julien baker in the punk and hardcore scene, a masterpost
clips of Julien Baker at DIY punk and hardcore shows over the years. predominantly with The Star Killers, Forrister and her involvement in Wicker, Smith7 in general + other miscellaneous house shows including some performances of sprained ankle and totl songs pre-release!
if you watch any of these smith7 shows (even ones without julien) you can see how powerful this community is in giving people a voice and the confidence to play music and be heard. and it's cool to see how much this philosophy seems to have stayed with julien in how she approaches music and performs. you'll find a good amount of weird julien lore and notice people she still works with today throughout so! enjoy!
organised by year, videos linked and timestamped as '[x]' some of these links you might think 'why have i been sent here? where's julien?' just wait and trust me and my timestamps!
i would've liked to have timestamped each song in the longer sets so you could find a particular song but that is just TOO much. sorry! there are shorter clips here and there of individual songs too though!
2011:
The Star Killers - Typical Tuesday at St. Blues Guitars in Memphis. June 7th [x]
Wicker acoustic show at the Death Star. June 23rd. (jb's not on camera but you can hear her in the background joining in on some songs etc. Creech is on guitar throughout and Matt plays drums at the end) [x]
2012:
The Star Killers - Vertical Cities at The Abbey. Jan 23rd [x]
The Star Killers - Vampiretown. Feb 9th [x]
The Star Killers - Boot $coot at The Abbey. June 19th [x]
The Star Killers - Pants Tour at Memphis Music Shop. July 25th. Parts 1-7 below: -> 1. The Love Song Blues [x] -> 2. Typical Tuesday [x] -> 3. Thank You, Mr Durden [x] -> 4. Vertical Cities [x] -> 5. Lynchpin [x] -> 6. The Boot $coot $hakedown [x] -> 7. The Pardoner's Tale [x] different POV > [x]
2013:
The Star Killers - Pardoner's Tale at 1372 Overton Park. Jan 8th [x]
The Star Killers - ENT performed in Memphis. Jan 9th [x]
The Star Killers - Acoustic at The Abbey. May 30th [x] -> Dallas. (same show as above, diff. POV) [x] -> Folsom Prison / Love Song Blues (diff. POV) [x]
The Star Killers - Pants Tour Night 1 at The Refuge. June 22nd [x]
The Star Killers - Last show with John at The Death Star. Pants Tour. June 24th [x] -> ENT (same show, diff. POV) [x]
The Star Killers - Black Poppy Wine at Crosstown Arts Space TN. July 23rd [x]
The Star Killers - Black Poppy Wine at Crosstown (maybe). different show to above, tiny clip [x]
2014:
The Star Killers - performing (i can't figure out this song!) at Crosstown. July 5th [x]
The Star Killers - at Smith 7 House in Memphis. [x]
Wicker - Acoustic Pants (ft. JB on piano) at Avenue Coffee. July 17th [x]
Smith7 Records World Pants Tour days 1-4 (pants tour ~vlog + lil the star killers clip at the start) [x]
Smith7 Records World Pants Tour days 9-13 (two the star killers clips time stamped! second is Epilogue) [x] [x]
The Star Killers: the end of pants 2014 [x]
2015:
Julien Baker solo - Decorated Lawns at Gutterhouse in Memphis. Jan 9th [x]
Forrister - Choked Up - the Hi-Tone. late spring. [x]
Forrister - Pants Tour at the Gutterhouse. June 5th [x] -> Make Everything Right (same show, diff POV) [x]
Wicker at the Gutterhouse, Pants Tour. June 5th [x] (jb doing the cord around the neck thing ha!)
Forrister - Pants Tour at The Warehaus. June 6th [x] -> Pontchartrain (diff. POV) [x]
Forrister & Wicker - The Tour of Northern Aggression at Exponent Manor in Nashville. July 5th [x] -> Nick Carpenter/Medium Build mention and sighting! [x]
Julien Baker solo (Sprained Ankle tunes pre-release) at Nostromo Nashville. Aug 7th [x]
Wicker at Castle Endor. Nov 25th (lil clip of JB talking) [x]
Swordfish (another JB band? lore unknown!) at Castle Endor. Nov 25th (it's so dark but trust me, watch the whole thing!) [x]
Forrister at Castle Endor. Dec 21st [x]
The Acorns at Castle Endor. Dec 21st (JB just hanging out in the corner occasionally speaking. also notably an og performance of Bedbugs!) [x]
Smith7 Pants Tour Video 2015: -> snippet of Forrister, followed by JB performing with Small Fires(Fries?) (also this is obviously a different ry*n ad*ms!) and Wicker [x] -> snippet of Forrister [x] -> JB performing Rejoice [x]
2016:
Multiple performances for: Trevor's Birthday at Castle Endor. Feb 13th. -> 'Marlins Will Soar' (JB performing) [x] -> Forrister [x] -> Wicker [x]
Forrister at Yung Spotty. April 3rd [x]
Forrister Pants Tour at Circle Music. July 12th [x] diff POV > [x]
Wicker Pants Tour at Castle Endor. July 16th (JB does some singing and then is lurking in the corner for the rest) [x]
Forrister Pants Tour at Castle Endor. Aug 6th [x]
Wicker Pants Tour at Circle Music. Aug 20th (JB crops up a few times throughout but have stamped a larger portion) [x]
Smith7 Pants Tour 2016: (vlog ft. a few JB clips and two brief Forrister clips) [x] [x] [x] [x]
Julien performing her unreleased song The Linguist in the web series 'Feral' [x] (video) [x] (audio only)
2017:
Wicker Smith7 Pants Tour w/ Church & Destroy & The Acorns at Castle Endor. June 23rd. -> JB playing guitar on the left throughout the Wicker set until about 28mins [x] -> JB is jessica jones? [x] -> JB covering songs by Ryan Hailey including Bedbugs) [x] (if youre going to watch one vid watch this!) -> same performance as above just cut into a shorter clip [x] -> mountain dew concoction review [x]
Pillow Talk Pants Tour at Finn Pablo's July 3rd. (Pillow Talk is Calvin Lauber's old band and JB sings in the studio version of their song Monogomy which is performed first. she's not in this clip i just think it's some good lore and good music) [x]
Julien performing solo - Epilogue by The Star Killers 1884 Lounge in Memphis. Dec 1st -> audio only: [x] -> short video of same performance: [x]
Julien performing solo - Boo Pristine by Wicker and transitioning into Something in Memphis. Dec 1st (audio only) [x]
INVOLVEMENT IN OTHER PUNK & HARDCORE SHOWS:
2015:
Julien stage diving/screaming into the mic at a Touché Amoré show at Chain Reaction, Anaheim. Nov 1st 2015. (she opened for them at this show!) (30min mark if the stamp doesnt work) [x]
Julien's own solo performance from the above show. (THE "honesty transcends genre" show! ft. Jeremy Bolm watching in awe from side stage) [x]
2018:
Touché Amoré ft. Julien Baker - Skyscraper in Detroit. April 10th 2018 [x / x]
Touché Amoré ft. Julien Baker - Skyscraper in Nashville. May 1st 2018 [x / x]
2020:
Julien performing with Slider (Mariah Schneider's band) covering Iron Maiden. Jan 10th [x] (ive decided this is random but cool enough to include!)
2023:
Touché Amoré ft. Julien Baker - Reminders in LA at The Novo - Dec 8th 2023. (multiple POVs) [x] [x] [x] [x] [x]
Turnstile ft. Julien Baker - UNDERWATER BOI in Paris at Rock en Seine Aug 26th 2023 [x] [x] [x]
PUNK & HARDCORE SONGS JB IS FEATURED ON: (if some of these aren't technically punk or hxc...whatever!) - all available on spotify, apple and youtube. some also on bandcamp.
Struggle - Yet
Horses... Ride Them Or (Great Story Garrett) - Wicker [x] (on spotify but linked yt)
Monogamy - Pillow Talk (TN) (Pillow Talk is Calvin Lauber's old band!)
Reminders - Touché Amoré [x] (lil clip of JB & Beans in the mv)
Skyscraper - Touché Amoré
UNDERWATER BOI - Turnstile
Sport of Form - The Armed
In Heaven - The Armed
Track XXIII - Fucked Up
Track IVII - Fucked Up
Track IVIII - Fucked Up
Goodbye for Now - Touché Amoré [x] (clips of JB in the mv)
HARDCORE/PUNK ADJACENT ARTISTS COVERING JB SONGS:
The Devil Wears Prada covering Sour Breath [x]
Dashboard Confessional covering Sprained Ankle [x] (also on spotify)
Dustin Kensrue (of Thrice) covering Blacktop [x]
PODCASTS ABOUT THE PUNK & HARDCORE SCENE JB IS FEATURED ON:
Turned out a Punk (on spotify too but ive just linked yt) -> part 1 "Julien Baker from boygenius is here!" [x] -> part 2 "Julien Baker is back" [x]
The First Ever Podcast (vocalist of Touché Amoré, Jeremy Bolm's podcast) -> Julien Baker: Memorial-Day-Sale-at-Guitar-Centre-Riff. [spotify] [apple] [patreon] (i think theres actually a video on patreon?? unsure, but its behind a pay wall)
