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[harveyguillensource]

Harvey at the Christian Siriano show for New York Fashion Week.

[d-criss-news]

Darren Criss, Tika Sumpter, Cyndi Lauper, Lil Kim, Christian Siriano, Tiffany Haddish, Selma Blair, Maia Reficco, Christina Hendricks, Alex Newel, Ashley Longshore, Cody Belew, Nava Mau and Leigh Lezark at Christian Siriano show, Backstage, Spring Summer 2025, New York Fashion Week, USA - 06 Sep 2024 ( Photo by Gregory Pace/Shutterstock, Miguel McSongwe/BFA.com/Shutterstock)

[irishsparkleparty]

Weekly Music Haul

Music is a HUGE special interest of mine and I love sharing music so I thought I'd post what I find every week. I find new songs/artists almost daily!! I'll link to Spotify, YouTube, and Bandcamp if applicable.

I'm always open to recs!

All songs below the cut :)

This Time by Tom Webber - Indie/Britpop - Really like this guy's voice! - Spotify YouTube

Round Trip by Marcoca Ft. Hector Gachan - Bedroom Pop - I'm not familiar with Marcoca but I LOVE Hector Gachan. His voice is so smooth and his songs always have a great bass line. I can't wait for his new album to release - Spotify YouTube Bandcamp (Marcoca) Bandcamp (Hector Gachan)

Go Cray by Hilary Ladd - Indie Pop - I can't believe she only has 29 listeners on spotify!! Thank you to @izzybutt for the rec! - Spotify YouTube Bandcamp

Weapon of Choice by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Garage Rock - Love me some punk/garage rock. Thanks to @a-daks for the rec! - Spotify YouTube

Boarding Pass by Teenage Dads - Australian Surf Rock - New release from a band I love! I'm a sucker for some surf rock - Spotify YouTube Bandcamp

Sleeptalker by Royal Blood - Modern Rock - solid rock song with some crunchy guitar - Spotify YouTube Bandcamp

Natsu No Otoshimono by Yamato Mori - Alt Rock - I cannot believe this artist has less than 1,800 listeners. I'm in love with this song!!!! Amazing composition and gorgeous vocals, it has a very nostalgic feeling - Spotify YouTube

Come Too Far by American Authors - Modern Rock - New release!! - Spotify YouTube

Quiz Show Clue by Maximo Park - Britpop/rock - I haven't listened to this band since like 2009 and I had no idea they were still making music lol - Spotify YouTube Bandcamp

Moon Mist by Dead Horse Beats - Indie Soul - The bass in this is so groovy and smooth along with the violins - Spotify YouTube Bandcamp

Your House by Mandelbro - Alternative Jazz - The bass is so deep you can feel it, also some lovely piano! - Spotify YouTube Bandcamp

Weather by Spooky Mansion - Bay Area Indie - this feels very surf rock adjacent - Spotify YouTube Bandcamp

You Never Fight On My Time by Daniel Noah Miller - Indie Soul - love the chill bass and guitar here - Spotify YouTube Bandcamp

Pieces of my Heart by Bombargo - Saskatchewan indie - Fun song that sounds great on a nice drive :) - Spotify YouTube Bandcamp

Come Thru by JUNO - Brisbane Indie Pop - Another good driving song - Spotify YouTube

Horseshoes & Hand Grandes by Cody Belew - Queer Country Glam Rock - I don't think that's a genre that actually exists but that's what I'm calling it. This song is so fun and funky! - Spotify YouTube

On Cue by Ice Cream Social ft. Abhi the Nomad, JR Specs, Harrison Sands - Hip Hop - Last but not least! some super chill hip hop - Spotify YouTube

[forthesoulmusic]

Listen to my New Playlist!

Country songs with a dance twist, dust off the boots and hang up the disco ball! Please Follow me or like the Playlist. Take a look through my Playlist Library, hundreds of different genres to choose from! Enjoy!

[robinsnest2111]

the way this is right up my alley is unreal, gotta share this song and video on here!!! the one time the insta algorithm showed me something good lol

[misscatholmes]

365 Days of Music || 2024 || Cody Belew - Charlene || 10 November 2024

[romcomxdd]

Sorry to bother you but the story you just posted also reminded me very much of this song. I don't know if it's your vibe but its got good lyrics. https://youtu.be/KibjBLYKCkA?si=_ahhXXnzbcstt1HI

oh my god thank you so much- this is incredible-

(the song is called charlene by cody belew for those that wanna find it on spotify or something, but the music video really makes it)

dude thank you i love this sm

‘So swallow your brimstone and fire What you call unnatural desire It's my bones the way I was wired cnd I won't be forsaken’

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

i feel like we all know a charlene-

thank you again 🫶

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Win a $300 Target Gift Card from Cody Belew

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[nashmusicguide]

Inside Track on Music Row: April 2022

April Music News with Preshias Harris includes new album and song releases, tour updates, upcoming events, and more from artists like Brooks & Dunn, Michael Ray, CJ Solar, Craig Morgan and more.

QUOTE OF THE MONTH: “You can’t write about stuff you don’t know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.” – Dierks Bentley VERSE OF THE MONTH: My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you — I whom you have delivered. – Psalm 71:23. ALBUM NEWS: Four-time Grammy® Award winner Delbert McClinton celebrates…

[williamsockner]

I saw your comments about country music on the Chicks thread and I’m curious about your opinion. I grew up on country music and feel like “9/11 killed country” is pretty valid. But I’d love to hear your take because I miss it [country music].

Hi! So, my major issue with the “9/11 killed country music” post, as someone who listens to a ton of musical genres but has both a history of and soft spot for country, is that it’s a reductive, cherrypicking way to define an entire massive genre based on a handful of individual songs and high-profile artists that had their heyday at this point nearly two decades ago (Toby Keith, Big & Rich, etc.). It’s a very slanted read on pop radio country, and it’s not even remotely accurate to quantifying the broader genre.

It’s just bizarre that people allow their idea of the whole genre to be molded by a spate of reactionary right-wing songs that found traction immediately after 9/11 and then largely lost dominance in the genre. Most country songs on the radio are not about jingoism - they’re still about a lover done you wrong, or drinking after a hard day’s work, or finding happiness without much money, or teenagers in love, or about the tragedies of alcoholism and domestic abuse, or appreciating your small town, as so much of this genre has always been. If you look at the top 10 right now, there isn’t a patriot song in the whole thing (although two of the songs have overtly Christian references, but that’s always been part of country music too). The militaristic patriotism songs tend to just be one or two songs a year that end up in heavy rotation around the fourth of July and in September, but they get outsized attention comparatively because they’re so offensively grating.

And even after 9/11, for the last two decades most country songs on the radio still haven’t been “nationalist pop with twang”. Yes, in the 2000’s we had “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue” and “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning” and “American Soldier”, but this was also LGBT+ supporter Shania Twain’s* and avowed Democrat Tim McGraw’s imperial phases, the era of “Before He Cheats” and “Concrete Angel” and “Red Ragtop”, the years that made a Blake Shelton song about breaking out of prison his calling card and gave Miranda Lambert a massive hit with a song about burning her abuser’s house down.

This isn’t to say that country is progressive. Country music has a major problem with being dominated by straight white men, and even straight white women spent several of the last years underrepresented** (to say nothing of LGBT+ artists and artists of color). But that issue predates 9/11, as does the whitewashing of country’s history; the aforementioned Ken Burns documentary does go into how white country musicians forced black musicians out of the scene and erased their accomplishments going back decades before 2001. “Proud to Be an American” and “God Bless the USA”, for the record, were recorded in 1980’s.

Country, as a genre, does lean more conservative than many other genres, but it still holds a wide array of political viewpoints, even on the pop charts. I’m not just talking about indie alt-country darlings, although I’ll get to those in a minute - even pop country megastars are a varied bunch. Eric Church, who currently has a hit on the top 10, just dropped a scathing track called “Stick That in Your Country Song” that cusses out underfunding schools and mass incarceration; Luke Bryan got a #1 hit in 2017 with a chorus that included “I believe you love who you love and ain’t nothing you should ever be ashamed of”; Carrie Underwood pinned an entire album and tour cycle around a single about escaping domestic abuse and recently released a song criticizing gun proliferation; Kacey Musgraves won a CMA for her hit single where she criticizes slut-shaming and encourages women to “kiss lots of boys or kiss lots of girls if that’s something you’re into”, then she won a Grammy for an album where she sings about smoking weed and dedicates an empowerment anthem to the LGBT+ community; Miley Cyrus had an explicitly bisexual song on her most recent “back to her roots” country album; Tim McGraw discussed running for governor of Tennessee as a Democrat and threw his support behind Obama way back during Obama’s 2008 campaign. I’ve been relatively unplugged from country radio for the last few years, but this is all stuff relatively off the top of my head.

And that moves us to alt-country. I die a little inside whenever someone says that they “just mean radio country” when they say they “hate country music”, because alt-country is just the tits. It just is. It’s the best. If someone says they listen to rock music, we don’t assume they only mean Nickelback and Shinedown - and yet somehow we’ve shut country out so much that we don’t even consider that there’s an entire world of the genre beyond what charts - and that world is rich and powerful and thoughtful and as valid a form of music as any other genre. Some favorites contemporary alt-country artists of mine (including some songs about immigration, opiate addiction, protesting war, sexism, agricultural exploitation, homophobia, one bashing Trump directly and even one about female cunnilingus): Courtney Marie Andrews, Ruston Kelly, Tyler Childers, Margo Price, Jason Isbell, Colter Wall, Ian Noe, Kathleen Edwards, Lydia Loveless, Lori McKenna, Amanda Shires, Ashley Monroe, Lucinda Williams, Over the Rhine, Samantha Crain, Shooter Jennings, Cam, John Moreland, Chris Stapleton, Lindi Ortega, Lavender Country, Cody Belew, Honey Harper, Lera Lynn, Nina Nastasia, Patty Griffin, Holly Williams.

The problem with the “9/11 killed country” attitude, to me, is that it’s a stance that requires limited knowledge of country that happened after 9/11 and a selective memory for the country that existed before 9/11. Jingoist country songs existed and found massive success before 9/11; more progressive country songs existed and found success after 9/11. Contrary to what people on tumblr seem to believe, the genre of country music was not just outlaw country, “Jolene” and Woodie Guthrie folk songs until Toby Keith came along; it was already highly Christian/gospel-influenced and highly patriarchal. And it was already full of goofy songs about getting drunk and partying and driving tractors, the predecessors to “bro country”.

I think, personally, we lose so much by centering “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue” and Florida Georgia Line as the first things we think of when we think about country music, because those songs and acts aren’t representative of the genre, or even of the pop country charts. We lose a lot because we lose sight of all the fantastic progressive or apolitical music in the genre, and we lose a lot because we ignore the sins of pre-9/11 country and the opportunity to critique its history of whitewashing, heteronormativity and cultural Christianity by likening it to some sort of good ol’ days.

Thank you for letting me ramble!

*I’m aware of Shania’s ignorant-ass Trump comments, but those reflect more recent political developments for her and came with a hasty retraction.

**Although lol the pop, rock and rap charts have all been brutal to women for the last several years.

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey slayed at Christian Siriano's Spring 2024 collection showing at New York Fashion Week!

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Via Cody Belew's Instagram Story (September 7th, 2024)

[josjournal]

Hi :)

Hello! :D 

You stumble through your daysMidnight and I’m a-waiting on the twelve-oh-fiveI’m not thinkin’ ‘bout if you’re home aloneJolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene    Remember that trip we took in Mexico? 

Definitely a decent stream of consciousness poem. :D

Songs: 

Come Alive - The Greatest ShowmanQueen of Hearts - Juice NewtonI Don’t Think About You - HRVYJolene - Cody Belew (The Voice Performance)Pass Me By - R5

Send me a ‘hi’ and I will put my playlist on shuffle, write down the first line of five songs and give it to you as a poem.

[forthesoulmusic]

Listen to my New Playlist!

Country songs with a dance twist, dust off the boots and hang up the disco ball! Please Follow me or like the Playlist. Take a look through my Playlist Library, hundreds of different genres to choose from! Enjoy!

[bringinbackpod]

Interview with Lafemmebear

We had the pleasure of interviewing Lafemmebear over Zoom video!  As an up-and-coming producer, Mitchell worked alongside producers for Boyz II Men, Grammy-winners The Jackie Boyz, Eric Dawkins of The Underdogs, Polo Molina of Will. I. Am/The Black Eyed Peas, and Interscope Records producers from Nelly’s songwriting team. When she came out as a transgender woman in 2013, she was effectively blacklisted from the industry despite her skill and accomplishments, including a 2012 Grammy win for album engineering. This only prompted Mitchell to take her music into her own hands under the name Lafemmebear in 2018. The arrival of her first indie release, Blaq* A Note to the World, showed that her sound has evolved into a genre-blending experience speaking to the trials of Black queer, trans femmes. The music video for the EP single "SHUTUP! (feat. Bella King)" premiered on Billboard.com in March of 2019; she subsequently became the first Black trans woman to headline the state of Utah's Pride Festival in June, performing original music to an audience of over 60,000. Her words and work have since been featured by The Guardian, MTV News, GLAAD, Queerty, Out.Tv Euro, and Autostraddle. Her first full album, Blaq: the Story of Me, premiered Fall 2019 and is available on all platforms. She is composing, mixing, and sound designing part of the original score for Alice Sheppard and Kinetic Light’s new work WIRED. In 2020 she collaborated with PEG Records, Cody Belew, and Dustin Ransom to co-write and produce the first mainstream Pop-R&B single “What You’re Looking For” for Rupaul’s Drag Race’s Peppermint. She and Peppermint later collaborated with Mila Jam in a remake of Sounds of Blackness' "Optimistic," an anthem for Trans Day of Remembrance 2020. In February 2021 she opened for Chika at Stanford University’s Black Love concert, premiering songs from her new EP titled My Blaq Feels. We want to hear from you! Please email Tera@BringinitBackwards.com. www.BringinitBackwards.com #podcast #interview #bringinbackpod #Lafemmebear #zoom #lgbtq+ #lgbtq Listen & Subscribe to BiB Follow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter!  source https://www.spreaker.com/user/14706194/interview-with-lafemmebear

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@josjournal replied to your post: I’m only accepting country singer Niall if he can...

Jolene is one of my all time fave songs. I have a cover and of it by Cody Belew as my ringtone b

Jolene goes hard. At the first chords I’m already tapping my right foot and ready to beg her to not take the man I’ve been married to for 25 years!

@soloziamwillbetheendofme replied to your post “Cons of the new notifs: - take up more space - no longer blue when...”

I totally agree. The fact that you can't distinguish you mutuals is annoying    

It was already bad enough when they made your own notif not appear blue (or any colour) to you. Now no one’s blue. Great.