Boards
CSYN, Elliot Smith and The Band are the new Televsion, Joy Div and Wire
As the necessary stamps in the passports for bands to leave America?
See Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Secretly Canadian's roster, Bella Union's roster, Sub Pop's roster
That or
the only one T shirt, three months in the facility and the wild-look-in-the-eye look of No Age, Deerhunter, also Sub Pop's other bands
Or indeed Pitchforky hybrids thereof:
Animal Collective, Sunset Rubdown etc
And yet
when I looks at the prevailing trends at home:
short guitar straps, no ambition other than stringing a few bangers together, no fx pedals, OIM IN A BAND MATE, I'M NOT A FACKING CANT, IN A FACKING BAND, AND LIFE IS FACKIN 'ARD, SO LET'S 'AVE IT, YOU 'EAR ME, YOU CANT? lyrics
I think
damn
OK
I am going off my meds and binning my razors too.