Band Break Ups, Reunions, and Hiatuses

[alady]

First band I saw in college.

[Tweet]

Checking in from the Caribbean to say if you don’t like “the impression that I get” you can go fuck yourself

[concertgoer]

I saw The Bosstones a bunch of times when I was in high school, college and at Riotfest
Fun band

[nanatod]

only saw them once, at q101 jamboree 97, where they were overshadowed by just about every other act except for republica and the verve pipe.

[zircona1]

Jan 27, 2022 21:26:20 GMT -6 nanatod said:

only saw them once, at q101 jamboree 97, where they were overshadowed by just about every other act except for republica and the verve pipe.

Really? College-age zircona1 would've loved to have seen them, 'Ready to Go' used to be one of my favorite songs. 

[venom]

i liked the bosstones a lot in high school and some girl would brag that her uncle was in the band. the one time i saw them while in high school she said she was going to be backstage with him. and then the show was on lehigh university's intramural soccer field and i think chicago street fests have more of a backstage area.

[monasterymonochrome]

Listening to the Bosstones for the first time this morning (the deepest I've gotten into ska is, like, The Specials and Madness) - and my take is "this is like Fucked Up but more fun." Good shit.

(Take applies to this song specifically.)

[teekoh]

Do we need a ska thread?!?!?

[Kamera]

A roundtable discussion about 3rd wave ska would be fun. Speaking of, I know RX Bandits are reuniting this year (someone tell Garpo).

[venom]

huh, the bosstones' old guitar player signed the weeknd, phantogram, and maggie rogers as an A&R guy.

[fiveiron83321]

Jan 28, 2022 9:48:59 GMT -6 teekoh said:

Do we need a ska thread?!?!?

i can only contribute about Five Iron Frenzy and thats it

[munkivelli]

Jan 28, 2022 9:48:59 GMT -6 teekoh said:

Do we need a ska thread?!?!?

only if we can use it to get the board into the ska revival

[mookie]

Jan 28, 2022 22:42:19 GMT -6 munkivelli said:

Jan 28, 2022 9:48:59 GMT -6 teekoh said:

Do we need a ska thread?!?!?

only if we can use it to get the board into the ska revival

Don't make me wield my mod powers

[teekoh]

Jan 28, 2022 21:36:22 GMT -6 fiveiron83321 said:

Jan 28, 2022 9:48:59 GMT -6 teekoh said:

Do we need a ska thread?!?!?

i can only contribute about Five Iron Frenzy and thats it

“FiveIron’s Five Iron Frenzy Frenzy”

[munkivelli]

Jan 28, 2022 22:49:42 GMT -6 mookie said:

Jan 28, 2022 22:42:19 GMT -6 munkivelli said:

only if we can use it to get the board into the ska revival

Don't make me wield my mod powers

but it's like actually good this time...

[monasterymonochrome]

Jan 28, 2022 23:09:19 GMT -6 munkivelli said:

Jan 28, 2022 22:49:42 GMT -6 mookie said:

Don't make me wield my mod powers

but it's like actually good this time...

What're the good ska revival bands?  I'm down for something new

[teekoh]

Catbite
We Are The Union
Jer/Skatune Network

[munkivelli]

Jan 29, 2022 7:45:22 GMT -6 monasterymonochrome said:

Jan 28, 2022 23:09:19 GMT -6 munkivelli said:

but it's like actually good this time...

What're the good ska revival bands?  I'm down for something new

We Are the Union, Joystick!, Catbite, Flying Racoon Suit, Jeff Rosenstock's SKA DREAM, Bad Operation

...and if you just want some fun ska covers, check out Skatune Network

[cosmo]

[Tweet]

Jan 24, 2022 12:10:14 GMT -6 mookie said:

Their show at Thalia with Ratboys will be the last one

[Tweet]

Operation Ivy, kinda sorta

[clouddead]

Is Jesse Michaels and Tim Armstrong play together and nanatod isn’t there to hear it, did it really even happen?

[mookie]

I’m being stupidly optimistic, but Sigur Ros just posted that they have several things planned this year to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ( )
It’s been over 4 years since their last band performance

[claypoolfan]

Daft Punk has been updating and posting images on their socials multiple times over the last few hours. It's a year to the day from when they posted the farewell video. I refuse to get any hopes up, but these are things that are happening.

EDIT: They also updated their website and apparently created a Twitch account very recently. Something is going to happen, who knows what. 

[Tweet]

Looks like the answer was a livestream of a helmetless show from 1997. I actually think Buzz gave me a bootleg copy of the audio from a similar show in the Chicagoland area- it's on my old laptop that hasn't worked in years and now I kinda wanna get in there and get those tunes

[nanatod]

Feb 22, 2022 17:49:20 GMT -6 Tweet said:

 livestream of a helmetless show from 1997. I actually think Buzz gave me a bootleg copy of the audio from a similar show in the Chicagoland area- 

the 3 daft punk chicagoland shows prior to lolla 2007 were the even further rave near madison wisconsin in 1996, the roller rink on the southside of chicago in early 1997, and cabaret metro in september 1997. 

I didn't know who they were yet, so I did not attend any of the 3, unfortunately. 

[mookie]

Update from James Murphy. Guess I shouldn't be optimistic about new music coming any time soon

it’s time for an update, apparently. management are asking. i largely consider playing shows/releasing music to be the main way a band communicates with the world, but then, historically, we also used to do more interviews with magazines and things like that. i think that’s been harder lately, with most press things being sort of clickbait by necessity, as there’s just far fewer people buying actual magazines and newspapers anymore, and i’m not that interested in clickbait/hot takes. that said, it would be nice to do a good interview again at some point. it means that we don’t get to 100% control what gets said, which is healthy if you’re in the business of trying to figure out what you actually are in the world, which you don’t learn much about when it’s just your own voice. nor do you learn it from, like, twitter.
regardless, here we are.
we played 17 shows in brooklyn at the end of last year, and now we’re doing mini residencies in a few places, like philly and boston. and then london. you see, we tend, historically, to take big chunks of time off between tours and LPs. and then, after the break, i begin to feel like i want to make a record, or we want to play some shows. but then i start to think “oh man. if i make an album, then we need to rehearse for months to get ready to tour, and you need to book a tour so far in advance, and who knows when the record will be ready?” this happened with american dream. we booked the shows, thinking i’d be done or nearly done with the record, and then i wasn’t, and there we are on this full tour with me trying to work on the record in the gaps, which weren’t that many… there’s a thing with tour, also, where you invest so much time, energy, and cost into “getting ready” that you wind up touring for ages just to make it worthwhile… then you need a big break again. then you are reluctant to start all over again. it’s a cycle.
we really wanted to stop living like that, so we talked about just playing some shows in new york, since most of us live here, and not making it too big of a deal. like, just playing because we like it, and because we like one another. just be a new york band for a bit. and maybe we’ll do something like that every year. just stay in shape, if that makes sense. and just make records along the way. maybe just singles for a while, so there isn’t some “album panic” etc. we don’t know. we DO know that it was great to play those shows, and we’re looking forward to the rest of the shows we’re playing this year. it’s not overwhelming, so i can work on new music and we can all be human beings. maybe we’ll just play other places next year, moving around to cities we like to play, where we’re wanted, etc.
then a few weeks ago SNL asked us to play out of the blue, and that was great for us. a lot of us really grew up on that show. we had nothing new to promote, but they were totally open to us playing whatever we wanted, and we could basically just take a cab over, so it was obvious for us to do it. it was incredibly fun. who wouldn’t want to do that?
and lastly, it’s horrifyingly going to be 20 years this year of us being a performing rock group. i mean, the “losing my edge”/“beat connection” 12” came out in the summer of 2002, and then we played our first show november 19 of that year. it was in london, at arthur baker and sean mclusky’s return to new york party at the great eastern hotel. so we’re kind of celebrating, albeit in a more low key way.
and, lest we forget, it’s also DFA records’ 20th anniversary, as the first 12”s we ever released came out in the spring of 2002. so we’re trying to have some good DFA get-downs in a few places. come see us!
you stand still long enough, and it all spins back around.
dreams never end.
best
james
oh and PS. i see folks asking when we are going to “reschedule” the three cancelled brooklyn steel shows. basically, we’re not “rescheduling” those shows. here are some reasons why:
we just gave everyone their money back, because i hate the idea of holding people’s money for some, abstract “future” show. (i have friends who paid for tickets to shows that got cancelled in mid 2020 who are still waiting for the rescheduled show, and while i 100% understand that a given band may not have the resources to just pay everyone back after they spent a fortune putting a show together, it’s not something i felt comfortable doing.)
one has to book a venue like brooklyn steel nearly a year in advance at this point, so there isn’t some 3 day run available to grab (and if we did reschedule, what about the folks who had tickets but couldn’t come on those days? should they just lose their money because they can’t make it? what if we picked a different venue that a ticket holder hated. it’s a minefield out there!)
we’re giving anyone who missed the shows first dibs on our next run of shows in new york, so it’s basically an opt-in “reschedule” if you like, which let’s people decide if they want go anymore, or maybe they got bored of us and want to go see someone else instead.
so that’s that. we’ll play again. and it won’t be in, like, 5 years, so if you had a ticket to a show which got cancelled, you’ll be first in line for those upcoming shows.

[nanatod]

thus, james murphy ensures that lcd won't ever be in the trapper keeper, unless he was actually present in lounge ax for the arcwelder / six finger satellite show.

[llamaoftime]

Honestly I think I'd prefer them just do singles like he mentions as an option instead of trying to make an album

[thebosma]

I love LCD (didn’t care for American Dream) but does anyone really want more LCD music at this point?