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http://www.nme.com/reviews/joe-lean-and-the-jing-jang-jong/9816

Probably the biggest disappoint I've ever had at SXSW (someone told me they were like The Shins and Broken Social Scene, which got me excited... ), and yet they were lapped up elsewhere http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6317-tapes-n-tapes/

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11617-partie-traumatic/

I saw Black Kids at CMJ the year the buzz ramped up. They sounds like the a bunch of kids who liked the Go Team playing Bloc Party covers, which at the time woulda been the butt of several people's jokes. Boy they were taken seriously but a lot of people. I just drank the free Sparks+ and went about my day (admittedly, that year at CMJ I did see No Age, Dan Deacon and Deerhunter, which sated my music cravings for several months)

http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=1&title=viva_brother_s_short_career_in_quotes&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

http://www.nme.com/nme-video/brother---bands-for-2011/738771169001

and I take it some of you will vaguely remember this? http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4143232-disband-7--viva-brother

I think he went to see them a few times

The Twang come to mind

One of many Arctic Monkeys coattail riders... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milburn_(band)

Milburn were fun

headlined Brixton academy at one point???

were they ever a 'buzz band'?

thank you

You know, the good one.

I just remember when I first started reading DiS Mike Diver or someone was going on about how brilliant there were and I thought they were total shit.

(To this day, I don't know who this person was or if they were male, female or a band)

PRINGLE

Black Kids are the standard response here. When Pitchfork shows a picture of a dog and a 0.o (both later changed), your buzz band career is over.

Hard Fi
The Ting Tings

BITCHES N GLANCES
ROUGH ROMANCES

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL64573D677D2C70EC

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2012/02/top_ten_indie_buzz_bands_you_m.php

That said
Clap your hands, say yeah
CSS

Bromhead's Jacket, wasn't it?

one of the best debut albums ever

komakino
blood red shoes
kubichek
larrikin love

I just managed her for a while (hence her becoming an in joke), until the guy who managed PiL and Soul2Soul took over. I liked how she was making post-apocalyptic music, in a somewhat punk-rock manner using only garageband and a macbook's inbuilt mic. It mostly sounded like Arab Strap and Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia, so I liked it.

Blood Red Shoes don't really fit, they are still a day-time radio 1 playlisted band. Alt-J just opened up for them in California the other night. But I know you were being Jordan_229_2-ish about it.

I offer you;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLrjSoqD5GY&NR=1&feature=endscreen

All mapped out eh?

always on Burnout Paradise.

kinda confuse me... they could be so good when they wanted to be. I think they just enjoyed being a bit scrappy.

The Vines

rather than just disappearing out of lack of anything more than hype going for them

or am I being too kind?

I like them (and still do now) but some of the write ups that preceded the first album were just ridiculous when you look back on them now.

Forward Russia

They were brilliant live, misfired on their debut album, still listen to odd bits here and there.

just that there was quite a big buzz about them five years ago. good on them.

larakkin love, komakino and kubichek all played DiS gigs, aye. Sucioperro were just mentioned all over the place on the boards at the same time. i've never heard them.

they know biffy clyro

for wanky DiS types anyway

was really great, everything else was pish.

The former, especially.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTsz8VzsI8

I like it too.

I don't think that there were any I didn't like a lot, but groups such as The Research, Young People, Chicks On Speed, Smoosh, CSS, Prinzhorn Dance School, Oneida, Von Bondies and the Bellrays probably don't get much radio play these days...

containing the following:
'The book she was reading was of an interesting nature/I knew I would some day want to date her'

deary christ

never seemed to FUCK THE FUCK OFF a few years ago. DiS had some perma-boner for them.

They've split up now, I think, after an awful phase of introducing guitars into their sound.

King adora: i hate to link to Wells ( R.I.P) but..

'The need for bands like King Adora - bands that reject and rage against the current tyranny of dressed-down, mumbling, half-arsed ming-mong anti-rock - to cut the mustard is all-consuming. This is a war for the soul of UK 'alternative' music. A war that the hippies, the folkies and the horribly deformed and hideously whining mutant offspring of the shoegazing scum are winning hands down. But to send King Adora over the top with a record like this would be tantamount to murder.'

Hyoed and destroyed in the same article

http://www.nme.com/reviews/4989

The only good songs on it are by Adam and The Ants + Jimmy Eat World.

So I would say the hype outweighed the quality from the start.

Ordinary Boys
Dogs Die In Hot Cars
Kaiser Chiefs

what a line up...

Yeah, tune.

Espen and the Witch

doesn't really mean the same over here as it does in the US because we have relatively few independent labels with national coverage and even less in the way of independent press that makes an impact, and you have to couple in that most people don't take British music an iota as seriously as American unless it's dance/grime/dubstep/whatever.

personally over here I'd use it to describe all those rubbish 'indie' bands that major labels have tried to foist on the world, lots of which have been mentioned already, so I'd add

Pull Tiger Tail
Boy Kill Boy
The Holloways

although, even with what I said above, I'd still throw Selfish Cunt into that bin.

those bloody Klaxons.

them and Die Bratwurst

I liked them

JJ72 & Amen in the Newcastle Uni basement was a good juxaposed bill

It was good.

And Twisted Sister.(Not really Twisted Sister.)

Good call.

Surely!

THIS! IS! MY! CURSE!

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/2467763

And I have no idea what they sound like. Naming your band after a Joy Division song does not automatically make it good. She's Lost Control (Peel Session), for instance, were shit

Thankfully I declined.

Still going as well.

and everyone acted as if one of them pretty much invented music.

[PS The Long Blondes were a truly dreadful band, so glad the singer's solo career never materialised]

... drum lessons from the Milburn drummer, so at least he's doing something useful. Still, they were better than Little Man Tate.

and released some brilliant singles during that time. In fact, with the likes of FR, Yes Boss, This Et Al... it was like Leeds was the new Sheffield.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/aug/13/viva-brother-lovelife?INTCMP=SRCH

I like this bit:

But if you say you're the future of music, or offer countless similar hostages to fortune, as Newell did, you're asking for them to be returned with interest. He agrees, and offers his regrets. "Much as I spoke it and gave it, I wasn't holding my head high at all, to the point where I was embarrassed. We wrote those Brother songs so quickly, we didn't know what we were doing – they weren't about anything. Just songs. And I had nothing to sing about. My life was fine. I wanted to be in a band, but I didn't feel I had a message – I just wanted to be a rock star. That's not who I was. I don't know why I did that. To prove something to myself?"

Before now I was totally stuck for an icebreaker.

altho to be fair one of them dying is probably a good reason for them to fall off the radar and disappear. The Bee's above is a great show btw. Magic numbers? or are they actually still famous?

This week's NME has them on the front cover as the best new band in Britain. Which means they could be the next Suede or be working at Tesco before the end of the year. Maybe somebody should start a thread dedicated to how they deal with being a buzz band...

Give Blood is a great album

have honestly never heard such a crock of shit.
they could barely play their own song, and barely seemed to care.
fuck them

Looks like Tesco might be hoping for a bit too much. Lidl it is, then...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaoCX_T22SI

What's the opposite of nostalgia?

BUT WERE WHITE.

*mind blown*

dire journalism, if not

Ha ha, I win.

Also: The Others.

Palma Violets, Peace, Alt-J and all this assorted hipster crap will be forgotten in six months.

Two of them were black, I think.

Man they were good.

They still have decent fanbase. Not that they were massive in the first place.

this made me give their first album a quick blast there, it's REALLY bad.

that'll be why I haven't felt the need to listen to it in 10 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhfr6_8GwlY

She's on the first Error's album too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqKX4zlxP0I

The buzz didn't last long!

Hit & miss live, but fucking SLAYED when they were on form. First EP was a proper work of art. Album was overproduced, but had some fabulous tunes on it. Dude wrote the best lyrics this century. FUCK THA HATERZ.

Just the one though, something to do witches?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sCrvZcfqNc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeywCfxYcas

loved themselves as much as the bassist in that video. Fucking hell.

I still have it on 7"

it's been over a year since their last album, thus they have faded into obscurity

That Terris record..... Is pretty good!

Not well liked here as I recall, but they *were* hyped up pretty good, eh.

(I liked their debut.)

both sucked absolute donkey dong

It didn't re-invent the wheel but the tunes were alright and dancey sometimes.

Similarly North-Eastern and exclamation mark-ridden: DARTZ!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2OLoHk8Cs0

they still rule

Miss them lots, but at least they left us two cracking and different albums.

Leeds music was epic for such a long time. Pulled Apart By Horses and Dinosaur Pile-Up got slightly big for a while and both were just formed from other bands (The Mother Vulpine etc.). Such awesome bands had preceded them.

My 2nd favourite to Forward Russia was This Et Al. The Figure 8 EP was a precursor to an album and was all kinds of brilliant and then, suddenly, they split. Travesty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnu-WUJw0uY
7 years old and still rules.

Dananananaykroyd
Spinto Band
Youthmovies/YMSS
Empire of the Sun
Jonquil

They're good at this task.

I don't think they could ever have been considered a buzz band?

and enjoy doing it

Are utter utter crap, budget Libertines only moderately better than The Twang.

Are not a buzz band they are already a massive crossover success.

they were just erratic and messy and never really lived up to the few amazing songs they had in them

they did a very wanky Burberry photoshoot with The Paddingtons, Patrick Wolf and Edward Larrikin, mind you.

What songs. Just.... what songs.

I think Brakes was literally a break from the bands the guys were playing in at the time.
it was probably a great release, smashing out 1min songs. well crafted ones at that. false builds & a good sense of humor.
i like the guys voice too.. kinda odd.. but intriguing

Alt-J are good

Palma Violets.. still.. no

and finding all the posts were by me

Highly Evolved was a pretty good album

or something.

seriously one of the most consistently brilliant bands going. c'mon.

COMMISSION YOUR THOUGHTS! COMMISSION YOUR THOUGHTS!

and 'Schteeve' has yet to be toppled from my last.fm all time song charts.

*Lamacq voice* that really is uh something from another pop dimension altogether.

think he said something similar about 'Panda' by Dungen.

TO GOOOOO THAAAAAAAAT WAAAAAAY

Fucking hell, if they're the best band new band in Britain, no wonder Pitchfork keeps giving British bands such a hard time.

but they were fantastic anyway

were great for about five minutes

http://youtu.be/3eAufyfcsA0

Carte Postale is one of my favourite songs. sean sent it to me as a present after a misunderstanding <3

Didn't Long Blondes disappear because the guitarist had a stroke or something, not just because people lost interest or whatever.

TERROR AT THE BAY

:-D

love 'em

I loved that band

Sorry

and wrapped in mummy bandages... Unopened! I was hoping it would be worth squillions by now.

Though if there was a band whose profile was hit by the passing of John Peel it would be them. I still miss their shambolic "school band on illegal substances" sound but they done a good job reworking themselves as a shoutier Ladytron of late.

invalid

Their star actually fadad when they got rid of the annoying shouty one. Either that or they were actually one hit wonders. I hope they still get royalty cheques dribbling in for Monster as for ages it was as ubiquitous as that whistling song and still seems to be a DIY SOS go to tune.

They were always destined to fail though. From Northampton. Signed after only 5 gigs... ouch

Dev and Rory both done fairly well since Test-Icicles broke up. Rory running production for a some excellent bands and on top of his other successes (lightspeed champion, Blood Orange), Dev has just produced outstanding singles for Sky Ferreira and Solange Knowles.

I used to enjoy them live. They were working with the same folks as the Darkness.

<3 always

Totally understand why some people would dislike (even hate) her music, because it is very much "oh woe is me, my comfortable middle class lifestyle is so wretched", but I'm not going to pretend I can't empathise with that.

I still listen to their debut regularly. Still hoping they reform one day if the guitarist gets better.

I KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO BE YOUR AGE

They were the second best band that day (James Brown was the main support and he was by far the best thing).

RHCP stank the place out.

The only CD I own that I've never bothered to rip to iTunes.

They were great. I don't think I had any clue what they sounded like even though they had that year where they were kind of a big deal.

Half of the first album's top class but the second album's got a sort of Spaghetti Western vibe that's a bit odd. They were doing that Sheffield thing way before Turner made it popular and unfairly got labelled as copycats when it was really the other way round. Little Man Tate were piss though. Not sure how they got to do a second album when the first one was awful.

We actually walked past them playing at that, not being familiar with the venue thinking there was another room where the decent band must be.

Arctic Monkeys took their sound and made it a hell of a lot better. They're a world apart now anyway.

Such as Black Moth, Blacklisters, Eagulls, Hawk Eyes, and Nope.

I've had a great time

I was born in 1990 and so this thread is essentially my iTunes playlist from 14-18. Fantastic scenes, there is some incredible music in here in amongst the tosh.

I raise all of you this - never really a 'buzz' band but were one of the first acts to ape the Klaxons' sound and so were briefly talked about in 2006-ish. Truly the worst songs & videos I have ever encountered http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w28jCV9Jzw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrzJ-NDRHgM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdRCOL9DbVg

HOT SUMMER, HOT HOT SUMMER!

Except Rolling Blackouts is completely amazing

are still knocking about. Pitchfork gave their first album 7.6. Blimey.

Be Your Own PET

they the old Alabama Shakes?

I give you Gay Dad

End of thread.

Ha! I won a copy of their album in some 6music competition. It's still sitting on the windowsill in the cellophane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHCvuJ2JIKU&feature=related

http://youtu.be/bBphn7ZV0og

Fantastic band.

come to mind. I was rather fond of both.

http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=21387

Intriguing mix of the 'sort of dids' (The Ordinary Boys, YCNI:M) The ones who definitely did (Keane, Kasabian) the 'wow I haven't even thought about them in 8 years' (Eastern Lane, the Open, Hal, My Red Cell) and the, 'did anyone give a toss even at the time?' (Glitterati, Kid Symphony).

Also throwing in - Battle, Nine Black Alps, The 22-20's. The 22 f**king 20's.... there was a band that never justified the hype.

My Awesome Compilation- Still love their stuff....I guess Hell is for Heroes might qualify 'n all.

what band are you listening to?

No one really got excited about Milburn surely?

All of the music press were going nuts about them after that SXSW, so I automatically assumed I loved them. First album was OK. Saw them at Reading and they were lame.

Me and 10 others. It was funny! I still like that 'Sorry' tune.

?

go speak to that dude over... there

such amazing rhyming

Or should I keep that to myself as a guilty pleasure? I only listened to it a couple days ago. The rest of the album is pants.

Good live band and good tunes.

Once and Never Again is a stonking tune.

....I went to the Newquay gig of that same tour. Tint little venue. That was just plain crazy.

I have their first 7" on green vinyl if anyone wants it. Dev's Lightspeed Champion project was/is shit, too.

Spinto Band are still going.

IM PLAYING SCISSORS PAPER STONE< WITH ALL I OWN

the singer is now an accountant or something, is the boss of a friend!?!

It's fucking appalling, the debut is a great spin.

It'd be this one. Get to it, nerds!

Wow.

The follow up was rubbish. They played at Exeter Cavern a few weeks back, but I couldn't make it. Probably a good thing.

Haven't thought about Trash Fashion in a long, long time. Played a gig with them once, the singer was an obnoxious twat and looked about 39 years old

Very shrewd investment.

Excellent band. I don't think they ever managed to release an album. Shame.

He had a massive 12" with hymp mngo (however its spelt) and now is still pretty current. He's got a podcast on resident advisor this week.

aged 17-20 falls into this category!

I'd like to add 'The Whip' to this list, who somehow turned up on a Coors advert not that long ago. And lets not forget that Chikinki got themselves onto a Saab advert! And who remembers their rotating headline tour with Kasabian in 2004?

The whole New-Cross 'scene' with like Thee Unstrung, The Others was perhaps the most pitiful thing the NME have done in recent times. Guerilla gig squat raves with Dominic Masters etc :(

though they did fall pretty hard, even NME gave tgheir debut 1/10

is now in Goodtime Boys (http://goodtimeboysband.bandcamp.com/) who are doing pretty well for themselves (better than the automatic are anyway).

partly cos it's my name
partly cos of What A Lovely Dance

Nit sure there was much of a buzz about them at the time. I saw them supporting Brendan Benson at Bristol Fleece and they came out drinking with us after. Lovely, wee little leprechauns they were!

Still going. Clinging on by a thread?

Still love their 1st album (no pun intended).

but ultimately....nnnnrgh

They were still doing their GCSE's when they were getting hyped, I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zugno-YHWho

That was only all about 18 months ago wasn't it? Haha.

Maybe not, I get them confused.

Did it happen? Either way I was tricked.

So many shitty songs...

yeah?

Especially with his work with Boddika

Good voice, though.

i love Autolux

:D

YOU WEAR YOUR MONDAY MORNING FACE

Mart took trolling to a pretty intense level in the end iirc, and then sort of just went away

and was previously in Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man as well

a Spotify playlist for all this.

(The Von Bondies song you want on it is No Sugar Mama).

I was trying to find out if it was more than one of them, but failed.

Les deux sont ennuyeux au taux le plus élevé et semblent être déjà oublié. Je suis bien avec elle, pas plus fade indie merdique

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db73ZdfMWM8

2005 memories...

Not sure I ever actually listened to them. Danananananananaananananananananananananananananananananakyrod and Johnny Foreigner had their moments too...

Il sera peut-être utile pour quelqu'un.

:D

He said it was an ok gig. Couple hundred through the door I think.

or something

:(

goodshoes
thelongcut

none of these compare to the might of RayGun

The Rain Band
The Burn
The Stands
The Crescent

Saw them play in melbourne, flogged the CD, told everyone the were the best of Ramones/Strokes and should be huge. They weren't.

the 'buzz' had me feverishly borrow the album from someone. Regrettable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXGxVz2vFs4 ignited a massive major label bun-fight. Then nothing....

saw them live earlier this year

Much better than hyped up boring crap like The Strokes.

(still like them tbh)

Shame 4 people bought it.

Akira the Don

Everything except 'Apple Tree' was shit.

http://open.spotify.com/user/teepee_uk/playlist/4IAwEKZH2ZmPMCErEdKUgP

The had an album called "Sally O'Mattress". The worst name for an album ever.

I still love the Neon Handshake however.

It's a real shame Atlantic screwed them about.

That song was absolutely amazing, and deserved to be mahoosive.

Yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNnc0Xv-peE&feature=related

I recall giving them a bad review.

LATE OF THE PIER.

Gone too soon. Assuming they are gone. Which seems so. (Cry.)

love that album

they stand of BO

they had a TAP DANCER instead of a drummer and were briliant, then they got a drummer and went shit.

New album out this year though, preompted me to reasses them and the first album is still a beauty

Think their first two albums are both great

He started going out with my ex after we split up.

Laughed so hard when they failed

Mostly because I was bitter, he was a really top bloke

Absolutely top notch work.

Also a good place to mention Meet Me In St Louis, broke up just as their name was being properly bandied about, the fools.

Don't think anyone's mentioned Anti-Folk yet, obviously Jeffery Lewis is still going but Moldy Peaches, Prewar Yardsale, Major Matt Mason, Schwervon, even Thomas Truax fell by the wayside.

it must have been or someone then.

And Kasabian should be where The Music are now.

Last chance saloon?

and while I was admittedly one who was swept along with the hype, I was left a little puzzled by what I saw in the record back then. Insistor is probably the best track, but there is a lot of filler.

I don't think the Dirty Projectors were ever expecting a stadium tour anytime soon.

They pissed a lot of people of I think.

No one seemed to care though

Jet
D4
Electric Soft Parade (loved 1st lp)
Mull Historical Society (loved 1st lp)
Kings of Convenience

Laura Marling was the support. Now she was great.

Saw them this year in Lincoln. Great live band.

Frou Frou
Cajun Dance Party
Cats in Paris
Cherry Ghost
Dead 60's
The Fratellis
The Good, The Bad and the Queen
Hot Hot Heat
The Hours
Howling Bells
Jose Gonzales
Kid Harpoon
The Lodger
Louis XIV
Love is All
The Mooney Suzuki
The Morning After Girls
The Most Serene Republic
The Mummers
My Latest Novel
New Young Pony Club
Oh Laura
Operator Please
Passion Pit
Pheonix
The Pistolas
The Rakes
The Ruby Suns
Semifinalists
The Shaky Hands
The Strange Death of Liberal England
The Sunshine Underground
Thirteen Senses
Those Dancing Days
Tiny Dancers
Tokyo Police Club
Vega 4
The Veils
White Denim
White Rabbits
The Whitest Boy Alive

what a band

They were on the Garden State soundtrack right?

Really? I don't get DiS's lack of love for Savages. Most exciting band I've seen in a while, and I've seen a few. That's OK though, at least Pitchfork like them, so I think they'll be fine without you. I once saw Coldplay supporting Terris in Blackwood Miners' Institute. Where are they now, eh?

what the fuck you on about. They are on their fourth odd album and it came out last year to rave reviews and bare bummage. Super wonderful sexy band.

Seems to have been successful too.

Only made one album. Songs, particularly 'Let Go' (used in Garden State) have been used in loads of TV stuff. Talk of new material at some point, but don't hold your breath.

I can't remember them much. Weren't they awful landfill indie?

At one of those gigs my mate nearly walked out after Milburn played as he thought he'd just seen Arctics!

I bet no one does, actually they where probably pre dis!

can't remember the name its like pure love but not, name wise I mean. based In New York

who are getting NME support and being touted by The Strokes.

The King Adora record isn't terrible....if you can ignore the lyrical content of most of it. there is about 4 decent songs on it.

Had a decent start...glad I saw them at Reading in the day

are awesome though
had a new ep out this year

boo!
they were ace at electric picnic in 2006

i can feel it.

Think it wasn't as big as the first because people assumed it was a live album... they're still knocking about though, released a few EPs last year that were well received

but yeah, saw them at Great Escape this year and they were as great as they ever were

Joe Lean isn't in the band any more for starters

I saw him as support at a couple of gigs and I liked his early stuff. I was looking forward to the album, but it was disappointing.

Yep, they were largely the arse end of nothing at Reading 2006. Not worth the stagger down to the NME Stage at any rate.