Prick Up Your Ears
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◉‿◉Austin, TX
It’s hard to pinpoint a moment when yesterday stops feeling like today. When what used to seem ordinary now seems extraordinary. The 00s was a wild swirl of musicians from different backgrounds digging through old records for inspiration from an earlier era. DJs sampled vintage loops, drummers embraced four on the floor, singers imitated their favorite post-punk snarls while lionizing the dancefloor. We bought a synthesizer, and an arpeggiator, and threw our computers out the window. Back then, every good indie rock single had to have at minimum a handful of remixes by some Europeans with carefully curated music blogs. New music sat side-by-side with remixes of old songs, songs that were on the radio, and songs you could only find on Hype Machine.
Now that someone has decided to coin the term indie sleaze (sure we were sleazy, we just didn’t call ourselves out like that), everyone thinks they’re qualified to throw a dance party and namecheck a few bands. But we were there. This is a party that returns us to the jagged dance punk guitars cribbed from Gang of Four records, the minimalist electroclash synths paired with ideals of fashion and risque affairs, and how those two paths collide and coalesce on the dancefloor. Come shake and pop with songs you know and songs you should know.
Roi (Midnight Sabers / Elysium)
PartyByBlake (Glass Mansions)
Brian Blackout
$4 (21+) • $7 (-21) • 18+
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