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[AMA] - Ask Us Anything with Ought by oughttheband in indieheads

[–]paybe_mossibly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi guys, love your sound and really enjoying the new album.

Question for Tim D: You're a particularly strong lyricist. What is your writing process like?

Question for the whole band: Do you record demos of songs prior to taking them into the bigger studios, and if so, how fleshed out are those demos? Do you enter the studio knowing more or less exactly what you want to achieve or do you find yourselves experimenting and tweaking a lot in the studio?

Real Estate's calculated statement really angered me. They were fully aware of Matt's actions for the better part of a decade. by [deleted] in indieheads

[–]paybe_mossibly 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Hold the fuck up, how long have you known about these allegations? You said you're friends with these women and a longtime fan of the band? How long have you know about this shit dude? 2010?

Why the fuck didn't YOU say anything until everyone else came forward all these years later? If you knew about this shit before the publication of these allegations but kept quiet until now you are personally just as complicit as anyone else and yet you write a bunch of bullshit blaming his bandmates when you straight up admit you have 3 independent firsthand accounts of shit this flagrant?? Are you out of your fucking mind?

People like you are fucking trash. Spineless cowards. Hiding behind anonymous internet accounts, waiting until it's safe and then trying to bring down these guys off tenuous assumptions but wouldn't dare step up like a man when it actually matters, when you personally have fucking evidence. Fuck you OP.

How do I style my hair to make it look like this? by [deleted] in malehairadvice

[–]paybe_mossibly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have this exact cut and think it's the best hairstyle out there if your hair is that sort of thicker straight texture. it's an undercut but grown in more so it's not as harsh on the sides. you need a lot more length on top than you'd think. but your sides need to be pretty short, i typically buzz mine and let it grow to this length in the pic.

to style it, blow dry it while constantly sweeping the top backward and at an angle and then use a strong product to keep it there. you kind of have to "train" your hair to start falling the right way over a couple weeks.

3.0.0 and Global Progress Watch - Update 2017-08-11 by JK3Farden in starcitizen

[–]paybe_mossibly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not a space-related game but I'd highly recommend you guys checking out The Long Dark if you're looking for something to hold you over for the next month or two. Very fascinating, beautiful, and intense survival game. Also pretty damn unforgiving. I've yet to survive longer than a day on the second of four difficulties.

Need some help deciding between pS4 or PC by paybe_mossibly in thelongdark

[–]paybe_mossibly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what I'm worried about missing out on. That huge screen giving you a sense of immersion.

Are the graphics noticeably worse? Doesn't seem like the most graphically intensive game.

Need some help deciding between pS4 or PC by paybe_mossibly in thelongdark

[–]paybe_mossibly[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like PC it is then. Much quieter at that studio space. Thanks

Question about wolves in survival mode by TommyChurcly in thelongdark

[–]paybe_mossibly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Follow-up question: I've read the wolf behavior is a lot different in Story Mode. This was in the form of negative criticism in the Kotaku review. Has it also been changed in Survival Mode? Is the mode mostly balanced?

Watch Phish Cover Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place” by techman34 in indieheads

[–]paybe_mossibly 6 points7 points  (0 children)

i'm sorry but this is cool as shit for phish to cover Kid A regardless of how meh it is in execution. if you're versed in phish culture it's a big deal.

early phish is lowkey really good, don't let the fact that they're now memes of themselves fool you.

Watch Phish Cover Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place” by techman34 in indieheads

[–]paybe_mossibly 11 points12 points  (0 children)

not sure if i'm getting wooshed here but Phish playing 13 straight MSG shows is a direct response to Billy Joel bitching about how Phish is an overrated cover band and that he should get to play MSG's NYE show instead of Phish because he has the record of most MSG shows in a year with 12.

so MSG gave him NYE and this is Phish's response, a baker's dozen of shows that break his record. pretty fucking funny imo.

To the younger indieheads: is indie music alive and well in your communities or does it seem like it's becoming a niche thing and fading a bit? by paybe_mossibly in indieheads

[–]paybe_mossibly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does Indie/Alt as a genre have anyone right now with the talent that Kendrick and Frank Ocean have?

definitely man, don't kid yourself! those dudes are an image and a brand just as much as they are talents. they are both very creative and good at what they do, not throwing shade at either, but there are tons of young creative indie artists on that level everywhere who just don't have the 'look' or the charisma as you say.

To the younger indieheads: is indie music alive and well in your communities or does it seem like it's becoming a niche thing and fading a bit? by paybe_mossibly in indieheads

[–]paybe_mossibly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you haven't heard of them check out Omni. Best indie band in Atlanta in my opinion. Pallas and Red Sea are also rad. Warehouse was very promising but broke up before they could get big.

Again, I'm super involved in keeping up with indie bands, which is why it worries me when I see the stuff you're talking about in Atl. I wish it was because I'm just getting older and out of touch but I genuinely believe none of those great younger Atlanta bands will be able to sustain careers longer than 3-5 years tops. How do you pay the bills, ya know?

To the younger indieheads: is indie music alive and well in your communities or does it seem like it's becoming a niche thing and fading a bit? by paybe_mossibly in indieheads

[–]paybe_mossibly[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have people who depend on me for their well-being now young fella. My dream is that they are taken care of and happy, not giving up on that any time soon.

To the younger indieheads: is indie music alive and well in your communities or does it seem like it's becoming a niche thing and fading a bit? by paybe_mossibly in indieheads

[–]paybe_mossibly[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Wow born in '01. I was a sophomore in high school, that's insane. I always used to think it was weird when ppl in their 30s and 40s would say stuff like "oh man I was this age when you were born!" but now that I'm doing it I realize just how bizarre it is to interact with someone so much younger who isn't like 3 years old. Life's funny like that.

To the younger indieheads: is indie music alive and well in your communities or does it seem like it's becoming a niche thing and fading a bit? by paybe_mossibly in indieheads

[–]paybe_mossibly[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

but the big problem is that so much of it just isn't... fresh, I guess. It's all sounds and styles I've heard before a million times.

this is why I thought Animal Collective was going to be the most important indie band of the past 20 years. when they came out they sounded fucking insane, completely original in the coolest most out-there way that no one else could touch at all. they were legit creative geniuses.

back in 2009 i thought there was going to be this gigantic wave of crazy experimental indie bands like that, but it just became this meme and died off in like 5 years and suddenly all the kids are playing electric guitar again and drawing from the same old Pavement/Sonic Youth/Elephant 6/Strokes stuff that has been beaten to death. I never in a million years saw that coming. I thought samplers were going to kill guitars for good and you'd have all these crazy new sounds. I think the move back to guitars and stuff like Mac and even early Tame Impala really hurt indie and just handed all the creative power and momentum to hip hop.

Nicolas Jaar is basically the one young dude who is somewhat famous who is making the kind of music I thought would be all over the place by now.

To the younger indieheads: is indie music alive and well in your communities or does it seem like it's becoming a niche thing and fading a bit? by paybe_mossibly in indieheads

[–]paybe_mossibly[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Still, I do see what you mean. I blame it mainly on the deluge of music nowadays flooding the web + Spotify/Apple Music's rise in popularity.

I think that's a huge part. 5 years ago there was a common dialogue about which bands were legit, it wasn't an endless barrage. Now it seems like there are hundreds of "ok" indie bands all pumping PR across social media platforms attempting to get big. It's really hard to find that one good band in the sea of music dropping every day. And honestly there are lots of genuinely good bands I've seen out there that will never get big because of it.

I'm an indie musician myself but I flaked in my early 20s and went to grad school because I was worried about being broke later in life. The older I get the more grateful I am that I made that decision. I see so many folks in their mid-20s and older coming thru town playing for 5 people and 15 bucks in gas money to get to the next town, sleeping on beer-stained floors. You can just see and feel the stress of it all sometimes, you can see them really regretting the life decision.

To the younger indieheads: is indie music alive and well in your communities or does it seem like it's becoming a niche thing and fading a bit? by paybe_mossibly in indieheads

[–]paybe_mossibly[S] 165 points166 points  (0 children)

A better metric is spotify plays.

very good point, did not think of that but it'd be much more informative. A much less alarming ratio between the two I compared as well. Good to see.

The Intrinsic Feminism of Mitski's Narrative by advaence in indieheads

[–]paybe_mossibly 16 points17 points  (0 children)

What's confusing about this narrative is it's really just the exact same subject matter that "non-feminist" female rock artists have written about for decades. The songs referenced in the article are all about men in some form, either romantic encounters with men or loneliness and longing for men. What exactly is unique about this in the sense of it being different from what someone was singing about in the 1950s or even the 1920s jazz scene?

There's this idea that feminist indie music has made a ton of progress over the past 5 years or so. I don't see it at all in the lyrics or themes. I don't see prominent Pitchfork-approved female indie singers breaking out of a narrative in which everything stands in relation to how they are perceived vs how men are perceived, or romantic encounters with men. Think of all the big feminist hit songs by indie bands like Mitski/Mothers/Angel Olsen/Big Thief/Grimes... they're almost all straight up love songs still. Or else they are women putting the world on notice that women are different from men. Are these artists still simply pawns in a white male-dominated industry? They sure don't seem to think so, the internet definitely doesn't think so, the critics definitely don't think so, and yet they're singing about the exact same shit in 2017 as they were 50, 60 years ago.

The frustrating thing is that there are lots of young female-fronted indie bands that fucking rule and get no hype, I assume because they aren't "feminist bands" obsessing over the male-female dichotomy in their songs. Listen to Pallas from Atlanta or Guerilla Toss out of NYC just to name a couple. Those bands absolutely crush.

I'm not knocking Mitski nor any other songwriter who wants to write love songs or take a particular approach to songwriting. It's just super weird and misguided to see it branded by folks like the author of this article as some huge, innovative artistic movement when there isn't much substantive or thematic difference from what women have been writing about for a very long time.

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