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NSSTomato  ·  3060 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 11, 2015

We Were Promised Jetpacks and Modern Baseball. Tiny Moving Parts is opening for Modern Baseball which is pretty cool too.

    Also, powerlifting is awesome. Therefore, you're awesome.

Yes! Haha





galen  ·  3059 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm trying to see WWPJ on this tour too! They're coming to ATX right in the middle of the week I'll be home :)

How did you hear about them?

NSSTomato  ·  3059 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a good question. I think I heard them first on some random playlist on 8tracks and then started following them on Spotify. It's been awhile.

Bit of a bummer they're having a show in the middle of the week for you but one lost night of sleep isn't the end of the world.

galen  ·  3059 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Bit of a bummer they're having a show in the middle of the week for you but one lost night of sleep isn't the end of the world.

I mean, I'll be on Thanksgiving break, so I'd probably be up that late anyway! I have a tendency to stay up until 4am when I don't have obligations the next day.

user-inactivated  ·  3060 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Huh. I've not heard any of those bands. I'm gonna check them out on Youtube now.

NSSTomato  ·  3060 days ago  ·  link  ·  

WWPJ is more approachable(?) I would check out It's Thunder and It's Lightning by them. And for Modern Baseball I'd recommend really anything off their Sports album See Ya, Sucker might be your best bet. I feel like the folk punk genre doesn't appeal to many.

user-inactivated  ·  3060 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I feel like the folk punk genre doesn't appeal to many.

You're right. Defiance Ohio, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra, Ramshackle Glory, Beans on Toast, The Violent Femmes, This Bike is Pipebomb, The Whole Camel, Stick and Poke, The Taxpayers and many others are all talentless hacks and no one should listen to them. ;)

Yeah. That's right. I just name dropped a bunch of bands to show off my hipster cred. Wanna fight about it? (Please say "no" bro. I don't even lift.)

Edit: Also, if you're on reddit, you should check out r/folkpunk. It's a great way to discover new artists.

ButterflyEffect  ·  3059 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Awesome list of bands. NSSTomato I'm hoping to catch Modern Baseball, at least. Both bands are coming through here on tour in the next week and I might be willing to give up a night of sleep to make it happen (work at 5am is terrible).

Dammit, wish I worked with anybody who had even a somewhat similar interest in music.

NSSTomato  ·  3059 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    (work at 5am is terrible).

I feel you on that. I'll have to be going in then as well after Modern Baseball. Initially it was between driving to Phoenix for Born Ruffians or staying in town for MB. I'll take the extra hour or two of sleep though.

Not sure if the same bands are going to be opening for MB in your city but they're great as well. Definitely worth losing some sleep over.

user-inactivated  ·  3058 days ago  ·  link  ·  

god me too. going to mitski by myself next week because I'm not really sure how to explain mitski to people who are music indifferent

also i feel like it would be an insult to her to bring one of those people

ButterflyEffect  ·  3058 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are you seeing her with Palehound and PWR BTTM? Because honestly both of those bands are near her level. Especially Palehound. Love Ellen.

user-inactivated  ·  3057 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes. That's good to know, I'll do my due beforehand.

NSSTomato  ·  3060 days ago  ·  link  ·  

High five to that great band list! And yeah people shouldn't listen to them so I can claim to be more hipster. I like that haha.

But seriously some of the looks I've gotten from friends after trying to introduce them to this genre made me start putting out a general warning each time.

user-inactivated  ·  3060 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    But seriously some of the looks I've gotten from friends after trying to introduce them to this genre made me start putting out a general warning each time.

I feel you on that. My wife actually listens to more punk than I do and even she thinks some of this stuff is a bit out there. That said, a lot of my friends are huge music fans and Folk Punk is a great bridge genre. It allows me to slowly introduce punk to my friends who are more into country, blues, and bluegrass and it allows me to introduce country, blues, and bluegrass to my friends who like punk. It really helps that both Punk and Americana music have a lot in common thematically, as they're both genres mainly by and about the working class.