![]() ![]() 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. For the first time, we could receive recommendations from people whose ambitions were just as earthbound as ours. 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. They rarely cared for big personalities or the critically acclaimed. 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. ![]() That sincerity has kept many finds from those first days in our rotation today. There wasn’t any need for myth-making or grandiose origin stories you could gather they were happy to be heard at all.Īcts 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. 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. ![]() 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. These blogs documented a time when emo and bedroom pop were viewed as niche in an already marginal scene. They covered communities no one else would, of which only a few acts had even dreamed of crossing over and breaking through.
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