"chromed-out robo-sexual stew"
July 23, 2015 10:12 AM Subscribe
Why I Deleted Your Band's Promo Email (SLTumblr)
I cannot post this on my social media, because I actually book a venue, but: yes. Being in Texas, I get a lot of Stevie Ray Vaughn references, also "red dirt country" "acoustic singer-songwriter" and "yearning."
So much yearning.
posted by emjaybee at 10:20 AM on July 23, 2015 [19 favorites]
So much yearning.
posted by emjaybee at 10:20 AM on July 23, 2015 [19 favorites]
This is perfect. A friend and I often spend time laughing at random singer-songwriter bios from folks in pork pie hats.
posted by tunewell at 10:24 AM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by tunewell at 10:24 AM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
our latest songs have a dusty southern feel with old-timey poetry
To be fair, this is a pretty good reason.
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:27 AM on July 23, 2015
To be fair, this is a pretty good reason.
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:27 AM on July 23, 2015
I once heard the Austin, TX airport described as "They get off the plane with their hats and their Strats..."
posted by eriko at 10:28 AM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by eriko at 10:28 AM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Ripped straight from the Buddy Bradley school of rock writing: "...the spirit of the Detroit sound lives on in a band called 'Slutburger', whose hard-edged assault will leave you reelin' with the feelin' not unlike gettin' your dick stuck in a blender."
(Which is about right for lyrics like "I scream, you scream, we all scream for HEROIN!")
posted by informavore at 10:28 AM on July 23, 2015
(Which is about right for lyrics like "I scream, you scream, we all scream for HEROIN!")
posted by informavore at 10:28 AM on July 23, 2015
Austin airport around festivals is an interesting scene.
I love this. I miss/definitely don't miss reading one sheets regularly as a college radio dj.
posted by lownote at 10:33 AM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
I love this. I miss/definitely don't miss reading one sheets regularly as a college radio dj.
posted by lownote at 10:33 AM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
I want to repost all of these with "Metafilter:" at the front.
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 10:37 AM on July 23, 2015 [11 favorites]
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 10:37 AM on July 23, 2015 [11 favorites]
Metafilter: So much Yearning.
posted by boo_radley at 10:40 AM on July 23, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by boo_radley at 10:40 AM on July 23, 2015 [10 favorites]
This makes me sad that the Rock and Roll Confidential folks pissed away their relaunch.
I used to try to listen to every promo I got at least once; I found a lot of gems, but it also is part of why I burned out on being a music writer.
posted by klangklangston at 10:43 AM on July 23, 2015 [5 favorites]
I used to try to listen to every promo I got at least once; I found a lot of gems, but it also is part of why I burned out on being a music writer.
posted by klangklangston at 10:43 AM on July 23, 2015 [5 favorites]
I feel like I would probably spare a few minutes for "funk ninjas". At least give the first few seconds of a track a listen to see if I'm drawn in by anything. I mean, funk ninjas are ninjas: they could be anywhere at anytime, watching and waiting. What if they saw me delete the email? I don't want funk ninjas as enemies, man.
posted by Hoopo at 10:43 AM on July 23, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by Hoopo at 10:43 AM on July 23, 2015 [10 favorites]
MetaTalk: an avalanche triggered by barbaric yawp
posted by Kutsuwamushi at 10:44 AM on July 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by Kutsuwamushi at 10:44 AM on July 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
Equally influenced by hip hop and folk music
I gotta say I'm curious about this one. What would that even sound like?
posted by sciatrix at 10:46 AM on July 23, 2015 [3 favorites]
I gotta say I'm curious about this one. What would that even sound like?
posted by sciatrix at 10:46 AM on July 23, 2015 [3 favorites]
“violin, saxophone, fatigued vocals and a small hand drum”
If you don't want it, I'll take it.
posted by jinjo at 10:47 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
If you don't want it, I'll take it.
posted by jinjo at 10:47 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
I gotta say I'm curious about this one. What would that even sound like?
Gangstagrass?
posted by Shepherd at 10:49 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Gangstagrass?
posted by Shepherd at 10:49 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
"pop luminaries Hanson"
Where is the lie.
posted by Windigo at 10:57 AM on July 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
Where is the lie.
posted by Windigo at 10:57 AM on July 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
I could actually spare a few minutes for "chromed-out robo-sexual", maybe. But then I'd start to worry about all the robots flailing around in the stew, getting chunks of carrot and bits of pot-roast in their diodes, etc, and the whole experience would just be too anxiety-provoking.
posted by Frowner at 10:57 AM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Frowner at 10:57 AM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Personally, I'm most interested in the songs that sound like a 90-year-old man who worked on trains, but I've recently been listening to a lot of Al Duvall.
posted by Faint of Butt at 11:07 AM on July 23, 2015
posted by Faint of Butt at 11:07 AM on July 23, 2015
Making fun of these is funny, but also a fucked up thing to do.
Music bloggers, usually, kind of insist you contact them in this fashion, and most folks need to cast a wide enough net that they create emails like this, or EPKs, or similar. It's what is expected of them.
So to demand this kind of product in exchange for any coverage at all, then to make fun of people for not meeting your measuring stick feels messed up.
Imagine if an HR department started posting the worst cover letters and resumes they received. It's a straight-up dick move.
It might be funny, but it's a dick move.
posted by turntraitor at 11:08 AM on July 23, 2015 [16 favorites]
Music bloggers, usually, kind of insist you contact them in this fashion, and most folks need to cast a wide enough net that they create emails like this, or EPKs, or similar. It's what is expected of them.
So to demand this kind of product in exchange for any coverage at all, then to make fun of people for not meeting your measuring stick feels messed up.
Imagine if an HR department started posting the worst cover letters and resumes they received. It's a straight-up dick move.
It might be funny, but it's a dick move.
posted by turntraitor at 11:08 AM on July 23, 2015 [16 favorites]
Also, many of these demonstrate a parochial mind-state about what could easily be descriptions of acts that are darlings of these same critics.
"Equally influenced by hip hop and folk music" sounds about right for Four Tets first few albums. What's the problem? What's the joke there?
posted by turntraitor at 11:10 AM on July 23, 2015 [5 favorites]
"Equally influenced by hip hop and folk music" sounds about right for Four Tets first few albums. What's the problem? What's the joke there?
posted by turntraitor at 11:10 AM on July 23, 2015 [5 favorites]
sciatrix:
posted by usonian at 11:18 AM on July 23, 2015 [7 favorites]
[Equally influenced by hip hop and folk music]Beck: Mellow Gold.
I gotta say I'm curious about this one. What would that even sound like?
posted by usonian at 11:18 AM on July 23, 2015 [7 favorites]
"pop luminaries Hanson"
Where is the lie.
first time I ever heard mmmBOp, it stopped me in my tracks, coming from a tinny AM radio in a gas station, tuned to one of the local POP stations that I'd long learned to filter from my conscious mind ... except what was this!?!? Something actually pop good, like the Supremes rebooted for the 90s.
Maybe a day later, I caught the video on TV. Very young blond white boys!?!? Sometimes confusion is for the good.
posted by philip-random at 11:24 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Where is the lie.
first time I ever heard mmmBOp, it stopped me in my tracks, coming from a tinny AM radio in a gas station, tuned to one of the local POP stations that I'd long learned to filter from my conscious mind ... except what was this!?!? Something actually pop good, like the Supremes rebooted for the 90s.
Maybe a day later, I caught the video on TV. Very young blond white boys!?!? Sometimes confusion is for the good.
posted by philip-random at 11:24 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
So to demand this kind of product in exchange for any coverage at all, then to make fun of people for not meeting your measuring stick feels messed up.
Saying that this is industry PR practice and saying that a particular blogger/tumblrer demanded these emails are not equal statements.
What I notice about this tumblr, looking at the archive page, was that it was started yesterday, and I hope that's from a backlog and not how many emails the blogger has deleted in one day. Particularly given the wide spread of genres apparent in the one-day period. I wondered whether the blog was really that eclectic or whether the emails were just that scattershot.
posted by immlass at 11:25 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Saying that this is industry PR practice and saying that a particular blogger/tumblrer demanded these emails are not equal statements.
What I notice about this tumblr, looking at the archive page, was that it was started yesterday, and I hope that's from a backlog and not how many emails the blogger has deleted in one day. Particularly given the wide spread of genres apparent in the one-day period. I wondered whether the blog was really that eclectic or whether the emails were just that scattershot.
posted by immlass at 11:25 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Nah, from working at this, if they've got even a moderate profile, those could all have been from one day. The counterpoint to "But they're just shotgunned cover letters" is that the cost is so low to send them that you end up with hundreds of emails in your inbox every day. That's why good PR folks work to develop relationships with writers so they can be like, "Yeah, but this is actually up your alley. You should give it a listen."
posted by klangklangston at 11:29 AM on July 23, 2015
posted by klangklangston at 11:29 AM on July 23, 2015
I used to play guitar for a guy with an oversized web presence (glossy website, extensive photo gallery, terribly-written newsletter) but few actual fans. I still get spam from him trying to hype his next gig or talk about what a "huge response" his last self-release was getting on the web.
Thing is, his material wasn't bad at all! It was tuneful psychedelic pop that a lot of people would probably enjoy in the right context. But he just couldn't connect with real people, and didn't get that his aggressive, amateur promo effort were a turn-off.
(To be fair, my own promotional skills are even worse, which is why I hardly play out these days).
posted by ducky l'orange at 11:30 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Thing is, his material wasn't bad at all! It was tuneful psychedelic pop that a lot of people would probably enjoy in the right context. But he just couldn't connect with real people, and didn't get that his aggressive, amateur promo effort were a turn-off.
(To be fair, my own promotional skills are even worse, which is why I hardly play out these days).
posted by ducky l'orange at 11:30 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
"If you’re a fan of Sublime..."
"You can...stop right there. Thanks for coming in. We'll be in touch."
posted by The Card Cheat at 11:32 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
"You can...stop right there. Thanks for coming in. We'll be in touch."
posted by The Card Cheat at 11:32 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Saying that this is industry PR practice and saying that a particular blogger/tumblrer demanded these emails are not equal statements.
I agree.
And the industry PR types have been demanding such for decades. A one-sheet PR brag and a band photo. I "helped" many a band/artist with the former back in the 90s and must say, I almost always wondered, why bother? Not because the band was shit but because the blurbs themselves felt so blatantly meaningless.
The best I think I ever came up with was a mock-boilerplate, something like:
___ (band name) come your way straight outa ___ (home town) kicking loose with a fresh ___ (second more specific adjective) sound that instantly reminds one of ___ (cool, well known artist) even as it unleashes great torrents of __
And so on. The intention was that the band just send it out as-is (blanks unfilled), and they did. Then later, I gave the same blurb to another band that I didn't much care for and told them to fill in the blanks. I often wonder if anyone noticed.
posted by philip-random at 11:41 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
I agree.
And the industry PR types have been demanding such for decades. A one-sheet PR brag and a band photo. I "helped" many a band/artist with the former back in the 90s and must say, I almost always wondered, why bother? Not because the band was shit but because the blurbs themselves felt so blatantly meaningless.
The best I think I ever came up with was a mock-boilerplate, something like:
___ (band name) come your way straight outa ___ (home town) kicking loose with a fresh ___ (second more specific adjective) sound that instantly reminds one of ___ (cool, well known artist) even as it unleashes great torrents of __
And so on. The intention was that the band just send it out as-is (blanks unfilled), and they did. Then later, I gave the same blurb to another band that I didn't much care for and told them to fill in the blanks. I often wonder if anyone noticed.
posted by philip-random at 11:41 AM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Please take a listen to the record at the link below. As a warning, it is obviously not safe for young kids or uptight workplaces. I lost count, but there’s north of 50 F bombs in the first song. Relax, have fun and rock out
Yeah, I'd have to listen to this, sorry. I'm imagining "I'm Black" from CB4:
I'm black y'all, and I'm black y'all
And I'm blackety black and I'm black y'all
And I'm black y'all, and I'm black y'all
And I'm blackety black and I'm black y'all
I'm piggety black black
And black black and blackety black yo
Because Im black and I'm back
Yo I'm black and then black y'all and I'm blackety black and
I'm black y'all and I'm black y'all and I'm black y'all
And I'm blackety black and I'm black y'all and
I'm piggety black black black blackety black black black black black black black y'all
And I'm black y'all, and I'm black y'all
And I'm blackety black cause I'm black
Only with the f-word.
posted by Huck500 at 11:49 AM on July 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
Yeah, I'd have to listen to this, sorry. I'm imagining "I'm Black" from CB4:
I'm black y'all, and I'm black y'all
And I'm blackety black and I'm black y'all
And I'm black y'all, and I'm black y'all
And I'm blackety black and I'm black y'all
I'm piggety black black
And black black and blackety black yo
Because Im black and I'm back
Yo I'm black and then black y'all and I'm blackety black and
I'm black y'all and I'm black y'all and I'm black y'all
And I'm blackety black and I'm black y'all and
I'm piggety black black black blackety black black black black black black black y'all
And I'm black y'all, and I'm black y'all
And I'm blackety black cause I'm black
Only with the f-word.
posted by Huck500 at 11:49 AM on July 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
I "helped" many a band/artist with the former back in the 90s and must say, I almost always wondered, why bother?
I had a university internship with Attic Records, the now defunct Canadian label that was the distributor for, among other things, Metal Blade records. My Deicide promo sheet with the headline
FLORIDA DEATH METAL BAND LIKES COOKIES, KITTENS AND CUDDLING
Frolicksome fourtet surprise with a sunshine attitude despite doom-laden sound
almost made it out the door before it got seen by the head of press and promotions (hi, Kevin!).
posted by Shepherd at 12:32 PM on July 23, 2015 [11 favorites]
I had a university internship with Attic Records, the now defunct Canadian label that was the distributor for, among other things, Metal Blade records. My Deicide promo sheet with the headline
FLORIDA DEATH METAL BAND LIKES COOKIES, KITTENS AND CUDDLING
Frolicksome fourtet surprise with a sunshine attitude despite doom-laden sound
almost made it out the door before it got seen by the head of press and promotions (hi, Kevin!).
posted by Shepherd at 12:32 PM on July 23, 2015 [11 favorites]
In case anyone was curious (I know I was) about what these bands actually sound like I plugged some of the quoted snippets into Google to find the band name and found some soundcloud/bandcamp links to listen to. Enjoy!
"chromed-out robo-sexual stew"
violin, saxophone, fatigued vocals and a small hand drum
[Equally influenced by hip hop and folk music]
you can hear the deeply-solid effects of the grunge genre and mid-‘90s 'alternative music’ in a sonic gestalt
studied bottles of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap
posted by metaphorever at 12:34 PM on July 23, 2015 [11 favorites]
"chromed-out robo-sexual stew"
violin, saxophone, fatigued vocals and a small hand drum
[Equally influenced by hip hop and folk music]
you can hear the deeply-solid effects of the grunge genre and mid-‘90s 'alternative music’ in a sonic gestalt
studied bottles of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap
posted by metaphorever at 12:34 PM on July 23, 2015 [11 favorites]
that picture makes the dude look like the sidekick from Eastbound & Down doing a Harry Potter cosplay
posted by Hoopo at 12:36 PM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Hoopo at 12:36 PM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Making fun of these is funny, but also a fucked up thing to do.
Music bloggers, usually, kind of insist you contact them in this fashion, and most folks need to cast a wide enough net that they create emails like this, or EPKs, or similar. It's what is expected of them.
So to demand this kind of product in exchange for any coverage at all, then to make fun of people for not meeting your measuring stick feels messed up.
Imagine if an HR department started posting the worst cover letters and resumes they received. It's a straight-up dick move.
It might be funny, but it's a dick move.
Music journalism (at least in our tiny local scene) is mostly about who you smoke weed with, anyway. If you want them to cover you, you have to get out and schmooze around and shoot the shit. You can hand them a press packet, or email them one, but you're better off buying them a beer. Friend them on Facebook or some other media, invite them to your show, and you'll eventually get something published about you. It helps if you play constantly and are friends with every other musician in town, too.
Not being a journalist, I mostly just want people who want me to book them to have something online, tracks or a decent video, preferably both so I can see if they do well on stage (or fine, send me a CD). It's amazing how many performers don't even have that, or at most have a few minutes of crappy cellphone video a friend posted to Facebook. I thought Kids These Days were all about documenting their lives and tech-savviness but a lot of them seem to think I'll just take their word that they are any good.
posted by emjaybee at 12:38 PM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Music bloggers, usually, kind of insist you contact them in this fashion, and most folks need to cast a wide enough net that they create emails like this, or EPKs, or similar. It's what is expected of them.
So to demand this kind of product in exchange for any coverage at all, then to make fun of people for not meeting your measuring stick feels messed up.
Imagine if an HR department started posting the worst cover letters and resumes they received. It's a straight-up dick move.
It might be funny, but it's a dick move.
Music journalism (at least in our tiny local scene) is mostly about who you smoke weed with, anyway. If you want them to cover you, you have to get out and schmooze around and shoot the shit. You can hand them a press packet, or email them one, but you're better off buying them a beer. Friend them on Facebook or some other media, invite them to your show, and you'll eventually get something published about you. It helps if you play constantly and are friends with every other musician in town, too.
Not being a journalist, I mostly just want people who want me to book them to have something online, tracks or a decent video, preferably both so I can see if they do well on stage (or fine, send me a CD). It's amazing how many performers don't even have that, or at most have a few minutes of crappy cellphone video a friend posted to Facebook. I thought Kids These Days were all about documenting their lives and tech-savviness but a lot of them seem to think I'll just take their word that they are any good.
posted by emjaybee at 12:38 PM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
"And of course, Cardinal Richelieu is played by a hand puppet."
Wow ... we are very different people, EmpressCallipygos.
posted by ryanshepard at 12:50 PM on July 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
Wow ... we are very different people, EmpressCallipygos.
posted by ryanshepard at 12:50 PM on July 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
I think I was like a 90-year-old man who worked on trains, because some of my earliest songs sound like that.
That one intrigued me -- I would definitely give it a listen.
So I did a little added research.
It's Ashley Monroe. She's talking about a song from songwriter Justin Davis of Striking Matches. Here's the first part of the quote:
"He had that idea and we were at some show in the dressing room and he played it for me and I fell in love with it. I’ve always loved those old melodies like that, which sound like they were written way back in the day."
The song is Dixie, and it's superb.
I feel like I could probably do the same thing with all the entries on this blog and retitle it "I deleted your band's promo because I'm bad at my job."
posted by maxsparber at 12:53 PM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
That one intrigued me -- I would definitely give it a listen.
So I did a little added research.
It's Ashley Monroe. She's talking about a song from songwriter Justin Davis of Striking Matches. Here's the first part of the quote:
"He had that idea and we were at some show in the dressing room and he played it for me and I fell in love with it. I’ve always loved those old melodies like that, which sound like they were written way back in the day."
The song is Dixie, and it's superb.
I feel like I could probably do the same thing with all the entries on this blog and retitle it "I deleted your band's promo because I'm bad at my job."
posted by maxsparber at 12:53 PM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Do you recall what was the spiel
The day the music died?
posted by tommasz at 1:03 PM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
The day the music died?
posted by tommasz at 1:03 PM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Wow ... we are very different people, EmpressCallipygos.
I actually posted a defense in the other thread, but: okay, see, a whole lot of young playwrights go a little funny in the head when they discover Christopher Durang, and get stuck on "holy crap, you're allowed to just be weird? SIGN ME UP!" and then they try to channel Durang in everything they do and end up sounding more like "people trying too hard to copy Christopher Durang", and it actually all starts to sound alike. And after you've read your 38th pale-imitation-of-Durang, it actually gets boring.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:05 PM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
I actually posted a defense in the other thread, but: okay, see, a whole lot of young playwrights go a little funny in the head when they discover Christopher Durang, and get stuck on "holy crap, you're allowed to just be weird? SIGN ME UP!" and then they try to channel Durang in everything they do and end up sounding more like "people trying too hard to copy Christopher Durang", and it actually all starts to sound alike. And after you've read your 38th pale-imitation-of-Durang, it actually gets boring.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:05 PM on July 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
I don't understand why Sublime gets so much hate.
posted by GrapeApiary at 1:47 PM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by GrapeApiary at 1:47 PM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Equally influenced by hip hop and folk music
It would sound like...Alge (pronounced "algae").
posted by Drab_Parts at 1:50 PM on July 23, 2015
It would sound like...Alge (pronounced "algae").
posted by Drab_Parts at 1:50 PM on July 23, 2015
Well, I have to admit, I mostly liked what I heard from the links that metaphorever posted.
Thanks!
posted by freakazoid at 2:05 PM on July 23, 2015
Thanks!
posted by freakazoid at 2:05 PM on July 23, 2015
I don't understand why Sublime gets so much hate.
I can only speak for myself, but Sublime is very "bro" and always seemed to be the CD that wound up on the stereo way too often because no one could decide on what else to put on. So on top of being pretty lukewarm on them from the get-go, I got real tired of it. Basically love is not what I got for Sublime.
posted by Hoopo at 2:45 PM on July 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
I can only speak for myself, but Sublime is very "bro" and always seemed to be the CD that wound up on the stereo way too often because no one could decide on what else to put on. So on top of being pretty lukewarm on them from the get-go, I got real tired of it. Basically love is not what I got for Sublime.
posted by Hoopo at 2:45 PM on July 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
It is equally true that these could be really good music and really shitty marketing. This is what happens when musicians try to write. A similar tumblr of Songs By Writers would be equally hilarious. Sorry Stephen King.
That said, there are also a lot of HORRIBLE publicists out there writing bland, not-even-funny, pablum that also gets deleted. We just need a better push music discovery program than HERE BLOGGER HAVE AN EMAIL. Some random band send me a message on Spotify the other day. I didn't like them, but I loved the idea.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 2:47 PM on July 23, 2015 [3 favorites]
That said, there are also a lot of HORRIBLE publicists out there writing bland, not-even-funny, pablum that also gets deleted. We just need a better push music discovery program than HERE BLOGGER HAVE AN EMAIL. Some random band send me a message on Spotify the other day. I didn't like them, but I loved the idea.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 2:47 PM on July 23, 2015 [3 favorites]
In case anyone was curious (I know I was) about what these bands actually sound like I plugged some of the quoted snippets into Google to find the band name and found some soundcloud/bandcamp links to listen to. Enjoy!
I'd book a couple of them.
posted by atoxyl at 3:46 PM on July 23, 2015
I'd book a couple of them.
posted by atoxyl at 3:46 PM on July 23, 2015
chromed-out robo-sexual
Is more or less a perfect description of ... well crap, you'll have to scroll down to a post by someone called Seandroid (5th from the bottom), and listen to the track Illicit.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 4:02 PM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Is more or less a perfect description of ... well crap, you'll have to scroll down to a post by someone called Seandroid (5th from the bottom), and listen to the track Illicit.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 4:02 PM on July 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, these are all pretty fucking awful. On the other hand, there is a definite push in the scenes surrounding at the very least several music genres i have experience with of pretension, wherein it's not unreasonable to expect to have to perform that pretension to get in. And it's often demonstrated, right in front of you, that faking-it-til-you-make-it works and that it's what all the people with even an inkling of success are doing even at the bootstraping stage.
Mostly though, it just irks me when i see people i knew who became A&R interns or otherwise got an in at a label instantly becoming snobs and slinging shit on this stuff because everyone around them is. Overnight, it's adversarial with the community. I always get the feeling that they know why people are writing this shit, they just suddenly see themselves as above it.
It's not like a bunch of straightly written non-fluffed intros don't go straight in the garbage too. But there's absolutely a push to present yourself as more unique than you are, even if you're quite unique. Swatting people for performing that poorly just feels assholey.
posted by emptythought at 4:21 PM on July 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
Mostly though, it just irks me when i see people i knew who became A&R interns or otherwise got an in at a label instantly becoming snobs and slinging shit on this stuff because everyone around them is. Overnight, it's adversarial with the community. I always get the feeling that they know why people are writing this shit, they just suddenly see themselves as above it.
It's not like a bunch of straightly written non-fluffed intros don't go straight in the garbage too. But there's absolutely a push to present yourself as more unique than you are, even if you're quite unique. Swatting people for performing that poorly just feels assholey.
posted by emptythought at 4:21 PM on July 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
That's a great track, ffff. Robot Barry White.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:40 PM on July 23, 2015
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:40 PM on July 23, 2015
" The E.P. and respective singles achieved much success with Ska Punk and commercial listeners "
I too hate Rancid for how they slapped the face of Operation Ivy...
posted by Annika Cicada at 7:16 PM on July 23, 2015
I too hate Rancid for how they slapped the face of Operation Ivy...
posted by Annika Cicada at 7:16 PM on July 23, 2015
"studied bottles of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap"
I'm not seeing the problem here.
posted by klausness at 1:20 PM on July 24, 2015
I'm not seeing the problem here.
posted by klausness at 1:20 PM on July 24, 2015
That's a great track, ffff. Robot Barry White.
Seandroid said in another thread there that basically he wants to make dance music that sounds like his high school wood shop.
He's not usually my style, and gotdang I love everything he does.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 1:59 PM on July 24, 2015
Seandroid said in another thread there that basically he wants to make dance music that sounds like his high school wood shop.
He's not usually my style, and gotdang I love everything he does.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 1:59 PM on July 24, 2015
See also "This Is How Not to Get Your Band a Gig" by Anthony Bedard.
“His violin skitters across the music like beads of water on a hot skillet – inspired by a legless Polish gypsy he encountered on his vagabond travels.”
posted by vickyverky at 4:31 PM on July 24, 2015
“His violin skitters across the music like beads of water on a hot skillet – inspired by a legless Polish gypsy he encountered on his vagabond travels.”
posted by vickyverky at 4:31 PM on July 24, 2015
"...Neo-Psychedelic Casiocore, with traces of Civil War–Era Lo-Fi Alt-Vaudeville while attaining a strict Post-Electro-Baroque-Pop background."
I would listen to that Pandora channel.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 5:38 PM on July 24, 2015
I would listen to that Pandora channel.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 5:38 PM on July 24, 2015
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