#Steve Herndon

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Photos from GWAR B-Q 2010 Richmond, Virginia, USA 2010. Singing Sick of You Finale and Alter Natives Reunion as Gwar.

Photos by Steve Herndon

#Bopst #Chris Bopst #GWAR B-Q #Gwar #Dave Brockie #Jim Thomson #Greg Ottinger #Richmond #Virginia #RVA #2010 #Alter Natives #sst records #Steve Herndon

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some REALLY GOOD albums i heard for the first time last week:

eyehategod (sludge metal you probably know them) - take as needed for pain. really really fucking good i feel stupid for not listening to eyehategod earlier. not much to say about it

tim hecker (ambient) - radio amor. very good. im not really that into tim hecker's type of floaty drawn out droney ambient but this is more along the lines of like a blurrier oval 94diskont, like cut up tape-ish sounding recordings which i really like

james ferraro (eclectic/hauntology/avant pop/fuck if i know) - skid row. james ferraro kind of went over my head when i listened to nyc hell 3 am when i was ~15 years old and that still kind of stands. i think its very cool conceptually as like a torrent of recontextualized pop culture references, the oj simpson glove sample is really funny, im not into the slow guitar singer songwriting stuff at all though. everything seemed mushy. am i missing something? THIS IS ON HERE ONLY FOR THE OJ SAMPLE

fudge tunnel (sludge/noise metal FROM THE UK INSTEAD OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH???) - hate songs in e minor. AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING. LISTEN RIGHT NOW. less nasal big black/steve albini sounding vocal delivery and processing on some parts which i found cute. YOU'RE WASTING TIME BY READING THIS GO LISTEN!!

holly herndon (experimental electronic) - PROTO. i thought this was pretty silly sounding and kind of overly saccharine, overly cleanly produced in like a self-aware pastiche of pop music or something but then there was a track which sounded like a little girl saying some really fucking weird alien transhumanist bullshit and i was thoroughly freaked out. after that the entire thing got turned on its head. you basically get attacked by a swarm of eerie processed max/msp voices in the way that holly herndon is known for. very disturbing and very intriguing album. in hindsight i think the quasi pop production makes this album way more twisted than it would be if it was produced otherwise. i dont know anything that sounds like this. LISTEN

#music #long post #electronicposting #i guess

[ghoulangerlee]

outside of Ghost, what music recommendations would you give to people?

Hi!! I love music and listen to it all the time!

I feel like, if we're not doing Ghost—i won't do Ghost adjacent as I call them (i.e artists who have performed w/Ghost live) :

X JAPAN (classic Japanese metal band <3 my beloved)

Steve Burns (yes the guy who played Steve on Blues Clues)

Sleep Token

AJR

T-Pain

The Home Team (a band I found on TikTok!!! They're so good omg, the vocalist's voice is so hypnotic to me)

Ty Herndon (country, I know, but his music is So Good, he's old 90s country to the bone)

coldrain (Japanese band that sings predominantly in English, does rough vocals as well as clean ones)

Loveless

Alex Melton (if you love when artists reimagine covers and do them in fun ways he is ur guy. All his Blink-182 stuff is so good)

Hanson (this is a given I've been a fan of them since the 90s)

Stand Atlantic

1551 (the guy who does the vocals in this band is one of my favorite streamers haha. Think Linkin Park vibes)

Keiynan Lonsdale

Silverstein

MIYAVI (another Japanese artist, v famous for his guitar work)

Sunsleep

Jin Akanishi (another Japanese artist lmao if you like dance music that's mostly what he does <3 I've been a fan of him since his J-pop days 😂 so I might be biased)

This is only a very small portion of artists haha but these are the ones I'd recommend to people!!

#ask replies #music recs

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My Top 10 Favorite Nickelodeon Movies

#10 The Rugrats Movie

#9 Rugrats In Paris: The Movie

#8 Rugrats Go Wild

#7 Playing With Fire

#6 The Adventures Of Tintin

#5 Yours Mine And Ours

#4 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

#3 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

#2 The Loud House Movie

And #1 The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

Original Template: https://www.deviantart.com/jackskellington416/art/My-Top-10-Favorite-Nickelodeon-Films-852482372

The Rugrats Movie Belongs To Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, Paul Germain, David N. Weiss, J. David Stem, Animagic Studio, Anivision Corporation, Sunwoo & Company Co., Ltd. Class-Key Chew-Po Commercials, Grimsaem Animation Co. Ltd. Klasky-Csupo, Inc. United International Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie Belongs To Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, Paul Germain, J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jill Gorey, Barbara Herndon, Kate Boutilier, Grimsaem Animation Co. Ltd. Koko Enterprises Ltd. Seoul Movie, Sunwoo Digital International, Sunwoo & Company Co., Ltd. Tama Production, Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. Yowza! Animation, MFP Munich Film Partners GmbH & Company I. Produktions KG, Rugrats Production K.G. Klasky-Csupo, Inc. United International Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Rugrats Go Wild Belongs To Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, Paul Germain, Steve Pepoon, David Silverman, Stephen Sustarsic, DongWoo Animation Co. Ltd. Lotto Animation, Inc. Sunwoo & Company, Co., Ltd. Klasky-Csupo, Inc. Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Playing with Fire (2019 film) Belongs To Dan Ewen, Matt Lieberman, Broken Road Productions, Walden Media, LLC, Anschutz Entertainment Group, Inc. Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

The Adventures of Tintin (film) Belongs To Hergé, Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Casterman, Les Éditions du Lombard, Egmont International Holding A/S, Little, Brown and Company, Hemisphere Media Capital, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, WingNut Films Productions Ltd. Amblin Entertainment, Inc. Amblin Partners, LLC. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, Sony Group Corporation, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Yours, Mine & Ours (2005 film) Belongs To Mort Lachman, Melville Shavelson, Bob Carroll Jr. Madelyn Davis, Ron Burch, David Kidd, Robert Simonds Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. MGM Holdings, Inc. Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon.com, Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, Sony Group Corporation, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Belongs To Peter Laird, Kevin Eastman, Brendan O'Brien, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Jeff Rowe, Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, Mikros Animation, Technicolor Creative Studios S.A. Vantiva S.A. Cinesite, Mirage Studios, Point Grey Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

The Spongebob Movie: Sponge On The Run Belongs To Stephen Hillenburg, Tim Hill, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Mikros Animation, Technicolor Creative Studios S.A. Vantiva S.A. MRC, United Plankton Pictures Inc. Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Animation, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

The Loud House Movie Belongs To Chris Savino Kevin Sullivan, Chris Viscardi, Top Draw Animation, Inc. Jam Filled Entertainment, Boat Rocker Media Inc. Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Nickelodeon Movies, Nickelodeon Group, Paramount Players, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Paramount Global, And Netflix, Inc.

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Belongs To Derek Drymon, Tim Hill, Stephen Hillenburg, Kent Osborne, Aaron Springer, Paul Tibbitt, Rough Draft Studios, Inc. Rough Draft Korea Co, Ltd. Toon Boom Animation Inc. United Plankton Pictures Inc. United International Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

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El criollo se llevó el premio Willie Mac GERARDO JAVIER ROMERO El jugador de cuadro de los Gigantes de San Francisco, Thairo Estrada, fue seleccionado como el ganador del Premio Willie Mac 2023, anunció hoy el club. El premio Willie McCovey se otorga anualmente al jugador más inspirador del equipo, según la votación de los jugadores, entrenadores, personal de entrenamiento, personal de la casa club y fanáticos de los Giants. Esta temporada marca el 43 aniversario del premio, que se estableció en 1980, en honor a la leyenda y miembro del Salón de la Fama Willie McCovey . “Espíritu competitivo, capacidad y liderazgo” están grabados en la placa que ahora honra tanto a Estrada como a McCovey. Estrada, en su tercera temporada con los Gigantes, actualmente lidera al equipo en hits (133), dobles (26), bases robadas (23) y está empatado en el liderato con 63 carreras. Ha igualado su mejor marca personal con 14 jonrones y su fWAR (4.1) es superado únicamente por el lanzador derecho Logan Webb (4.9). Las 23 bases robadas son la mayor cantidad de su carrera y la mayor cantidad para un Gigante desde 2012. Estrada ha jugado la mayoría de sus partidos esta temporada en la segunda base (99), pero también ha jugado 24 partidos como campocorto y tres partidos en el jardín izquierdo. Su juego defensivo vale +18 Outs Above Average (Statcast), el tercero mejor en toda la MLB. A continuación se enumeran los ganadores del premio Willie Mac: 1980 Jack Clark 1981 Larry Herndon 1982 Joe Morgan 1983 Darrell Evans 1984 Bob Brenly 1985 Mike Krukow 1986 Mike Krukow 1987 Chris Speier 1988 José Uribe 1989 Dave Dravecky 1990 Steve Bedrosian 1991 Robby Thompson 1992 Mike Felder 1993 Kirt Manwaring 1994 Ninguno 1995 Mark Leiter y Mark Carreón 1996 Shawon Dunston 1997 JT nieve 1998Jeff Kent 1999 Marvin Benard 2000 Ellis Burks 2001 Mark Gardner y Benito Santiago 2002 David Bell 2003 Marqués Grissom 2004 JT nieve 2005 Mike Matheny 2006 Omar Vizquel 2007 Bengie Molina 2008 Bengie Molina 2009 Matt Caín 2010 Andrés Torres 2011 Ryan Vogelsong 2012 Buster Posey 2013 Pence cazador 2014 Madison Bumgarner 2015 Matt Duffy 2016 Brandon Crawford y Javier López 2017 Nick Hundley 2018 Will Smith 2019 Kevin Pillar 2020 Mike Yastrzemski 2021 La Monte Wade Jr. 2022 Wilmer Flores 2023 Thairo Estrada Para recibir en tu celular esta y otras informaciones, únete a nuestras redes sociales, síguenos en Instagram, Twitter y Facebook como @DiarioElPepazo El Pepazo/Líder/MLB.com

[affairesasuivre]

Rachika Nayar – Heaven Come Crashing : musiques romantiques et nébuleuses

Heaven Come Crashing est le second opus de la jeune new-yorkaise de Brooklyn Rachika Nayar. On y entendra 10 titres en clair-obscur, enveloppant l’auditeur dans une atmosphère vaporeuse riche et rassurante.

Certaines musiques atmosphériques sont souvent décrites comme cinématographiques. Parce qu’elles dessinent des horizons sonores, des ambiances desquelles nul ne serait surpris de voir émerger un personnage inattendu. Ces musiques peuvent parfois sombrer dans la facilité qu’offre toute la technologie musicale actuelle. Rachika Nayar évite avec talent cet écueil en conservant son instrument de cœur à la base de toutes ses créations.

C’est à la guitare que l’ensemble des lignes musicales prend forme. Les sons sont ensuite totalement retravaillés, par sous-couches et par couches….jusqu’à en métamorphoser totalement la texture. Une œuvre de musicienne autant que de sculptrice.

Parfois, comme sur Gayatri, la guitare se fait reconnaissable, pareil à un ilot émergé au cœur de l’océan. On s’y accroche pour s’y ressourcer avant de partir de nouveau à la dérive volontaire dans les flots sonores riches d’écume.

Durant ces brefs instants, Rachika Nayar s’inspire en lui rendant hommage au son de Steve Reich.

Le titre donnant son nom à l’album Heaven Come Crashing illustre ce tumulte construit de nappes successives. Une ligne mélodique simple (comme on le retrouvera d’ailleurs sur le morceau Sleepless) est lentement, sagement déployée. Subtilement Maria bc vient murmurer à nos oreilles déjà conquises et faussement rassurées. Une première nappe très Drum & Bass se superpose, des vagues de basses lourdes et une lame déchirante de guitare brute s’ajoutent. Succédant à l’appel envoutant d’une sirène, voila l’auditeur en pleine tempête aussi brève qu’inattendue.

L’ensemble de l’album s’écoute avec un plaisir immédiat qui ne se dément pas au fil des écoutes. Celles-ci, bien au contraire révèlent une diversité, une richesse et une subtilité que seuls les grands albums possèdent.

Rachika Nayar demeure fidèle au label NNA de sa première production Our Hands Against The Dusk (2021). Elle poursuit avec cohérence ce méticuleux travail de création, hybridant avec succès la guitare, quelques cordes et le piano avec les processus de modelage électronique du son.

Cette fusion n’est pas étrangère à la production d’un court EP intitulé « Fragments » (2021) et édité par le très pointu label RVNG Intl, lui aussi installé à Brooklyn. C’est en effet sur ce même label que des artistes aussi talentueuses que Holly Herndon ou Julia Holter se sont fait connaitre.

A l’instar de ces artistes, Rachika Nayar déploie une musique protéiforme tout à la fois romantique et nébuleuse, insouciante mais sincère, complexe tout en étant accessible.

Si le concept même d’album est de plus en plus mis à mal alors que la musique s’écoute par playlist, Heaven Come Crashing existe aussi pour convaincre de la nécessité à se laisser porter par l’ensemble des compositions voulues par l’artiste.

Nicolas Duquenne

Rachika Nayar – Heaven Come Crashing

Label : NNA Tapes Records

Date de Parution : 26 aout 2022

#youtube #rachika nayar #gayatri #heaven come crashing #drum & bass #electronic music #2022 #benzine mag #NNA Tapes Records #affas #affaires a suivre #affairesasuivre

[coghive]

Jason Crabb To Appear At Fund Recovery Charity Dinner & Concert To Benefit The Covenant School

Eric Decker, JT Hodges, Jessie James Decker, Delanie Walker, RaeLynn, Jason Crabb and more will appear during the Fund Recovery Charity Dinner & Concert on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at The Twelve Thirty Club. The event begins at 6 PM, which a red carpet at 5:45 PM, The second annual event, which was already scheduled, will now benefit mental health services for The Covenant School and those impacted by the recent shooting. “My heart is hurting this week. A senseless act took the lives of innocent children and loving leaders in our community. Surviving a school shooting myself, I know how important it is to come together and wrap our arms around these families grieving the loss of their loved ones,” says Eric Decker. “We all need support and love to navigate through this difficult time.” The evening will feature music and appearances by JT Hodges, Eric and Jessie James Decker, RaeLynn, Jason Crabb, Butch Walker, Jay, and Jeremy Popoff from the band Lit, Eric Paslay, Ty Herndon, and Tyler Rich, former Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, Pro Football Hall of Famers Anthony Munoz, Warren Moon, Steve Atwater, Steve Hutchinson, LeRoy Butler, along with former Titans stars Delanie Walker, Taylor Lewan, Ben Jones, and many more guests from all walks of life. The night will be hosted by Storme Warren. Guests will enjoy delectable fare and libations from one of Nashville’s premier venues while enjoying live music and appearances from music celebrities and athletes. A limited amount of tickets are still available online. For those who can’t attend but still wish to donate, CaringWays will be accepting donations for The Covenant School HERE. Read the full article

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TGIF: Roundup for February 3, 2023

The relationship between immigrant and second-generation churches has���to put it lightly— been complex. Language and cultural barriers make things lead to misunderstandings and disagreements. Many churches have stories of conflicts over vision, worship times, and lack of parking. But it is possible for first and second-generation churches to worship together.

We are proud to present an interview that Steve Chang, SOLA Council chairman, conducted with Pastor Paul Kim and Pastor John Cha of Open Door Presbyterian Church in Herndon, Virginia. They talk about how the leaders of both congregations interact regularly, their mission as a church, and plans for the future of the church. Video and transcript are on our website.

In case you missed it, Hannah Chao and I released a podcast episode to take you behind-the-scenes of the new edition of our SOLA Network Magazine! Find the video and transcript on our website. This newsletter is one of the many ways you can keep in touch with us. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. For more, check out my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group and TGIF Playlist on Spotify. You can reach me on Twitter and Instagram.

Giveaway: The Good Book Company Family Bundle

Enter to win these excellent books! Read my reviews in the Related Works section below. Thanks to The Good Book Company for providing these books for our giveaway, in partnership with my newsletters for @diveindigdeep and FCBC Walnut.

Articles From Around The Web

EF Gregory: How I Prayed for Monterey Park

“I live just outside the border of Monterey Park, within walking distance of a dance studio where, last weekend, a 72-year-old gunman shot and killed 11 people and wounded nine others. Usually, when I sit down to write a monthly “how I prayed” piece, China is the forefront of my mind. But this week, it is hard to tear my thoughts away from my own community, which is in shock after the tragic shooting.”

Sam Koo: Three Reasons Why You Should Encourage Your Congregation to Gather Every Week

“We don’t gather with the church to make ourselves precious to God. We gather because—as we’re reminded of the good news of Jesus’ death and resurrection, as we’re encouraged by the family for whom he died—God becomes more precious to us.”

Bobby Scott: Prayerlessness Comes Before a Fall

“The strongest man in the Bible and its greatest and wisest kings scandalously fell because of their pride.”

Check out the new edition of our SOLA Network Magazine! Download it for free and share it with your friends as a great way to be introduced to the work we do at SOLA Network.

Books, Podcasts, Music, And More

Hannah Nation: It Challenges My American Expectations: An Interview on Faithful Disobedience

“I don’t come from a prosperity gospel background; I come from the Reformed tradition, which loves to talk about the sin and brokenness of this world. But the way these Chinese guys are talking about it is a fresh take from what I ever received. It challenges my American assumptions and expectations for life.”

Sam Chan: The Most Powerful Factor in Determining Belief

Collin Hansen and Sam Chan discuss the most powerful factor in determining belief, why we need to merge our universes and put ourselves in others’ debt, the secret hidden sauce of evangelism, and why we need to study counselors more than preachers.

Aaron Lee: Related Works

Book Reviews: Come, Lord Jesus by John Piper, Welcome by Jen Oshman, Gather by Tony Merida, Belong by Barnabas Piper. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.

Subscribe to our podcast for our interviews, messages, and article reads! Available for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

Featured This Week On SOLA Network

David Chong: A Warning to the Instigator

“Are we like Christ, building one another up? Or causing drama for our own amusement?”

Steve S. Chang: How Immigrant and Second-Generation Churches Can Coexist

At SOLA Network, we want to highlight the stories that show us new ways to approach old problems. We want to encourage churches and leaders to think differently about “the way things are” and find ways to pursue the kingdom of God together.

Aaron Lee: A Powerful Vision for Ministry: A Book Review of “Spurgeon the Pastor”

“How did the Prince of Preachers serve as a pastor? In Spurgeon the Pastor, Geoffrey Chang helps recover a biblical and theological vision for ministry.”

Andrew Lee: It’s Not You, It’s Them! Letters To a Young Pastor at a Multilingual Church

“Be faithful to your call and go about your ministry doing the best you can, both with those who will support you and those who are less enthusiastic.”

TGIF: Roundup for January 27, 2023

After Shooting, California Churches’ Lunar New Year Celebrations Turned Solemn / The Speck You See in Their Eye Might Be the Exact Log in Yours / I Did Not Sign-Up for This: The Fourth P of Pastoral Ministry / Our Little Loves and the Loves of Our Littles / Learn to Suffer from the Chinese Church / Keller’s Formation: John Piper on C. S. Lewis and Jonathan Edwards

General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2022 - BEST ALBUM

AWARD NO.1 - BEST ALBUM OF 2022

PAST WINNERS

2021 > Self Esteem - ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ (see full list HERE)

2020 > The Flaming Lips - ‘American Head’ (see full list HERE)

2019 > Self Esteem - ‘Compliments Please’ (see full list HERE)

2018 > Kero Kero Bonito - ‘Time ‘n’ Place’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Richard Dawson - ‘Peasant’ (see full list HERE)

2016 > Blood Orange - ‘Freetown Sound’ (see full list HERE)

2015 > Holly Herndon - ‘Platform’ (see full list HERE)

2014 > FKA Twigs - ‘LP1′ (see full list HERE)

2013 > These New Puritans - ‘Field Of Reeds’ (see full list HERE)

2012 > Django Django - ‘Django Django’ (see full list HERE)

2011 > Shabazz Palaces - ‘Black Up’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > These New Puritans - ‘Hidden’ (see full list HERE)

2009 > Animal Collective - ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ (see full list HERE)

2008 > Wild Beasts - ‘Limbo, Panto’ (see full list HERE)

2007 > Animal Collective - ‘Strawberry Jam’ (see full list HERE)

2006 > Safetyword - ‘Man’s Name Is Legion’ (see full list HERE)

2005 > Animal Collective - ‘Feels’ (see full list HERE)

2004 > Devendra Banhart - ‘Rejoicing In The Hands’ / ‘Nino Rojo’

2003 > Dizzee Rascal - ‘Boy In Da Corner’

2002 > The Streets - ‘Original Pirate Material’

2001 > The Beta Band - ‘Hot Shots II’

2000 > Outkast - ‘Stankonia’

1999 > The Beta Band - ‘The Beta Band’

1998 > The Beta Band - ‘The Three EPs’

1997 > Radiohead - ‘OK Computer’

1996 > Beck - ‘Odelay’

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THE RULES - No Re-issues, Live Albums, Compilations, or EPs.

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SPECIAL MENTIONS for these collections and things that don’t really live on the main lists.

PC Music ‘Volume 3’

PC Music ‘Away From Keyboard [file not found]’

Bulbils no.65 > 70

Avon Terror Corps ‘Avon Attorlaoe’

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WORTH A MENTION (in no order) - A bunch of albums i enjoyed but didn’t quite make the final lists and others i just didn’t hear enough to be considered properly.  A list for future me to revisit.

Silvana Estrada / Florist / Lorraine James / SAULT (various) / Cucina Povera & Ben Vince / Klein / Sobs / Gabriels / Sharon Van Etten / Caroline Loveglow / Mount Kimbie / Horace Andy / Daniel Rossen / Huerco S. Plonk / Mitski / Stealing Sheep / Otoboke Beaver / Haru Nemuri / Carly Rae Jepsen / Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Rina Sawayama / Stormzy / The Beths / Palm / Horsegirl / Yaya Bey / Ibeyi / The Cool Greenhouse / Makaya McCraven / Beth Orton / Brian Eno / Dehd / Belle & Sebastian / The Orielles / Ibibio Sound Machine / M.I.A / Beabadoobee / Charles Watson / Gwenno / Playboi Carti / Fell / Let’s Eat Grandma (‘The Bastard Son..’ OST) / Ari Lennox / Kikagaku Moyo / Gently Tender / El Michels Affair / Wasuremono / GAIKA (‘War Island’ OST) / Don Leisure / Yung Lean / More Eaze / Camila Cabello / Koffee / Shamir / Jenny Hval / Sea Power / James Yorkston (‘J Wright Presents’) / A.R. Wilson / Modern Nature / Guerilla Toss / Maranta / Katy J Pearson (‘Waiting For The Day’) / Ravelston / Jilk / Galen Tipton / Elena Isolini & Bianca Scout / Borrowed Atlas / Gupi / Dan Johnson / Iceboy Violet / Phoebe Green / Daniel Avery / Moor Mother / Plastic Mermaids / Kurt Vile / Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury (‘Archive 81’ OST) / Melt Yourself Down / Alex Cameron / Yumi Zouma / Jensen McRae / Kai Whiston / Animal Collective (‘The Inspection’ OST) / Susan Bear / Lucky Shivers / Grace Ives / Lizzo / Toro y Moi / Warmduscher / ThisIsDA / Superorganism / The Death Of Pop / Hatchie / The Grand Piano / Obongjayar / The Comet Is Coming / Rico Nasty / Jo Schornikow / Shinichi Atobe / 7FO / Bladee & Ecco2k / Conway The Machine / Deluxe100 / Fievel Is Glauque / Phoenix / Dan Deacon (‘Strawberry Mansion’ OST)

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2022 RUNNERS UP (in no order)

700 Bliss ‘Nothing To Declare’

Syd ‘Broken Hearts Club’

Yeule ‘Glitch Princess’ 

Steve Lacy ‘Gemini Rights’

Carla Dal Forno ‘Come Around’

Sasami ‘Squeeze’

Vince Staples ‘Ramona Park Broke My Heart’

The Smile ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’

They Hate Change ‘Finally, New’

Quelle Chris ‘Deathfame’

Delifinger ‘Small Love’

BABii ‘SCREAMER’

Denzel Curry ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’

Marina Herlop ‘Pripyat’

Dick Dent ‘Decadence’

Alexia Avina ‘A Little Older’

Beyonce ‘RENAISSANCE’

Rachika Nayar ‘Heaven Come Crashing’

Savage Mansion ‘Golden Mountain, Here I Come’

Daphni ‘Cherry’

Earl Sweatshirt ‘SICK!’

Special Interest ‘Endure’

Lucrecia Dalt ‘¡Ay!’

Los Bitchos ‘Let The Festivities Begin!’

Death’s Dynamic Shroud ‘The Lunar Curtain’ 

PVA ‘BLUSH’

Billy Woods ‘Aethiopes’

Julia Jacklin ‘PRE PLEASURE’

Kelly Lee Owens ‘LP.8’

Digifae, Diana Starshine, Galen Tipton ‘Digifae’

Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow ‘Men’ OST

Rachael Dadd ‘Kaleidoscope’

The Big Moon ‘Here Is Everything’

Frankie Cosmos ‘Inner World Peace’

Sorry ‘Anywhere But Here’

Brockhampton ‘The Family’ & ‘TM’

Bill Callahan ‘YTI⅃AƎЯ’ 

James Yorkston ‘The Songs And The Poems Of The Book Of The Gaels’

FLOHIO ‘Out Of Heart’

Michael Abels ‘Nope’ OST

Claire Rousay ‘Everything Perfect Is Already Here’

Matmos ‘Regards/Uktony dla Boguslaw Schaeffer’

Working Men’s Club ‘Fear Fear’

Yama Warashi ‘Crispy Moon’

Little Simz ‘No Thank You’

Batu ‘Opal’

Dana Gavanski ‘When It Comes’

Kelan ‘Downtown’

Blanck Mass ‘GAZZA’ OST 

Blanck Mass ‘Ted K’ OST

Big Thief ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You’

NANORAY ‘Digimaiden’

Tirzah ‘Highgrade’

Franco Franco ‘Solo Fiori’

SZA ‘SOS’

Hot Chip ‘Freakout / Release’

Hyd ‘Clearing’

Max Tundra ‘Remixtape’

Beach House ‘Once Twice Melody’

Soccer Mommy ‘Sometimes, Forever’

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THE TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2022

50. Caroline ‘Caroline’

49. Alvvays ‘Blue Rev’

48. Claire Rousay & More Eaze ‘Never Stop Texting Me’

47. The Weeknd ‘Dawn FM’

46. Lambchop ‘The Bible’

45. Katy J Pearson ‘Sound Of The Morning’

44. Scalping ‘Void’

43. Wesley Gonzalez ‘Wax Limousine’

42. Perfume Genius ‘Ugly Season’

41. Group Listening ‘Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol.2’

40. Tim Heidecker ‘High School’

39. Bas Jan ‘Baby U Know’

38. Crack Cloud ‘Tough Baby’

37. Saya Gray ‘19 Masters’

36. Sarahsson ‘The Horgenaith’

35. SAULT ‘Air’

34. Nilufer Yanya ‘Painless’

33. Wet Leg ‘Wet Leg’

32. Bjork ‘Fossora’

31. Coby Sey ‘Conduit’

30. Spiritualized ‘Everything Was Beautiful’

29. Let’s Eat Grandma ‘Two Ribbons’

28. Panoram ‘Acrobatic Thoughts’

27. Wojciech Rusin ‘Syphon’

26. Aldous Harding ‘Warm Chris’

25. Alex G ‘God Save The Animals’

24. Angel Olsen ‘Big Time’

23. Pictish Trail ‘Island Family’

22. Pusha T ‘It’s Almost Dry’

21. Charli XCX ‘Crash’

20. Hudson Mohawke ‘Cry Sugar’

19. Sudan Archives ‘Natural Brown Prom Queen’

18. Rosalia ‘Motomami’

17. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom ‘Reset’

16. Cate Le Bon ‘Pompeii’

15. Shygirl ‘Nymph’

14. Black Country, New Road ‘Ants From Up There’

13. Self Esteem ‘Prima Facie’ OST

12. Animal Collective ‘Time Skiffs’

11. Kendrick Lamar ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’

10.  Arctic Monkeys ‘The Car’

9. FKA Twigs ‘Caprisongs’ 

8. Alabaster DePlume ‘GOLD’

7. Dry Cleaning ‘Stumpwork’

6. Death’s Dynamic Shroud ‘Darklife’

5. Weyes Blood ‘And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow’

4. Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul ‘Topical Dancer’

3. Black Midi ‘Hellfire’

2. Richard Dawson ‘The Ruby Cord’

1. Jockstrap ‘I Love You Jennifer B’

#list #Awards #2022 awards

[piratesadeyes]

Queer Country Musicians List

Megalist of LGBTQ+ Country/Folk Artists. Click on the X to be taken to the song on Youtube.

Orville Peck [x]

Jake Blount [x]

Brandi Carlile [x]

Cameron Hawthorne [x]

Brothers Osborne [x]

Joy Oladokun [x]

Fancy Hagood [x]

Lily Rose [x]

Waylon Payne [x]

Lavender Country [x]

Willi Carlisle [x]

Sam Gleaves [x]

Brandy Clark [x]

Allison Russell [x]

Paisley Fields [x]

Jett Holden [x]

Mya Byrne [x]

Ty Herndon [x]

Amythyst Kiah [x]

Jaime Wyatt [x]

Adeem the Artist [x]

Leslie Jordan [x]

Crys Matthews [x]

Brandon Stansell [x]

Trixie Mattel [x]

Lenworth Poyser [x]

Sarah Shook & the Disarmers [x]

Chris Housman [x]

Joy Clark [x]

Tommy Atkins [x]

Justin Hiltner [x]

Chely Wright [x]

Sam Kogon [x]

Billy Gilman [x]

Aaron Lee Tasjan [x]

Lilli Lewis [x]

Mary Gauthier [x]

Ryan Cassata [x]

Brooke Eden [x]

D’orjay The Singing Shaman [x]

Lizzie No [x]

Sug Daniels [x]

Luisa Lopez [x]

Jaimie Wilson [x]

Steve Grand [x]

Drake Jensen [x]

Jonathan Dale [x]

Katie Pruitt [x]

Brody Ray [x]

#Queer Country #Country Music #Music #LGBTQ Music #Orville Peck #Brandi Carlile

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A Collection of Queer Country Artists and Songs for anyone who doesn’t feel like there’s country music they can relate to...

There is this idea that country music is like just Republican men singing about beer, and trucks and also Jesus,  and that is kind of fair because loads of it is but there are some cool as hell queer/lgbtq+ country artists. Finding those and finding that representation in a genre of music I was literally raised on kind of changed my life in a tiny way and I wanted to share that.

(This is by no means a comprehensive list and also I’m basing the “Country” part of this sometimes on my subjective opinion/limited music knowledge so yuh please don’t hate me if I get some wrong)

Also link below for a Spotify playlist of my favourite gay/gayish country music, some mentioned in this post some not, (with a title that isn’t obviously gay for anyone who can’t openly listen to gay stuff on their public accounts for whatever reason) so feel free to skip the massive essay and just jump straight to that. And pretty please repost if I missed anyone/ any songs you love.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7KB6PmUxnpkU7lih8Bysvw

Artists To Follow:

Chely Wright

- Right off the bat, Chely Wright is a legend and I’m in love with her. So, in the 90′s Chely Wright was kind of a huge deal. She started her career as a singer/songwriter and released her first album in ‘94, which was critically acclaimed although never reached the commercial success of her later works. By ‘97 she was really hitting her stride, dropping her breakout hit “Shut up and Drive” (a personal favourite of mine) followed two years later by the biggest hit of her career “Single White Female”. Throughout all that Chely Wright was, to the world, a good old fashioned, heterosexual southern gal. Privately it was a bit of a different story. She had public relationships with male country artists, all while pursuing a secret decade long relationship with a woman. 

I hadn’t ever really heard a Chely Wright song until a few years ago so I never knew about her music or career pre-coming out but I do know that even though by the time she came out in 2010 she was by no means at the height of her fame Chely Wright is kind of one of the biggest names in country music to be out and proud (in my opinion) and I love her like an insane amount. I literally play her music in my car when I have passengers just so I can be like “fun fact this singer is actually gay-” and then subject them to a lengthy explanation of her entire career. She came out with an album and a memoir and the album is my favourite of her work because it’s so fucking raw and because I relate to most of it immensely. Anyways Chely Wright went fucking through it in her journey to being her authentic self and now she’s out and proud and married to a woman and they have a family together and I’m a fucking sucker for a happy ending and y’all should add her to every playlist you have. And on top of that her music is genuinely good. Coming out undoubtedly damaged her career but I think that

Brandi Carlile 

- As far as I can tell Brandi Carlile has been out her whole career. I feel like this list is just going to be me saying “I’m in love with her” about a bunch of women old enough to be my mother but in my defence, I am honestly in love with her. She’s been making music since she was like, seventeen, and has had a bunch of massive hits, as a singer, songwriter, and producer. If you want to cry kind of happy tears listen to her performance of “Bring my Flowers Now” with Tanya Tucker. She’s won Grammy’s and CMT awards and she’s done it all as an out Queer woman. She’s also a founding member of The Highwomen, an all-female country music group who released their first album in 2019, comprised of Carlile, Marren Morris, Natalie Hemby and Amanda Shires. I really love this band because they’re four artists who are immensely successfully in their own right collabing, much like the Highwaymen, and their music is phenomenal while also being a fuck you to mainstream country music and their inability to properly represent women in country music spaces. 

She’s been married to a woman (smoking hot and also brilliant) since 2012 and they have two kids together and if you want to cry (again) then you have to listen to her song “Mother” about her eldest daughter. A queer country artist absolutely worth adding to all your playlists. 

Brooke Eden

- As I understand it Eden came out publicly in January of this year. She’s engaged to Hilary Hoover, who she’s been dating since 2015 apparently. I can’t even imagine the pressure that must be on a person and how stressful it would be to keep a relationship secret from the whole world for years and personally I think they’re a cute as hell couple and I wish them literally all the happiness in the world. 

Brooke Eden has a few older songs that I think are really good, my favourite being “Act Like You Don’t”, and while her new stuff isn’t my usual country vibe I am a sucker for literally anything gay and it is legally my gay duty to stream any song that she releases to support my fellow queer. It’s quite different to anything Wright or Carlile sing but I actually kind of love that because it shows that country music of all different shapes and sizes and styles can be sung by queer artists. 

Amythyst Kiah

- Okay so I am a very new listener to Amythyst Kiah, but her music is literally so beautiful it would be a straight up sin to not include her on this list. Her music is country-blues-roots esq (more roots than country, I think?) and her voice is so unique. She grew up in Chattanooga and has been playing music since childhood. She recently made her Opry debut which is fucking awesome. She also belongs to a band called Our Native Daughters, described as “A supergroup of Black women in traditional music”. Their debut album “Songs of Our Native Daughters” did numbers and I haven’t listened to the whole thing but my favourite so far are “Black Myself” and “I Knew I Could Fly” so y’all add that to your playlists along with “Wild Turkey” by Amythyst Kiah because holy hell her voice on that will blow your mind.

Steve Grand

-        The first man to make this list, he should frankly be honoured. Grand has been an out and proud gay man making country music since like 2013, and I have so much respect for an artist who chose to simply never be in, choosing instead to simply write gay ass songs about being in love with men and letting the chips fall where they man. His music is always going to have a special place in my heart and, he’s cute so if you’re into men and music by men give him a google. add him to your playlists, his All-American Boy album is literally just a dozen songs that are perfect to yell-sing along to.

Katie Pruitt

-        Not hugely knowledgeable on Katie Pruitt but her music makes me feel crazy intense emotions and is absolutely gay

 Honorable Mention Artists I haven’t Really Listened to But Who I Know to be gay thanks to google and might be your thing so totally check them out:

Brandy Clark

Ty Herndon

Shelly Fairchild

Lavendar Country

Trixie Mattel

Cameron Hawthorn

Drop any other names of artists or songs you know of 

 Specific Songs That Make Me Fucking Cry or (in good and bad ways (but always in a gay way)) or basically are just gay as hell:

If She Ever Leaves Me; The Highwomen

- So, this album came out about a week before my first (and only) girlfriend broke up with me. The general gist of the song is a woman singing about how her loved isn’t ever going to leave her but if she does it sure as hell won’t be for a creepy man in a bar. A little ironic that I felt I related to it so intensely, considering she did in fact leave me. There’s this one lyric that goes “I’ve loved her in secret/I’ve lover here out loud/the sky hasn’t always been blue” and my girlfriend and I were crazy deep in the closet so I drew her a cute little picture of a grey cloud and on the back I wrote that lyric and I gave it to her and to me it was kind of a promise that one day I’d get a chance to love her out loud and even though I never actually did this song is forever going to make me cry because of the little bit of hope that lyric gave me and the way it’s inclusion on this overwhelmingly mainstream country album made me feel like acceptance was just that little bit closer. 

 All American Boy; Steve Grand

- Definitely one of the first gay country songs I ever heard, and Steve Grand didn’t once sacrifice a scrap of country for the gay. It’s beautiful, it’s a little sad, it’s hopeful. It’s forever going to hold a special place in my heart and the music videos is kind of one of my favourites ever. I found this song before I found myself and the way it made my heart warm should have been a stronger sign than I took it to be. 

Like Me; Chely Wright

- When you love someone you kind of make it your mission to know them in a way that no one else can. This song by Chely Wright is sort of an ode to that, and how even once you lost someone, you’re still going to know every little thing about them. On top of that it sort of speaks to the idea that all these things Wright learned about this woman, she learned in secret and she knew her and loved her in secret and now that they’re gone from each other she’s left with all of this knowledge and all of these questions and no one to answer them. I love the way it’s so slow and the melody and her voice, the way it’s low and a little raspy, make this one of my favourite Chely Wright songs.

The Mother; Brandi Carlile

-        Sorry but a song about being a mother by a queer woman is going to make me cry every time and actually I’m not that sorry. It’s quite a simple song, if any song written by Brandi Carlile can ever be described as ‘simple’, it’s an ode to her daughter. My favourite line is “you are not an accident/where no one thought it through” because it speaks to the fact that in order for queer women to have a kid together they have to want it so damn bad and also I just like the way her voice sounds on that line. This song is also the perfect thing to listen to if you ever for a second feel like being gay/queer is going to stand in the way of you having a family because it absolutely doesn’t have to and if that’s something you want, you can have it. Don’t let people try and convince you otherwise.

Loving Her; Katie Pruitt

-        Unapologetic gay love. Opening a song with “If loving hers a sin, I don’t wanna go to heaven” is a fucking baller move and she went there. The lyrics are beautiful, and her voice is phenomenal. It could be a sad song, about confronting religious repression and grappling with what that means for your love, but instead its triumphant. Katie Pruitt doesn’t give a fuck if you have a problem because she’s going to write songs for her lover.

Jesus From Texas; Semler

-        Not actually totally sure this is a country song, but it has the words ‘Jesus’ and ‘Texas’ in the title so I feel safe including it in this list. Honestly, I don’t really know why I relate so hard to this song. Like, I wasn’t really raised with religion, so I don’t know what it is about this funky little tune that makes me want to sob but there’s something about this tune that makes me want to do whatever the opposite of get up and dance is, but like, in a good way.

Lovin’ Again; Steve Grand

-        Breakup song that ends kind of positively? So good to sing along to at high, high volumes. The idea that losing someone doesn’t have to mean losing yourself and just because you can’t love them doesn’t mean you’re not ever going to love again. But also kind of about how it’s hard to get over someone, I don’t know it’s just good.

Cryin’ These Cocksucking Tears; Lavender Country

-        Jesus christ if this isn’t the coolest shit I’ve ever heard in my life. Sorry but a gay country group formed in 1972 who dropped possibly the first gay themed country album, and this was the title of one of the songs. God I am in love.

 Songs that (to me) are a little fruity or that I just relate to in a gay way:

Picket Fences; Chely Wright

-          Chely Wright is gay but this song came out long before she did and when she wrote it, it wasn’t supposed to be gay which is why it’s in this section and not the previous. The reason it’s included at all is because frankly ma’am, Mrs Wright, it’s a little fruity. And I feel a little bad for joking because honestly to me, the way I hear this song and knowing the context (that Wright was deeply closeted at the time she wrote and released it), it’s kind of just sad. The general gist of the song is Wright asking what’s so great about a traditional lifestyle anyways. It could be read as a woman genuinely questioning why we push that expectation that she’ll have two kids and a husband and a picket fence lifestyle, or even could be read as a woman who’s trying to deflect how much she does in fact want that, you have to listen and form your own opinion. But to me, it feels like a woman who’s desperately trying to justify why she doesn’t want that life not because she can’t have it, but she knows it will never be right for her. I don’t know it’s hard to explain I just feel like this song is a little bit gay even though I’m sure she didn’t intend that.

Sinning with You; Sam Hunt

-          Sorry but this song is gay. Sorry but you can’t write the lines “I never felt like I was sinning with you/Always felt like I could talk to God in the morning” and “if it’s so wrong why did it feel so right” and “But I never felt shame, never felt sorry/Never felt guilty touching your body” and not to mention the opening line of “raised in the first pew/praises for yeshua/case of a small town repression”, and expect to not sit in my car sobbing as I realised that while I never felt like what we did was a sin she absolutely did, and wishing I could have told her that I was sorry for making her carry the weight of both our souls but also that it wasn’t a sin and nothing in the world could feel that good and be that bad and it isn’t right that she had to be so ashamed of something that was just so good. Sam Hunt actually said after he wrote the song that while it was reflection on his own relationship with faith he genuinely hopes that people in the lgbtq community can like find comfort or whatever in his words and like go off king, we stan an ally.

  How do I Get There; Deana Carter

-          This ones easy, it’s about falling in love with your best friend and suddenly realising you want more than just friendship with them. Sorry Deana, that’s gay. In my Deana Carter of like Year 10 I played this song on repeat and screamed along to the lyrics as though singing it hard enough would make her like me back.

#country #country music #music #singer #lgtbqia #lesbian #queer #gay #brandi carlile #brandy clark #chely wright #owns my entire heart #deana carter #country songs #playlist #compilation #steve grand #lavender country #brooke eden #trixie mattel #katie pruitt #semler #gay country music #gay country songs #add to this playlist and this post i want to know everyones favourite country songs and artists who are gay as hell

[traveling-at-the-speed-of-light]

Stevie's Wall (Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington)

Title: Stevie's Wall

Author: Crazy_Comet_97

Tagline: On a regular day for once in the town of Hawkins, Billy Hardgrove enters the bank, only to get in the middle of a robbery in progress and be shot. While lying on the ground slowly dying in the chaos around him, Billy’s mind only goes to one person: Steve.

Song: Heather’s Wall (Ty Herndon)

Word Count: 1844

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35898262

#steve harrington #fanfiction #fanfic #ao3 fanfic #steve/billy #steve harringrove #steve hargrove #billy hargrove #billy harrington #billy harringrove #stranger things #tv shows #tvshows #tv #fanfictions #ao3fic #tw angst #songfic #death #tw death #robbery #shooting #traveling-at-the-speed-of-light #Crazy_Comet_97 #AO3

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A Continuing List of Just Really Good Reads

Anna Borges - I Am Not Always Very Attached to Being Alive

Steve Bogira - They Came In Through the Bathroom Mirror

Natalie Beach - I Was Caroline Calloway

Jessica Pressler - How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People

Anne Helen Peterson - Ten Long Years of Trying to Make Armie Hammer Happen

Patrick Strudwick - High on Hate

Daniel Richards - The Abandoned, Apocalyptic Architecture of One Bold 1970s Retail Chain

Alex Tizon - My Family’s Slave

Shannon Keating -  Netflix's New Lesbian Documentary Misses The Mark

Rutger Bregman - The Real Lord of the Flies

@endlessyarning​ - (The Real Lord of the Flies) A Twitter Thread From a Tongan Perspective

Linda Pressly - Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters

Matt Stevens - Good Movies As Old Books

Alexandra Pollard -  Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma

The Forgotten Tale of How Black Psychiatrists Helped Make ‘Sesame Street’

Chelsea Fagan - Minimalism is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy

Jason Fagone - What Bullets Do To Bodies

John Lewis - Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation

Court Danee - Queen & Slim Isn’t For Black People

Josie Duffy Rice - The Abolition Movement

Indi Samarajiva - I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There.

Sarah Kurchak - The Martial Arts Legacy of Tura Satana

Astead W. Herndon -  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Biden’s Win, House Losses, and What’s Next for the Left

Katie Schmid - Why Would Anyone Ever Want To Be A Wife?

dream hampton - Thank You, Frank Ocean

Rosalind Jana -  Mark My Words: The Subversive History of Women Using Thread as Ink

Tim Kreider - I Know What You Think of Me

Jess Zimmerman -  What If We Cultivated Our Ugliness? or: The Monstrous Beauty of Medusa

Charles Warnke - You Should Date An Illiterate Girl

Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Case for Reparations

Anne Helen Peterson - How Millenials Became the Burnout Generation

Colin Stokes - Frog and Toad: An Amphibious Celebration of Same-Sex Love

John Reed - My Grandma The Poisoner

Ijeoma Oluo - Poor People Deserve to Taste Something Other Than Shame

Daniel Mallory Ortberg - Everything What’s Wrong of Possums

Stephanie Clifford - The Journalist and the Pharma Bro 

Mehreen Kasana - The call for pandemic productivity is class warfare in disguise 

Rebecca Dinerstein Knight - The Fabulous Forgotten Life of Vita Sackville-West

Adam Serwer - Civility Is Overrated

Mary Retta - The Slow Burn

Tim Kreider - The ‘Busy’ Trap

Abby Norman - Gene Wilder Was Right: Gilda Radner Didn’t Have to Die, and We Need to Talk About Why She Did

Ayesha A. Siddiqi - I’d Like This to Stop: Praise for a Promising Young Woman

Melissa Segura - Detective Guevara’s Witnesses

Chris Geidner -  Nancy Reagan Turned Down Rock Hudson's Plea For Help Nine Weeks Before He Died

Rachel Aviv - What If Your Abusive Husband Is a Cop?

Melissa Fay Greene - The Romanian Orphans Are Adults Now

#to be continued #essays #reading

[kanye--westeros]

Top Albums Of 2019

1. IGOR - Tyler, The Creator (Favorite Track: NEW MAGIC WAND)

2. III - BANKS (Favorite Track: Stroke)

3. To Myself - Baby Rose (Favorite Track: Sold Out)

4. Eve - Rapsody (Favorite Track: Aaliyah)

5. All Of My Heroes Are Cornballs - JPEGMAFIA (Favorite Track: Jesus Forgive Me, I Am A Thot)

6. Leak 04-13: Bait Ones - Jai Paul (Favorite Track: Str8 Outta Mumbai)

7. Diaspora - GoldLink (Favorite Track: Rumble)

8. BUBBA - KAYTRANADA (Favorite Track: Go DJ)

9. YU - Rosie Lowe (Favorite Track: Little Bird)

10. MAGDALENE - FKA Twigs (Favorite Track: holy terrain)

11. Painted - Lucky Daye (Favorite Track: Real Games)

12. Chasing Summer - SiR (Favorite Track: Hair Down)

13. KIWANUKA - Michael Kiwanuka (Favorite Track: You Ain’t The Problem)

14. Assume Form - James Blake (Favorite Track: Mulholland)

15. Heavy Is The Head - Stormzy (Favorite Track: Handsome)

16. The Lost Boy - YBN Cordae (Favorite Track: RNP)

17. LEGACY! LEGACY! - Jamila Woods (Favorite Track: MUDDY)

18. Revenge Of The Dreamers III - Dreamville (Favorite Track: Sacrifices)

19. Everything’s For Sale - Boogie (Favorite Track: Skydive)

20. Free Nationals - Free Nationals (Favorite Track: Eternal Light)

Honorable Mentions:

Heard It In A Past Life - Maggie Rogers, Injury Reserve - Injury Reserve, Outer Peace - Toro Y Moi, Cosmic Wind - Lion Babe, Thank U, Next - Ariana Grande, Rap Or Go To The League - 2 Chainz, Titanic Rising - Weyes Blood, Hear Me Out - Reignwolf, CrasH Talk - ScHoolboy Q, When We All Go To Sleep, Where Do We Go - Billie Eilish, Green Balloon - Tank and the Bangas, Shea Butter Baby - Ari Lennox, Rogue - Yuna, ZUU - Denzel Curry, Flamagra - Flying Lotus, Bandana - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Immunity - Clairo, Clarity - Kim Petras, Port Of Miami 2 - Rick Ross, Ventura - Anderson. Paak, Brandon Banks - Maxo Kream, Scenery - Emily King, i,i - Bon Iver, GINGER - Brockhampton, Red Hearse - Red Hearse, Case Study 01 - Daniel Caesar, Norman Fucking Rockwell - Lana Del Rey, Mirrorland - EARTHGANG, Is He Real? - IDK, Late Night Feelings - Mark Ronson, House Of Sugar - (Sandy) Alex G, Charli - Charli XCX, Jaime - Brittany Howard, KIRK - DaBaby, Violet Street - Local Natives, All Mirrors - Angel Olsen, uknowhatimsayin? - Danny Brown, Closer To Grey - Chromatics, Ugh, Those Feels Again - Snoh Aalegra, Pang - Caroline Polachek, The Sailor - Rich Brian, TURN OFF THE LIGHT - Kim Petras, Cheap Queen - King Princess, Pony - Rex Orange County, Reflection Of Self: The Head Trip - Stalley, Grey Area - Little Simz, Twenty Twenty - djo, Hot Pink - Doja Cat, UNDER8ED - Pardison Fontaine, Black Pumas - Black Pumas, I Was Depressed Until I Made This - Kembe X, Hyperspace - Beck, Fear Inoculum - Tool, Fine Line - Harry Styles, HAN - Berhana, Imagination & The Misfit Kid - Labrinth, Little Ghost - Moonchild

Notable Mixtapes/EPs:

Hi My Name Is Flume - Flume, Dying From Crying - James Fauntleroy, Days Before Forever - Muhteyoh, Dangerous - Shay Lia, Recorded In My Car EP - Tabby, He/Do You Love Her Now EP - Jai Paul, The Falling Man - DUCKWRTH, live fast. die never. - Lil Rocket, Angel’s Pulse - Blood Orange, TDT - Big K.R.I.T, Care Package - Drake, Floor Seats - A$AP Ferg, Choke - Poppy, This Summer EP - Alessia Cara, Dark Moon Flower - Shane Eagle, MOTIONS - Melii, Ylang Ylang EP - FKJ, Lamb Over Rice - Action Bronson, JACKBOYS - JACKBOYS

Great Songs On Decent or Bad Albums:

“A-OK (Everything’s Perfect)” by Terror Jr. “Crushed Up” by Future ”Maybe You’re The Reason” by The Japanese House “North Star” by Offset x Cee-Lo Green “Open It Up” by Higher Brothers ”Sandstorm” by Mereba x JID “Dreams” by Solange “So Bad” by Gesaffelstein x HAIM ”Girls & Boys” by Jesse “Drugs” by Yelawolf “Unnatural Born Killer” by Yelawolf “Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind” by Logic “Sunflower” by Vampire Weekend x Steve Lacy “Set” by Ciara “KRIT HERE” by Big K.R.I.T ”Lay Me Down” by Steve Lacy “Outta My Head” by Khalid x John Mayer “No Drug Like Me” by Carly Rae Jepsen “Frontier” by Holly Herndon “Left Hand” by Beast Coast “Sucker” by The Jonas Brothers “Baby Boy” by Kevin Abstract “Summertime In Paris” by Jaden x Willow “Time Machine” by Willow “Eternal” by Chance The Rapper x Smino “Mannequin Challenge” by Young Thug x Juice WRLD “Find Your Way Back” by Beyonce “Sufi Woman” by Jidenna “Show Me That You Love” by Common x Jill Scott “Camp America” by 93PUNX “Carried Away” by H.E.R. “Take What You Want” by Post Malone x Ozzy Osbourne x Travis Scott “Girls Need Love (Remix)” by Summer Walker x Drake “Reasons” by Anna Of The North x Charlie Skein “Follow God” by Kanye West “Guarding The Gates” by Lauryn Hill “Perfect Crime” by Tinashe “Jerry Sprunger” by Tory Lanez x T-Pain “The Box” by Roddy Ricch

#Top 25 #2019 #Music #Lists #tyler the creator #Banks #Baby Rose #rapsody #jpegmafia #jai paul #goldlink #kaytranada #rosie lowe #fka twigs #lucky daye #SiR #michael kiwanuka #james blake #YBN Cordae #stormzy #jamila woods #dreamville #Boogie #free nationals

[playthatthing]

favourite albums of 2019

These are the new records I spent the most time listening to and that defined last year.

Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell! 

fka twigs - MAGDALENE 

Angel Olsen - All Mirrors

Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow  

these four are all my albums of the year, thanks to these amazing women for making such stunning art

Andrew Bird - My Finest Work Yet (album cover of the year. i had a really intense experience listening to “Bloodless” one night when we were sleeping in a cabin in Yellowstone.)

Deerhunter - Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?

DIIV - Deceiver (great song for lining billionaires up against a wall)

Solange - When I Get Home (i read all the annotations on Genius. i still don’t understand anything about Houston Texas but this is good)

Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising (the 70s are over and we’re living in a nightmare)

Tegan and Sara - Hey, I’m Just Like You (they always make me happy)

Bat For Lashes - Lost Girls  (Natasha + 80s synthpop is a match made in heaven ahh)

The Twilight Sad - IT WON/T BE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME (robert smith gave this like a 9/10 i mean literally he sent them ratings out of 10 for every song)

Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs

Mayberian Sanskülotts - Neverending Sorry (Hungarian excellence)

Desperate Journalist - In Search of the Miraculous (look, there are shittons of gothy bands about these days but i really like them, Jo Bevan’s voice is wonderful and their sound is also more organic and less formulaic than, say, The Soft Moon or Drab Majesty et al)

The Divine Comedy - Office Politics (Neil Hannon continues to be a cheeky genius, and this time he’s nursing an 80s synthpop infatuation like nobody else, to the point where there is literally a track where a robot questions him about his listening habits and he starts listing every important band from the era. Also, special shoutout to “The Synthesiser Service Centre Super Summer Sale” and mother. fucking. “Philip And Steve’s Furniture Removal Company”)

Kælan Mikla - Nótt eftir nótt (they are living the goth dream)

LCD Soundsystem - Electric Lady Sessions (got to appreciate a good live album)

Aldous Harding - Designer (thanks for being the right sort of weird while joanna newsom is away)

MARINA - Love + Fear (i even like the Clean Bandit collab here and I hate Clean Bandit, thanks for making good pop Marina)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Fishing For Fishies

Big Thief - U.F.O.F. / Two Hands (i’m a late convert to Big Thief and solo Andrianne Lenker but this is a great time)

Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride (i was sceptical about this Rostam-less existence but shit it’s great)

The National - I Am Easy To Find (The National will always be the “oh no i hate being so sad” kind of sad to me but what can i do)

Foals - Part 1 Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (this song in particular)

TOY - Happy In the Hollow 

Meteo - Hayline (more Hungarian excellence)

Ride - This Is Not A Safe Place

The Highwomen - The Highwomen (a giant FUCK YOU to sexist mainstream country music culture and a great album)

M83 - DSVII (i was unexpectedly enchanted by this video game soundtracky goodness)

various - De jó elhagyni magamat

Leonard Cohen - Thanks For the Dance

all the songs linked here in one playlist

under the cut further albums i liked, and albums i just haven’t listened to enough to form impressions, aka my to-do list

also good:

Calexico, Iron & Wine - Years to Burn

Rose Elinor Dougall - A New Illusion

Hozier - Wasteland, Baby!

Steve Gunn - The Unseen In Between

Crocodiles - Loves Is Here

Priests - The Seduction of Kansas

Ex Hex - It’s Real

Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready

Hand Habits - placeholder

Whitney - Forever Turned Around

Wilco - Ode to Joy

Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won’t Hold

Belle & Sebastian - Days of the Bagnold Summer

Vivian Girls - Memory

Michael Kiwanuka - KIWANUKA

Vagabon - Vagabon

Courtney Barnett - MTV Unplugged

Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology

Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror

albums i just haven’t listened to at all yet, or not enough:

Rhye - Spirit

Holly Herndon - PROTO

Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love

Cate le Bon - Reward

Sleaford Mods - Eton Alive

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

TOY - Songs of Consumption

Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

Shamir - Be the Yee, Here Comes the Haw

Foals - Part 2 Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost

Mikal Cronin - Seeker

Bon Iver - i,i

Yeasayer - Erotic Reruns

James Blake - Assume Form

HEALTH - VOL.4:: SLAVES OF FEAR

Thom Yorke - Anima

Beirut - Gallipoli

Foxygen - Seeing Other People

Fat White Family - Serfs Up!

Jens Lekman, Annika Norlin - Correspondence

Blood Orange - Angel’s Pulse

the other King Gizzard record but like... theres probably five of them and i can’t keep up

#year in music

[coralmorphologic]

Alejandra Deheza is an LA-based composer and writer, previously of the band School of Seven Bells. For the third CCC Mix, 'Silvered By the Sleeping Sun', she’s built a mix inspired by the iridescent movements of life beneath the shimmer of the sea.

Tracklist:

00:00 - Ouri - We Share Our Blood (Biome Remix) 03:30 - Jacques Greene - Nordschliefe 06:00 - Dauwd - Kolido 09:34 - Skee Mask - Lil DB Tool 13:26 - Klein - Claim It 14:48 - Khotin - Water Soaked in Forever 17:30 - Jan Jelinek - Moiré (Piano & Organ) [Sylvia Earle interview interlude] 20:15 - Field Works & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Kinematic Wave 24:14 - Alejandra Deheza - Opaline 28:52 - Holly Herndon - Chorus 30:50 - Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - The Body 32:15 - The Dead Texan - Aegina Airlines 34:30 - Daisy Moon - Geometry of Curves 37:46 - Barker & Baumecker - Nocturnal 41:44 - Lauren Flax - One Man’s House is Another Woman’s Techno 45:11 - rRoxymore - Passages 48:46 - Joy Orbison - Burn 51:11 - Steve Hauschildt - Subtractive Skies 55:56 - Burial - Young Death 59:40 - Holy Other - Yr Love

@schoolofsevenbells www.instagram.com/alleyestela/ www.discogs.com/artist/828694-Sch…ol-Of-Seven-Bells

Mix art by MONEEKAH & @coralmorphologic Mix art direction by @vacationsnyc

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