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I've been slowly getting back into post rock bands and been less interested in electronic stuff lately. However, after years and years of not keeping up with it, I'm totally lost in a sea of hipsterdom...how will people ever think I'm cool? ;) There are so many new groups out there and I'm sick of scouring myspace for samples of random groups who usually end up sucking.
Some bands I've been into are (in no particular order):
red sparowes
daturah
do make say think
mogwai
shalabi effect
mono
sigur ros
explosions in the sky
envy
the evpatoria report
tortoise
Any suggestions for other stuff in this vein that I should check out? I'm starting to feel like that old guy who's out of touch with contemporary music.
Also, I've been totally bored out of my skull recently. The prospect of sitting around in my apartment and tinkering on my laptop has finally lost it's charm. If anyone is in the NYC/brooklyn area and feels like dorking out over a coffee/beer or catching a show sometime, hit me up. | |
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tantan
mlbootay said: "I can't wait to see if anyone besides old Portland nerds gets this joke."
one of my step dads was nu shooz' sax player for a few years
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mlbot
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ignatius
i find little appeal in most bands these days. there's some good stuff but it's few and far between for my tastes. i find myself listening to mars volta and fugazi and long playlists of older songs more than anything by anyone 'new'. i appreciate all kinds of music but i find that w/a lot of the 'post rock' stuff i just don't "get it" and can't be arsed to invest my time wading through it all to find the good stuff.
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mlbot
Hmmm, on a completely unrelated tangent, how old are you ;) ;) ;)
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seanh
mlbot said: " tantan said: "nu-shooz-gazer"
I can't wait to see if anyone besides old Portland nerds gets this joke."
beat me to it.
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seanh
talk talk
why try to find something new when you can find something good?
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tantan
is postpostrock just rock again? cos like the thing after the thing after day time is day time again.
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utofbu
kinda.
you guys like stuff like Faraquet and The Medications?
Good stuff from DC
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tmns
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ignatius
mlbot said: "Hmmm, on a completely unrelated tangent, how old are you ;) ;) ;)"
lol. piss off. 
i still obviously focus on the electronic stuff and that's always where my head is at. i gave up serious searching for good bands long ago and only happen upon things now and then thanks to friends or randomly catch a band at a show.. but i don't go out enough. i do love the math rock when it's infused w/enough grit. bands like 'Doctor Moss' here in pdx hit the nail on the head for me.
the post rock stuff i don't get is usually the really slow and flacid sounding singer songwriter stuff. and by saying "i don't get it" i mean it just sounds old and boring to me and why people are so excited about it is a mystery to me. bands like tortoise are a completely different story though. perhaps i have no idea what is post rock and what isn't and i'm just a completely picky bastard.
and yeah.. to answer your question i'm old. 24 days from now i'll be 36. older than dirt.
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mlbot
36? Sheeesh, well, take it from a Young Youth Guy, while there is a large amount of flaccid emo that gets called post-rock because emo has become a bad word, there are a couple of things out there worth listening to.
But in the Venn Diagram of music, I'm more into the bands that fall into both the post-rock and post-metal circles.
Luckily, there's no post-noise-rock genre yet.
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ignatius
utofbu said: "kinda.
you guys like stuff like Faraquet and The Medications?
Good stuff from DC"
i just listened to their stuff at myspace and their www. to me they both sound like every indie rock band i heard locally in miami in the 90's. has nothing changed? or did it just take 10 years for people to start getting into this stuff?
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ignatius
mlbot said: "
But in the Venn Diagram of music, I'm more into the bands that fall into both the post-rock and post-metal circles.
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metal + stoner metal + math rock is just the best thing on the planet when done right.
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mlbot
Then def. check out Nadja (and thank implexgrace for turning Roshi who turned me onto them) and Souvenir's Young America.
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