#soundsysteme

[doctorcurdlejr]

killing it with close inspection, killing it can only make it worse, it sort of makes it breathe

[aeolianblues]

‘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 glued 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.

[smegma4prez]

[post-punk-author-anthony-day]

Goth -  Death in June, March Violets, Clan of Xymox, Christian Death, Southern Death Cult, Sisters of Mercy, Drab Majesty, Tropic of Cancer, 13th Chime, And Also the Trees, 

No Wave (Ice age, Sonic Youth) 

Darkwave - IAMTheShadow, this cold night, Tropic of Cancer, Nation of Language, Ritual Howls, A Projection, Topographies, Siglo XX, Bolshoi, Lust for Youth, VR Sex, A place to bury strangers 

[hollisdom]

is daft punk playing at your house?

[dershoimvik]

eddie diaz's emotional haircut

[plurpaws]

I'm happy to formally announce the upcoming full-length GYNX album "The Daydream Disaster", and show off the AMAZING cover art I got from @gullacassu (linktree). If all goes according to plan, the album will be out on Halloween this year!

"After the activation of Morgan's machine on Leap Day, Gynx finds himself falling headfirst into a medley of memories and mistakes. While Morgan struggles to sever the newly formed ties between the dream world and real life, Gynx becomes trapped between the two planes and is forced by a series of haunting visions to confront the ugly parts of her personality. She chooses to fight to become the best version of herself, guided by apparitions of figures from her past."

I will be sharing more details and previews soon! 🩷🧡💛💚💙💜🌈⭐️💫✨️✨️✨️

[lcdsoundsystem]

LCD Soundsystem performing at New York's Bowery Ballroom on October 9, 2003

📸 Tim Soter

[obsessedbyneon]

SANSUI, 1982

[galina]

I don’t usually post about gigs but this one was just unreal, still bathing in the light

[weepinggroves]

BLASTER!!!

I LOVE HIM HE'S MY FAVORITE SOUND SYSTEM HEARTTSTTSTS

First time locking in and semi rendering.. I love the colors in this sm I'm actually proud!!! Yippie

[realchloesevigny1]

Dance yrself clean in the studio 2010

[hollisdom]

do I think indie sleaze could make a full swing comeback in this political climate? yes, totally!

[dershoimvik]

you're afraid of what you need buck and eddie, home.

[plurpaws]

It is my character & musical alias Gynx's birthday today (June 13)! Canonically, she is 32 years old! I wanted to draw a nice picture for it because I haven't done that for a few years and he is a very important character to me. She has been with me since 2016, having undergone many drastic changes from then til now (did you know she was originally an AU version of Sans from Undertale??). Here's to many more years of Gynx!!

[softxsounds]

what’s wrong with new york?