park that car
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spoke with many, many members/affiliates (and ) for an oral history of one of the most iconic indie rock songs of the 2000s
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nick cave is just swans for people who end up needing reading glasses at age 35 because of their addiction to bringing musty ass books into dimly lit bars
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like despite how dense and prolific he is, you don’t need an “entry point” to his discog, just dive in and experience it all at whatever pace feels right
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everyone knows that woods is the best writer in music rn but i think the reason he continues to ascend to previously unthinkable heights of popularity/acclaim is that he simply does not miss
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if the muse guy sees this it’ll inspire a triple album that’ll make the new smashing pumpkins behemoth seem like a joyce manor LP
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five metal albums to get to know me
master of reality by black sabbath
symbolic by death
foundations of burden by pallbearer
new bermuda by deafheaven
autumn eternal by panopticon
hon. mentions:
nightfall by candlemass
marrow of the spirit by agalloch
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(pictured l-r) charli xcx, george daniel, matty healy, and taylor swift enjoy an idyllic couples weekend away in sicily
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everyone has been on the train with someone "acting in a hostile and erratic manner." rushing to choke the life out of the person... describing the incident in the passive voice while noting the victim wasn't violent... THAT'S deranged, actually.
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driving across PA today, time for a deep dive into the mom dog discography
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neil young - everybody knows…
wilco - summerteeth
hum - you’d prefer an astronaut
american football - s/t
braid - frame & canvas
bruce hornsby - scenes from the s.s.
janet jackson - rhythm nation
freddie gibbs - cold day in hell
bone thugs - e. 1999 eternal
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personal highlights include interviews w bad brains on “i against i,” houston slab specialists on ugk’s “ridin dirty,” and kelly on “shoes”
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daaaaamn vice. i had some bad experiences freelancing there in ‘16-‘17, but i still consider it the first “legit” site i wrote for, and gotta thank my former editors (well, most of them) for giving me a shot. i’ve admired tons of work vice editors/writers have done over the years
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where tf is the light in the attic reissue. possibly the greatest forgotten ‘80s blue eyed soul album.
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cross country move soundtrack day 1/5:
mellon collie
stars - set yourself on fire
agalloch - ashes against the grain
warren zevon - s/t
gene clark - no other
kurt vile - smoke ring for my halo
amen dunes - freedom
indigo de souza - all of this will end
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Looks like the DatPiff site is finally over although there’s something else cooking based on this message they posted (really hope its not some web 3 stuff lmao) is preserving the site’s music library. end of an era fr.
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they really called it “next goal wins” when “ted fasso” was right there smh
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currents and drunk are the two 2010s albums that appeal most to the smooth/lizard/festival-pilled parts of my brain. so yes please stephen and kevin give me all the pillowy, weightless lite-funk you’ve got
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this poor baby is having the most stressful day of her life watching me load all of our stuff into a moving truck 😢
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oh great, just what radiohead fandom needs: an extra virgin twitter.com/pitchfork/stat…
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the coolest thing an artist can do is blow as much of a company’s money as possible on a weird lil project. the beau is afraid and frank ocean discourse bringing out the worst in y’all
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somewhere there’s a dude who pulled an all nighter to listen to the entire new mac demarco album. his ashtray just became sentient and is now terrorizing local dogs
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I went to the Coachella TikTok Symposium and Influencer Heptathlon and all I got was this essay about Frank Ocean, the death of youth, the rise of the algorithm, and the terrifying next age of the machine.
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songs that explicitly reference genres of music that the song is maybe trying to emulate but isn’t a part of:
honky tonk woman
boogie on reggae woman
give me the beat boys (rock and roll)
disco lady
hey soul sister
others?
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if harry nilsson was on the come up right now his fans would guilt him into actually performing live and the resulting backlash would hasten and deepen his self-destructive spiral
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