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Gallery: Slow Pulp @ The Pearl - Vancouver, BC Date: October 13, 2023 Photographed by: Danielle Costelo

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MJ Lenderman Album Review: Manning Fireworks

(Anti-)

BY KEITH MILLER

Manning Fireworks, the fourth studio album from singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist MJ Lenderman, is an endearing rock album with slight folk influences that smirks, smiles, and sighs with its audience. Its opening title track leads with an acoustic guitar that moseys its way to the track’s conclusion. Fiddles, electric guitars, and percussion start to fill in as Lenderman sings, “Once a perfect little baby / Who’s now a jerk / Standing close to the pyre manning fireworks.” The thesis seeps through the album: You used to be innocent, but you should know better by now. The lead single “She’s Leaving You” leans into this somber concept. It sounds simultaneously like a hug and a difficult conversation. The chorus reminds its listener, “We’ve all got work to do,” while the guitar builds up and maintains a steady progression to its finale: Wednesday lead singer and Lenderman’s real life ex-girlfriend Karly Hartzman closing out the track, singing, “She’s leaving you” as a steady bass line fills the back space.

Parts of Manning Fireworks feel like a garage band rocking out with the door wide open, like on “Wristwatch” or “On My Knees”, while other songs, like “Rip Torn,” are reminiscent of something you might hear sitting around a bonfire at Boy Scout camp. The product here is a stellar album right up until the very near end. That said, my biggest gripe with Manning Fireworks is the closing track. “Bark at the Moon” plays with a 10-minute run time, twice as long as the second-longest track on the album. I always get excited when a band like MJ Lenderman’s records a long song; I love hearing how they can justify the length. Unfortunately, while half of “Bark at the Moon” is a thoughtful composition about growing up, the other half is just noise emanating from the guitars. The vocals and instrumentation are poignant, but the guitar fuzz drags on a little too long and quickly loses whatever emotion it tried to muster.

Still, Manning Fireworks is a comforting rock album that doesn’t shy away from its Southern roots while still pushing the mainstream appeal of Lenderman’s brand of indie rock. For its very few shortcomings, it’ll be a great record to have on rotation as summer fades into fall. Give it a listen while you’re sipping on something near that bonfire--just be sure to keep the fireworks at a safe distance.

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New Video: Half Waif Shares Cinematic "The Museum"

New Video: Half Waif Shares Cinematic "The Museum" @HalfWaif @AntiRecords

Last month, acclaimed singer/songwriter, musician and producer Nandi Rose, best known as Half Waif announced the release of her fourth studio album, See You At The Maypole. Slated for an October 4, 2024 release through ANTI- Records, the album’s material came to fruition after a newly pregnant Rose experienced a heartbreaking miscarriage in December 2021, followed by months of medical…

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Moor Mother 'Jazz Codes' Film

Featured Tracks: UMZANSI (feat. Black Quantum Futurism & Mary Lattimore) - 0:57 THOMAS STANLEY JAZZCODES OUTRO (feat. Irreversible Entanglements & Thomas Stanley) - 3:09 NOISE JISM - 3:35 WOODY SHAW (feat. Melanie Charles) - 4:17 Woody Shaw ive jam (feat. MAIA, Henry Franklin, Michael Session & Mekala Session) - 6:09 APRIL 7th (feat. Keir Neuringer) - 10:27 BARELY WOKE (feat. Wolf Weston) - 11:17

Directed by Cyrus Moussavi Cinematography - Sebastián Pinzón Silva, Timothy Fryett Colorist - Gabe Sanchez Scratch Film - Sam Heydt Stylist - Rebecca Roe Live Sound Mix and Master (Woody Shaw) - Jesse Justice Production Coordination (Woody Shaw) - Samantha Lee Edit - Moussavi & Silva

Featuring: Maia - Vibes Henry Franklin - Bass Michael Session - Saxophone Mekala Session - Drums

Dancers - Ant Artefakt, DJ Lucky

Written & Executive Produced by Moor Mother Produced by Olof Melander Mastered by Alex Nagel Mixed by Willie Green

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Track of the day // Katy Kirby - Party of the Century

From the album Blue Raspberry, out January 26th 2024 on ANTI-.

[verytinysongs]

Yard by Slow Pulp

Band Name: Slow Pulp Labels: Anti- Records Location: Madison, Wisconsin, US Release Date: September 29, 2023 Tags: alternative, indie pop, indie rock

[mymelodic-chapel]

The Drums- Brutalism (Indie Pop, Jangle Pop) Released: April 5, 2019 [ANTI- Records] Producer(s): Jonny Pierce, Bryan De Leon, Sonny DiPerri

[mwagneto]

fascinated by just how much marvel movies (and shows) managed to perfect the formula of making 2 male characters Just gay enough that the fans who want that will go UMMM IT'S NOT BAIT THEY'RE LITERALLY GAY LOOK!!!! but not too gay that homophobes even pick up on there being any subtext let alone get mad. extremely insidious form of bait. obvious examples being fatws and loki and more recently deadpool 3 and now venom 3

[nebulo-philiac]

We gotta stop pretending that the "censorship/antishipper" movement is run by dumbass children when most of the people who actively participate on there are GROWN ASS ADULTS who say stuff like this, this person has 25+ on their bio😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Alfa Mist returns with fellow collaborator for new track;

Posted on https://www.thewordisbond.com/alfa-mist-returns-with-fellow-collaborator-for-new-track/

Alfa Mist returns with fellow collaborator for new track;

UK's rising polymath Alfa Mist brings you another dramatic visual with additional vocals from longtime collaborator Kaya Thomas-Dyke from his upcoming album, Variables. This track finds the multi-instrumentalist on the keys with Thomas-Dyke strumming the strings as her voice tiptoes softly

[proshipshy]

(ID: a tweet from user akihikokondosk, which reads "I get criticized for having a wedding with Hatsune Miku, who is 16 years old. However, a fictional character set at 16 years old is not the same as a real 16 year old person. I always say, "Hatsune Miku is a fictional character." Please distinguish between reality and fiction.")

As per usual, Miku's husband continues to be one of the only sane people still using the Bird App.

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Half Waif & NOIA Live Preview: 1/16, Sleeping Village, Chicago

Half Waif; Photo by Logan White

BY JORDAN MAINZER

We've been fans of Half Waif, the synth pop project of singer-songwriter Nandi Rose, ever since we heard her tremendous 2018 record Lavender (one of our favorites of that year). When we last caught up with Half Waif, she had just released her fifth full-length Mythopoetics, an existential exploration into the inevitability of death and pain of generational trauma. Rose had planned for Mythopoetics to be a minimal piano album, but it blossomed into her most textured effort yet. Now, on her latest, See You At The Maypole (Anti-), Rose faces loss head-on. Like Mythopoetics, See You At The Maypole had other initial intentions. Rose, planning a family and then becoming pregnant, contemplated a gentle collection about motherhood. But when she found out that the baby she was carrying had died, and then afterwards, that she had retained pregnancy tissue, likely due to not being prescribed the proper abortion pills because of regressive FDA regulations, and that she'd need another procedure to physically move forward, let alone mentally, she knew she had to write to rise above feelings of brokenness.

Mythopoetics songs like "Take Away the Ache" and "Orange Blossoms" imagined a future where Rose had prepared for the passing of loved ones. For See You At The Maypole, she returned to collaborator Zubin Hensler to flesh out songs inspired by sickness and death that had already occurred, where grief was an exit sign on the highway rather than intangible or even imagined. The result is yet even more layered than Mythopoetics, songs rife with strings, reeds, horns, and a chorus. But as much as See You At The Maypole's notes, lyrics, and arrangements are, per usual for Half Waif, deliberate, yet rich, Rose's decision to intersperse voice memo interludes and fold in raw takes among the elaborated presentation gives it an earthbound quality that makes the subject matter hit all the harder. On the wiry, percussive "Big Dipper"--an unexpected rock moment for an artist with an otherwise lush aesthetic--Rose sings, "I've got blood in my mouth / And I cannot shake the feeling / That there's no one looking out." On an album that finds solace from tragedy in community, Rose gives validity to those moments where you spiral anyway. Given the context, it's not surprising that See You At The Maypole feels like Half Waif's most honest record yet, but that Rose arrives at places of reflection and perspective through song is a balm for us all. "All the world is turning around like a figurine," she sings at one point, and that much is certain.

NOIA; Photo by Max Lakner, Styled by Yuri Tachi

Half Waif plays Sleeping Village tomorrow night as part of this year's Tomorrow Never Knows lineup. Opening is NOIA, the experimental pop project of Brooklyn via Barcelona composer and engineer Gisela Fullà-Silvestre. NOIA's been releasing music for almost a decade, but March 2023 finally saw her drop an album, gisela (Cascine). With songs in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, and English, and NOIA collaborating with like-minded electropop artists like Ela Minus and Buscabulla, gisela is at once traditional and forward thinking, timeless and existing within the modern day. Given that some of gisela's songs deal with similar themes of death and loss as those of See You At The Maypole, and like Rose, Gisela uses field recordings to ground her expressions within tangible stories, the billing is fitting. Tickets are still available at time of publication; doors at 7:00 P.M., show at 8:00 P.M.

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Combatting the "illiterate/dumb/insert classist assumption here" headcanons being circulated about Zaunites (particularly Vi) with my own headcanons.

Headcanon that Zaunites are actually super into literature and poetry. Like, culturally. Headcanon that music and poems were there for them when they had nothing else. The bridge song is the only song we hear being canonically sung by a character in the show and it's literally baby Powder (and Vi hums at the end of s2). The only other songs being played in-world are all by Zaunites. Art is a form of expression that they took refuge in as a community.

Headcanon that they generally love storytelling. Regardless of if they do or don't have access to books that are in good and preservable conditions, storytelling (via reading or memorization/orally) is a super important part of their culture. No one population has a 100% literacy rate even IRL, and not being able to read doesn't make anyone stupid anyway. But Zaun has a decently high literacy rate, especially considering their circumstances. They prioritize it because of how fundamentally important art/storytelling is to their culture.

Headcanon that Ekko and his Firelights tell stories to the kids at the base every night before bed. That a lot of these tales are from people he loved, like Benzo or his birth parents, or even Vi, Jinx, Mylo, and Claggor.

Headcanon that Vi in particular loves reading. She's a total bookworm. The few moments where she gets to do things for herself, she chooses to read and collect poetry and literary works. She's only ever kept one classic for herself (sold the others), but the things she keeps, she treasures. Young Vi likes to spin tales for baby Powder. Some are based off of stories she's read/was told by the adults in her life. Others are entirely made up on the spot, for Powder's own enjoyment.

Headcanon that Vi would've maybe wanted to be an author if she wasn't more preoccupied with protecting her family. That she considered pursuing those interests a pipe dream, something for a different version of herself.

Headcanon that Sevika remembers more about her dad's stories than about her dad himself. Headcanon that Renni the chembaron read books with her son whenever they both had a day off from work.

Headcanon that a lot of Zaunites know how to sing. Headcanon that Vi can sing. And that she used to sing lullabies for Powder until Mylo called her a baby for still needing them. And even after Vi punched him for it, Powder insisted she was too big for lullabies- so she and Vi settled on bedtime stories.

Headcanon that Jinx still remembers those stories. That she tells them over and over to herself whenever she can't sleep.

Headcanon that Silco told her stories when she became comfortable enough to tell him about her insomnia as a kid.

Headcanon that he would tell her anything from true stories of his past to things he's read or heard to things improvised on the spot. And they were different from Vi's stories because these usually had some moral/message to them, even the ones that he made up- but she loved them just as much as the aimless, endless tales of wonder and adventure Vi would spin for her.

Headcanon that now, she replays both Vi's and Silco's stories in her head at night. That when Isha came into her care, she shared some of those stories with her, too.

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Maybe I lose some followers along the way but that is okayyy I am not sorry to see them go ✌️

[teambyler]

Rebutting a Milkvan #182

I read the comments to my video by the way.

Decided to respond to someone.

If you enjoy these let me know lol

-teambyler

[mymelodic-chapel]

The Drums- Abysmal Thoughts (Indie Pop, Jangle Pop) Released: June 16, 2017 [Anti- Records] Producer(s): Jonathan Pierce