It’s just like a “idk it’s just a feeling”. Who is wearing their heart the most on their sleeve? Who is saying the thing we think but don’t say? And like within that, at least with men, there was no talk about like how that is performed through the music and is accomplishing its goal. When this band was young, or even before, I didn’t really think of it but pop/rock bands are in a way an effort to appear the most real. But the realness aspect is an interesting one for me. It’s a good model for singing along with peeps, feeling lost in the sound and I don’t bash it. The performance aspect is sort of stagnant. The result is, in my opinion, a watering down of both fronts. To me, it’s a trick and sort of a good one. They sort of straddle this line of performance and “real” that leaves the viewer kind of confused as to what it actually is. I think there is a sort of silliness with guitar rock bands. This is something 2011 me would have been like disgusted with. The reality of that sort of eased me into realizing that as much as we are just *mocking voice* a coupla dudes making music, we are incapable of separating our art, our politics, and like even the way we conduct ourselves on social media from the aspect of that we are always a business selling ourselves to you, as listeners. But now I pay my rent (in a cheap as heck collective house in Worcester) and could probably afford more, which is tight. Idk it’s just like how business stuff works. My reported income from 2014 was maybe like $600, which was only reported because it’s a third of our total profit for the year. 2015 was the first time we actually paid ourselves anything from doing this. I was trying to listen more and speak less.
I certainly turned more inward this year which I feel like I needed. So while I have done one of these the past two years, I almost didn’t this year. Jul 8: Birmingham, AL Desert Island Supply Co Jun 13: Bloomington, IN The Void w/ Nice Try Jun 11: Oklahoma City, OK 89th Street Collective Jun 4: Los Angeles, CA Echoplex w/ Modern Baseball, Joyce Manor, Thin Lips Jun 3: Fresno, CA Mia Cuppa Caffe’ w/ I Kill Cameron Jun 2: San Francisco, CA Bottom Of The Hill May 27: Omaha, NE Milk Run w/ See Through Dresses
MIA CUPPA FRESNO CA FREE
May 20: Burlington, VT Signal Kitchen w/ Free Cake For Every Creature Summer tour with Told Slant, Loone, Bellows!! Tickets here!
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