Jonah Matranga @ Old I

Sounds like a fun lineup — Jonah Matranga (his site is missing the >: EXECUTE cursor), with Daisy Spot and An Angle tonight at the Old Ironsides. I’m not enough of a music nerd to know if this show qualifies as Twee as F-word.

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Author: CoolDMZ

"X-ray vision to see in between / Where's my kimono and my time machine?"

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  4. For you non-hipsters:

    **Emo (music), “emotional hardcore” musical genre, prevalent amongst classic 80s Washington D.C. bands and their descendents.**

    **Twee pop is a type of indie rock that is known for simple, sweet melodies and lyrics, often with jangling guitars. The genre began in 1986, when New Musical Express released C86, a compilation of bands including the Pastels and Primal Scream; see 1986 in music.

    In the United Kingdom, where twee pop was most popular, Sarah Records was home to most of the bands in the field, including Heavenly and the Orchids. In the United States, the movement was championed by K Records out of Olympia, Washington and was headed by the band Beat Happening.

    “Twee”, a baby-talk alteration of “sweet”, is a British English term for something that is overly sweet or knowingly cute.

    The more punk-influenced variants of twee pop are also sometimes referred to as cuddlecore.**

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  5. how sad that neither Matranga nor the guy from An Angle visits the Sac Rag to clear up this twee vs emo argument, but Lester Bangs himself comes back from the dead to put in his 2 cents. clearly we need more of a local presence.

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