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@aeolianblues / aeolianblues.tumblr.com

Amateur writer and cartoonist, trash poetry specialist, musician, punk radio host, computer science student and enthusiast. Muser, hi hello! Museblogging at @sunburnacoustic. Disastrously cooking at @vengefulcooking
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Carlos O’Connell appreciation post. I need to dye my hair like him, I need to become as bold and fearless as him, I need to become as stylish and caring as he’s been publicly, and also just I need more people to appreciate him.

Carlos from Fontaines D.C., everyone.

Pics that aren’t mine are the band’s, from interviews, Carlos’ stories on IG, photographers Pooneh Ghana, A.F. Cortés and Charles Barclay Harris and screenshots from GIFs by allbornscreaming and atearinspacecock.

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‘Indie sleaze’ is not 2014, ‘Indie sleaze’ is not 2014, ‘Indie sleaze’ is not 2014, ‘Indie sleaze’ is not 2014!

It’s not tumblr-core and it’s not Lana Del Ray or 2013 AM, it’s not #girl interrupted, it’s not Ethel Cain (she literally is an artist of our time, what are you on about.)

It was 2001 with the Strokes on the cover of the NME every 2 weeks, it was cabaret night and English poetry with the Libertines in 2002, it’s those red and blue military jackets, it was the fucking grease in Julian Casablancas’ hair, it’s ’cocaine was the banker’s drug’ quoth Alex Kapranos, it was Don't Go Back To Dalston and the heroin, it was red and black horizontal striped tops and tight black shirts as evening wear, it was Russell Lissak’s mop top and a full page interview with London hairdressers in the NME in 2005, it was Jack and Meg’s saturated red and white dresses, it was cut-and-paste glitter on the cover of Santigold’s first album, it was the sleaze and the sex of CSS’s music, it was ‘cold light, hot night’, it was the anti-Bush and anti-war stances of the bands at the time, it was America by Razorlight, it was Popworld on telly and Simon Amstel being a little shit to musicians, it was Karen O defying death on stage nightly, it was throwing up in shitty nightclubs on god knows what drugs, it was the fucking danger knowing this could all collapse any second—and rightly, it should. It was the godawful egos at DFA, it was knowing that while you were lucky to be seeing these bands live, you’d fucking hate them if you had to spend even a minute in their individual company. It was Amy Winehouse telling the world to get the fuck out of her business, it was Leslie Feist and Peaches sharing a dilapidated flat above a sex shop in Toronto.

It was horrible camera flash and red-eye editing softwares and putting your feet by the warm, spinning fans of your computer while it whirred away and downloaded your albums in *checks* 46 more minutes. It was horrible, it was dirty, it was gritty, we all hated it and thought the 90s were the last time music was good and that nothing good had happened since 1997. It was garishly bright clothes we were all embarrassed of by 2011, it was multiple layers and leggings and asking your mum to cut the itchy tag on the back of your low rise jeans only for her to snip your back. It was bell bottoms at the start of the decade. It being thankful that by 2017, no one would dream of wearing low rises anymore, please please, please let them never come back.

It was faux nostalgic of the past itself. It was ‘please make sure baby you’ve got some colours in there’ in your clothes. It was moral panic over emos. It was wanting to escape into a better past that you could see was visibly impoverished in the present. It was watching your favourite programmes become less and less relevant on air. It was watching MTV decisively die a horrible death. It was watching important venues and nightclubs get bulldozed. It was watching the last regular broadcast of Top Of The Pops in 2006. It was seeing how the 2009 financial crisis most definitely put a stop to independent music in the western world for a decade, it was watching the rise of bedroom DIY and electronic music. It was seeing the phrase ‘SoundCloud rapper’ being coined. It was the rise of Disney pop. It was counter-culture Justin Bieber hatred. It was the MS paint meme of those tumblr girls thoroughly unimpressed by the guy.

It was not using the words ‘indie sleaze’ at all, in fact. That’s a retconned word. It was garage rock revival. It was ‘post-grunge’. We didn’t care what it was called, we hated it all the same. It was a lead into a decade of despair and nihilism, it was the last hurrah for the music industry before it splintered into a thousand little online ecosystems, it was the last time we had physical community and any shared pop cultural moments. It was Live8 2005. It was the same as it is now, and it was a time that’ll never happen again, for better and for worse.

But one thing is for sure: it was decisively dead by 2014. Santi and Karen O’s 2012 collab was its last hurrah and it was dead by Comedown Machine by the Strokes (2013). It has nothing to do with 2014.

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Stone Temple Pilots! I just realised it. Fontaines’ song Sundowner reminds me a bit of both My Bloody Valentine and Stone Temple Pilots. Curly who wrote the song and sings it says he was going for a shoegazey feel on this, and what I’m hearing is the wash of Loveless alongside the drumming of Pretty Penny. Then Motorcycle Boy has the Smashing Pumpkins influence. Very 90s, but also so timeless that Fontaines are the sound of the now. What do we think?

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It’s Friday, and so here’s week 4 of your takeaway song-to-go! I’ve had so much fun with this over the last few weeks, so I’m back bearing more songs! The idea is that every Friday I open a weekly poll for you to take a lesser-known song along with you as you scroll.

Choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (I’ve tried to make sure there’s always something new and lesser known), and if you like them they’re yours* to carry on your trip!

*as in, add them to your library etc., if you like them a lot come ask me and I’ll try and dig up a Bandcamp link or something for you, hee hee

[last week’s poll, in case you wanted more songs to take with you. Or just come talk to me :)]

🎵 SONG-TO-GO 🎵

You’ve been visited by the song wizard! 🪄🎧🎵 Take a lesser-known song with you to go as you scroll…

As always, poll’s open for a week, so if you miss this one, I’ll be back with another one by next Friday, and the reason why I know this is because I got excited and queued the next three weeks of Song-to-go >:)

Happy scrolling! If you want to give your dash a few new songs, reblog. Happy listening!

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Just found a band called Isabelle & Sebastian and I had to exclaim, oh, come on! (That’s so nearly Belle & Sebastian)

But it turns out, they’re a duo of teenagers who actually just happen to be named Isabelle and Sebastian respectively, and if you like a bit of indie pop, you’ll like their tunes. Guess I just found a new band!

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It’s Friday and I’ve had fun with this over the last few weeks, so I’m back bearing more songs! Here’s another song wizard new music Friday, a weekly poll to take a lesser-known song along with you as you scroll!

As with last week, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (I’ve tried to make sure there’s something new and lesser known), and if you like them they’re yours* to carry take on your trip!

*as in add them to your library etc., if you like them a lot come ask me and I’ll try and dig up a Bandcamp like for you, hee hee

[last week’s poll, which itself links back to the first week’s, which aren’t open anymore, in case you wanted more songs to take with you. Or just come talk to me, I love a music chat! Always.]

Poll’s open for a week, but we’ve been going three weeks (!) now, so if you miss this one, I’ll hopefully be back with another next Friday.

Any genres you’d want me to throw in more music from? I know my circle of influence is very alt and rock, so I’ve been sparing with my jazz, pop and hip hop picks, but if you want more, I’m happy to add more of them!

Happy scrolling! If you want to give your dash a few songs, reblog, I’m just bored :)

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Once again I come bearing songs! It’s Friday so I’m back with another song wizard new music Friday!

The idea? A weekly song-to-go poll to take a lesser-known song along with you as you scroll!

As with last week, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (I’ve tried to make sure there’s something you won’t know), and if you like them they’re yours* to carry along on your trip!

*as in add them to your library etc., if you like them a lot come ask me and I’ll try and dig up a Bandcamp like for you, hee hee

🎵 SONG-TO-GO 🎵

[last week’s poll, which isn’t open anymore of course, in case you wanted more songs to take with you. Or just come talk to me, I love a music chat!]

Poll’s open for a week, so if you miss this one, I’ll hopefully be back with another one by next Friday!

Happy scrolling! If you want to give your dash a few songs, reblog, I’m just bored :)

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pick a song by a non-huge band I like and have been listening to recently

If you don’t don’t know the songs, go off the Spotify 30 second snippets! (Yes they’re purposely bands you won’t know unless you’ve maybe heard me talk about the Astros 59 times in which case ily)

Reblog if you want, I’m just doing this out of boredom, sample size does absolutely nothing for me here because I’ve purposely picked bands so that you won’t know all of them

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GUYS

Favourite band in the world returns

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That slice guitar can eat my soul I do not care. Or maybe that’s not the best way to phrase it. I do care, I’m loving this so much!

The Astros go ever-so-slightly denim and country, and it comes out as some of the most beautiful, diamond-studded indie I’ve heard this month. Song of the Day. Who does it remind you of?

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The Canadian music scene is so small that members of the Beaches can comment on the part where the first name is “Brett from Blame Brett”, a lot of other Canadian artists mentioned here are in the replies, and so are CBC Gem, even while we note that this openly says “Win Butler livestreamed from Court”. I do appreciate that egos are far smaller in the Canadian scene and people can laugh at themselves. (And if you actually know what more than half of those mean, my friend, welcome to the ‘Canadian indie music scene brainrot’ club)

Btw, this anonymous account, Canadian music memes, is one of the best-loved and most followed-by-high-profile Canadian music folks account in the country. They’re reach is insane, everyone follows them

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“My grandmother was Palestinian and she used to cross between speaking Arabic and English, and it’s something she used to say all the time: ‘Yala! Hurry up! Let’s go!’ It’s always stuck in my head and it felt like it fitted – let’s stop talking about it and try to make it happen”.

—Felix White of The Maccabees and 86TVs, talking about his record label and club night's name back in 2016

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“Guitars! More guitars! I will not be honest with myself”

Kiwi Jr. are amongst the wittiest modern indie bands in Canada right now. Go check them out! This song is taken from their debut album Football Money, 2019, and is a short, sweet, punchy record that left us wanting so bad that their second album announcement was a genuine delight to me, as was the news that Subpop Records had signed them (if the name sounds familiar and you’re not sure why, it’s the indie label that signed a ton of 90s alternative bands in the wake of their most successful signing: Nirvana).

Now three albums in, Kiwi jr. are on the up: in only the last year, they’ve played well attended gigs across the European indie circuit, and opened in the states for some mammoths of indie music and their own heroes, Pavement, Dinosaur jr., and also other cool names like Guided By Voices and Sloan. Their most recent third album Chopper sees them lean into darker sounds, while keeping that distinctive Kiwi sound. Get on this band while they’re still small!

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