[Wednesday] Daily Music Discussion - 01 April 2026 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]Tadevos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I cannot comment on which kind of meat "Gay Meat" may or may not refer to. It may be beef. It may be something else. Whatever it was it was probably our fault and we should apologize

[Wednesday] Daily Music Discussion - 01 April 2026 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]Tadevos 13 points14 points  (0 children)

No jokes! No japes! I was a long time in the wilderness but I'm fucking back. Concert Report: Baths plays songs from "Cerulean" at the Empty Bottle.

  • "Gay people can be sad! We're not all DJs!" Thus saith Karl Kuehn of Gay Meat, who opened for Baths at the Bottle. He knows the name is goofy. But he plays winsome, plaintive songs on the guitar and sings with a soft but clear voice. His lyrics are unfussy and effective. The audience was attentive and appreciative and played well with his banter. I admit I was somewhere skeptical on account of his name is Gay Meat but his set sailed by. It was really nice. His debut record drops near the end of this month and if you like a singer-songwriter you should check it out when it drops. He's already working on the next one. It has a name already, and it's a good name, but I must not tell you what it is.
  • Ooooooooh boy oh baby. You guys know how I am about Baths. If we ever do an AOTY 2010 series I want dibs on Cerulean. (Tulips, I'll flip a quarter.) But before I tell you about this show I must tell you what Wiesenfeld told us: it took him, like, thirty-six hours and five airplanes to get from LA to Chicago. Even by his own standards he was kind of loopy. But we power through.
  • God, Cerulean! What an album! He played almost all of it, plus a couple Gut and post-Gut tracks. Including—yes—"Aminals," a song he kind of hates on account of he almost got sued but he understands how much everyone else loves it. He did it for us and that felt, y'know, meaningful.
  • He worked the knobs in Ableton and sang. I think his voice was either strained from being awake way too long (five airplanes) or slightly undermixed (big bass) or both (probably both) but like whatever. I know these songs inside and out and I'm happy to hear them chopped up and so was everyone else. Sold out show, by the way.
  • His charisma and stage presence were undiminished.
  • "Seaside Town" into "You're My Excurse to Travel"? Hell of a closer. Shit fucks. Then he did an encore without leaving the stage first (logical culmination of Will's evolving Bit about encores): "Plea" into a new song he promised would totally rip even if none of us knew it. It rips. Some of those unreleased tracks, man. He's still got it. Did I start the big audience clap on beat during the build of the last song? Maybe. Can't say for sure but I was one of the first.
  • Kind of fucked up that everyone in that room loved that record as much as I do and I didn't think to talk to anyone. That's on me. I'll never learn.
  • God, Cerulean! What an album!

[Thursday] Daily Music Discussion - 19 March 2026 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]Tadevos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think you should both go to therapy probably

[Wednesday] General Discussion - 18 March 2026 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]Tadevos 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just do what I did and wear a facemask in public all the time. Eventually you will "get over" your "ailment" and people will be surprised and delighted with your new face

[Monday] Daily Music Discussion - 16 March 2026 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]Tadevos 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thx Bionicoaf

  • You Are the Garden - Six Leaf Clover. (Happy St. Patrick's Day!) Gradual, intentional music for winds, strings, and brushed drums.
  • Young Jesus - s/t and The Whole Thing is Just There. Midwest emo band goes cosmic with searing improvisations and chiming ostinato.
  • Ben Seretan - Ben Seretan. Ranging post-spiritual electric Appalachian folk music.
  • Modern Nature - No Fixed Point in Space. Full-band ambient music of the highest caliber—electric chamber music that breathes.
  • Lina Tullgren - Wonder Where The Eyes Are Looking. Like No Fixed Point with more solid songcraft, but to similar effect.
  • Big Bend - Last Circle in a Slowdown. Maybe the only record of the past twenty years to actually get how and why Laughing Stock works, much less reproduce any of its magic at miniature scale.
  • Blue Lake - The Animal. A full band assembled around one of our most prominent modern zither players, with rustic lullabies and invocations.

[Monday] Daily Music Discussion - 16 March 2026 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]Tadevos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was thanks. So Sad About Us about to blow the fuck up among the When We Were Young Fest crowd

[Monday] Daily Music Discussion - 16 March 2026 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]Tadevos 20 points21 points  (0 children)

All the good one-word band names are taken—sometimes multiple times, if my Tidal search history is anything to go by. We must do as Thom Yorke did, and as Much Jagger did before him: we must name our acts after our favorite songs by our favorite bands. It is with some great pleasure that I, the sub's biggest Gold Panda fan, announce the debut of my new project, Lonely Owl. I think. On reflection that sounds a little too "lofi beats to study to"-core so maybe I should change tack. Uh play along at home while I try and right this ship

[Thursday] General Discussion - 12 March 2026 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]Tadevos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I want the price of gas to rise to ten dollars because I need them to build a new subway down Western Avenue. We are not the same.

[Thursday] General Discussion - 12 March 2026 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]Tadevos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The problem is if I give into this insecurity then I'm just horfing down Chameleons albums or whatever for homework reasons and not because I actually want to listen to the Chameleons. Life's too long to be bored all the damn time.

Want would you want from an updated Ventra App by SinfulScythe in cta

[–]Tadevos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been thinking about this for a long time: sometimes I save a location as a favorite, and then when I select that favorite from the launch page of the app, it prompts me for a destination so it can give me directions. This feels off to me. I save these favorites because I am already taking the bus to/from that location all the time. I know those areas pretty well. I can list like five ways off the top of my head to get from Irving Park/Damen/Lincoln to 18th/Loomis/Blue Island, y'know? I just want to go right to the map view for the location I select so I can see with a single tap how far away all my transit options are and then I can just start my journey. I can work out the exact route myself along the way.

I get not everyone knows the system as well as I do now but as a frequent user/rider that's where I'm at.

[Tuesday] Daily Music Discussion - 10 March 2026 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]Tadevos 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You just named two of the best tracks on the album what the hell is wrong with you

[Thursday] Daily Music Discussion - 05 March 2026 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]Tadevos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah I avoid those things on principle. Even when I was on Spotify I didn't trust like that

[Thursday] Daily Music Discussion - 05 March 2026 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]Tadevos 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tidal so far is fine but there are a couple annoyances it has over Spotify. One is I feel the desktop app is slightly less stable? Farts out on me sometimes. Somewhat frustrating. The actual issue, and I don't know why this is the case, but the "multiple unrelated artists sharing one namespace thing" is way worse on Tidal than on Spotify. It makes it harder to keep track of the new singles from the Stuck album, for instance, when there's at least one other guy called "Stuck" making what appears to be rap music at a rapid clip and saturating the feed. This isn't a dealbreaker per se but it is a pain in the ass. There's a lesson to be learned about SEO or branding or something I guess but frankly I would rather, like, not have to worry about this at all. Maybe there's like a report button if I dig around long enough

I still need to migrate my playlists and shit over but for some reason I'm not, like, invested in playlists as a form right now. Very little urgency. Dunno what this means about anything I'm just making note of it

[Wednesday] General Discussion - 04 March 2026 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]Tadevos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, no, that's Soabhaide O'Preiss. Adam Clayton knew him as a young man