They may be called Snailmate, but don't you dare call them slow! Sure, they have a song called "The Laziest Man in the World" on their new album Stress Sandwich, but the duo of Kalen Lander and Bentley Monet are anything but! Lander spits rhymes like MC Frontalot or Busdriver, whilst Monet brings pure punk and hip hop beats behind the drum kit. One sec, they're being playful on "Trash, Baby" and "Shoulda Brought Snacks"; the next moment, loud GWAR-y growls fill "Overwaiter" and "I Know What You Want". Snailmate make a strange dance party, but their groove is in their stomach, which is why we're craving for a slice of their Shameless Tuesdays platter!
SNAILMATE Offer 'Stress Sandwich' Antidote to a Pressurized Year
Photo Credit: Valence Heartlock
Phoenix-based Snailmate crowned 2023 by releasing their album ‘Stress Sandwich’ and relentlessly touring. Rleased via Toronto’s Indiestructable Records, they offer a twisted humorous take on existential anxiety, delivering funky, poppy, screamy fun through alternative raps. The duo’s also presents the video for ‘Trash, Baby’, created by Chase A…
The Phoenix-based duo, Snailmate, has a hilarious, quirky video for their single, “The Laziest Man in the World.” It reminds me that people could do everything while in their robe. You could even be named the Flawless Friday Video for the week, which Snailmate has accomplished.
As soon as I get the motivation to find my robe, it’s back to the grind for me. It may take a while to find the…
DO BETTER FEST is today!! A stacked bill of independent musicians coming together to raise money for the Brave Space Alliance, to benefit black LGBT people on the south side of Chicago. Doors open at 12 PM CST / 1 PM EST / 10 AM PDT, all times on the poster are central
Voice claims time again! Just to be clear, this isn't exactly what everyone would sound like, it's rough approximations to get an IDEA of what they sound like
Brief descriptions of their voices;
Avery has a bit of a rougher voice, similar to that of E.G. Daily (Tommy Pickles, Buttercup Utoniom, Rawhide, to name a few) she also has a thick Scottish accent and talks fairly loud as she's excitable
Emma pretty much sounds like kimiko glenn idk what else ta tell ya there :v
Clementine... is just tara strong lmao
Sofia sounds young and is very soft spoken, making fluttershy a good voice equivalent
Andies voice in the video is very similar to how she'd actually sound, except that Andie has a French accent and occasionally speaks in French
Andie sounds exactly like this don't @ me. That's HIM singing baby shark
Pond sounds similar-ish to OTEP, but Billie Elish and aubrey plaza are also good fits- just that Vibe™️
Every time I listen to snailmate, it makes me think about raph for some reason, so Mr. Impaled Through The Brain, aka the laziest man in the world, is raphs headcanon voice
Ruby RARELY ever talks- but when she does she has a cute voice and it's similar if not exactly like that
Harmony sounds like elsie lovelock cause I say so
Melody sounds like rainbow dash because their personalities are so similar. I can just hear it, ya know?
By now, it is clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has been a grave strategic error. As Napoleon Bonaparte’s former minister of police said of the French leader’s foolish execution of a rival duke, his actions could be described as “worse than a crime … a blunder.” Yet even as Putin’s war has undermined Russia on the geopolitical stage, we should not overlook the fact that Russia has succeeded in severely weakening Ukraine on the ground.
This week, the Belfer Russia-Ukraine War Task Force, which I lead, is releasing a Report Card summarizing where things stand on the battlefield at the end of the first year of Russia’s war. As the Report Card documents, when we measure key indicators including territorial gains and losses, deaths of combatants and civilians, destruction of infrastructure, and economic impact, the brute facts are hard to ignore.
At the battlefield level, if one can remember only three numbers, they are: one-fifth, one-third, and 40 percent.
Since invading Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Russian troops have seized an additional 11 percent of Ukraine’s territory. When combined with land seized from Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, that means Russia now controls almost one-fifth of the country. The Ukrainian economy has been crushed, its GDP declining by more than one-third. Ukraine is now dependent on the United States and Western Europe not only for weekly deliveries of weapons and ammunition but also for monthly subsidies to pay its soldiers, officials, and pensioners. Forty percent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been destroyed or occupied.
The Report Card includes a dozen further indicators that shed light on the outcomes and cost of one year of war in Ukraine. These include one of Kyiv’s most closely held secrets: Ukrainian casualties. Western press coverage of the war has offered little reporting on this issue, but reliable U.S. government estimates count more than 130,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed or severely wounded—approximately the same number Russia has lost from a population more than three times larger than Ukraine’s. In addition, Russian forces have killed more than 7,000 Ukrainian civilians, committed an array of atrocities, and forced nearly 1 in 3 Ukrainian citizens to flee their homes. Today, 8 million Ukrainians are international refugees.
Thus, as the Western press continues to highlight Ukraine’s successes, we should also recognize that if year two of the war were essentially a carbon copy of the first, in February 2024 Russia would control almost one-third of Ukraine.
The war is, of course, imposing huge costs on Russia as well. But so far, Putin has shown no hesitation in paying whatever it takes. Moreover, the most severe of these costs, including the loss of European markets for Russia’s oil and gas, will be felt over the longer term. In the meantime, Moscow has demonstrated impressive resilience in adapting to unprecedented comprehensive sanctions. Despite Western governments advertising these sanctions as strangling, Russian revenues from exports of oil and gas actually went up last year, not down. Contrary to forecasts of most Western commentators, Russia’s economy has not imploded. As the Report Card notes, according to the most recent data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Russia’s economy fell last year much less than had been forecast—by just 2.3 percent—and the IMF expects it to return to positive growth in 2023. And since the invasion, while the value of Ukraine’s currency has declined by 18 percent, the Russian ruble has appreciated by 14 percent.
This is not to say Russia has emerged as the clear victor on the ground. Since mid-November, fighting on the battlefield has been bogged down in what we call a “snailmate,” with the net change in territorial control favoring Russia by just 75 square miles. And as both Russia and Ukraine prepare new, major offensives for the near future, other developments seem to favor Ukraine, with one of the most important being the United States and European nations supplying Ukraine with increasingly lethal weapons—most recently, battle tanks.
Of course, many factors that matter more than those in the Report Card are not easily measured. The Report Card identifies a number of these, such as morale, leadership, the will to fight, information warfare, and international support. We are hopeful that readers will suggest ways to assess these and other critical factors going forward. Since this is a work in progress, we intend to revise the Report Card as we receive feedback. Moreover, the Task Force will continue tracking these indicators in weekly updates on Harvard University’s Russia Matters website.
Despite the Report Card’s findings, Putin’s successes on the battlefield cannot obscure the fact that his war has been a colossal strategic failure. Instead of erasing Ukraine from the map, Putin has enlivened Ukrainians’ sense of identity and confidence that they can build a viable modern nation. Rather than ensuring that Ukraine would never join the European Union or NATO, he has made its membership in these institutions likelier than ever before. By reviving a vivid sense of fear in Europeans, he has condemned his country to a new and likely lengthy chapter of cold war with a reinvigorated trans-Atlantic alliance whose GDP is 20 times that of Russia. One year on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is deservedly the most admired leader on the international stage and Putin the most despised.
Students of the U.S. War of Independence will remember the Battle of Bunker Hill. There, British soldiers occupying Boston succeeded in seizing the high ground. But their victory came at the cost of so many of their soldiers killed and severely wounded that they never undertook an initiative like that again. Let us hope that the West’s fortitude and Putin’s failure in this case reduces Russia’s appetite for subsequent attacks on its neighbors.
If you woulda told me that we were gonna drive a 1000+ miles for the world's only heavy nedal band, well then by diddly, you'd be right! Saw these Nederinos in Chico a few years back, and really wanted to see them again but then bs, a pandemic, and more bs happended, so when we heard they were doing a farewell show, we packed up the RV & geo metro and hit the road 🚙💨
It twas 10/10 an AMAZING show, the openers were KICK ASS. Definitely gonna keep an eye on SnailMate they'll be huge one day 🔮🤔 (hella cool dudes that apparently make delicious hot sauce that made it to hot ones?? Love it)
We were right next to the sound dude and he was the real MVP, everything sounded great and he even gave me the setlist and a pick from the stage. AND THEN I GOT TO MEET AND GET PHOTOS WITH THE NEDS AND THEY EVEN RECOGNIZED US. 😭😭😭😭 Literally the best show I love these neighborinos, some of the coolest most down to earth dudes I've ever met in the biz, and hands down some of the best memories I've made
We dressed up as Neds and had a FUCKING blast. Sad it's their last, but I bet they'll be back when Head Ned's kid gets a little older haha
Thank you Okilly Dokilly, for everything 🖤🥂
Also sorry I'm a homer and didn't get very many photos, I was too busy being RENEDUCATED in the PIT 🤘🏼😈