[chuck norris]

How do you rate the Williamsburg music scene?

I have been listening to !!!, Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah, Enon, The Rapture, TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. And I really like most of it.

It's like funk music finally reached New York....

 

 

[racehorse]

most of it is boring hipster music in the vain of the strokes etc.
not very interesting.

[Sheriff Rhys Chatham]

I like the yyy's

[val-holla-ing]

Originally Posted by racehorse

most of it is boring hipster music in the vain of the strokes etc.
not very interesting.

none of those bands listed sound anything like the strokes, though...and sonic youth is the default indierawk/hipster band, fyi.

i really love the new !!! album, as well as all tvotr and grizzly bear. if i'm not mistaken, growing are there, too, and they're one of my favos.

[pbradley]

Originally Posted by val-holla-ing

and sonic youth is the default indierawk/hipster band

I thought it was Neutral Milk Hotel.

[Everyneurotic]

most of them suck, i think i like tv on the radio and enon the better out of those bands.

my favorite band currently in brooklyn is orthrelm.

[val-holla-ing]

Originally Posted by pbradley

I thought it was Neutral Milk Hotel.

really? i guess it changes with the season or something like that.

[Everyneurotic]

20 years ago, it used to be r.e.m. and talking heads...perhaps hüsker dü and the replacements.

[racehorse]

well those bands you mentioned are bringing all of the hipsters to williamsburg just as the strokes were partly responsible for drawing them to the lower east side a couple of years ago. thus, the rents skyrocket, and genuine artists are forced out. eventually it becomes a playground for rich, spoilt and boring "faux-hemians" (to use a phrase coined by SY) toying with the idea of becoming the next julian casablancas.

[pbradley]

Originally Posted by val-holla-ing

really? i guess it changes with the season or something like that.

Ever since Aeroplane's reissue, I've been spotting fedora wearing hipsters like cockroaches.

[lungfish]

i miss living there before it was even worth starting a thread about.
when it was quiet old broke down williamsburg.
i go there now and it doesn't feel like home anymore.
the music is okay.. barely okay at best.

[fishmonkey]

i hate clap yr hands say yeah but i love TV on the Radio and YYY

[tesla69]

Originally Posted by chuck norris

How do you rate the Williamsburg music scene?

I have been listening to !!!, Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah, Enon, The Rapture, TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. And I really like most of it.

It's like funk music finally reached New York....

Funny, I always think of these bands as the commercial future of that scene...there's a huge brooklyn oriented scene (including grrrnpoint, bushwick, bed-sty, Ft Greene, etc). Did people really move to the LES so they could be near the Strokes? Damn that is grim. But there is the whole kneeling thing that came out of the Vanishing Voice and Double Leopards (or did it come out of Son of Earthbone on Flesh?), with its spinoff bands like Religious Knives and Zaimph and GHQ.

I lived in Wburg in the late 80's and don't miss it all. It remains one of the most toxic areas in the US. Its still as filthy and dirty as ever but rents are insane. But you can get sushi there now!

[racehorse]

well yeah, i'd love to live in new york for a while in the relatively near future (next 5/6 years) as it is really the global focal point for art and creativity (no matter what anybody says). however the rents are insane, rendering my idea basically unforseeable.
if i was going to go it would have to be somewhere stupid like yonkers or maybe some distant district in queens... pretty annoying.

[val-holla-ing]

Originally Posted by racehorse

well those bands you mentioned are bringing all of the hipsters to williamsburg just as the strokes were partly responsible for drawing them to the lower east side a couple of years ago. thus, the rents skyrocket, and genuine artists are forced out. eventually it becomes a playground for rich, spoilt and boring "faux-hemians" (to use a phrase coined by SY) toying with the idea of becoming the next julian casablancas.

right, but what's that have to do with the actual music? pretty much next to nothing.

[val-holla-ing]

Originally Posted by racehorse

well yeah, i'd love to live in new york for a while in the relatively near future (next 5/6 years) as it is really the global focal point for art and creativity (no matter what anybody says). however the rents are insane, rendering my idea basically unforseeable.
if i was going to go it would have to be somewhere stupid like yonkers or maybe some distant district in queens... pretty annoying.

rent's really not that bad. you have people paying roughly $800 per room in baton rouge, louisiana. so paying $2,000 for a 4 bedroom in bed-stuy isn't that bad.

[chuck norris]

I liked Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah myself. I know they are commercially successful, but they sound better than The Strokes ever did (=my opinion).

 

I live far away from New York and America. Guess that makes these bands exotic to me. If I was living in Brooklyn, I would probably hate the whole scene...

Enon have this great song called Starcastic. Check it out, if you don't know it.

[chuck norris]

I think prices will drive creative people out of the major cities like New York, London, Berlin, Tokyo, etc.

And than my home town Delft will become the centre of cool...