Cowboys Became Folk Heroes

what a sweet looking guitar

The past however many days have sucked, got a speeding ticket, owe a lot of money, like a full week of work, not getting my student loans, depression, creative slump, you know the deal

let's talk about some good ol' FLORIDA EMO to get me feeling again

I found out about Cowboys Become Folk Heroes through an article about the top 10 best screamo bands from Florida, I was expecting bullshit like A Day To Remember and was pleasantly surprised, here's a link if you're interested

TEN BEST SCREAMO BANDS FROM FLORIDA

Cowboys Became Folk Heroes were a band that began in 1999 in Lakeland, Florida, the only other good thing to come out of Lakeland is Publix, a chain of supermarkets that's only good for their chicken tender subs, other than that, fuck that conservative ass place, no employee discount

(i used to work there, i'd know)

they toured with Latterman and Bright Calm Blue and played shows with about every one of your favorite emo bands, they're criminally underrated, 

I think they also toured with Welcome The Plague Year, hugs, the fiction, and transistor transistor.

They were very young when they played and toured, 17, 18, 19.

I think reading their discography record insert made me want to play in a band and tour more than anything else. 

Nevin from Jiyuna/Autarkeia/Merkit/Plural Being/IFB Records wrote the script on the jacket. which i found out when i met him and started talking about Florida emo bands i enjoyed

Cowboys Became Folk Heroes sound great, chaos, ambience, violin, fuck

they sound like toru okada, at times they sound like iwhaciyy

they're just fucking great

they make my chest swell with better memories

perfect for long fast drives home, just don't get pulled over

DISCOGRAPHY DOWNLOAD

The South

The South were a band from Jacksonville (or maybe it was St. Augustine) Florida. They were active in the early 00's

They were Dead Tank Records's first release, they had a split with Hypatia that got released on Square of Opposition Records

I get stoked on emo when it's from Florida, they play a really neat style of emo.

Really harsh dual vocals, really sick, political stuff, kind of metallic but i'm also just a moron and probably doing a disservice to metal by saying that. 

The coolest thing about the south is how fun they are

"Well guess what you motherfuckers... i love destruction, i self destruct" 

I wish i had pictures or video of them playing but with a name like "the south" i'm sure you can imagine how difficult it is to find anything.
I don't know where or when I first heard them all I know is they're fucking cool and you should listen.

"We spend more time reading record inserts than we spend living our lives" - The South

Sick Pits Bro Sesh 7"  Dead Tank Records

Chomp Chomp Chomp 12" Dead Tank Records

Hypatia/The South split 12" Square of Opposition Records

Vivian K

best band ever

Vivian K are a mathy-emo-punk-garage? band from Florida, they moved to Chicago at some point but are back (i think)

They may as well live on the road though, they tour very often so if you see this while they're still active, totally go to a show or else you're missing out.

They've just released a new album and they're getting the LP soon enough (vinyl turnaround time is so fucking long since yuppies re-popularized it) 

Can we talk about that vinyl bullshit though, it fucking pisses me off that bands who deserve vinyl can't afford it cause people think a Sharknado 3 picture disk will sell, shit kills me.

Anyway, Vivian K are incredible, I remember not liking their stuff when I had first heard it online but after seeing them live in Cape Coral (s/o nice guys pizza) my emotional ass changed my mind. They played "Success is the Best Revenge" the first time I saw them and I damn near cried.

The second time I saw them was at the same place, my band was supposed to play with them but my drummers car broke down last minute (we live like 2 hours apart since i moved to college)

They played songs that aren't out yet and i gotta say i'm very excited for whatever is to come. 

They're on Creep records which to me seemed like Jank replacement (i'm not saying Vivian K don't deserve it i'm just saying that timing was weird) 

(show flier for the show i was supposed to play with them)

Check em the fuck out though they're the sweetest people, see them on tour and buy all their shit

ALSO

it's important to note that they contributed a song to a compilation tape, the proceeds of which go to planned parenthood, and in these troubling times under evangelical christian rule it is very important that we do all we can to support institutions that will struggle in the next four, and god forbid (lol irony) eight years.

Links are attached to all the names and whatever (you know, the highlighted stuff)

Here's some articles and things

NERDIST WRITE UP

THEY STEAL ALL THEIR RIFFS (kidding)

tbh tho that pile riff is very similar and both songs make me happy as heck at that part

Malon

Reverie (2012)

Malon, (rhymes with alone) were a band from San Diego that were active from 2012 to 2013 (i think).

I found out about them when i heard flowers taped to pens cover "your invitation"  by malon.

Upon spending too much time on the internet i found out that Connie (FTTP, Avari, Meryl Streaker, Rene Descartes, Seeyouspacecowboy, S//A Records) was friends with someone from Malon in high school. (is it weird that i know that, probably) 

Malon are the reason i finally watched requiem for a dream (they sample it a bunch and the album art for Portraits of Dying is from the movie). 

They've got a lot of heavy shit and a lot of not heavy shit. I'm bad at describing bands.

What i like the most about malon are how sincere they sound.
My favorite Malon album is Reverie, (pictured above)

Under a Red Sky is a beautiful song and fucks me up a bit every time i listen. I miss hearing them for the first time and being floored listen after listen. Not many bands do that to me anymore, i think i've become jaded, maybe i was just a more emotional person at 15-16.

I miss those days.

I posted some Malon song on youtube and have been pestered by people wanting the files ever since. I actually made a really good friend that way and I miss him dearly. 

(free connor)

Malon//Demos (2012)

Malon//Avari Split (2012)

Malon//Reverie (2012)

Malon//Portraits of Dying (2013)

hey if tracklisting is fucked up for anything i post ever please let me know and i'll send it to you,

i'm new to mediafire and whatnot so yeah bare w me (bear?) (idfk)

Horse Jumper of Love

hills are nice

I felt pretty alright the past two days and then I inevitably crashed, luckily i found the soundtrack to a crash in horse jumper of love. Band is pretty neat, I only listened to the first album and dug it a lot.

NPR and Pitchfork both called them 'syrupy' so i'll try my best not to.

They're just good and slow and nice, well written words, nice sounding voice,

everything's interesting.

All i know about them is they're from boston

I'd post a mediafire link but considering this band is active I don't feel right giving their shit to people for free. Even though i don't think files should be paid for.

The album art to their self titled makes me think of the time i killed a spider and felt a lot of regret out of nowhere for killing something that was just trying to live,

you ever feel like that spider? me too

Here's their bandcamp

Horse Jumper of Love

Age Sixteen

Age Sixteen doing the damn thing

Age Sixteen were from Baltimore, they started in 2008 and lasted two years before disbanding. 

To me they sound like some of мища's (they were also from baltimore) stuff, only not lofi. I don't know who wrote the lyrics for Age Sixteen songs but they're incredibly well written and i totally ripped off their shit for some poetry assignments in high school. 

A little while ago COUCHPUNX records from Italy and Poison Hemlock records from the US were going to release a discography on vinyl but it never happened and i'm still waiting for it. (though i just checked COUCHPUNX's facebook and it's still goin down.

I promise to get it and post a picture here if i'm financially alright at the time. 

Age Sixteen put out a summer tour video and a winter tour video and I saw that for the first time and it made me want to tour so badly, they're not even that exciting i don't know why they got me so hype, In it they play w My Head In Clouds and Midwest Pen Pals so that's pretty cool.

Inside Jokes by MWPP is actually the album that put me on to emo, I remember the night I heard it, I sat on my roof and waited for the sun to come up before passing out all day, god i miss being 15.
Side note, the winter tour video was in 2009 and i can't believe that was 8 years ago

Anyway here are the tour videos ! (side note, upon searching "age sixteen summer tour video" on google all you get is the Drake//Future summer sixteen tour lmaoo)

Age Sixteen Discography (link) (does not include their cover of sunny day real estate)

Deers!

wooh!

I woke up today at three and decided to get some film developed, ended up skating for a minute and ended up listening to this kid who i know for a fact is not vegan, tell people that he was vegan, i hate parties,i have a wicked sore throat that's keeping me from falling asleep, on top of the usual insomnia, life sucks, anyway ANYWAY
Deers!
Deers! were a band from sacramento california (i think) and were active in 2009. I don't know how long Deers! lasted and I don't know when they started but i do know that they're kick ass. Screechy, passionate vocals over some really cool riffs. I think they've got the best breakdowns an emo band can have, those basslines kill me every time. I know they played a show with Touche Amore, which is pretty cool to me, that band seems to keep it real, i know jeremy fuccs with a lot of emo. Plus Elliot was in a powerviolence band called Duke Nukem Forever way back when.
I wrote a riff one time and realized it was a part of 'parts two and three'
A year or so ago i found a video of Deers! playing live and lost it until recently so I'm gonna throw that wherever blogspot plops the videos (i'm bad with computers) My favorite song is the last on their discography cassette, it's called "sorry i'm just a little" though i'm pretty sure there's more to that title that's what it's called on youtube. That song gets to me.


Here's a link to their discography cassette, i'm unsure if the tracklisting is fucked up, i just made a mediafire to upload stuff today


Discography Cassette 

Boy Problems

"thanks for the granola bars, condoms, and water"

Boy Problems were fucking incredible, very few bands make me feel the way they do, and most of the bands who come close have members of boy problems in them (Snowing, Boys & Sex, Harrison Bergernon, Make Me) I'd drop hella cash to fund a boy problems 7". In my opinion they're one of the few bands allowed to get away with a "Wooh!' in a song (Deers! and Glocca Morra are two others) I think Boy Problems is the perfect version of what Make Me was trying to do.

I had an acoustic emo project (i know it was fucking awful) where I ripped off the chorus of  "I Hate Kevin!" for one song, I thought no one would notice, oh well. I think my 3rd tumblr url was thewordsiwrapyouin too. 

I've only ever found one video of them playing live and it just makes me wish i could play a guitar and bass like that, also makes me really want to be in a band with two people only dedicated to vocals.

Boy Problems are one of my favorite bands, here's that video and some links to download their stuff.

(i try to post bands that i have records/tapes/shirts/blah from but i've only known one person on facebook with the summer tour cd, i think it's rare i dunno though)

Boy Problems in Vermont

Links

Summer Tour Songs

Lautrec, Osceola, The Reptillian, Boy Problems (4-way split)

You Once Were

it wouldn't let me post this at the bottom

told you i'm bad with computers

You Once Were (link)

You Once Were in Miami, FL

You Once Were are fucking sweet, as a band and people. The first time I saw them was in a squat in Little Haiti and they blew me away. There was no AC in the place and we were relying on a little lamp and some christmas lights for all of our sight. At some point during their set someone tripped over the chords and unplugged all the lights and that was right when

 it was getting heavy, shit was spooky. They drove from Savannah, GA all the way to Miami for one show, they didn't even 

hang around, just headed right home after the night was done (which is fucking crazy considering that drive). A month or two 

later my band (sorta) toured with them from Tampa to Savannah where we played on halloween to a house full of SCAD kids.

 That was the best set I ever played, i'm so hurt no one filmed it.

Anyway, they sound like state faults (i wish that band still did stuff) and everyone in the band is a really cool person.

Alex plays in ten thousand bands (i'm blanking on a lot of them but here's The Anxiety Junkies) 

Franklin plays in (Mayfair) (shout out ozona records) and does cool art shit that i don't understand

Paul plays in some other bands i'm pretty sure (i'm blankin) but is also the best human to grace the earth

Alex is also making a monster movie called The Green Giant of Zanzuki 

Check their shit out, all of it, support Alex's film

THE GREEN GIANT OF ZANZUKI (link)

(i'm running this thing to give the time i spend on my ass some purpose, i spend a lot of time on my ass doing nothing) 

Heroin

Heroin s/t 1997 (link)

Heroin started in 1989 in San Diego, their debut 7" was Gravity Records debut release as well. I don't have too much to say, music speaks for itself, my favorite Heroin song has to be "[Untitled Track]" which i've also heard is called "destination" but because i heard it first as the [Untitled Track] that's what i refer to it as. 

I wish more bands played in this style nowadays. I'm an idiot and don't know enough about guitar to mimic the style with my band. 

I found a heroin 12" at thrillhouse records in San Francisco, found a lot of other cool shit there too, I left a copy of Cryonics by Hot Cross there cause i found something i didn't recognize with the Ebullition stamp on it, and another record with the Level Plane logo on it. Off Minor is a better band than hot cross anyway.

Maybe you could find that copy of Cryonics there still.

the record i found

inserts and advertisements

Sophies Floorboard has a zip of their discography, along with a much better description of their music

SOPHIES FLOORBOARD LINK

hope you dig, tune in next time for more ramblings