I'm Lauren Admire. I'm addicted to squids and chocolate milk. I enjoy long walks on the beach-but-not-close-enough-to-
Favorite bands: The Doors, Elbow, Pinback, onelinedrawing, The Dismemberment Plan, Electric Six, Florence and the Machines, Ani Difranco,
Dislikes: Most metal, most country - but I'm more of the notion that I haven't met any of those genres that I liked yet, not that it's not out there.
RC
I am R.C. Minor history because I will babble about music. Trade life story for music.
I grew up in Missouri, listening to whatever my sister did and some of my dad's 8,000 record albums. My first mixtape consisted primarily of Dr. Demento songs ("The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati," "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago," "Roaches" (a parody of the immortal Timex Social Club hit "Rumors"), "The Martian Hop," etc) and then...a bunch of songs I liked by Tommy James and the Shondells, Paul Revere and the Raiders and other weird things.
Split off on my "own" in high school and started getting into music I was "supposed" to like (Floyd*, Zeppelin**, blah blah) and then started following friends into Mogwai*** and At the Drive-In****
It is around here I became an alleged elitist and hipster.
However, I like Lady Gaga. Not ironically. I'm not sure how I can really be a hipster.
All time favourites: Eels, INXS, Robert Palmer, Decapitated (oh yes, I'm into metal), Doomtree (and half-underground hip hop...), Minus the Bear, Pinback, At the Drive-In, Oingo Boingo, The Mountain Goats (I found John at a metal show in Raleigh. I think he thought I was a stalker :\), The Aphex Twin (oh yeah, electronic music, too...), Erik Satie (and musique d'ameublement!), Mogwai, Parts and Labor, SOUND Team, The Boomtown Rats, Leon Russell...I'm indecisive and they all cover such different moods!
Last discovery: Maxwell. Been trying to branch out further into jazz, too. Big on Bill Evans.
Hates: pop punk (ie, nasal vocals and endless blast beats. I like the Buzzcocks and Bad Religion in moderation, etc), nu metal (except I still like *all* of Powerman 5000, Deftones, System of a Down...I don't like Korn or Limp Bizkit and loathe Linkin Park...), Poptry (still trying to make that work. Modern "country" as in "pop music with mechanically inserted twang and lapsteel"), modern popular crunk-type rap, modern R&B (in the generic *insert new soon-to-be-meme sexual euphemism* sense). Oh, and crappy noise masquerading as music. Which sounds like some condemnatory thing, but for what I mean, think Merzbow or Black Dice's first album (if you like Black Dice and have not heard that fifteen minute piece of shit, perhaps you should keep it that way so you can still like them). Also, King Crimson are bastards for inserting that obnoxiously spaced out pile of random drumming into "Moonchild." I would love that album so much more without that crap. I keep trying so hard to get something out of it. Not working so far.
*Wish You Were Here.
**Houses of the Holy.
***Rock Action, though nothing beats the original EP recording of "Xmas Steps."
****In/Casino/Out.
JANELLE
My name is Janelle and I joined this brohaha intent on being a lurker, but I am apparently not allowed. I was born and raised in NYC in Brooklyn and am as authentic homegrown new yorker as you get. (Shout out to you transplants keeping the place warm). I recently moved to NC. It has been a nice change of pace and a good time to take a breath in my life. I have too much energy for my own good, making me always loud and sometimes obnoxious (yes, those two traits are not mutually exclusive). I tend to be a food snob, but not enough to keep me from existing off of a diet of hot-pockets and alcohol for the past month. I am obsessed with traveling, slightly addicted to photography, and completely addicted to social media. I will probably "friend" or "follow" you in any way possible and I am definitely creepy about it. Gamer geek since birth, I spend an average of 20 hours a week playing video games.
Wait... this shindig is about music, isnt it? I am a recovering clubber. I spent half of high school and all of college club and rave hopping and being a dj roadie. Somehow I managed to become a bioengineer and a lawyer amidst that chaos. My playlist rotations generally fall into three types: (1) mix of house, trance, dubstep, & chiptunes; (2) ambient, downtempo, & lounge; or (3) classical. I know nothing about indie rock but appreciate music of all genres and tend to take extended breaks from my usual to go on benders of the unfamiliar and out of character.
BRANNON
Oh. Oh! OH! AND. We should probably introduce ourselves. I'll go first tenth:
I'm Lauren Admire Brannon. I'm addicted to squids and chocolate milk ; addicted is a strong word, what i mean to say is i like to longboard and do other activities which at times cause me great injury. I enjoy long walks on the beach-but-not-close-enough-to- books and music but not simultaneously. I was born in TexasStanley, North Carolina. FACT: All Texans are born with pistols and giant belt buckles. I relocated to North Carolina to do school-stuffs and now I work at Themis Group with some of these other kind folks study things that no one is interested in. And by work, I mean, write private e-mails aboutmixtape groups seem neat. Clearly.
Favorite band: Close between The Doors and Elbow. what? on the first date? psh.
Hates: Country. Also, kittens lots of things confuse me but i wouldn't say i hate them
but seriously. i like dark rooms and clear tones. i major in engineering of the electrical type, also physics.
SCHUYLER
I'm Schuyler and well I'm addicted to cigarettes and chocolate milk.
Favorite band: right now it is close between Neutral Milk Hotel and
The Flaming Lips.
Hates: too long to list here.
Favorite band: right now it is close between Neutral Milk Hotel and
The Flaming Lips.
Hates: too long to list here.
KABOOL
I was born without the sense of smell, it's not as bad as you might think. I'm not really addicted to anything. I'm from Gastonia, a small town outside of Charlotte NC: it's the home of Sundrop, and sadly Fred Durst.....we don't like to claim him. I was in a band in HS and played drums, I've been to more concerts in my life than I can really count but somehow manage to hear. Ska is my favorite type of music.
Favorite bands: The Aquabats and The Mars Volta
Hates: modern country music and most Rap music.
KELLY
Hi. My name is Kelly Lynn Helder. I grew up in the South wearing a lot of plaid and monogrammed jumpers. My two favorite bands in high school were Dashboard Confessional and Alice in Chains because I'm very WASP-y and very angsty. My parents own a 120lb golden retriever. I lived on the fourth floor of a four floor walk-up in Queens for three years with roaches and sustaining on a diet of 85% alcohol. When I was 17, Clay Aiken, who went to my high school, got second place in American Idol. I don't think I'm nearly indie rock enough to be part of this group, but I'm going to pretend that I am. I like sparkles and magic.
Samples: Edward Sharpe, Avett Brothers, MGMT, Animal Collective
Dislikes: slow jamz. R&B, Grizzly Bear
Samples: Edward Sharpe, Avett Brothers, MGMT, Animal Collective
Dislikes: slow jamz. R&B, Grizzly Bear
LUKE
My name is Luke. I like to party. Because of this I enjoy the hell out
of anything that goes in my earholes and forces me to move my buttocks
or drink beer.
Sample of current stuff (I always have issues calling out favorites):
Chromeo, The Bronx, Converge, Future Islands, Wavves, and The Best of
Steve Winwood.
Dislikes: Nu-metal.
of anything that goes in my earholes and forces me to move my buttocks
or drink beer.
Sample of current stuff (I always have issues calling out favorites):
Chromeo, The Bronx, Converge, Future Islands, Wavves, and The Best of
Steve Winwood.
Dislikes: Nu-metal.
ALLISON
Hi Ladies and Gents! If you don't know me already you're in for a treat.
I'm Allison. I grew up in good ol' NC but I was born in the Midwest
and it shows. I'm 100 miles an hour and loud to boot but I promise I
do have my calm moments. I'm an artist both graphic and fine, which
takes up most of days (and nights) but I too like to party. My two
favorite things to do to people are threaten to cut them and *mic
drop* on them as much as possible. I love music festivals and try to
travel as much as humanly possible but somehow still haven't managed
to go beyond this continent. (I speak for both Kelly and I when I say
to you Max...... we agree.... Dinos are the shit.)
I'm obsessed with music and use to have a completely unhealthy
addiction to it so thanks for giving me Heroin.
I think it's best to say some of what I DON'T like in music...
Anything that involves a nursery rhyme to make up the lyrics, taking
massive hooks from preexisting top 40 songs and implementing them,
nu-metal, bad hip-hop and trite twangy country music....yeah that's
right, I hope your dog never comes back.
Let's do this.
**MIC DROP
I'm Allison. I grew up in good ol' NC but I was born in the Midwest
and it shows. I'm 100 miles an hour and loud to boot but I promise I
do have my calm moments. I'm an artist both graphic and fine, which
takes up most of days (and nights) but I too like to party. My two
favorite things to do to people are threaten to cut them and *mic
drop* on them as much as possible. I love music festivals and try to
travel as much as humanly possible but somehow still haven't managed
to go beyond this continent. (I speak for both Kelly and I when I say
to you Max...... we agree.... Dinos are the shit.)
I'm obsessed with music and use to have a completely unhealthy
addiction to it so thanks for giving me Heroin.
I think it's best to say some of what I DON'T like in music...
Anything that involves a nursery rhyme to make up the lyrics, taking
massive hooks from preexisting top 40 songs and implementing them,
nu-metal, bad hip-hop and trite twangy country music....yeah that's
right, I hope your dog never comes back.
Let's do this.
**MIC DROP
MAX
I'm Max, and was tacked on as a known-by-a-couple-of-our-
Cooking and eating food holds roughly equal footing to music for me, and I enjoy shooting things on screens and reading books on trains. Farmers markets get me giddy. Shopping's cool, too.
Music that draws my attention will be: challenging, chunky, usually heavy, a little weird, and possibly Chopin. Think of it as a fat, angry dog with three eyes who loves booty-dancing and might be named "Chopin."
Grew up on: Sabbath, Tool, Soul Coughing, Zeppelin, White Zombie, Miles Davis
Currently: High on Fire, Wu, Hot Chip, Thievery Corp, Laika & The Cosmonauts, Melvins, Motown/Stax-Volt, Mono, Chopin, Miles Davis
Hates: Most country, but I got this album of early American song-poems recently that pretty much f'ing rules, and Tammy Wynette is my copilot. So nothing's off limits. Oh, except (again, shouting out Luke), yeah, nu-metal is an utter abomination. Or maybe a joke for which we're still awaiting a punchline.
If it's good, I'll like it. And that's what makes me an elitist.
TIM
Before I get all narcissiticky, I'd like to say that Max isn't a music snob as much as he is a music creepy uncle.
I'm Tim, in Brooklyn, formerly of Chicago and Albany before that. Raised on crappy hardcore and stupid pop punk, my tastes have run to soundtrack and library music in the last year or so. My preferred drink is Bushmills rocks, though I've been tossing back a lot of Applejacks/vermouth this week. I work around 80 hours a week, but still find time to tell you your taste in music sucks. I play bass, but haven't been in a band in a couple years. My last group was in Chicago, a sweaty thrash group that sang about sexual confusion. I'm bald, and have been since high school. Both Max Baehr and Allison Harn have punched me for being a jerk. Every word of this paragraph is true.
All-time faves: Wire, Clash, late-era Black Flag, early psych
Recent faves: Johnny Hawksworth, Tobacco/BMSR, Doom, Warhammer 48k
Hates: Indie rock that forgot that sex is as important as love in music, Luther Vandross, James Taylor, music that goes well with puka shells.
Bald out!
