Riding Bikes, Stait of Mynd & Too Far To Walk Flash Site Footage On YouTube, 48 New Links on WC2K1/6/2021 A mega update here as the WC2K Video Youtube Channel launches with footage from three old Flash band websites: NJ's Riding Bikes (2004), Philly's Stait of Mynd (2003), and West Chester's own Too Far To Walk. The Riding Bikes video demonstrates the animated menu. Will the pages actually be there when you click? You'll just have to find out. Stait of Mynd and Too Far To Walk's videos show their intro animations with unidentified song snippets and full screen is recommended. What's more is 48 new links have been added across 32 bands and four Around Town locations: Bands:
Around Town:
Head to the Bands, Around Town, and Video pages now and see!
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West Chester emo trio Outlet's Angelfire site outlived the band a good 17 years before falling to last week's Flash apocalypse. You can still find it out there actually if you dare, but navigation has become impossible due to its reliance on animated menus. Fortunately, WC2K was on the case and built a sort of replica site. This new one is essentially a reformatted version of their 2003 website containing links to some of the still-live but not Flash-reliant pages, as well as a few verbatim remakes where necessary. Links have been updated with Wayback Machine versions where available too, so a visit to Punker Than Thou is within reach once again. Unfortunately, no Outlet audio was available at this time, so for now you'll have to browse in silence.
Tl;dr Outlet's link has been restored in the Bands section. Stay tuned for more updates. The Around Town section is up, featuring links to various non-band sites of local interest, including labels, record stores, venues, CD manufacturing facilities, and more. Also new is the Shows section, which is kind of sparse now for obvious reasons but will fill out as the past show calendar comes together.
Lastly, the following links in the Bands section have been updated: Angels Wake:
Artists who have no remaining linked content are left on the list with placeholders for future content discovered or created. That's all for this dry update. Short-lived instrumental indie-rock trio Pantless came together one last time on this day in 2009 at The Starr House in Phoenixville, then home of future world renowned sword swallower Mackenzie Molotov. Over the course of the year before, the Birchrunville ensemble rose from experiments in the Upattinas School music shed to a lively run including the Spring’s “Drug Free MF RV Tour” of North PA and the monumental Webfest in June, alongside contemporaries such as When Cars Ascend, Rasputin’s Secret Police, I Miss America, Meat Rainbow, The Psychedelicates, and many others. Before guitarist Emmett Moskowitz left for the fall semester, Pantless dropped their sole full length, Pony Tales from Horseshoe Trail at a Chaplin’s Show in Spring City and copies going around at the Starr House show came in these vibrantly colorful hand drawn sleeves it’d be great to have a picture of. The warmth and energy of the new year radiated off the living room crowd as they launched into a set including seven tunes from the album and four otherwise unheard new songs. It might not have been clear at the time that this would be it for Pantless, but there couldn’t have been a more appropriate scene for their finale regardless. Also on the bill was BeeTheeTree, a psychedelic solo vehicle of the late Jake Wagar. For this show he was backed up by Pantless’ Pat Higgins and Elliot Wilson and displayed a more guitar-driven sound than heard on his then-recent “Sounds from A Dark Forest” album. Pittsburgh americana-folk revival troupe Ursa Major came to town with hearty choruses that brought a campsite atmosphere foreshadowing their Webfest ’09 appearance. There was also this acoustic duo on the show and I’ve wished since that day I caught the name. They had this one original about carpooling and naivety and covered some standards like King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 and Third Planet. Any showgoers are welcome to head to that there Contact section to fill in the blanks here. Though Pantless never reassembled after the Starr House show, its members went on to a variety of interesting stops on their musical paths. At the time Pat was drumming for short-lived Philly post-punk quartet Down Boy, led by former Meat Rainbow frontman Dan Timlin. Since then, he’s been seen and heard with Big Wheel, Caboder, Boy Lawyer, and most recently, the collaborative project BAMP. Elliot further joined forces with Jake from BeeTheeTree, forming the also short-lived trio Dr. Waimea, which continued the guitar-driven psych direction BeeTheeTree was headed in, and releasing two chillout electronica albums over the next year as duo Sexy Science. Eventually he joined Philly dreampop outfit The Morelings, playing alongside the likes of Mahogany, The Silence Kit, and Dead Leaf Echo, before their climax at 2017’s Excursions In Light. Emmett’s star rose throughout the 2010’s as well, touring and recording as Froggy’s Groovies to some acclaim. So much has changed since Pantless disappeared and no future reunion show could recapture the atmosphere of the Starr House that January evening in 2009, but hopefully the video of their last set does something toward that. Taken on a run of the mill pre-smartphone camera, the sound quality isn’t all there and the image is much darker than it really was. Kinda unfortunate, the sick lighting of the room is barely noticeable, but whatever. Let the music stay with you. To celebrate the New Year, WC2K has added some of it's audio stash to the Internet Archive. This first batch of uploads spans the years and styles of the decade and includes: A Divine Invasion - "II" - (2004) Arms Of Orion - demo (2002) BeeTheeTree - "Sounds From A Dark Forest" (2008) Holly Drive - "Live At Soundwaves" (circa 2003) Nefarious - demo (2007) The Occupants - "Live on 2nd" (2006) Pilot Round The Sun - "Live At The Zebra Cocktail Lounge" (2004) True Zero Hook - "Offenses Against Conscience" (2000) The Tweeds - "Diapers + Vicodin" (2009) Various - "Broken Records: Discomposed Vol. 1" (circa 2003) Head over to the new Sounds section or click any of the above links to enjoy. If you have audio you'd like to contribute or takedown requests, head over to the Contact section. More audio and updated artwork to come whenever. Happy New Year 2021! WC2K |