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its time to go home and fuck off now, kitten...

yr promise is all worn out.

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

coontroversial!!!!!!

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

nope

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

ill leave the light on for you

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

This was true about 8 years ago.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

some blogger invited it out again

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

hey guys, what about me and ian's livelihood? no indie rock, no rent.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

matador is indie now?

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

GET WITH THE 90s!

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

ha.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

hi-yo

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

the kids can still buy it...so long as they keep it at home

treat it like girlie mags or something...

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

is that a knife? what the fuck do YOU do with girlie mags?

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

don't ask.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

ha. i cut up jc penny catalogs and re-dress the girlies, na klar

(small knife intended to illustrate swipe at matadoR)

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

stay FUNNY, indie rock! ART BRUT

(Am I the only one convinced that Yo La album really is gonna be called I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass? That's what happens when you let comedians who sing about pizza in Chico Marx accents open for you)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

September 12th
OLE-692-1 Yo La Tengo I’m Not Afraid Of You, And I Will Beat Your Ass LP
OLE-692-1 Yo La Tengo I’m Not Afraid Of You, And I Will Beat Your Ass CD

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

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― sleep (sleep), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

i sense a BREAKTROUGH

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://usuarios.lycos.es/montes_3/tub06.gif

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

i hope YLT has a real gangsta album cover so jessica harper can walk out on it

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

i bought the matmos album yesterday, stencil! with money! i only shivered a little bit when i saw the matador logo. great packaging, by the way. love the art cards. i even got dupes of one! love the cigarette butt highsmith. but then i heart highsmith. can't wait for the matmos/early man tour.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

why would you shiver?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

don't be naive.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

whatever man once upon a time there was a bunnybrains record with that logo!!!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

and i was very excited about that at the time. i even engineered the a-side of the bunnybrains matador 7-inch.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

"engineered" and "bunnybrains" seem like strange words to use in the same sentence.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, like, no offense bro.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

dude, i was totally behind the board. that was a sweet set-up back then at pete's house of power. the band was in the basement and the studio was on the 2nd floor of the house. and there was closed-circuit television so that you could see what was going on in the basement from the studio.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds pretty rad! but was there a secret door?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Did you have to keep putting quarters in to keep the video feed going?

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

listen to *bunnybrains - CD93* that thing sounds fucking awesome. most of that stuff was recorded there. (the matador single sounds like shit though. cuz i was drunk. and probably asleep. it was fun to move the levers though.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

it's hard to believe there are 693 OLEs. That is a lot of OLEs.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

pete did the whole video configuration. he was an engineer. his dayjob was to climb mountains and fix radio station's antennae when they were on the fritz. he was geenius bunny drummer. his penis is the one in a rat trap on the matador sleeve.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

we're in 700s already. some of that stuff is weird promo shit tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

ah, I remember fondly the days of Toys Went Berzerk and the Jean Paul Sartre Experience...

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

the first one i bought was that teenage fanclub album. the first one.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure the actual first album on Matador I bought. Maybe the 1st Unsane?

Charlie Ondras, you are missed!!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

prolly was either catholic ed or slanted maybe, i don't remember. the former needs to be remastered like you wouldn't believe.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I’m Not Afraid Of You, And I Will Beat Your Ass

see the YLT site has no contraction, but a comma:

I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 May 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://cdbaby.com/covers/i/b/ibm.jpg

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 14 May 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.coolitevents.com/headers/indie-roxs.jpg

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 14 May 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

My first Matador: Mecca Normal's Water Cuts My Hands LP.

― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 15 May 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

you guys are old.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 15 May 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/fashion/28Blipsters.html

― bb (bbrz), Saturday, 27 January 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

The first time I met this guy he was wearing a hat that said "Minority Threat"

http://myspace.com/greyreverendmusic

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 27 January 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://voice.paly.net/media/images/Lia-04-05-2005.gif

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 27 January 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tubafrenzy.org/weblog/archives/PonyReviewStayFree9.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 27 January 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

i feel like that 'blipster' (ugh ow) article was not written by a smart enough or funny enough person.

it should be reworked as a sequel to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm7AayqB-8s

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Saturday, 27 January 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

The real problem with the article is "New Trend Finds Some Black People Not Behaving According to Black Stereotype"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 27 January 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

yes, that is one of its problems

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Saturday, 27 January 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

whatever happened to 'indie guilt'

― Frozen Field and Fox (688), Saturday, 27 January 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

it turned into yindie guilt

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 27 January 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

or indie gelt

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 27 January 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

i couldnt even finish it....not only because the writing was dumb and textbook or that the general thrust behind it was "whoa blacks not acting black ... COOL!", but because it was just another writer trying to talk about culture as something purchaseable...

and because i cant stand another second of "the indie-ing" of everything

― bb (bbrz), Saturday, 27 January 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

indie kilt

― latebloomer: crapness 2 the Nth degree (latebloomer), Saturday, 27 January 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

when has indie gone from 'lets do things differently, on our own terms' to ' lets play our instruments badly and be all ironic about it'? was it...... 1983?

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Saturday, 27 January 2007 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

There was always crap indie rock. And, historically, the big indie labels have often been more conservative or banal than particular smaller labels - true since the beginning. But "indie rock" has produced a massive amount of great music since the early '80s and continues to do so.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 27 January 2007 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

you know kids, the music really ISNT THE PROBLEM HERE!

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

i like deerhoof a lot

― roger goodell (gear), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

i like deerhunter a lot

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

That guy in the kilt is wearing regulation hose and flashes and dress brogues...either he, or the person who dressed him, does actually know what he's doing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

you know kids, the music really ISNT THE PROBLEM HERE!
-- bb (b...), January 30th, 2007. (bbrz) (link)

uhh... have you listened to "indie rock" recently?

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Black people black people black people BLACK PEOPLE!!!!!!

― Blastochrist (blastocyst), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h226/radd08/sig.jpg

― plan b: videodrome (fauxhemian), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

i prefer major label test marketed music.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

Let's start complaining about backpacker rap instead. We lost the war.

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

i kinda like the peter, bjorn and john song

― Storefront Church (688), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

"backpacker" has multiple conotations...

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

my problem is the whole precious culture thats come as a result...the ga-ga, over-hyped, we're so great attitudes as well as the constant frustration with tings getting too popular or too impersonal, or whatever. the result of all this interest in the "indie" culture has been a horribly impersonal, marketed approach no different than any other top-down/market-based youth culture thats ever come to heavy trading with the added horsehit that is the sense that "because its indie its better". that and everyone seems to think theyre so special...(amazing how all these kids grew up on nirvana and cookies, but missed the boat on what seemed (to me) to be a major tennent of what that band, or that man, seemed to be getting on about).

i've always been bored by a good chunk of the actual music of indie rock...just like im bored by a good chunk of any "genre" or approach to makig music. at the end of the day the music doesnt matter. (though in everycase the music did matter at the get go)...

this is the nature of culture in the modern age...

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

a yellow card might be in order for that post

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

i used to think the decemberists were called the dismemberists.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

decemberment plan

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

the shins will change your life, and sell 115K+ units.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

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― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

sxyD don't you know 2007 is the year of australian indie rock?!?!?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

zero. none.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

We saw of Montreal last night and there was some kid standing behind us who had written "Fuck Outback Steakhouse" on his t=shirt.

The Blow opened. She was really good.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha - i am right now listening to an australian indie rock promo copy a friend just gave me of a band called the minimum chips - it is okay in parts, has an organ, but...
xpost

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Greetings all,

Just checking in with you about the The Nein’s upcoming full-length, Luxury (out 2/20/07 on Sonic Unyon) and seeing if you’ve had a chance to give it a listen. Lyrically thoughtful, politically conscious and sonically diverse, THE NEIN continue to explore song structure by harnessing disparate “parts” – samples, beats and found sounds interspersed with simple acoustic melodies and repetitive phrases – with spectacular results. (Sort of like a less-linear Mission of Burma.) From the pounding rhythmic verses and baroque keyboard progressions of "Decollage" to unconventional noise pop tracks such as the ridiculously catchy “Get Up” (a stripped down, drum-free singalong), The Nein manage to channel early Bowie/Eno/Roxy Music with jagged guitar, found sounds and postrock ambience.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

It is with great pleasure that we present to you The Chaos In Order (Yardley Pop/GR2), Let’s Go Sailing’s resplendent full-length debut. You may already be familiar with Shana Levy, Let’s Go Sailing’s coxswain (a person who’s in charge of a ship and its crew), and not even know it. The Los Angeles based singer-songwriter-keyboardist-guitarist-producer was once a member of indie outfit Irving, and has played keyboards on Rilo Kiley and dios (malos) recordings. The Flaming Lips have been playing Let's Go Sailing demos as between-sets music for years, while Courtney Love stormed the stage during one of their concerts, joined the band for a song, and declared it “a hit.”

Let's Go Sailing makes songs that aren't so much the soundtrack to The Best Day of Your Life as the soundtrack to remembering the Best Day of Your Life. There is an undercurrent of heavyheartedness to Chaos’s otherwise upbeat tracks, a wistfulness, a bittersweet sentiment. The Chaos in Order is a reverie of sorts, and commences with a fetchingly orchestrated opener, “Sideways.” Shana Levy delivers her smart style of sweet, whimsical indie-pop with the aid of a trusty crew, guitarist Brent Turner (Irving), bassist Nikki Monninger (Silversun Pickups), cellist Tanya Haden (Haden Triplets), and drummer Byron Reynolds (Possum Dixon).

Let’s Go Sailing has inspired a devoted following with its lilting indie-pop, a tender blend of memorable melodies (informed by Levy’s classical training), sophisticated arrangements, and affecting, heart-on-the-sleeve vocals. The weekly My Little Underground L.A. called its music “beautiful, in that sad sort of way one can only imagine a balloon feels when it finds itself free from a child,” and remarked, “Let’s Go Sailing is hope and love and hurt in a few chosen words and notes.”

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will release their fourth album, Baby 81, on May 1st with RCA Records. With their 2005 critically acclaimed album, Howl, BRMC proved their stalwart musicianship with their own brand of stripped down Americana and are now deftly transitioning back towards the color-saturated wash of guitars that made fans fall for the band in the first place. Baby 81, named after an infant admitted to the hospital in the wake of 2004’s tsunami who was claimed by nine different mothers until it found its way back to its own family, is an ambitious, powerful, emotional, guitar-driven rock n’ roll record that is guaranteed to get people jumping and thinking.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

RCA AIN'T INDIE, SCOTT!!!!!!!1!11

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah. whatever. it all looks the same in my inbox.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

i shouldn't diss my spam though. every couple months i have enough shitty indie rock and undie rap to take to the record store for trade.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

lock this thread -- it sounds like ILM -- my gag reflex is kicking in.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Scott, I would kill Jack Cole to get your shitty indie / undie spam, in lieu of the shitty indie / undie spam I get.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

i only like lounge, alt-country and surf music.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

pffft, if it's pressed in quantities over 300 i won't buy it.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

if it gets mentioned in any publication i immediately sell it.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

NO FLEXI NO CRED.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

locking thread now

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

CDRs are for hardcore band demos! I only buy lathe cut records!

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

i get new metal in the mail every day. that's all i care about. the rest is hogwash. got a great care-package from norway yesterday. i heart the norwegian hordes.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

i heart russian funeral doom labels:

Hi Scott!
I'm pleased to send you our releases!
But Intaglio is sold out, so would you mind if I send you it on CD-R?

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

SOMENONE UNLOCKED AND NOW I AM NOT AN ADMNIN.

I call foul.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

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