that stage where you think they aren't popular anymore but are actually way more popular than they were when they had "buzz"

xp: then there are bands like Green Day, where you blink and then suddenly they are way more massively popular than you ever could have imagined them getting

like, it was around the time that they did a Broadway show that I was all "okay people, I am not opposed to this band but this is now officially silly"

That reminds me, I have to write a review of the new Incubus album by Friday and I'm still kinda boggling at the fact that it's 2011 and there's a new Incubus album.

album of the year, amirite?

you're never ever funny (on purpose).

who - ilxor or Phil?

love the parenthetical xp

btw, wasnt trying to be lol style funny w/ that post—just my way of asking "so, how's the album?"

New research found that failed attempts at humor can provoke surprisingly rude responses, with the harshest reactions coming from friends and family.

Jennifer Lopez seems to have come back with a vengeance. I heard On the Floor in every store and restaurant I walked inside of on 7th/8th Ave. and Times Square last week.

a lot of this stuff has to do with good management - a manager's job is to sort of help the band locate a place where they can reliably ply their trade without having to be constantly worrying about growth, staying hip, etc

Cowboy Junkies
Allison Krauss
Lyle Lovett
k.d. lang

Krauss is so damn smart she should be teaching seminars on how to do business

neil young

Krauss is so damn smart she should be teaching seminars on how to do business

aero have you gone blonde yet?

sorry that was kinda cheap :/

idgi

btw, wasnt trying to be lol style funny w/ that post—just my way of asking "so, how's the album?"

― solitary posts that effortlessly summarize the spirit of ilxor (ilxor), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 6:08 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

the fact that that's your way of asking that question is why you're a noxious presence

i suggest a nice sandwich

the fact that that's your way of asking that question is why you're a noxious presence

and the fact that your fav album of April 2011 is by the fucking Foo Fighters may explain why your panties are in a twist about my itty bitty Incubus comment

anyway- done w/ this convo, if you dont have something nice to say etc.

(you'd do well to follow that advice too)

Red Hot Chili Peppers ten years ago is like the ultimate example of this.

the fact that that's your way of asking that question is why you're a noxious presence

― bile al (some dude), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 6:31 PM

this is ridiculous

some dude, i like you, but not when you're in asshole mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3r7TMObOz8

Atmosphere

jesus christ superstar was the first think i played this morning. its the most popular musical on earth in my life today.

i think i could listen to it every day. i'm sure i could.

Atmosphere otm

oh yeah totally

what the fuck happened here

Aerosmith

built to spill, circa mid-2000s. maybe still, if they ever put out any records.

h8 311 SO MUCH, "amber is the color of your energy" stopped me from listening to the radio for like five years.

but lol i've seen mike doughty twice in the last six or so years, he always sells out the little venue here in town. he sounds great live!

also TMBG has a new album coming out soonish, and their single got posted to Pitchfork with like, maybe a sentence of description. it felt really begrudging.

yeah geeky '90s alt in general is fertile for this thread. i still check for new TMBG even if it's not that good, loved Soul Coughing but am not real into the Doughty solo stuff.

is there still a big touring market for bands like the Spin Doctors & Blues Traveler, who were sort of incidental players in the jamrock community, but also briefly embraced by the mainstream? Like, did they basically return from whence they came, or were they able to parlay their brief popularity into a larger and enduring fanbase?

Jamrock folks seem pretty loyal & into long-term commitment, from what I can tell.

LCD Soundsystem

well when it takes you a fortnight to stand up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEdxCn6dYsM

is there still a big touring market for bands like the Spin Doctors & Blues Traveler, who were sort of incidental players in the jamrock community, but also briefly embraced by the mainstream? Like, did they basically return from whence they came, or were they able to parlay their brief popularity into a larger and enduring fanbase?

Jamrock folks seem pretty loyal & into long-term commitment, from what I can tell.

― thats my meme dont were it out (Pillbox), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 9:27 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

Blues Traveler weren't incidental, they started HORDE and headlined it for several years! they still, like, play Red Rocks, but i think their hardcore fanbase is kind of negligible, their last album (which features a SPOKEN WORD INTERLUDE BY BRUCE WILLIS apparently) didn't even chart.

6) avoid confrontation and shock

seems like this could be amended to

6) avoid confrontation and shock
6.a) alternatively, strongly advocate for cheeba

they started HORDE and headlined it for several years! - yeah, but would they have headlined it if they didn't start it? I guess by "incidental," I meant "second-tier" (i.e. not Phish or the Dead).

SPOKEN WORD INTERLUDE BY BRUCE WILLIS - o dear o dear

Spin Doctors are currently touring w/Rick Springfield.

iirc when Horde started it was about sub-Phish jambands pooling their resources, but at the tour's peak Blues Traveler had that one really huge album and were generally one of the 2 biggest acts on the tour every year

The Eels

i feel like the strokes might fit in here

I keep expecting Hot Chip to drop off the spectrum, but they never seem to.

Placebo went on a series of arena-sized concerts across Europe, in October–December 2009. That leg of the tour culminated in a concert in London's O2 Arena which was Placebo's largest gig ever in the United Kingdom.

^ didn't even realise Placebo were still going

h8 311 SO MUCH, "amber is the color of your energy" stopped me from listening to the radio for like five years. (...)

― I don't know if you should use my "Alf" reference (reddening), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 00:53 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Well, I hadn't heard about this song, but I just googled the lyrics and creased up.

Placebo are HUGE in europe, especially in france. someone i know at their label told me that it seemed like about half of the O2 audience were french.

I don't know anything about 311 but is that some kind of intentional or even unintentional misquote from PiL's "Rise" ("Anger is an energy")?

xp

Nice to be massive in some country other than your own. Go over, get attention, then come home and chill out.

A bit like being hannah Montana, for real!

xp I don't know, but now you are making it more awesome!

There was a 'not-soundtrack' album for the Alice in wonderland film, so lots of songs featuring references to Alice.

There's not so many Amber songs, One by The Residents but it sounds like she'd died in that one, so no.