#Machine Drum Ben

[bringbackbunnymaloney]

Jean found the drummer for his metal band in a new art!

Ben Tonari, aka Machine Drum Ben, the neighbor of the beast! 🔥

[panthera-tigris-venenata]

For Dead Beauty AU (semi-musical version), Harriet talking to Ben after the last chapter

"there is no point in trying,

No point in trying to talk

And if I hear you crying,

You'll do the walk" [*dramatic pointing to the plank*]

"So listen here, listen, you little king of mine,

And maybe - just maybe - it'll all turn out fine

I'll spare your life, I won't pierce your heart,

I won't let them pick your pretty corpse apart

But maybe - just maybe - your little girl won't come,

She'll take the coward's route, the traitorous whore;

Your army against my pirate scum

And I'll go to war"

"The war drums will be singing soon -

The gold for your life -

To every henchman and goon,

To ready their knife"

"So, little king, shut up and think,

Pray to any god you belive in,

What is your worth? Is it less, or is it more?

More than the jewels I want?

More than one little machine and a bit of rum?"

*Manic cackling*

[miscstarwarsfanficuniverse]

🎺

For the ask game! :3

(and Unrelated but do any of the Star Wars characters like ghostttt? :3333)

🎺 "What kind of music do you mostly listen to? Do you know how to play an instrument, and if not, which one would you want to learn to play?"

Darth Maul, wearing a Ghost band T-shirt: did someone say GHOST?!?!?! I FREAKING LOVE GHOST!!! 0

Ben: I've listened to a bit of Ghost, and I think they're pretty awesome! I mostly listen to Citizen Soldier and similar kinds of music though. I don't know any real instruments, but we also have a band, called The Knights of Ben.

Rey: Kazoos are real instruments!

Ben: No they're not!

Rey: Anyway, I play the guitar, and I mostly listen to pop music and a bit of rock, but I don't really limit myself to one genre.

Finn: I actually play the drums! It's pretty easy, actually. Or maybe I'm just naturally good 😎. Anyway, I kinda listen to a wide variety of music, not really one specific genre.

Poe: I really like Imagine Dragons. I know it's kinda basic, but they're music is so good, tho. I also play the keyboard!

Rose: I play bass guitar, but I used to play the flute. I'm mostly into pop, but I like a variety.

Zorii: I don't listen to a lot of music, but I'm really good at using a DJ stand.

Hux: The internet actually got this right about me, I play the saxophone! Also I sometimes play classical music in the background to help me concentrate on work.

Poe: Nerd!

Hux: Shut up!

Phasma: I've been getting into sea shanties and viking rock! I dunno why, they're just fun and energizing.

Luke: *starts blasting Cantina Band Music and dancing*

Leia: -_- LUKE SHUT THAT NOISE OFF!

Han: I swear that's all that plays in his head every day.

Leia: Anyway, my parents (The Organas, not my bio parents) made me learn piano. I can still play a bit, but it's not really my thing.

Han: I don't play anything, well, except harmonica, but I like a variety of genres. I've got a soft spot for country, tho.

Anakin: I really like Three Days Grace, especially their song "I Am Machine". I used to play the trombone, but only the 'When Mom Isn't Home' song meme. I'm trying to learn guitar tho.

Padme: I used to be able to play the harp and piano.

Obi-Wan: I can play a few different wind instruments. My favorite is the oboe.

Anakin: OBOE-WAN KENOBI.

Obi-Wan: -_- Yes, I know. I'm also learning the banjo because it sounds fun.

Palpatine: I used to play the organ.

Cardinal: I don't have time for useless things such as music.

Brendol: Nor do I.

Phasma: And that's why you two suck.

[hitchell-mope]

Homecoming by bal, devie, jaynelos, gilonnie, numa and Hadie at Harry’s mock funeral.

Carlos: My heart is beating from me

Gil: I am standing all alone

Uma: Please call me only if you are coming home

Lonnie: Waste another year flies by

Jane: Waste a night or two

Mal: You taught me how to live

Hit it!

(Everyone takes off their mourning garb to reveal glittery, sequinned nightclub outfits and the couples start dancing together around Hadie)

Mal: In the streets of shame

Jay: Where you've lost your dreams in the rain

Evie: There's no signs of hope

Carlos: The stems and seeds of the last of the dope

Uma: There's a glow of light

Lonnie: The Saint Harry is the spark in the night

Gil: Bearing “gifts” and “trust”

Jane: A fixture in the city of lust

(The couples do a Greek dance in a circle around Hadie)

Ned: What the hell's your name?

Uma: What's your pleasure, what is your pain?

Ben: Do you dream too much?

Mal: Do you think what you need is a crutch?

(The circle dance continues)

Doug: In the crowd of pain

Evie: St. Harry comes without any shame

Jay: I say, We're fucked up, but we're not the same

Mal: And Mom and Dad are the ones you can blame

(Up on the stage a long line of Harry’s are kneeling, blindfolded execution style. The core four start exciting the Harry’s. Jay with a pistol, Mal with a sniper, Carlos with a crossbow and Evie with a machine gun. All in time to the music and much to Hadie’s increasing horror)

Jay: Harry died today

Mal: It blew its brains out into the bay

Carlos: In the state of mind

Evie: In its own private suicide

(Hadie rushes back to the door only to be cut off by Mal)

Mal: See, nobody cares

Cause, nobody cares

Hadie: Does anyone care?

Mal: No, nobody cares.

Cause, nobody cares

So, nobody cares

Hadie (on the verge of tears): Does anyone care?

Mal: No, nobody cares.

(She slowly turns Hadie back towards the stage and guides him over to a chair

Mal: Jesus filling out paperwork now

Jay: At the facility on East 12th Street

Evie: It’s not listening to a word now

Carlos: He's in his own world and he's daydreaming

Gil: He'd rather be doing something else now

Uma: Like cigarettes and coffee with the underbelly

Mal: Your life's on the line with anxiety now

Ben: 'Cause you had enough and it had plenty

(Hadie jumps up from his chair and runs off only to be wrestled to the ground by the boys

Hadie: Somebody get me out of here

Anybody get me out of here

Somebody get me out of here

Get me the fuck right out of here

(Ben, Jay, Carlos, Doug and Gil drag Hadie back to the stage)

Hadie: So far away, I don't want to stay

Get me outta here right now

I just want to be free, is there a possibility?

Get me out of here right now

Mal: Out,

Evie: out

Lonnie: Out,

Jane: out

Uma: right

(The boys force Hadie to his knees in an execution pose)

Hadie: This life like dream ain't for me

(Everybody goes into slow motion. They all gesture upwards as Gil descends from on high, lounging on a crescent moon and wearing nothing but a nude coloured leotard like he’s Bombalurina at the start of the “Macavity” song)

Gil: I fell asleep while watching Spike TV

After ten cups of coffee and you're still not here

Dreaming of a song, but something went wrong

But you can't tell anyone, 'cause no one's here

Left me here alone and I should've stayed home

After ten cups of coffee, I'm thinking

(The fire four circle menacingly around a distraught Hadie)

Hadie: Where'd he go?

Mal: Nobody liked him,

Jay: everyone left him

Evie: We’re all out without him,

Carlos: havin' fun

Hadie: Where'd he go?

Mal: Everyone left him,

Jay: nobody liked him

Hadie: Where'd he go?

Evie: We’re all out without him,

Carlos: havin' fun

Hadie: Where'd he go?

Mal (directing Evie towards the stage): go, go, go

Jeez

Ha

(Evie runs up to the stage, flashes into a go-go girl outfit and dances like it’s the sixties while Doug goes ham on the drums)

Doug: I got a rock 'n' roll band

I got a rock 'n' roll life

I got a rock 'n' roll girlfriend

Evie: But I’m not yet his wife

Doug: I got a rock 'n' roll house

Evie: Whoa-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa

Doug: I got a rock 'n' roll car

Evie: Whoa-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa

Doug: I play the shit out the drums

(He does a frantic drum solo)

Evie: And he can play the guitar

(Doug does a truly impressive electric guitar solo. Then Lonnie and Gil join them on stage)

Lonnie: YEEAAH!!!!

Gil: I got a kid in New York

Lonnie: oh-oh-oh-oh

Gil: I got a kid in the Bay

Lonnie: oh-oh-oh-oh

Carlos: I haven't drank or smoked nothin' in over 22 days

Mal: So get off my case,

off of my case

Off of my case

Ben: Hey!

(He turns Hadie around to look at the “pallbearers” who are just demons dragging Harry’s sea bloated corpse through the dirt and the mud)

Ben: Here they come marching down the street

Mal: ooh, ooh-ooh

Doug: Like a desperation murmur of a heartbeat

Evie: ooh, ooh-ooh

Gil: Coming back from the edge of town

Underneath their feets

Ned: Their time has come, and it's going nowhere

Uma: ooh, ooh-ooh

Jay and Carlos: Nobody ever said that life was fair now

Jane: ooh, ooh-ooh

Lonnie: Go-carts and guns are treasures it will bear

In the summer heat

(Ben turns Hadie to face Mal again)

Mal: The world is spinning 'round and 'round out of control again

Jay: From the 7-11 to the fear of breaking down

Evie: So send your love a letterbomb, and visit it in Hell

Carly’s: We're the ones going

(Mal starts dismantling the sequence in a whirlwind of pixels)

Everyone: Home

We're going home again

Home

We're going home again

(Hadie is confronted with one last image of Harry’s true nature)

Carlos (his voice thick with trauma): I started fucking running as soon as my feet touched the ground

Mal: Way back in the barrio

But to you and me, that's Jingletown

(Ben, Doug, Lonnie, Jane, Gil, Ned and Uma match away into the darkness)

Core four: That's home

We're going home again

Home

We're going home again

Home

We're going home again

Home

We're going home again

(Mal frogmarches Hadie back through the door to the tune of army drums)

Core four: Home

We're going home again

Home

We're going home again

Home

We're going home again

Home

We're going home again

(Back in the kings residence)

Evie (neatly and poshly sitting in a nearby armchair): Nobody liked him

Jay (flopping down onto the couch): Everyone left him

Carlos (flopping down next to Jay): We’re all out without you

Mal (flopping down between Jay and Carlos with a hardened smile on her face): Havin' fun

[dustedmagazine]

Optic Sink — Glass Blocks (Feel It)

Photo by Shawn Brackbill

Natalie Hoffman’s NOTS were a combustible riot of rapid fire drums, clanging guitars, belligerent bass, hyped up on sweat and speed.Optic Sink, her band with Magic Kids’ Ben Bauermeister and Sheiks Keith Cooper runs chillier and more dystopian.It operates on a foundation of manic synthesizers and drum machines, with bass thrown in for threat and muscle.This second outing from the Memphis trio is, perhaps, even more alienated and spare.Caulfield Schnug of Sweeping Promises ran the decks, finding an eerie seam between Suicide’s synthy menace, Devo’s robotics and early female-dominated post-punk, the Raincoats and LiliPUT especially.

That last band is a gimme, music-reference-wise, since Glass Block’s only cover is of the LiliPUT song “A Silver Key Can Open An Iron Lock, Somewhere.”The original is bracingly spare, a jangle of guitars unspooling in the background, maybe another room, a drum beat kicking up nearer, a tambourine rattling listlessly, the singer murmuring poetry and yelping aspirated “ah” sounds in German-accented English.It’s almost acoustic folky, but with a post-modern edge, a tang of industrial chemicals in its pastoral simplicity.Optic Sink’s version is sharper and mechanical, a hard electronic pulse puncturing the offbeats (that’s Bauermeister on drum programming) while warm currents of bass run underneath (Cooper on bass).In the instrumental break, big viscous blobs of synthesizer burst through the icy pulse, keyboard dissonances spike out of the mix.The original’s fey innocence remains, but framed in more visceral, violent terms.

And, indeed, that may be the key to the Optic Sink oeuvre, that sonics are cold but also explosive.The title cut makes a funk strut out of drum machine syncopations and walking bass at play.Blurting synth riffs give it an elastic sense of play; it’s full of austere discipline, but also has a bounce in it.If it sounds like a contradiction, it is.

“Modelesque,” which opens the album, stretches out its attenuated groove.It begins in formless drone, a shape-shifting mass of tone that moves like the inside of a lava lamp.But a hard, block-simple drum cadence snaps thing to attention and the thwap of bass commands it to move.The title’s got me thinking about models; skeletally thin and careful about indulgence, but also deeply sensual.Optic Sink is a little like that.

Jennifer Kelly

[geffenrecords]

I still would like to see your stuff about diary of a wimpy kid. hand it over 🫴🏽

oh boy um. okay. so i hauvent posted abt them in a long time but i imagine if youve followed me for long enuf you remember....and boy theres a lot to sayhere

so the context is that like when i was like 14..me & my at the time best friend became just like. obsessed with the diary of a wimpy kid movies. and im dead serious we were obsessed with them. we watched them all the time and talked about them for hours. like im straight up we loved these movies. my only possible defense for what was up with me is that i was really anorexic haha so i was really weird in the head. but anyways, obviously mostly people only talk about those movies because they like rodrick and well looks around yeah. but also ☝️ we were retired glee kids. my friend had previously been the biggest fan of the warblers from glee (who altogether have maybe 8 minutes of screentime) and we were retired newsies fans. we were really cringey fandom kids still & we were really really good at loving total nothing background characters. so !

if you pay attention. in the first movie rodricks band consists of 1 redhead kid on guitar, some emo kid, and some other random guy. in rodrick rules/dog days, his band is two guys named ben and chris (plus bill in rodrick rules and some random kid they found for dog days). chris doesnt have any lines i dont think but he is there a lot in rodrick rules. i dont have any evidence but im like 79% sure he was definitely high during the filming. and if he wasnt hes really good at acting it. ben does have lines though :-) in rodrick rules he and rodrick drive rowley and greg home and discuss what song theyre going to perform at the talent show and he says "dude we'll get to go backstage" at the party scene.

um. anyways yeah. we made them into what was pretty much our own characters and gave them a whole story which is so long and. in all honesty i just forgot so much of i make shit up all the time for it when i do stuff with it now. but its silly and long and to sum it up -> ben works at office max in a mall (i dont think they have office max in malls) and rodrick keeps coming in to print/copy band posters. one night he breaks the machine so he and ben talk and rodrick asks him to join his band. he says yes, so ben and chris join the band which is rodrick and matt (emo kid from the first movie, who guess what doesnt say a single thing. he just stands there and claps at the sorry women scene) also the big joke with matt was that he works at chuck e cheese and hes the guy who wears the mouse costume and ben rodrick and chris all keep going there and pissing him off and eventually he gets mad and yells at them and thats how they all meet. i think thats what we created him for basically. ben is rhythm guitar/vocals, chris is bass, rodrick is drums, and matt is lead guitar. they break up at the end of highschool and reunite after dropping out of college and get world famous haha. just think like really annoying music kids in like 2007 who actually have a successful band...(their song is rodrick rules is good...i promise go look it up).

but ya. its unfortunately such a personal story to me atp that i cant let it go even though im not even friends with that person anymore. and also i dont really care. its funny & i draw them so much now and also. rodrick rules is such a good fucking movie. i dont care its definitely in my top ten favorites im deadass. whatevs.

other noteable things from this is kitty. whos my oc completely but shes chris' girlfriend and we made her up because the whole joke was she pegged him to paramore. hides my face this is just who we were at the time. but i draw her more with my own ocs than i do with chris her boyfriend who is the only reason she exists. i think thats all. im sorry this is so long but ive never actually explained the whole thing. theres so much more but i literally wont stop if i start. go thru the doawk tag on my blog 4 further explanation or ask me...i love talking about them please please.... bonus drawing of them i just did for this👍

[testure-1988]

Man, I can never get over how amazing Godflesh is. It's the combo of the drum machine, Justin's guitar and Ben's bass that makes the music so suffocating and outrageously heavy. It's too bad that most Industrial metal doesn't sound like Godflesh, cause a vast majority of it is pretty bad.

[eldritch-nightmare]

songs that make me think about the creepypastas.

because i am insufferable and my brain never stops. also the marble hornets characters. because, and i cannot stress this enough, i am insufferable.

this doesn't necessarily mean 'songs that fit them', just songs that make me think about them. some songs may fit them, and some songs are just... my brain going 'boom boom bam pow'. this'll definitely be a long post so everything will be under the cut.

recommendations always welcome i love listening to new music <3

slenderman.

— come little children by erutan.

— sweet dreams (are made of this) by emily browning.

jeff the killer.

— duality by slipknot.

— kill everyone by hollywood undead.

— i will not bow by breaking benjamin.

— dethrone by bad omens.

— bloody nose by hollywood undead.

— pet by a perfect circle.

ben drowned.

— dead machine by egypt central.

eyeless jack.

— city of the dead by hollywood undead.

— get out alive by three days grace.

— enough by ra.

laughing jack.

— nightmare by set it off.

nina the killer.

— your love is my drug by kesha.

— tarantula girl by violent vira.

— pretty in pink by scene queen.

— again by crusher-p.

— love is dead and we killed her by doll skin.

jane the killer.

— goodbye by ramsey.

homicidal liu.

— agnosia by valleyheart.

— everything goes on by porter robinson.

— point of no return by starset.

— hear me now by hollywood undead.

— ghost by hollywood undead.

— dreamcatcher by starset.

— castle of glass by linkin park.

— faint by linkin park.

— something wicked by starset.

— man or a monster by sam tinnesz.

— crawl by breaking benjamin.

— scream by poppy.

— coming back down by hollywood undead.

— [sully] reckless battery burns by ghost.

— [sully] magical doctor by maretu.

— [sully] screamm by poppy. [WARNING: REALLY LOUD]

— [sully] SIU by maretu.

nurse ann.

— honey i'm home by ghost.

the bloody painter.

— i am machine by three days grace.

— everglow by starset.

— emergency contact by pierce the veil.

the puppeteer.

— in control by nemesea.

jason the toymaker.

— the red means i love you by madds buckley.

— hard to love by too close to touch.

zalgo.

— dance with the devil by breaking benjamin.

— reckless battery burns by ghost.

— counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums by a perfect circle.

ticci toby.

— heroine by sleeping with sirens.

— the world is ugly by my chemical romance.

— the ghost of you by my chemical romance.

— get up! by korn.

— one step closer by linkin park.

x-virus.

— healing foot by linkin park.

— bloody nose by hollywood undead.

clockwork.

— the world belongs to me by my darkest days.

— fear of dying by poppy.

candy pop.

— villain by wildfire.

tim wright.

— dialysis by it's alive.

— crazy by lowborn.

brian thomas.

— bang bang by hollywood undead.

jessica locke.

— i'll sleep when i'm dead by set it off.

jay merrick.

— turn the lights off by tally hall.

alex kralie.

— unstable by chaotica.

the operator.

— world is mine by ryo (supercell)

[diceriadelluntore]

Storia Di Musica #290 - Steely Dan, Gaucho, 1980

Devo ammettere che la fine di questo percorso sulle storie musicali alla ricerca del suono perfetto non poteva che fermarsi a questi due. Che in un decennio dove nella musica sono successe infinite cose, gli anni ’70, sono passati tranquilli e inscalfibili a diffondere qualcosa di completamente diverso. E per molti versi inclassificabile. Walter Becker e Donald Fagen sono probabilmente i musicisti più maniacali, quasi in senso patologico, che io conosca nella storia della musica pop occidentale. Siamo davvero ad una sorta di mania di perfezionismo che nasce in un momento preciso. Infatti i loro Steely Dan (dal nome di un dildo meccanico a vapore citato da William Burroughs ne Il Pasto Nudo) all’inizio erano un gruppo, formato dal duo (che sanno fare tutto, ma si dividono tra voci e chitarra) con Denny Dias insieme a Jim Holder alla batteria, Jeff Baxter alla seconda chitarra, e David Palmer. Il loro esordio è già fenomenale: Can’t Buy A Thrill (1972) vola subito nella Top 20 e frutta due canzone mito degli anni ’70 come Do It Again e Reeling The Wheel. Già è presente il mix, a tratti soprannaturale, di stili, un pop venato di jazz, rock, soul, fatto di sovrapposizioni di strumenti, intrecci vocali, perfezione esecutiva a cui sia accompagna una ironia sfacciata nei testi. Con Pretzel Logic, del 1974, un capolavoro, hanno addirittura una hit single, nella perfetta Rikki Don’t Lose That Number (omaggio a Horace Silver, grande jazzista), ma durante il tour che segue Fagen ha un attacco di panico sul palco e decide di non esibirsi più. La decisione successiva è di sciogliere il gruppo, di diventare un duo e per compensare il mancato contatto con il pubblico, quello di scrivere canzoni perfette. Una perfezione esecutiva, compositiva e di registrazione, diventando in questi tre rispettivi campi dei punti di riferimento assoluti. Decidono quindi di chiedere servizi ai più bravi e famosi sessionisti in tutto il mondo, di usare il meglio della tecnologia e di cercare la perfezione sonora. Già con Aja, del 1977, toccano vette assolute, ma i due attraversano un periodaccio. Quando iniziano a pensare al nuovo disco Becker viene investito sotto casa, nell’Upper East Side, e si frattura diverse ossa e passa settimane in ospedale, ma ha voglia di non perdere tempo, tanto che sviluppano le idee del disco e della sua evoluzione via telefono con Fagen (tuttavia non suona in molti brani dell'album). Tra l’altro, la sua fidanzata, Karen Roberta Stanley morirà per complicazioni dell’abuso di stupefacenti, appena finite le registrazioni del nuovo disco. La famiglia della ragazza, accusando Becker di esserne stato l’iniziatore, chiese un risarcimento da milioni di dollari, ma una sentenza di qualche anno più tardi scagionò il musicista. Tutto questo non impedì che per Gaucho, che esce nei negozi di dischi il 21 Novembre del 1980, abbiano fatto ruotare nei soli 7 brani 62 musicisti, tra i più famosi del mondo, tra batteristi, chitarristi, percussionisti, sassofonisti, coristi e ben 11 ingegneri del suono.

Basta dire che fecero provare per ore Bernard Purdie, leggenda vivente del jazz e inventore del Purdie Shuffle (terzine nel tempo tagliato) le sue parti nei brani. Tutti i batteristi, tra i più grandi di sempre (ricordo Steve Gadd, Jeff Porcaro dei Toto, Rick Marotta e altri ancora) passarono ore a provare il tocco che volevano quei due, che non contenti chiesero a Roger Nichols, uno dei più grandi ingegneri del suono americani, di creare una drum machine particolare che li aiutasse: con un investimento di 150 mila dollari (una follia per l’epoca) Nichols portò loro Wendel, che per quanto fosse il massimo di sofisticatezza del tempo, per difficoltà nella programmazione fu usata pochissimo. Ma c’è un particolare simpatico: quando l’album divenne disco di platino, un disco celebrativo fu regalato persino a Wendel in quanto “artefice” del successo. Chi altro poteva chiedere a Mark Knofler, in quei mesi il chitarrista più famoso del mondo per quel pezzo leggendario che fu Sultans Of Swing, di provare ore intere un assolo da 40 secondi per Time Out Of MInd? O chi poteva pensare di passare per 55 tentativi prima di centrare la voluta dissolvenza finale di Babylon Sisters?

Tutte le canzoni sono dei gioielli in un disco che racconta di hipster un po’ in là con gli anni in cerca di divertimento: Babylon Sisters ne è l’essenza, quasi a disegnare un sogno californiano che finisce a bere un kirschwasser from a shell; oppure la famosissima Hey Nineteen (che si dice fosse piaciuta tantissimo a John Belushi che ne voleva fare un soggetto per un film) dove un attempato conquistatore rimane basito che la sua nuova conquista diciannovenne non conosca Aretha Frankiln (Hey Nineteen/ That’s ‘Retha Franklin/ She don’t remember the Queen of Soul/ It’s hard times befallen/ The sole survivors/ She thinks I’m crazy/ But I’m just growing old), in una sorta di incomunicabilità generazionale (No, we got nothin’ common/ No, we can’t dance together/ No, we can’t talk at all) e che finisce in una probabile ritiro tra Cuervo Gold (una famosa marca di tequila), Fine Colombian (che non è cioccolato bianco) e Make tonight a wonderful thing tra il sibillino e una solitaria sconfitta sentimentale. Glamour Profession racconta la vita scintillante di uno spacciatore, raccontata con dovizia di particolari; Gaucho, altro classico, una storia d’amore gay mandata in frantumi da un gigolò che veste i panni bizzarri di un gaucho, un uomo in spangled leather poncho che riesce a distruggere la quiete domestica della coppia entrando dentro la loro preziosa dimora, la leggendaria custerdome (uno dei luoghi steelydaniani per eccellenza, che non ha una traduzione letterale soddisfacente) e fu scritta pensando a Long As You Know You're Living Yours di Keith Jarrett, dal suo disco del 1974, Belonging. Jarrett ottenne il riconoscimento come autore e il relativo pagamento di diritti d’autore (nelle moderne ristampe compare come autore del brano). Time Out Of Mind è probabilmente il racconto di un primo racconto con l’eroina, a inseguire “dragoni” fino a Lhasa. My Rival è la storia intrigante di un tradimento, ma visto attraverso gli occhi di un investigatore privato con l’apparecchio acustico (He’s got a scar across his face/ He wears a hearing aid) sulle tracce di qualcuno da smascherare (Sure, he’s a jolly roger/ Until he answers for his crimes/ Yes, I’ll match him whim for whim now). E l’ultima canzone è un altro colpo da KO: Third World Man è un'accusa niente affatto sottintesa al falso interesse per le questioni sociali dei paesi in via di sviluppo, che ha perfino un verso cantato in italiano da Fagen (è l’era del terzo mondo, scritto con Victor di Suvero, poeta italiano naturalizzato americano) e ha l’ultima pazzia: l’assolo, meraviglioso, di Larry Carlton fu ripescato dalle registrazione di The Royal Scam (del 1976) e ricostruito per quella canzone, tanto che Carlton nemmeno sapeva fosse presente nei crediti del disco. Sulla musica di questi brani, lascio a voi scoprire tutte le meraviglie sonore, di ricercatezza, gli effetti da sentire e risentire, ma molti se ne accorsero presto, perché vinse il Grammy Award del 1981 per la migliore registrazione non classica. Dopo tutto questo, gli Steely Dan si sciolgono. Fanno in tempo a scrivere, a nome solo di Fagen, quell’altro capolavoro che è The Nightfly (1982, con la copertina più bella di tutti i tempi – andatela a vedere) e a ritornare, dopo 21 anni, con Two Against Nature che, come potrebbe raccontare un testo delle loro canzoni perfette, li fa conoscere ad una nuova e giovane generazione, ammaliata da quel tocco incredibile che la leggendaria rivista jazz Downbeat una volta descrisse così: Non c’è nulla che suona così bene come un disco degli Steely Dan.

[illusioneddrawer64]

Custo with his fellow military janitorial and cleanup crewmates on Space Riders spaceships were unfortunately caught in the crossfire between Space Riders’ forces and the Prototype’s cult. The recent intense battle had both parties sustain heavy casualties.

Medical staff unfortunately reported that the wounds that Custo has are intense (not able to use surgery due numerous factors) and will have to wear a special mask (inspired by Joseph Merrick’s Elephant Man mask) to cover his sustained disfigurement.

When it was that time for gala events happen again; Custo wanted to help out to set up (and clean up later) but bit concerned how many will react his current appearance. Yet thanks to the encouragement of Dogday and other Space Riders, he showed up as one of service busboys as he usually do.

As a bonus; he had a bit of heart for music entertainment. With the help of other crewmates, they performed songs as part of charity work for wounded military veterans etc.

Proposed Playlist Songs performed at the Gala:

Defying Gravity, The Other Side, Ship In A Bottle, Magic (Mystery Skulls), HBO John Adams’ Opening Titles (Rob Lane), No More Kings (Schoolhouse Rock), Sit Down John (Sherman Edwards), Hamilton’s Satisfied, Shot Heard Round the World (Schoolhouse Rock), Les Miserables’ ABC Cafe/Red and Black, The Wellerman, Everybody Wants To Rule the World, You Know My Name, Another Way To Die, Skyfall, Writings On The Wall (Sam Smith), A Storm Is Coming (Han Zimmer), Rory’s First Kiss (Han Zimmer), Macrotus (Han Zimmer), Astronomia, Do the Hippogriff, Leta’s Flashblack/Ballroom Dance (James Howard), Hot Chocolate (Alan Silvestri), The Snow Miser Song, The Heat Miser Song, Tunes of Anarchy, Rock and Roll (Gary Glitter), Sandstorm (Darude), Into the Groove (Madonna), City of Stars/Planetarium (Justin Hurwitz), Start a Fire (John Legend), O-Zone (Dragostea Din Tei), Chocolate Rain (Tay Zonday), Resonant Chamber (Animusic), Marble Machine (Wintergatan), Old Town Road (Lil Nas X), Star Walkin, Run (BlackGryph0n), Type 40 (Chameleon Circuit), Song of the Sun (Janice Quatlane), Hated By Life (Hatsune Miku), Art Is Dead (boburnham), Weekdays Beatbox (Adym Evans), Human (Rag’n’Bone), Southern Cross (403 Forbiddena), Northern Lights (403 Forbiddena), Kings and Queens (Ava Max), Drum Solo (Neil Peart), All Good Things (Get Up), Break Time (Madeline Queripel), Deja Veju, Running in the 90s (Max Coveri), Blind Justice Investigation (AlterniaBound), Megalovania (Toby Fox), Big Shot (Toby Fox), My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone), Waving Through The Window (Ben Platt), Sweet Victory (David Glen Eisley), Blown Away, Damaged (Danity Kane), Power (Kanye Omari), My Drunken Irish Dad (Seth Macfarlane), The Highway Man (Loreena McKennitt), Galway Girl (Ed Sheeran), A Rose For Epona (Eluveitie), Taixu (lasah), Sihouette (Owl City), In the Name of Love (Martin Garrix), Read All About It (Emeli Sande), Hallelujah (Michael Henry), Counting Stars, Classical Gas (Mason Williams), Safe and Sound (Capital Cities), World of Tanks (Alan Aztec), Scatman (John Larkin), Waiting For A Miracle (Stephanie Beatriz), It’s Alright (Mother Mother), and Proud Corazon (Anthony Gonzalez).

For @onyxonline Space Riders AU.

[returnsandreturns]

i was going to make a playlist of songs i took fic titles from as a meme or something but it came out cursed

i will not be putting this on spotify but here are approximately all of the songs i specifically stole lyrics from for daredevil fics

easy to ignore by sixpence none the richer

the luckiest by ben folds

robots by dan mangan

piano man by elton john

from eden by hozier

the washing machine by remember sports

thank you by dido

let's spend the night together by the rolling stones

snails by the format

inches and falling by the format

pretty little head by eliza rickman

joyful girl by ani difranco

good for you by selena gomez

do you hear the people sing? by...idk a les mis cast

hold it in by jukebox the ghost

undeniable you by jukebox the ghost

total eclipse of the heart by bonnie tyler

i put a spell on you by nina simone

get by with a little help by the beatles

poker face by lady gaga

dancing in the dark by bruce springsteen

librarian by my morning jacket

have yourself a merry little christmas

add it up by the violent femmes

more adventurous by rilo kiley

portions for foxes by rilo kiley

the frug by rilo kiley

bulletproof by rilo kiley

reunited by peaches and herb

you belong with me by taylor swift

lover by taylor swift

i wanna boi by pwr bttm

young and beautiful by lana del ray

teenage dream by katy perry

let it snow

you're gonna make me lonesome by bob dylan

4ever by the veronicas

think i wanna die by someone still loves you boris yeltsin

kick drum heart by the avett brothers

rock your body by justin timberlake

white christmas

heat of the moment by asia

pretty girl by hayley kiyoko

heat wave by martha and the vandellas

boy like you by kesha

blow by kesha

tik tok by kesha

handsome devil by the smiths

haircut by pavement

everything you want by vertical horizon

will you still love me tomorrow by carole king

pretty woman by roy orbison

fever by peggy lee

sugar never tasted so good by the white stripes

hotel yorba by the white stripes

girl inform me by the shins

vampires will never hurt you by my chemical romance

nineteen by tegan and sara

can't help falling in love with you by elvis presley

nobody puts baby in the corner by fall out boy

only love by ben howard

like a virgin by madonna

erotica by madonna

let's talk about sex by salt-n-pepa

it's all wrong but it's alright by dolly parton

love isn't free by dolly parton

a special section dedicated to the mountain goats songs:

animal mask

no children

oceanographer's choice

game shows touch our lives

love love love

fault lines

southwood plantation road

[djs-party-edm-italia]

Circus beatclub Brescia, 5 party a fine ottobre ’23: 26/10 Dj Endrixx (Rehab), 27/10 Offbeat, 28/10 Crush, 29/10 Albert Marzinotto (Panorama), 31/10 AE is Screaming!

Ben 5 party animano l'infinito weekend di Circus beatclub Brescia che inizia con 24 ore di anticipo, la sera di giovedì 26 ottobre e finisce solo all'alba dell'1 novembre 2023. Andiamo con ordine, perché raccontare i party tutti da ballare non è facile.

Si parte come dicevamo giovedì 26 ottobre ancora con il ritmo potente di Rehab, che questa volta in console insieme a Jay-K, sempre scatenato con il suo sound hip hop (è, tra l'altro, il dj ufficiale di Guè), porta anche il top dj francese Endrixx. Considerato da molti il dj in maggiore ascesa a Parigi, si è già esibito con star come Dj Craze, il celeberrimo rapper Travis Scott e Rick Ross. Il suo sound mette insieme, R&B, tracce old school, trap 'sporca e non manca un tocco di reggae. 

E al Circus beatclub Brescia dopo i party di venerdì 27 ottobre (Offbeat),  sabato 28 per l'evento Crush in console sono protagonisti Dr.Space e About Gala, professionisti del mixer capaci di far ballare chiunque. 

Ecco poi in programma una grande novità per domenica 29 ottobre. Parte infatti la domenica firmata Circus beatclub Brescia: è Panorama, che quest'anno ha un resident dj d'eccezione, ovvero Albert Marzinotto. Atipico, divertente e spensierato, ecco come si descrive l'artista, nato a Venezia nel 1989.  Nel 2015 vince il format TOP DJ andato in onda su Sky Uno, e questo gli permette di aumentare la sua popolarità e i suoi sostenitori, nello stesso anno realizza il suo primo singolo "Safe and Sound" dalle sonorità Deep/Tropical-House ed inizia a far ballare la gente in diversi luogo noti, come il Muretto di Jesolo, gli MTV Digital Days a Monza, la Praja di Gallipoli. Ha poi aperto più volte concerti di Jovanotti.  Recentemente le sue tracce sono state suonate dai migliori dj della scena underground tra cui Loco Dice, Marco Carola, Nic Fanciulli, Luciano , Steve Lawler e molti altri. La sua musica è un equilibrio perfetto tra lo stile Old School rappresentato dai vinili assieme agli strumenti elettronici che utilizza ad ogni sua esibizione come computer, controller, Synth e Drum Machine.

Già definito anche il programma di Halloween. Martedì 31 ottobre al Circus beatclub Brescia la festa è AE is Screaming! L'evento è in collaborazione con AF Staff, il divertente e colorato Student party di Brescia e Soncino.

//

Circus beatclub - Brescia

www.circusbeatclub.com info@circusbeatclub.com 

info +39 333 210 5400 (WhatsApp)

Via Dalmazia 127, 25125 Brescia

ingresso a pagamento con consumazione

[jkflesh]

Flyer from the first show Justin K Broadrick organised at The Mermaid pub in Sparkhill, Birmingham in 1985 the day after he left school at the age of 15.

FALL OF BECAUSE - I wasn't in the band at that time, it was just Ben Green and Paul Neville, and a primitive drum machine, they sounded like The Cure circa Faith..

VENUS IN FURS was Diarmuid Dalton's band, I drummed in that band!

FINAL was somehow a band at that show, and was shit

THE HAPPY LOSS was Steve Hough's band (we went to school together) and I did something in it but seriously can't remember what!

UNDER THE STONE was a school friends band, only kid I knew who had a band at the end of senior school, and who liked The Sisters of Mercy like me...his band sounded like, the sisters of mercy HAHA"

[boonesfarmsangria]

In March 2022, Ben Howard was sat in his garden when he found himself unable to think clearly, form sentences or speak for almost an hour. A month later, after the same thing happened again, the Ivor Novello Award-winning singer-songwriter learned he’d suffered two TIAs (transient ischemic attacks - known as mini-strokes). “It was out of the blue,” says the 35 year-old. “It was a confusing time.”

That June, after a month of inconclusive hospital tests Howard and his band returned to Le Manoir de Léon recording studio in south-west France, where they’d previously worked on his acclaimed third album ‘Noonday Dream’.

“We went in and put down ten songs in ten days, then spent the rest of the year tinkering with them”. The record was produced by Bullion, known for his work on Westerman’s ‘Your Hero Is Not Dead’ and Orlando Weeks ‘Hop Up’. Howard says, “We worked through the heatwave, the air conditioning broke, after what had happened I was so tired in the afternoons that I slept a lot. We just played solidly and slept, they was no time for retrospection”.

The result is ‘Is It’, a lush, sonically splintered album which captures Howard working through those moments of seismic shift. “I found it impossible not to dwell on the absurdity of it, that with one tiny clot, one can lose all faculties. It really ate into the writing of the record”.

The songs range from the peaceful quotidian Days of Lantana, to cut up samples and driven beats of Walking Backwards, the formers’ pitched and warped Linda Thompson chorus reminiscent of Malcolm Mclaren´s ‘Madame Butterfly’.

Moonraker, a song about climbing in the Guadarrama mountains touches on the meditational, while in the cyclical Richmond Avenue Howard talks of shared childhood moments with his father.

There are colourful, left-field production choices throughout- a staple of Bullion - but with a twist

“We really bonded over records in the studio” he says. “Nathan has an incredible ear and catalogue of sampled beats and rhythms which quickly became the bedrock…There were contributing factors also. Our mainstay drummer Kyle lives in Seattle and as we made the record on the fly we just leaned into drum-machine world, and really left almost all of that side of things up to Nathan.”

“We also did a session at Real World Studios and put most of the record through an echoplex”.

That session featured additional instrumentation from Raven Bush (violin, viola) and Mick Mcgoldrick (flute, Eileen pipes) as well as Howards mainstay band of Mickey Smith (Bass, guitars, percussion) R.D. Thomas (synths, keys, harmonium) and Nat Wason (guitars).

“It’s actually mostly a guitar record, but there are some nice additions. We bought an old harmonium at the beginning of the trip which made its way onto most tracks. I was very much stuck in stuttered delay and synth led guitar patterns. Mick McGoldrick came in to play on Richmond Ave and straight away played Liam O´Flynn lines from the Mark Knopfler record ‘Cal’ which is a long favourite of mine and a big connection to my Dad who had it on tape. That was a beautiful moment, perhaps one of my favourites moments in the studio ever.”

“It was a refreshing way to record, unweighted by the past”

The change is evident on ‘Is It’ - an album which represents a further creative evolution from an artist known for never repeating himself throughout his already-storied career.

¨I was so aware of the overwhelming information coming from everything, almost like my brain couldn’t filter what was happening and had to start again. So we just pushed forward, lyrically it seems obvious to me in parts, It’s about sitting there wondering what the hell is going on.”

Yet with each listen it feels like more than that. A characteristically onion-layered record which rankles like a series of questions, or a series of vignettes throughout Howard´s life, perhaps best distilled in the whirling chorus on ´Spirit´.

‘What’s mine anyway?

My feelings seem to be arranged.

What´s mine anyway?

Spirit? Is it?´

‘Is It’ stands quite starkly on it’s own, buoyed by the circumstances of its creation. “Just to be playing music in the studio felt like a real privilege and a luxury,” says Howard. “It was probably the best studio session we’ve ever had.

[kylo-wrecked]

@silverjetsystm sent://

{ 1. Are there any Halloween traditions your Muse(s) have?

2. Worst Halloween costume they've ever done?

3. Does your Muse have any superstitions surrounding Halloween? }

{ from this meme / not currently accepting }

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The tide of haughty fishnetted sirens and rhinestone-bedazzled faeries riles and goes spastic once Siouxsie Sioux gallops full-speed into Everybody Have Fun Tonight, and bones throbbing with drum-machine, everyone, every creature of the black lagoon, every child of the moon, ‘Wang Chungs’ like it’s 1986. 

Strobe lights shift in color, and the monolith walls pull in. Ben pulls a cold azure thread from fifteen layers of drum beats and guitar riffs. 

“Vampires,” Ben sniffs. The small, free-base frozen muscles under his shirt rearrange themselves decisively. Barbie’s blues color of blood. Club kid’s corneas tacky and crimson-soft. He can’t feel his teeth. 

Kim Petras is in costume. Ben Solo is not; not for a long time, anyway. And he doesn’t need one to keep the Devil away; he has a dime in his pocket; his eyes are reptile black; the All Hallows phantoms steer clear. He is the scariest thing in the room. Then there’s Grant. 

Suddenly, he’s got a funny feeling about white knight Steven Grant. Funny uh-oh. 

“These people are fucking vampires,” Ben mutters, his voice engulfed by the bass. Sniffs. Don’t look him in the eye. Don’t. His eyes are red too. “Fuck. I gotta go.” 

Urges his cup into Grant’s hand without looking. Keeps his line of vision on the tips of his shoes, sidling back and away, where the full moon steps forward through float glass. All chipped Parian, sharp, crooked, gritted teeth, he could be the vampire, stimulated by too much flesh for fodder.

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1.Are there any Halloween traditions your Muse(s) have?: Getting trashed. 

2. Worst Halloween costume they've ever done?: He never dresses up, so every 'Halloween costume' is the Worst Halloween costume. (He was a teenage killjoy, too.)

3. Does your Muse have any superstitions surrounding Halloween?: Not really, but if you’re flying as high as the full moon, you’re bound to find yourself in a superstitious state.

[chaosciara]

[image id: A poster of the 2024 music festival Coachella’s performing artists line up. The lineups are separated by the 3 days the festival runs for, over two weekends. For the purpose of readability the format has been changed to “day of festival: artist 1 • artist 2 • etc.”.

Day #1 (Friday, April 12 & 19) : Lana Del Rey • Peso Pluma • Lil Uzi Vert • Justice • Bizarrap • Deftones • ATEEZ • Everything Always • Peggy Gou • Young Miko • Sabrina Carpenter • Anti Up • Steve Angello • Ken Carson Skepta • Faye Webster • Tyla • Yoasobi • Cloonee • Gorgon City • Tinashe • ANOTR • l'impératrice • Suki Waterhouse • Lovejoy • Brittany Howard • Chappell Roan • Chlöe • the Japanese House • Black Country, New Road • Adriatique • BLOND:ISH • the Beths • NEIL FRANCES • Clown Core • Mall Grab • Kevin de Vries x Kölsch • Kokoroko • Eartheater • Narrow Head • Skin On Skin • Innellea • late night drive home • Sid Sriram • Cimafunk • Miss Monique • Son Rompe Pera • Ben Sterling • Upchuck • Keyspan

Day #2 (Saturday, April 13 & 20) : Tyler, The Creator • Blur • Ice Spice • Gesaffelstein • Sublime • Jungle • Dom Dolla • Bleachers • Grimes • Jon Batiste • LE SSERAFIM • Charlotte de Witte • ISOxo & Knock2 • Santa Fe Klan • Bixst • Purple Disco Machine • the Drums • Skream & Benga • Destroy Lonely • Orbital Kevin Abstract • the Aquabats • Kevin Kaarl • RAYE • the Red Pears • FLO • the Blessed Madonna • Hatsune Miku • SPINALL • Palace • the Adicts • thuy • Oneohtrix Point Never • Young Fathers • Kenya Grace • Patrick Mason • the Last Dinner Party • bar italia • Reinier Zonneveld • Saint Levant • Mahmut Orhan • Ame x Marcel Dettmann • Brutalismus 3000 • Erika de Casier • Girl Ultra • Maz • Depresión Sonora • Will Clarke • Militarie Gun • Rebüke • Mandv. Indiana • Kimonos

Day #3 (Sunday, April 14 & 21) : Doja Cat • J Balvin • Jhené Aiko • Khruangbin • Carin León • Anyma • John Summit • Lil Yachty • DJ Snake • LUDMILLA • the Rose • AP Dhillon • Reneé Rapp • Bebe Rexha • Coi Leray • NAV • Tems • BICEP • Victoria Monét • Taking Back Sunday • 88RISING FUTURES • ARTBAT • Atarashii Gakko! • Boy Harsher • Barry Can't Swim • Olivia Dean • LATIN MAFIA • Two Shell • Hermanos Gutiérrez • Folamour • Jockstrap • Carlita • Mdou Moctar • Eddie Zuko • Adam Ten x Mita Gami • VG Marley • Eli & Fur • Flight Facilities • DJ Seinfeld • Tita Lau • Bb trickz • feeble little horse • JOPLYN • jjuujjuu

Art installations for festival by : HANNAH • Morag Myerscough • Nebbia • Do LaB • NEWSUBSTANCE Robert Rose • Raices Cultura

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time for an ancient tradition….. how many of these artists have you heard of? miraculously i’m at 42