#mentronome

[alien-boy-ollie]

Yall my orchestra teacher is a walking metronome and she's very short so shes a ... Mentrognome...

[feralposting]

Hypno file: keep track of the mentronome ^^ don’t lose count <3

Me, a musician:

[supposed2bfunny]

hey it’s the metronome anon, didn’t mean to make you wary with that phrase, i’m sorry about that ;-; i forget sometimes that it’s a kind of upsetting phrase for some people since it feels accurate to what happens to me. i’m gonna work on thinking about how i word things, this kind of thing seems to be happening more. no need to reply to this, just felt like i owe you an apology for that

Ohhh goodness no please don’t worry about it!! I made the horrible mistake of using the term “spazz” to refer to myself jokingly in an email once back in college and was politely reprimanded by my advisor that it can be insensitive. Mind you, I have a sibling with disabilities and she has never taken issue with that phrase, it’s something I learned to avoid later in life! I just tend to err super on the side of caution so no one visiting my blog feels uncomfortable and so that people can be nudged politely in terms of common slang and expressions.

I was totally not trying to harshly criticize or anything like that, and I loved your ask!!

So I totally appreciate you reaching out just to apologize, but it was totally unnecessary! I could tell from the get-go that you meant to harm, I promise!

 :D

[kiddphel]

i want to talk about Szayel rn but my emotions are like a mentronome when it comes to him and i went from lovey to angry in the middle of trying to make a post just now jvosjfisjdj

[sirengf-moved]

i’m just blasting back n forth between murderous rage and infinite despair like a mentronome

[safri-syamsudin]

Metronome: Koin Baru Untuk Bekerja Pada Multi Blockchain – BBG Komunitas Forex - Pendiri Bloq, Jeff Garzik, yang membantu mengembangkan perangkat lunak bitcoin – blockchain, mengatakan pada hari Selasa bahwa ia memutuskan untuk menciptakan mata uang digital yang lebih baik, karena ia telah melihat kelemahan Bitcoin secara langsung. Metronome diharapkan bisa melakukan debut di konferensi industri di Las Vegas.

[futuresandpasts]

Futures & Pasts | MRR #420

I think this column might have marked my three-year MRR anniversary, or at least something close to that. Long-lost ‘80s DIY eccentricity from Portland & Pennsylvania, modern Swiss-German coldwave/minimal post-punk sounds & Swedish Messthetics disciples, readable in Maximum Rocknroll #420 (May 2018).

Portland underground art-punks RANDY and the RANDIES formed in 1979 and featured founding NEO BOYS guitarist Jennifer Lobianco in their original line-up, but the fact that they never released any proper recordings before their split in 1982 has meant that most traces of the group’s history have been primarily relegated to the digital simulacra of photocopied flyers from shows in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, with their name mentioned alongside some of their more well-remembered local peers. A brand new anthology simply titled 12” Vinyl LP finally gives RANDY and the RANDIES the proper documentation that they deserve, pulling together a handful of live tracks recorded across 1980 and 1981 with a series of 8-track recordings conceived as the soundtrack to the fictional film called Beauty and then exhibited as an audiovisual installation with storyboarded photographs at the Portland Center for the Visual Arts in 1982. The collection starts with the group’s two earliest songs, the Lobianco-fronted “Bloating” and “Solar Myth,” which both mirror the raw beauty of the NEO BOYS’ sparse, shambolic jangle and obliquely poetic lyrics. Lobianco relocated to Los Angeles in 1980 and the boys of the RANDIES continued on without her, channeling the off-kilter primitivist skronk of fellow American DIY oddballs like HALF JAPANESE on “Tangled Nico” and the nearly-No Wave sonic collapse of “Big Blue Blade Car,” rounding out the remaining live takes. The LP’s second side is devoted to the songs written for Beauty, where RANDY and the RANDIES alternate between instrumental sound collages and single-song experiments in recreating various subgenre aesthetics—there’s a quick, thrashy hardcore track, a droning piece of dubbed-out mutant disco, a moody and chorus-saturated New Wave pop song, etc. A really wonderful documentation of a too-often overlooked part of Portland’s punk history, and if it were my call, everyone with a WIPERS T-shirt in their closet would be required to own this record. (Randiful Music, randyandtherandies.bandcamp.com)

Steve Krakow of PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND and the Galactic Zoo Dossier was allegedly in a Chicago secondhand store years ago when he found a cryptic homemade cassette by a mid-’80s Pennsylvania group called IN TIME, which turned out to be chock full of scrappy, psych-inflected DIY racket that sounded as if it had been recorded by Nikki Sudden and Dan Treacy while in seclusion in suburban Philadelphia. Krakow flipped out over it and managed to locate one of the members of IN TIME, in a series of events which ultimately led to the Inside Your Mind LP that came out late last year, collecting the songs from the thrift store-sourced tape along with some previously unreleased tracks. Maybe that whole backstory is true, or maybe it’s all an elaborate hoax (see: that “lost” MICK TROUBLE EP that surfaced last year), but if it is just a put-on, the attention to detail here is truly astonishing. Everything is cloaked in tape hiss and treble, the drums have that perfect basement-bashed cardboard box clatter, the guitar parts twist from jangly technicolor pop to severe, wiry post-punk fits, and the vocals manage to be charmingly off-key even when they’re talk-shouted in a Brit-accented deadpan that you wouldn’t really expect from a band supposedly from the outskirts of Philly. The Paisley Underground scene was thrown around as a reference point here, but IN TIME’s psychedelic leanings really owe more to the buttoned-up mod edge and pop art romanticism of the TELEVISION PERSONALITIES than any BYRDS-worshipping, post-Nuggets Californian garage jangle, with tracks like ”Many are the Tears” and “When I Change My Eyes” capturing the same balance between wide-eyed melodic wonder and darkly serious tension that made the TVPs so brilliant in their prime. Then there’s the art-punk sneer running through “Economic Injustices” and “On the Telephone” descended from the wobbly UK DIY template of SWELL MAPS or the DESPERATE BICYCLES, while the droning mostly-instrumental “Mideastifcation” sounds like IN TIME had some serious fantasies about traveling to where the pyramid meets the eye with the 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS. Sham or not, the narrative surrounding this LP is utterly irrelevant, because it stacks up with pretty much any actual outsider post-punk classic from the early ‘80s. (Mental Experience, guerssenrecords.bandcamp.com)

Charlotte Mermoud’s one-woman post-punk outfit (and MARAUDEUR spin-off) PURPUR SPYTT is back with a new four-track EP called Nitpick, where she continues the process of subtracting elements from her songs until just the most minimal structure is left, threatening to collapse at any moment like a precarious structure of Jenga blocks. Vocals are recited with a flat emotional detachment bordering on spoken word, bass lines throb in repetitive and circular patterns, and a tinny and slightly off-beat drum machine rattles and clangs in the background, sometimes accompanied by brief flashes of sparse, single-note guitar cutting through the negative space. The austere, bass-centered rhythms of “Triangles” and “A Fake Vision of Me” suggest a downbeat bedroom interpretation of LIZZY MERCIER DESCLOUX’s fiery disco-punk grooves, while “Real/Not Real” lurks in the darkened shadows of early ‘80s Euro coldwave with subtle synth whirrs underscoring the mentronomic bass/drum pulse. A femme-led New Neue Deutsche Welle taking shape in 2018? I’m all for it. And heads up tape enthusiasts, because if you missed out on the really excellent MARAUDEUR/PURPUR SPYTT split 10” from 2016, the PURPUR SPYTT side is included on Vacant Stare’s cassette edition of Nitpick—don’t sleep this time. (Les Syndicats des Scorpions/Kakakids/Pouet Schallplaten, lesyndicatdesscorpions.bandcamp.com)

Following the precedent of their post-millennium compatriots in bands like the SUBURBAN HOMES, STRUCTURE, and SARCASM, PRIVATE SECTOR are yet another contemporary combo whose collective glances are fixed backwards at the ’78-’81 golden era of dole-line post-punk and UK DIY—if there’s not at least one person in this bunch sporting a MEKONS badge on their parka, I’ll be amazed. On their new Cost of Living EP, PRIVATE SECTOR make their allegiances to that particular scritch-scratch Messthetics aesthetic plainly obvious, from the recurring lyrical critiques of capitalist/consumerist drudgery to the great, falling apart cover of “Disco Pope” by teenage Rough Trade rabble-rousers the PRATS. The clear PRIVATE SECTOR anthem here is the blown-out, factory floor punk drone of “Survival (Is Killing Me),” which runs through a list of the dead-end ruts and mindless aspirations of modern society (small talk with colleagues, working out, dieting, domestic bliss, careers, so on and so forth) in tandem with the song’s title repeated endlessly in a resigned dual-vocal monotone, like a conceptual successor to GANG OF FOUR’s “At Home He’s a Tourist” stripped of any angular funk edge. Highly appropriate sounds for our current cultural and political hell-world. (Byllepest Distro, byllepestdistroofficial.bandcamp.com)

[markmarshallmusic]

Really digging the @synkd_app for metronome workouts. Def not your grandmas mentronome #time #tempo #guitarpractice #guitarplayer #guitarlessons #feel (at New York, New York)

[aldobrandini-blog]

Quote me and I challenge you to find a better quota to mentronome from.

[musicotfuture]

SWEDISH ROCK BAND 'MY HEART IS A METRONOME' TALK THEIR NEW SINGLE AND EP 'TIERP' CHECK OUT WHAT WAS SAID RIGHT HERE! 

SWEDISH ROCK BAND ‘MY HEART IS A METRONOME’ TALK THEIR NEW SINGLE AND EP ‘TIERP’ CHECK OUT WHAT WAS SAID RIGHT HERE! 

What is the bands name? My heart is a metronome

  How did you come up with the bands name?

“My heart is a metronome” is kind of like a reminder too keep going, to never give up on your goals, especially musically. If you give the name some thought you’ll get it. 

  What is your genre of music?

Alternative rock, maybe?

  Give us a little bio about you as individuals and as a band.

We started out…