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Good Khruangbin profile

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dougjwray

Jul 20, 2005
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Today's New York Times Magazine has a very good article about them, if anyone's interested.
I know now how to pronounce their name: "krung-bin." And we learn that Laura Lee hasn't changed the strings on her bass since the band formed in 2010.
Before the band formed, "she was studying art history, and would later teach math to third graders."
We all know that her bass is a vintage white SX Jazz Bass copy. One of my main basses is a vintage white SX P-Bass copy, purchased new in 2009. I like to imagine that hers and mine were from the same batch!
Anyway, I recommend the article.
 
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dougjwray said:
Today's New York Times Magazine has a very good article about them, if anyone's interested.
I know now how to pronounce their name: "krung-bin." And we learn that Laura Lee hasn't changed the strings on her bass since the band formed in 2010.
Before the band formed, "she was studying art history, and would later teach math to third graders."
We all know that her bass is a vintage white SX Jazz Bass copy. One of my main basses is a vintage white SX P-Bass copy, purchased new in 2009. I like to imagine that hers and mine were from the same batch!
Anyway, I recommend the article.
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Is this online w/o a pay wall?
 
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Danny O Danny said:
I just read it online (there wasn't a paywall). Fantastic article.

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I still get a paywall. But is this the first time that the NYT acknowledged them? If so, they’re a little behind the curve…I first learned of them in 2017 from a British magazine, Mojo. That, Shindig(also UK), and Ugly Things(a bit more retro)are the best music(only)periodicals now, highly informative, with none of the ‘look at me, I’m the decider’ pontificating, regurgitation of already known information, or willfully ignorant reacting found on YT.
 
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Mark Speer is the man. He is changing electric guitar in western music.
In 30 years he will be spoken of the same way we speak about Jeff Beck today. Cannot understate his importance to the next generation of musicians and music.
 
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Yeah, I'm getting the paywall now too. I must have gotten lucky before. Providing an email address will allow free access (I assume at the price of receiving spam). I'm sure the NYT has acknowledged Kruangbin before. This particular article centers on how they have spawned an entire sub-genre of music, with many imitators, but explores why no one is able to cop their sound because of their unique chemistry as a band.
 
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Danny O Danny said:
Yeah, I'm getting the paywall now too. I must have gotten lucky before. Providing an email address will allow free access (I assume at the price of receiving spam). I'm sure the NYT has acknowledged Kruangbin before. This particular article centers on how they have spawned an entire sub-genre of music, with many imitators, but explores why no one is able to cop their sound because of their unique chemistry as a band.
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Part of that spam will be subscription enticement, I’m sure. But as much as I respect their efforts to stem the tide of the darkness of this era, I’m not going to go there, so… did the article mention Hermanos Gutierrez? Khru is unique in that they pulled a wide variety of under the radar influences together into an unexpected whole, and of course when that happens, there will be verbatim bandwagon jumpers coming along, but that duo, while working in that general realm, have their own thing going on. Different vibe, but since they are doing some opening dates with Khruangbin, I see/hear it as a perfect match.
 

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