Hooting@the Blowfish is a new band that is coming out with a lot of sweet mp3s and getting lots of coverage on the pitchfork zine.
They seem to be a multiracial band, appealing to black people, indie people, alt people, and mainstreamers.
It seems like they just want to promote chill vibes to any1 looking to chill, and they seem to be one of the largest ‘chill wave’ bands on the planet. It seems like they have totally transcended the now defunct ‘glo-fi’ genre.
As you can see by their post-modern album cover, Cracked Rearview is surely going to change the way that music + album art are created for the rest of time.
I think that they will appeal to both young and old people.
Here is a video for their hit song ‘Only Wanna Be With You’. This is a song about vulnerability & admitting that ur stuck with some1, and some1 is stuck with u. Sorta like that 1 Huey Lewis song.
It seems like with this song, they have transcended all genres. They are rock, chill, bro rock, country, and even ‘music for black people.’
The lead singer, “hootie” seems to be emulating the Tiger Woods aesthetic, possibly sponsored b Nike.
The band seem like they are all very good friends. Like they can hang out at interracial watering holes, such as Chili’s and Applebee’s (but not McDonald’s).
I think that this is their ‘press photo’ that magazines use when they blogwrite about them.
Here is the song ‘Let Her Cry’, a video about love, loss, and letting ’some dumb bitch’ die alone.
I am excited about the Pitchfork magazine picking up on this band. I think that with the right amount of blog buzz, and coverage from magazines and Pitchforks, they will be around for a long time to come.
When I hear Hooting@the_blowfish, it makes me happy, as if I am actually experiencing the feeling that Louie Armstrong felt when he wrote the song ‘What a Wonderful World’, which is actually about a utopian music scene where all good music rises to the top, no matter what the members of the band look like, or what their aesthetic is. A lot of people say that the music industry is ‘in the shitter’, but I honestly believe these next 10 years are going to be the ‘Golden Age’ of Pop + Indie music.
Please friend this band on myspace, so that if they get big, we can say that we wrote about them first, and found out about them because of blogs.
http://www.myspace.com/hootieandblowfish
Do you think this band will ‘make it’, or will they experience a ‘backlash’ if they get to popular?
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I think this is the worst post you’ve ever written.
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//////////Reply by fat
//////////Posted July 29th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
@fart, agreed
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//////////Reply by Old Grant Hill
//////////Posted July 30th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
@fat fart,
Only if it’s opposite day, y’all.
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so first it hurts
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//////////Reply by neezy
//////////Posted July 29th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
@neezy, owned
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fwepst
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zomg now i can tell my frans i heard bout this band b4 NE1 else.
thanks carles….
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I love it when you get excited about something crls!
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‘jesus’
just got a text message from my bff4evrbro
he just ‘lost his virginity’ to some broad
what do i text back?
feel ‘proud’ or something
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted July 30th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
@buttercup, this is stupid.
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//////////Reply by buttercup
//////////Posted July 30th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
‘true’ story
still haven’t texted him back yet
might say ‘niceeee’
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3/10
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i was conceived to hootie n blowtorch, crls.
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they went to high school down the street from where I grew up. miss u hootie.
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they were kinda in friends and now they are kinda in the first HR post bad enough to spur me to leave a comment.
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Carles I know you can do better than this
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted July 30th, 2009 at 8:49 am
@carles dad, kinda thnk this is ‘as good as it gets’
love hearing abt new musics
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carles why did you take down the news story about american appy from your top links?
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carles why u gotta h8 on p4k all day?
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cooties and the no,bitch!
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is this post sarchastic?
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//////////Reply by kutelilaltgrrl
//////////Posted July 30th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
hmmm. are u ‘fucking stupid’? was ur post ’sarchastic’? s000 confused. what vile trickery is this?
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//////////Reply by FUCKADUMBBROAD2NIGHT
//////////Posted July 31st, 2009 at 12:14 am
shut the fuck up.. wanna trade pix
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//////////Reply by FUCKADUMBBROAD2NIGHT
//////////Posted July 31st, 2009 at 12:16 am
*sarcastic
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//////////Reply by kutelilaltgrrl
//////////Posted July 31st, 2009 at 12:58 am
which part was sarcastic? fucking MEN. ’so confusing’
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lil hashbrowns
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Carles, fuck tha haters man, keep doin what you doin. honestly i found this hilarious. and you can write about whatever you want and or however you feel, this is YOUR blog isn’t it? for those of you who think you can do better, go for it, start your own blog and see how that turns out..well you probably did but yeah.
THIS SHITS HILARIOUS HAHA
i think a lot of you are taking these posts WAY to seriously.
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worst. post. ever.
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blackfail
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carlypoo–and i hate to give negative feedback–I think you needed 2 do one more line of coke to pull off this post.
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carls is just responding to P4k trying to coin ‘glo-fi’ as a term for the latest wave of bloggable chill electronic music (chill wave). i found it funny yall!
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//////////Reply by butter team
//////////Posted July 30th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
@shauny, i think stereofork actually called it bro-fi, just saying
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how does it feel when u ‘fail,’ crls?
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hahahaha
hootie won an MTV award in the 90s, right?
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hilarious. i think this is a great post
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hahaha
super funny
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Who tucks in band t-shirts? Since when was that ever done? Anyway, Hootie aren’t indie, they’re Classical Rock.
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//////////Reply by ALTbromosexual
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 7:38 am
gh, I see today is the first day you’ve ever read this blog.
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I hear that alanis chick is gonna be really big too.
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Carles, this meme is stale. It was funny the first time, but now it’s not. I get it. It’s a 90s band, except it’s 2k9.
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this meme is funny every time. would also work with Bush, Hole, the Bush-Holes, Green Day Dookie.
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Screamie and the Fistfrogs
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Damn Carles, you’ve ‘fallen off’ hella hard. I think maybe you should retire ‘for real’ and just start writing novels like Tao Lin or whatever. Damn.
‘There is no God but Carles and Tao Lin is His prophet.’
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good post
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sorry, I missed click the fist time around. Didn’t mean to have a reply to fake email address.
Have you done this before as it’s stated by your readers ?
Cause it’s the first time I read you doing this : promoting a band from the Victorian era as an up-and-coming act. And for the choice of band, it’s a nice try. I suspect that not many of the dumb people you portray (the relevant ones), know abt them. I don’t say they’re your readers because I don’t know what makes up your readership. It could be much larger, including more culture and history knowing people.
If this is a repeat act, too bad. But I havent seen the previous choices. Best bet is to put on a band that still has a potential dark side despite the fame. Of korse I dont mean to bad pun the singer in Hootie here.
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AHHhahahahahahaha. That was funny.
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