what genre is this atrocity?

hands in the air whoaaaaaaaaaa-oh-oh

This atrocity has been posted today on every board i read.

that's our Max, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME1VJS-6_6s

I'm mightily bamboozled by Teen Hearts.

eesh, thinking that Subscene may be a painkiller company plant.

If I had to guess the backstory for Teen Hearts, I'm thinking it is a group of techies who realized the venture capital they secured for they're web 2.0 project (blerf.com or some such) wasn't working out, so they're burning the funds on the band. Good thing they bundled in Logic Studio when they all bought themselves the MacBook Pros. Looking at the MySpace, they clearly had the contracts with the swag manufactures already worked out.

Matty: Guitar, Hearty Heron, Cloud Services
Max: Drums, Apache, MySQL
Charity: Keyboard, PHP, CSS
Kelly: Vocals, MBA

their Web 2.O project

Protest the Hero do not belong on this thread.

yes they do

they are a genre-bending atrocity

What genres are they bending? They're just a metal band.

Also feminists, which doesn't really sit well with, er, some of the other bands here.

this is the band that my niece likes. not sure if it's the same genre but it's kinda obnoxious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cJIvC6AAkc&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us0Q8Kx74iM

i think the 303 stuff is quite possibly the worst genre of all time.

i predict more of this kind of stuff will break mainstream into pop radio now that the owl city stuff was a hit

3OH3 excuse me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZZP556-F8I

from http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2008/11/in-which-we-pon.html

"What we have here are the hideous side effects of Internet-culture music poptimism: a world in which every trope of every genre, sub- or not, is so instantly accessible, consumable and repeatable that to "like" something is completely subsumed by the act of "acknowledging" something. As terrifying as "Freaxxx" is to listen to, its main function is not as song, but as a checklist of pop culture talking points -- there is autotune, there is screamo, there are awful house beats, there is casual misogyny and committed misogyny...There are so many inscrutable moments in the song and video (for instance, how would an eager young lady go about taking off her panties, then her pants, as the song suggests?) that it could amply reward a whole afternoon of putting off work for repeat viewings."

Here's a charming e-mail from the singer of Teen Hearts to the "look at this fucking hipster" website after they made fun of him:

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw8rmqtITP1qzzhzdo1_500.jpg

I'm sure I read somewhere that email was fake.

i want to believe

Even if it is, this nightmare-inducing video of him telling their fans what they're up to isn't . . . check out how he sort of pulls on/fixes his hair at the beginning:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56347078

fake glasses

They toured with Jeffree Star, who is also a racist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvsE8gQv3_4

The only way that "Hands in the Air" song could be funnier is if it were titled "Best New Music."

xp whoa anthony keidis lookin young

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ii say there genre ihs.. rap n indie ii suppose.. x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y_Op6yqpeU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pbdLqTh_x4

i would say genre is "ironic indie-pop"

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Few artists talk about their spiritual beliefs, even fewer let them rule their life as openly as New York's Darwin Deez.

Deez, as well as fronting his own band, is a Baba Lover: a follower of the teachings of 20th century Indian spiritualist Meher Baba.

The preacher, who adopted silence from the age of 31 until he died at 74 in 1969, advocated the mantra 'Don't worry be happy' (later picked up by Bobby McFerrin for his 1988 hit) and denigrated the use of drugs.

"It can be a challenge for real, but I think it's a worthwhile challenge," says Deez, pondering his life choices. "It helps people to exude cheerfulness. Baba always said cheerfulness has spiritual value."
Waiter by day

Indeed, Deez, who waits tables at a vegan restaurant by day and plays gigs with his band by night, is exceptionally cheerful.

But he also finds the archetypal life of a rock 'n' roller at odds with his own clean-living beliefs.

"It's going to feel a little strange just going from one oasis of liquor to another night after night," he explains, on the subject of an upcoming US tour.

"If you want to be a musician, if you want to be a songwriter, at some point you've got to service the drunkies (sic)."

If all this makes Deez sound like a boring hippy with an allergy to fun, he's anything but.

He writes positive songs reminiscent of NYC buddies The Strokes, whilst his live gigs are explosions of joy - often involving syncopated dance interludes - like a low-budget Flaming Lips production.

"The first song I ever wrote was called Missing and it was probably when I was 11 after I got my guitar. My parents got me a guitar for my birthday," he laughs. "In fact I still play it - it was a little catchy two-cord song."
Debut single

Speaking of catchy songs, Constellations is Deez's debut single out in December - a rickety indie anthem which references Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star.

"There was a period where I would go to the open mic night every week at the sidewalk café (New York)," he elaborates.
Darwin Deez Darwin Deez and his band

"Some cool people used to do that like Regina Spektor, Adam Green (Moldy Peaches) and this guy Latch - I started hearing things I liked. I stole the idea to reference a children's song. That is how the lyrics of Constellations got started.

Now, he's on his second album Astrological Epochs And The Sands Of Time ("my first album, I never released it or performed it"). It is set for release sometime in 2010.

"I feel like the music that I've made on this record has far reaching appeal," he says.

"The next record will be a little more introspective, emotional, Radiohead-whatever."

But for the moment, in between pursuing his deep interest in philosophy, he's grabbing every opportunity that comes knocking.

"I want my songs to be famous whether I'm the one singing them or not," he states, before embarking another in-depth tangent about Animal Collective's work ethic.

"The physical world is ultimately illusion," he says colourfully. "It keeps changing."

So begins this Darwin's evolution.

hope his 'deep interest in philosophy' extends to freddy nietzsche at some point

my gorge has never risen faster

he's just being zany and crazy guys!!

I bet he's totally up for doing anything!! because he's really spontaneous!!

lol @ "Waiter by day"

just a crazy guy doing crazy things!!

don't worry be waiter

I'm going to be nice and say I liked the guitar line to that song above. Everything else makes me really angry though...

http://obscuresound.com/?p=4269

Quick swipes of a guitar and a drum machine are all Darwin really needs to ignite his presence, which alone is more entertaining than the masses that attempt a similar rock-electro fusion.

That video fills out at least six squares on the hipster bingo card.

bring on the st3ve g0ldb3rg jokes

"The next record will be a little more introspective, emotional, Radiohead-whatever."

But for the moment, in between pursuing his deep interest in philosophy, he's grabbing every opportunity that comes knocking.

"I want my songs to be famous whether I'm the one singing them or not," he states, before embarking another in-depth tangent about Animal Collective's work ethic.

"The physical world is ultimately illusion," he says colourfully. "It keeps changing."

this is a delicately unfolding four-part succession of shit that makes me irrationally angry

I hope his album is called radiohead-whatever

Dude's record is actually really great and feels v. natural and effortless, in no way an atrocity. But yeah, that interview/hair/etc. and I can understand

lol

xp!

don't worry be waiter

― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, April 6, 2010 8:21 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

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