#cleopatrick band

[theboys14]

Some pics of Luke in Chicago <3

[bredforloyalty]

does anyone want to recommend me.. like.. a Rock song mayhaps. or any song

[arcadian-muse]

if you haven’t listened to Cleopatrick, fix that.

[s0lderingiron]

📺📺📺

[concertmads]

Cleopatrick destroying Berlin

[fuckyeahstufficareabout]

Updated current list of my favorite bands:

Muse

Cage the Elephant

Dead Poet Society

Highly Suspect

Royal Blood

Arctic Monkeys

cleopatrick

Nothing But Thieves

Radiohead

Franz Ferdinand

[paradisiacvl]

✧ Jeffrey Mason — A Playlist

Part I

Songs that remind me of him, describe him or his story, and how he'd feel about his s/o. They're all mixed up and in no specific order but by the lyrics, you'll be able to tell which is which.

[alter-bridge-fanatic]

Top 5 bands currently in my playlist:

Alter Bridge (duh)

Myles Kennedy/Tremonti (also,duh)

Cleopatrick

Royal Blood

BRKN LOVE

[strawberryblondebutch]

Besides pop-punk/emo type stuff, what music do you listen to?

I listen to a little bit of everything, which is cheesy, but it’s true. If you have clever lyrics and a good beat, I’ll give you a listen. The only genres I sort of unequivocally dislike are those under the EDM umbrella, because those genres don’t prioritize what I find important.

I grew up on old school Irish punk — Stiff Little Fingers was a big hit in my household, as were Boomtown Rats and Paranoid Visions. That funneled into older American punk bands like Bad Religion, Social Distortion, NoFX, and Descendents. Green Day was the first American band I got obsessed with. Those bands led me to the contemporary hardcore scene — I love The Bronx, Soul Glo, Drug Church, and Gouge Away.

And in turn, garden variety hardcore led me to post-hardcore. I’ll listen to anything under that umbrella. That’s where we brush up on emo, but you also have mathcore (The Dillinger Escape Plan, SeeYouSpaceCowboy…, Touché Amore), the more old school stuff like Hot Snakes, and then whatever the hell La Dispute does.

Metal I’m a little bit picky on, because it’s very easy for metal musicians to get stuck in a loop of sacrificing musicality for brutality. I listen to the extremes of the spectrum: metalcore that’s practically hardcore (The Ghost Inside, Norma Jean) and orchestral metal with barely any gutturals (Leprous, Caligula’s Horse). The latter really ticks the part of my brain that wants BIG EPIC MUSIC, and there’s a reason I’ve seen Manchester Orchestra 7 times in the last 5 years. Speaking of MO, they’re good friends with Militarie Gun, who kill.

The other genre I really grew up with was blues rock/garage rock. Queens of the Stone Age, Royal Blood, Royal Tusk, cleopatrick, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Pistol Fire. Those are the bands I imitated when I got my first electric. You can brush up against some art punk with that, too. I fucking LOVE Les Savy Fav. Go listen to Let’s Stay Friends. Do it now.

Folk is tricky. There’s radio folk and then there’s what I like, which is Josh Ritter. He’s more folk rock than indie folk, a little closer to Frank Turner and a LOT closer to Ben Marwood. I’m a slut for orgcore— Bouncing Souls, Dave Hause, Hot Water Music, give me all of it. People are also surprised I like country music, but Waylon Jennings is a huge influence on my guitar. SG Goodman is fantastic. Deer Tick claims they aren’t country, but they are and should embrace it. Same with Lucero.

Most of the rap I listen to is from the 90s (or even 80s! I just saw Public Enemy and they killed), but I’m trying to get better. Megan Thee Stallion got me back into contemporary rap, because she hits all the boxes: content, flow, delivery. GloRilla opened for her and I dug what I heard from that set. I fell off with Ski Mask the Slump God (then again he hasn’t released anything in years) but he’s also up there.

Very roundabout answer for “everything minus EDM,” but I needed to shout some people out. Just a few, yk?

[theboys14]

CLEOPATRICK at The Echo!!

I have neglected this blog for far too long apologies good friends

[rkaji]

my taste in music is sporadic and depends heavily on the day/my mood, but in general if i can headbang or mosh to it, i vibe with it.

i'm somewhat musically inclined myself..anyway, enough about me. what about you, though? your favorite artist at the moment?

— @angel-soiree

Headbang or mosh...so, metal? Rock? House? That sort of thing? Or are you more into rave music?

Mm. At the moment? I've been uh...there's this band. Cleopatrick. They've got this song called Why July. Been listening to that recently.

[rowanb3rries]

music i listened to in january

petrodragonic apocalypse; or, dawn of eternal night: an annihilation of planet earth and the beginning of merciless damnation | king gizzard and the lizard wizard (2023)

every single by dreadlight (2018-2023)

tryhard | the band camino (2019)

party for one | devon cole (2021)

running | cafuné (2021)

hozier | hozier (2014)

wild world | bastille (2016)

the colour and the shape | foo fighters (1997)

apocryphon | the sword (2012)

otherness | alexisonfire (2022)

METAL RESISTANCE | BABYMETAL (2016)

[MESSAGE FROM THE CLERGY] | ghost (2022)

ROCKISDEAD | dorothy (2016)

the fear of fear | spiritbox (2023)

royal blood | royal blood (2014)

BUMMER | cleopatrick (2021)

seventeen going under | sam fender (2021)

liminal | chase petra (2019)

the shadow side | andy black (2016)

good & evil | tally hall (2011)

songs for the deaf | queens of the stone age (2002)

fight with tools | flobots (2008)

january | february | march | april | may

[imscissorbladez]

Short Playlists for Tavs

I’m in the zone so for further context have some songs:

Rook

all fired up - interpol

the people person of this ragtag band. sees every social interaction as a game; how do i get what i want and we all still have fun. it works, mostly. and if not, they’re a bard with a sword and that’s a truly terrifying thing to see early game.

we appreciate power - grimes, HANA

this is essentially the mindset they were in as they started consuming parasites like it was their job. it’s fine! it’s not a problem! they’re just helping. and that’s how they became half illithid. it’s the tragic story of a half elf who knew they couldn’t help the way that they wanted to, and turned to power outside of their control because they do care, it’s just hard to see.

good grief - cleopatrick

is vaguely insecure as the bard! can’t do anything their companions can do, and it absolutely upsets them, yes, but when someone tries to talk down to them? all hell breaks loose. and this song is absolutely a tribute to that.

parasite eve - bring me the horizon

mainly because they’re a drum bard, and i love the idea of this being the song they play in the upper city with other bards just before the final battle. they know they’ve all done right and wrong, but there’s a time and place to unpack that. also the idea of them scaring the place with this song?? but rallying everyone? immaculate.

fun fact: headcanoning the fem and masc voice that joins in for chorus as shadowheart and gale, who were rook’s ride or dies.

Ry’lrr

black wave - k.flay

i just need you to know the lyrics ‘I swear to god you don’t wanna test me’ are said with an air of desperation that ry’lyrr embodies. she awakes knowing that she has the urge. she lives with it every day. it’s chaotic and painful and difficult to understand. and yet she prevails.

the moon will sing - the crane wives

i need you to consider for a moment what it’s like to have a dark urge tav who sees lae’zel as the sun. literally the only light she’s ever known. i am sobbing, crying, foaming at the mouth.

did you hear the rain - george ezra

this is deeply orin and ry’lrr coded in ways i cannot explain without an essay. sworn rivals, sisters who one of them doesn’t remember the other. the ry’lrr before dark urge was something else. orin lost her great rival and it’s actually very sad to me.

map of the problematique - muse

ry’lyrr cannot bear the idea of losing any of her companions. she knows that in another life, it would be none of them. now it’s all of them, and she goes to battle for them, not for the world, but for them.

honourable mention: obey by bring me the horizon and yungblud was so very orin and ry’lrr before…. everything happened.

Elys

get into it (yuh) - doja cat

let her have her moment. this is the noble that people knew in the upper city, betrothed, fucking around and finding out, seemingly untouchable. absolutely her opening song.

hurricane drunk - florence + the machine

where elys starts. traumatic breakup, has turned to self destruction. it helps that she’s a draconic lightning sorcerer realistically. so she went out! For weeks! …and was picked up by mindflayers.

money - lisa

i’m not going to lie, elys and astarion are besties for this reason: she spends the entire tadpole era dropping money wherever she can. morally grey and banked up. she’s a bad bitch. we allow it. her fellow tav hates it.

little girl gone - chinchilla

the emperor came to elys as essentially a full copy of their ex. and elys was struggling so was okay with it. but with a healthy love, she goes into battle now not trusting the emperor, a manipulator, and an actually terrifying sorcerer that her draconic ancestry would be proud of. she leaves him on the battlefield as he tries to fight her, which is the closure she’d never get otherwise. wyll is very proud and a little smug.

fun fact: the cave by mumford and sons is THE wyll/elys song

Haven

Haven requires essays so we unpack that later. There’s also a whole Spotify playlist so lmk if you want it.

[concertmads]

[fuckyeahstufficareabout]

Taking rock music recommendations.

I like and recommend these bands:

Muse

Royal Blood

Highly Suspect

Nothing But Theives

cleopatrick

Des Rocs

PVRIS

The Blue Stones

Boston Manor

HIMALAYAS

Dead Poet Society

Reignwolf

Electric Enemy

BRKN LOVE

The Velveteers

[heartsleevemag]

Friday Five

by Vi McDonald

Welcome to this week’s installment of Heartsleeve Magazine’s Friday Five playlist! From up-tempo tracks that’ll make you feel like you’re in an eighties movie, to some of the crunchiest, coolest new rock tunes, here are five songs that kept our blood pumping this week.

1. "Bad At Letting Go" – Leland, MUNA

Danceable and in denial, Leland's "Bad At Letting Go" is replayable in the way that only a MUNA collab can be. Depicting a romance where things have gone wrong but Leland doesn't want anyone to know, it's about burying your emotions but having them bubble up to the surface anyway. MUNA's influence shines especially brightly, from the production to the vocals to the theme of honest avoidance, as they croon in the second verse, "The tears that are slipping right off of my skin, I don't want 'em to sink in."

2. “Welcome to the DCC” — Nothing But Thieves

With a sound that would be perfectly at home in a neon cyberpunk dream, Nothing But Thieves' new eighties-inspired dance track introduces a new world. "Welcome to the DCC" tells of a utopian heaven called Dead Club City where "If you believe it, it can happen." Even though it'll get you moving, the track has a thrumming tension underneath that hints the DCC might be too good to be true. The video suggests this too, with characters getting sucked into the DCC universe through advertisements and entering a world where there's nothing but endless partying and neon lights. "It's almost time for us to open the doors to you," NBT shared as a caption for the music video. What else will Dead Club City have in store?

3. "Just A Girl" - From The Original Series "Yellowjackets" – Florence + The Machine

Florence Welch once said, "You said that rock and roll is dead. But is that just because it has not been resurrected in your image?" And when Florence decides to resurrect a classic like No Doubt's 1995 hit "Just A Girl," in her image, it infuses the track with an ethereal, foreboding energy. Fitting for the psychological horror-drama show Yellowjackets, this track is a spooky, cinematic rock masterpiece. Tense cymbal crashes and uneasy strings crash open into chaotic harmonies over the song's four-minute runtime – this track singlehandedly convinced me to binge Yellowjackets in its entirety before the new season premieres.

4. "SCARING ME" – Cleopatrick

You got me – this one's not a new discovery. More of a rediscovery, "SCARING ME" is the third track on Cleopatrick's 2022 EP, DOOM. After becoming particularly enthralled with (and seriously overplaying) the two opening tracks, "ZUCK," and "OK," I decided to revisit the EP. "SCARING ME" winds down from the heavier sound of the first two tracks, but continues the theme of examining how relationships are affected by modern society, and how the things that we do affect those relationships. The instrumentation is probably the coolest part – after the song went viral, the band shared how it was made on Tiktok, using layered textures and vocals as an instrument. Cleopatrick is "gonna do a coupl shows" – their words, not mine – in the UK this summer. Check 'em out here.

5. "CHOKER" – ROMES

The very definition of a modern rock track with grunge and 90s influences, "CHOKER" showcases the heavier side of Romes' music. "If you've ever felt emotionally strangled, trapped inside your own mind, or felt like there's no way out, just know that someone else is fighting through it too. You're not alone," the band shared on Instagram following the song's release. And it feels that way, lyrics like "I wanna feel what it feels like to exist," holding a raw desperation that feels cathartic and expressive, like this was something the band had to get out in order to keep going.

Listen to the Friday Five playlist and check out last week's additions on our Spotify, and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss the next one!