![]() ![]() The problem is that these bedrooms are all cut off from each other. A girl’s bedroom sometimes can be this space of real creativity. It sounds like something a girl made in her bedroom. Kathleen explained in the biographical film The Punk Singer, “I really wanted to start singing directly to women. ![]() There is something special about this recording as it sounds almost voyeuristic. ![]() Some might think that these special, intimate recordings contain the seeds that would eventually bloom into the punk feminist electronic band, Le Tigre. Not to be confused with her current band, The Julie Ruin, the Julie Ruin collection was written, performed, produced, and recorded in Kathleen Hanna’s bedroom, using a $40 drum machine. For the full lo-fi experience, All Hail West Texas, is another standout, thanks in part to the opening track, “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton.” Julie RuinĮven purveyors of the lo-fi scene often overlook the phenomenal Kathleen Hanna’s post-Bikini Kill break-up and pre-Le Tigre formation band, Julie Ruin. One could probably write an entire book on the output and songwriting behind The Mountain Goats, but a good entry point is We Shall All Be Healed, a personal and cutting album. There are also recurring Alpha Couple characters (“Alpha Sun Hat,” “Alpha Rats Nest,” etc) in some of his earliest recordings. Darnielle has lived all over and he has several “Going To” songs, including “Going To Alaska,” “Going To Chino,” “Going To Wisconsin” and others. It wasn’t until the mid-00s that he started to get more autobiographical, with the album We Shall All Be Healed. Moore’s life was further explored in the 2012 documentary, I Am A Genius (And There’s Nothing I Can Do About It. Since then, his profile has risen significantly thanks to his biggest advocate, Ariel Pink, who curated a compilation of his music and invited him on tour. With such a vast body of work to his name, there’s no genre he hasn’t dabbled in, but his mastery of 20th-century pop is evident on tracks like “Here Comes the Summer Again,” and the most recently “Pop Music.” After building up a cult fanbase through his R Stevie Moore Cassette Club, Moore’s music found its way to a larger audience thanks to the advent of the internet. Despite the “outsider artist” tag, Moore’s experience as a gifted arranger put him in a different league. Moore embodied the DIY ethos before punk even existed and self-produced his debut album Phonography in 1976. Moore has been making music since 1968 and has released over 400 albums in his lifetime, including most recently in 2019 with Afterlife. R Stevie MooreĪny list of lo-fi and DIY music has to include the man who pioneered the genre itself, R Stevie Moore, long-considered the godfather of home recording. Tom Waits, Eels, The Flaming Lips, and many other artists have lauded his work and even participated on an album of tribute covers. This was all while Johnston was still a resident of a mental hospital. When Kurt Cobain proclaimed that one of his favorite albums was Yip/Jump Music and was seen wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the Hi, How Are You album cover, it caused a bidding war between labels. With his hand-drawn album covers, his reaching falsetto, and his almost kid toy-sounding organ, Johnston’s songs were instantly charming and had a pop sensibility that couldn’t easily be matched. No discussion of lo-fi tape heroes would be complete without mentioning Daniel Johnston, who made his mark selling cassettes in Austin, Texas. Here, we will try to honor both… Daniel Johnston There are certain artists who come up whenever this genre is discussed, and some that, for some reason, get forgotten. ![]() This is especially true when artists eschew modern home-recording technology the likes of Pro Tools and GarageBand and just simultaneously press Play and Record on an old tape deck. Home taping in the 80s didn’t necessarily kill the record industry, but the cassette format gave a voice to those that the mainstream didn’t always have an ear for. We left this side blank so you can help.” There is something in that statement that captures the outsider nature of recording and mixing on one’s own cassettes. Etched on the blank Side Two of Dead Kennedys’ In God We Trust, Inc cassette tape EP are the words, “Home Taping Is Killing Record Industry Profits. ![]()
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