The DIY Music Thread • Page 8

I can def get that

 

don't forget how good ovlov is

 

Sometimes I go on Bandcamp to search for music with the "Bedroom Pop" tag. Here's some new ones I discovered while perusing today:

 

listen to yohuna

 

so many good songs on here, also for a good cause!

 

First Listen: Personal Space's "Ghost World" is a listless soundtrack to the greyest days

this EP is going to be real good

 

My buddy and I DIY'd an EP in a day!

Did music in a couple days and did vocals in one day!

Well Past The Lights, by Dissenters

 

is it just me or is diy (in the sense of a small scene surrounding a specific group of bands, and not the larger thing) fizzling out lately? all the bands that made good records between 2013 and 2015 are now "big" and there aren't many newer bands to cultivate a strong underground scene from what it seems. there isn't even a newer type of sound to replace what diy pop was two years ago.

also interested in how current internet culture shapes music. i feel like between around 2009 and 2014 tumblr's existence created a brief bubble where the layer of inaccessibility between artists/bookers/industry people and non-artists/bookers/industry people was broken and music was able to spread very easily through word of mouth in a way that sort of defied geographical "scenes" and social capital. now it seems like there's no central place where a) people with no social capital in their local scenes can have a large effect on what gets big and what doesn't and b) art can spread easily through a large internet community resembling a network of smaller local scenes. so in turn, press and labels have a lot more influence, which results in a stagnation of weird and interesting up-and-coming art becoming popular, which lends even more influence to press and labels, etc. i guess this actually might strengthen local scenes but prevents art/artists from spontaneously escaping the gigantic barrier between having influence in your local scene and having influence nationally, which used to happen all the time.

the only band i can think of that blew up this year in the way that bands used to blow up a lot is pinegrove, and they sort of did it the traditional way (and are made up of, uh, very traditional-type members, if you catch my drift). the (former) resemblance between the internet and the irl underground scene let people making weird art and/or marginalized by the traditional system of play shows -> network -> profit break out of it but this doesn't happen anymore even though the artists that it happened to a couple years ago are still benefitting from it.

idk. just random thoughts. interested in discussing this w/ people.

 

tl;dr

rip music

 

DIY is modern indie rock now
mitski porches frankie cosmos epoch etc

 

car seat fits in blowing up from DIY too but they sort of shunned that scene once they got signed

 

yeah but they blew up two years ago, they're the bands I was referring to.

underground art (both bedroom pop and not) hasn't become popular in this v roughly defined larger network of scenes in the past year and a half-ish outside the traditional model, which favors traditional artists. whereas a few years back we had the whole orchid tapes/college park scene then diy pop. internet communities that defied the way local scenes and irl musical social networks work had a huge part in why both groups of artists "blew up" nationally imo. (could also argue that the internet had a big part in emo revival becoming popular initially but I feel like most of those bands would've gotten big anyway)

 

I think it got pulled into the realm of hypey indie rock where these bands got snatched up much quicker and the scene was publicized more as modern indie rock. Like PWR BTTM and such

 

HB1000: A Step Forward (Compilation)

lots of new songs of cool bands on here

 

sweeeeet

 

I loved this

 

My friend puts out music that's hard to describe. Like if Death Cab and Sufjan Stevens had a musical child that was obsessed with early Nintendo and it wanted to make lo-fi bedroom pop. Let me know what you guys think-- I think it's pretty fucking amazing.

 

Diet Cig is finally in the studio and recording their full length. Can't wait for that shit!

 

dope

 

that song sounds good and the lyrics are pretty funny. I guess I have to check out Small Wonder, there was a song by them that I loved on the Epoch doc, but it's unreleased so I figured I'd wait for the album.

 

Ricky Eat Acid - Talk To You Soon: Album Premiere on Hype Machine

 

This is a deeply strange record

 

in what way?

 

i am in desperate need for someone to release that entire Emily Re, Carly Rae Jepson cover set in video or audio format