#fm: heather

[one-winged-dreams]

fKJSLHDG:LKJSHDG:KJLHSDG????

I did that fucking comfort character meme with Heather Mason and Zack as a warmup.

Zack was a given, but Heather was the funniest fucking possible second option (and the easiest to draw).

[glitchychara]

Reposting these bc September 1st, 1989.

DEAR DIARY

[smg4xtd]

Start

Welcome to the Camp Wawanakwa! I'm your host Luke Lerdwichagul! And this is TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND!

Ask the drama gang!

Rules

No spamming in the box

No NSFWS

X = Leshawna Meggy = Courtney Shroomy = Beth

Rob = Bridgette Saiko = Eva smg1 =Trent mario = Izzy

tari = Owen Whimpu = Cody axol = Tyler bob = Geoff

smg2 = Gwen kaizo = Duncan niles = Justin Luigi = DJ

melony = Lindsay swag = Katie chris = Sadie FM = Harold

boopkins = Ezekiel smg4 = Noah smg3 = Alejandr

Belle = Heather

[stardew-shitposterino]

Stardew Valley Bachelors and songs they listen to based on the shit I listen to

These are based on my music taste and what I think they’d like out of my own playlist. I was music deprived all week due to my finals so I’m compensating now. Enjoy ✨

Sam:

~I’m yer Dad - Grlwood

~Black Sheep (Brie Larson Vocal Version) - Metric

~ The Lovecats - The Cure (he doesn’t know the meaning of the lyrics, he thinks it sounds neat)

~ Hayloft - Mother Mother

~ Spoon - Cibo Matto

Sebastian:

~ Do Unto Others - Mindless Self Indulgence (they are cancelled, but he strikes me as the guy who once liked them)

~ Hard to touch you - Grlwood

~ Little Pistols - Mother Mother

~ I write Sins not Tragedies - Panic! at the Disco

~Cop Car - Mitski

Harvey:

~ Oh to be in Love - Kate Bush

~ Your Woman - White Town

~ To Binge - Gorillaz

~FM - Nathan Haines

~ Lola - The Raincoats

Elliott:

~ Say yes to Heaven - Lana Del Rey

~ Light Shower- Melanie Martinez

~ Hey Lover - The Daughters of Eve

~ Mowgli’s Road - Marina

~ Candy Store - Heathers The Musical (it’s his guilty pleasure)

Shane:

~ A.D.I.D.A.S - Korn

~ Vicinity of Obscenity - System of a Down

~ Freak on a Leash - Korn

~ Tear you Apart - She wants Revenge

~ Creep - Radiohead

Alex:

~ Every time we touch - Electric Callboy

~ Do it to It - ACRAZE

~ Lose Control - Missy Elliott

~ New Gold - Gorillaz

~ Pump it - Electric Callboy

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I’m doing the same for the Bachelorettes, just didn’t feel like doing them all at once.

[crabify0uwanna]

ABOUT ME!! :3

Hii my name is Aubrey!!

here are some bands I like :P - weezer, nirvana, radiohead, mindless self indulgence, will wood, will wood and the tapeworms, mommy long legs, my chemical romance, pierce the veil, tv girl, femtanyl, millionares, space twins, the relationship, ayesha erotica, bikini kill, Green Day, the relationship, oingoboingo, linkin park, paramore, olivia rodrigo, dot dot curve, brokeNCYDE, taking back sunday, chappell roan, modern baseball, mitski, lemon demon, tally hall, tyler the creator, mcafferty, stone temple pilots, lana del rey, fall out boy, much much more :3

interests: ranfren, roblox, 2000s-2010s internet, space, drawing, making kandi, cats, homestuck, sanrio, diary of a wimpy kid, heathers (both movie and musical), ride the cylone, mandela catalogue, phineas and ferb, amphibia, kurtis conner, layze, flamingo/albert, chad chad, rogurt, funky frogbaits, idiots laughing at mugshots, and did I mention Roblox?

i am a minor and I am bisexual and a demigirl ^_^

socials:

discord: youllrebel2anything

pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/CRABIFY0UWANNA/

last fm: https://www.last.fm/user/CRABIFY0UWANNA

roblox: ssaturnstearz

uhhh brian bell is my favorite weezer member!!!

[snackpointcharlie]

Music from seven or eight continents, beamed to and from elsewhere and beyond… I mean check this dude, when you look down at the earth from like, the moon, Mexico and Africa are like thiiiiiis far apart… kinda makes you think, right? RIGHT? Anyway we’re live at 10pm tonight on WGXC, 90.7 FM in upstate New York, streaming on wgxc.org and the Wave Farm app, and podcast so soon afterwards it’s like, freaky ….aaaand poof! here it is now:

Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 118 - 2023.07.05 PLAYLIST https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/12emfd [ ^ click for download ^ ]

1) Cheryl E. Leonard - “Oceanus Meridiem” from ANTARCTICA: MUSIC FROM THE ICE https://cherylleonard.bandcamp.com/album/antarctica-music-from-the-ice

2) El Wali - “The Day of the Free Nation” from TIRIS https://elwali.bandcamp.com/album/tiris

3) Freedom of Rhapsodia - “Freedom” from THOSE SHOCKING SHAKING DAYS: INDONESIAN HARD, PSYCHEDELIC, PROGRESSIVE ROCK AND FUNK 1970-1978 https://nowagainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/va-those-shocking-shaking-days

4) Etran De L'Aïr - “Toubouk Ine Chihoussay” from LIVE IN SEATTLE https://etrandelair.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-seattle http://www.groundcontroltouring.com/artists/etran-de-lair

5) WITCH - “Toloka (Live in Philadelphia 2022.10.14)” from SOMETIMES MAGAZINE https://weintendtocausehavoc.com/release/381888-witch-lp-sometimes-magazine-the-zamrock-issue-toloka-flexi-disc?lang=en_US

6) Groupe Doudou Tamasna - “The End of our Love Story” https://www.facebook.com/Dawnaproduction https://sites.google.com/view/dawnaproduction/accueil

7) Super Djata de Bamako - “Bimoko Magnin” from VOL. 2 https://www.discogs.com/release/1865922-Super-Djata-De-Bamako-Vol-2

8) Czesław Niemen i Akwarele - “Sukces” from AKWARELE https://www.discogs.com/master/165146-Czes%C5%82aw-Niemen-i-Akwarele-Sukces

9) Medicine Singers - “Sage” from BOARD ROUGH MIXES (NASHVILLE EDITS) https://medicinesingers.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-singers

10) Becky G, Peso Pluma - “Chanel” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2wQtu9YnWk

11) Ｔ字路s (Tjiros) - “この夜いつまで (How Long This Night)” from これさえあれば (IF ONLY THIS) http://tjiros.net/disco/

12) กิ่งดาว จันทร์สวัสดิ์ (Kingdao Chansawat) - “ตายเสียก็ดี (It's Good to Die)” from รวมเพลงดังอมตะที่สุด https://www.discogs.com/artist/4324828-%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A7-%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%94

13) Violeta Parra - “Gracias a la Vida” from LAS ULTIMAS COMPOSICIONES https://www.discogs.com/master/390176-Violeta-Parra-Las-Ultimas-Composiciones-De-Violeta-Parra

14) 浅川マキ [Maki Asakawa] - “Just Another Honky” from 灯ともし頃 [WHEN THE LIGHTS COME ON] https://www.discogs.com/master/250564-%E6%B5%85%E5%B7%9D%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AD-%E7%81%AF%E3%81%A8%E3%82%82%E3%81%97%E9%A0%83

15) Home and Garden - “Dolores” https://nadir-novelties.net/ubu/mp3.htm http://www.homeandgardenmusic.com

16) IO Xavier - “Radio World” from RADIO WORLD https://www.discogs.com/release/2958579-Io-Xavier-Radio-World

17) Peter Jefferies - “State of the Nation” from CLOSED CIRCUIT https://grapefruit1.bandcamp.com/album/closed-circuit

18) Gate - “Land” from THE NUMBERS https://birdmanrecords.com/collections/gate https://gatemm.bandcamp.com/album/the-numbers

19) Peter Brötzmann / Heather Leigh / Fred Lonberg-Holm - “Johnny Anaconda” from NAKED NUDES https://broetzmannleigh.bandcamp.com/album/naked-nudes

20) Pere Ubu - “Blow Daddy-O” from DUB HOUSING http://www.ubuprojex.com/ubutiqueUS.html

[uhmuhmuhmmm]

juno, you know !

4teen , lesbian , she/he , est time

moodboards

uhmmmmmuhhhh hello there............. hi.............. this is me blog where i post little moodboards n stupid thoughts....

artists : fleetwood mac , artic monkeys , chappel roan , taylor swift , olivia rodrigo , the neighborhood , bruno mars , panic! at the disco , billie eilish , kate bush , sabrina carpenter , paramore ,

shows : yellowjackets , everything sucks , stranger things , the sex lives of college girls , arcane , glee , euphoria , agatha all along

movies : juno , but im a cheerleader , d.e.b.s , mean girls , hamilton , i saw the tv glow , pitch perfect , scream (1996) , bottoms , coraline , easy a , fear street trilogy , clueless , heathers , chicago

games : five nights at freddies , fortnite , roblox , life is strange , the last of us , class of 09

albums : evermore (ts) , speak now (ts) , short n' sweet (sc) , humbug (am) , rumors (fm)

tiktok : lesbianelevn

twitter : vansboygf

letterboxd : maxtorccio

DNI : racists , homophobes , sexists , pro-lifers , zionists , terfs , transphobes , ed blogs , strictly nsfw blogs , mdni blogs , pedos , girlblogs that romantize weird topics (abuse, pedophila, etc etc) , and just mean ppl in gen

[parkerbombshell]

Rules Free Radio Nov 19 2024

Tuesdays 2pm - 5pm  EST Rules Free Radio With Steve  Caplan bombshellradio.com On this next Rules Free Radio Encore Flashback November 2022 with Steve Caplan, we'll hear new music by Boston’s Jay All and The Archcriminals, Heather Trost, Rayland Baxter, Quinn Christopherson, The Lone Bellow, a brand new single from Sunbirds. Also Fitz and The Tantrums, Jeb Loy Nichols, Gun, and a few more. Classics from Willie Nile, The Grateful Dead, Psychedelic Furs, Chuck Berry, Hubert Sumlin, Mercy Dee Walton, The Pretty Things-Yardbirds Blues Band, The Jasmine Minks, The Kennedys, The Mastersons, The Ramone, Lynne Arriale Trio, and Bryan Ferry. A listener request for Crack The Sky, plus a bunch more.  Chuck Berry - Beautiful Delilah Hubert Sumlin (w/James Cotton, Little Mike & The Hurricanes) - Bring Your Love To Me Mud Morganfield - Short Dressed Woman Mercy Dee Walton - Romp and Stomp Blues The Pretty Things-Yardbird Blues Band- Long Tall Shorty Joe Beard (w/ Duke Robillard and Friends - Give Up And Let Me Go Billy Branch & Hubert Sumlin - Take You Down Town John Primer - My Sugar Mama Willie Nile - Vagabond Moon The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink The Ramones - She's A Sensation Jay Allen and the Archcriminals - Be Mine Tonight Mike Wilhelm & The Frisco Jammers - Chimes of freedom Gun - Backstreet Brothers Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 Suburban Key Party - Funhouse Crack The Sky - She's A Dancer Heather Trost - Despoina Aoife Nessa Frances - Geranium Rayland Baxter - Graffiti Street Quinn Christopherson - Uptown Bryan Ferry - Day For Night Sunbirds - Every Road The Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band Darden Smith & Boo Hewerdine - Out Of This World The Lone Bellow - Unicorn The Mastersons - Eyes Open Wide The Flamin Groovies - it won't be wrong The Jasmine Minks - don't wait too long The Kennedys - Perfect Love Fitz and the Tantrums - Steppin’ On Me The Christine Spero Group - Blackpatch Steely Dan - FM (No Static At All) Bill Frisell - Claude Utley Hermanos Gutiérrez - Los Chicos Tristes Jeb Loy Nichols - Big Troubles Come In Through A Small Door Michael Franks - Living On The Inside Lynne Arriale Trio -  Hope John Martyn - Head and Heart Ray Wilson - Alone Mark Knopfler - A Place Where We Used To Live Read the full article

[prairiedahl]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Vintage Icelandic Wool Sweater Geometric Heather gray.

[newmusicweekly]

CRS Accepting Tom Rivers Humanitarian Award Nominations

The Country Radio Seminar (CRS) is now accepting nominations for the Tom Rivers Humanitarian Award. The scholarship is awarded to an individual who works in the Country radio industry and who espouses the spirit and virtues of generosity, caring and community service. Past recipients of the award include Tim Leary, Storme Warren, Heather Froglear, Lon Helton, "Dollar" Bill Lawson, Dan Halyburton, Peter Smyth, Jeff Smulyan, Mary Quaas and George G. Beasley. The award is named after Tom Rivers, a 17-year broadcast veteran who died in 2004 at the age of 38. At the time of his death, Rivers worked as the Operations Manager at Country WUSN-FM in Chicago. His career also took him to Tampa, where he worked for WQYK-FM. Nominations are due by December 6 and can be made by filling out the form at here. Read the full article

[i-have-better-ideas]

The Justice Society

Batman/Bruce Wayne

Gotham City, New Jersey

b. 2016

Born in Gotham City to Thomas and Martha

Child prodigy, both academically and athletically gifted

Lost his parents to a mugging at age 11

Raised by sister Rebecca until age 17 in Granville

Clark's best friend since 12

Donated his inheritance to charity, keeping just enough for his training

Studied across the world, received multiple BA's and BSc's

Trained under masters of various disciplines, including Joseph Morgan

Master detective and armed and unarmed combatant

Self-made man and founder of Gotham Industries

Will not kill but exceptionally brutal

Bruce is the mask and Batman is the man

Flash/Doctor Jason Garrick

Keystone City, Pennsylvania

b. 2017

Born in Keystone City to Tristan and Heather

Physicist father encouraged Jay's interests

Brilliant theoretical physicist

Involved with experiments at CERN

Caught in an explosion in the Large Hadron Collider

Bathed in tachyon radiation

Decoupled from causality

Both time traveler and speedster

The explosion is revealed to be from Amazonian sabotage

In a relationship with Joan Williams

Research professor at Keystone University

Generates blue energy and particle effects when using his powers

Green Lantern/Doctor Alan Scott

Capitol City, Wisconsin

b. 2017

Born in Gotham City to Andrew and Linda

Andrew is a retired police detective

Father disapproved of academic interests

Moved to Capitol City for his education

Talented engineer

Worked for Dekker Industries but left out of moral objections

Developed a mag-lev train project after outbidding Dekker

The train derailed during the inaugural run

Saved by The Green Flame stored in an old railroad lantern

The Green Flame of Life is an aspect of Yggdrasil

Given a ring by the Green Flame to channel its power

Can tap into knowledge from the Multiverse

Superman/Clark Kent (Kal-L)

Metropolis, Ohio

b. 2016

Born on Krypton to Jor-L and Lara

Possess superhuman abilities from Kryptonian evolution

Raised in Granville by Eben and Sarah Kent

Eben and Sarah were small business owners

Bruce's best friend since 12

Harvey Kent's adoptive cousin

Lost Eben and Sarah as a young adult in botched store robbery

Reporter for WSTA-FM (Daily Star) in Metropolis

Can jump an 1/8 of a mile

Possesses x-ray vision and enhanced hearing and vision

Can fly and is nearly invulnerable

Thinks of himself as an American first

Wonder Woman/Diana of Paradise Island

New York City, New York

b. 1442

Formed from clay and given life by War

Created as a weapon by her mother, Hippolyta

Raised to hate and fear men

Witnessed the murder of Steve Trevor in 1940 by her sisters

The murder sparked a critical reevaluation of her beliefs

Fled the island and went into hiding

Inspired by Kal's example to stand up to her mother's plans

Debuted as Wonder Woman in 2042

Considers herself a coward

Disavowed her Amazon heritage

Armed with the Lasso of Truth, Bracelets of Victory, bow, sword, and spear

Superhumanly agile, durable, fast, and strong

[one-winged-dreams]

Not to gain MULTIPLE different f/os at a time but

I'm promoting Val from the crush list to the official f/o list and also adding Vincent as a romantic and Heather as a platonic.

I've been heart eyes over Vincent since before I even played the GAME, he is so handsome and charming.

And in the background, I have a specific connection with God's attendant. No one knows what it is, me included.

AND THEN THERE'S MY SWEET BABY GIRL HEATHER WHO I ADORE AND LOVE TO PIECES, SORRY ABOUT YOUR DAD BUT YOU HAVE THREE NOW, CONGRATULATIONS AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY

[glitchychara]

The final pieces of my Smg4xHeathers AU...

X Sweeney and FM Kelly

no lines for them bc they suck/j

by themselves

[savagesneversleepnyc]

7.22.23.00003

M train 9:31 am

Gazing through the rusty gutters over decrepit steel gurrters that hold up the M

Four stories above the yellow hooks

And crooks who chase apricots and sripsss that are written with Mano mega NEGRA HANDS that hold open in anticipation of

Coin as loins quiver in fear of the inevitable

Clever quivers are stowed below deck and

Callous hand clutch lines of masts

That ferry HOPE slapping white caps back

With OARS that participate in UNISON

BRUTAL shoes march on cobbled squares

Roasting dank heater’s and stout BUSTELLO BREWED in a pitch black void

Of a blizzard of ODD WORDS… more absurd then all the glowing growing herbs and spices the EAST INDIA sully forth hand in hand into OPIUM DENS in

MACAU and JAKARATA…

Nicodemus dreams of slowly returning to

HEATHER N HEATH RORY N KIETH N LANCE N MOONY N ELIZA N SANDY N AVIS N OGE N MARTIN N CHOI THAT AMAZE US…

For in SPEAKING OUT LOUD SO PROUD

As the ALL that is charges forth baring more horrible teef breath and sounds then we care to see…

AHAB was correct to know MOBY and a ZILLION ways that ABERGRE as a truffle like additive to SPAGHETTI is DISGUSTING

SEALS sleep on cold slabs of rocks as waves spray cool breeze like GROVER’s CHARDONNAY.. spilled over AM FM AC DC and CURRENTS 93 times more boundless then the salty dogs who’s hands pull us from all too certain peril

A WHALER

A SAILER

A FOOL

A THIEF

ALL WASHED UP MISSING A CHUNK

SOME SUNNY SUNDAY MORNING DEEP ATOP THE GREAT BARRIER REEF

9:44am M TRAIN BBURG BRIDGE

[daggerzine]

Window Shopping with The Garment District: An Interview with Jennifer Baron (interview by Eric Eggleson)

If you���re a Ladybug Transistor fan like I am, then the name Jennifer Baron should sound familiar. She has been a part of it since the beginning. But what I didn’t know was that she has another musical outlet with her amazing band The Garment District. Thankfully, Gary Olson(see previous Dagger interview) told me about her new album. I had a chance to catch up with her and find out more.

Here’s the opening track from The Garment District’s new album:

What do you think of the current music scene? Any new bands we should know about? Some newer and newish contemporary music that is frequently on my turntable and in my ears: Surface to Air Missive, Carl Didur, Zacht Automaat, The Frowning Clouds, Traffik Island, ORB, Locate S,1, Gloria, Etran de L’Air, Paint, Large Plants, Euros Childs, Emma Anderson, Heather Trost, flypaper, Colored Lights, Cindy Lee, Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network, The Murlocs, Cindy, Jacco Gardner, Tim Presley, The Cromagnon Band, Licorice Root Orchestra, Bong Wish, The Orange Alabaster Mushroom, Cut Worms, Hot Apple Band, Liam Hayes, Belbury Poly, Samantha Glass, Jackie McDowell, Chris Cohen, Golden Apples, Cory Hanson, The David Tattersall Group, Mike Donovan …

What is your musical background? Do you have any musical training? I create music as The Garment District and am also a founding member of Brooklyn’s The Ladybug Transistor (Merge Records). As The Garment District, I write and arrange the music, play multiple instruments, and write the lyrics. When I was in elementary school, I took piano lessons from a woman who lived on our street, and I still have some of my Leila Fletcher Piano Course Books. I dabbled in guitar lessons in Amherst, Massachusetts, while attending Mount Holyoke College and was also a DJ at WHMC 91.5 FM South Hadley, one of the oldest broadcasting facilities in the U.S. run by women. Really, I learned to play music in a self-taught experiential way, like the musicians I admire most, by starting a band. For me that was in Brooklyn, playing guitar in Saturnine. Soon after, I helped form The Ladybug Transistor, quickly learning to play bass for our tour with Sportsguitar in Switzerland, which flipped a musical switch to permanently be on in my psyche and life. As The Garment District, I have previously released albums on Night-People Records and Kendra Steiner Editions, as well as a single for La Station Radar (France) that features a remix of my song “Nature-Nurture” by Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3, Spectrum, E.A.R.). I have also contributed songs to compilations on Moon Glyph, Crash Symbols, Crafted Sounds and Kill Collector Culture. I’m ecstatic to have my brand-new full-length album, Flowers Telegraphed to All Parts of the World, released on Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records after knowing Mike Turner through Athens, Georgia, and Elephant 6 bands, for many years. It has been such a meaningful way to reconnect, and a deep honor to be label mates with The Primitives, The Wedding Present, Great Lakes, Fred Schneider, Outer World, Swansea Sound, Katie Lass, and many others. It was a dream come true to have the expertise of Warren Defever (His Name Is Alive) oversee the vinyl production and cut the lacquers for the new LP at Third Man Pressing in Detroit. I also love having opportunities to merge music with other art forms I am passionate about, especially film and video, which I have been invited to do through the Pittsburgh-based SYNC'D series. For both in-person and online events, I composed original soundtracks (ranging from 1-5 minutes) for the series, which pairs filmmakers and video artists with musicians for live shows and online broadcasts. My music has also been featured on the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Pitt Med Podcast, and I contributed music and photography to Brooklyn-based ESOPUS magazine. In the art realm, I have also contributed an audio installation, a cassette tape and photography for group exhibitions curated by designer Brett Yasko at SPACE Gallery in Pittsburgh. In Spring 2023, I was invited to create a special DJ set for the opening celebration of “The Velvet Underground & Nico: Scepter Studio Sessions” exhibition at The Andy Warhol Museum and play my grandparents’ collection of tamburitza 78s at the Maxo Vanka Murals Community Block Party in Millvale, PA. 

Lucy and Jennifer (photo by Nicole Czapinski)

List all of the instruments you play. With The Garment District, I play keyboards live (Wurlitzer electric piano, synthesizer, melodica). On the new album, Flowers Telegraphed to All Parts of the World, I play a variety of organs and synthesizers, electric piano, guitar on several songs, bass on some songs, melodica, glockenspiel and percussion, and sing backing vocals throughout. With The Ladybug Transistor, I play bass, guitar, keyboards, and melodica live. 

What instrument do you begin writing songs with? (guitar, piano, etc.). I write music and make demos at home typically using my Roland JX-3P synthesizer, Hohner organ, Rickenbacker 360, and Hammond M3 organ. I love the raw somewhat warbled vibe of demos and the sensation that the construct of a song is amorphous or precariously trying to hold itself together as it emerges, and the way demos can reflect the creative process. Whether I make demos using my Boss digital 8-track recorder or iPhone, I try my best to save them (I’ve even been revisiting and digitizing old Ladybug Transistor and Frock 4-track sessions!). Most of the songs on the new Garment District album emerged as demos I recorded at home, playing the core keyboard parts, and mapping out song structures, vocal melodies, lyrics and ideas for instrumentation and arrangements. I love having analog instruments around the house to encourage a spontaneous writing process, inspired by where an instrument takes you as much as by lighting, ambient sounds, time of day, seasons, and shifting vantage points. Many are incorporated into the new album: Vox Super Continental organ, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond M3, vintage Casios, Fender Vibrolux Reverb amp, Rickenbacker 360, and melodica. Adding to these, I was fortunate to be able to incorporate a range of analog synthesizers on loan that I consider to be the holy grail in terms of the golden age of the analog synthesizer universe, like a 1970s Roland 505 Paraphonic, Roland System 100, Farfisa Syntorchestra, and a Sequential Pro One, plus 1960s and 1970s guitar pedals I borrowed from Gregg Kostelich of the garage rock band, The Cynics.

I love both experiences of creating intimate, experimental and spontaneous demos at home, and then seeing how they evolve into a permanent piece of recorded sound within the studio setting. I am especially motivated by layered melodies that come to me when experimenting with instruments, making demos, and working in the recording studio. To me, there is a kind of alchemy inherent in the art form of music, that can emerge when a song takes an unexpected direction, but remains true to its core, such as being anchored by a melody, an instrument, a rhythm or an arrangement. I am drawn to the duality of producing and arranging music, but also being open to letting the creative process itself, and the limitations or potential of instruments, guide your vision -- not always being totally in control of the final result because it’s being created in a very particular context, time, and place. A central, guiding inspiration for me comes from nature, swimming, and observing the world around me through photography.

Lucy and Jennifer (photo by Nicole Czapinski)

Here’s another video from the new album:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXCRv4XxgSA 

Were you in any other bands? In the 1990s, I cofounded the Brooklyn band Saturnine (Dirt Records).

Saturnine at the Bloomfield Bridge Tavern (RIP) in Pittsburgh, 1990's

Here’s a Saturnine video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW03_LtH5fo  

In Pittsburgh, I also played organ and percussion with The New Alcindors, with whom I recorded an album at the legendary Castle Recording Studios in Nashville. My current bands are The Garment District and The Ladybug Transistor. 

Do you have a day job? Yes. I work as a writer and an editor, and I also am a writing tutor for teens. My professional experience includes working in art museums and co-running arts and community events. 

The Garment District live in Pittsburgh at the Andy Warhol Museum

(photo by Sean Carroll)

When did you realize how important music was in your life? Music surrounded us from our earliest days. My mom would sing Peter, Paul and Mary's "Stewball" (she went on to name her first dog after the song and he was the most loving majestic creature) to us as one of our lullabies. Growing up, our house was filled with LPs, CDs and radios, and our car had a tape deck for our many road trips to see our relatives in Philadelphia and at the beach in New Jersey (where my brother Jeff and I were born). Our parents’ record collection supplied some of our very first and favorite toys, so we were fortunate to have a private listening library to explore. So many memories of gazing at fantastical album covers: The Beach Boys, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Jefferson Airplane, Donovan, Leonard Cohen, The Byrds. My mom taught a high school English course called “Poetry & Rock Lyrics” and I loved writing song lyrics out on index cards used to decorate her classroom.

Our home contained mind-blowing concert posters by legendary Fillmore West artist Bonnie MacLean, including a hypnotic Pink Floyd poster. Our mom grew up in Philadelphia with Bonnie’s sister Valerie and told us stories about Fillmore posters and postcards arriving at their Penn State dorm room. We also had the lyrics to Dylan’s “Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands” written out in calligraphy and framed hanging in our house, so that gives you an idea of the backdrop that led to having music of the 1960s and 1970s in our DNA. Watching shows like “H.R. Pufnstuf” (RIP Marty Krofft) and “The Electric Company” and singing along to “Free To Be … You And Me” and “Puff, the Magic Dragon” cemented the power and value of music in our lives and definitely planted the seeds for the kind of music I make along with a particular creative aesthetic and cultural mindset. As kids, my brother and I would make up our own radio shows, playing the parts of DJs and performing commercial spots, recording them onto Maxell tapes. Our first records bought for us by my mom were songs like “The Muffin Man,” which fueled my interest in offbeat folk music and melodies. As a family, we have attended many concerts together over the years: Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Richard Thompson, Bert Jansch, Bruce Springsteen, The Replacements -- and it is a special bond to share with your parents. I think that empowered and inspired us to see many seminal concerts as teenagers at storied Pittsburgh venues like the Syria Mosque, Electric Banana (all-ages nights), Graffiti, Sonic Temple, Civic Arena, the Beehive and more.

Riding the T Downtown to shop at the iconic record store Eide’s for albums by New Order, The Smiths, the Go-Betweens and on and on, was a rite of passage and a teenage pilgrimage in a pre-digital era where gathering in public spaces to share the thrill of discovering new music was transformative. My deep love of music in a vast array of style and genres is something I do not separate from any aspect of my life or my identity. I have always been fascinated and moved by music because it is an art form that you cannot see or touch, yet it can transport you so powerfully through places and times and thoughts and feelings. It is both time-based but also beyond time, both fleeting and permanent, if that makes sense. 

The Ladybug Transistor live at the Andy Warhol Museum in 2023.

What artists have influenced you? On any day, I am listening to a vast range of music: 1950s-1970s psychedelia, pop, garage, freakbeat, and folk-rock; 1950s-1960s rocksteady and ska; early electronic; free jazz; 1980s hip hop; 1970s-80s pop and new wave from the U.K., Scotland, New Zealand, and Australia; soundtracks … I am deeply inspired by creative mediums beyond music: film, design, photography, material culture, especially from the 1960s-1970s. Film is extremely inspiring to me, especially 1970s filmmaking, British folk and Italian giallo. I am also very drawn to instrumental and interstitial music because it allows listeners to access visceral worlds through non-verbal communication. From Library Music to free jazz to Jamaican Rocksteady to early electronic music to albums by Yellow Magic Orchestra, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Manuel Göttsching, Delia Derbyshire, Jack Nitzsche, Hailu Mergia, Alice Coltrane, Harmonia, Broadcast and the Focus Group, and so much more. 

If you could work with any other artist (dead or alive), who would it be? Lee Hazlewood, Yoko Ono, Peter Weir, Alice Coltrane, Remy Charlip. 

What was the first CD/record you ever bought? Among the first albums we bought (literally the very first were the brightly colored plastic records for our Fisher Price Record Player my mom bought for us) were compilations of hits and novelty songs from the 1950s-1970s. I have such vivid memories of singing along to songs like The Coasters’ “Yakety Yak” (1958), Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs “Li’l Red Riding Hood” (1966) and Napoleon XIV’s “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” The combination of catchy melodies, interesting arrangements and evocative narrative imagery certainly sparked our childhood curiosity and imagination. 

What was the first concert you ever went to? Peter, Paul and Mary with my mom at The Stanley Theatre in downtown Pittsburgh. 

Who plays on your latest album?  Where did you find them? Family and friends (new and old) and members of The Garment District live band are featured on the new album. One extremely rewarding aspect of recording the new album was working with my cousin Lucy Blehar, who is a vocalist. I have always been drawn to the concept of family bands (I play in The Ladybug Transistor with my brother Jeff) and what can arise between relatives who collaborate on creative endeavors. For the two of us, we are able to sing backups and harmonies and double certain melody lines together. We share a very close bond personally, so the recording process was a very organic and fulfilling way of enjoying the studio environment together. This continues my family’s music-making heritage, as our grandfather, great-aunt and great-uncles on my dad’s side performed in Croatian tamburitza orchestra family bands in the Monongahela Valley towns Braddock and Rankin, and in Benwood, West Virginia, often for boarders who worked in area steel mills. To have Shivika Asthana (Papas Fritas) play drums on several songs on the new album is deeply special to me and to the identity of the drum sound. Our bands played shows together in the past, including at The Knitting Factory in NYC. It has been a tremendous joy to reconnect through music and the indie craft scene now that we both live in Pittsburgh. Another meaningful thread on the new album that also connects several dots, is one of the drum kits we used – a beautiful sounding 1966 Slingerland belonging to Laura Rogers (our bands, Saturnine and Ruby Falls, also played shows together in NYC and I am close with Laura’s sister and former bandmate Jennifer, who also lives right near me in Pittsburgh!). Though its provenance has not been confirmed, Laura was told that the kit, which she bought from a collector in Detroit, was used on the Nirvana “Unplugged” recordings. I love that our lives have intersected in these ways. It is also incredibly special to me that the new album features horns by my Ladybug bandmate and close friend Gary Olson on trumpet as well as Ladybugger Kyle Forester (whose solo band we just played with in Brooklyn in November) on saxophone. So, Flowers Telegraphed to All Parts of the World brings together people I adore deeply, whose gifts and energy helped the music come to life, including Dan Koshute (guitar, vocals), Corry Drake (bass), Sean Finn (drums), Shivika Asthana (drums), Alex Korshin (vocals), Nathan Musser (violin, cello) and David Klug (drums). And my constant close listener: my husband Greg Langel. 

Who is in your backup band when you tour? The current Garment District live band features Corry Drake (bass), Mike Kelly (guitar), Sean Finn (drums), Alex Korshin (vocals), and Erik Cirelli (guitar). We just performed in December for the new SYNC’D Presents series at one of my favorite Pittsburgh venues, Spirit. The event included an incredible liquid light show accompanying the music in real-time created by Billy Gruber, who runs SOS Lightshow in Dayton, Ohio. On January 28, we are thrilled to be opening for William Tyler & The Impossible Truth at Bottlerocket Social Hall. Past live show highlights for The Garment District include performing at the VIA Music & New Media Festival, The Andy Warhol Museum Sound Series and Silver Studio Sessions; Ladyfest, Deutschtown Music Festival; and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Music SPACE series; opening for Parquet Courts, Julia Holter, Soft Moon, A. Savage, Jack Cooper, The Essex Green, Jenny Hval and Mr. Airplane Man; performing at the Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark for the THRIVAL Festival; playing in an abandoned 1900s-era Czech Church on the Allegheny River for the SYNC’D series; and filming a live video segment at the Mattress Factory museum (where I used to work) for Doug Aitken’s Station to Station project. 

Where can people find your music? The vinyl and digital LP is available from Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records. The LP is also available in shops, with U.S. distribution through Midheaven Mailorder / Revolver.  https://www.hhbtm.com/product/flowers-telegraphed-to-all-parts-of-the-world/

Distribution for the new LP overseas is through: UK: Plastichead     Germany, Austria, Switzerland: Cargo     Border Music: Scandinavia     Goodfellas: Italy     Australia/New Zealand: Planet MGM/Groove Merchants     Benelux: Suburban   All of my current and past releases are available digitally through Bandcamp. My music is also available for listening on all streaming platforms (please support independent musicians when you can!) 

Video still of Jennifer by Sandy Loaf.

Are CD releases a thing of the past? Not in my particular world. Based on the number of people who purchased (or requested) CDs on our Ladybug Transistor tour in November, I would say no. I still have most of my CDs from the 1990s and we often listen to them on car trips. A few years ago, I actually released a CD of all-instrumental solo music, “Luminous Toxin,” via Kendra Steiner Editions, the Texas-based experimental label run by acclaimed writer Bill Shute.

How was the concert in Norway? (Egersund Visefestival) Absolutely dreamy! After having the magical experience of performing at the Egersund Visefestival in 2019 (where we joined Elf Power, Robyn Hitchcock, Emma Swift, The Essex Green, I Was a King and others), we were invited to return to the sublime southwestern coast of Norway for this past summer’s festival. It was especially fulfilling after the frightening pandemic years. In July, we performed at the festival along with Teenage Fanclub, Elf Power, The Minus 5, The No Ones, Colored Lights, The High Water Marks, Euros Childs, Honey Radar, The Rishis, and more. It was also the international premiere of the new Elephant 6 documentary, so there was a screening and panel discussion (that my brother Jeff participated in with Hilarie Sidney and Andrew Rieger). A blissful experience and also a total whirlwind of activity, including marathon rehearsals in a historic Norwegian house, sneaking in crisp lake swims, and not sleeping much during the midnight sun! One of many highlights was getting to play melodica (me) and flute (Sasha) with Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey during The No Ones' closing set.  Since we had our November 9 show at The Andy Warhol Museum scheduled well in advance, we decided to book a Fall mini-tour for November 2023. It was truly a dream to be back on stage and in the van  (aka a massive sprinter!) with Gary, Sasha, Julia, my brother Jeff, plus Derek Almstead on drums and Ake Strömer (of the incredible Strömer Mutroniks) helping us with driving and merchandise sales. The shows at Public Records in Brooklyn and The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh were particularly moving and thrilling, with sooo many old and new friends (we missed you, Tim!) and family members in attendance. It was fantastic to be back at Schuba’s again in Chicago and see Eric and his daughter. One unexpected highlight was discovering how incredible the Bell’s Brewery venue and facility are in Kalamazoo! We hope to be back on tour again in 2024. 

Sasha Bell and Jennifer on stage with No Ones at Egersund.

Tell us about your involvement with the Elephant 6 film? I contributed some archival footage that is used in the documentary, from our extensive late 1990s U.S. tours with Of Montreal. The digitizing continues! I also participated in post-screening Q&As with Derek Almstead when the film premiered in Pittsburgh at The Harris Theater in September 2023. 

Will you be touring your new album? I absolutely hope to soon, and would love to see Dagger readers out there along the way. The Garment District has only played locally so I look forward to more shows and some touring. Stay tuned please and stay in touch! 

What are your future plans? It has been a true joy to rebuild the live band after overwhelming pandemic interruptions. I look forward to performing more regularly and celebrating the new LP. I plan to continue my cross-country collaborations with artist Nicole Czapinksi, who created the music video for “Left on Coast” (filmed at an abandoned Nike Missile Site in Western Pennsylvania). Nicole would love to project live visuals, responding to our music in real-time using techniques we experimented with in the video. Likewise, I expect to continue collaborating with Asheville, North Carolina-based artist Peter Speer, who I have known since our shared NYC days, who created the music video for “Following Me,” our cover of the 1967 song by The Human Expression. I have started conversations with Pittsburgh artists Johnny Arlett, Michi Tapes and Sandy Loaf about working on new music videos for The Garment District. This winter, I will be contributing a track to a compilation planned for 6612 Tapes, the label run by Elephant 6 co-founder Hilarie Sidney (The High Water Marks, The Apples in Stereo), with all proceeds going to a blue candidate in a vulnerable state during the 2024 U.S. election. I have some new Garment District demos emerging and hope to be back in the studio soon! 

I hope you enjoyed learning more about Jennifer as much as I did. We can only hope she will bring her band out on the road in the future. It was such a fun time seeing The Ladybug Transistor in Chicago. Here’s hoping a new year will bring a new tour.

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New Country 26e jaargang  #T1204 (S763) (C10)van 20 november 2023  (wk 47) uitzending op Smelne fm & Crossroads Country Radio

Album van de week:   Ray Scott - Billboards & Brake Lights - Self-Released

           Artiest                         Title                                                    

Reba McEntire - Little Rock* maandartiest

Blake Shelton – Mine Would Be You      #1 2013

Joe Diffie - Pickup Man (feat. Post Malone)  

The Castellows – Hurricane

Priscilla Block - Hey, Jack

Garth Brooks /Ronnie Dunn – Rodeo Man

Darius Rucker - Wagon wheel   *truck song of the week  

Ray Scott – I Fall In Love With You Again     *Album

Ray Scott – Keeper     cd

Tim McGraw – Live Like You were Dying     2004

Morgan Wallen – Thinkin’ Bout Me   #1

Emmylou Harris and The Milk Carton Kids - Apache Tears *juweeltje

Bertolf – Jericho 

The Common Linnets - Walls of Jericho

Dolly Parton – Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That

Riley Green - My Last Rodeo    favoriet    

Reba McEntire – Forever Love   

Tim McGraw – Letter from Heaven *sofi

The Lasses – Lads Among Heather

49 Winchester - annabel

Lainey Wilson – Wildflowers and Wild Horses

Zach Brown Band - Margaritaville (Live at Coastal Credit Union Music Park).

Chris Stapleton – South Dakota   vorige week

Ray Scott - Billboards & Brake Lights Cdvdw

Kenny Chesney - How Forever Feels.

Kenny Chesney- The Good Stuff

Kenny Chesney -. Take her Home

Morgan Wallen- You Proof #1 album.

Willie Nelson.  -   Crazy

Mark Wills – Back at One