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Beat The Champ by The Mountain Goats is Butch!
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#request#album#beat the champ#butch#the mountain goats#john darnielle#peter hughes#jon wurster#Brad Cook#Phil Cook#matt douglas#Erik Friedlander#Nathan Golub#Austin Nevins#indie rock#indie folk
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Hurray For The Riff Raff Album Review: The Past is Still Alive
(Nonesuch)
BY JORDAN MAINZER
On The Past is Still Alive, the latest and best studio album from Hurray For The Riff Raff, Alynda Segarra looks back at a specific era of their life to pay tribute to chaos and imagine what could come from it. Their seemingly legendary but very real past is well-known by now: At age 17, Segarra left their home in the Bronx and hopped freight trains, played in a hobo band, and settled in New Orleans, a formative period of simultaneous struggle and freedom. That combined ethos has pervaded all Hurray For The Riff Raff records, but on The Past is Still Alive, Segarra's finally telling the tale, applying what they learned to the present day.
Notably, Segarra started recording The Past is Still Alive a month after their father died; while his voice appears literally on the album's final track "Kiko Forever", his musical uplift acts as a buoy for Segarra throughout the whole thing. Though they had worked with producer Brad Cook and drummer Yan Westerlund prior, Segarra had never recorded with the rest of the album's laundry list of stellar contributors, from Meg Duffy of Hand Habits, and Mike Mogis to guest vocalists Anjimile, Conor Oberst, and S.G. Goodman. That Segarra conquered a period of vulnerability to record the album with bonafide strangers is a terrific feat, but not necessarily surprising: This is a person who has the ability to treat even their fellow band members like the audience, recipients of some remarkable stories full of biography and symbolism alike.
Throughout The Past is Still Alive, Segarra alternates between timeless metaphor and hyper-specific details. On "Buffalo", they remark, simply, that "Some things take time," whether presently forming love or society's death-by-1000-cuts treatment of the oppressed. Segarra sings over strummed acoustic guitar and Mogis' pedal steel, the perfect accompaniment to earned wisdom. "Hawkmoon", on the other hand, is more electric, full of Duffy's bluesy riffing, akin to the epic sound of The Navigator, fitting for a song inspired by a lasting figure: the first trans woman Segarra ever met. As if to project to a stadium full of folks looking to honor Ms. Jonathan, Segarra sings a heartland rock-style salute: "She opened up my mind in the holes of her fishnet tights / Dildo waving on her car antenna and / I could've ridden shotgun forever." Pseudo title track "Snakeplant (The Past Is Still Alive)" juxtaposes both memories of chaos and lessons learned. As Segarra recounts shoplifting and having sex on top of an island of trash, they make sure to tell you what they took from a life among "the barrel of freaks": "Test your drugs / Remember Narcan / There's a war on people, don't you understand?" Duffy's distorted guitar and Matt Douglas's skronking saxophone create beauty from Segarra's warnings of disorder.
Some of the best songs on The Past is Still Alive are incredibly life-affirming. Opener "Alibi" is a plea to drug-addicted childhood friends, a promise that, "Maybe we'll start a band," on a song that introduces the swath of instrumentation present throughout the record, like gentle piano, steady drums, echoing guitar, and pedal steel. "Ogallala" and "Colossus of Roads" prioritize survival in a harsh world--Segarra compares themselves to the musicians still playing on the deck of a sinking Titanic--but not without a wish that the world itself would burn. Westerlund's crashing drums take the former to its logical conclusion, while the latter, inspired by the 2022 Club Q shooting in Colorado springs, makes the case for empathy along the way to the apocalypse. "Wrap you up in the bomb shelter of my feather bed," Segarra sings, fighting cruelty with compassion atop Phil Cook's mournful dobro and organ and Westerlund's funereal drum rolls.
It's a line in "Hourglass" that sticks with me the most among the lyrical and instrumental brilliance of The Past is Still Alive. Recounting feeling out-of-place among the status-obsessed, Segarra shifts their perspective. "Suddenly, a boulder's just sand in an hourglass," they sing. Though they spend much of the album concentrating on time and place, they recognize that our mark on earth is statistically insignificant, something we can use to our advantage rather than something that makes us feel small. What many in society consider important--celebrity, power, money--is volatile compared to the power of your own agency, of giving life to the past.
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#album review#hurray for the riff raff#nonesuch#yan westerlund#anjimile chithambo#matt douglas#the past is still alive#nonesuch records#alynda segarra#brad cook#meg duffy#hand habits#mike mogis#anjimile#conor oberst#s.g. goodman#the navigator#phil cook
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Indie rock industrial complex probably suggests the quality of the musicians I put under the category, though this was not my intention as you can guess right now. No, I merely wanted to point out the fact most of these musicians chart a similar path – their debuts shock us, until their next releases let them become a part of the establishment without the spirit they had in their early works. I agree, this can apply to many scenes, but the modern indie rock seems to have the most of these examples. I mean, even someone like Bon Iver – who is an institution at this point – continues to astound us, yet would Vernon be able to surprise us in the future? Sure, his latest feels weird in a good way, so I think he does appear to be familiar with what I'm trying to tell here.
#bon iver#i i#we#justin vernon#andrew fitzpatrick#matt mccaughan#sean carey#michael lewis#joe rainey sr.#michael migizi sullivan sr.#phil cook#zach hanson#wheezy#wesley tyler glass#brad cook#andrew sarlo#chris messina#10's music#indie rock
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#inglorious basterds#inglourious basterds#hans landa#aldo raine#shoshanna dreyfus#fredrick zoller#donny donowitz#dieter hellstrom#christoph waltz#quentin tarantino#daniel brühl#august diehl#melanie laurent#eli roth#brad pitt#i think i cooked with this one#but idk
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RECENT BISTRO HUDDY ART!!!
I love this fucking series
#my artwrok#bistro huddy servers#bistro huddy#bistro huddy cooks#terry bistro huddy#joey bistro huddy#pickles bistro huddy#ruby bistro huddy#nicole bistro huddy#bridgette bistro huddy#Brad bistrohddy#Aaron bistro huddy#joey x terry#terry x joey#digital drawing#digital artist
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my favorite ninjago ships & their dynamics
#himbo ships are always so funny because theyre always so fucking stupid together lmfao#greenflower is so wholesome D:#jaya the og obviously#pixal and zane are just babies who have “dates” and its just them cooking dinner together#my art#lego ninjago#lego ninjago art#ninjago#ninjago art#kai smith#cole brookstone#cole ninjago#lavashipping#ninjago brad#lloyd garmadon#greenflower#greenflowershipping#lmao the ninjago fandom adding shipping to the end of every ship name is really funny for some reason? i get why tho lol#nya smith#jay walker#jaya#ninjago jaya#zane julien#ninjago pixal#pixal borg#pixane#brad tudabone#STOP THATS HIS NAME AHAHAHAHA#ninjago kai#ninjago cole
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in my country we call this “tweaking” yee haw
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wasteland queens
#im back with more of this genderswap au thing goin on#it was so hard to come up with a design for nern but i LOVE how she turned out...#tbh i WAS gonna just keep her and olan shirtless but its just a lot more fun to come up with something else#plus i plan on posting this on ig and dont want to get reported for posting '''''female nipples'''' bro im already shadowbanned on there...#so pls dont be mad at me for changing them a lot...i cooked hard on this#also i wanted to make her outfit more comfy since shes like the grandma of the group#meanwhile for Terry i basically just kept her the same as her regular design#artblr#my art#digital art#artists on tumblr#illustration#small artist#character art#lisa the painful#brad armstrong#nern guan#olan hoyt#terry hintz#lisa the painful genderswap#rule 63#lisa rpg
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds + Youtube AU
#star trek#star trek: strange new worlds#christopher pike#spock#brad boimler#la'an noonien singh#star trek snw#snw au#snwedit#trekedit#my gif#this was born just because i would really love to a Pike cooking show and Spock and Boimler doing more whacky science experiments#maybe i'll make another set because so many ideas#Enterprise Bingo?#Mind Meld 101?#Erica Ortegas' Flight Simulator?
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Happy 60th wedding anniversary to Aquaman and Mera!
#dc comics#alex ross#jose luis garcia lopez#paul pelletier#ivan reis#brad walker#darwyn cooke#ramona fradon#nick cardy#brett booth#gary frank
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Fallen Angel Bradley;
After stealing a lighting bolt and gifting it to humankind (because Bradley has a heart of gold💛) he's banned from heaven and tho he lives between people for many, many years. Until he meets Jake in flight school (being an angel doesn't mean you shouldn't have a job!) Jake who is a little lost demon, banned from Hell because demons born from fire with a burning scar on their body, naming their human mate (isn't that true? Everyone of us has a little evil somewhere hidden inside that sometimes whispers things like; it's OK to eat more cookies right before lunch!🤭) but Jake's mate was an angel.
They become rivals, somewhere in the middle one argument leads to another, turns to yelling that echoes around empty locker room and Bradley rushes in, kisses Jake so hard to shut him up so it's how they start sleeping together ❤. They find out about their true identify but they still love each other!
Finally one day, Gods forgive Bradley for stealing fire and so he's given his wings to return but.. he decides to stay between people on Earth with his demon partner forever💗.
#you can guess what name was on Jake's body!#this all came to me in a harsh headache hxhdgx like I woke up and was like 'oh hey!! fallen angel Brad??'#oh and Brad nicknames Jake as 'my little devil 😈 ' which I think is so cute 😊#Brad holding Jake in his arms and whispering sweet things to him watching his eyes burning like hellfire!! from desire and lust🤭🔥🔥#also Jake cooks many spicy food here#and Brad swears like 'by heavens! what did you do this time?!'#hangster#hangman x rooster#jake hangman seresin#bradley rooster bradshaw#top gun: maverick#oh they're both pilots! why? because they both loves flying😊💗#au post
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Thinking about them but like. Domestically. Like could u imagine actually
#brad bakshi#danny pudi#mythic quest#mq#david brittlesbee#david hornsby#like what if.#what if they kissed#and what if they got an apartment together.#and maybe a little cat#brads a cat person fr and david just loves any animal as long as it’s not an insect#bro is terrified of creepy crawlies on god#convince me otherwise#argue with the fucking wall#no but fr#they’d be so cute if they just lived a little cutesy domestic life#david would cook for them both#he’s such a malewife#they both canonically like cleaning so I think it could be a fun little joint chore#i have so many headcanons#it’s insane#I’m insane#I’m out of my fucking mind#😝#they’re so cute#they’re idiots your honor#idiots in love#i wish gay people were real
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very fashionably late but some small pride doodles and other unrelated doodles
#my art#have a nice death#pump quinn#brad#mark#harriet#death#will hung#denzel#orville#life#jacob#company cook out 20 injured#OH and i didn’t have the colors for it but death aromantic does anyone see the vision#i an not biased about this at all (i am aromantic
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#hans landa#aldo raine#inglorious basterds#christoph waltz#brad pitt#hot yaoi base#what the fuck#help me#i was cooking last night#landaraine or something
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Geartree: The Airdrainium Adventures Book Two When dragonriders go missing, an iron-bound book leads to an ancient city in the clouds, but a mysterious new enemy darkens the horizon.
Middle Grade Fantasy Ebook and Paperback are illustrated by the amazing Jennifer Stolzer
The sequel to Steamtree and my 8th published book will be available in October!
www.bradrcook.com
#book cover#cover art#steampunk#books#fiction#fantasy#reading#brad r cook#dragons#middle grade#kidlit
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baby boy, baby... evil
they should have let him cook, he is a genius😊😊
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