Tuesday, February 1, 2011

HIPSTER RUNOFF

HIPSTER RUNOFF

Vivian Girls take a sad press photo bc their former drummer is now more altfamous than them

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 04:26 PM PST


The Vivian Girls have some new MP3 out, but I haven't really listened to it, because as much as I 'h8 2 admit it', but Best Coast is probably the most listenable fuzzy buzzy female band in the world right now, and most of the other ones are 'too lofi' and don't have enough simple pop appeal. Anyways, Ali Koehler is the current drummer for Best Coast, but she left the Vivian Girls. In the new Vivian Girls Press Photo, u can't help but wonder what they are 'so sad abt.' If I had to make a guess, they are probably sad that they weren't the ones who enjoyed Best Coast, and Best Coast probably already achieved their maximum

Every time u see Ali Koehler drumming on stage during Letterman [link] or Fallon or opening for Weezer or meeting Justin Bieber, u can't help but wonder 'what if' she had stayed in the Vivian Girls? Would she have a fulfilling fuzzy buzzy band life?
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Did Alie Koehler make the 'right decision?
Do u think she is 'laughing all the way 2 the buzz bank'?
Do u think she is 'still bros' with the Vivian Girls, or do they have an awkward resentment now?

Why was Best Coast more successful than the Vivian Girls when they had a head start on Bethany?
Do u think the Vivian Girls will ever be as mainstream as Best Coast?
Do the Vivian Girls look 'too Brooklyn core' 2 appeal 2 tweens?
Can we officially look back and say that Ali Koehler 'made the right decision'?

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Cheer up///////
Vivian Girls///////

Sufjan Stevens hasn't stopped wearing his zany electro altbro costumes

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 03:08 PM PST

Photos by Riley Denham


Sufjan Stevens is a flopwave 2k10 band who sold tons of albums to overgrounders. The Alt Report previously noted that Sufjan was 'dressing like an electro altbro' [link], since he always has a new gimmick 4 each new album cycle. However, this album AGE OF ADZ SALES isn't really that good and every1 wishes he played folkwave music [via the banjo], so no1 likes seeing him dressed up like an electro bag lady.
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Oh Sufjy...What a fashion disaster...

Really wish he would stop wearing neon Post It notes.
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Sufjy is such a QT, too. He doesn't have 2 hide his beautiful face behind some sort of electro bag lady costume.

R u still disappointed in Sufjan for 'flopping' in 2k10?
How would u feel if the Fleet Foxes had made an 'electro album'?
Should Sufjan 'get his ass back' in the folkwave genre?
Does he need to 'get back to his roots' or does it not matter bc he is an overground artist?
Is Sufjan a hot/keut electro bag lady?
Will the new Fleet Foxes album make it clear 'what a huge disappointment' the latest Sufjan album was?

Panda Bear gives interview, say TOMBOY is a 'guitar rock' album. R u worried?

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 10:26 AM PST

Link: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/animal-collective-mastermind-panda-bear-reinvents-his-sound-on-new-album-20110131


Panda Bear's upcoming album TOMBOY is [allegedly] coming out in April or March or something (not sure if the leak date has been announced), but every1 is kinda skeptical. He gave an interview to Rolling Stone, probably to try to appeal to overground markets so they will buy his album, but every1 on that site probs just wants to read Kings of Leon and Paramore news + look at pictures of slutwavers.

The interviewer asks Broah 'what the eff took so long, bro?'

Recording the album took longer than you expected, right?
It just kept expanding. At first I was really shooting for it to come out in September, and that was sort of on the tail-end of touring with the Merriweather songs, and I’m not going to blame that, but trying to pull double duty I think pushed me back a little bit. Then just wanting to make sure things were as good as they could be, I think made it take a little bit longer.

Do u believe 'Panda'?
Did he deserve a long vacay after Merriweather?
Did he put 2 much pressure on himself/raise expectations 2 high 4 die hard AnCo brand fans?

Anyways, they also uncovered the fact that TOMBOY is being branded as a 'guitar rock' album. Wonder if it is gonna sound like the 1990s or something.

Why were you interested in returning to the guitar on Tomboy?
I think I just hadn’t done it in a while, so I thought it might force me to write different types of songs, and it did. But using the samplers and strictly electronic means to write songs, I just started to feel like I was writing the same song over and over again.

At some point you said you were into the idea of less sampling – you even said you were thinking about Nirvana and White Stripes and that kind of immediacy. Did any of that survive onto the final version of the album?
I would guess that for somebody just listening to it, they wouldn’t really see that corollary at all. But stopping the sampling was kind of an easy way out of not doing a Person Pitch, part two – which I really didn’t wanna do.

I guess sample-based music is 'no longer relevant.' I wonder what the new 2k10 sound is like. Really hope new album doesn't sound like the White Stripes.

R u gonna miss the days when Panda twisted knobs on stage + pressed buttons?

PREVIOUSLY
Panda Bear adds guitar to live performance

Panda also admitted to being 'hella self conscious' about his product now that the expectations 4 TOMBOY are 'thru the roof.'

How much pressure were you feeling to live up to the success of your last two projects?
In the past, I guess I was able to block it out or something, but for this I went through a lot of weird mental stuff for sure. It just became something that I kind of had to fend off in my mind a little bit, like constantly thinking, “Maybe this isn’t good enough” and stuff like that, just always kind of weird doubts and stuff like that. I just kind of had to get over that every day.

Is being a relevant human being 'more difficult than any of us realize'?
Do we need 2 'ease up' on Panda?
Should we show more support, and let him know that even if he makes a mediocre album, we still appreciate him and his previous work?

R u gonna miss sample based music?
Is Panda gonna 'strike out' with this guitar rock album?
Will Panda Bear's album 'chart' at #1, or will it be too drone-wave + guitar rock 2 inspire NPR cool dad purchases?
Do u believe that TOMBOY is 'actually coming out' or do u still distrust Noah Lennox?

Best Coast goes on Letterman, sounds grungy, rambles on abt Snacks

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 08:08 AM PST

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I just watched Best Coast play on Letterman. It seems like Letterman doesn't have enough 'indie buzzbands' in his rolodex so it takes him forever to get relevant buzzbands on his show. Or maybe the music industry is 'running out of acts' so they need as many random indie bands as possible 2 fill up the last 5 minutes

Anyways, Best Coast went on Letterman, and they sounded kinda grungy. Not very fuzzy buzzy. Bethany sounded pretty alright, but other 2 members looked 'danked out of their minds. I wonder if Bethany was 'blazed' or if maybe she performs at a higher level when she doesn't dank hard, but maybe she danked harder than evr [via nervousness].

First Letterman is like 'there's a cat on this album cover' because u know he has never heard any Best Coast mp3s before.

Then after the performance, he tells her "broski, there's a cat on ur album cover." And she is like "His name is Snacks." Then he looks at her like he is one of his interns and he wants to 'make love' 2 her on top of his desk.
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Wonder if Snacks the Cat was watching at home, or if he still 'completely resents' Bethany... or maybe this will be the start of 'rebuilding' their broken relationship after rumors of feline infidelity.

Did Bethany look totally keut during her performance?

Do u feel bad for WAVVES because they are on tour 2gether?
Is it 'clear' that Best Coast is on a more successful career track than WAVV and will it impact their relationship?
Are Bethany and Snacks 'gonna be okay'?
Did Besty 'sound alright' or do they need to change their sound/get another band member?
Can Letterman become 'more alt' than Fallon/Conan?
Is Letterman a 'failure' bc he has never been able 2 beat Leno in the ratings?
Did David Letterman 'want to bang' Bethany or did he just think she was a 'ditz with tats'?
Will Bethany 'open 4 Justin Bieber' in 2k14? [link]

Does the new Toro Y Moi mp3 sound like he has 'abandoned the chillwave genre'?

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 07:21 AM PST


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Just listened to this new Toro Y Moi mp3 off his upcoming album "Underneath the Pine." The song is called "New Beat" and it seems like the song is a direct message to all of the ppl who 'try to label his sound as chillwave.' The song has 2 be about 'leaving the genre behind', 'transcending pop indie', and just 'being urself', vibing to the beat of ur own wave.

Is 'chillwave' dying?
Are the artists 'moving in2 new genres' or will chillwave morph in2 a new sound? Did Toro Y Moi write a 'classic pop album'? What do u think is happening 2 chillwave? Do u <3 the 'new sound' or do u miss BLESSA-YOU HID bangers?

Do u <3 the new Toro Y Moi MP3?
After hearing this MP3 and the previous new MP3, is this album 'guaranteed' 2 be better than the Cut Copy album?
Will this album be album of the 2k11?
When will this album 'effing leak already' [via being announced months ago]?
Is Chaz Bundick 'more talented' than Michael Jackson?