good american bands not on labels

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is there such a thing? bands who aren't copping from newer bands because they own a handful of cds (see two gallants- who, typically, don't own any vinyl)? i don't think such a thing exists. and by label i'm refering to a broad spectrum of self-released pitchfork-endorsed-cause-my-roommate-reviews-records CDs, major label turds by people in their early 30s with blazers and $80 brooklyn haircuts, and everything in between.

― moscow nights / shock of daylight (shock of daylight), Monday, 23 January 2006 09:03 (twenty years ago)

huh?

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Monday, 23 January 2006 09:13 (twenty years ago)

Mopey Dick are a 9-piece band from Bismarck, SD. They play improvised acid swamp funk using home-made instruments carved from lightning-struck trees and deer bones. Their gigs are never advertised, and feature various band members playing through cardboard megaphones in different venues. Their commitment to keeping things fresh means they have never recorded, although they did once spend 4 hours playing down the telephone to the head of A&R for Shanshui records of Beijing.

― 'Curt' Russell (noodle vague), Monday, 23 January 2006 09:23 (twenty years ago)

Me: I have diarrhea.
Doctor: It might be dysentery.
Me: Is that a type of chili?

(Laughter)

― Reggie, Monday, 23 January 2006 09:25 (twenty years ago)

The fact is, all good American bands are either assembled by labels Spice Girls-style or grown in test-tubes, and therefore none of them ever exist outside of labels.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

good point

― moscow nights (shock of daylight), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 07:57 (twenty years ago)

Five posts in and no one has mentioned Clap Your Hands Say Yeah?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 08:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.theconnerbrothers.com/kittitas/

screaming trees/seaweed alumni

― kittiast, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

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