Ponytail R.I.P.

I was wondering what that giant sucking sound was. It’s the void left by a bunch of groups who disbanded this past year, most of whom I’ve never heard of and I bet you haven’t either.

Even without knowing who most of these groups are, I find Stereogum’s In Memoriam: Bands We Lost In 2011 oddly touching. A world in which Ludrica roars no more and Ponytail unravels their youthful locks forever is a world diminished, a darker world, where dreams nudge up against vast nothingness and rock bands are stacked like firewood in the engine rooms of death.