There's No Safety In Numbers
you've fucked the scene up, that's what
Journal created:
on 12 July 2004 (#3790742)
Updated:
on 5 December 2006
Name:
press play and keep headphones on.
Location:
Singapore
Membership:
Open
Posting Access:
All Members , Moderated
WHAT'S THIS COMMUNITY ABOUT THEN?
Okay, cowboy. Over here, we dont rate how you look. Or what sorta shit you listen to. We review music. The latest albums some band put out.
We review shows. If you have pictures of any show you went to, you post them here and you talk about the pit or something. We post show flyers.
If your band is playing a show, you tell us where and when and how to get there.
If you're putting up shows yourself and you have a couple of extra slots, you tell us.
We like to know about some new band that came out. We like to be introduced to some good shit. Eversince Alexisonfire turned soft, there is this sudden desperation to discover more stuff and not rely on hype.
If you need a guitarist/drummer/bassist, you post your ad here.
If you hate a band, you tell us why.
You post urls to mp3s here so that other people can listen also.
If your zine just came up with a new issue, advertise it here. We'd like to see your covers also and please include ordering info and stuff, as usual. Like I said, we love zines.
If your distro just came up with some new stuff in stock, tell us.
There is no such thing as shitty music unless I decide to be bitchy one day and say it is so. However, I draw the line at N Sync and Jessica Simpson and her sister who tries very hard to look and sound like the next Avril Lavinge who in turn is trying to sound like the next Alanis Morissette.
Canadians. (That was a joke.)
By the way, we think Avril Lavigne is cute. If you hate her because of nothing except that it's the in thing to hate her, fuck you.
The whole point of this community is to share opinions and ideas.
Yeah rules suck but I got to make sure this place doesnt go haywire. So...
RULES
- Creative criticism is okay but being an asshole isnt. I will ban your fucken ass if you try something funny.
- No promoting of rating communities here. I mean it.
- No homophobic remarks. Your moderator is a lesbian.
- You can rant and rave but please put it behind an lj-cut if it's gonna look like an essay.
- You can post pictures of yourself although I dont really see why you need to do that.
That's all.
Have fun,
Trent
This community is mainly about introducing the Singapore scene but if you're from elsewhere, that's fine. We can find out about each other and exhange music, etc.
The featured band of this month in our Listening Post is Gray Lines Of Perfection.
Let's take a turn towards hardcore, shall we? Currently on the Stab Here label, Gray Lines Of Perfection is beautiful hardcore that is really, if you pay close attention, a mish mash of synth and acoustic post rock with melodic metallic riffs that sometimes border on post-hardcore and then sometimes swerving to doom/death. Screamy vocals and sing-alongs threatening to burst your record player and bring on the mosh. For fans who like diversity in their hardcore - harder hardcore that you dont normally expect from a Christian band. (STOP THINKING NORMA JEAN!) They're currently on the THE LOVE HOPE STAB WINTER TOUR with The Dead Season. Check their stuff out. Intense as fuck.
Band: Gray Lines Of Perfection
Origin: Freehold, New Jersey
Genre: Hardcore
Website: http://www.graylinesofperfection.com/
Mp3s: Listen here.
Show Dates: Check here.
The Anti-Rockstar Rockstar is a mini zine that focuses on the more hypocritical aspects of the scene, any scene, and what most kids in the scene won't want to admit: the fashionxcore craze, elitism, music, art, rants and reviews. The zine will be available for international order at the end of the year. More updates will be posted in the community soon.
For info on how to get your band/distro/zine involved, click: here.
LINKS FOR YOU TO CHECK OUT WHAT'S GOING ON AT MY SIDE:
http://www.lioncitydiy.com (DIY with a vengeance)
http://thrashsteadysyndicate.cjb.net/ (Trash/grind/fast/hardcore and everything else in between distro label)
http://www.baybeats.net (official site for the annual outdoor hardcore/emo/punkrock music event with a 10 000++ turnout)
http://www.wakemeupmusic.com (distro/record label)
http://www.awake.com.sg/ (label and production company)
http://localmusichere.blogspot.com (site listings of local bands)
http://www.audioreload.com/ (local music website/forum)
http://www.soundschemers.com/ (indie show organizers)
http://pressplay.cjb.net (hardcore/punk/emo/indie show organizers)
http://licensed2revolution.cjb.net/ (ska/punk/hardcore show organizers)
To find out more about the local scene in general you can check out
singascene. adayinblackandwhite, after school knife fight, air, alexisonfire, amanda woodward, ambeon, anberlin, armor for sleep, as i lay dying, at the drive-in, belle and sebastian, benton falls, brand new, bright calm blue, bright eyes, camber, chapter 14, charles bronson, circle takes the square, city of caterpillar, coheed and cambria, conjure one, cursive, dashboard confessional, dead poetic, dear arson, deathcab for cutie, denali, desaparecidos, division of laura lee, dyfectra, elliott, emery, engine down, everytime i die, from autumn to ashes, funeral for a friend, gauge means nothing, glassjaw, godspeed you black emperor!, hooverphonic, horse the band, hot cross, hot water music, iggy pop, imbroco, interpol, jeff buckley, joy division, kodan armada, last days of april, lovedrug, mae, mineral, murder by death, muse, my precious, my squared circle, nitro mega prayer, pavement, pedro the lion, planes mistaken for stars, poison the well, pop unknown, pretty girls make graves, prettythequickblackeyes, rifles at recess, saetia, scissor sisters, sleater-kinney, sparta, stop it!!, sunny day real estate, team dresch, the (international) noise conspiracy, the bled, the blood brothers, the butchies, the chiodos bros, the cure, the december drive, the faint, the fiction, the get up kids, the good life, the hope conspiracy, the manic street preachers, the mars volta, the one am radio, the postal service, the refused, the stiff, the velvet underground, this beautiful mess, thursday, transistor transistor, tribe 8, twodeadsluts onegoodfuck, underoath, welcome the plague year, you & i, zines
