#indie band imagine

[panakoui]

a new meme just dropped and i just had to draw them x

[hey-hey-j]

but what if she were a troll.......

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[cheralith]

cw: gn!reader, no pronouns used, some verbal fighting (not extreme), i have a habit of making suguru be an asshole haha

thinking about bandmate!suguru who makes u irritated just by looking at him... the snarky rhythm guitarist who narrows his eyes at your presence when you join the club via shoko, your childhood friend. satoru is delighted to meet you, exclaiming that the many designs that adorned your bass told him all he needed to know about you. iori is thankful that there’s another girl in the band, comparing you to a spring’s breath of fresh air amidst the stench of two specific men.

but suguru feels as if there’s something wrong about you… something that doesn’t fit into the usual dynamic—and he doesn’t do a good job of hiding it. he’ll ask aloud via practice whether bass is that important to the band, or that satoru is a jack of all trades! why couldn’t he do it? the best he’ll do is feign nicety and say the most passive aggressive things (“yeah we could do that, but this is better, y’know?”). his insults are soft-spoken, but they’re just as icy and if not, more sharp tongued than if he was yelling. don’t make a mistake, because his ears are just as sharp as his eyes and he’ll cut the song short if you play a wrong note or if you play it too fast. he’ll spend more time lecturing you about the importance of perfection rather than actually correcting your mistake and he doesn’t notice that it irritates not only you, but satoru, shoko, and iori as well.

you were fine with it for the first few weeks, obviously not wanting to get on the rest of the band’s bad side, but it came to a point where you refused to be a doormat and started retaliating with equal fervor. suguru is taken aback the first time you spit his own fire in his face, but ever since then, it’s almost like a game of catch between you two every practice. satoru had to pick you up by the scruff like a kitten one time to stop you from pouncing on suguru after he called you a poser.

it’s become like breathing at this point—suguru says something to tick you off and in a flash of a second, you snap back. the other three have long tried to help you both, sighing and shaking their head every time suguru smirk grows wider as your insults grow exponentially. he’s fueling his own fire and god forbid they put it out.

it comes to a boiling point, eventually. he should’ve seen it coming—all of them should. perhaps it was the way satoru, shoko, and iori automatically looked up to see your reaction the moment suguru finished words that slowly burned into your flesh, making you all halt your practicing.

“i don’t even know why you joined. you’re not that good, anyways.”

suguru himself had to take a moment to process what he had said, awaiting your reaction from your frozen self with not even your fingertips moving.

the entirety of the garage goes still, and before shoko snaps at him to apologize, he scoffs at your silence and lightly pushes your shoulder to make you face him. “yo, did you hear what i said?”

you don’t respond, but instead, you start to pack up your bass and other arrays silently. the other three dread what’s about to happen in the next few seconds, and look to suguru to send him a message but he sighs and shakes his head, something regarding you being deaf slipping his tongue.

the clicks of the clasps on your case are the only things that echo through the garage. your grip on your amp tightens and despite battle of the bands coming up in less than three weeks, you turn your head to the rest of them, making sure to properly make eye contact with a familiar purple hue, you mutter,

“find another bassist. i quit.”

[bruce-wqyne]

Oh, the Théâtre des Vampires? Yeah, I've seen them. Their plays are edgy but their use of projections are pretty- what do you mean, it's run by actual Vampires. You're saying it's not just a gimm- and they actually eat the people on stage? Cool, cool, uh huh- the little girl is 40? This is their form of government? They settle power disputes with their plays? The most powerful one is the twink on the balcony? No. You're joking. No, I don't want to rest. Where are you taking me

[stgroversfire]

one of my biggest pet peeves that i think is really common is just absolutely shitting on household name bands. like ones that have ascended beyond popular to literally no one hasnt heard of them. whose music is maybe seen as boring for how much we have to hear it.

case in point:

the first song i ever actually felt an emotional connection to was it's time by imagine dragons. i was 12ish and i made a drawing for art class based on it that also happens to be the first piece of art i was ever truly proud of and made me want to create more.

night visions (deluxe) was so important to me at that time, i laughed and cried and sang and danced to that album, and the night visions tour was the first real concert i ever went to! i still remember that concert, i remember my mom and sister dragging me out during the encore because they wanted to get ahead of traffic, and i was crying happy tears singing along to nothing left to say/rocks as it played muffled through the concrete walls.

i couldn't tell you exactly what else i was listening to at that point other than what itunes called "alternative," but then smoke and mirrors came out and it was such a new sound that i had never experienced before and i think thats when i really became ravenous for more music. i went to that tour as well and it was incredible.

and then i started listening to stuff my friends showed me, because now i actually cared, and i got on fallout boy and p!atd and most importantly twenty one pilots.

i listened to my dad's favorite bands from the 70s/80s, namely supertramp and boston. i got into trap and dubstep. i listened when my brother played hip hop in the car and got hooked on mac miller, and then when i found out what hip hop was like in the 70s and the whole culture that developed around it, i truly fell in love with hip hop. i mean that shit got me through my worst days of high school.

and honestly once i got to college i was just listening to anything; grunge, traditional heavy metal, thrash metal, indie pop, folk, blues, jazz (i took a jazz class for an elective, and that shit is fascinating), j-rock, chiptunes, lofi, city pop, eurobeat, punk pop and easycore (thank you alex), breakcore-

okay, i sound like a bragging asshole now, but you get my point. i would not have found any of this if i hadn't heard it's time by imagine dragons, and every time i say ID means a lot to me, i get absolutely shit on. i actually was introduced to rush when ID did a cover of tom sawyer at a concert, and my friend's reaction was "wow that must have sounded like dogshit, they're so bad!" a reddit thread was giving me shit for having ID on my top 10 most listened, ignoring all the stuff i know they had never heard of.

which. alright, to be fair, it is a bit funny and i don't mind getting some flak for it. its the internet, its all in good fun. but the most random obscure shit like will connolly's caterpillars of the commonwealth or phemiec's songs from the dustbowl being on my spotify is owed to ID, put some respect on their name- they were able to reach so many people with their music, and that's something to be celebrated.

uhh tldr: all music is valuable because all music is helping someone get through this shit world, and it can be a gateway to music they don't know that they don't know.

uh and if you actually got this far rec me ur favorite band

[aeolianblues]

You all seemed to like the idea of the weekly poll to take a lesser-known song along with you as you scroll, so here comes the first of these new music Fridays!

Choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (I’ve tried to make sure there’s something you won’t know), and if you like them they’re yours* to carry along on your trip!

*as in add them to your library etc., if you like them a lot come ask me and I’ll try and dig up a Bandcamp like for you, hee hee

Poll’s open for a week, so if you miss this one, I’ll hopefully be back with another one by next Friday!

Happy scrolling!

(Edit: yup I scheduled it too early, the poll has the wrong Connie Constance song aaaa. I do mean Kamikaze. Both are great songs)

[bobawitch]

Let's Trip 🎶

cw: alcohol use

wc: 1307

Chapter One

7:30 pm the venue is packed and the openers have started to get set up. Though many people were there for the main act, you were there for the openers. You had a friend that knew the band and you always liked their sound, though you suppose it helped that they were opening for a band you liked. You found yourself sitting at the bar, cider in hand as you watched the stage. Soon enough the three boys and your friend walked on the stage, yelling erupted though most people made noise to be polite. Your eyes locked onto the lead singer, Matthew, he had always piqued your interest and Madi knew this little fact. Your eyes traced his tattoos as he tuned his guitar before moving to the mic, “Whatsup LA, how y’all doing tonight?” The crowd erupts with fangirls and you find yourself smiling. Matt introduces the band which gets a small smile and wave from Nick and a very enthusiastic fist from Chris behind the drums. Madi smiles, waving and looking at the back where you’re sitting. Madi introduces herself since she isn’t full time with the band but she is in a few of their songs. Once the introduction has been made the music begins. You nod your head to their indie rock sound, humming as he sang. Song after song you could feel Madi looking at you but on their song about a girl back home you felt a new pair of eyes on you. You looked to the stage and saw Matt looking in your direction. You nearly choke on your cider before seeing Madi with a devilish grin, singing her solo on the song while Matt plays. He’ll occasionally look up but his focus mainly stays on his guitar, it’s sparkly black marble shining in the stage lights. Your heart speeds up as you watch him in his element.

Eventually their set ends, many people are yelling and clapping, in a genuine way this time. They're walking off stage when you swivel in your chair and cover your face. Your heart hadn’t calmed down since you felt Matt’s eyes on you and you knew your entire face was red. After about 15 minutes you feel a tap on your shoulder and are met with Madi’s small figure. You smile, hopping off your chair and hugging her, picking her up for a second before putting her back down. “You did amazing!!” Madi giggles and shrugs. “Thanks! I had so much fun up there.” Then Madi’s sweet smile turns mischievous. You look over her head to see the triplets walking towards you. Nick gets to the two of you first, laying his arm around Madi’s shoulder and smiling at you. “Hey, you must be Y/N, Madi has told us ALL about you.” He offers a hand for you to shake and you take it, your other hand sitting in your leather jacket. “Oh wow I’m flattered, it’s really good to meet y’all. Don’t mean to sound like a total fangirl but I’ve been into y’alls music since debut.” Matt and Chris have now made it to you and Matt smirks. “Told you Chris, we do have fans from the beginning.” Chris rolls his eyes before moving closer to you, offering his hand. “Chris, nice to meet you.” You nod, shaking his hand with a smile. “Back at’ya.” Then you meet Matt’s eyes which had been burning into your skull since he walked up. You smiled at him and held out your hand, “Y/N, big fan.” He smiled and shook your hand. “Thanks for coming out tonight.” You nodded before shrugging. “Madi got me in for free and I like the music anyways.” You made eye contact with Madi who was eating up the awkward tension between you and Matt. You gave her a cautionary glare before looking back at Matt. “So LA down, where next?” Nick had already sat down to order a water and a coke, Chris next to him with his trusty Pepsi.

Matt ordered a cider and a water before sitting down next to you. “I think Chicago, then we go to New York. Chris is excited for that one.” Chris smiles as he downs his pepsi, scrolling through tik tok. “I hear Chicago is beautiful in late September, that should be a fun show.” Matt nodded, drinking his water. You followed suit, sipping on your cider as you looked to the stage. From your peripheral you could see Matt glancing at you before he turned in his chair, looking at the stage with you. “Is Tame Impala cool in person?” You asked, trying to break the slightly awkward silence by bringing up the band they opened for. “Yeah, they’re super chill. Kevin is really funny too.” Then there was silence again, at least until Tame Impala took the stage, screams erupted and you clapped loudly, standing to yell so you didn’t overwhelm the triplets and Madi. Soon, though, Madi joined you where you stood. Kevin took the mic and waved at the entire crowd. “What’s up LA, how's it going?” Madi screamed at that and you laughed, looking at how excited she was. Then she turned to you, looking you deep in your eyes and leaned to your ear so you could hear her. “Matt seems to like you!” Your cheeks warmed and you shrugged. “I’m just a sociable person.” Madi rolled her eyes before taking your hand and pulling you closer to the crowd. The beginning of Borderline begins to play and Madi cheers, you follow with your own cheering before the beat really kicks in. Madi starts to jump and dance and you smile, deciding to let loose and dance some too. It wasn’t like either of you were being advanced with moves but you still felt like you were doing some good moves. Back at the bar, Chris had moved to sit by Matt, Nick talking to the bartender happily about music and such. Matt was staring at you, cider in hand, Chris soon noticed his gaze and turned off his phone. “You like her.” Matt’s attention gets pulled to his brother and he laughs with a scoff. “I just met her.” Chris shrugs. “You still like her. Maybe Madi will bring her on tour.” Matt smiled at that idea before shaking his head. “Nah, she’d get sick of our music.” Chris shrugged again before pulling his phone out and filming the stage. Matt thought about what Chris said and sipped his cider again. Maybe you weren’t going on tour but he could get your number. 

Once the concert was over Madi offered you to come back to their “get ready” trailer behind the venue. While y’all were walking back Matt caught up to you, Madi quickly running to Nick. “So uh, Madi said you’re in school here in LA.” You nodded, “Yeah I’m in my last year at LA film school.” Matt’s eyes widened. “You want to go into film?” You nodded once more. “Yeah, I love movies and I think it’d be really cool to film for famous directors.” Matt nodded along to your words, smiling at how sincere they were. “That’s really cool. Hey, maybe you could film some music videos for us?” You looked up at him and smiled. “I’d love to. That sounds really fun.” Matt nodded, trying to act cool and calm. “So uh, maybe I could get your number? We can talk about filming videos or whatever.” He shrugged, his cheeks getting rosey. You felt your face warm and you nodded. “I’d like that.” You both exchanged numbers before you got back to the trailer. Upon getting home many hours later you felt a buzz, you grabbed your phone to see a text from Matt. 

“Thanks for coming tonight, hope to see you soon. Goodnight”

[rock-hard-sisyphus]

Day 7 of posting collages based on (and lyrics to) our unreleased songs:

Taking Advantage of Painted Faces-

"Clown face paint running down her neck

Everybody there is calling her a wreck

But they don't know what she heard in the hall

They're lucky she doesnt have further to fall"

(Description: three clowns, one painting tears onto his face, one holding a mask, and one playing a cittern [similar to a guitar] along the bottom of the image. Stars and sheet music along the top, all over a ballroom background)

[hopeinthebox]

tagged by the gorgeous and fabulous @cordiallyfuturedwight and @aprylynn for february's roundup:

tagging the usual music favs: @jiminsproof @thvinyl @jimin-gaon @visionsofgideontheninth @spicyclematis @kimchokejin @jihopesjoint @monismochi plus @kimtaegis for the amy macdonald of it all 💜 and also you, dear reader. MWAH

[yellowloid]

Do we know Miles's or any of the AM members' opinions on the genocide in Gaza? Like I love them to death, but the lack of response has reaaally been bothering me. Not to mention the amount of privilege in not carrying about politics *looking at you, Alex*. I've seen Louise being pro-Israel.

OHHHHH anon i've been WAITING to talk about this. thank you for the question.

the answer is no we don't. to my knowledge, none of the members have openly talked about it. there has been no story on their official instagram, nor has matt (the only one with a public profile) posted anything about it on his account. not only that, but i did some research and apparently that benefit concert that him, tyler parkford and josh homme took part in also hosted people like jesse hughes and sarah silverman who are more or less openly pro-israel. which doesn't mean *matt* is, it just means he's not careful who he's associating himself and his image with.

the others have stayed silent. and miles, too - who's so active on social media - has never even reposted anything about it. not a word.

about the girlfriends, louise (and amanda) have spoken about "wanting peace" and louise especially has reposted some stupid ass posts a few months ago basically saying it's not "childish" to just wish peace for everyone - proving that she literally knows nothing about what has been happening for DECADES. both her and amanda have repeatedly proven they're centrists, which is just so. yikes.

the only one among all of them who has openly and almost immediately asked for a ceasefire is katie.

i've seen some people argue that the royal albert hall proceeds have gone to the war child association, but honestly - that's not enough. that was before, and even though knowing that is better than nothing, something they did in the past doesn't justify their lack of a statement on the genocide in the present. the fact that they're not even active on social media - just because they're too lazy to get someone to properly manage their account - isn't an excuse for staying silent.

whether they like it or not, they're celebrities. they have a platform they could use and they repeatedly choose not to use it. i love them but for the past few months i've been beyond disappointed in them.

[buildarocketboys]

New based headcanon: Patrick Verona from 10 things I hate about you is actually an egg

[ellohcee]

Rough sketches for a idea I started brewing a while ago, context under the cut

Jasper watches from the wings as the band performs, a good gaggle of them on an equally eclectic gaggle of instruments. A large group that he’s seen around the club before but never heard sing until today and he’s regretting waiting so long to watch one of their shows. They have such an energy to them, like they’re all just there to have fun playing music together. They range from lightly bouncing feet on some to a couple of the guys towards the back just absolutely cutting loose in a way that Jasper has to give props to.

But there’s one man in particular who’s captured his interest. One of the two lead singers, who seems to glow like the sun itself has come to manifest in the club and outshine every stage light focused on his group.

Next to him, currently oblivious to his spiral, Gwen puffs out a sigh as they wait. “I hate this folksy shit,” she grumbles softly, not sounding too genuinely annoyed about the music itself, but maybe more so just waiting for their rotation to start.

Jasper doesn’t respond, still watching the ginger as he moves with the energy of the group. That’s the thing that really interests him about their band, they don’t just stand in one spot and perform, or even do their own thing, they all move around and weave towards and away from each other, flowing effortlessly in a dance for such a crowded stage. At least when the tone of the song calls for it.

They range from stomp your feet energy to soft, morose tones, and no matter what the singer is performing, Jasper can’t look away from him. His voice is warm, smooth like honey, and it’s during those calmer songs that it can really be distinguished. When the energy softens down to a gentle lull, holding the audience entranced in such a cloud of rapt and hushed attention, it really lets the singers shine. Their voices lend well to each other, harmonizing, both of their tones different but still soft and sweet.

And like the flipping of a switch, the mood shifts suddenly but not at all harsh. They pick one more energetic song for the last of the set, their performance made so enjoyable just for how much fun they seem to have together, ramping the crowd back up.

Once they finish their last song and express thanks and goodnights to the cheering crowd, the band begins to filter off the stage.

The ginger is looking over his shoulder, saying something to one of his band mates as he trots down the steps with a delighted smile, full of that familiar joyful rush of a live performance that Jasper knows well. When he turns his head to look forward, he catches eyes with Jasper and pauses as they stare at each other, the rest of the band filtering around their singer. Jasper inhales slowly through his nose, lost in the man’s eyes, a lovely sea green that catch in a warm glow, his cheeks full of freckles and a flush from exertion and stage lights.

Finally, the man seems to come back to himself and smiles brightly, making Jasper’s heart skip a beat and oh fuck, if he wasn’t already done for he’s definitely a goner now.

“Good luck!” the ginger chirps, before turning to trot after his band, leaving Jasper breathless and all kinds of crushing.

The whole time Gwen watches this interaction curiously, looking between the ginger and her bandmate’s starry-eyed stare, the pieces clicking into place before Jasper can pull himself together.

She suddenly smirks, elbowing Jasper and startling him. “What?” he gasps, breath catching roughly in his throat from the abrupt action.

Gwen’s smirk widens and she clicks her tongue, waggling her eyebrows.

Jasper catches on as he comes out of the trance, his cheeks flushing pink as he laughs, at how knowing her expression is and how quickly she’d gone in for the kill. “Oh shut up!” he grins, finally pulling himself together and following her up onstage as she merely barks out a laugh.

[phagodyke]

i dont pay much attention to global listening stats on spotify cuz i just listen to shit i like but sometimes ill see smth and be like how tf do they have so many/few plays on this??? like my impression of how popular some artists are is so WILDLY disconnected from real life

[thesharktist]

Does anyone know this band?? Miracles of Modern Science ?? They have been one of my FAVORITES for almost a year now like. I think of MOMS and I think of my girlfriend they have such a range. Either the best songs of all time (Dear Pressure) or something INSANE. (Secret Track)

Beautiful 10/10

Another amazing 10/10

10/10 again literally all of their songs are great

Literally so many of these are great

[fappellmoan]

to have just seen a post by chance that was like wow i was actually vibing with a muna song then i realized it’s cause it was a copy of a 1975 song but worse. like wow i can’t believe how badly you should *** sorry what i didn’t say that that’s mean.

[aeolianblues]

UK indie rock band Delays' 2006 album You See Colours, a follow up from 2004's breakthrough debut Faded Seaside Glamour. The album was a slight departure in the band's sound from a more guitar-based sound that to me, fell somewhere between The Stone Roses and The La's more psychedelic, shimmering golden indie, to something more suited to the dancefloor, with funkier beats, more synths, more pop vocals and that synth bass you hear on Valentine. Quite the indie dancefloor tune, hear that chorus! I have to admit, it took me far longer than it should've to work out whether this band had a female vocalist I'd missed, because Greg Gilbert's falsetto is that of a nightingale. It's gone straight into the indie dance playlist I'm maintaining, you know, just in case I was ever asked on the spot to curate an indie night (in a city where that isn't really a thing lol), and I need to be cool and also not bore the attendees.

Of course, that will fail because not enough people know Delays. I personally only found them when their keyboardist guested on an episode of Nevermind The Buzzcocks. It's still a song to shake your shoulders to! The funny thing is, this change in direction from the band was prompted by the other members of the band. Singer and guitarist Greg Gilbert had written most of the songs on the first album, and the band had accumulated about a 100 songs by the time they were going in to record their second. Their keyboardist, his brother Aaron, lost the only demos they had, and so the band were forced to write from scratch. No man, I imagine, can write a 100 songs again, and so Greg was forced to open up the songwriting to other members of the band, and so came in a wider range of influences, taking the band away from the Britpop sound, and placing them firmly within the 00s indie rock music scene of the UK.

Their songs began being used on national television on the football program Match Of The Day, and they even were on Top Of The Pops with this song, Valentine (before the weekly programme eventually shut down in 2006 of poor ratings and became a Christmas annual special). And of course, keys player Aaron Gilbert appeared on Nevermind The Buzzcocks.

Band members eventually drifted apart and got interested in other art projects after 4 albums together, they recorded a few demos again in 2015, but never went on to make much of them.

Greg Gilbert died in 2021 of cancer, so that's the band done, sadly.