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1863-project · 2 months

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3, 10, 13, 22?

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3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

I think one of the worst ones that crossed my dash in recent memory was a Spiderverse one in which someone claimed Hobie would be a secret Swiftie. Hobie, a Black punk from the 1970s. Yeah. That one just showed absolutely no awareness whatsoever. I haven't seen Spiderverse but I know enough to know why that is an abysmally bad take. Please, person who wrote that one, for the love of all that is good in this world, try listening to some Black punk musicians. Start with Poly Styrene and her band X-Ray Spex and go from there. There are so many amazing artists you'll discover. Not every character you like has to like the same exact things as you, and sometimes characters liking different things broadens your own horizons and introduces you to something you end up liking!

10. worst part of fanon

The way characters get boiled down to one or two character traits drives me up the wall. A well-written character is complex and interesting the same way real people are, and that's why we feel compelled to experience their stories. But in fandom spaces so often these characters get reduced to one-trick ponies - the chaotic one, the girlboss, the one with less braincells than an orange cat, the grumpy one, the sunshine one, etc.

People contain multitudes. A good character does too, because then we want to read about them because they're more interesting and aren't a cardboard cutout. So why do we simplify things in fanon so much instead of enjoying the nuance and complications that make great characters, well, great?

13. worst blorboficiation

I feel like it's cheating to throw Submas in here again, but the way people reduce Ingo and Emmet to stereotypes or one-note characters (see above) or wildly misportray them to the point where I can't recognize them actually deeply alienates me from engaging with a lot of other people who like them. I've mentioned many times that they were the first time I truly saw myself in fiction - they're both so much like me that it's uncanny - and when I see things like that, it's a good indicator of how these same people would see me, so I steer clear to avoid being hurt.

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

In terms of Pokemon, my immersion is immediately broken if I see something that makes it clear that the creator didn't actually research the NYC Subway. I'm down there five days a week at this point, sometimes more, and I know it like the back of my hand because I also happen to be a massive railfan. There are a lot of elements of the Battle Subway that line up to real-life stuff and I get so excited about them and then people just...don't do anything with it and I just can't get into it after that.

Also, I think in general in fandom everyone sleeps on so many characters in favor of a select few and you could really do so much with some of them but people just don't. Many of these characters are women and/or not white and this is not a coincidence.

#replies #rainsoftenings

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libertineangel · 2 years

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One drawback of having the stereotypical autistic memory is thinking you might be missing something important because a date used to be significant, like I just sat for a moment thinking "October 7th sounds notable, shit have I forgotten something" and actually no it's notable because I saw the Poly Styrene documentary on October 7th last year, nothing is happening today but my brain never cleared the note

#autism

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biyuu · 3 years

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mirrorgirl by black dresses, wlfgrl vs mchngrl by machine girl, saints by the breeders, data sluts by filmmaker, enough. by gouge away, decapitated in barbies dreamhouse by heart shaped hate, plexiglass (error) by ho99o9, narashite by haru nemuri, bitch mania by gland, in memory by kylesa, synapse by linea aspera, sweetness and light by lush, luciforms by the mars volta, montoia by noskill, sodium chloride by panchiko, dreaming by poly styrene, half by queen bee, rot in the doghouse by pure hell, hypocrite by rotten blossom, sylmar cement by sfv acid, kick by skating polly

HELLO??? YOU MADE ME A WHOLE ASS PLAYLIST

#thank u so much wtf......#will make this an actual playlist and listen to it thank you <33 #ask games #🎵anon

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rookieforlife · 2 years

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5 books I intend on reading in 2022

Tagged by @amandine-henrys, thank you very much 💓 I was reading your choices and they seem so interesting, I used to read a lot of fiction when I was younger and then I stopped, I don’t know why. Maybe it’s time to challenge my picks in 2022 so I’m gonna save the name of some of those books. I usually read poetry, I love to come back to certain poems when I feel like it or compare different authors and situations, I also love biographies (painters and musicians) and essays. It’s difficult to make a list so I’m gonna name the ones I already bought.

1. Orlam - PJ Harvey. I pre-ordered this book of poems by Polly Jean Harvey, an artist I love. She’s an incredible musician and inspiration to many.

2. Tenement Kid - Bobby Gillespie. Another musician, Bobby is from Scotland and he’s the singer of Primal Scream. It’s a book of memories.

3. Revenge of the She-Punks : A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot - Vivien Goldman. Vivien is a former musician who became a journalist, the title says it all, I know most of the bands and the history but I’m excited to read everything from her point of view.

4. All About Love - bell hooks. I love bell hooks and the topic of love and how it’s perceived from different sides is something I’ve been thinking a lot the last few months. I have a lot of insecurities and I’ve been feeling that the way I see certain things seem to be really out of (what is considered) the modern connections, so kinda unconsciously, I’ve been looking for something to reassure what I feel. No one better than her to offer some clarity. I’m also reading another book from an argentine author that navigates the same topic (the title is very cheesy and doesn’t reflect the content).

5. Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enriquez. This is a novel by an argentine author, I think it’s a terror novel. As I said before, I’m trying hard to expand my selections, I don’t remember the last novel I’ve read so I guess this could be a start. It has great reviews and Mariana has lots of recognitions lately.

Bonus: Nina Simone’s Gum by Warren Ellis. I think this is a book of memories as well, I love Warren (another musician lol), I haven’t bought this one yet.

I don’t know who to nominate for this so if anyone feels like listing their 2022 picks feel free to do it, I nominate you all.

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cerealbastard · 3 years

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representation scares me.

No one can deny that representation is important. I think we all know that feeling that comes with seeing someone in a film or tv show that resonates with us, and it’s such a feeling of comfort and validation; to have that experience as a minority is even more powerful because you are rejected based on the powers that be and the existence of representation in art disputes that. We all know this, minority or not, we often find that the most poignant pieces of media are the ones that represent either a fantasy version of ourselves or consul a part of us that we are embarrassed or ashamed of.��

That being said, there's also something so terrifying this need for representation in media, for Hollywood to provide validation of peoples sense of self, because it relies on cooperate power for people to feel comfortable with who they are and their place in the world. We can sometimes forget, from the outside, that movies are the (unnatural) overlap of industry and art, but they are, and their many corruptions are disguised by this, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

Its really frightening to me to live in a time were in order to secure peoples roll and protection in society it must be granted by cooperate power, because those mega corporation have no innate moral drive. Not to say that there are not people in media that don't care on an individual basis, but on a larger scale, the system of media we’re in is not designed with any socio-political or humanitarian intent. It’s designed to create profit, that's the only driving factor. The common denominator in anything that gets published widespread is that it is profitable and so all this push for representation in media, and the necessity (because based on the way we experience reality at this time, it is a necessity) of these requests for representation in media being met is entirely dependent on whether or not it’s profitable. Whether or not a group of people’s human dignity is confirmed is determined by what is profitable. And there’s no guarantee that ii will become profitable, ever.

You could say, that surly I am exaggerating. Surly some media is made without the sole intent of profit, I mean come on, that’s how indie movies and art films, and political pieces are made. But you know what all of those types of films are? Niche. You have to look for them, hard. And I’m not even just talking about movies, what about Youtubers? Influencers? The more radical the ideas, the more niche the marginalized the group being advocated on behalf of, the harder it is to find content about them. The harder it is for young people looking to better understand themselves to find it.

Now that I have brought up the idea of self recognition through the other, I have to answer the question of “if you don’t like representation then how are these kids you’re so concerned about going to discover who they are?” Well lads, the concept of the self was not invented by mass media.

People of every minority, every experience have existed for as long as humanity has, do you think they couldn’t discover who they were? Do you think that people now who have still never been able to find themselves on a silver screen never know who they are? No.

We weren't made to live like this. We weren't meant to model ourselves after TV characters, and media personalities, and then cut away everything that doesn’t match that aesthetic. We aren't meant to look to someone else to answer all our questions about who we are.

When you look in the mirror do you see yourself / Do you see yourself on the T.V. screen / Do you see yourself in the magazine [...] / Did you do it before you read about it / Identity is the crisis can't you see

Poly-styrene, “Identity”

If we expect all possible identities and experience to be available through media, we will always be disappointed, people potential for nuance is too vast. We are only limiting our ability to understand ourselves by seeing validation.

And then there’s the before; before mass media and TV, and influencers and monetizing every single incoherent thought out of your head on twitter. And hell, before books, because yeah, they are also a way to sell the human experience.

Before all that we had folktales. A character arch populated by new details added by each teller. Stories that could be anything you wanted and had the capacity to hold every experience and feeling and question in as many ways as you want because you’re making it all up.

Have you ever told a fairytale to a child? From memory? Have you ever added little details to make the protagonist resemble them, and watched them smile sheepishly, because the clever fairy or bold knight is them? It’s magical. There’s this quote, it makes me want to breakdown and cry when I think about it,

won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up

Lucille Clifton - song at midnight

(If you’ve stuck with me this long you many as well read the whole poem, it’s truly mesmerizing.)

I’m not saying that media is evil. Good lord, I’m not going to condemn books. But please, stop trying to find who you are by looking at pseudo-people. They are not your only options.

#representation #mass media #hollywood #disney #media #disney's first gay character #i’m sorry i am genuinely illiterate i cannot spell

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miss-rosen · 3 years

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In memory of the Queen Poly Styrene, who died on this day in 2011 ~*~

Photo: Hilaria McCarthy.Poly Styrene, lead singer of the band X-Ray Spex, in a park before attending the 'Women of the Year Lunch' on Oct. 26, 1979 in London.

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porlockstompf · 4 years

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Reading de Nacht Reading 2019

my favourite books of the year

my overall favourite book of the year:

martin hägglund "this life why mortality makes us free" (2019)

postcyberpunkstompf:

01 ken liu (ed) "broken stars: contemporary chinese sf in translation" (2019)

02 cory doctorow "radicalized" (2019) 03 dave hutchinson "the return of the incredible exploding man" (2019) + dave hutchinson "nomads" (2019) + dave hutchinson "thumbprints" (1978) + dave hutchinson "torn air" (1980) + dave hutchinson "the push" (2009) + dave hutchinson "the villages" (2002) ... damn that elusive "paradise equation" (1981) ... 04 tade thompson "rosewater" (2016) + tade thompson "rosewater insurrection" (2019) + tade thompson "rosewater redemption" (2019) 05 desirina boskovich (ed) "lost transmissions: the secret history of sf & f" (2019)

06 hannu rajaniemi & jacob weisman (eds) "the new voices of science fiction" (2019) 07 gardner dozois (ed) "the very best of the best: 35 years of the year's best science fiction" (2019) 08 jonathan strahan (ed) "the best science fiction & fantasy of the year, volume thirteen" (2019) 09 robert markeley "kim stanley robinson modern masters of sf" (2019) 10 allan kaster (ed) "the year's top hard sf stories 3" (2019)

11 olivier girard (ed) "bifrost 96 la revue des mondes imaginaires: william gibson" (2019) 12 mario guglielminetti "web is over. parabola ed esplosione di ubuweb, l'antiprofilo" (2019) 13 bryan thomas schmidt (ed) "infinite stars: dark frontiers" (2019) 14 baoshu "the redemption of time" [2011] (2019) 15 cixin liu "the supernova era" [2003] (2019)

16 l. x. beckett "gamechanger" (2019) 17 gareth l powell "fleet of knives" (2019) 18 chen qiufan "waste tide" [2013] (2019) 19 derek künsken "the quantum garden" (2019) 20 gregory benford "rewrite: loops in the timescape" (2019)

21 james s.a. corey "tiamat's wrath" (2019) + james s.a. corey "auberon" (2019) 22 jim al-khalili "sunfall" (2019) 23 peter f hamilton "salvation lost" (2019) 24 neal asher "the warship" (2019) 25 jonathan strahan (ed) "mission critical" (2019)

26 jack mcdevitt "octavia gone" (2019) 27 elizabeth bear "ancestral night" (2019) 28 ian mcdonald "moon rising" (2019) 29 carmen maria machado (ed) "the best american sf & f 2019" (2019) 30 valerie valdes "chilling effect" (2019) 31 simon morden "bright morning star" (2019) + s. j. morden "no way" (2019) 32 neil stephenson "fall or, dodge in hell" (2019) 33 graham edwards "string city" (2019)

klassikstompf:

01 arno schmidt "bottom's dream" [1970] (2016) ... & still reading ...

02 jorge luis borgès "borgès restored (the author's preferred translations)" (2016) 03 julie orringer "the flight portfolio" (2019) + julie orringer "the invisible bridge" (2010) 04 pola oloixarac "savage theories" (2017) + pola oloixarac "dark constellations" (2019) 05 simon critchley "memory theatre" (2014)

06 gabriel josipovici "hotel andromeda" (2014) 07 david keenan "for the good times" (2019) 08 wg sebald "vertigo" [1990] (1999) + wg sebald "the emmigrants" [1992] (1996) + wg sebald "the rings of saturn" [1995] (1998) + wg sebald "austerlitz" (2001) 09 luis chitarroni "the no variations "diary of an unfinished novel" [2007] (2013) 10 julián ríos "larva: a midsummer night's babel" [1983] (1991)

11 césar aira "birthday" [2001] (2019) + césar aira "three novels" [1990-2000-1997] (2018) 12 tom mole "the secret life of books" (2019) 13 lucy ives "loudermilk or the real poet or the origin of the world" (2019) 14 lászló krasznahorkai "baron wenckheim's homecoming" [2016] (2019) 15 lucy ellmann "ducks, newburyport" (2019)

16 lars iyer "nietzsche & the burbs" (2019) 17 d harlan wilson "the psychotic dr. schreber" (2019) 18 andrew gallix (ed) "we'll never have paris" (2019) 19 chris kelso (ed) "i transgress" (2019) 20 john crowley "the solitudes" [1987] (2007) + john crowley "love & sleep" (1994) + john crowley "daemonomania" (2000) + john crowley "endless things" (2007) ... (the aegypt cycle)

polarstompf:

01 carlos ruiz zafón "the labyrinth of the spirits" [2017] (2018)

02 volker kutscher "the fatherland files" [2012] (2019) 03 andrea camilleri "the overnight kidnapper" [2015] (2019) + andrea camilleri "the other end of the line" [2016] (2019) 04 mick herron "joe country" (2019) + mick herron "this is what happened" (2018) + mick herron "nobody walks" (2015) 05 john le carré "agent running the field" (2019)

06 guillaume musso "la vie secrète des écrivains" (2019) 07 luke mccallin "the man from berlin" (2013) + luke mccallin "the pale house" (2014) + luke mccallin "the divided city" (2016) 09 henry porter "brandenburg" [2005] (2019) + henry porter "firefly" (2018) + henry porter "white hot silence" (2019) 10 mitch silver "the bookworm" (2018) + mitch silver "in secret service" (2007)

11 alan judd "the accidental agent" (2019) 12 philip kerr "metropolis" (2019) 13 ian rankin "westwind" (2019) 14 jo nesbø "the knife" (2019) 15 david hewson "devil's fjord" (2019)

16 barry forshaw "crime fiction: a reader's guide" (2019) 17 a.a. dhand "one way out" (2019) 18 martin holmén "clinch: the stockholm trilogy 01" (2016) + martin holmén "down for te count: the stockholm trilogy 02" (2017) + martin holmén "slugger: the stockholm trilogy 03" (2019) 19 michael kestemont "de zwarte koning" (2019) 20 soren sveistrup "the chestnut man" [2018] (2019)

21 tim mason "the darwin affair" (2019) 22 patrick conrad "good night, charlie" (2019) 23 chris pavone "the paris diversion" (2019) 24 dov aflon "a long night in paris" (2019) 25 arne dahl "hunted" [2017] (2019)

RIP ANDREA CAMILLERI !

gedächtnisstompf:

01 martin hägglund "this life: why mortality makes us free" (2019) / "this life: secular faith & spiritual freedom" (2019)

02 derrida "la vie la mort: séminaire (1975-1976)" (2019) 03 jean-luc nancy "derrida, suppléments” (2019) 04 jean-françois bouthors et jean-luc nancy "démocratie! hic et nunc" (2019) 05 hannah arendt "de vrijheid om vrij te zijn" (2019) + hannah arendt "nous autres réfugiés" (2019)

06 mckenzie wark "capital is dead": is this something worse?" (2019) 07 johan schokker & tim schokker "extimiteit: jacques lacan's terugkeer naar freud" (2000) 08 gerhard richter & ann schmock (eds) "give the word: responses to werner hamacher's 95 theses on philology" (2019) 09 ranja n gosh "philosophy & poetry: continental perspectives" (2019) 10 shoshana zuboff "the age of surveillance capitalism" (2019)

11 kate zambrano "screen tests: stories & other writing" (2019) 12 daniele carluccio "roland barthes lecteur" (2019) 13 jean-clet martin "la philosophie de gilles deleuze" (2019) 14 mitchell dean & daniel zamora "le dernier homme et la fin de la révolution: foucault après mai 68" (2019) 15 arnon grunberg "vriend & vijand: decadentie, ondergang & verlossing" (2019)

16 kwami anthony appiah "de leugens die ons verbinden: een nieuwe kijk op identiteit" [2018] (2019) 17 quentin meillassoux "science fiction & extro-science fiction" (2015) 18 roberto calasso "het onbenoembare verleden" [2017] (2019) 19 lydia davis "essays" (2019) 20 denise riley "time lived, without its flow" (2019)

poesisstompf:

zoë skoulding "footnotes to water" (2019)

platterstompf:

01 rick moody "on celestial music, and other adventures in listening" (2012)

02 yann courtiau "frictions: ce que la littérature a fait à la musique et ce que la musique a en a fait" (2019) 03 vivien goldman "revenge of the she-punks: a feminist music history from poly styrene to pussy riot" (2019) 04 garrígos, triana & guerra "god save the queens: pioneras del punk" (2019) 05 jon savage "this searing light, the sun & everything else: joy division the oral history" (2019)

06 richard beck "trains, jesus, and murder: the gospel according to johnny cash" 07 mark lanegan "sleevenotes" (2019) 08 jason williamson "jason williamson's house party: sleaford mods 2014-2019" (2019) 09 gallix, hill, & rose (eds) "love bites: fiction inspired by pete shelley" (2019) 10 greg laurie "johnny cash the redemption of an american icon" (2019)

11 marc vos & toon loenders "siglo xx: opdat de dood ons levend vindt & het leven ons niet doodt" (2019) 12 david sandilands & david keenan "go ahead & drop the bomb (memorial device pamflet)" (2019) 13 guillaume belhomme "pop fin de siècle" (2019) 14 chris bohn (ed) "the wire" (magazine) (2019) 15 sylvain sylvain "there's no bones in ice cream: sylvain sylvain's story of the new york dolls" (2018)

16 debbie harry "face it" (2019) 17 jaime gonzalo "poder freak: una crónica de la contracultura vol III" (2014) 18 matthew bower & samantha davies "talisman angelical" (2017) 19 darryl w bullock "the world's worst records: an arcade of audio atrocity vol I" (2013) + darryl w bullock "the world's worst records: another arcade of audio atrocity vol II" (2015) 20 steve zisson (ed) "a punk rock future" (2019) / ivar muñoz-rojas "underground babilonia" (2019)

bilderstompf:

01 didier ottinger "bacon en toutes lettres" (2019)

02 antoni tàpies "cap braços cames cos" (2012) + antoni tàpies "mahlerei und graphik" (2011) 03 laura oldfield ford "savage messiah" (2019) 04 fred vermorel "dead fashion girl: a situationist detective story" (2019) 05 françois schuiten & jaco van dormael "le dernier pharaon" (2019)

06 ken krimstein "the three escapes of hannah arendt: the tyranny of truth" (2018) 07 erik bindervoet & saskia pfaeltzer "aldus sprach nietzsche's zuster" (2019) 08 anthony n fragola & roch c smith "the erotic dream machine: interviews with alain robbe-grillet on his films" (2006)

cyclostompf:

01 bernard chambaz "petite philosophie du vélo" (2019)

02 filip osselaer "de man die doodging (vervolgens mosselen bestelde, de rekening vroeg en verdween): el tarangu, josé manuel fuente" (2019) 03 peter schmink "de cultus van het lijden: een vrije oefening" (2006) 04 laurent willame "les lieux sacrés du cyclisme: 15 pélérinages à faire avant de crever" (2019) 05 jonas heyerick (ed) "bahamontes: uit liefde voor de stiel" [magazine] (2019)

06 johnny vansevenant "1969, het jaar van eddy merckx" (2019) 07 edwin winkels "la vuelta: heroïsche verhalen uit de ronde van spanje" (2019) 08 frederik baeckelandt "fausto coppi (les héros 04)" (2019) 09 harry pearson "the beast, the emperor & the milkman: a bone-shaking tour through cycling’s flemish heartlands" (2019) 10 peter cossins "the yellow jersey / le maillot jaune" (2019)

11 thijs zonneveld "het panini album" (2019) 12 thijs zonneveld "de fiets, de fiets & nog veel meer sportverhalen" (2019) 13 willy vangenechten "hoe word je een wielerfan (en blijf je er een)?" (2019)

some wissenschaftstompf & autres divertissements ...:

01 robert macfarlane "underland: a deep time journey" (2019)

02 george van hal & ans hekkenberg "het kosmisch rariteitenkabinet" (2019) 03 josey waley-cohen "only connect: the difficult second quiz book" (2019)

… tsundoku !

may your home be safe from tigers, leroy, x HNY!

... the annual out of control TBR pile ...

postcyberpunkstompf

ada hoffmann "the outside" (2019) adrian tchaikovsky "children of ruin" (2019) alastair reynolds "shadow captain" (2019) + alastair reynolds "permafrost" (2019) annalee newitz "the future of another timeline" (2019) charlie jane anders "the city in the middle of the night" (2019) farah mendlesohn "the pleasant profession of robert a heinlein" (2019)gareth l powell "ragged alice" (2019) greg egan "perihelion summer" (2019) ian creasey "the shapes of strangers" (2019) jo walton "lent" (2019)

kameron hurley "the light brigade" (2019) karl schroeder "stealing words" (2019) megan o'keefe "velocity weapon" (2019) neil clarke (ed) "the eagle has landed: 50 years of lunar sf" (2019) nina allan "the silverwind" (2019) paul di filippo "aeota" (2019) peter swirski "stanislaw lem: philosopher of the future" (2019) + peter swirski & waclaw m osadnik (eds) "lemography: stanislaw lem in the eyes of the world" (2019) richard kadrey "the grand dark" (2019) rudy rucker "million mile road trip" (2019) simon ings "the smoke" (2019)

klassikstompf

alex landragin "crossings" (2019) enrique vila-matas "mac's problem" [2017] (2019) joseph scapellato "the made-up man" (2019) kevin breatnach "tunnelvision" (2019) michel houellebecq "serotonin" (2019) nell zink "doxology" (2019) roberto bolaño "the spirit of science fiction: a novel" (2019) samanta schweblin "mouthful of birds" (2019) sergio pitol "mephisto's waltz: selected short stories" (2019) will eaves "murmur" (2019)

polarstompf

johan op de beek "het complot van laken" (2019) jon steinhagen "the hanging artist" (2019) juli zeh "empty hearts" (2019) max hertzberg "operation oskar" (2019) + max hertzberg "berlin centre" (2019) peter robinson "many rivers to cross" (2019) tony belloto "bellini & the sphinx" [1995] (2019)

#2019 #rewind #reading #lecture #librarything

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daggerzine · 4 years

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Lots of lists! DAGGER’s favorites of 2019 (and more lists to come)

TIM’S LISTS

MY 20 FAVORITE RECORDS OF 2019 (in no particular order)

Jeanines- S/t (Slumberland)

Purple Mountains- S/T (Drag City)

Monnone Alone- Summer of the Mosquito (Lost & Lonesome)

Mick Trouble – Here’s the Mick Trouble LP (Emotional Response)

Pernice Brothers- Spread the Feeling (Ashmont)

The Resonars- No Exit (Trouble in Mind)

Rocket 808- S/T (12XU)

Thigh Master- Now For Example (Goner)

Seablite- Grass Stains and Novacaine (Emotional Response)

Ex Hex- It’s Real (Merge)

Versus – Ex Voto (Ernest Jenning Record Co)

Nots- 3 (Goner)

Rocketship- Thanks To You (Darla)

Dream Syndicate- These Times (Anti)

The Paranoid Style – A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life (Bar None)

Business of Dreams- Ripe for Anarchy (Slumberland)

The Safes- Winning Combination (Bickerton Records)

The Gotobeds- Debt Begins at 30 (Sub Pop)

The Black Watch- Magic Johnson (ATOM Records)

Comet Gain- Fireraisers Forever! (Tapete)

WAIT! HERE’S 20 MORE!

Vivian Girls- Memory (Polyvinyl)

Bob Mould- Sunshine Rock (Merge)

Modern Nature- How To Live (Bella Union)

Robert Forster- Inferno (Tapete’)

David Kilgour- Bobbie’s a Girl (Merge)

Piroshka- Brickbat (Bella Union)

The Armoires- Zibaldone (Big Stir Records)

Dark Blue- Victory is Rated (12XU)

The Persian Leaps- Electrical Living (Land Ski Records)

Sasha Bell- Love Is Alright (Both Sides Now)

Frankie Cosmos- Close It Quietly (Sub Pop)

USA/Mexico- Matamoros (12XU)

Moving Targets- Wires (Boss Tuneage)

Red Sleeping Beauty- Stockholm (Matinee)

Redd Kross- Beyond the Door (Merge)

The Treasures of Mexico- Everything Sparks Joy (Shelflife)

In Deed- Everest (Big Stir Records)

The Catenary Wires- Til the Morning (Tapete)

Foxhall Stacks- The Coming Collapse (Snappy Little Numbers)

The Vandoliers- Forever (Bloodshot)

WAIT!! EVEN 20 MORE…

Tiny Ruins- Olympic Girls (Bada Bing!)

Bruce Springsteen- Western Stars (Columbia/ Sony)

Sebadoh- Act Surprised (Dangerbird)

Le Superhomard- Meadow Lane park (Elefant)

James Clarke Five- Parlour Sounds (The Beautiful Music)

The Boys with the Perpetual Nervousness – Dead Calm (Pretty Olivia)

Tennis Club- Pink (Elefant)

Parsnip- When the Tree Bears Fruit (Trouble in Mind)

The Muffs- No Holiday (Omnivore)

The Kyle Sowashes- I Don’t Know What To Tell You (Anyway Records)

The Vapour Trails- See You In the Next World (Futureman Records)

Jason Hawk Harris- Love and the Dark (Bloodshot)

Trip Wire- Once & Always (Big Stir Records)

Lloyd Cole- Guesswork (EAR Music)

Mike Krol- Power Chords (Merge)

Bubblegum Lemonade- Desperately Seeking Sunshine (Matinee)

The Silent Boys- By the Light of the Moon (Bossy Lil Thing Records)

The Pearlfishers- Love and Other Hopeless Things (Marina)

Spray Paint- Into the Country (12XU)

The Ocean Blue- Kings and Queens/ Knave and Thieves (Korda)

I also really enjoyed records by……Unhappy Fly, I Was a King, The Hussy, 75 Dollar Bill, Snail Mail, Apex Manor, Mike Gale, Rob Laufer, Richard X, Heyman, Skull Practitioners, Todd Herfindal, Young Guv, New Pornographers, Scott Gagner, The Memory Fades, Mudhoney, The Well Wishers, Golden Pelicans, The Reds, Pinks and Purples, Lucille Furs, The Umbrella Puzzles, Westkust , Mondello , Johnny Couch, Weyes Blood, Spearmint, Corridor, Joy Cleaner, Elva, Possible Humans, Blue Jeans, the BVs, etc .etc.

COLLECTIONS/ REISSUES

The Springfields- Singles, 1986-1991 (Slumberland)

The Victims- S/T (In the Red)

Dream Syndicate- The Days of Wine and Roses (Fire)

Stephen Duffy- I Love My Friends (Needle Mythology)

Human Switchboard- Who’s Landing in my Hangar (Fat Possum)

The Dum Dum Boys- Let There Be Noise (In the red)

Soul Asylum- Made to be Broken & While You Were Out (Omnivore)

Holiday Flyer- The Rainbow Confection & Try Not To Worry (Darla)

Metz- Automat (Sub Pop)

The Toms- The 1970 Sessions (Futureman Records)

SOME LISTS BY DINA HORNREICH

In a not-so comprehensive (mostly desultory) manner I have thrown this list of current zeitgeisty kinds of things that I encountered in one way or another that had various compelling bits, chunks, and other substantial nuggets (if not their complete entirety) of a musical persuasion that provided something engaging, amusing, enlightening, challenging, discordant, or otherwise worthwhile for my freaky mind, body, and soul to chew on in this last year of 2019. There are always tons and tons of things that I missed and/or never got to (but always meant to) so not exhaustive whatsoever. More a reflection of where I’ve been these days and how I’ve gotten here... (and will try to remain, if circumstances allow.)

Some Recorded Albums:

● Sneaks: Highway Hypnosis (Merge)

● The World: Reddish (Microminiature)

● Sacred Paws: Run Around the Sun (Merge)

● Trash Kit: Horizon (Upset the Rhythm)

● A-WA: Bayti Fi Rasi (BMG)

● Sleater-Kinney: The Center Won’t Hold (Mom + Pop)

● Ex Hex: It’s Real (Merge)

● Angel Olsen: All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar)

● Vagabon: s/t (Nonesuch)

● GRLwood: I Sold My Soul to the Devil When I Was 12 (sonaBLAST!)

● Girl Friday: Fashion Conman EP (Hardly Art)

● Tacocat: This Mess is a Place (Sub Pop)

● Karen O/Danger Mouse: Lux Prima (BMG)

● Cherry Glazerr: Stuffed and Ready (Secretly Canadian)

● Habibi: Come My Habibi single (Muddguts)

● Haim: Hallelujah EP (Columbia)

● Grimes: “We Appreciate Power”/”Pretty Dark” demo/”4AEM”/”Violence”/”So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth” various pre-album release singles (4AD)

● Madame Gandhi: Visions EP - Extended Versions (self-released?)

● Chai: PUNK (Burger)

● Kero Kero Bonito: Civilisation I single (Polyvinyl)

● Solange: When I Get Home (Columbia)

● UT: Conviction reissue (Mute)

Some Live Performances (mostly in Denver, CO):

● Hadgaba/Hal Aqua and the Lost Tribe (Denver Klezfest 2019 at Mercury Cafe)

● Jonathan Richman (Swallow Hill)

● Kristen Hersh (Hi Dive)

● Ex Hex/Moaning (Bluebird)

● Sleater-Kinney/Joseph Keckler (Ogden)

● Angel Olsen/Vagabon (Gothic)

● Holygram (Oriental)

● Cellista (Mercury Cafe)

● The Beths/Girl Friday (Globe)

● GRLwood (Globe)

● Tacocat/Paranoyds (Larimer)

● Short Shorts/Potty Mouth (Lost Lake)

● Nots (Lost Lake)

● Spiritualized (Gothic)

● Breezy Porticos (Chez Hinely)

● Church Fire/Glitter Vomit (Rhinoceropolis)

● FemmeFest 2019: Rare Byrds (Museum of Contemporary Art Denver)

● Love Languages/Teenage Fanclub (Bluebird)

● Girls Rock Denver Showcase 2019 (Summit Music Hall)

● Vivien Goldman (in-store at Rough Trade Records NYC)

● Imperial Teen (in-store at Twist’n Shout Records)

Some Books:

● Women Who Rock by Evelyn McDonnell

● Dayglo: Poly Styrene by Celeste Bell and Zoe Howe

● Revenge of the She-Punks by Vivien Goldman

● Why Karen Carpenter Matters by Karen Tongson

● Hardcore Anxiety: A Graphic Guide to Punk Rock and Mental Health by Reid Chancellor

● Liz Phair: Horror Stories (memoir)

● Frame of Mind: Punk Photos and Essays From Washington DC (and Beyond) 1997-2017 by Antonia Tricarico

● Girl in a Girl Band by Malia James

Some Film/TV (if not content relevant entirely, for its soundtrack minimally):

● Judy (BBC Films)

● Transparent (Amazon Series, Season 5/Musical Finale)

● Dolemite is My Name (Netflix Original Film)

● 2 Dope Queens (HBO Season 2, Episode 3)

● Trinkets (Netflix Series, Season 1)

● Blinded by the Light (New Line Cinema)

● Shrill (Hulu Series, Season 1)

● The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Series, Season 3)

● Big Mouth (Netflix Series, Season 3)

● A Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu Series, Season 3)

● GLOW (Netflix Series, Season 3)

● Orange is the New Black (Netflix Series, Season 7)

Some Radio/Podcast Outlets:

● She’s A Punk (podcast)

● Indie 102.3 FM (local station formerly Open Air CPR)

● KGNU 1390 AM (local station)

● Radio 1190AM KVCU (local station)

And to go full circle around in the weird miasmic disorientations of blogs/zines, and every tool in between...I could mention the writers at Bust, Bitch, Pitchfork, even… DAGGER. But credit for discoverability also includes the vending platforms of Spotify/Bandcamp/Apple Music/Soundcloud themselves (and their haunted algorithms) as well as musicians’ various social media counterparts (which may or may not include their publicists) on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. (and where does YouTube fit in exactly?) which means the industry will eventually eat itself. Happy New Year, ladies and germs. Who knows what the next decade will bring? Whatever it may be, let it be progress rather than random changes for no apparently good reasons.

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Florida’s Best Live Acts of 2019

With a new year, and new decade ahead of us, we recap the best Live Acts Statewide of this past year

Florida- 2019 has been a prosperous music for local music in the state.

With a plethora of albums, EP’s and concerts released before the new decade, in addition to new acts emerging from the already electrified soil, we decided to take our focus on the medium that we believe best proves the true mettle of a band: our selections of the Top 10 Live Acts in Florida.

This proved to be a much harder list than expected, with a great many acts having captured our heart in 2019. However, we stand by this list, and feel that these acts should be the ones you keep your mind, ears and excited soul on in 2020…

The Guttertones (Rock)

(photo: Jenelle DeGuzman)

Having formed in just 2019, the duo, composed of Brennan Curtin (drums) and Adam Sheetz (guitar/vocals) perform with the intensity of an act that have been honing their craft for 10 years. Debuting at Bumblefest, their live performances are something inexplicably powerful; with just a guitar, drums and a vox microphone, they can draw in a crowd like flies to sugar, and it helps that the sound coming from the amps is a honey suckle drawl of perfect Southern inspired rock meets the grit of Detroit distortion, all wrapped up in West Palm Beach flair.

They are an act that increasingly better themselves after every viewing, and for that reason and many more, we believe the duo to be one of the best on this list.

https://www.facebook.com/theGutterTones/

Spirit & The Cosmic Heart (Dreampop/Shoegaze)

(photo: Roberto Badillo)

The Lakeland based act has been one we’ve kept on both your radar, and ours, since early this year. Churning and evolving like the Atlantic itself, the group made continued evolving and with each new emergence, seem to just keep getting better.

With their 2nd EP, “Memories” released mid-2019, they are one of the few acts, both locally and internationally, that can sound just as good on record and yet somehow, different. Our best example of this being our personal favorite, “Endlessly”. While the track is an intense Cure meets Mama’s and Papa’s build-up of dreamy romance live, the 5 piece have created an almost alternate reality version of the track on record that explodes just the same, in a different way. And it’s truly the best way to describe the act; something haunting that sparks something individually different, upon every song and every viewing.

https://spiritandthecosmicheart.bandcamp.com/

Donzii (Post-Punk)

(Photo: Jen.cray)

Another of our unabashedly favorite local acts, experiencing the 5 piece in any of the five senses, is akin to visiting one of the great art museums of the world- each time.

With visuals being orchestrated by frontwoman Jenna Balfe, a whirlwind mixture of Siouxsie Sioux and Poly Styrene, every performance Donzii puts on is a different painting, in a different time, all along the already powerful hypnotic music that follows from the chemistry of the act themselves. “Sand”, to our ears, is one of the best tracks of this decade by any artist in recent memory internationally. It’s a large claim to make, but an act like Donzii truly come every once in a lifetime, and we are grateful to be living in the same era of music as this incredible band.

https://donzii.bandcamp.com/

Jaialai (Psychedelica/Alternative)

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While the sound have been a local flavor favorite, we got our first powerful dose of the sound live, at 1306 Miami earlier this year and it was something unlike anything else we’ve seen. Carrying the force of a hurricane inside of a tornadic explosion of guitars, drums and build-up, the performance we viewed consisted of moshing, dreamy visuals and near Renaissance punk vibes, something that is hard to duplicate not due to the sound, but the sheer amount of power it takes to carry such a beautiful weight.

If you have the chance, we highly recommend catching this act in any venue, and watch as you leave out of breath and captivated.

https://jaialaiofficial.bandcamp.com/

The Spoondogs (Rock/Punk)

The Orlando based sound helped to close out Bumblefest 2019, and demonstrated a performance so great, it never left our mind.

Take The Rolling Stones, Warsaw and just a touch of surf-esque orchestration and you have a truly potent mixture that could fit in any decade and still bring the crowd to a absolute frenzy, something they did to a full house of the Patio Stage in Respectable Street, having those in attendance so enthralled, some stood on tables just to get a glimpse of the hailstorm of guitars that the act wield so well, both live and in recording. If you’re a fan of the above examples, Robert Plant in his prime or classic punk in general, we recommend listening in all methods, ways and feelings possible.

https://spoondogs.bandcamp.com/releases

Tape Studies (Post/Instrumental Rock)

Let us tell you a story of romance, ambition, love, the feeling of falling and a thousand sunsets; or better yet, let Tape Studies do it for you. We have expressed our endless respect for the post-rock genre due the basis of composition being that of a storybooks. The unspoken words of feeling itself, and all those moments you didn’t quite know what to say, wishing instead that music would flow out of your lungs. The Northern Florida trio are this exactly, and after watching them perform at Will’s Pub, they also embody the belief that while an orchestra can fill a room, a group with passion can act as a hundred orchestras; something they do effortlessly. With a new album in the works, we greatly look forward to the opportunity of seeing the act again, and we await for you to do the same.

https://tapestudies.bandcamp.com/releases

In Motion (Post-Hardcore/Emo)

While the trio have been on our list since mid-2019, they are also our pick for the Best Album of 2019. The post-hardcore genre is one that, while often seen, is very scarcely done right justice and we are proud to say that it’s one they not only excel in, but have brought back incredible light back into. Having seen the act perform as both an unplanned trio and in it’s complete package, we have been thoroughly astounded each and every performance by the wall of enormous sound the Hobe Sound based produce. It’s not hard to see the trio truly love what they do, and we love watching them.

https://inmotionfl.bandcamp.com/

Glass Body (Punk)

This Miami sound is one you read about in the history books. The kind you see in black and white pictures of bands you wish you were able to see, giving performances that seem to bleed sound from image alone and you wish on the stars above you could have viewed. And we’re happy to say, you can and you must. Performing in the small, intimate space of Kismet Vintage in West Palm Beach, the trio are pure, and pardon our language, fucking amazing punk. With incredible Pixies-esque drones meets Sex Pistols explosion, frontwoman/bassist Bridget helps orchestrate performances that are a legendary joy to watch, and one we hope you’ll carve into your concert tablets in 2020…

https://glassbody.bandcamp.com/

Kalistik (Metal/Doom)

(Photo: Keith McCullough)

With the debut EP freshly released, and wonderfully, darkly seductive, the Winter Haven group while fresh on our list, are not one to be taken lightly. Having made their powerful debut performance at Jessie’s Lounge (the videos of which can be seen on their Facebook page), they became one of our Florida Project acts simply due to the intensity of the performance. Bringing 70’s post-punk, doom and just the slightest touch of psychedelic elements in an impressive whirl, they are an act we cannot wait to get more in the coming year and are grateful we can jam to on our earbuds in the meantime…

https://kalistik.bandcamp.com/releases

Death of a Deity (Thrash/Metal)

(Photo: Jenelle DeGuzman)

The metal scene is one that thrived in 2019, due in part of the incredible acts that have emerged in genre in the past year alone. And while our next picks have been favorites of the South Florida scene, after having the pleasure of seeing the Loxahatchee based act perform at Propaganda Lake Worth late this past year, they make our list for the sheer of power they hold in their ferocious chemistry.

With a swirling, impressive storm of guitars and Abe Cunningham meets John Bonham-esque drums, they succeed in the difficult task of checking of not just one, but all marks of a great rock show: Heavy, orchestrated chaos, headbanging worthy composition and most importantly, enjoying every moment of it, while having all those in their grasp feel the same. With a new album on the horizon, and the preview of those tracks shared during their live performances solidifying our belief in DOAD being one of the great live acts in Florida, we cannot wait to headbang again.

https://deathofadeity.bandcamp.com/

Rose Dickeson (Pop/Jazz)

One of the last, great and most promising examples of the power of, to quote Prince’s album, a piano and a microphone, the effortless composition that radiates from the Port Saint Lucie duo is an unforgettable of Fiona Apple earnesty, Regina Spektor vocals and the soul of Nina Simone, they are an act that are vastly underrated and incredibly potent. If you have a chance to see the act perform, it’s one we highly advise not passing, as they offer experience in the shape of sonic roses you’ll never forget the scent of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op53J4l1TV4

Makoto (Instrumental/Math Rock)

Our final selection for this list, will not be met with the usual “last but not least” blush response but calculated reasoning. The Southern Florida based act are the final cut on our list for the same reasoning that fireworks cap off another rotation around the Sun; for the power lightning storm that roars into the night, and what better way to describe the act than this? As we spoke of in our review of Bumblefest, we thoroughly believe that they should have been given a headline set and we believe 2020 will see them perform that slot at festivals both near and far, for the incredible, anthemic performances they emanate both in record and live. Makoto deliver the types of performances that have your feet sore from jumping, hair in a tizzy from rocking out and most importantly, leave you breathless. It’s a talent they are as skilled at as they are in composing near perfect rock orchestrations. And one we know, will leave you in awe.

https://makoto.bandcamp.com/

We hope you fill your heart with great, new and wonderful music in the new decade. And now, to quote a certain wizard, “ Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

-Jenelle DeGuzman

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thecreativemillennial · 10 months

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Happy 66th birthday to the late and great punk icon poly styrene

#Happy birthday poly styrene #rip poly styrene #in memory of poly styrene #birthday memoriam #punk rock #new wave #downtempo #xray spex #Spotify

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In memory of the wonderful Marianne Joan Elliott-Said aka Poly Styrene, English singer-songwriter and frontwoman of the punk rock band X-Ray Spex, who died 13 years ago today of metastatic breast cancer at the age of 53

📸 Peter Stone

#polystyrene #womanofpunk #punkrockhistory

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Gallery: 1 Ani DiFranco 2 Bruce Cockburn 3 Poly Styrene 4 Eminem 5 U2 6 Roger Waters 7 Rage Against The Machine 8 Robert Nesta Marley 9 Sex Pistols 10 Buffy Sainte-Marie

Resistance Tribute: Part 3 REBELLIONS FOR ALL MOODS & TASTES – by the Lone Antifa & the Canuck Crank – revised & updated Nov 12, 2022

MFF is in the process of bidding a fond adieu to the ongoing turmoil of American politics, and we want to go out in style. So we have just finished revising and expanding one of our favorite playlists – which was originally posted for International Workers’ Day, 8 years ago. The post has been considerably updated, to showcase all of the artists featured above.

It also offers figures such as PUBLIC ENEMY, WOODY GUTHRIE, JOAN BAEZ, FRANK ZAPPA, PRINCE, THE CLASH, JIMI HENDRIX, ALLEN GINSBERG, THE BEATLES, PAUL ROBESON, MONTY PYTHON, YOKO ONO, LENNY BRUCE, MIRIAM MAKEBA, PUSSY RIOT, and plenty more. You can access the finished product at the first link below – and we invite you to check out the links to several other related items. In conclusion: Have fun storming the Bastille, comrades!

REBEL MUSIC FOR A MERRY MAY DAY https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/49345959815/rebel-music-for-a-merry-may-day-by-the-canuck THE HERO’S JOURNEY OF THE CHOSEN BERN https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/655761574616793088/gallery-1-the-fine-art-of-bern-spotting-2-the CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER: A POTUS ABSENT WITHOUT LAW https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/657180468385546240/resistance-tribute-part-1-clear-present-danger THE FIRST AVENGER’S ANTIFA USA HIT PARADE https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/189391026290/resistance-tribute-part-6-the-first-avengers WHEN THE ARTS DO JUSTICE TO RESISTANCE https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/659380468858355712/resistance-tribute-part-2-when-the-arts-do THE DOONESBURY PROPHETIC CHRONICLES https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/183467626780/the-doonesbury-prophetic-chronicles-part-1-by THE UNQUOTABLE TRUMP GOES ROGUE https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/631721452658425856/the-unquotable-trump-goes-rogue-part-1-multi DA GANG DAT COULDN’T COUP STRAIGHT https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/639339651499474944/photo-gallery-the-coup-before-christmas-meets USA DEFIANCE & SURVIVAL MANIFESTO https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/178087639820/usa-defiance-survival-manifesto-part-one-by CRUEL REQUIEMS FOR THE BIGLIEST SORE LOSER https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/663916506082623488/resistance-tribute-part-5-hes-a-biiiiiiiiiiiigly UNCLE SAM'S MIRACLE CURE FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/660275563772215296/resistance-tribute-part-4-uncle-sams-miracle EVERYBODY KNOWS HE’S IN TROUBLE, EXCEPT TRUMP https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/170830134135/everybody-knows-hes-in-trouble-except-trump-by LEGACIES OF AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/662060944255533056/legacies-of-an-american-tragedy-by-david-d ATOMIC CAFE STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/659043774978244608/atomic-cafe-still-open-for-business-by-the-lon THE BIGLY YUUUUGE IMPOTUS THEME PARK https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/632214159489220608/the-bigly-yuuuuge-impotus-theme-park-part-1 FUNERAL PYRE OF THE MAGAMERICAN MESSIAH https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/650853914324992000/do-not-listen-to-what-the-prophets-are CAPTAIN AMERICA’S PREMATURE BURIAL https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/651868087388372992/trumpery-swan-song-act-2-captain-americas CIVIL WAR JUST AIN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/652682070929326081/trumpery-swan-song-act-3-civil-war-just-aint SACRIFICIAL RITE OF DA BIGLY STABLE GENIUS https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/653860772025417728/trumpery-swan-song-act-4-sacrificial-rite-of-da MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO THE PARASITE IN CHIEF https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/654857478407897088/trumpery-swan-song-act-5-memorial-tribute-to-the

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Audio & Playlist for May 18, 2019: Bikes

Critical mass, Budapest Here for you is a show of songs about bicycles, the human-powered kind! Coming soon there will be a show about motorcycles, mopeds, scooters etc but FIRST this coming Saturday May 25 will be a show about summer or war or both for Memorial Day! After that I will be away for 2 weeks!

link to audio Playlist: Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night (Uneasy Listening theme song) Desperate Bicycles - Cars

DJ speaks over James Last - The Pushbike Song

Clyde McPhatter with Billy Ward and His Dominoes - Pedal Pushin' Papa Sportchestra! - Changing Gears Tomorrow - My White Bicycle XTC - I'd Like That Thee Hydrogen Terrors - Sissy Bar

Sugarcubes - Motorcrash Poly Styrene - Bicycle Song Vaselines - Rory Rides Me Raw Diskonto - Sexmanaders Cykler Fats Domino - Rockin' Bicycle Eastfield - Second Fastest Cycle Courier in London The Mixtures - The Pushbike Song

The Ex - Human Car Pink Floyd - Bike Brad Anders - Don't Paint Your Bike in the Garage Shonen Knife - Cycling is Fun Half Man Half Biscuit - A Lilac Harry Quinn

Fifteen - Helter Smelter Dot Wiggin Band - Banana Bike Shellac - Riding Bikes The Roches - My New Bicycle Dukes of Stratosphear - Bike Ride to the Moon Hawkwind - Silver Machine Donovan - The Fat Angel

Trunk Boiz - Scraper Bike Sportchestra! - Mountain Bikin' The Swallows - Bicycle Tilie Jason Crest - Turquoise Tandem Cycle Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - I Have Come Out to Play

Desperate Bicycles - Handlebars XTC - Season Cycle Mental Conspiracy - Wear Your Bike Helmet Tribe 8 - Daredevil Delivery Debbie Harry - Bike Boy Inch - Velocipede

The Buff Medways - Medway Wheelers

#radio #community radio #bikes #bicycle #punk #riot grrrl #post punk #indie rock #doo wop #r&b #new wave #psych #space rock #anarcho punk #bubblegum pop #psa

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ANNUAL TRIBUTE TO THE LATE, GREAT POLY STYRENE. Dublin Castle 3rd and 4th November

This festival is in its sixth year, and Polyfest 6 has to be the best to date . Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the classic X-Ray Spex album, the entire body of work was played in its entirety throughout the course of the festival. Specific highlights include Melanie Williams’ unique symphonic version of ‘The Day The World Turned Day-Glo’, and ‘Identity’ by the enigmatic and rather brilliant Fuzzbox.

Newcomers Cherry and Peesh did a splendid acoustic work out of ‘Plastic Bag’, and Roger Waters and Suede guitarist and collaborator Jay Stapley did an absolutely fantastic blues version of the classic track ‘I Am a Poseur’.

The Rubbettes did an extraordinary version of ‘Genetic Engineering’, with Steve Etherington and his cohorts completing his set with a new wave workout of ‘Sugar Baby Love’. Another great set came from a hybrid of Modern Romance and Leyton Buzzards, whose eclectic set included an incredible version of ‘Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees’. A highly original rendition of a Poly Styrene classic came from Jen of The Pricillas, who belted out ‘Let’s Submerge’ against a backdrop of electronica, with Pig Bag collaborator Tony Wrafter providing crucial augmentation via his trusty and instantly recognisable saxophone. JC Carrol of The Members, and John Perry of the Only Ones, recreated some of their hits, much to the delight of a packed audience. A fitting moment during the proceedings was a video of ‘The Train’ by Mark E Smith and Ed Blaney, sensitively produced especially for the festival by Steve Bowden the cinematic montage was a poignant tribute to another universally loved and much missed Icon. In fact, Ed Blaney divided his magnificent set between tributes to his old cohort Mark E Smith and Poly Styrene, which was an extremely moving festival segment. Another group to turn in a magnificent set were The Vapors, who did a particularly fast and furious rendition of ‘Turning Japanese’. The Gonads also provided some tremendous humour during their loud and raucous set culminating in a well-deserved encore. Fun Boy Three and Specials Legend Neville Staple had the entire room chanting his classics, and Christina Sugary Staple performed a brilliant version of the X-Ray Spex standard ‘I Cant Do Anything’ . Other bands providing great covers included The Shakespearos, Dr the Medics, Spizzoligy, and the absolutely incredible She Robot. However it was Headliner John Otway who ultimately thrilled the crowd with his sardonic wit and catchy observational songs, thus closing the proceedings on a high! Long live the memory of the late great Poly Styrene. Long live Polyfest . Laura Beth / November 2018

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