Fame, fatal fame.

Hey, Astrozombie, you fucking fuck, is that you in Wired??

FTFA:

Apple’s GarageBand app for iPad makes music creation so simple that a band produced an entire album with it in just two weeks.

The Ultramods, an independent punk duo, recently released its album Underwear Party. The band composed and recorded everything in the GarageBand iPad app including vocals, virtual lead guitar, bass guitar and drums.

posted by unSane (15 comments total)

Yep.
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:26 PM on April 4, 2011

Aw, c'mon. More deets, dude.
posted by unSane at 7:45 PM on April 4, 2011

We're the first band to make an album entirely using GarageBand on the iPad, so I do what I always do -- I sent out press releases. WIRED called me this morning and we talked for about half an hour. And now I am the subject of a torrent of hipster hate in the WIRED comments section. Which is fine -- I do look like a hipster, and some people just don't like that, and my album is the product of an iPad, so it's not going to sound like a studio album, and my songs are, as one reviewer put it on iTunes, just me screaming obscenities over some music. It's not going to be to everybody's tastes.

It's funny though. For one brief, shining moment, I feel like the most dangerous man in American music. But the Web moves pretty fast and I'll probably be forgotten tomorrow. After all, who remembers my and Cortex's Stephen Slater song?
posted by Astro Zombie at 8:09 PM on April 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

Oh man, that is a ridiculous amount of hate for just a nice piece of exposure. And the free mp3 is super sweet. The "raters gonna rate" tweet on your twitter made me LOL, if that helps.
posted by Corduroy at 9:01 PM on April 4, 2011

On the other hand, if you don't get that sort of reaction, there's a real chance you're not playing punk rock.
posted by Astro Zombie at 4:41 AM on April 5, 2011 [3 favorites]

I didn't even read the comments, Astro, so I totally missed all that.

Fuck them, the fucking fucks!
posted by unSane at 5:08 AM on April 5, 2011

Thanks, Unsane. On the other hand, a lot of people rushing to heap contempt on Rebecca Black doesn't seem to have done her any harm. I wonder if this is just the way of the web now -- the trolls, threadshitters, and people who define themselves by the quality of their unconsidered dismissal have taken over.
posted by Astro Zombie at 5:30 AM on April 5, 2011

i've been down on the bottom
of a whirlpool of hipster hate
these days, man, on the internet
i guess it's simply fate
but i'm carryin' on with my iPad
don't care what the haters say
and i'm crankin' up my Garage Band
for another little song today
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:16 PM on April 5, 2011 [2 favorites]

That's fucking glorious, my friend.
posted by Astro Zombie at 6:20 PM on April 5, 2011

Nice work dude.
posted by dobie at 10:04 AM on April 7, 2011

Sometimes snark on the internet bums me out, but those comments gave me wings.
posted by dobie at 10:06 AM on April 7, 2011

AZ- if you're still following this thread, I'd be really interested in seeing your press release. I always stay away from them out of fear of Doing Them Wrong... you clearly know how to do them properly.
posted by COBRA! at 12:43 PM on April 13, 2011

Here it is.
posted by Astro Zombie at 4:20 PM on April 17, 2011

Thanks, man.
posted by COBRA! at 4:50 PM on April 18, 2011

Nobody's watching this thread anymore, but just wanted to say those trax rock balls.
posted by digitalprimate at 4:09 PM on May 12, 2011