Just this morning (a few minutes ago to be exact) I stumbled upon Spinner’s new song of the day, the fantastic OCD GO GO Girls, By rocking trend setters, Lovvers, and I honestly couldn’t be more excited. This is is not, of course, because this band is any good (they are terrible) but because shitty derivative no-fi bands like Lovvers are one of the main reasons behind why I started FNR, and now I have a chance to talk about how awesome they are.
Being the stupid music loving hipster that I am, a few years ago I thought It would be a great idea to move to Brooklyn. All those awesome bands!, all those great all ages venues! Optimism for the future filled my silly little hipster heart, needless to say, I couldn’t have been more wrong. As it turns out, approximately 9/10 bands that play in Brooklyn actually suck. and approximately 1/2 of them are essentially Lovvers.
“But wait dude! Living in Brooklyn is totally still worth it because even if 9/10 bands suck there are like 109480958205 bands, which means that there are a ton of rad ones right?!”
well…kind of. You see, there are a lot of pretty cool bands that come out of BK, but the problem is that there are SO MANY shows every single night, that your chances of seeing a good band (before they’ve blown up, and people are paying attention to where they play) are slim to none. It’s not really any better than if you lived in any other major city in the US with a decent music scene. Basically BK is a total crap shoot, and the only real advantage to living in BK is that you also live in NYC, which means that pretty much every band that does a full US tour will make a stop here, so I’ll stop complaining for a little bit and get back to Lovvers…
Now, this band is called Lovvers, obviously its supposed to be ironic right? I mean, two “V’s”, they are most definitely making fun of wavves right?
Maybe…I imagine the naming of this band went something like this:
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BRO A: “bro, I totally love this new band Wavves, they totally rule”
BRO B: “bro, we should totally be in a Wavves cover band, and misspell the name using two “V’s”, I think that would be totally ironic right?”
BRO A:”yeah….Uh….if people shit on us we can just say we’re trying to be ironic, that’s ironic right?….and its hip to be ironic right?….lets do it!”
BRO B:”this is great, neither of us can write lyrics, so now we can just mute them with fuzz and people wont be able tell how shitty they are”
BRO A:”I’m so stoked dude, lets do this! load up garage band right now!”
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DO SHITTY NO-FI/LO-FI BANDS PISS YOU OFF?
DO YOU FEEL LIKE WRITING GOOD LYRICS IS SO PASSE?
DO YOU THINK ITS TOUGH TO FIND GOOD BANDS IN BROOKLYN?
IRONY?
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Fucking great. Makes me appreciate Detroit a little. I wonder if people are going to start moving to New Jersey now?
hoboken is pretty wild
Just a little thing, Lovvers were around well before Wavves was. Also, although their recorded stuff can be a little frustrating as it’s a bit too try hard. I’d recommend seeing them live as they put on a pretty good show.
You know, it’s ironic. I’m an aging noise rocker (old term) who came in here to see what smug, country / folk-ass supremacist horseshit you had going down and – surprise surprise – I find myself in agreement with you on this subject even though I can’t stand 90% of what you listen to.
Lyrics have really, really taken a dive. They were never much to write home about to begin with, but you could usually count on independent bands of any stripe to offer something approaching poetry on occasion.
Maybe I’m just getting old, but damn, it seems like no one has anything to say anymore. NOW! Of any recent era you’d think NOW would just kick in the side door to a young artists imagination. I guess not. Lyrics are hard, good lyrics are doubly so, but it seems like people aren’t even trying.
Yes, Brooklyn’s bloated music scene is way overrated. Our running joke in Atlanta is that every new group is from Brooklyn even if they’re not (although they usually are).
Ahh well. I’m really not into the music you have here, but you’re spot on in this regard:
If by Noise Rock you mean two bit JAMC buzzing by way of artless 60′s garage retardation, then yes – by all means – fuck this noise rock and fuck it dead. Any time – anywhere, I’ll lend a bullet.
Your pal
Mars
I agree with you.
p.s.
I like a lot of noise rock/music with noise elements. Sonic youth,early modest mouse, pavement, neutral milk hotel, cymbals eat guitars, built to spill, are some of my favorite bands. Its just a catchy name.
this shit sucks.