#the Whiffs

[musickickztoo]

CONTRA2023-12 DIE LAUGHING

TRACKLIST:

Upchuck - Freaky Osees - Sleazoid Psycho Nite Music - (I've Got To Make) The Call Benny J. Ward - I Didn't Mean It King Tuff - Symphony Of A Man Snõõper - Music For Spies Axis: Sova - Hardcore Maps Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Whirlpool Dub Black Mekon - Buhlak Me Kong Goat - I Became The Unemployment Office PABLO X - Mad Dog DAIISTAR - Repeater Sparklehorse - Listening To The Higsons Wilco- Evicted The Whiffs - Satellites The Linda Lindas - Resolution/Revolution PAL - Alphabetter Sufjan Stevens - So You Are Tired

The 12th playlist of the year! 

[50thirdand3rd]

Featured Album: THE WHIFFS - 'Scratch 'N' Sniff

The summer of 2023 is around the corner and Kansas City power poppers The Whiffs have just released the soundtrack. The band’s second full-length ‘Scratch ‘N’ Sniff‘ offers the perfect vibe for all of your warm-weather pursuits. Over 13 tracks, The Whiffs sip from a sweet cocktail of classic power pop like the Raspberries, Big Star, and Shoes, and spit it all out with a Tim-era Replacements…

[bandcampsnoop]

3/3/23.

DIG! Records (Virginia) is releasing the new LP from Kansas City, Missouri band The Whiffs. This has a definite retro feel - think of the power-pop of early Joe Jackson. But it is also firmly planted in modern day power pop in the vein of Gentleman Jesse, Uni Boys, The Peawees or Jiffy Marx. And don't forget that amazing Titan Records boxset from Numero Group.

Honestly, the list could go on and on. It's interesting to go back into the archives of this blog and see just how much power pop has been posted.

[punkrockmixtapes]

Listen to: Wanted by The Whiffs

[wildwaxshows]

Powerpop Party

Fr., 10.5.2024, 20:00 Uhr: THE WHIFFS (US) + THE PISSED ONES (DE) + ALVILDA (FR) + COEUR A L'INDEX (BE) – Hafenklang, Hamburg

THE WHIFFS

The Whiffs are a band from Kansas City, Missouri. "…one of the most accomplished examples of the genre I've heard in some time"

THE PISSED ONES

Die Basis des Sounds ist eine schnörkellos, aber massiv gezimmerte Rhythmusgruppe, die genau macht, was sie soll, um ein stabiles Fundament für eine Gitarrenwand zu bieten, die sich irgendwo zwischen AC/DC und STATUS QUO in deinen Kortex fräst.

ALVILDA

Oh man, here's a band you're all gonna flip over! Alvilda is Nina, Mélanie, Eva, and Sandra. This foursome out of Paris has just released its debut EP on the venerable Alien Snatch Records. Négatif features four tracks of classic style power pop with '60s pop and girl group influences. I love the perfect simplicity of this release: each song is a one-word title and clocks in somewhere between two and two-and-half minutes. From the melodies to the harmonies to the hooks to the energy of the music, this EP delivers everything you could want from power pop. Even if you don't know a single word of French, Négatif is sure to have you dancing around the house and humming along in no time flat. Pop music doesn't get much catchier than this! For its first 7" release in a few years, Alien Snatch sure picked a good one. Snag a copy while you still can! (Faster and Louder, August 2021)

COEUR A L'INDEX

Rock trio from Brussels and Marseille led by Julia Stravato.

[differenthead]

Volume 285

0:00:00 — "Dayflower" by Cathedral Bells (2021)

0:02:47 — "Find My Way" by Swiss Portrait (2021)

0:06:40 — "Dave Brubeck" by Vacations (2016)

0:08:40 — DJ

0:12:26 — "Fixing Motorcycles" by Chime School (2021)

0:15:39 — "End of the Lion" by Mick Trouble (2019)

0:17:30 — "What Do You Want Me to Do?" by The Whiffs (2019)

0:19:48 — "Good Eye" by Mini Dresses (2019)

0:22:40 — "Disciples" by Tame Impala (2015)

0:24:19 — DJ

0:29:19 — "Kill the Time" by Home Front (2021)

0:33:54 — "Letter" by Dehd (2020)

0:37:05 — "Tom the Model" by Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man (2002)

0:40:38 — "(But) I See Something" by Doug Gillard (2004)

0:44:31 — DJ

0:49:02 — "Runt på Stranden" by ShitKid (2021)

0:51:46 — "On a Summer Holiday" by Fascinations Grand Chorus (2022)

0:54:44 — "Full Screen" by Adult Mom (2017)

0:57:15 — "Shut Up Kiss Me" by Angel Olsen (2016)

1:00:34 — "Égoîste" by Laure Briard (2015)

1:03:02 — DJ

1:07:26 — "Hey, Maybe One Day You'll See Me Again" by Viper (2009)

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[slovenlyrecordings]

We got some killer new titles in at Slovenly USA

And some Jawbreaker records too: sloven.ly/store1

Stoked to have Tha Retail Simps cruddy-ing up our inventory... GET THIS! And the new one from The Whiffs? YASS QUEEN. If you're not getting it from us, get it from the dudes demselves on their upcoming August tour!

New LP from Paint Fumes too. You can't beat it with a bat!

Best repro of the lot? That's easy... THE VALIANTS "Tequila Twist" is one of the hairiest jungle exotica tracks E.V.E.R. and it's backed with a swingin' SHAN-TONES track for this ish.

Tonsa other ubercool garbage back in stock as well... CHECK IT OUT.

CHERRY CHEEKS "S/T" LP (Second press)

SICK THOUGHTS "Heaven Is No Fun" LP (Third press)

TEE VEE REPAIRMANN "What's On TV" (Third press) LP

JOHN & CAROL WITH THE SAVONICS "Get Your Hat" / BILLY "THE KID" EMERSON "I Did The Funky Broadway" 7”

JIMMY DEE "The Push" / DANNY LUCIANO "Get Into It" 7”

VALIANTS "Tequila Twist" / SHAN-TONES "Sheba" 7"

ROLLERS "Troubles" / ELMER PARKER & THE LIGHT LIGHTERS "Look Out Baby" 7”

JIMMY NOLEN "How Fine Can You Be/ Strollin' With Nolen" 7"

PRESTON LOVE "If You Ever Get Lonesome/ Groove Juice" 7"

LOS DADDYS "Cumbia Kairo / La Cumbia Primero De Mayo" 7"

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Rhythm  And Blues Guitar Crushers Vol. 1" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Vocal Group Madness!" LP

SCREAMING LORD SUTCH “Story” (LTD., RED vinyl) LP

BIKINI KILL "Revolution Girl Style Now" LP

BIKINI KILL "The Singles" 12" (CLEAR BLUE vinyl)

EXPLODING HEARTS "Guitar Romantic (Expanded & Remastered)" LP

JAWBREAKER "Bivouac" (GREEN vinyl) LP

JAWBREAKER "Unfun" LP

RETAIL SIMPS, THA "Reverberant Scratch: 9 Shots In Tha Dark" LP

HILL, BUNKER "The Girl Can't Dance/ You Can't Make Me Doubt My Baby" 7"

FLOYD DIXON "Roll Baby Roll / Hey Bartender" 7"

GRIFFIN BROTHERS ORCHESTRA "I Wanna Go Back / Stubborn As A Mule" 7"

CHRIS KENNER "Sick & Tired/ ERNIE FREEMAN "Dumplins'" 7"

NATHANIEL MAYER "I Want Love And Affection / From Now On" 7"

MICKEY & SYLVIA "No Good Lover / Walkin' In The Rain" 7"

AMOS MILBURN "House Party/ I Done Done It" 7"

MORGUS & THE DARINGERS "Werewolf/ The Morgus Creep" 7"  

Back in Stock:

MISFITS "American Psycho" (ORANGE vinyl) LP

COCK SPARRER "S/T" LP

13th FLOOR ELEVATORS "Psychedelic Sounds Of" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Universe Rocketin'" LP

CRAMPS 'Psychedelic Jungle' LP

MISFITS "12 Hits From Hell: The MSP Sessions" LP (ORANGE vinyl)

SAMHAIN "Initium" LP (Random Colored vinyl)

SAMHAIN "Unholy Passion" LP (Random Colored vinyl)

SAMHAIN "Final Descent" (GREEN vinyl) LP

BAGS "All Bagged Up" LP

BIKINI KILL "S/T" 12"

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Buzzsaw Joint Cut 1 - Diddy Wah" LP  

VARIOUS ARTISTS " Buzzsaw Joint Cut 2 - Astro 138 & DJ Zorch" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Buzzsaw Joint Cut 3/  Pavinyl" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Buzzsaw Joint Cut 4/ Juke Joint" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "BUZZSAW JOINT: Cut 5 / Sophisticated Savage" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "BUZZSAW JOINT Cut 6: Dusty Stylus" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Buzzsaw Joint Cut 7: James & Misty" LP

BUZZSAW JOINT "Cut 8/Johnny Alpha & Carl Combover" (VIOLET vinyl) LP

GIBBLE GOBBLE - EXOTIC BLUES & RHYTHM Vol. 5 10"" (CLEAR vinyl) 10"

OOP BOOMP: Exotic Blues & Rhythm Vol. 13 10"

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Slow Grind Fever Vol. 5" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Slow Grind Fever Vol. 9" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Slow Grind Fever Vol. 10" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Gunsmoke Volume 3: Dark Tales Of Western Noir From A Ghost Town Jukebox" 10"

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Gunsmoke Volume 5: Dark Tales Of Western Noir From A Ghost Town Jukebox" 10"

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Gunsmoke Vol. 7- Dark Tales Of Western Noir From The Ghost Town Jukebox" 10"

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Gunsmoke Vol. 8- Dark Tales Of Western Noir From The Ghost Town Jukebox" 10"

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Songs From Satan's Jukebox Vol. 1" 10"

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Trashcan Records Volume 2: Midnight" 10"

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Trashcan Records Volume 5: Cha Cha Bop" 10"

[mylordshesacactus]

Okay, I didn't want to clog up the notes of someone else's post with something tonally different because that's rude, but. I Need to elaborate some more about no-kill vs open-intake shelters because I feel like some people still don't get it.

I'm gonna use an example here: My cat, Nepenthe, came from a small municipal open-intake shelter (I don't use the term "kill shelter" because I think it's obscene and cedes ground to ARA fuckwits for no reason) in an area with a NOTORIOUSLY awful stray cat problem.

She was on the euthanasia list. She was next in line on the euthanasia list.

They would never have been cruel or manipulative enough to say it that baldly, of course, but...I can read. Status was "at rsk", with two days' grace before ticking over into "extreme risk", the red zone. The ones who have had the most time, the most chance, if the shelter ever runs out of cage space.

I have gone the fuck off on people who hear that and immediately assume I will tolerate them bashing or insulting that shelter.

Because here's the thing about Penny. She is my baby, my darling, light of my life, and if I hadn't come along, euthanizing her would have been not only necessary but an ethical obligation.

She was neurotic, traumatized, and unpredictably aggressive--not "I'm bad at feline body language and ignoring her subtle back-off signals" unpredictable, I mean "we showed footage to a professional feline behaviorist and their immediate reaction was 'oh that is NOT normal'" unpredictable. "Actual legitimate psychological problems" unpredictable. The previous three times she had met with potential adopters, she attacked them unprovoked and had to be recaptured by a vet tech wearing a bite sleeve designed for aggressive dogs. She was the textbook definition of unadoptable.

She could not be fostered. There was absolutely no way she could live in a home with small children, or older children, or an elderly person with thin skin, or anyone who would get upset if they were clawed in the face without warning every few days.

Now, here's some math for you, keyboard warrior writing up a condescending screed about how there's Never Any Excuse for euthanizing a healthy animal:

The average length of stay in that shelter, for a healthy cat, was roughly two weeks. Which means, on average, assuming fast turnover, a single cage space in that shelter can save the lives of 24 cats every year.

Penny, when I met her, had been there for 43 days. A month and a half. Three times the average length of stay.

I love her. She has improved my life immeasurably and there is nothing I wouldn't do for her. Her life is not more valuable than the lives of the other 23 cats who might have been saved by the slot she was taking up. Euthanasia, if space had run out, would have been the only ethical option.

(Yes, obviously I DID show up and I DID choose her. But frankly? I was a grad student with a psychology degree, studying to be a therapist, living alone, no plans to have kids, a private room where she wouldn't have to interact with other people or animals, de-facto engaged to a professional animal behaviorist; I was ACTIVELY LOOKING for an edge-case project cat, and could calmly and intelligently articulate my understanding of the seriousness of her behavior and my plan for helping her. You can't count on that happening. I was a fucking unicorn.)

No-kill shelters have the INCREDIBLE luxury of deciding who to save. They have the luxury of having all the time in the world to wait. And in the meantime, what exactly do you think is happening to the other animals? The ones they DON'T pick? The ones there's no room for? Do you think they magically don't need to be surrendered anymore? Does Santa Claus find them a home, perhaps?

You can't reduce the life of an animal to math. Good, ethical no-kill shelters can be wonderful resources--either taking highly-adoptable animals from open-intake shelters to free up space as efficiently as possible, or else taking in behaviorally or medically complicated dogs who need more time to find their perfect match than open-intake shelters can give.

But if you're going to shit on open-intake shelters, you don't get to be a fucking coward about it. So here. Prove how much smarter you are.

You've run out of space. Every cage is full. The cat cannot be fostered. You've filled all your available foster slots with other cats, to buy her time. The "no-kill" shelters are full--they pulled the cats they thought they could save, and the scruffy, psychologically-unsound, adult black domestic shorthair with chronic herpes? Nobody wants her. In this world her unicorn's not coming.

She's had three times as long as every other cat here. You have given her every chance, wrote her a lovely bio, moved other cats to other shelters to keep space open so you didn't have to make this choice; but she mauled someone else today and there's a sweet, cuddly, highly-adoptable tabby with no problem behaviors being checked in right now. If you can't put that new cat somewhere it's going to be euthanized without even being given a chance, even though it is extremely adoptable and would likely find a new home within a week.

You don't have a magic wand. You can't wish a conveniently empty second shelter into existence. Every option has been exhausted.

Look me in the eye, and tell me which one dies.

[ckret2]

this is how tbob went i think

[queenlua]

i'm testing the capabilities of a Large Language Model That Shall Not Be Named and. dear god it's really bad at summarizing this novel

[shorlinesorrows]

Give me a Percy Jackson who hates swim team. Who went to a public pool for swim lessons once when he was five and started to sob the second his skin hit the water

give me a Percy Jackson who is always just the slightest bit unsettled at pools because water is never meant to have the life sucked out of it and be divided into lanes or put in boxes in the ground

Water isn’t meant to be contained.

a percy jackson whose skin feels like it’s slowly beginning to burn when he tries to swim in chlorinated water, who hates any set swim stroke with a passion and can’t stick to one for the life of him

who doesn’t understand why you’d want to keep only to the surface of the water, when being cradled under the surface is everything

because swimming is supposed to be like the tides, maybe patterned, but never identical, it’s supposed to be flowing with the world around you as you please

Give me a Percy Jackson who loves the sheer nature of water so much that he can’t help but quietly despise our “pools” and their dead water with their constricted sides and restrictions on what it means to change with the world around you

A Percy Jackson who is the child of water in its most natural state, and who can hardly bear to see the way society has attempted to contain it and sterilize it and strip away its power

He hates swim team, but that’s only the half of it

[musickickztoo]

Contra2023 - 4 HARD TIMES

TRACKLIST:

01. Waste Man - Changes 02. Soft Shoulder - Raw Time 03. Thurston Moore - Isadora 04. Protomartyr - Make Way 05. Slander Tongue - Can't Pull Better 06. The Whiffs - Verlaine 07. Outtacontroller - Less Is More 08. Chime School - Coming To Your Town 09. The Nude Party - Hard Times (All Around) 10. The Black Delta Movement - Zip-Tie 11. Snapped Ankles - Planet You 12. The Black Angels - My Tornado 13. Mudhoney - Move Under 14. CTMF - Full time Plagiarist 15. Møtrik - KØAN 16. Moonwalks - Heavy Tears 17. Tramhaus - Long Ago 18. Ulrika Spacek - The Sheer Drop

The 4th playlist of the year

Play: https://www.mixcloud.com/Contraflow/contra2023-4-hard-times/

Try it you might like it!

[kattudime]

Shits fucked and the horrors prevail, but so do we. Here's some littlest bishops because we're gonna make it through this

And an extra doodle

[kid-sid]

robotnik family group chat

[chalkrub]

my finished thing for the gigaphone! had so much fun taking part <:^)!

[lomlompurim]

Life is awfully hard rn so I made some serotonin for myself, mom omega Binghe I love you so much