"Fuck Scion and fuck In The Red Records"

[k.]

I thought it, you typed it.

[bradxxx]

i suspect several of the bands might be remembered in 30 years, but as a movement?  probably wouldnt rate a single sentence in any worthwhile music history.  the punk stuff of the last dozen years is light years more interesting than the garage stuff, and it hasnt exactly been a golden age for that shit either.  the majority of 00s garage is played by aging rockers for an aging audience, its a dying genre and deservedly so.  barely better than the caricature rockabilly has become.  both are too strictly regimented and their progenitors are rapidly aging.  punk is so meaningless as a title i suspect it will live on for some time longer, like rock n roll before it, they are far more all encompassing.  30 years from now i seriously doubt garage will exist as a genre at all, especially as it doesnt have an attractive kitschy image like rockabilly with its fonzies and betty pages to fall back on. 

[hugebomber]

holy-shit. 

i had no idea.  it seems like a really great bill ! ! scion rules !   
also to SSR thanks for pointing out the link again.  they do indeed lay out the entire kooky strategy. 
you know this shit doesn't really repulse me, but i wouldn't mind if someone did a little bit of culture jamming on this car company youth music mash up.   you know ?    i think all it really would take is some false accusations of racism to spoil the party.  or perhaps rumors of Scion paying some goons to pee on Larry Hardy's rug.

[k.]

The singer of Oxbow is a huge skinhead with a swastika tattooed on his forearm and does spoken word about being hired muscle for loan sharks and has been known to strip to his underwear and beat up audience members at his band's shows.

Also, didn't Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV get ran out of the UK for being busted with a collection of dodgy porn or something? In addition to encouraging youth to take drugs, modify their bodies and get involved in the occult?

[Whet Bull]

Plus, Merzbow is a pervert and Wold is Canadian.

[Elusive Insert]

I thought Oxbow was the huge black wrestler guy who takes his cock out?  Did they get a new frontman or something?

[k.]

Yes, Eugene, the singer of Oxbow, is black, but I didn't see how that was relevant to the point I was making.

[rr]

That flyer is actually real??  Never would've thought Merzbow could somehow be used for marketing purposes...

[Elusive Insert]

Yes, Eugene, the singer of Oxbow, is black, but I didn't see how that was relevant to the point I was making.

Oh, ok.

[Sukebe GG]

Wait, so Oxbow is opening up for Merzbow at the Czar Bar and at the Crowbar we have Sick of it All Pigs Must Die?

And G. Porridge is spinning in his grave?!

[Gerard C.]

That flyer is actually real??  Never would've thought Merzbow could somehow be used for marketing purposes...

It's real. This event took place in Tampa, FL in June.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/arts/music/26-metal-bands-at-scion-rock-fest-in-tampa-fla.html?_r=1

[Liquid Omar]

i suspect several of the bands might be remembered in 30 years, but as a movement?  probably wouldnt rate a single sentence in any worthwhile music history.  the punk stuff of the last dozen years is light years more interesting than the garage stuff, and it hasnt exactly been a golden age for that shit either.  the majority of 00s garage is played by aging rockers for an aging audience, its a dying genre and deservedly so.  barely better than the caricature rockabilly has become.  both are too strictly regimented and their progenitors are rapidly aging.  punk is so meaningless as a title i suspect it will live on for some time longer, like rock n roll before it, they are far more all encompassing.  30 years from now i seriously doubt garage will exist as a genre at all, especially as it doesnt have an attractive kitschy image like rockabilly with its fonzies and betty pages to fall back on.

I was just joking about the whole thing, but ok, its not a movement. Its just a lot of people all over the western world dressing up in novely glasses with kindergarden haircuts, making a big deal over eating burgers, drinking beer and smoking pot, playing reverb drenched garage rock revival music and putting out 7s with google image covers. I dont care. I like powerpop, picking my nose and crying in a dark room.

[migamiga]

Fucking Scionists, first they bring down the twin towers so they can get their claws into Iraq, then they infiltrate the garage rock scene of the 00's so they can bring that down too. Just as the protocols of their elders predicted. I dunno what's worse.

[Yon Yonsen]

I know two coworkers who own Scions, and both are midlife crisis types fighting to appear young and hip.  One also owns a Harley, insert sarcastic shock emoticon here.  There's a third mystery driver who owns one and has a decal of the word "mayhem" across the top of the windshield.  I don't know shit about stereo systems, but the back is loaded with what looks like expensive amps and speakers and such.  As dumb as ad campaigns can be, think about how many people buy iPhones despite that they're slower and don't have nearly as many free apps to pick from and ain't even open platform if you want to geek out and make you're own.  But it's the iPhone and has Siri so you can ask your phone if Larry eats caviar while ignoring your emails.  And for the activist who won't buy iPhones because of Chinese child labor, wars are fought by children in Africa for the ore used in the metal inside of every cellphone.  I apologize for the ramble, I'm done with my morning coffee and am going to drive my Vespa now to the end of the driveway to pick up my paper.

[P-TNT]

Can you drive a Scion
Like I can drive a Scion
can you drive an Scion
a fucking Scion
can you drive a Scion
You're looking through the landscape
the fucking landscape
can you drive a Scion
like I can drive a Scion

Can you drive my Scion
all the way to Rio
on Imaginary highways
crashing into trees no no
head first you got the worst of it
head first I got the best of it

The Lord broke bread
gave it to his disciples and said
take this put it in your mouth in yor head
a Scion a Scion

Raw not fancy
she put me in a trance
she put me in a trance
raw not fancy
she put me in a trance
she put me in a snap snap
snap out of it

Can you rock a samba
like I can rock a samba
can you drive a Scion
like I can drive a Scion
can you strip the rotor
on a new Toyota

Can you drive my Scion
all the way to Rio
on Imaginary highways
crashing into trees no no
head first you got the worst of it
headrest I got the best of it

Can you drive my Scion
like I can drive my Scion