#death of speedy ortiz

[misterdtour]

“The Death of Speedy Ortiz” by Jaime Hernandez

A critical look back at #TheDeathOfSpeedyOrtiz by #JaimeHernandez #LoveAnd Rockets #Love&Rockets

In honor of Valentine’s Day, I thought it would be fun to look back on a work that happens to have “love” right there in the title: Love and Rockets. Continue reading “The Death of Speedy Ortiz” by Jaime Hernandez

[mxdwn]

Speedy Ortiz Returns With Cheeky New Single “Scabs”

https://music.mxdwn.com/2023/04/13/news/speedy-ortiz-returns-with-cheeky-new-single-scabs/

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for December 5, 2015; #99.

Savages “The Answer”

Westkust “Jonna”

METZ “Eyes Peeled”

Radical Dads “Tomorrow’s Trash”

JuliaWhy? “Turntable”

Novella “Land Gone”

Courtney Barnett “Aqua Profunda!”

DIIV “Dopamine”

Personal Best “This Time Next Year”

Speedy Ortiz “Raising The Skate”

Bichkraft “A4″

Diet Cig “Scene Sick”

Looper “Farfisa Song”

Flesh Panthers “Bleed Black Leather”

Title Fight “New Vision”

Cheena “Dreaming”

Mourn “Silver Gold”

Eternal Summers “Heart Squeeze”

Twin River “Bend To Break”

Sheer Mag “Sit And Cry”

Leather Towel “Nacho Chips”

Interrobang?! “Love It All”

Guerilla Toss “TV Spell”

Downtown Boys “Future Police”

Beech Creeps “Sun Of Sud”

Institute “Cheaptime Morals”

Viet Cong “Death”

Nebraska “Stand Your Ground”

Lust For Youth “Basorexia”

Cannibal Ox (ft. MF Doom) “Iron Rose”

Silvana Imam “Imam Cobain”

Future Punx “Manhattan Loverboy”

Hot Chip “Huarache Lights”

Metric “Too Bad So Sad”

MNDR & Sweet Valley “Like Liars”

Chvrches “Leave A Trace”

Grimes “Flesh Without Blood”

Plaitum “Let Me Hold You”

Alice Glass “Stillbirth”

Health “Stonefist”

Chromatics “Just Like You” (Hazy Mountains RMX)

First Year 4 broadcast. First of two Winners Of '15 shows, #99.

[explosionshark]

Albums of the year 2023 let's go

Top 3 right here

Symptoms of Survival by Dying Wish / Anno 1696 by Insomnium / Everything is Alive by Slowdive

Full list under the cut

Death Metal:

Glacial Domination by Frozen Soul

Anno 1696 by Insomnium

Terrasite by Cattle Decapitation

Boundless Domain by Creeping Death

The Enduring Spirit by Tomb Mold

Shades of Sorrow by Crypta

Black Metal:

Blight Year by Anti-God Hand

Blackbraid II by Blackbraid

Agriculture by Agriculture

American Gothic by Wayfarer

Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle by Moonlight Sorcery

Power/Epic Heavy Metal:

Might and Power by Megaton Sword

From Western Shores by Gatekeeper

First Sighting by Blood Star

Hunger by Maggot Heart

Prog bullshit. Whatever:

Exul by Ne Obliviscaris

Heimdal by Enslaved

War of Being by Tesseract

Fauna by Haken

Sky Void of Stars by Katatonia

Metalcore:

Heavener by Invent Animate

Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre by Periphery

Symptoms of Survival by Dying Wish

[m]other by Veil of Maya

Chronicles by Void of Vision

No Love Lost by Year of the Knife

Everything else I can remember off the top of my head:

Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) by Yves Tumor

Desire, I Want to Turn Into You by Caroline Polachek

With a Hammer by Yaeji

Desire Pathways by Screaming Females

Why Would I Watch by Hot Mulligan

Rat Saw God by Wednesday

Everything is Alive by Slowdive

Cerebral Circus by Initiate

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It Wasn't Supposed to be Like This by Pulses.

Rabbit Rabbit by Speedy Ortiz

I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff and even more sure only like 2 ppl care about aoty from me at all but whatever! I love making my little lists every year!

[bambipickle]

1, 3, 7, 12, 13, 20, 22, 27, 28 and 29 make an entire playlist for me

Ok so this is referring to an ancient reblog of mine

1 three songs that come up when you put your phone on shuffle "Deep Space" by Blank Banshee. "hakuiki (the last stage of change at the deceased remains" by my dead girlfriend (死んだ僕の彼女). "Mrahc" by Title Fight.

3. three songs you were recently obsessed with obviously "keep my address to yourself, cause we need secrets!" by Fucking Werewolf Asso. I think the tik tok song about Marcin the hamster also qualifies. Other than that i listen to "Youth and Lust" by Cold Cave a lot.

7. three songs you didn’t expect to like but eventually loved first that comes to mind is "ADHDLGBTHWDP". "Passenger" by Deftones or any Deftones song for that matter, cause i really thought I'd grown out of nu metal. A lot of polish songs, since i dont hold polish music in high regard, but also wouldn't go as far as to say i "love" them now, just tolerate/like.

12. three favourite songs from video games this one's easy. Cyberpunk 2077's adaptation of folk song "Kōjō no Tsuki" takes the cake, always mesmerizing. "Worlds" by (as far as i remember) the Unresolved, also from Cyp77. "Fahkeet" by Light Club from Hotline Miami 2. There's so much more

13. three songs you want at your funeral i actually made a playlist for my funeral a few years back but it's not rly that serious. anyways, "Sea, Swallow Me" by Cocteau Twins, "Death Is Not the End" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, "No Below" by Speedy Ortiz (incidentally also a song from a video game).

20. three songs that remind you of the person who sends this one "Rosenrot" by Rammstein. "I Luv the Valley OH!" by Xiu Xiu. "Patolove" by Zdechly Osa.

22. three songs you listen to when you’re sad "Locket" by Crumb. "So You Wanna Be A Superhero" by Carissa's Wierd. "Violence" by Andy Stott.

27. three songs that you sing while drunk "Kino" by The Knife. "Stein Um Stein" by Rammstein. "Fucc the Devil" by Andrew Jackson Jihad.

28. three best songs to get drunk or high to "Vanished" by Crystal Castles. "Secret Motel" by Xiu Xiu. "2007" by You Love Her (Coz She's Dead). I just think these noisy electronic punk songs are trippy enough by themselves.

29. three songs that influenced you most (some songs change or save lives) hard to pick three but here we go. "Not In Love" by Crystal Castles - first non-metal/rock i really enjoyed, it basically dragged me into electronica and noise. "Rumpus Room" by Xiu Xiu - the song that pulled me into xiu xiu hell, even though i knew xiu before just with this song i became obsessed (and the live gig of course). "My Favorite Black Cat" by Lebanon Hanover - just something i'd listened a lot in my (recent) darkest times. Wouldn't say it motivated me to get help but certainly did have some influence.

jesus this took forever. anyway, here's the playlist

[nobelowz]

sorry if u get asked this a lot but what is your url inspired by? it made me think of the song by speedy ortiz so i’m curious

sorry for replying so late!! and believe it or not you are the first person to ask this! but nobelowz is actually inspired by the album 'nothing above, nothing below' by death spells!! one of my favorite albums ever

[meat-wentz]

frank playlist just cause:

[strangledeggs]

The Best Albums Of 2018

If you want to see a full review of any specific album on this list, or are wondering why a particular album did or didn’t make the top 10, or are wondering why an album you like from the year in question isn’t on this list at all, send me an ask about it and I’ll try and respond!

The Top 10

Room 25 by Noname

Invasion Of Privacy by Cardi B

A Laughing Death In Meatspace by Tropical Fuck Storm

Wide Awake! by Parquet Courts

Whack World by Tierra Whack

Superorganism by Superorganism

Transangelic Exodus by Ezra Furman

Be The Cowboy by Mitski

Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides by SOPHIE

Três by Thiago Nassif

The Rest

Care For Me by Saba

Conexão EP by Amber Mark

DAYTONA by Pusha T

Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae

Ephorize by CupcakKe

Foreign Ororo by Riton + Kah-Lo

Guatemaya by Doctor Nativo

Hive Mind by The Internet

I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life by tUnE-yArDs

Interstate Gospels by The Pistol Annies

Queen by Nicki Minaj

Quite A Life by Lyrics Born

Record by Tracey Thorn

Snares Like A Haircut by No Age

Streams Of Thought Vol. 1 by Black Thought

Tantabara by Tal National

Temet by Imarhan

The Terror End Of Beauty by Harriet Tubman

DROGAS WAVE by Lupe Fiasco

There’s A Riot Going On by Yo La Tengo

Things Have Changed by Bettye LaVette

Twerp Verse by Speedy Ortiz

Twin Fantasy by Car Seat Headrest

Un Autre Blanc by Salif Keita

What A Time To Be Alive by Superchunk

What Happens When I Try To Relax by Open Mike Eagle

Your Queen Is A Reptile by Sons Of Kemet

Coming off of a previous year I described as lackluster, this is more like it. 38 albums in total, but more importantly, I had a particularly difficult time picking the top 10 for this year. The top 3-4 proved especially difficult – I was pretty certain after a while that Noname’s “Room 25”, perhaps the peak of what one can accomplish with the “personal is political” mantra, was going to take the top spot, but was I prepared to admit that Cardi B’s pop triumph “Invasion Of Privacy” was better than Parquet Courts’ best album yet? And so, apparently, was Tropical Fuck Storm’s unrelenting “A Laughing Death In Meatspace”? It hurt me to rank some of these things the way I did, but because of this, I’m fairly confident that you could pull any of the top 10 albums at random and have a great time regardless. Just make sure to watch the videos for Tierra Whack’s album, too, since they’re a whole work of art in themselves (it’s 15 minutes of your life for one of the most creative hip-hop visual spectacles of the century so far, come on, just do it).

What’s more, typing out the rest of the list made me realize what an awesome year this was simply by how many I realized I was sad to have to leave out of the top 10. Let me tell you, in any number of weaker years (like the last, or perhaps the next one, as you’ll see), contributions by Speedy Ortiz, Superchunk, Open Mike Eagle, Harriet Tubman, No Age, The Pistol Annies, Saba, Amber Mark and more would have made it into that upper tier. It’s a true testament to the strength of this year’s releases that they didn’t; I would strongly recommend checking out much of the second-tier list as well if you’re looking for the outstanding accomplishments in hip-hop, country, indie rock, desert rock and believe it or not, avant-garde jazz (Sons Of Kemet deserve a shout-out here, too, for their unique brass band approach).

One strange quirk I’ve noticed about this year is that it features several artists who seem either to have peaked here, releasing a lesser follow-up in the next few years, or who have yet to release a follow-up at all. Parquet Courts, No Age, Noname, Nicki Minaj, Pusha T, The Internet, Cardi B, Tierra Whack, Mitski, Superorganism and sadly even Tropical Fuck Storm and the aforementioned Sons Of Kemet all fall into these categories to varying extents. Hopefully I’ll be proven wrong in some way on at least a few of those soon, but even if they don’t bounce back, many of those artists can rest easy knowing they’ve created at least one masterpiece, which is more than most can say.

Speaking specifically to a few trends I noticed from the previous year, I will acknowledge that “mainstream”-leaning pop remains under-represented here, though I think this may just be my general bias as a critic to ignore most of it or even to recognize that the stuff that makes it on to my radar as interesting enough to write about is still too inconsistent to make a year-end list in terms of quality. Then again, I put Cardi B, breakout pop-star of the year, at #2, so you can’t complain too much there. Second, I should clarify that while I said in the previous year’s essay that I was ready to re-listen to Mount Eerie’s follow-up grieving-process album “Now Only”, I ultimately felt that it couldn’t hold its own against the other albums I selected for this year’s list. Which, again, is just an indication of how good 2018 was; nothing against “Now Only”, it’s still a very good album and you should listen to it if you...enjoyed(?) “A Crow Looked At Me”.

Finally, I’m glad to see a bit more music from outside the “western” pop sphere sneaking onto this year’s list as well. Thiago Nassif’s Tom Zé-like “Três” made the very end of the top 10, but you’ll find Guatemala’s Doctor Nativo, Nigeria’s Kah-Lo, Niger’s Tal National, Algeria’s Imarhan and Mali’s Salif Keita elsewhere on the list, each of which is worth checking out and each of which brings their own unique sound to the table. And on a sadder note, it’s still hard for me to believe SOPHIE is no longer with us after releasing such a final masterwork as “Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides”. We truly lost a once-in-a-generation talent with her.

[coolmusiccentral]

Top 40 Albums of 2023

We say goodbye to 2023 with 40 of the best albums we've listened to in the last year, a list topped by Fever Ray's amazing third album "Radical Romantics", another close encounter with Karin Dreijer's extraterrestrial electropop project. Our top 5 albums of the year also include Yo La Tengo's "This Stupid World", one of their best efforts in an amazing career that's nearing its 40th anniversary, Protomartyr's sixth album "Formal Growth in the Desert", another post punk masterclass, and the two excellent albums that newcomers Bar Italia offered us in the year ("Tracey Denim" and "The Twits"), combining a hard work ethic with great talent.

Here are our Top 40 Albums of 2023 based on what we've listened to so far, plus a few others that stood out. This list will be updated in the near future as there are certainly more good albums out there that we are yet to discover and will be posted in its final form in Cool Music Database as usual.

Top 40 Albums

Radical romantics - FEVER RAY

This stupid world - YO LA TENGO

Formal growth in the desert - PROTOMARTYR

Tracey denim / The twits - BAR ITALIA

Rat saw God - WEDNESDAY

The record - BOYGENIUS

First two pages of Frankenstein / Laugh track - THE NATIONAL

I've seen a way - MANDY, INDIANA

Everyone's crushed - WATER FROM YOUR EYES

I inside the old year dying - PJ HARVEY

Everything is alive - SLOWDIVE

The beggar - SWANS

Sit down for dinner - BLONDE REDHEAD

Stereo mind game - DAUGHTER

O monolith - SQUID

Shook - ALGIERS

The ballad of Darren - BLUR

Javelin - SUFJAN STEVENS

Cacti - BILLY NOMATES

UK grim - SLEAFORD MODS

Medicine - GOAT

The death of Randy Fitzsimmons - THE HIVES

Plastic eternity - MUDHONEY

In times new roman - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

I don't want you anymore - CHERRY GLAZERR

Bobbie - PIP BLOM

Food for worms - SHAME

Gigi's recovery - THE MURDER CAPITAL

Breaking the balls of history - QUASI

Careful of your keepers - THIS IS THE KIT

Clear pond road - KRISTIN HERSH

Islands in the sky - DEATH VALLEY GIRLS

The land is inhospitable and so are we - MITSKI

Chaos for the fly - GRIAN CHATTEN

Weathervanes - JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT

Mommy - BE YOUR OWN PET

God games - THE KILLS

Bless this mess - U.S. GIRLS

Time's arrow - LADYTRON

Mid air - ROMY

Also recommended: Isn't it now? - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, All her plans - CABLE TIES, The price of progress - THE HOLD STEADY, On grace & dignity - THE GOLDEN DREGS, Bird machine - SPARKLEHORSE, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert - CAT POWER, Brain worms - RVG, House Of All - HOUSE OF ALL, Sea of mirrors - THE CORAL, I thought I was better than you - BAXTER DURY, Rabbit rabbit - SPEEDY ORTIZ, Formentera II - METRIC, The candle and the flame - ROBERT FORSTER, Strange disciple - NATION OF LANGUAGE, Dead meat - THE TUBS, New York City - THE MEN, Continue as a guest - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Blondshell - BLONDSHELL, Several songs about fire - A SAVAGE, Cousin - WILCO, The future is your past - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, Land of sleeper - PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS, Expired candy - BODY TYPE, The last rotation of earth - BC CAMPLIGHT, Nowhere to go but up / Welshpool frillies / La La Land - GUIDED BY VOICES

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Album Reviews: Speedy Ortiz "Major Arcana (10th Anniversary Edition)" / The Kinks

This week I got to review some cool reissue albums from very different eras.

Speedy Ortiz Major Arcana (10th Anniversary Edition)

Hard to believe indie rockers Speedy Ortiz have been a band for over a decade and now are celebrating ten years since their first full length album was released. The quartet were formed in Northampton, MA and are now in Philadelphia. My #5 Best Concert of 2019 was Speedy Ortiz when they did an Indie617 show at McGann’s Pub. Such a great show and afterwards the band signed my vinyl copy of their album Twerp Verse, which I named an Honorable Mention for Best Album of the 2010s. In 2021 I got to review the reissue of their album The Death of Speedy Ortiz & Cop Kicker…Forever. In 2022 I saw them headline the Nice a Fest festival. Earlier this Fall, I got review the band's newest studio album Rabbit Rabbit. Now to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut album Major Arcana is being re-released by Carpark Records this week.

album cover

Originally released on July 9, 2013, the band was already creating a buzz with their demo albums The Death of Speedy Ortiz and Copy Kicker as well as the EP Sports. I remember hearing a lot about the band at the time, not just in Boston press, but nationally as well. I checked out the album online and dug what I heard. For one reason or another, I never picked up Major Arcana, until now. This is an interesting album to re-visit in 2023 because singer / songwriter / guitarist Sadie DuPuis is the only member from the 2013 lineup still in the band. Guitarist Matt Robidoux, bassist Darl Ferm and drummer Mike Falcone who made up the lineup of this 2013 album, were a solid band, it's just that I'm partial to the lineup they've had since 2019 since I've seen that lineup live. But I digress. Major Arcana isn't the best album by Speedy Ortiz, but it marks a band announcing themselves as they got started. DuPuis is a clever songwriter both with Speedy Ortiz and with her solo project Sad13 (just check out her album Haunted Painting for proof). I think both Twerp Verse and Rabbit Rabbit are stronger albums as a whole, but the debut is worth re-visiting.

For info on Major Arcana (10th Anniversary Edition)

3.5 out of 5 stars

The Kinks The Journey Part 2

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of British Invasion faves The Kinks, earlier this year saw the release of The Journey Part 1 (read my review here). BMG is releasing the follow up this week, The Journey Part 2. Part 1 traced the band's music from 1964 to 1975. Part 2 does not go from 1976 onward as I had hoped, instead it is further listening from 1965-1975.

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Much like Part 1, this double album is curated by themes. I got to review the double LP vinyl edition (there's various formats). Side 1 is "The world around the journeyman starts to crumble as his life is turned upside down". Side 2 is "The journeyman is led astray by ghosts and a dark angel". Side 3 is "Our journeyman is seduced by those ghosts and demons of the underworld and searches for his lost innocence". Side 4 is "Despair turn to elation as journeyman overcomes his fear. Reunites with old friends." The songs sound fantastic and the curation is key. There clearly was an art to this assemblage of songs rather than chronology or rockers on one side and ballads on another. I think this is a great compilation on it's own with killer liner notes, but the problem for me is that I had wanted it to be a compilation of their mid 70s to mid 80s work and instead it's a deeper dive into the same exact era as Part 1. Clearly their work in the 60s and 70s is what people remember most, but I'm interested in the next chapter now. Bring on Part 3!

For info on The Journey Part 2

3.5 out of 5 stars

[blacktopmemories]

Playlist for Saturday, October 7, 2023

Speedy Ortiz - "Cry Cry Cry" Teenage Wrist - "Digital Self" Sincere Engineer - "Fireplace" Thursday - "Signals over the Air" Sparta - "Cut Your Ribbon" Cursive - "Caveman" Ben Folds - "Still Fighting It" Sleepy Gonzalez - "Freaking Out" Krooked Kings - "Carbon Monoxide" C.O.F.F.I.N - "Through the Sewer" Death Cab for Cutie - "Fragments From the Decade" Low Hum - "I Don't Know Me Like You Do" Delta Spirit - "People C'Mon" Limbeck - "The Sun Woke the Whole State" Sarah Coolidge - "Addison" Teenage Fanclub - "Foreign Land" The Jins - "A Clue" Old Sea Brigade - "Old Blooded" Two Door Cinema Club - "Wonderful Life" The Weakerthans - "History of the Defeated" New Found Glory - "Singled Out" Slowdive - "Alife" Eric Tyler - "Emily" Subsonic Eye - "Tender" Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - "Unearth" Balance and Composure - "Tiny Raindrops" Kevin Devine - "You're My Incentive"

xo - b. To download or stream the show, click here!

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The Cool & SRS Music Sharing Collective.

WUSB always had a history of dee-jays finding new music off each other. This was and always will be no issue. Thanks to Alice of Nightmare Aquarium, I’d never know who Ariel Pink or William Onyeabor were, and quadruple that for Black Marble, an act that’s become one of my best discoveries of the decade. Others had always asked me for playlists and “that one song I played fifteen minutes before the end of my show”. Our lives are a little more tolerable thanks to our station.

Shaerie, our dee-jay and resident astrologist, decided to create a secret group to post finds for only us to listen to. The Cool & SRS Music Sharing Collective was established in August 2016. She bestowed our dee-jay Conor (Headless Elvis) the title of admin- and the two started letting their closest friends and station volunteers in. “If there’s shitty music in this group, I will delete the fuck out of it”, she declared. Their first order of business? PWR BTTM’s “New Hampshire”. That was back when everyone and their cat loved them, until they were outed as sexual predators and then became shitty. We’ve yet to delete the fuck out of them, hmmm?

A month later, I was in. The SRS (“serious”) collective took off and we posted on a near-endless basis that almost everyone at one point had some catching up to do. Shaerie and Conor shared many a Bandcamp and d.i.y. find. They provided our daily allowance of acts in Downtown Boys, Ty Segall, Slowthai, Slothrust, Kal Marks, wosX, Car Seat Headrest, Saint Pepsi, Really Big Pinecone, and more. Cornflower posted some Argentinian musicks; and many others pitched the obvious, the classics, and some obscure finds in Brian Eno, Neu, Velvet Underground, The Fall, Richard Hell, Bush Tetras, Suicide, old-school hip-hop, alternative, shoegaze, and other nutritious pieces of good music. Other posts of theirs in Future Islands, Rolling Blackouts C.F., Speedy Ortiz, Idles, Snail Mail, Algiers, and Fidlar were ones my show Omega WUSB already played beforehand. They had our phases of Mac DeMarco and Frankie Cosmos worship. Did you know she was Phoebe Cates’ daughter? Shocked the shit out of me.

Some things dropped off on SRS became essential not only for Omega WUSB but for me personally. Conor’s why I’ve played Cende, Marijuana Deathsquads, Machine Girl, and Ghost Spell, and why I’m now a huge fan of Water From Your Eyes / Rachel Brown. He’s also the one responsible for me discovering Post Trash which helped influenced my show’s format and made me find the beauty of d.i.y. music. You can thank our friend Toasty for Palm’s “Dog Milk” that became part of a personal soundtrack to a wildly surreal summer.

Sharing is caring collecting, so I spread the wealth, too. I posted anything you could think of in hopes of resonating with our own. Most of the time it hit. Other times I struck out. Who was the only one who came though if others didn’t half the time? Spooky Christmas, the other (female) dee-jay who cares about sample culture as much as I do. Hooded Fang and Javelin were two which people jumped on board. Conor saw my post for Unstoppable Death Machines and he was floored: the billboard shown on Know Tomorrow was a real one very familiar for those driving west on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, and he was a fan of theirs.

We didn’t just post music, we posted current events, too. Our staff were (and still are) very into the meat of the city scene. They were sad to see Shea Stadium close down for good. That’s the venue, not the former home of the New York Mets but that’s been gone. Citi Field should also close down, too. (Go Yankees!) As Shaerie left, Conor took over and gave SRS an important edge. Leave it up to him to post pieces from the Washington City Paper, where Priest’s Katie Alice Grier questioned how safe safe-spaces really were; or from the Creative Independent about Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale living in, owning, and being evicted from d.i.y. venues. See where our mindset is?

Even there were a few moments that I found my fellow staffers’ actions (besides posting PWR BTTM) questionable and grounds for expulsion from the SRS and the station. Toto’s “Africa” but with vocals one step out of key and off-beat. Marcus Mixx’ “My Oui Oui (New York)” for fuck’s sake. Smashmouth’s “Allstar” but every word is “somebody”. Yeah, somebody should’ve deserved a caning for that one. Mac Sabbath? Really? Thank Based God we didn’t post Okilly Dokilly, either.

But, they redeemed themselves when they really hit a few out of the park. Conor’s bandmate Jasko found Black Merda’s self-titled album. I thought I was the only one who knew of them. Cornflower found The Avalanches’ “Since I Met You”, which solved a mystery of what that song was I recorded on cassette 15 years ago. Conor once again wowed me when he posted Pigs’ You Ruin Everything (Unsane-related), because again, I had that all to myself. Kleenex’ “Nice”, Elite Gymnastics, Thee Oh Sees, and Death’s “Politicians In My Eyes” were other finds from our staffers which Omega WUSB played beforehand.

If not for Shaerie and Conor, I wouldn’t have a read on where some of the best dee-jays and selectors stood and what we’re all about. Some of what they posted for all to see was what I essentially wanted. What I wanted, like everyone else, was a connection with ourselves and the music. And I got it all in spades and diamonds. Thanks to everyone involved, I wouldn’t have summer memories, a newfound appreciation for the local / city scene, or the feelings I get for hearing specific sounds, vibes, ideas, and projections from certain artists. These are feelings I want and what they come with is a vision that makes me see and imagine things others don’t. As an aside, it was great to see what we’d come up with and how excited we were when we got it. It was a joker’s-wild goin’ on and we didn’t know what the fuck would happen.

For anyone keeping score, here’s what we took with us and what we gave back. Now it’s yours. It’s been a ride. SRS took off and ran well for a year-and-a-half. It slowed to a halt when everyone moved on and activity dwindled down. With six months of no activity at last year’s end (and a couple of autopsy posts after the fact just to see if anyone still cared), I finally gave SRS a proper eulogy. It’s sad that it came to an end. Hopefully, it will come back as a hologram one day.

SRS finds later played on Omega WUSB:

Girl Band “Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage”

Cende

Big Ups

Pill

Crumb “So Tired”

Hookworms Microshift

Corridor “Le Grand Ecart”

Girlpool “123”

Yumi Bitsu “Truth”

DJ Muggs & MF Doom “Assassination Day”

Slothrust “Sex And Candy”

Blood Cultures

Bodega

Strahinja Arbutina “You Don’t Need This in Your Life”

Chastity Belt

Machine Girl “Ginger Claps”

Marijuana Deathsquads

Eyedress

Bodega

Sega Bodega

Soko “Sweet Sound Of Ignorance”

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Ghost Spell s/t

Melody’s Echo Chamber

Sweet Valley “Sentimental Trash”

Water From Your Eyes / Rachel Brown

Palm

Antwon “Helicopter”

Secret Circle “Tube Socks”

Coca Leaf

Wolf Eyes No Hate

Bad Zu Kllkllkll

Health “L.A. Looks”

Water From Your Eyes We’re Set Up

Women Lawncare

VIP Skylark “Y2K Dynasty / Clipped”

Other SRS finds:

Kleenex “Nice”

Elite Gymnastics

Shackleton “Blood On My Hands” (Ricardo Villalobos ‘Apocalypso Now’ RMX)

Thee Oh Sees

Young Marble Giants

Mannequin Pussy

Parquet Courts

Craft Spells “Nausea”

Yes Yes A Thousand Times Yes

Black Dice “Smiling Off”

Death “Politicians In My Eyes”

Pigs You Ruin Everything

Elvis Depressedly

Warpaint

Chelsea Wolfe

Nnamdi Ogbonnaya 

Dear Nora

clipping.

Helena Hauff

Future Islands

Tameyawt

Rolling Blackouts C.F.

Holy Fuck

Eric Copeland

Bush Tetras “Too Many Creeps”

Body, The

Lightning Bolt

Speedy Ortiz

Demdike Stare

Suuns

Idles

Swans

Khost

Aa

Snail Mail

Algiers

Nine Of Swords

Screaming Females

Dreamcrusher

Kate Tempest

Single Mothers

Fidlar

Meyhem Lauren & DJ Muggs “Hashashin” (f. Conway)

Nine Of Swords

Gymnastics Sneaks

Computer Graphics Lo-Fi

SRS finds Omega WUSB posted:

Tony Williams Lifetime “Right On”

TRNSGNDR/VHSCondominium

Shana Falana “There’s A Way”

Girl Pusher “Best Ecver”

New Dreams Ltd.Initiation Tape: Isle Of Avalon Edition

Tropic Of Cancer “I Woke Up And The Storm Was Over”

Hooded Fang “Ode To Subterrania”

Les Rallizes Denudes “The Night Collectors”

Alice Glass “Without Love”

Ciarra Black “Transition None”

Preoccupations “Disarray”

Holydrug Couple, The “Follow Your Way”

Javelin “Lindsay Brohan”

DIIV “Wait”

Airport / Claire Maisto “Alone”

Raveonettes, The “Bang”

Prayers “Shaking Hand With Razor Blades”

Iceage “Under The Sun”

Bug, The & Miss Red “Mi Lost”

Jah Wobble & Holger Czukay & The Edge “Hold On To Your Dreams”

Girlpool “Before The World Was Big”

Nature “Horse Jumper Of Love” (demo)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard “Mr. Beat”

Boards Of Canada “Nothing Is Real”

Unstoppable Death MachinesKnow Tomorrow

Sun Ra

Black Marble “Collene”

Steve Khan “The Blue Man”

Free Love

M.I.A. “Born Free”

KVB, The “Never Enough”

General Lee & The Space Army Band “We Did It Baby Pt. I & II”

Taiwan Housing Project “Veblen Death Mask”

Harry Pussy “Showroom Dummies”

Cold Cave “Glory”

Isaurian “Hologram” (Jesu RMX)

Death “Keep On Knockin’”

Skywave “Wear This Dress”

Stella Donnelly “Boys Will Be Boys”

LCD Soundsystem “Yr City’s A Sucker”

Throbbing Gristle “Persuasion / Discipline”

DOM “Bochicha”

Cold Cave / Black Rain / Breyer Genesis P. Orridge  “Comprehension”

Body-San “Shining The Money Ball”

Ducktails “Don’t Want To Let You Know”

Prurient “Christ Amongst The Broken Glass”

Etant Donnes “Brutal Piss Rods”

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti “Fright Night (Nevermore)”

Bombshells, The (s/t)

Dame Charm School

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Upcoming Shows - Oct. 2023

"You forgot..." No, I didn't forget. This is not a comprehensive list. Oct. 11 - Islands at the Chapel Oct. 13 - Wire at the Independent Oct. 14 - Stuck at Thee Stork Club in Oakland Oct. 14-15 - Dandy Warhols at the Fillmore Oct. 16 - Slow Pulp at the Chapel Oct. 16 - Blonde Redhead w/Angelica Garcia at August Hall Oct. 17 - Janelle Monae at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Oct. 18 - Warmduscher at the Cornerstone Brewery in Berkeley Oct. 19-20 - Angel Olsen at the Regency Ballroom Oct. 23 - Geese at the Chapel Oct. 23 - The Breeders at the Warfield Oct. 26 - Great Lake Swimmers at Cafe du Nord Oct. 27 - Ratboys at Cafe du Nord Oct. 29 - Deer Tick at the Independent Oct. 30 - Death Valley Girls at the Rickshaw Stop Nov. 1 - Warren Teagarden and the Good Grief at Hotel Utah Nov. 2 - Courtney Barnett at Bimbo’s Nov. 2 - Girl Ray at the Bottom of the Hill Nov. 4 - Palehound at the Chapel Nov. 5 - Henry Rollins spoken word performance at the Cornerstone Brewery in Berkeley Nov. 6 - Speedy Ortiz at the Rickshaw Stop Nov. 9 - La Doña at the Fillmore Nov. 9-10 - The New Pornographers at Bimbo’s Nov. 10 - Quasi at Thee Stork Club in Oakland Nov. 10 - The National w/Hand Habits at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Nov. 11 - Liz Phair at the Masonic Theater Nov. 11 - Be Your Own Pet at the Great American Music Hall Nov. 13 - A Giant Dog at the Bottom of the Hill Nov. 13 - Margaret Glaspy at the Independent Nov. 13-15 - Built to Spill at the Chapel Nov. 15 - Mudhoney at the Great American Music Hall Nov. 15 - Deap Vally at August Hall Nov. 16 - The Linda Lindas w/Illuminati Hotties at the Regency Ballroom Nov. 21 - The Japanese House at the Fillmore Dec. 1 - Macy Gray at Cornerstone Brewery in Berkeley Dec. 3-4 - Indigo De Souza at the Independent Dec. 5 - Jenny Lewis at the Warfield Dec. 7 - Deafheaven at the Regency Ballroom Dec. 10 - Cayucas at the Independent Dec. 15 - Jeff Rosenstock at the Regency Ballroom Jan. 6 - Cheekface at the Rickshaw Stop Jan. 11 - Pardoner at the Rickshaw Stop Jan. 18 - Fake Fruit at the Rickshaw Stop Jan. 31 - Squirrel Flower at the Bottom of the Hill Feb. 8-9 - Yo La Tengo at the Fillmore Feb. 13 - The Rural Alberta Advantage at the Rickshaw Stop Feb. 20-21 - Ty Segall at the Great American Music Hall Feb. 27 - Squid at the Regency Ballroom Feb. 29 - Cherry Glazerr at August Hall Mar. 15 - Typhoon at the Great American Music Hall Mar. 30-31 - Sleater-Kinney at the Warfield

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Speedy Ortiz, Washer & Hurry – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA – September 5, 2023

On Tuesday night, Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia welcomed Philly based band Speedy Ortiz to the stage. Joined by Hurry and Washer, Speedy Ortiz put on a special performance celebrating their latest album, Rabbit Rabbit, released on September 1. Fans of the band gathered eagerly in the venue, excited to hear the album played in full.

Up first was Philadelphia-based band, Hurry. They began the show with a lot of energy, sharing how often they visit Johnny Brenda’s. The band connected with the crowd well, joking with audience members throughout their set. They opened with their songs “Didn’t Have To Try,” “When I’m With You,” and “Parallel Haunting.” They wrapped up their set with a cover of Teenage Fanclub’s “Don’t Look Back,” and their song “The Punchline.”

Next to take the stage was Washer, as they opened their set with “King Insignificant,” “The Waning Moon,” and “Threadbare.” As the pair stood on a dimly lit stage, their strong vocals and unique guitar riffs filled the venue. They continued with “Not Like You,” “Dog Go Bark,” and “Death of an Empire.” It was clear that the audience enjoyed their performance as the end of each song was met with cheers and whistles. Washer wrapped up their set with “Bass 2,” “Fail Big,” and finally, “Porky.”

Last, but certainly not least, it was time for Speedy Ortiz to take the stage! The crowd cheered as the show began, and Speedy Ortiz announced that they would be playing their brand-new album Rabbit Rabbit, from start to finish, for the first time. They began with “Kim Cattrall,” “You SO2,” and my personal favorite on the album, “Scabs.” Smiles could be seen all throughout the crowd as Speedy Ortiz’s smooth vocals and funky instrumentals filled the room.

They continued their set with “Plus One,” “Cry Cry Cry,” “Ballad of Y & S,” and “Kitty.” Speedy Ortiz talked about how excited they were to be playing this venue and shared their love for Johnny Brenda’s. They stated that they frequently spend their nights there, and that it was exciting for them to be on the performing end. After playing the 13-track album in full, they rounded out their set with a few bonus songs, “Raising the Skate,” “Buck Me Off,” and “Plough.”

This show as a whole was a lot of fun, with a lineup full of talent! Speedy Ortiz will be on tour through the beginning of December, so make sure to get out and see a show.

Emma Fox

Copyright ©2023 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: September 6, 2023.

Photos by Emma Fox © 2023. All rights reserved.

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First off OOPS SORRY MY ASKS WERE CLOSED I DIDNT REALIZE!!

Second I’m responding with my main aftg blog as I want to keep norasakavictweets as just tweets as much as I can

And now HERE WE GO! YOU ASKED FOR THIS *shaking with excitement*

Here is my thoughts on what the foxes would listen to

(to preface this I’m going to use current songs BUT if interested I do have thoughts on song from before 2007 only)

Andrew: gives me strong alt vibes for sure but to be more specific I think Midwest emo bands like The front bottoms and McCaferty fit the vibe pretty well. He canonically listens to lyrics more than sound and Midwest emo is known for not always sounding the best but having hard hitting lyrics.

Top 3 songs:

Father by The front bottoms

No below by Speedy Ortiz

No children by the mountain goats

Neil: this boy listens to nothing, like he was on the run yall, but I honestly think if he was going to put on music for himself it would probably just be classical. That being said I think the foxes would rub off on him and he would start listening to songs they played a lot just because it reminds him of them.

Top 3 song (not necessarily that he would listen to but that go with his character well):

Escape route by Paramore (literally the most Neil josten song of all time)

Why am I the one by Fun.

Be nice to me by The front bottoms

Kevin: it’s boring but Kevin is also just a classical girlie (as confirmed by Ms. Nora) but again here are 3 songs that lyrically radiate Kevin day energy

Top 3 songs:

love club by lorde

I don’t like my mind by mitski

Are you satisfied by marina and the diamonds

Aaron: rap fan. I can definitely see him listening to Kendrick Lamar and Mac miller (*cough* he would be an Eminem fan sorryyyyyi hate it too but it’s true)

Top 3 songs:

The spins by Mac Miller & Empire of the sun

Money trees by Kendrick Lamar

The real slime shady by Eminem

Matt: very similar music taste to Aaron tbh but I think he would really like Tyler the creator and Childish Gambino (Kendrick and Mac Miller)

Top 3 songs:

See you again by Tyler the creator

super rich kids by frank ocean

Sober by Childish Gambino

Nicky: he’s a top hits girlie, loves Gaga and anything extremely upbeat you can dance to

Top 3 songs:

Judas by Lady Gaga

Born this way by Lady Gaga

LBGT by cupccake

Dan: 90/00s soul and R&B mostly, lots of Aaliyah and I think she would also love Megan the stallion but I see her listening to a couple bands like No doubt too, badass women lead alt bands, there is definitely an edge to her music taste

Top 3 songs:

Just a girl by No doubt

Try again by Aaliyah

Big girls don’t cry by Fergie

Allison: also a top hits girlie but I feel like she had an “emo” phase at some point to scare her parents but she actually genuinely liked a lot of the music

 don’t have a top 3 for her yet tbh :( sorryyyy but unforgivable curse #3 by McCafferty is definitely a good song for her and Seth’s relationship

Renee: I love her VERY VERY much but tbh I haven’t been able to think of specifics… she definitely listened to different music growing up but I have a hard time deciding if she would still listen to any of it now… and if not… then what does she like????

Top 3 Renee vibe songs tho:

Angle of small death and the codeine scene by hozier

I bet on losing dogs by mitski

Simulation swarm by Big thief

Jean: nest boy probably didn’t have time to listen to much music but I’m tempted to say classical as well

Annnyways 3 Jean coded songs:

The deal by mitski (makes me cry thinking about him and this song)

Crack baby by mitski

Please please please let me get what I want by deaftones (yes the cover)

There ya go!!! This took me a little longer than I would like to admit but I needed to make it perfect… please excuse all the typos I’m sure are everywhere