John Maus

Anyone else a fan? Been loving the album "love is real". Love the lo-fi, synth based, weirdness of it all. Wish I could find more like it. Anyone else in the same mold worth checking out? Meanwhile just appreciate:

"Times is weird"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYFAcPS6HgE

"Do your best"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDOMk_pGacA

My whole world's coming apart"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReQXQ3E4ztE

i'm madly in love with john maus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV3AJViQWJs

i guess he's now a poli sci lecturer at the university of hawaii. i hope fun in the sun doesn't ruin his manic lyrical delivery.

he's like the male geneva jacuzzi but he seems more genuine and i don't ever get tired of him.

oh and as for people like him, well. there's not a lot, he's got a very unique sound i guess but aesthetically similar would be lo-fi peeps like ariel pink and r. stevie moore and gary war and (like i said) geneva jacuzzi and maybe even some stuff like nite jewel (much more sedate but lo fi and synthy) or tickley feather.

edit ohh yeh, that girl in the maniac video is 1/2 of nite jewel iirc.

I saw this hipster rubbish a couple of years ago, he was rubbish and I walked out. I came back in again later for other hipster rubbish though.

  On 9/6/2010 at 6:25 PM, disparaissant said:

oh and as for people like him, well. there's not a lot, he's got a very unique sound i guess but aesthetically similar would be lo-fi peeps like ariel pink and r. stevie moore and gary war and (like i said) geneva jacuzzi and maybe even some stuff like nite jewel (much more sedate but lo fi and synthy) or tickley feather.

I love Ariel Pink and found John Maus through that connection. Bless you for the recommends! Will check out.

New album soon.

Interview with http://www.subcity.org/podcasts.php?id=328

Essay on http://rougesfoam.blogspot.com/2009/07/heaven-is-real-john-maus-and-truth-of.html

Playlist he made and posted on the mausspace forum a while back http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8648A431FD670A69

oh snap new album for sure then?

another interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeRFBXo3qj0

credit where credit's due, i think you found this interview future girlfriend. and got me into john maus in the first place. and most of the other stuff i rec'd via him haha.

oh and also zola jesus, look into zola jesus. actually just look into a lot of stuff on sacred bones records.

that essay is brilliant. absolutely mind fuckingly brilliant.

Hey Moon

I could have enjoyed John Maus a lot more if it weren't for "Oh Dear, Grandma's Pissing Her Pants Again". I enjoyed "Bennington"- but there's a lot to be said for respecting yourself.

John Maus cancelled from Electronicon-festival

So. He watched the Capitol attack from a distance, and performed at a MDE show long before anyone knew Sam Hyde was an alt-righter. And now he is cancelled from a festival to avoid that POC and LGBTQ+ fans feels unsafe?

As nice as anyone could be about it, even going as far as to donate to their cause. It’s all fuck you get canceled die and no forgiveness out there right now unfortunately. 

the most offensive thing about all of this is that there is a vaporwave festival at all. forcing this to be a genre with artists who perform live is really corny to me. mfs are supposed to be anonymous with names in Japanese making music that is 100% just like one song from 1992 pitched down with a phaser and some delay. bitch I don’t want to see this “live” lmao

  On 6/27/2023 at 9:17 PM, scumtron said:

John Maus cancelled from Electronicon-festival

So. He watched the Capitol attack from a distance, and performed at a MDE show long before anyone knew Sam Hyde was an alt-righter. And now he is cancelled from a festival to avoid that POC and LGBTQ+ fans feels unsafe?

that festival, john mause is amazing. 

I'm so sick of art being banned for jack shit

not personally a big fan of his music, listening-wise, but i can get to him as a person. i do like ariel. vaporwave was kinda interesting at first but 95% of it is junk. can't imagine the sound at that show is going to be all that great, heh. 

re: the jan 6th stuff, they were pretty much there just to see what big event was going on. the event was a fuckin joke. 

I'd agree that his Jan 6th participation isn't really much of an indication of anything at all, but I struggle to find much sympathy for him. He gave this interview in 2017 https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy5a59/john-maus-at-the-end-of-the-world and was asked about his involvement with MDE, and he shows a total lack of intellectual curiosity into who these guys are. And I really struggle to buy the uncurious look from him when, to respond to the furor over his presence at the jan 6th stuff, he links some centuries old papal decree or whatever it was... he does not seem like the kind of guy who would settle for ignorance. Maybe he genuinely is a good dude but the way he's dealt with these situations would make me feel concerned about who I'd run into in the audience for one of his shows. Though I wouldn't try to stop a performance or anything, I just wouldn't go. And it's kind of moot in this case since I'd have been concerned about who I'd run into at a vaporwave festival as well, that scene has some fuckin wackos

  On 6/28/2023 at 4:21 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

that festival, john mause is amazing. 

I'm so sick of art being banned for jack shit

like john maus (and ariel pink) a lot actually . sad this sort of stuff has to happen in a supposedly free country . i dont care if they support trump or not personally