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Yup, EitS are from Austin, NMH is part of the Elephant 6 Collective from GA. And BSS and Stars are part of the incestuous Canadian music scene.
I'm inclined to agree. Some BSS songs are amazing (Almost Crimes, Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl, 7/4 Shoreline, their singles basically), but overall they don't really do it for me.
Stars and Explosions both need to start switching up their formulas, but they've been consistently awesome up to now. And nothing more really needs to be said about NMH.
after a while i can just keep going back and listening to the earth is not a cold dead place over and over again whenever they put out something new
in a similar vein i'm really digging what sigur ros is doing with themselves
expanding themselves to include a style that i never would have anticipated listening to ( ) and to some extent takk, but still keeping a couple songs that throw back to older albums
I'd say Yo La Tengo kicks much more ass than the likes of stars.
Next you lot will be saying Godspeed You! Black Emperor or God Is An Astronaut are indie.
Also, EitS are wonderful and according to several friends lucky enough to catch their gig here a few months back, are amazing live.
and their fans overlap immensely
So niave.
Yes, so niave.
Please?
Well we've already ranked bands in terms of which is most indie, so I'd say we don't have a long ways to go before we start arguing semantics.
I just started a band. Fifteen minutes ago. There are 1.5 members, we haven't played a show or even practised. And I don't even play an instrument. I'm the most indie-est of them all!
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Oh yeah, well I started one five minutes ago and we played our final show 3 minutes ago.
And to the previous question: not Akron, Philly.
Also: I wasn't comparing Stars or Explosions to NMH; rather I was bringing up bands I've been recommended that I haven't looked into yet. But to be frank the whole "better than everything else" vibe I'm getting when people talk about NMH is a tad offputting.
And yes, the Aquabats are ridiculous. Some fan had lightning bolts he was throwing for "Tiger Rider" and MC Bat Commander grabbed one and "rode the lighting" over to Ricky.
stars has at the very least two good albums
i'm sure when you said one you meant set yourself on fire
because if not i'm going to have to kill you
i love in our bedroom after the war too, though. it's not as superamazing as set yourself on fire is, but it is an album that has a whole lot of really good songs on it
but my curent playlist hoovers around this band.
http://www.myspace.com/holyfuck
have a lisen to Lovely Allen first and then Super Inuit before you start throwing the E word around.
Our tax dollars at work.
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but on the same note of awsomness, if just found about Chad VanGaalen. now i feel like iv been missing out.
http://www.myspace.com/chadvangaalen
Fans of bands may enjoy Decibully.
grim and frostbitten kingdoms. goozex referral. steam.
40 minutes of noise for the sack of art is all i can take.
It makes you feel dangerous.
But honestly, it's mostly just the cyclical nature of things.
Though "indie" as we know it today is something of a 90's phenomenon/genrefication, the intersection of indie and noise basically predates indie itself in the form of 80's "no-wave".
I really like noise rock if it's done well. See: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine. I haven't heard any of this wave of modern of noise bands, though.
They're very different. The bands you described are pretty much direct descendants of the no-wave scene.
The modern bands he referenced are more like...half-retarded punk kids too lazy to learn power chords and instead turn to circuit-bending. (Not so much No Age though. They're just boring.)
The thing with a lot of those noise bands is that the beginning of their set (or their one really, really long song) will be pretty cool and interesting. But by the end of it it's all droned out and then they're just screaming and stuff. And another thing about it is that everyone thinks that they can just fuck with some wires and make noise and call it music. Most of it just turns out to be embarrassing. What's worse is that the college station up here is really heavily involved in it, and they book most of the shows around town. So they just get all of their shitty noise friends to play in the bars and DIY houses and like 70% of the shows in town each night will just be "noise blowouts."
Granted, there's one noise band (with the best name: Donner Party Dinner Party) that is pretty good. They don't take themselves seriously and they're actually pretty knowledgeable about everything. Other than that one act, though, most of it is just shit.
Damn. That's about as lame as it gets.
For some pretty cool semi-noisy indie, I'd recommended The Lovely Public and the band they sorta became, Maus Haus.
My band got to play with them a couple years back and they're righteous cool dudes.
Heh... so kind of like this?
A friend of a bandmate is a pretty similar one-man band called The Bird Cage Theatre.
He used to be all about brutal ear distruction mixed with classical guitar passages, but now he's significantly streamlined his sound into something more appealing Brooklyn hipsters.
Noise is the future, that's why it's popular? ;-)
Seriously though, as much as I love free jazz and dissonant 20th century classical, I don't get into guitar noise very much. It's really hard to do well (although I do have a soft spot for Otomo and Boredoms), and and because it's easier to loop feedback and appear reasonably competent than to produce this.
Not that I care who Pitchfork et al suck off, they're pretty terrible.
His original stuff is good, but when I saw him opening for another band, he's the most self-deprecating person I've ever seen. He only played two of his songs than went on to do a bunch of covers, because his stuff "sucked" apparently, mentioning it 50 times between each song, also while saying the audience was too kind.
So far, it's pretty good. I'm only halfway through the first song, but man do I love me some Decemberists.
On another note, I'm getting frustrated that Merriweather Post Pavilion hasn't leaked. Very, very, very frustrated.
The thing that makes me the most upset is that I know people out there have it (press copies have already gone out apparently). But they're all watermarked. No one has leaked it yet. Argh.