PONYTAIL

i guess they slot in with bands like times new viking and the mae shii but whenever i listen to them my mind always slots them in mood at least as like a punk version of panda bear, way more beachy and summery than grimy

their new album is called ICE CREAM SPIRITUAL and the single is called CELEBRATE THE BODY ELECTRIC

the cover of the single looks like this
http://www.loshadka.org/ken/uploads/Work/Celebrate1.jpg

it sounds like they string their guitars with dental floss and rubber bands and are fronted by the mario kart characters <3 <3

i like them

language-free shriek vocals A+

...,,,;;;:::! is a very good song title

tiny singer

they sound like the punk version of deerhoof

Fri 5/09
8:30 PM

O'Death, Ponytail, USAISAMONSTER
Music Hall of Williamsburg

they are adorable!!!!

wait, didn't they play w/ o'death last time at asterisk?!

yea!

leaked.
sounds great.

weird how the Baltimore bands that get indie-big are always the ones I manage to never hear or see live.

yes.

yes!

yes

YES!

HELL yes.

oh yeah.

not really?

(okay, haven't actually heard anything, but I felt like that needed to be done.)

well, i was gonna post the stream of the album via Whiney-despot website, Paper Thin Walls, (since i did the band interview) but it was only up for last week.

http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/unicycle_factory/cartoons/yes.gif

i want to hear this.

listening to ponytail turns me into one of these dudes
http://tachyontv.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/06/443pxphilippine_tarsier_upclose_2.jpg
:D :D :D

i think maybe my fav part of the album is in the middle of "beg waves", where the drums drop out (i think) and it sounds like she's kind of spasming. its kind of impossible to describe her singing i guess but she makes v cool sounds in this part im talking about

eay tour heart out marnie stern

You guys have got to be kidding me. The band is good but that little bridge troll that fronts the act is a deal-breaker for me.

i have a feeling these dudes would take "bridge troll" as a compliment

this really is a fucking FUN album - great for driving (see j0rdan's above mario kart comment , so OTM)

gotta love the part that goes "OOH NOOO I'M LATE FOR SCHOOOOOOL!!"

love this shit

sounds like cap'n jazz fronted by...

the cast of mario kart (cant get better description than that)

^ this

anyone going to Don Cab + An Albatross + Ponytail tomorrow?

Are these guys as fun live as they sound like they would be?????

Yes.

Yes.

whoah

these guys are great!

album now out on vinyl

http://montreuxmusic.com/mmm/images/stories/artists/yes.jpg

When I saw them two years ago, almost all the women in the audience wanted to adopt the lead singer as their little sister.

it's funny that even at that, they are similiar to deerhoof
http://www.exclaim.ca/images/up-ponytail.jpg

xp Zeno: except the lead singer of Deerhoof is older than a fair number of their audience now.

yeah, i only meant the height+music style

guy in the back looks a lot like our very own "latebloomer" < / crepe >

Please don't end crepes. I like eating them!

has anyone heard their first album? i haven't stopped listening to ice cream spiritual since i saw their set at sxsw. is kamehameha as good?

If it has the songs they were playing in 2007 when I saw them, then it should be.

just got ice cream spiritual in the mail, listening, like it!

i got a promo copy of ice cream spiritual last year, which sat neglected on my desk for months. after some friends went on about them, i managed to migrate it to my hard drive and ipod -- where it has somehow remained completely unlistened to until tonight, when i opened this thread.

first impression is favorable. as someone who loves both times new viking and marnie stern (namechecked upthread), i don't like it as much as either of those. but "late for school" is a straight-up jam.

Oh man such a fun, summery album!
http://artiewayne.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/smiling-cat.jpg

y

thought this thread wld b abt max

Were the best I've yet seen em in Auckland back in January. Owning it. Stoked for the Whartscape set.

:(

http://blogs.citypaper.com/noise/index.php/2010/08/confirmed-ponytail-calls-it-quits-for-now/

;_;

i would have loved to have heard a third ponytail lp but it's understandable you might feel limited in a band like theirs. so fitting that dude is now drumming for the boredoms XD

at least to called it off at the peak

they called

first BYOP, now ponytail

i understand the one dude going to play in the boredoms, but i don't really understand why you'd want to dissolve a band like this, none of their solo shit is gonna be nearly as well known -- i guess being in a band is that suffocating creatively? idk

"none of their solo shit is gonna be nearly as well known"

true, but they can join/start other bands as well

well isn't one of them also going to "find themselves"?

i'm not sure where they would develop in terms of sound if they made another reecord.
they were, in a way, a one trick pony band (even if a very good one)

obviuosly i'm sad one of my favourite bands broke up, but i don't know if i would want another album jsut like ice cream spiritual or kamehameha. i like kamehameha but ics is the same thing done just a little bit better and now there is no reason to listen to the former. but i would love to have heard them do something a bit different. i guess they weren't feeling that they had another worthwhile album in them?

fans of ponytail will maaaaaaaybe like this mi ami album?

i'm not totally in love with it yet, and the vocalist is certainly not as easy to love as ms ponytail. but if you can imagine yourself able to handle a bit more noisy, punk and drum-based working of a pretty similar sound it's worth checking out

the new aids wolf (ugh) song sounds super ponytailesque. way moreso than their other stuff in any case. still shit though

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-aids-wolf-teaching-suffer

"aids wolf"

am i the only one who posts here that likes AIDS Wolf?

AIDS Wolf

aids wolf never did much for me.

they put on a good live show but I wouldn't sit around listening to their records

does anyone sit around and listen to aids wolf records?

sarahel apparently

i would probably like this band a lot more if the vocalist didn't weird me out so much. imo she takes it one level further into cringe-world than aor or chinese star's vocalists. i love their guitar goings-on. that's all changed now, though, this album is the last with dual guitars & they are now a one-guitarist band with like loads of pedals and shit and apparently it's a big mess.

idk anything about this band but every time this thread gets bumped i get this fab song stuck in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CGA8bZKz7I

AIDS Wolf

― am0n, Thursday, September 9, 2010 11:03 AM

new album

had been hearing they had a new record in the can but didn't wanna get anyone's hopes up in case it didn't happen

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/ponytail.jpg

Dustin Wong at Death by Audio tonight.

hm. thought ponytail had broken up.

have heard different things, like that they have no plans for touring or anything beyond releasing this album, but really who knows. i'm sure as the record comes out that'll get clarified more.

His solo stuff sounds pretty interesting, in any case. No idea about the other bands playing though.

guy was awesome, btw

cannot wait.

i had a ponytail for 3 whole years

i looked like a douchebasket

― chip dumstorf

Dustin Wong - Infinite Love is great, as is the Ecstatic Static stuff. He's a brilliant musician!

Ecstatic Sunshine... Sry.

easy peasy

i think this is pretty great. a bit less erratic & manic esp the guitars. the boredoms influence is still totally there but now more sr7 & the later, more drawn out stuff

loving the new dustin wong record (at least what I've heard of it). totally fun.

This one is really cool. "On/In The Way" sounds like a Steve Reich phase piece with High Life-style guitars. (bad description!).

Do all of the tracks stop so bluntly or am I listening to a dud?

hmm not sure. i like reich meets high life though. i was reminded of "remain in light" actually -- which you could probably describe as reich meets high life too. maybe? kinda?

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

^ off the new Dustin Wong album with Takako Minekawa

:) :(

:)

The new Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa album is fantastic and fun

yes it is athough not being taylor swift probably won't get much attention here

nice, gonna give this a listen now, hope it's not TOO different from taylor swift

hoping ponytail & tay drop their pop angles and combine for a noise-country album

wtf this shit only has three chords repeating over and over again, totally lacks the sophistication of swift's songwriting, idgi

Love everything Dustin has done, but his guitar riffs on the last Ponytail album haven't been matched. He took everything to such beautiful heights. That album was such a great swan song, but I wanted more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt44GEvNatc

So addictive.