ThatвЂ™s my mistake for never having seen them live before.Д®lvis Depressedly took the untethered energy of Teen SuicideвЂ™s performance and channeled it into a coherent set of slowcore, which sometimes did still get pretty loud. The whole night he kept engaging us, clearly enjoying his time onstage and completely shattering my image of the sad rock duo that their name and music had implied. Before Elvis Depressedly came out, I noticed that they sent out a cute little tweet reading: вЂњhi IвЂ™m high.вЂќ When they took their places, lead vocalist Mathew Lee Cothran went up to his mic to ask us how we were doing, slurring his words. I was very much looking forward to the final act, which would take us to a tamer side of DIY.

Their lead singer mumbled through his audience small talk, with empty appreciation and tangible self-loathing sounding more like a Seinfeld skit. During their performance about a year ago, Ought briefly stopped playing to tell people to be careful- but to be fair, that sort of rough housing doesnвЂ™t quite fit the Ought brand of thoughtful heavy art rock. I donвЂ™t attend many DIY punk performances at the Echo, but I have been subjected to the mosh pit before. If they played longer shows, Teen Suicide could probably rival the lengthy setlists from even The Ramones, who of course based their entire discography on songs that are under three minutes long.Д«y the end of their set, most of the audience had squeezed itself into the ten feet or so directly in front of the stage, creating a solid mass of people thrashing to the music. Their set was hardcore, assaulting the speakers and my eardrums with the noise that was created from playing a few guitars and drums at max volume and max speed. The bassist was curiously front and center while the lead singer and backup vocals flanked him on either side. DollangangerвЂ™s sound is perhaps closer to the emo side of the spectrum of DIY bands than I would have liked, but canвЂ™t blame a girl for doing her thing she did more than warm up the crowd, convincing me that she was actually the third headliner, and not an opener as she was billed.ДЄs for the two main acts, Teen Suicide took the stage first after Nicole Dollanganger. The house filled up as soon as she stepped onto the stage, everyone clearly as excited or possibly moreso than they were for either of the two headliners. The Echo became a DIY heaven.Дollanganger opened the night with crisp, booming guitars and a loud crowd to match.

They returned for a sold-out show on Wednesday night, on a summer tour with Teen Suicide and Nicole Dollanganger to support the California DreaminвЂ™ EP they released in June. It's not just forbidden due to racial stigma: It's an egregious example of rape.The Echo has hosted North Carolina indie rockers Elvis Depressedly many times, and thatвЂ™s just in the past two years. Overall, the nature of this song makes it seem a white guy in rock 'n' roll is amused with the idea of having what was considered at the time as forbidden sex with a black woman. The other two vignettes in the song delve into themes of forbidden love: a wife and a houseboy and a mom with teenage schoolboys, the latter of which adds the problem that young men aren't of consenting age. Hear him whip the women just around midnight,' Jagger sings. Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright. 'Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields. There's a catchy chorus with a sensory analogy to the sweetness of brown sugar, but one can hardly divorce the food itself from the women being sung about in the first verse: Both elements of rape and anti-black misogyny are clear in the song 'Brown Sugar,' which opens with a verse that shares a story about a slave master abusing and raping underage black women, who are slaves.

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