"For how much I enjoy promoting new songs and great bands I feel a confession is called for; I have a secret stash . With the ease that artist get tossed around and discarded (I’m part of the problem), with terms like “buzzband” often times doing more damage six months down the road than it helped, and the way that “great music” can become “generic music” just through album sales and the amount of people we are crammed between when going to a show I feel justified in having a few secrets.
I love the feeling of having a band to myself as much as anyone else, to know that a song I love is “my” song instead of everyone’s song. That amazing feeling that lingers all night after standing in some small sweaty basement with thirty-five people when there is only room for about ten with that constant fear of knowing if there is one spark, one faulty wire in an amp, we will all burn to our death before we have a chance to react. These are the things that I love about music and sure it’s not fair to the bands I choose to keep to myself but I need that personal connection and sometimes I make a conscious effort to keep certain bands that way.
This is where Teenagers come in. The writers here at LBYB (that stands for Listen Before You Buy) have already begun putting our heads together in order to come up with what will probably be the most definitive “Best Album’s Of ” list the internet has ever known (my vote for 2011′s best overall is tied between Bon Iver‘s s elf-titled album and Youth Lagoon‘s “The Year Of Hibernation“). I was looking through the list of albums everyone has been voting for and it stuck out that no one had mentioned “Big City” from Teenagers. I had assumed that since they were on my radar that the people who know more about music than I do would have them on their radar as well and I was mistaken. I’m now digging through the back of my sock drawer to pull out one of the biggest secrets I’ve kept this year.
I got nervous when the whole surf rock thing started trending that Teenagers would get chewed up and spit out by the hype machine (the actual machine and not the blog) so I kept my mouth closed. Unfortunately/fortunately the music which Travis Keymer creates using the Teenagers moniker is far too great to keep hidden beneath a bushel
Ideally “Big Car” belongs as the soundtrack for a Tarantino film (think Death Proof which has quite possibly the best soundtrack of all-time) or in some Kubrick induced drug scene.
One more reason why my love runs deep for this band. is that all Teenagers albums are free through the Bandcamp link below.Travis also fronts the band Holy Mountain and played guitar for Burn Baby Burn which are both amazing bands that if you are not already familiar with take the time to get acquainted, it will be worth your effort" (Better: listenbeforeyoubuy.net)
I love the feeling of having a band to myself as much as anyone else, to know that a song I love is “my” song instead of everyone’s song. That amazing feeling that lingers all night after standing in some small sweaty basement with thirty-five people when there is only room for about ten with that constant fear of knowing if there is one spark, one faulty wire in an amp, we will all burn to our death before we have a chance to react. These are the things that I love about music and sure it’s not fair to the bands I choose to keep to myself but I need that personal connection and sometimes I make a conscious effort to keep certain bands that way.
This is where Teenagers come in. The writers here at LBYB (that stands for Listen Before You Buy) have already begun putting our heads together in order to come up with what will probably be the most definitive “Best Album’s Of ” list the internet has ever known (my vote for 2011′s best overall is tied between Bon Iver‘s s elf-titled album and Youth Lagoon‘s “The Year Of Hibernation“). I was looking through the list of albums everyone has been voting for and it stuck out that no one had mentioned “Big City” from Teenagers. I had assumed that since they were on my radar that the people who know more about music than I do would have them on their radar as well and I was mistaken. I’m now digging through the back of my sock drawer to pull out one of the biggest secrets I’ve kept this year.
I got nervous when the whole surf rock thing started trending that Teenagers would get chewed up and spit out by the hype machine (the actual machine and not the blog) so I kept my mouth closed. Unfortunately/fortunately the music which Travis Keymer creates using the Teenagers moniker is far too great to keep hidden beneath a bushel
Ideally “Big Car” belongs as the soundtrack for a Tarantino film (think Death Proof which has quite possibly the best soundtrack of all-time) or in some Kubrick induced drug scene.
One more reason why my love runs deep for this band. is that all Teenagers albums are free through the Bandcamp link below.Travis also fronts the band Holy Mountain and played guitar for Burn Baby Burn which are both amazing bands that if you are not already familiar with take the time to get acquainted, it will be worth your effort" (Better: listenbeforeyoubuy.net)
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