
My money would be on Girls Aloud and other acts that came together through TV talent competitions in the 2000s being of most interest in the future – even the current biography ('Our Story') is fascinating.
― cardamon, Friday, 31 January 2014 02:25 (ten years ago) link
New answers? I arbitrarily said upthread that 2003 might be a good cutoff, but as I think about it, I think the real cutoff might be when we lost our musical monoculture. Is it the lack of a monoculture that makes most bands seem less interesting these days? Does the general availability of information about them make them less mysterious? Or are they genuinely less interesting nowadays? Or am I just old?
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
animal collectivedan deaconariel pinkgrouperxiu xiu
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:08 (nine years ago) link
I'd read a Miley Cyrus autobio.
Queens Of the Stone Age (didn't precisely come out after 2000, but that was their decade of relevance)
― how's life, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
wayne rooney
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Who's smoking crack these days? Just follow the freebase and there's your book.
― how's life, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
even the mysterious ones are probably not that interesting, aside from making great music (e.g. Burial). maybe it's just that few musicians make enough money to really fuck their life up in an interesting way?
― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link
With very few exceptions the first ten years in any musicians bio are the only interesting ones. Just throwing that out there.
― everything, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
I'd read a book about Sturgill
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
I would be interested in a book about the inner workings and roles of the New Pornographers, but not because they're particularly interesting people. Nor would I expect anyone else would want to read that.
Outkast + reunion?
― alpine static, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
Andre seems much more boring than he thinks he is
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
Not a book, but Josh Homme's interview on WTF seems to fill this.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
the WK book was good
― bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 00:21 (nine years ago) link
kanye west!
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 01:13 (nine years ago) link
kanye westrae sremmurdadeleamy winehousecharli xcxnicki minajlil b
lots of people! lol xpost
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 01:17 (nine years ago) link
weirdly, i think you might be onto something here
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 02:37 (nine years ago) link
imo the definitive Interpol biography would consist of this one sentence "Four boring douchebags had a band" but then I must admit I'd have said the same thing about, say, the JAMC were I 20 years older and it was 20 years ago.
― ghetto phablet (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 03:14 (nine years ago) link
I'd read and even watch a biopic of the following bands from the 00s (not bands or artists I necessarily love but would be interesting to see):
BroadcastAriel PinkAntony and the JohnsonsYYYsGodspeed you black emperorThe booksDestroyerJoanna newsomAnimal collectiveThe KnifeAvalanchesBroken Social SceneLiarsPaavoharjuFenneszFour tetBurialDevendra banhartFiery furnacesSebastien tellier
Specially interested in a Paavoharju and Tellier documentary.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 08:36 (nine years ago) link
Also could make interesting biopics in lesser degree:
M.i.a. (and Diplo)Flying Lotusvampire weekendChromaticsWilliam basinskiJanelle MonaeTame impalaSufjan stevensBon iverLcd soundsystemMadvillainBonnie Prince BillyThe strokesdizzee rascalMatmosTv on the radio
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 08:53 (nine years ago) link
And
Sunn o))GorillazBoris
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 08:57 (nine years ago) link
Pussy Riot
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 08:58 (nine years ago) link
Too many to be honest pick what you like.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 08:59 (nine years ago) link
i'd read a fucked up bio. would probably be more interesting than their music.
― rushomancy, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 11:00 (nine years ago) link
Definitely the Libertines.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
Tanya Tagaq.
― everything, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link