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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: February 10, 2014, 10:40:57 AM »

http://www.haymakeraustin.com/
"White trash can beers"

Hmm that quote seems pretty Brunch but I think the Haymaker itself has to get dinged for its lack of vegetarian options and its sports-centric nature. Can there be a Brunch sports bar?

I can't believe no one from Austin has yet mentioned the Metaxa Brunch Series at Yellow Jacket Social Club. A Greek liqueur-sponsored series of events at which garage rock bands DJ and play sets during brunch outside at a place with the phrase "social club" in its name? That is probably the Brunchest thing I have ever experienced.

NB I love YJSC and am probably pretty fucking Brunch, so much so that I'll likely go brunch there with my friends for my birthday next weekend.

I had things to say in re: suggestions for Brunch in Stevens Point, WI, but that seems to be lost to the annals of the thread now.

I'm not sure vegetarianism/veganism is all that brunch. I think the ranking of dietary preferences, in order of most to least Brunch, goes something like:

vegetarians/vegans who will consume animal products if they are locally sourced
ex-vegetarians/vegans
vegetarians
people who have never had any dietary restrictions
vegans (you can be kind of Brunch without bacon, but you can't be Brunch without eggs)

Any place with "social club" in its name is definitely Brunch. I'm probably Brunch, too.

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: February 07, 2014, 04:56:37 AM »

There's the ironic (and cheap, which works for the house) shithouse beer: "Hey, you guys like PBR!" endeavor, which is a jocular tallboy of some low-rent shit served aside a thimble of OJ or AJ or otherJ.  It's at 150% cost.  It's "cute," in light of the trimmed lilies, baby's breath, mason jars, Gram Parsons, reclaimed Knights of Columbus folding chairs, forfeited church pews, reappropriated stained glass, other signifiers of displaced Midwestern or rural PacNW life in a big, bad, scary, black-peopled, heroin-available city.

http://www.haymakeraustin.com/
"White trash can beers"

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: February 06, 2014, 07:59:12 AM »

Real Brunch is purely large-metro, no? Though  a place like Madison is certainly much more Brunch than Milwaukee, even though it's much smaller. Brunchiest smaller towns/cities?

i think at this point brunch (and "BRUNCH") is fairly universal across america, with the "foodie-fication" and "Brooklynization" of everything.  i live in kansas city, by all accounts a fairly average metro, and it is pretty brunch.  there are probably 15 BAF places within 5 minutes of my house.  runny farm eggs cracked over everything, weird toast, housemade kombucha, every brunch spot loyal to one or another local nano coffee-roaster, belgian beers and mimosas or bloody mary bars with weird shit on them.  restaurants covered in reclaimed wood, old mid-century high school furniture, "rustic" bars serving expensive and complicated cocktails (including/especially at brunch).  bird-like servers with clip-art tattoos and charles dickens boots.  if it is ubiquitous here, it has to be everywhere. 

Yes, smaller cities and towns can definitely be Brunch. I live in Durham, NC, which is very Brunch (Carrboro is even more Brunch). Smaller city Brunching is tied to Brunch regionalism. Local produce, y'all. There's a brewery here that makes a sweet potato lager because that's NC's big crop.

Brunch is the new, non-threatening face of capital itself. so obviously it originated in and has been continually refined in larger cities, but no place is invulnerable. in fact, smaller towns might be most vulnerable, because once Brunch takes an interest in them they are unable to raise capital to protect themselves. so the original inhabitants all end up either moving elsewhere or staying on as invisible, underpaid support staff for Brunch. aka Gentrification i guess, but you only ever hear about that wrt urban neighborhoods.

just look at how these Brunch colonists took over some town in mississippi http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/garden/how-four-women-revived-a-derelict-mississippi-town.html?_r=2&hp&

Part of the Brunch aesthetic is inspired by a romantic notion of small town life (esp. agriculture and general stores), so it was only a matter of time before they came for the rest of America.

The Bruncher's bible? http://www.amazon.com/The-Bucolic-Plague-Manhattanites-Unconventional/dp/0061997838

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: February 05, 2014, 08:16:49 PM »

A crucial aspect of the Brunch lifestyle that I don't think has been thoroughly explored yet: regionalism. Of course if you're in New York, this takes the form of running a blog dedicated to your neighborhood in Brooklyn, but outside of NYC/SF/LA/Austin (and the Brunch lifestyle is definitely present outside these places), it can take the form of intense pride in city, state, or even geographical/cultural region, even (especially) if you have not lived there very long. Owning a shirt with the screen-printed outline of North Carolina, Indiana, etc = BAF.  Owning clothing items featuring the logo of a minor league sports team may be Brunch, I'm not sure.

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: February 04, 2014, 05:48:31 PM »

Ariel pink?

I could be missing important events in the history of Brunch, but Ariel Pink seems like the most crucial figure in the development of the Bruncher's love of yacht rock. As Brunch as it gets.

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: February 01, 2014, 02:30:31 PM »

Sun Araw = also Brunch Psych

What's the Brunchest label? It's gotta be a close race between Captured Tracks and Mexican Summer, with Woodsist a distant third.

any band that includes a member who grew up in a cult (e.g. Prince Rama, Girls, Quilt) = BRUNCH

This begs the question, Yahowa 13: proto-brunch, docu-rock, or neither of the above?

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: January 31, 2014, 08:35:05 PM »

What's everyone consensus on the best Skullflower releases?  I'm a IIIrd Gatekeeper or Last Shot at Heaven kinda guy.

Those two stand out for me, too. IIIrd Gatekeeper is also the only one I own. I should probably give in and just buy a few of them on CD.

Even though the first run of Skullflower (through '96 or whatever) is definitely the prime era, Orange Canyon Mind might be my favorite.  Noisy and spacey but still rockin'. I like the recent albums more than other stuff of its ilk but still don't really care about "blackened noise."

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: January 31, 2014, 11:05:46 AM »

Damn, have never heard of Sunroof that I can remember and I'm a medium-big Skullflower fanatic. Will have to check it out.

Cloudz is a great place to start. Like Erick said, drone-bliss-bubble. Got into a minor youtube rabbit hole last night because of Deke Dirt's post and found this great track I'd never heard before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0ch0kiLupU

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: January 30, 2014, 09:25:32 AM »

Since when did "bruch" become a "hip" thing? My memories of brunch from childhood all revolve around going to the banquet room at Holiday Inn with my folks so we could watch someone make an omelet in front of us. I guess in the early 80's the room may have had some leftover props from the Mad Men era, and a burnt orange color scheme, but I don't think Gen X'ers had invented Irony yet by that point.

In fact, when I go visit my grandmother, it's often over brunch, to this day, which is traditionally a major place my grandmother meets the family. The only "hip" you get there is hip replacements.

What's next supper clubs and Friday Night Fish Frys instead of going out to the bar or hitting up a show?

The only times I go to brunch are when I'm visiting my dad. My dad does love Steely Dan. Are Steely Dan part of the proto-brunch artists that I Am Not Marty Feldman listed on the first page (Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, etc.)? Is my dad brunch? What if I convinced the brunch crowd that my dad only watched Fox News ironically? Then would he be brunch?

Once I was on a plane seated next to a bearded dude (probably brunch) who was watching Fox News ironically.

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: January 29, 2014, 10:49:47 AM »

It just popped up on my facebook feed that some people I know back in Austin are going to a brunch house show this weekend.

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: January 28, 2014, 11:03:59 AM »

Which begs the question: Who out there is really bringing the Brunch RAWK?

Deafheaven? (I don't think I've ever heard that band.)
Could Nothings

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Music Shit / Re: Artists you have the most records by.

« on: January 27, 2014, 06:20:38 AM »

Ramones, almost certainly, and all purchased when I was 13-15. Only way anyone else could compete is if I counted all their projects together (e.g. all Greg Cartwright bands). Actually, Bruce Springsteen might give the Ramones a run for it, but that's only because my dad gave me all his records through Tunnel of Love. Records I bought, though, Ramones for sure.

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Music Shit / Re: Acapulco Presents... Delightful Missives from the World of Music "Criticism"

« on: January 16, 2014, 10:47:02 AM »

Haven't made it through all of this yet, but oooh boy.

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/the-trouble-with-contemporary-music-criticism

I did, however, skip to the end:

[As you may have noticed, this piece takes its inspiration from Walter Benjamin’s Theses on The Philosophy of History. Although Benjamin also uses the analogy of the mechanical Turk to develop a critique of naïve historicism/progressivism, it is worth noting that we have significantly amended the logic of that analogy for our own purposes. If you haven’t read the original already, you should… preferably while listening to Daft Punk.]

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Music Shit / Re: Your City's Best Bands

« on: January 03, 2014, 09:16:49 PM »

Durham
Just the Mountain Goats, I guess? Lotta good bands in the Triangle but most of 'em based in Chapel Hill (Spider Bags) or Raleigh (Whatever Brains).

Dan Melchior is the obvious one I knew I was forgetting but couldn't put my finger on as I wrote that original post.

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Music Shit / Re: Your City's Best Bands

« on: December 22, 2013, 12:48:48 PM »

Just active bands because I don't wanna go through the whole history. For old stuff, see: Bloodstains Across Texas, Deep in the Throat of Texas, International Artists compilations

Houston (ex-ex-home)
Secret Prostitutes
probably some other punk bands those dudes are involved in that I haven't kept up with
Rusted Shut
Black Leather Jesus
B L A C K I E
speaking of which, Houston rap is a whole 'nother thing that I haven't kept up with in years, but there are the luminaries: Bun B, Geto Boys, Paul Wall and Chamillionaire's Get Ya Mind Correct was tops but they never matched it.

Austin (ex-home)
Spray Paint
The Young
Sungod
James Arthur's Manhunt, though he appears to be on some sort of musical hiatus
Impalers
ST37
I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch

Durham
Just the Mountain Goats, I guess? Lotta good bands in the Triangle but most of 'em based in Chapel Hill (Spider Bags) or Raleigh (Whatever Brains).