They covered communities no one else would, of which only a few acts had even dreamed of crossing over and breaking through. These blogs documented a time when emo and bedroom pop were viewed as niche in an already marginal scene. We’ll say it proudly: We love emo music! We love twee! Whether it was doing a deep-dive on the scene’s history or checking out what new bands Sophie’s Floorboard had posted, that feeling of uncovering it all felt like an accomplishment. If you wanted to learn more about them and what they do, all you had to do was find a contact form and ask.īlogspot gave us music that demanded we make it too one day. There wasn’t any need for myth-making or grandiose origin stories you could gather they were happy to be heard at all. Acts like the Love of Palatazo, Madeline Ava, Marietta, and Pants Yell! would define the sort of project we’d want to be in one day.
That sincerity has kept many finds from those first days in our rotation today. They were largely archiving the lives of kids who seemed to not have anything better to do - who were gonna be hanging in the basement anyway, so they might as well write some tunes. They rarely cared for big personalities or the critically acclaimed. It was that lack of pretense that made Blogspot a place we could lose a few hours in, absorbing the stories of basements we’d dream of seeing and the histories of people we’d swear we’d meet. For the first time, we could receive recommendations from people whose ambitions were just as earthbound as ours. From Sophie’s Floorboard, we’d move on to Pukekos, BJ Rubin’s one stop shop for the perfect combo of not-yet-canonical indie and Brooklyn’s rising stars.
#Radiohead discography logspot archive#
A personal archive run by someone named Kevin, the blog was an endless library of full discography downloads and short descriptions of US-based emo and hardcore bands. A majority of our discoveries until then had been through semi-collegiate radio stations, Pitchfork, or the newspaper reviews of Speedy Ortiz’s Major Arcana we requested our moms send to us while we spent the summer at camp. At the same time, it was intensely personal. A blog-hosting service lacking any comprehensive design capabilities, it was already a forgotten place when we arrived - isolated and without community, primarily populated by dead mediafire links and long inactive emails. We spent most nights that year googling “album name zip,” searches which would time and time again lead us to one website, Blogspot.īlogspot kinda sucked. We were the annoying indie kids who didn’t quite get that music wasn’t a personality yet. Connor was driving around Wisconsin, exiting his Radiohead phase, now obsessing over Bright Eyes instead - his first deep dive into the discography of a DIY band. ” They were 17 years old, finishing up high school on Long Island, and largely ignorant of the vibrant house shows bands like Oso Oso were playing a few towns over. Around the year 2014, Jordan stumbled upon their first contemporary DIY release, Bethlehem Steel’s “ Grow Up.
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