Me Nd Adam

One Liner: Trashwave from some local dudes

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but this is all over the place.  One article calls it trashwave?  
Home: Austin

Poster Position: 22
Weekend Two Only.  Sunday.

Thoughts:  An Austin group!  He's wearing a Black's BBQ hat in his Spotify photo!  Oh God, their music style is called trashwave.  Oh no.  What am I about to be subjected to?  Here is how these two guys described it themselves: "Adam: Trashwave started as more of a lifestyle and developed into a sound. When we started writing together in New Orleans a few years back, there were many nights out at Ms Mae's, Banks St. Bar, and Brothers 3 Lounge. Most of the time we'd sleep in our friend's mouldy shed we were helping convert into a recording studio.

Vince: Yeah, if we could make it that far. I'd often sleep next to the trash cans in the driveway while Adam polished off the last of whatever supplies we had left from a long night out. Over time we started writing songs that were true to these experiences.

Adam: Those experiences and the blend of alternative, country, americana, rock, pop, and hints of trap are what make trashwave, trashwave."  

Shudder.  Certainly feels like more than a "hint" of trap after a few songs - every one has boomin' 808s and little hi-hat chicking.  Oh, then there are some more guitar-y things later, but still heavy on the drum machine/laptop sounds in most of this.

Two dudes - Vince Winik and Adam Walker - who count music heroes of Jason Isbell, Jimi Hendrix, Willie Nelson, Blink 182, and Future.  So you know you are talking about a really weird combination of influences here.  Their photos sure make it seem like they are intensely concentrated on looking as trashwave as they possible can.  Not many articles about them, but I guess the band name is just a misspelling of "me and adam?"

One album - 2020's American Drip Part 1 - and then something called Deadbeat Mixtape released just recently in 2022.  Not many streams for any of it just yet, but definitely a low number for that new mixtape.  Top track is from the 2020 album - "Heartbreak Kid," with 1.5 million streams.

Sorta reminds me of a laid back Kid Rock track, in his drum machine days.  Goofy ass lyrics - stuff like "paying rent sucks dick, but I do some dope shit."  I will give him points for having an awfully fluffy mullet to go with that molester mustache.  "Foolish Lover" is the second-most streamed, and the only other one with over a million streams, but it sounds pretty much the same.  Instead, I'll give you something from the new mixtape to try out, this is "909s and Hard Times," with 19k streams.  Oh.  No, I won't, in the end, because it has no presence on YouTube.  Looks like you get "The Good Times Got Me in a Decline."  7k streams.

Ahhh, there is that Blink 182 homage stuff.  WAY PRETTIER TRASHCORE THAN THEIR PRIOR TRASHCORE. Some good Austin stuff in that video though - Waterloo Records, House Park BBQ, skate park by House Park Stadium.  The jerkiness of that video is also very trashgore.

I don't much care for any of the music, but the goofy look and ridiculousness of it is actually endearing them to me.  Weekend two only though, so likely not seeing them.