they are a genre-bending atrocity
― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Sunday, 17 January 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
What genres are they bending? They're just a metal band.
― Simon H., Sunday, 17 January 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Also feminists, which doesn't really sit well with, er, some of the other bands here.
― Simon H., Sunday, 17 January 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― lukevalentine, Sunday, 17 January 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― lukevalentine, Sunday, 17 January 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
3OH3 excuse me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZZP556-F8I
― Pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 31 January 2010 01:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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."
― serious business, Sunday, 31 January 2010 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 31 January 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm sure I read somewhere that email was fake.
― Pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 31 January 2010 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i want to believe
― i get mines the fast way, the balaclava way (M@tt He1ges0n), Sunday, 31 January 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 31 January 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
fake glasses
― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Sunday, 31 January 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
They toured with Jeffree Star, who is also a racist.
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 31 January 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvsE8gQv3_4
― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Monday, 1 February 2010 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
The only way that "Hands in the Air" song could be funnier is if it were titled "Best New Music."
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Monday, 1 February 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
xp whoa anthony keidis lookin young
― average gangsta rap from average gangstas (deej), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
shortbread34 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide 0Marked as spamReplyii say there genre ihs.. rap n indie ii suppose.. x
― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y_Op6yqpeU
― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pbdLqTh_x4
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 06:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i would say genre is "ironic indie-pop"
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 06:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlTOI_eC7dY/SN-iKhllhrI/AAAAAAAAB3E/Dm28D5DGkd4/s400/Dwyer2.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlTOI_eC7dY/SN-iKhllhrI/AAAAAAAAB3E/Dm28D5DGkd4/s400/Dwyer2.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlTOI_eC7dY/SN-iKhllhrI/AAAAAAAAB3E/Dm28D5DGkd4/s400/Dwyer2.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlTOI_eC7dY/SN-iKhllhrI/AAAAAAAAB3E/Dm28D5DGkd4/s400/Dwyer2.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlTOI_eC7dY/SN-iKhllhrI/AAAAAAAAB3E/Dm28D5DGkd4/s400/Dwyer2.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlTOI_eC7dY/SN-iKhllhrI/AAAAAAAAB3E/Dm28D5DGkd4/s400/Dwyer2.jpg
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 06:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Shannon Whirry and the Bad Brains, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
hope his 'deep interest in philosophy' extends to freddy nietzsche at some point
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
my gorge has never risen faster
― ampersand (remy bean), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
he's just being zany and crazy guys!!
― armando white (dyao), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I bet he's totally up for doing anything!! because he's really spontaneous!!
― armando white (dyao), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ "Waiter by day"
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
just a crazy guy doing crazy things!!
― armando white (dyao), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 13:20 (fourteen years ago) link
don't worry be waiter
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to be nice and say I liked the guitar line to that song above. Everything else makes me really angry though...
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
That video fills out at least six squares on the hipster bingo card.
― bendy, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
bring on the st3ve g0ldb3rg jokes
― still driving steen, banning deez, gettin my dick xhuxked (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
this is a delicately unfolding four-part succession of shit that makes me irrationally angry
― still driving steen, banning deez, gettin my dick xhuxked (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I hope his album is called radiohead-whatever
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
xp!
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, April 6, 2010 8:21 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
rofl
― goole, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
These bands all make the worst videos I've ever seen.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
that falsetto voice-crack thing in the chorus is painful
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
"Radiohead-whatever" totally narrows things down.
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
actually I think I'm gonna pin this one entirely on the writer. I mean, the first goddamn sentence of the thing is
Few artists talk about their spiritual beliefs
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
few artists like to run their mouths off about dumb hippie bullshit, but fortunately for you we dug one up
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
"I love taking carriage rides through central park," Tom stated, before embarking another in-depth tangent about Animal Collective's work ethic.
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
really want to make a good tom swifty outta that but all I can really come up w/ are ones about noah or ones like the one above and they don't really make me happy
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Whateverhead's "OK Whatever"
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
thank you wikipedia
"I think I'm a homosexual", Tom said, half in earnest."I am the bone lord," Tom proclaimed skulkingly.
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
['deez nuts' joke goes here]
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link