TEENAGE KINGS OF SLOP POP: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO AUDACITY
- Install Audacity 3.0.0 via Flatpak: Firstly open terminal from system app launcher. When it opens, run following commands one by one. 1.) For Ubuntu 18.04, add the PPA for updated version of Flatpak framework: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson/flatpak && sudo apt update.
- Testing with AMI Terminal, we can easily use the S-Play All command to synchronously start audio track 1 on all of your reproducer cards that live in the Binloop. All of your tracks should then begin playing in perfect sync!
Open a Linux terminal, and type in the following command followed by hitting the enter key to update the list of software or programs available on the Pacman official repository. Sudo pacman -Syy After this type is executed successfully, type in the following command to initiate the process of Audacity download and installation, on the Linux. How to Install Audacity 2.4.2 via PPA in Ubuntu 20.04: Open terminal either from system application menu or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When terminal opens, run following commands one by one: 1.) Run command in terminal to add the PPA repository: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/audacity.
As mentioned previously, Audacity blew Black Time off stage when they played with us back in 2007. They were to be the first of many, many American bands (he sobbed) that showed us how it should be done on our two trips to the states, but to date I’m convinced that they were the best – an absolutely astonishing performance. My dazed clutching to the fact that it must have been a fluke and the songs can’t have been that good has been consecutively disproved by a demo CD-R, a tape, and most conclusively by the ‘Power Drowning’ LP. It combines everything that is good and great about snotty three-chord teenage garage music: singalong angst anthems, blurry tempos, unhinged performances, bittersweet ballads (yes ballads!), goofy humour, hormone raging energy, all captured with the perfect balance of rawness and detail in a typically fine recording by Mike McHugh. There’s a real sense of a band that’s more than the sum of its parts – there’s nothing that remarkable about any individual player but together they lock into this raging groove and concoct inspired arrangements that get the best out of each song. There’s lots of bands around at the moment who do one kind of thing really well but fall down at the longplayer stage ‘cos they hit you over the head with 12 examples of it and that can get tired over two sides of wax. Audacity switch up tempo and mood frequently enough that the album is still lying in the ‘regular listen’ pile next to my turntable after many spins.
With such a great record under their belts, I assumed that everyone must be going hog-wild for Audacity in their homeland and they would be enjoying a hallowed period of headlining county fairs, playing civic functions for Governor Schwarzenegger and starring in their own Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello style series of beach party movies. Peering through the rusty interpipe in my leaky Victorian garret though I can discern some evidence that this may not in fact be the case and instead everyone is distracted by listening to indie-pop revival acts and limited edition cassettes by bands called TTTTTTrussstFFund. I implore thee, pilgrim cousins, to correct this oversight immediately by purchasing ‘Power Drowning’ - you can thank me later. If you’re not sold on my rambling hyperbole then you may be swayed by the fact that their bass player is called Cameron Crowe.
I tried to find out more about what made these young men tick and got back the below from the collective brain of the band (Cameron, Thomas Alvarez, Kyle Gibson and Matt Schmalfeld).
TB: How long has the band been going and how do you all know each other?
Audacity: The band has been going since pre-9/11 when we were in sixth grade. Kyle and Matt knew each other since first grade and started it up with two other guys who eventually left. We met Thomas in junior high and Cameron we saw around town cuz he went to Ladera Vista and we went to Parks Jr High. I thought he was a douchebag but we all became great friends in high school and he was actually really interesting and handsome.
TB: There seems to be a lot of cross-pollination of bands and people that are in or from your area - Party Fowl, Ty Segall, Traditional Fools, Burger Records etc – is it a small scene in Orange County? Do you all hang out together and stuff?
Audacity: 'Orange county scene' is a strange phrase 'cuz there are no good venues and shit sucks over here. The Traditional Fools group of guys we met when they moved to San Francisco, but they're from South County and we're from North. We hang out with White Night and Thee Makeout Party and the only good shows are parties at their houses. Thee Makeout Party let us come over and hang with them and we're probably gonna record our next record in the studio located in their garage in Anaheim, where they have fireworks, Disneyland and set off car alarms on their street (this is Thee Makeout Party's idea of an icebreaker). We love our city though and always make sure no one calls us an 'LA band', cuz we're not.
TB: Do you see yourselves in any kind of west coast lineage? Obviously you cover Red Cross and there’s a kind of Dangerhouse/Beach Blvd vibe to some of the songs.
Audacity: Kyle's adopted aunt is the McDonald brothers from Redd Kross’ sister! She just found this out a few years ago and met them once. From our hometown of Fullerton bands like the Middle Class, Adolescents, Agent Orange, Social Distortion, DI, and others came out. We like the Southern California Dangerhouse sound, and everybody knows that all the best punk bands and even bands in general are from the west coast!
TB: Who writes the songs – is it a collective effort or does one person come up with the basic ideas?
Audacity: Usually someone will come to band practice with an idea and we'll flesh it out. Matt comes up with majority of these things.
TEENAGE KINGS OF SLOP POP: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO AUDACITY
As mentioned previously, Audacity blew Black Time off stage when they played with us back in 2007. They were to be the first of many, many American bands (he sobbed) that showed us how it should be done on our two trips to the states, but to date I’m convinced that they were the best – an absolutely astonishing performance. My dazed clutching to the fact that it must have been a fluke and the songs can’t have been that good has been consecutively disproved by a demo CD-R, a tape, and most conclusively by the ‘Power Drowning’ LP. It combines everything that is good and great about snotty three-chord teenage garage music: singalong angst anthems, blurry tempos, unhinged performances, bittersweet ballads (yes ballads!), goofy humour, hormone raging energy, all captured with the perfect balance of rawness and detail in a typically fine recording by Mike McHugh. There’s a real sense of a band that’s more than the sum of its parts – there’s nothing that remarkable about any individual player but together they lock into this raging groove and concoct inspired arrangements that get the best out of each song. There’s lots of bands around at the moment who do one kind of thing really well but fall down at the longplayer stage ‘cos they hit you over the head with 12 examples of it and that can get tired over two sides of wax. Audacity switch up tempo and mood frequently enough that the album is still lying in the ‘regular listen’ pile next to my turntable after many spins.
With such a great record under their belts, I assumed that everyone must be going hog-wild for Audacity in their homeland and they would be enjoying a hallowed period of headlining county fairs, playing civic functions for Governor Schwarzenegger and starring in their own Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello style series of beach party movies. Peering through the rusty interpipe in my leaky Victorian garret though I can discern some evidence that this may not in fact be the case and instead everyone is distracted by listening to indie-pop revival acts and limited edition cassettes by bands called TTTTTTrussstFFund. I implore thee, pilgrim cousins, to correct this oversight immediately by purchasing ‘Power Drowning’ - you can thank me later. If you’re not sold on my rambling hyperbole then you may be swayed by the fact that their bass player is called Cameron Crowe.
I tried to find out more about what made these young men tick and got back the below from the collective brain of the band (Cameron, Thomas Alvarez, Kyle Gibson and Matt Schmalfeld).
TB: How long has the band been going and how do you all know each other?
Audacity: The band has been going since pre-9/11 when we were in sixth grade. Kyle and Matt knew each other since first grade and started it up with two other guys who eventually left. We met Thomas in junior high and Cameron we saw around town cuz he went to Ladera Vista and we went to Parks Jr High. I thought he was a douchebag but we all became great friends in high school and he was actually really interesting and handsome.
TB: There seems to be a lot of cross-pollination of bands and people that are in or from your area - Party Fowl, Ty Segall, Traditional Fools, Burger Records etc – is it a small scene in Orange County? Do you all hang out together and stuff?
Audacity: 'Orange county scene' is a strange phrase 'cuz there are no good venues and shit sucks over here. The Traditional Fools group of guys we met when they moved to San Francisco, but they're from South County and we're from North. We hang out with White Night and Thee Makeout Party and the only good shows are parties at their houses. Thee Makeout Party let us come over and hang with them and we're probably gonna record our next record in the studio located in their garage in Anaheim, where they have fireworks, Disneyland and set off car alarms on their street (this is Thee Makeout Party's idea of an icebreaker). We love our city though and always make sure no one calls us an 'LA band', cuz we're not.
TB: Do you see yourselves in any kind of west coast lineage? Obviously you cover Red Cross and there’s a kind of Dangerhouse/Beach Blvd vibe to some of the songs.
Audacity: Kyle's adopted aunt is the McDonald brothers from Redd Kross’ sister! She just found this out a few years ago and met them once. From our hometown of Fullerton bands like the Middle Class, Adolescents, Agent Orange, Social Distortion, DI, and others came out. We like the Southern California Dangerhouse sound, and everybody knows that all the best punk bands and even bands in general are from the west coast!
TB: Who writes the songs – is it a collective effort or does one person come up with the basic ideas?
Audacity: Usually someone will come to band practice with an idea and we'll flesh it out. Matt comes up with majority of these things.
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