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Was at DC9, a small venue in DC, a few months ago and suddenly a bunch of underage kids showed up for a show. We asked the bartender who the artist was, and they explained that its somebody who went viral on TikTok, and he explained that it's becoming a thing now where these artists with only one actual song are becoming crazy successful because of TikTok, and are actually touring sold out shows, even with only one song under their belt.
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DasNeonLicht posted:DC9 rules. other small venues are "nicer," but DC9 is my favorite Love the rooftop. Wish it had a toilet up there though, sucks to have to walk down two long flights of stairs to take a piss when there is a show going on that you're not attending, or when the second floor is just closed. The garlic fries are amazing though, and the burgers are always perfectly cooked.
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cptn_dr posted:Indie Rock/Pop/Folk/Electronic Megathread: Normal opinions about Sleater-Kinney My first exposure to Sleater Kinney was Six Feet Under when Nate and Claire went to visit Lisa
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skooma512 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enJgAKUV9H0 Broken Social Scene kills, they're so amazing. You just missed them doing their 20 year anniversary tour for You Forgot It In the People. I've spent years trying to find other bands that have a similar sound to them (rich, bombastic sound), but haven't really been able to come up with anything.
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priznat posted:Blows my mind that both Broken Social Scene’s self titled and New Porno’s Twin Cinema came out in the same year (2005). Just a banger year for music with Sleater Kinney putting out The Woods, White Stripes with Get Behind Me Satan, Why? Elephant Eyelash etc etc. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
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priznat posted:I’m old AF and that would be 1993 for me which was also an incredible year for music. The Jurassic Park soundtrack still holds up
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This lineup is incredible. There are going to be so many 40 year olds there like me. How is BSS so low on the billing, thats crazy to me
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BigFactory posted:Has passion pit done anything in the past 10 years to give them billing over Alvvays? It looks like there were albums in 2015 and 2017 that I never listened to, but I do love those first two albums and I'm excited to see them for the first time
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Hot Diggity! posted:DFA1979's first album kicked rear end and it's a shame that one of the members pals around with the Proud Boys founder Yeah, it was pretty shocking. They seemed like decent guys when I saw them. I saw them perform at a super small club (a lineup that included Stars, The Dears, and Broken Social Scene) in Osaka a lifetime ago, and they were extremely gracious interacting with their fans. I even saw one fan try and gift the lead singer a PSP (which had just come out), and he politely declined the gift.
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Another great Ugly tune. drat, another great song by them after I'm Happy You're Here in 2022. It looks like they're finally releasing their first EP "Two Years Around the Sun" in April, I'm guessing in reference to the fact that it took them 2 years to write and record.
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The Modern Leper posted:PSA: It looks like all the singles from Nilufer Yanya's album Painless are missing from Spotify: That's so weird. Good thing I have the vinyl.
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skooma512 posted:Nation of Language is touring this spring and I got off my rear end and got tickets this time. It's great. Just make sure you stand either by the balcony railings, or if you're on the first floor, stand towards the back by the sound engineer. I've found that if you try and stand closer to the stage, the sound isn't as good. They have a few sister venues in the area. The Anthem opened maybe 7 years ago, and it has a much larger capacity, and has much better acoustics, but it's kind of a pain to get to at The Wharf. They just opened The Atlantis right next door to 9:30, which is a recreation of the original location for the 9:30 Club. Then out in the suburbs they have Merriweather Post Pavilion, an amphitheater and namesake for the Animal Collective album.
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Bright Bart posted:You all heard of Jungle? They nice at what they do. A couple of their videos went viral last summer because of the incredible choreography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3lX2p_Uy9I
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How is Vampire Weekend live? Amazingly, I've never seen them, and I see that they'll be playing at The Anthem in September.
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Big City Drinkin posted:Both nights sold out immediately. I couldn’t even get tickets with presale codes Oh drat, I was just going to ask friends tonight if they wanted to get tickets. Guess that's not happening unless they add a third date, which is pretty common here in DC.
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Feb 28, 2024 21:35
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Kazzah posted:New St. Vincent: I liked this. With her last album as an exception, she otherwise has consistently put out great stuff for more than a decade now. I did hate her Masseduction tour where she performed without a band, just with backing tracks, and occasionally playing guitar while standing on stage motionless. And it was strange with Daddy's Home how she wrote an album dedicated to her father who had just returned home from prison for doing white collar crimes, and seemed offended whenever people asked about her father during press interviews.
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Jungle won a Brit Award last night, and managed to show off some of the very impressive choreography of their dancers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPSt74adFnQ
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For those who hadn't heard, Justin Peck, longtime collaborator of Sufjan Stevens, put together a stage musical of Sufjan's 2005 album Illinoise. It made its debut last summer at Bard College, had a limited run in Chicago earlier this year, and is about to finish an off Broadway run in New York City, before doing 16 weeks at the St James theater beginning next month on Broadway. It's not a jukebox musical as you might expect. There isn't even any dialogue, rather there is a band with vocalists on stage who perform the music from the album as the actors dance to it on stage, and through that dance a story is told. I saw it this weekend, and it was really wonderful, exceeded my expectations. If you are a Sufjan fan, I highly encourage you to go to see it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZcXpeyaZ04 One little detail that I loved was that before the show started, they were playing a bunch of indie rock from the mid 00's. Nice little touch. Edit: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4vXRPUOeEe/?hl=en Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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I'd say that my favorite Suf album is Age of Adz, I think it's his magnum opus, but I know it's not an album that's easily accessible to many people. But I do think that Illinoise still holds up for me, and "Predatory Wasp" is easily one of his best songs. There were people sobbing in the audience during "Predatory Wasp," "Casimir Pulaski," and "Seers Tower."
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abraham linksys posted:carrie & lowell being an album of just the saddest indie folk imaginable meant i never got around to listening to it. Many of his newer fans think it's his greatest record. I think it's good, but not in the top 3. I think it really only became special later into the tour for it when he started to throw a lot of new elements on top of it, like turning The Fourth of July, the song directly about the death of his mother, into a dance anthem. He released a live version of the album that's really worth listening to. Compared to early in the tour when he would cry while performing the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbbSzY7MUZk abraham linksys posted:i should probably listen to The Ascension, right? feel like that album kind of came and went but, well, 2020 was not a great year to release an album The Ascension is great, and is basically a sequel to The Age of Adz. My favorites from the album were "Ativan" and "Landslide." He describes the album as his foray into pop music, although it didn't quite get any radio play on your local pop music station. He said he was inspired by the queens of RuPaul's Drag Race. He put out a ton of work in a short period of time during the pandemic. Aporia, a collaboration with stepfather Lowell which is kind of like improvisational new age, and you can skip it. Then the aforementioned Ascension also in 2020. Then in 2021 we got Convocations, a 5 disc ambient noise album about the death of his father, and you can skip it. Then later that year, A Beginner's Mind, a folk duo album he made with Angelo de Augustine, which is inspired by cheesy movies, and is really great. And of course last year we got Javelin, another great album inspired by the end of his relationship, and eventual death of his long term boyfriend. Javelin fell a little halfway between Age of Adz and Carrie and Lowell in terms of sound. Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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Nightmare Cinema posted:How is this guy pushing 50? I assume you're talking about how great he looks? Dude is jacked, so he must work out. He's never seemed like a major partier, despite being a musician. And gay guys generally take better care of their skin than straight guys, the majority of my gay friends look a good 10 years younger than my straight friends the same age. And not having kids probably helps. He might also just be super lucky genetically, his brother Marzuki is also a very good looking guy. Also that video is from like 8 or 9 years ago. Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Bright Bart posted:I'm embarrassed not to know this but, purely in terms of demographic statistics, if you're a man with a male partner are you more likely to be gay or bisexual? It's hard to get accurate statistics on this because homophobia tends to deter men from admitting some same sex attraction when they are primarily attracted to opposite sex partners, or are in an opposite sex relationship.
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How is St Vincent live normally? She just announced her new tour. I wasn't really into Daddy's Home, but I'm normally a big fan. The only time I saw her though was for Masseduction tour back in 2017 when she insisted on touring without a band, and performing almost entirely to a backing track, only occasionally playing her guitar, and standing otherwise motionless on stage. But I'm hoping if I bought tickets for the new tour, she doesn't repeat the same performance.
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New Orville Peck and Willie Nelson collab just dropped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BirJMnMcfBs Seems like Orville is getting ready to soft launch his face for those who haven't seen the whole package years ago before he came up with the persona
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Bright Bart posted:Listened to the Temper Trap album Conditions after hearing some of their songs remixed in a DJ set. Their song "Sweet Disposition" remains an all time great. Listening to the new Vampire Weekend, is it just me, or does it seem like they reuse some musical themes throughout their discography? Or is that unintentional?
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bows1 posted:They are doing a lot of self referencing and it’s great but it doesn’t top modern vampires of the city for me 1. Modern Vampires 2. Self-Titled 3. Father of the Bride 4. Only God was Above Us 5. Contra And that's not a sleight
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T Bowl posted:Nah this one is probably 2nd, and Contra is 4th. Father of the bride is fine but clearly their low point. Opinions. Father is bloated for sure, and sounded at times too much like a Haim record, but there were tracks that really stood out and caught my attention immediately. While I'm enjoying Only God so far, none of the tracks seem like immediate bangers to me.
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https://pitchfork.com/news/menomena-surprise-release-new-ep-the-insulation-listen/ Menomena has dropped a new EP, their first new music in 12 years. They're secretly one of the greatest. Edit: Apparently the songs are all old, and part of a Spring re-issue campaign. Which is good news. Their vinyl records are difficult to obtain secondhand, and typically go for a lot of money. I can finally complete my collection. Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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priznat posted:lol and lmao Speaking of...  The Just Like Heaven festival just announced their set times, and BSS is down pretty low on the list, and only allotted 40 minutes, which is shocking to me. Surely they're bigger than Passion Pit, Metric, Miike Snow, and War on Drugs, no?
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abraham linksys posted:man usually these sort of one-day festivals have way too many conflicts to make them worth the price and you only end up seeing 1/3 of what you'd like to see, but this one's easy as hell For me, it's The Go Team, CSS, BSS, Washed Out, Passion Pit, Death Cab, Phoenix, and Postal Service. I'm happy to see Sleigh Bells, Tegan and Sara, Alvvays, Metric, and War on Drugs, but I will get to those late or leave early to see my priorities.
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Carpet posted:Early review of St Vincent's All Born Screaming is up at Stereogum, I'm even more excited for it now. That sounds promising! Her last album was really weird. Why write an entire album about your father's release from prison, create a whole persona around it in which you call yourself "Daddy," and then completely refuse to talk about your father in the press? All of that for a not that great album.
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Sufjan's Broadway musical adaptation of Illinoise has just been nominated for 4 Tony nominations. Unclear if he would potentially get any of the Tonys since he wasn't directly involved in its production. Probably not.
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exquisite tea posted:He's still credited as writing the music and lyrics but the only award category he'd have the potential of winning is Best Musical. Which I imagine would be a reach. I feel like the Tonys like the flashier shows. Something like Illinoise might have a hard time, especially with no acting nominations to bolster itself
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bows1 posted:I love that album but the trailer for the play looked so cringe I dunno if I could do it. I saw it off Broadway. Bright Bart posted:I'm surprised because I thought by the strict sense of the term a musical has the singers dancing, which doesn't happen in this show even one time I believe, rather than it just being a narrative set to music with alternating speaking and singing parts. Yes, it's not a traditional musical. There is a band on stage that plays the music from the album. The actors on stage tell the story through dance, and there is absolutely zero dialogue. The story actually works pretty well. Essentially, A group of friends gather around a campfire and share stories, such as "John Wayne Gacy Jr," (which is very sad as the dancers interpret these happy families being torn apart), "They are night zombies!" (which talks about how these men from history still haunt us), "The Man of Metropolist" (probably the most joyous dance routine, the dancers are able to facsimile Superman flying with the create use of a cape, and flying on one leg). The main story is loosely based on Sufjan's real life. His avatar (Henry) in the show shares the story of his dad remarried to a woman from "Decatur", and they moved down there, and it sucked, but he made two best friends, Carl, and Shelby. Carl and Henry get tired of small town life, and move to "Chicago," in a beautiful sequence where they use a steering wheel, and the dancers fly around with lights to show traffic, and eventually New York. There, they learn news that Shelby is dying through "Casimir Pulaski Day," and Carl wants to return home to see her, but Henry refuses, and Carl leaves without him. Meanwhile Henry meets Douglas (implied to be Sufjan's deceased boyfriend Evans), and they fall in love with "A Predatory Wasp." Carl gets home, but it's too late for Shelby, and we witness him kill himself over and over again by jumping from "The Seers Tower." It's a lot more effective than my crude language can evoke. Here's the "set list" Act 1: Three Stars Come On! Feel the Illinoise Jacksonville Zombies John Wayne Gacy Jr Man of Metropolis Act 2: Decatur Chicago To the Works of the Rock River Valley Region Casimir Pulaski Prairie Fire Predatory Wasp In this Temple Seer's Tower A Conjunction of Drones Act 3: Chicago reprise The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders Epilogue (or Riffs and Variations on Out of Egypt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS7QtYFmepE Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Apr 30, 2024 |
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exquisite tea posted:My wife has often compared him to Kate Bush. Eclectic yet always recognizable, cornerstone albums across several different genres, highly influential yet nobody else sounds quite like him. Spotify thinks that because of my love of Sufjan, that I must love all sad singer songwriters, and I have to push back because Sufjan is pretty much the only sad singer songwriter I listen to, but even then the stuff I like by him the best is his more upbeat stuff. Hell, I even really enjoy his rap group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYV24IIg5w4
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interpunct posted:I'm not sure about previous productions, but The Park Avenue Armory run and the Broadway run distributed programs with Henry's journal, which helps flesh out the show's narrative. Very convenient link! I had been debating scanning my copy, but had decided it was too much work.
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 New Pornographers summer tour without Neko Case. Not coming to DC sadly, debating whether I want to take a trip to see them. Their last album was fairly lackluster (probably their first dud in 25 years), and they didn't really seem to have a lot of energy on their last tour.
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Creature posted:of Montreal’s new album is out today. I was talking with a friend today about how we didn't care for the latest Janelle Monae album from last year (?), how it sounded so generic, like anyone could have put it out. Which got me thinking about how the only time I ever saw her live was back in 2010 when she toured with Of Montreal. Janelle was definitely the lesser known act, and apparently there was a lot of drama behind the scenes. But she was just so incredible live. That was my third time seeing Of Montreal, and the first two times were just so incredible, it was shocking to see how bad they were. They were touring I think for maybe False Priest? Not a great album, not terrible, but they had these giant papier mache goldfish on stage doing interpretive dance, and it was weird. I kind of lost all interest in Of Montreal after that, although Hissing Fauna is still a wonderful album.
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I went to the Just Like Heaven festival at the Rose Bowl this weekend, I realized it was my first festival since Sasquatch 2007. I had an amazing time. Since the lineup was mostly artists that were at their peak around 2005 to 2010, the crowd was also full of people who were also likely at their peak around 2005 to 2010. I didn't feel old, and everybody's fashion made sense to me. It was bizarre, the first artists went on right at noon, but they didn't actually let anybody into the festival grounds until noon, so as we walked in, they were playing to an empty field. Felt bad for them. Also drink prices sucked, ranging from $15 to $30 depending on what you ordered, but also I'm old with a real job now, so I can afford it now. We ended up seeing The Go! Team, CSS, Warpaint, Broken Social Scene, Washed Out, Alvvays, Passion Pit, Death Cab for Cutie, and Phoenix (who were joined by Ezra Koenig for a few songs). We ended up leaving early before War on Drugs and Postal Service because we were flat out exhausted after standing in the sun all day. But everybody was great. Some of the bands were currently on tour, others it seems like they came out of retirement to play just this festival. CSS said it might be their last show ever. Phoenix announced that they were going home to record a new album. Definitely something I'll want to check out again in the future if they continue with the elder millennial nostalgia vibes.
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Kramdar posted:No Tegan and Sara? They were on at the same time as Broken Social Scene and Washed Out
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