#the oldie magazine

[lemongrablothbrok]

Guess who hit a mother lode at B&N today?

This bitch (*points to self*), that's who.

[boybasher]

[cylee77]

I scanned my Jockey Slut Vol. 2 Nr. 12 February/March 1998

Daft Punk

[cherryobsession]

Elle Mexico November 2023 Issue (Photographed by Thalia Gochez)

[jamesbondlexicon]

Sean Connery flying the flag on the April 2000 issue of The Oldie

[let-kowski-alone]

Rare article from 1995, Club Nintendo (Germany)

Digging the Internet I found an article from the magazine called Nintendo Club, 1995. He was 13 years old.

Here is the full image:

Here is the upclose:

And here it is the restored (by me) version:

Here is the translation:

Christoph Letkowski has often tried to get into Club Nintendo magazine, but it never worked out. However, the student from Groß Börnecke understands this: "It will be difficult to identify three or four out of so many people who are so good and have the necessary power to appear in your magazine." It was only around three months ago that Christoph sacrificed his NES, because he needed the money to buy a Super Nintendo. He immediately started playing his new games "Super Street Fighter", "Super Mario All Stars" and "Turtles in Time" alone and with friends. But his Game Boy wasn't neglected either. Christoph keeps fit with sports - table tennis and athletics (in the club) - and rides his bike a lot. He has “Donkey Kong Country” in mind as his next playful challenge.

Here's a more edited version of the photo:

[warrenwoodhouse]

Steeger Pulp Comics

Vintage Pulp Fiction comics from the 1910s and onwards. The word pulp was used because the comics were printed on wood pulp, which is cheap, hence the name. These comics were traditionally published by independent publishers who were renown for introducing well-known comic artists and comic writers of the era. Still worth diving into the archives of comics and seeing how many people laughed in those days.

[novasintheroom]

005. Simplicity

♡ Pairing - Vash x Reader

♡ Word count - 0.5k

♡ Warnings - none

Part of the 150 Bullets drabble series on AO3!

The tumble of machines is quiet. Surprising, for a large city like April. But, you suppose that was a perk of a hole-in-the-wall laundromat – no one is coming here to party.

Swirls of water and color dance along the wall. Dryers shake against each other. An oldie station plays overhead, a song crooning out tunes from a long-dead artist. You stand by a dryer, waiting anxiously for it to signal that it’s done.

BEEEEEP. It slows to a stop, and you open the lid. With a sigh of relief, you tug out Vash’s red coat. The blood stains are gone. There are no new tears, just the ones you’ll have to sew up when you get back to the inn. You hold it up to your nose and breathe in the fresh cotton scent from the soap you’ve bought. It doesn’t smell like him anymore. You’d need to fix that.

After checking on your washer for yours and his spare clothing, you trek back to the front. Vash sits on a chair in front of the windows, idly leafing through one of the old magazines the laundromat stocks. Without preamble, you toss the coat over his head.

Vash sputters a yelp, then gently draws off his coat. “Oh,” he says, and takes a big sniff. “That smells good!”

“Right?” You sit next to him and fiddle with the sleeve. “Now all we need to wash is you.”

Vash guffaws and gives you a look. “Are you saying I smell?” When you make a face, he gasps. “That’s so mean!”

“Stinky,” you say, then lay your head on his shoulder. He forgives easily and lays his head on yours. “It’s got another fifteen minutes before I can switch it to the dryer,” you tell him.

He hums. “Do you want to go get something to eat? Are you hungry?”

“Are you hungry?”

“I asked you.”

“Yeah, but you only ever ask when you’re getting hungry.”

Vash laughs, caught. “Yeah, I’m getting a little hungry. But we can wait ‘til the loads done.”

You shift to push your head a bit more onto his shoulder. “What kind of food do they have in April? I smelled some ramen, I think.”

“They have all kinds. We should try all of them while we’re here. Especially the chocolate-and-raspberry donuts.”

You laugh. It’s a treat to be in a big city. Not often do Plants cry out in them – they have plenty of Plant engineers ready to aid their power supplies – but one called to Vash, and he needs to answer. The laundry facilities and real, cooked street food are a plus for the journey. You pat his thigh. “We’ll get some good treats, don’t you worry.”

It’s nice to sit and rest. No running, no bounty hunters (yet), just the hum of drying machines and the splash of cleaning water. A woman sits in the far corner, turning her own magazine while her little boy presses his nose to one of the washer windows. A trolly rolls by outside. The simplicity of it all is not lost on you. Not today.

Vash must feel it too. He presses a kiss to your head and mutters, “Love you.”

You smile and whisper back, “Love you too.”

[justforbooks]

Ed McLachlan

Cartoonist whose work appeared in Punch, Private Eye, the Spectator and the Oldie in a 60-year career

The cartoons of Ed McLachlan, who has died aged 84, were at once as deliciously dark and twisted as Charles Addams, as imaginative as William Heath Robinson, as surreal as John Glashan and as quintessentially British as the Punch cartoonist Pont.

Ed’s immediately recognisable pen line, and cast of buck-toothed, big-nosed protagonists, entertained, shocked and outraged from the pages of Punch, Private Eye, the Oldie and Spectator, among many others. Often set in traditional gag cartoon settings, from date nights and office boardrooms to middle-class front rooms and Stannah stairlifts, his cartoons took the mundane and delivered the hilariously absurd.

Giant creatures were often present, creating destruction in otherwise quaintly British scenes. For Private Eye’s 10th anniversary edition in 1971, Ed drew a monstrous hedgehog rushing across a busy road, pulverising an unfortunate car and its occupants as it goes. In another cartoon, an enormous dinosaur rampages through a city past an ongoing cricket match, while an exasperated commentator complains that “once again we have interruption of play caused by movement behind the bowler’s arm”.

Ed combined his vivid imagination with a relentless work ethic, his work also appearing in magazines as various as the New Statesman, the Big Issue, Reader’s Digest, the New Yorker and Playboy.

Initially he had not considered a career in cartoons, despite contributing a number to his college magazine. However, in 1961, while working at a printing company designing posters, he was persuaded by colleagues (by way of a £5 bet) to submit a scrapbook of cartoons to Punch. To his surprise, the magazine bought one for seven guineas, more for an hour’s work than he was earning in a week at the printing office. Within weeks they had bought several more, thus beginning a regular contribution to the magazine that would last until it ceased production in 2002.

Born in Humberstone, Leicestershire, to Edward McLachlan, a structural engineer, and his wife, Josephine, a secretary, Ed went to Wyggeston grammar school, then studied graphic design at Leicester College of Art (now DeMontfort University), graduating in 1959.

Following his success with Punch, in 1965 he went freelance, resolving to establish a career by “making myself a nuisance banging on agencies’ doors”. The following year, he began drawing a series of political cartoons for the Sunday Mirror, under the title McLachlan’s View. In 1967, he started to contribute cartoons to Private Eye, and in 1970 left the Sunday Mirror for the Evening Standard as its new political cartoonist. Between 1972 and 1974, he produced a series of pocket cartoons titled Insiders for the Daily Mirror.

Apart from a brief return to Leicester College of Art as a part-time lecturer in graphics (1967-70), Ed thereon focused on his cartoon and illustration work, which also encompassed children’s books, TV series and advertising campaigns.

In 1969, he wrote and illustrated his first children’s book, Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings. This was the first of four books about a little boy who owns a magic chalkboard, upon which everything he draws becomes real. The books were made into an animated television series, which first aired in Canada before appearing on British television on ITV in 1976, running for 24 episodes. The series was directed by Ivor Wood, best known for shows such as The Magic Roundabout and The Wombles, and narrated by Bernard Cribbins. It remained popular in Canada, where it was remade in 2002.

Ed also wrote and illustrated the children’s books Claude Makes a Change (1979), Magnus in the Land of Lost Property (1985) and The Dragon Who Could Only Breathe Smoke (1985), and illustrated more than 80 books in the Bangers and Mash educational reading series by Paul Groves, which were made into a children’s ITV series in 1989. Nonfiction books include Bill Beaumont’s Bedside Rugby (1986) and John Walker’s Chess for Tomorrow’s Champions (1994), as well as many of the For Dummies instructional series.

Over the years Ed was also in demand for advertising campaigns for brands such as Dunlop, Renault, Alka Seltzer, Dewar’s Whisky and Walkers. Most recently, his cartoons were used for a series of London Underground posters for Timothy Taylor’s Brewery.

He received many awards, including illustrative cartoonist of the year (1980) and advertising cartoonist of the year (1982) from the Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain, and gag cartoonist of the year twice (1982 and 1997) from the Cartoon Art Trust, which also presented him with a lifetime achievement award in 2011. In 2016, he was given an honorary doctorate from the University of Leicester.

Across the span of his 60-year career, Ed’s style of drawing, a confident ink line and a monochrome wash on artist’s board, remained remarkably consistent. Later in his career, he began to add colour, working skilfully in watercolour on a scale much larger than his cartoons would be reproduced in print. While much of the detail would be lost when the cartoons were shrunk down for reproduction in magazines, when the originals began to be exhibited in a gallery setting – and in the Chris Beetles gallery, of which I am director, from 2001 – his expertise in these mediums could be truly appreciated.

Ed continued to draw cartoons up until his death. In one of his final cartoons, for Private Eye, taste testers at a crisp factory lament their new range of extra crispy snacks, which are so crunchy they have caused one of their colleagues to explode.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley (nee Gerrard), whom he married in 1964, their daughters, Danielle, Joelle and Aimee, and son, Alex, and by four grandchildren.

🔔 Edward Rolland McLachlan, cartoonist, author and illustrator, born 22 April 1940; died 29 September 2024

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[johnschneiderblog]

The LH song with a life of its own

Daughter Caitlin was listening to a New Yorker magazine podcast - a conversation between music critics Naomi Fry and Kelefa Sanneh about how social media - TikTok, in particular - has reshaped the popular-music landscape,

They discussed all the usual players - Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX, Katy Perry, Chappell Roan, etc.

Then, about 40 minutes into the interview, the conversation between the two music critics took a radical turn - toward a song that's practically an oldie:

Sanneh: "One of the biggest songs of 2024 is 'The Night We Met' - the 2015 song by Lord Huron. (Cue a short clip of the song).

Fry: "Wait, really?'

Kalefa: "Yes, that (song) has ... gone more viral than ever. It's over 2 billion streams on Spotify.

Fry: "Wait .... How did this happen (with) a 2015 song?"

Kalefa: "It's gotten a bunch of music placements over the years. It's gotten some TikTok activit; people seem to keep finding it. It's huge on the chart. It's being consumed at an incredible level.

"And ... obviously Lord Huron are not pop girlies, right? This is a kind of like retro rock indie song. Yeah. but to a lot of people's experience of 2024, while we're talking about all this stuff, they're talking about that."

Obviously "TNWM" got a big boost from its placement, in 2017, in an iconic scene in the TV series "13 Reasons Why." But that doesn't totally explain its staying power.

Maybe it's just a damn fine tune.

[shares-a-vest]

Happy Christmas Eve! Have a ficlet about Eddie terrorising Steve's parents. I had this half-written for @unclewaynemunson's Advent Calendar but I never finished it in time for a prompt

'Christmas Jailbreak, 1986'

"Harrington residence," Steve answers, his phone-voice up-ticking like it does at work. "Steve speaking."

"Oh good, it is you," comes Eddie's cheerful voice before pivoting to comical seriousness as he adds, "Meet me in your bedroom in fifteen minutes."

The line goes dead. Steve frowns, holding the kitchen phone as he mother rushes past with a roast. He rolls his eyes at her ridiculous dress, green with a big red bow at the front that matches with the Christmas decorations.

By the time Steve finally gets to his bedroom, it’s been at least half an hour. Immediately after the movie-like cold call from his boyfriend, Steve was instructed by his mother to serve drinks as Christmas dinner was ready. As always her tone had a sense of urgency laced with disappointment that he wasn't the perfect host like she was. Meanwhile his father sat at the head of the table like the King Douchebag he was, regaling his grandmother and great aunt Doris with boring work tales and doing fuck-all else.

Eddie is just there waiting, clad in black as always, with snow kissed cheek and misty hair laying back on the freshly ironed plaid bedspread, flicking through a Playboy. Just like he would do any time he was waiting for Steve to finish his nightly hair routine and come to bed. Something he hadn't been able to do since before Thanksgiving, all because Mr and Mrs Neglectful-And-Emotionally-Inept were actually residing over their kingdom for once.

Steve rushes over and snatches the magazine from him, throwing it clean under his bed.

"Hey! I was reading that!"

Steve shushes him before grinning, "No, you weren’t."

"So you don’t buy it for the articles then?" he teases, straightening up and smiling, dimples on full display.

Steve leans down and kisses him.

"I’ve missed you," he says, sadder than he'd intended as he runs his hand up Eddie’s arm suggestively.

"Came to save you from your Christmas nightmare fortress, Rapunzel," he smiles,pecking him on the cheek. "Or crash this thing and terrorise your parents. Take your pick."

"Fuck it," Steve smiles.

He was all ready to go live with Eddie and Wayne in their new trailer anyway when his parents left again. They'd planned on going away for New Year's but Steve thinks they might go the second they shove the oldies out the door, so what was the difference of perhaps mere hours?

"Your getaway chariot awaits, princess," Eddie says, rolling off the bed and taking a bow. "Are you giving me full permission to wreck the Harrington Christmas Dinner?"

"What can I say, I’m in the festive spirit," he says through laughs as Eddie bear-hugs him. "Just don’t do anything that will make my dad call the cops."

Eddie pulls away and mock gasps as he clutches his chest. "Never, Stevie."

Wasting no time, Steve slings his overnight bag over his shoulder, rolls his nail bat from under the bed, tucks Eddie’s Christmas present under his arm.

"Uh-oh…" Eddie soon gulps, looking beyond Steve to the bedroom door. And there she is, his mother. Looking into the room with the same disgusted expression she had on the countless occasions she’d walked in on Steve making out with a girl.

"What the hell is going on in here?" she demands, practically clutching at the door frame as she recoils away from Eddie.

"Hi, Mrs Harrington," Eddie says, bowing.

As Steve makes for the bedroom door, he grabs Eddie’s hand and tugs him into the hall.

"Bye, Mom!"

"Like the dress, Mrs H!" Eddie calls behind them as they run down the stairs.

"John! That Munson boy is in our house!" Mrs Harrington shrieks from upstairs as they reach the bottom of the staircase.

Steve catches a glimpse of his father, sitting like the douchebag king he is at the head of the dining table.

"Steven!"

Steve looks at Eddie, shrugs and gives a smirk. Eddie chews at his bottom lip for a second and cranes his neck to peek into the dining room.

"What are you doing?" his father demands. Steve can tell he is willing himself not to shout in front of guests. "What is your mother shouting about?"

Steve snorts a laugh. Of course, his father wasn't even listening, despite his mother positively screaming upstairs.

"Oh," Eddie says, a devilish smile creeping across his face as he dramatically tiptoes towards the dining room. "This is Mr Harrington."

Steve's grandma and great-aunt sit in stunned silence as the young man dressed in leather rounds the table to stand beside John Harrington’s seat at the head of the table as Steve stands in the archway.

"Don’t tell Mrs H but, I’ve been in your house a lot, Johnny Boy."

As he passes Doris, he leans forward and picks up her crystal aperitif glass. He chugs it, a little red liquid spilling from his mouth as he grimaces. He wipes his mouth with the back of his hand before flicking it, probably hoping for a permanent red spot on the cream carpet.

"Yuck, sherry," he says with a theatrical shiver before leaning down to whisper in a terrified Doris’ ear, "Tastes cheap too."

Steve barks out a laugh, knowing his mother buys the bottom-shelf stuff for Doris, but promptly covers his mouth as he catches his father’s furious eye.

"Weren’t you in prison?" John asks, side-eyeing Eddie and leaning away as if to avoid any potential physical contact.

"Nah," he says looking over the elaborate table and pursing his lips in thought. "The Satanic murder charges didn’t quite stick. Thanks to your son, actually."

Eddie winks at Steve and now his father truly looks confused. They stare at each other for a moment and soon Steve swears he sees the moment a light bulb goes off in his father’s head. He leans forward with a warning finger at his son. He merely shrugs as John’s eyes narrow.

Eddie plucks a baked potato directly off his plate as Mr Harrington stares at Steve’s nailed baseball bat.

"Jesus Christ!" Steve says, amazed at the show and entirely forgetting that he is literally fleeing his home hand-in-hand with his boyfriend.

"Son!" his father warns before forcing an unconvincing smile. "Get this idiot out of here."

Steve shrugs again. He guesses he’ll intervene if he absolutely, one hundred percent needs to. But in the meantime…

Eddie licks the potato and places it back on John’s plate, making sure to smear it thoroughly through the obscene serving of gravy. He picks up another, examining it.

"So many things I want to say…" Eddie says, goading as he looms over John, who’s leaning so far away that Steve is sure he’ll topple off his chair at any moment. "... But I won’t. Come on."

He tugs on Steve’s arm as he chomps down on as much of the potato as he can get in his mouth in one bite. They exit the dining room, leaving murmurs and a bristling John Harrington behind.

"Moving in with Eddie, bye!" Steve says rapidly as he passes his mother standing at the foot of the stairs, white-knuckling the bannister.

"The potatoes are great, Mrs H!" Eddie calls, potato-spittle flying out of his mouth.

"Charming introduction," Steve laughs as they walk out the front door.

Eddie continues chewing and eventually swallows with a struggling gulp.

"Parents love me," he chokes. "Should I go back in and get on the table?"

[cylee77]

I scanned my Groove Magazine Nr 43. Dezember 1996 / Januar 1997

[stillinthatweirdfaze]

I usually don’t make posts like this bc sharing hobbies and interests on the internet makes me very very anxious for whatever reason but I really really wanna share this issue of the Dragon magazine I found at the thrift store yesterday!!!!!!!!

25th anniversary edition of the official D&D magazine !!!!! It is issue 284 and it came out in June 2001. Unfortunately it did not come with the advertised bonus CD rom when I bought it though :[

I’m gonna use this post to show off some of the stuff that’s in it that I really liked or found interestingggg :]

First off we have a full spread add for baulders gate 2, which is kinda funny considering the third one didn’t come out that long ago. I want to eat this ye oldie early 2000ds generic fantasy font I bet it tastes like burnt shortbread.

A little step by step on how the artist made the cover which I find like. Infinitely charming. Especially since this cover itself is so gorgeous. I hope Todd Lockwood is doing good today.

A full page add for an online anime fantasy rpg called Nexus the kingdom of the winds. OUGGGGEEEEE this art style,,,,,,, it takes me back to places it takes me back to like that one vampire anime and clanad and YouTube anime top tens. Fuck graphic design we should start putting sparkles and radial gradients on everything again.

an add for a series of sound effect cds for your games which I want so so bad I need to know what’s on these.

Two little sections where it seems people can submit photos and stories about themselves or their game members to be published. The Dm of the month one is genuinely heartwarming and cute. The thought of Steve seeing that he won made me smile. Also “Nubile dwarf chicks” and “chaotic secretive” is a great example of how early 2000nds out of pocket this issue can be sometimes. You can fucking smell the energy off the second image.

An extremely funny review of a previous dragon issue.

an add for Gen con 2001 and a schedule of upcoming conventions. If anyone went to these I would genuinely love to hear about them I love convention history a whole lot especially from around this time

A page in, apparently a series, about what ttrpg players value in a game written by Gary Gygax!!! If anyone has any previous or the final issues of this study please do share I really really wanna see them. Also the three genders: males, females, and newbies

Two stat blocks for some half dragon characters

A Draconic to English translation table that I wish I had as a preteen because I would have eaten it the fuck up. Also I cut it off but the last sentence on the bottom right is “please don’t disembowel the dwarf” which apparently is “martiver thric gixustratt tundar”

Add for a brand of miniatures and in what stores to find them. I wonder how many of these places are still open

An add for WOTZ game stores with the tagline “it’s where you play the game” and advertising “Hella Bandwith” and “scantily clad BABES.” I find it unreasonably funny that they are three pictures of the same exact woman, scantily clad babe, one (1), one singular babe.

Spell and magical item themed crossword

A full on campaign setting of the real city of London. I didn’t take pictures of all of it but it has a history section, locations, npcs, adventure hooks, and what even looks like a little blank dungeon layout of a mansion . I feel like putting real places as campaign settings has always been like, a thing, but I don’t see it too often. Its charming I like it.

A stat block and gorgeous illustration for a lesser dragon companion. The gradient circle in the back is my favorite argggg I wanna draw like this sometimes

A section on how to assemble your own monster models. Admittedly I know close to nothing about model making so this was an extremely fun read for me

A bunch of PC portraits of half dragons that are so so cool. You see a lot of stuff about people getting really specific designs about different hybrids like oh a dwarf tyfling looks different than an elf tyfling n that sort of stuff in the modern day but you don’t really see it canonized at all. So it’s really interesting to see that concept in an officially published D&D thing, even if it’s just a magazine. I really like the dwarf one a lot.

Possibly my favorite thing ever is this cartoon that reads like a fucking wizard tumblr shitpost. Like down to a fucking tea this is some shit the evil wizard blog would say and it makes me so so so happyyyyyyyyy. It’s the cadence that amazes me they got the tumblr wizard cadence exactly right. Im posting this shit on its own without shame bc I need people to see it. Pour me something whimsical and arcane bar wench.

A absolutely chefs kiss add for a ????? Pc????? Pc game????? Pc accessory??? I honestly can’t tell anyway enjoy your free ps2 polygonal hotted woman ass

And finally the thing that made me fuckin gasp out loud when I saw it, an add for the original year of our lord 2001 shitty D&D movie with special features and online sweepstakes to win a trip to Prague. Holy shit. God I love this game.

anyway that’s it, I plan to frame this thing and put it up somewhere. Ty for reading all my nerd shit. :,]

[rogue-taxidermy-of-sarina-brewer]

💘 For Valentine’s Day ~ An oldie but goodie from 15 years ago. Titled "Forever Yours", this #TaxidermySculpture was commissioned by a gentleman as a gift for his fiancé on her birthday. The entire exterior is rabbit skin, including the heads and faces. The fur is dyed and the bare skin is painted. This type of work was unprecedented at the time and my unorthodox use of taxidermy materials landed this sculpture in a few mags back in the day, including the feminist lifestyle magazine BUST in 2009. Garishly colored animals continue to be some of my favorite things to create and remain among my signature works. Another one will be moving from the sketchbook to the workbench soon so stay tuned ~

[hispanic-artists-recs]

Hispanic Artists To Listen To!

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month–which just ended last week– and Latin music making its way into global music charts, I want to spotlight some of these Hispanic music artists that deserve a listen. Whether you are Hispanic yourself, trying to immerse yourself in the culture, or simply a music lover looking for some new music recommendations, this blog is for you!

Want to check if your favorite songs are making the charts? Click Here

American music and entertainment magazine Billboard, is a fun resource to look at to find out what songs are currently trending through music charts, news updates, videos, reviews, and more. You can filter each chart by global reach or genre to get more accurate information about your musical niche.

THE MARIAS

If you’re a fan of indie bedroom-pop, you’ll love The Marias’ retro, dreamy sound. The Marias is a Latinx band that formed back in 2016 named after its lead singer, Maria Zardoya. Zardoya alternates between English and Spanish lyrics as she incorporates her Puerto Rican roots with her soft, velvety vocals. With Josh Conway on the drums, Edward James on the keyboard, and Jesse Perlman on the guitar, they create a psychedelic and atmospheric sound using guitar riffs and jazz elements. Zardoya and Conway wrote and produced their first track “I Don’t Know You" which was discovered and played by a radio station igniting their success.

Click here to check out this interview where Zardoya talks about the fate behind the band’s start and career. 

Give this performance a listen to hear what they're about!

I recommend:

“No One Noticed”

“Otro Atardecer” (with Bad Bunny)

“Carino”

“Heavy”

“Over the Moon”

Listen on Spotify / Apple Music

OMAR APOLLO

Starting as a guitarist at his Catholic church in Indiana and writing songs in his bedroom on the side, Mexican-American artist, Omar Apollo, amassed overnight success when he uploaded “Ugotme” to Spotify back in 2017. Since then he has collaborated on works with Daniel Caesar and Kali Uchis and learned from producers including Pharrell Williams. Nominated for the 2023 Best New Artist Grammy, he has established a name for himself with his ambient, bilingual and soulful music. He sings about his Mexican heritage, trials with love, and experiences as a gay man while mixing in elements of Mexican culture like singing with a live mariachi.

Click here to read more about Apollo's early music days.

To truly experience the world of Omar Apollo I recommend tuning into his NPR Tiny Desk performance!

I recommend: 

Evergreen

Ugotme

En el Olvido

Killing Me

Done with You

Listen on Spotify / Apple Music

KALI UCHIS

Kali Uchis is a Columbian-American artist who has reached mainstream success with her bilingual tracks, but also fully Spanish albums over the years. She has a dreamy voice with a genre-bending range akin to classic oldies, 2000s R&B, and high tempo reggaeton. Living out of her car in Virginia with a love for music, Uchis focused on creating and solidifying herself as an artist. Her music started to gain traction after she released her songs online, connecting her to artists in the Los Angeles music scene she would later collaborate with. Her name might sound familiar if you didn’t already know about her because of her popular tracks with Tyler the Creator, Daniel Caesar, SZA, and Omar Apollo. 

Click here to read a Q&A interview where Uchis shares her unique journey to stardom.

For some live Kali Uchis check out this video!

I recommend:

After the Storm (ft. Tyler the Creator)

Melting 

Your Teeth in My Neck

Dame Beso // Muévete 

No Eres Tu (Soy Yo)

Listen on Spotify / Apple Music

Here are some honorable mentions:

Peso Pluma, Ivan Cornejo, Eslabon Armado, Natalia Lafourcade, Rauw Alejandro, Rita Payés, Mon Laferte, Julieta Venegas, Café Tacvba, and Fuerza Regida

Have other recommendations? Reply with your personal favorites or song recommendations below!

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (7-13 Apr 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 If This Is As Far As We Go (BeauRadley) - 124K, stucky no-powers AU - after a year of being phenomenal hookup buddies, bucky ends their arrangement & throws steve into a tailspin - slow burn, angsty, oblivious steve slowly realizing his true feelings, good supporting cast

😊 Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid (Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert) - cute graphic novel about art students forming a softball team to exploit a financial aid loophole

😍 Death in the Spires (KJ Charles, author; Tom Lawrence, narrator) - historical murder mystery set in 1905 Oxford - another KJC absolute banger: incredible sense of place, fantastic characters, perfectly done 'whodunnit' tension and a HIGHLY SATISFACTORY resolution. Loved every word

💖💖 +76K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

The Man, the Myth, the Legend (sparklyslug) - Check Please!: gen, 2.9K - Holster's beatboxing skills brings all the a capella groups to the Haus - a short, fun, funny, outsider POV fic

Say it louder for the people in the back (redhook) - MCU: shrinkyclinks, 14K - reread, forever fave - sometimes you just get a yearning to reread the best glory hole fic ever written

In Focus (sparklyslug) - Check Please!: zimbits, 6K - Jack's photography eye knows what's up before his conscious brain does

Entering Orbit (museaway) - Star Trek AOS: spirk, 30K - good post-AOS canon-divergent fic where Jim goes home to Iowa to escape the press & Spock joins him

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Hot Ones - Conan O'Brien

QI - series S, ep 13

Game Changer - s6, e5 {Bingoception}

Um, Actually - s9, e4

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Dawn of Justice" (s21, e14)

D20: Adventuring Party - "We're Running on 200%" (s16, e14)

Death In Paradise - s11, e4-8; s12 e0-8, s13 e0-8

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Working - How to Be Both a Critic and a Creator

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #10: Of the Reaching Green

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep10 "Of the Reaching Green"

Short Wave - How Climate Change And Physics Affect Baseball

Consider This from NPR - Bad Omens Or The Cycle of Nature? How The Ancient World Viewed Eclipses

⭐ Armchair Expert - Anna Kendrick [Rerelease from 1/9/23]

Today, Explained - Is college still worth it?

The Sporkful - Jewish Food Is More Than Matzoh Balls

WikiHole - BEYONCÉ (with Zoë Chao, Nat Faxon and Poppy Liu)

⭐ All Songs Considered - Songs to make you laugh, with 'Weird Al' Yankovic

In Defense of Fandom - Season 2 Episode 2: Putting my theory to the test

Dinner’s on Me - Orville Peck

⭐ Switched on Pop - Chasing old sounds: Djo's "End of Beginning" with Joe Keery

⭐ 99% Invisible #577 - The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons

⭐ Vibe Check - A Special Conversation with Ada Limón

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Brown Mountain Lights

Short Wave - The Order Your Siblings Were Born in May Play a Role in Identity and Sexuality

⭐ Code Switch - How Frederick Douglass launched generations of Black and Irish solidarity

⭐ Decoder Ring - Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?

⭐ Imaginary Worlds - African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #11: Promises Promises

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep11 "Promises Promises"

What Next: TBD - Does Google Suck Now?

Short Wave - What To Know About The New EPA Rule Limiting 'Forever Chemicals' In Tap Water

Code Switch - Reflecting on the legacy of O.J. Simpson

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Atlas Obscura Live: Two Places And A Lie

Dear Prudence - I Lost a Lot of Weight and Now I Enjoy Being a Mean Girl. Help!

It's Been a Minute - The car culture wars; plus, the problem with child stars

Endless Thread - RIP Lil Miquela

Shedunnit - You Probably Imagined It!

Armchair Expert - John Cena

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - [One Shot] A County Affair: Prologue

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Presenting Bonnie Raitt

Lowrider Oldies

Huge House Anthems

Djo

Classic Soul BBQ

A LA SALA [Khruangbin] {2024}

Presenting Khruangbin

Happy Beats

'80s One-Hit Wonders

Feel-Good Classic Rock