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Get upset or not that shit is incredibly corny and I'll be personally judging people who allow rap/hip-hop/pop artist/producer roles to invade rock genres. Step one to forgetting how to play instruments as a society and that's not hyperbole.

Got my Smartpunk order today. Very satisfied. It was nice buying records at 2010 prices again. 

The new Eels album (“Eels Time”) is currently on sale on Amazon for $12.49! It’s a pre-order, comes out June 7th: https://a.co/d/bdew57g

Massive flash sale at Smartpunk right now, save 50% off your entire order with code V8PBC884S1C1 — here's all 600+ records they have in stock:
https://smartpunkshop.com/collections/all-products?filter.v.availability=1
Not sure where free shipping kicks in, but my $101 order shipped free, as did my buddy's $92 order.

https://www.stereogum.com/2258719/slowcore-band-idaho-announce-first-new-album-in-13-years/music/
 
https://shop.arts-crafts.ca/products/idaho-lapse

RFC never actually cared about Trans feelings lol that was marketing. I bet they're getting paid for this.

I mean, she dropped in on one of his LA shows the weekend before last to duet a couple of songs and hug him on stage.  Not sure how much animosity that leaves room for.
https://www.stereogum.com/2256728/watch-better-oblivion-community-centers-phoebe-bridgers-conor-oberst-reunite-in-la/news/

New Shellac.
https://store.touchandgorecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/shellac-to-all-trains-cd-lp

It took me like 25 seconds to find the red and white one by Googling it. 

Just a reminder: You don't have to buy all of these.

No overlapping bands in the lineup so you don’t have to play ‘who to miss’. 

I bought a 3-day VIP pass. Who else is going?

First show of 2024 last weekend. Caught SUMAC with Scarcity and Forbes Grahm at Arts at the Armory in Boston*.
Forbes Grahm was cool; not really my thing, but I can appreciate anyone creating their own thing. Seemed like some free jazz type stuff on the trumpet, but run through some number of filters (I'm presuming ProTools or something, based on the two-Macbook setup on the stage) and effects. Definitely seemed like the kind of unexpected weird that Aaron Turner loves, so it made sense.
Scarcity played almost entirely new material from a record that Brendon Randall-Myers confirmed will be releasing sometime later this summer through The Flenser.  They're a full band now, and the new songs sound pretty badass. I wish they'd played more from Aveilut, but apparently according to BRM, those songs are insanely hard to translate live. They did close their set with the "III" movement, which was cool.
SUMAC was fantastic. Loud as hell, all three of them appeared to be really having a blast playing. They're getting even more improvisational/noisy these days; I'd estimate that at least 50% of their set was unidentifiable from anything they've recorded. 

Y'all act like you're fuckin required to buy these. 

I listened to the first new track on there and my hype went through the roof. Gonna hold off on the other ones now. I’m really looking forward to this one. 

2 new tracks debuted tonight.  Lines up with a Belgian article that recently mentioned a new album in September.  The video clips I heard were glorious… but I also say this as someone who’s really happy with their last album, and isn’t even remotely tired of them covering the same ground they do so well.
Bits of the percussion and flow at a few parts were giving me major DMST vibes.  Which is a good thing.

(But yeah, 100%.)

Almost as if all pop(ular) music is carefully constructed to do exactly this. There has never been any real emotion in Taylor's music and I think the whole "hueh hueh I r metal guy who lieks Taylor aren't I quirky?" deal was the fucking strangest happy coincidence for her and her management.
 
We should make showers the next quirky weird thing to fuck the man. Until they get too popular of course.

I find it hilarious a bunch of dudes who literally only bought Swift records for weird street cred are now complaining about people doing the same thing for more money.

I just joined interscope Vinyl collective subscription in Jan. January’s record for the interscope vinyl collective.
product is Juice WRLD - "Goodbye & Good Riddance" IVC Edition. I received a copy of the Used's In Love & Death! Is this normal? Is it supposed to be a Used vinyl? $48. 38 a month is a lot for a Used record.  I’m hoping they made a mistake.. The limited edition factor is what attracted me to this service. If I knew it was the Used I would not have joined. 

Isn't that cute? an extra belly button
You need to put your pants back on, honey
Don't, don't, don't
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't, don't, don't want, don't want, don't want, don't want
Don't want no short short man
What in the world is that thing?
Do you need some tweezers to put that little thing away?
That has got to be
The smallest rrr- I've ever seen, in my whole life
Get the- outta here
 

You’re disappointed because you can’t hear the vocals?  Am I interpreting that right?  Asking because the vocals are 100% the reason I can’t stomach this band.  Actually enjoy some of the mathy songwriting and curveballs, but not enough to get over those vox.  Maybe this new one is worth sampling…

It’s hard to imagine anything worse than American Idiot. 

I don’t care what bands do with re-records or live albums or whatever, I can choose to buy it or not easy enough. But please don’t tease any of these things in the same way you’d tease a new album… not cool!