#this album rocks everybody should listen to it

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#Widowspeak #2022 #The Jacket #Spotify #this album rocks everybody should listen to it

[haerin1]

hcs you have for Scara? Love seeing new writers around here 🫶

꒰ఎ ♡ ໒꒱ SCARA HEADCANNONS.

note: omh ty for the req !! i did 2 versions bcause i got carried away UM anw enjoy xoxo kisses hugs :33

[wanderer!scara, modern au!scara x gn!reader] fluff, pinches of angst, mentioned mommy issues and trust issues !!

modern au scara !!

Scara is definitely a band kid and in my opinion, he'd absolutely be an electric bassist. He carries around the band-aids you gave him so he can use one whenever his fingertips get cut from the tough strings of the instrument.

Scara loves judging everybody in his classes and making people uncomfortable because he's a menace like that. His narrowed sapphire gaze following certain people with ill thoughts and a slight grimace; you already know he's judging them real hard.

It's simply impossible for him to go a day, no, even an hour, without his headphones and downloaded music from his favourite artists. Scara's music taste consists mostly of Chase Atlantic, Artic Monkeys, TV Girl, Cigarettes After Sex and he's a closeted Mitski listener.

Mommy issues and miscommunication trope with Ei. Scara aspires to be anything else but the occupation Ei suggested for him. Ei compares Scara to his sister, Raiden, without knowing it hurts Scara's feelings because she's bad at communicating and getting her words right overall.

Shops at Hot Topic and Miniso. Miniso, because he only goes there for the Kuromi stuff that reminds him of you (since you're always telling him how you and him are literally Kuromi and Badtzmaru) and Hot Topic is self-explanatory.

Adding onto the Kuromi and Badtzmaru topic. Ever since you made that comment, Scara ended up loving that specific pair of cute Sanrio characters. He now owns a Badtzmaru hoodie (yours is a Kuromi one: hashtag couple goals), five Kuromi figures and more than thirty things consist of Badtzmaru in his bedroom.

Scara's bedroom is neat but messy at the same time. The room is fairly big and he has his bassist on its stand in the corner of the room with a huge Badtzmaru plushie sitting on the floor by it. His bed is filled with your gifts of plushies from past dates or occasions.

Scara has an area dedicated to his favourite music artists with posters of their albums plastered to the black painted wall. You bought him TV Girl's French Exit vinyl for his birthday, which he always plays on the record player whenever you come over or when he's missing you (by missing you, I mean whenever you're not with him).

Everytime you mention a new song you like, Scara immediately learns it on his bass so he can impress you. You find it so cute how these little gestures of his are all for your compliments and affection when all he could do is breathe and you'd be head over heels for him.

Scara is unfiltered, cunning and a tease. He'll say whatever he wants at any given time and doesn't mind what people think at all (he fights back the urge to rock someone's shit when they disagree with him.) He's your cute little drama queen.

genshin au scara (wanderer) !!

Wanderer's favourite time of day is when the sun starts to set and he gets to have his long awaited tea time with you. You know the perfect way on how to make his tea and it's so natural to the point of when Wanderer tastes any other tea, it just can't compare to the way you make it.

Despite loving you very dearly, and he'd never admit this last bit aloud, he still has some sort of doubt against you. Should something happen to you that marks your permanent disappearance that neither you or him could prevent, what would he do? Wanderer simply does not know. And he certainly wouldn't want to know.

Wanderer enjoys the feeling of your hands in his hair. Whether your hands are soft, rough, cold, or warm, he doesn't mind. He just loves feeling your gentle and affectionate touch against his head as you play with his hair or even braid some strands together.

In general, Wanderer loves physical touch. Holding hands, soft kisses and hugs; It's all so wonderful to him. It makes him feel wanted and loved, like you actually think of him dearly. He loves it especially when you initiate it first. After that, he'll be more than comfortable doing it without waiting for you to do it ahead of him.

Wanderer keeps all of the silly trinkets, gifts and letters you've given him in a box that's kept in a very safe place where no one knows, not even you. Everytime he comes across it, unknowingly to him, a soft smile forms on his lips as he remembers the fact that he's this important to you.

Wanderer absolutely adores it when he makes you smile or laugh. He'll proudly smirk and throw in a teasing remark at this but is hiding the fact that he's just an embarrassed doll with an adorable lover. He loves making you feel good, both verbally and physically, as it feeds his ego and reassures him that he's doing great at being your beloved.

Wanderer's gifts for you are usually handmade, like the cute doll that looks like you which he got to keep so he could give you a doll that looks like him in return. He loves seeing you carry the doll around with you when you want to take it out of your messenger bag, holding it so gently as if it were Wanderer himself.

Whenever you're not paying attention, Wanderer looks at you and observes you. He loves noticing new little things about you, like the way you make little popping noises with your lips when you're bored or the way you subconsciously reach out to hold onto his hand. He adores every, single, little thing.

Wanderer often finds himself trying to impress you. If he sees you walking about, he'll immediately find something heavy to pick up and "coincidentally" run into you so he can make sure you see his amazing skills. You find this habit of his somewhat adorable as you smile and praise him for his strengths. He ends up getting quite flustered, in the end.

Depending on Wanderer's mood, he'll be very flirty one moment or very shy the next. If you manage to outdo him with his charming comments, trust me, he turns into the cutest blushing mess ever. He'll look away as he denies your question about whether he became timid or not.

🐾🍫🍮 : © haerin1 (do not translate, steal or take too much inspo from my works)

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[noacfapologyst]

night love confessions — matty healy

summary: after a night party, matty has the idea (or the need) to confess his love to you.

warnings: some kind of mention about get drunk, alcohol, drugs and substances (but nothing very explicit) nocturnal melancholy, sad atmosphere and some mentions of touches.

wordcounter: 3,4k

a/n: hey everybody! this is my first au and even i'm scary i really hope you enjoy and like the story, maybe then could put this into a general universe, but idk, it depends i think if it works and if the people like it. anyway, thanks for giving the chance to read it. last thing, english is not my first language so if something it's bad i apologize for that too.

hope you enjoy it 🖤

The bottles that are opened, the containers that fall to the ground, the footsteps of shoes, the music that resonates through the speakers and deafens your ears.

The group of guys you're looking at, the smile one of them gives you at the end of the track. The adrenaline when listening to the band's new song composed by your friends, the lights that make you lose, you feel everything in slow motion.

You drum your fingers on the red disposable cup, before pouring the harsh liquid down your throat and feeling the traces of the rest on your tongue. There is a silence on you, but then you return to the ring with a small scream of happiness, which perhaps multiplies the state you are by a third.

You don't know how many glasses you've had, enough so that your sobriety is hanging by a thread and the hangover of the morning with your head exploding is too evident, but you know that this time nothing else has been mixed. Last time the story didn't end too well, jumping over security fences outside an abandoned club to end up with a sprained right foot and several bruises is not something you want to repeat two weeks later.

— Does anyone know where the hell Matty has gone? — George exasperates, raising his voice over the speakers. Everyone looks at each other confused, without having a clear answer. — God, this guy is going to give me a bad headache one day. —Although he is drunk and has red eyes, he is at his most sane. — You are surprised and turn your expression into an "o".

— He was here a few moments ago, I swear. — Ross responds a while later, moving up to follow him into the crowd.

You sigh a little tired, lately it has become the same routine and with regret inside you decide that you should abandon the staring contest with the black-haired man who is a few meters in front of you.

— I'll bring him back in a moment, let me take care of this. — You pronounce with difficulty, slurring the words and pouting.

— Well, if you can't find us we're probably outside. — Brown hair appears behind George, and even though you know you know the girl, you don't remember her name. You just know that from time to time she and your friend go to some bars .

— She's right. I need to sleep right now. —Ross exclaims, running the fold of her fingers over the sockets of his eyes. — Find him and then we'll leave.

You know Matty well enough to know that when he separates from the group, there are three places he can be doing: 1) In the outside or inside courtyard smoking some kind of cigarette, it's always a different edition so you don't know what you'll find. 2) In the nearest bathroom, with a card in hand and light white tints under the nose and nails. 3) Flirt with the first person you meet at the bar, spending the little money on drinks that will later be deposited on his bed.

— And if you don't find it, what? —Adam asks, in a tone of total concern.

— I will do it, I promise.

— Just... let us know when you get home, girl. —George closes the conversation and everyone else nods at his request, shakes their heads in response and greets them with a "yes, goodbye" in the air.

You hate a little, a lot, the rock superstar life that your entire band has led, it has been like this for years, but especially since they managed to make their first album become famous so quickly, and have devastated the sales stands and the lists have them in their heads. In fact, while you're debating where to start looking for it, Girls starts playing through the speakers. Great, the world makes fun of you with good satire.

It doesn't matter that you don't have clarity to think, your body moves for you and makes its way through quite a few people, until you touch a wall that has two exits: the bathroom and the courtyard. You breathe and try to lower your level to one less, until your instinct kicks in and you know you'll find Matty smoking.

Then you go out to the inner courtyard with the frost freezing your back. Adam was right, you needed your jacket that you left at his house a few hours earlier. The wind makes your eyes turn to glass in a sense, but you don't plan on giving up when you know you're committed to finding and bringing it home in the best condition possible.

You find it almost at the end of the place, away from the main entrances, which catches your attention. He has his leather jacket over his knees, which leaves his arms unprotected despite how thin they are. He's frowning, and when you get closer you see that he's exhaling and inhaling with a thoughtful expression, there's something troubling him even though you can't figure it out.

You reach his side of him and look for a small place to sit, he still has n't realized that someone else is with him, he's still absorbed.

— No girl today? What a loser. — You wake him up and make him jump in his place. — The boys are gone.

— Shit, girl. You really scared me.— He puts his hand on his chest, exactly on his heart. He gives you a half-shot of his eyes, they're freshly red, and you grimace silently. — She's gone too.

— Who? — You cross your legs, and your fishnet stockings catch on a tile out of place. — Shit, they were new. — You moan and realize that you are freezing.

— Luckily for you, buying another one is not difficult. —Now you are the one who frowns while exhaling a considerable amount of smoke.

— Are you okay, Matty? — You don't know why you use his name, but sometimes it helps to bring him back to reality. You look at him when he shakes his head and laughs sarcastically, his curls are out of control and half of them are hanging over his forehead, but he has not bothered to fix them, his white t-shirt he has small red wine stains on it. You can't help but worry about him even if you don't know what you're really into, he's one of the people you love the most and seeing him so subdued burns you more than the glass you drank ten minutes ago. He starts to close his eyes and breathe easier, or so you think. — Hey, I'll take you home, come on.

— Honey, look at me. It's a fucking party and I'm smoking alone. — Speak in the deepest voice, seriously about the subject. Well, that hurts. — Come here. — He hits the jacket that falls on her knees so that you can rest your head there.

He knows that you will not refuse, perhaps because the jacket will keep you warm, because you are tired or because you are very busy and worried. About him you will do everything he asks. Then he drops his head there and slowly rests his legs on the pavement.

Matty's head is about to explode, and not necessarily because of the amount of cocaine he has consumed, although a significant part of it is a factor. He's grateful to have his head against the wall, although he doesn't remember how he got to that position. because he knows that otherwise he would do anything that would ruin the whole environment, no matter how small and silly it was. Lately he's screwed up more things than he's done right, but maybe this is what he longs for most in his life, that when all this terror and this endless nightmare is over (he's more convinced that it won't) you'll still be there, close to him, to support his head or lean on him.

Silence becomes your best friend over and over again. All he wants to do now is cross his hands below your waist and hold you for as long as he is allowed. But he doesn't, his hands are dirty and he couldn't afford to dirty his girl like that, he feels in the depths of his being that if he touched you even a millimeter he would ruin you to the core.

Basically the same feeling he had about himself several weeks ago, he couldn't take the responsibility of taking away all of your shine and everything that characterizes you as his favorite person. He is drugged and drunk, perhaps more than ever, but in this same hazy state he has discovered that perhaps the reason why he continues doing things without stopping is because it is a barrier to his feelings, it inhibits him from being able to think rationally and from being able to feel, It makes him believe that everything is possible, except being able to have you.

You remain motionless on his lap when you begin to close your eyes and he takes the opportunity to look at you, giving himself every detail, capturing the scene forever in his memory: look at how your locks fall on your forehead, how your chest rises and falls every time you you breathe, and the subtle smile on your lips that is the product of drunkenness that also causes a satirical laugh and then dies in its own tranquility. He also notices when you open your eyes, noticing his determined look and you raise an eyebrow in question.

— I need to die, now. Can we go now? — You whisper, also struggling to hold the moment for as many minutes as possible.

— One more and we'll leave, love. — The nickname causes a cerebral shock throughout your cortex, but you hide it with the freezing air that runs through there and you pass him the lighter that has fallen on the floor.— I'll wake you up... maybe in seven minutes? I can't count. — The two laugh and for a second they hold each other's gaze, shining and reflecting on each other.

— Promise? — You ask, and you raise your little finger.

— Promise. — He intertwines them and it's convincing enough for you that you soon go back to sleep, leaving your hand outstretched. Matty has no intention of breaking that contact, so he takes it upon himself to enjoy the seven minutes like this, usually blowing out some hair that obstructs her view of him.

When he is halfway through the fateful cigarette, he lets out the longest snort of the day. He feels the same as he did in Robbers' video. No, it's nonsense. That song was never written for you, but maybe he's relating it to others.

Oh, but it's automatic, the scene where he's on her lap in timeout, the thought that he could never let you go even if they were apart, everything he's begged for you to stay and all the times you haven't. was able to turn back. All those times when he was the cause of your suffering, when you ended up in the hospital due to his failure, when he wasn't there the day your father left, and how later you said he was fine and that it didn't matter.

Maybe you'd actually sum it up to something like I love you, don't you mind? Because nothing could happen above that, you loved Matty as if he were your other half and even if he meant suffering more than anything else, you accepted it because you preferred to have him than not. But you knew that those opportunities were nil, nothing more would happen with him and the almost kiss a few weeks ago had made it clear.

On the other hand, Matty had started to cry. The taste of the tobacco was now a mixture of salt water and nicotine.

— Time to leave. — He says it slowly, extinguishing the remains against the cement and drying the trace of his face.

They both get back together after a while with some effort. Then you extend your hand to him so you don't lose him in the crowd when you have to cross it. It takes some effort, but you manage to breathe in the fresh air and see the light from the post outside faster than you thought.

—Can I sleep at your house today? My house is...complicated. — The hands of you two let go as both begin to walk along the brick pavement of Manchester. There's a small ringing in your ears but you nod, he's not in the state to show up at his house.

— Yes. — Your direct word calm him to the point that he adopts a calm that does not allow him to see a loose cable in the street and trip over it. — You can't walk, at least not like this. — You say, reaching out to him with concern. — Here we go, big boy.

You grip his wrist tighter, trying to provide some stability, until he changes his grip and runs his hand around your waist, wrapping it around it and pulling you as close to him as he can, seeking to get you inside of him. When he moves his fingers he notices the temperature of your skin.

— You're cold, put on my jacket, please. — He brakes and looks at you defiantly, without losing that tone of chivalry.

— It's okay, we're close to my house. — You comment without paying attention to his frown. Then you see the light about to be left at the beginning of the block and break your hold under his watchful eye.

You run, always holding on to him until the central point of the park that you are crossing. Since you have his hand in yours, you spin him around a few times while neither of you can stop laughing.

They both feel like they are floating regardless of any other part of the world or any other matter. If they both touched their hearts they would discover that it is stronger than ever.

He caresses your cheek and takes the opportunity to smudge an eyelash. Then they melt into an embrace completely overflowing with desperation, love, affection, and the need to freeze there forever. Eternity in this line sounds incredible.

— I'm very glad to have you. — You murmur in his ear, and then you give his a kiss on the cheek. You don't need and don't want him to answer, so you decide to run to the door of your house and wait for him there.

Tomorrow he won't remember this, so it's okay, you tell yourself.

Tomorrow he'll remember every part of this, living it second by second, then it will all come flooding back to Matty breaking him deeply.

Then he arrives at your front door and between some silly jokes and some tripping objects, like your brother's toys or some discarded slippers, you make it to your room, although you need to use your supporting weight to carry Matty inside.

— I'll bring a glass of water and a hangover pill. — You tell him and disappear from your own room.

You go down the stairs and it seems that you also go down to reality.

What the fuck are you doing? What has happened and why hasn't you stopped sooner? You put your hand to your head in frustration and drink water, then fill another glass and look for the pills. Tomorrow you will not only have discomfort from the drink.

You return to the bedroom, opening and closing the door carefully. The scene petrifies you, he is sitting on the white back of your bed, taking up as much space as he can. Then he looks at you, and smiles at you as if he were a child who had just been caught being mischievous. You feel like you could die of lovey-dovey right now.

— I'm going to the bathroom to put on my pajamas. — You open the closet and take out the largest T-shirt you can find, then the pijamas that are clean. — Use this. — You stretch out your arm and he catches the shirt along with a pair of shorts, internally you wish he would finish before you leave the bathroom.

Being used to the routine, taking off your clothes and removing your makeup doesn't take you more than five minutes, just enough for him to scan every corner of the room after changing with quite some effort. He smiles when he sees the box full of Polaroids of you and the entire band, and then feels like he's dying a little more when he sees the self titled car at the head of your furniture.

You open the bathroom door and he needs to swallow hard to keep from stumbling. Even in your pink heart pijamas you look just as spectacular as you do in your black miniskirt and boots.

—You seem very....funny— You scan it and you laugh when you see how short the clothes you gave him are. Then you realize that the mattress is not here, but you don't want to go out and look for another one. —Does it bother you if we sleep together? —It's nothing you haven't done, but it still requires a certain degree of difficulty to ask.

He denies sweetly and moves away as far as he can when you get on your bed, there is an unbearable barrier between the two of you.

So, he lets it out. Something internally takes over him.

— You are my favorite person in the whole world, my love. — He try to whisper it because you force yourself to believe that he thinks you're sleeping. He doesn't manage to whisper it anyway, and you hear his voice begin to crack and his heart begin to pour out. Your greatest fear comes to light when the way he speaks condemns it, you've seen too many movies to know what's coming.

No. He can't do this to you, you can't bear that tomorrow he will forget about this entire night and you must pretend that for a moment it makes sense that he also loves you the same way you do. You want to believe that he dreams of you too.

— Don't do it, Matty. Please do not do it. — You say to him with all your strength, while a swirl of water begins to grow in the sockets of your eyes. —Just... don't.

— Why? — He whimpers and staggers in his speech, he's taking it all on herself not to show you that he's breaking into miles of pieces.

— Because you're high, very high. Tomorrow you won't remember anything about this night and you won't be able to pretend this never happened. — You turn slowly, and then you wipe away the first tear that runs on his eyelid. — I really wish things could be different and that you would make this confession when you're not high.

For a moment he stops talking and you think you've won the battle and that there is a temperance that calms the threat. But he falls apart.

— I love you. I've always loved you and I can't stand another damn minute without telling you. — Tears simply fall down both of their cheeks and soak the pillowcases. You shake your head non-stop in a negative way.

He can't just let go now, at the moment when you're most emotionally vulnerable, so that tomorrow he can go off with the first girl he finds. In the long run it has always been like this, he gets over it and you are still there with a broken heart and forever devoted to him.

—Go to sleep, Matty. — Your request breaks him a little more, the tone destroys him although it is not very strong. — Do not make it harder.

He shifts uneasily, but he also understands that he can't force you to feel the same way. What he doesn't know is that if he just said he wouldn't leave tomorrow, you would run into his arms.

But he doesn't do it, nor does he close his eyes to fall asleep. He's there, watching your every move still. You sigh, unable to bear it anymore, maybe tomorrow you will suffer from it but maybe if you let go now it will be easier to overcome.

— I love you too. The same way you do it. — You kiss his head one last time and murmur one last goodbye before turning to sleep. — And it's been an ordeal for me all this time, because you feel it more when you're high and I feel it more when I'm sober.

Apparently your brain works fast and allows you to fall into some dream where this whole story is happier before reality can attack you.

And that's how they finally fall asleep, the both with their hearts in each other's palms, with more scars than before.

Finally, everything gets comically better when you wake up a few hours later and there's no sign of Matty in your entire room.

Just make out that the glass of water is empty and the pill is not there. You laugh sadly before going to sleep without letting yourself cry again, he doesn't remember anything from the night before.

i won't apologize for this. however, thanks for reading <3 let me know what you thought or if you liked it.

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[jokeroutsubs]

[ENG translation] Interview with Joker Out: “We could’ve never imagined that we would come to Poland twice for five concerts”.

Original article written by: Julia Maciąg and published by All About Music Poland on 20.03.2024.

English translation by @ a.oki_ (Instagram) and proofread by @ Imaginethat92 (Twitter)

Joker Out is a rock band coming from Slovenia. They represented their homeland during the 67th Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool. After several years of Slovenia's absence in the finals, they broke the country's bad streak and took 21st place in the grand final. The band is currently on their second tour in Europe and on the 10th of March there was a concert in Krakow. Before the scheduled performance, I had the pleasure of talking to the band about Eurovision, their latest single Everybody's Waiting and also about the group's upcoming third album.

Julia Maciąg: This is your fifth show in Poland. How excited are you to be here again? What do you think about Polish fans?

Bojan Cvjetićanin: We came back to Poland after probably five months which is crazy. We could never imagined that we would come to Poland twice for five concerts. It's also a very short period of time to see the amazing fans who are here again. It's a great honor.

JM: A year has passed since Eurovision 2023. How much has this competition changed your career?

Bojan: In the music aspect, the only thing that has changed in our career is that many new things influence us. These songs that we write about, some new situations that we would never have thought of before. In the other aspects, of course, the fact that we travel a lot - something we have never done before. The only concerts we played were outdoors in Slovenia for the Slovenian and Croatian fans. The possibility of travelling and singing in our native language when the fans from Europe are singing our songs in Slovenian is actually quite strange. In this way, our lives changed dramatically and changed us because now we live mainly out of suitcases.

JM: In the summer you are playing, not counting your Eurovision performance, quite a big concert in Budapest at the Sziget Festival. How excited are you for this show?

Kris Guštin: Actually this is a very good question because Sziget is for us a determinant of international success. Sziget is the biggest stage we could have dreamed, and we dreamed of it. I have no idea who will be playing this year, but probably some big artists. It will be a great honor for us to share this stage with someone of international fame.

Bojan: Ariana Grande.

JM: Actually Ariana is not planning a tour this year because she is promoting Wicked.

Bojan: Okay... not good.

JM: I'm sorry.

Nace Jordan: She will come next year! *laugh*

Bojan: I don't feel very good about this fact.

Kris: She will come next year. She should have known we would be performing there! *laugh*

JM: We will see. Back to the Eurovision. Bojan, you are one of the authors of "Veronika," Raiven's song. Did you have any expectations or ideas to make this song?

Bojan: Honestly, I didn't have any expectations. In fact, the song was recorded without me. It was like this, Raiven called me to meet her at her house because we are very good friends. When we were spending time together, she showed me her music and I felt that I must play on the guitar and maybe something could be added to this song. I showed it to her and she really liked it immediately. She recorded this song again with the producer and that's it. My part in this song is really about 0.1 percent.

JM: Have you had a chance to listen to other Eurovision proposals?

Bojan: We were listening to some songs together, but honestly I don't remember any. However, I remember the Croatian song beacuse Jure sings it 24/7. *laugh*

JM: So you haven't listened to the Polish proposal, The Tower by LUNA?

Bojan: No. Actually I really like to watch the Eurovision when it actually takes place in May. I don't want to be a part of the hype we have to go through for Eurovision.

JM: In February, you released your song Everybody's Waiting. What is this song about?

Bojan: It's a song about an internal struggle. Maybe a feeling of anxiety, discomfort in your own skin because everything is happening around you and you live with the feeling that you have to be ready to be smiling 24/7 and always give your best, and never be able to give up and be able to say "no" to something.

JM: If I can add something from myself, I think this song gives fans a bit of hope. And the vibe is a bit rocky, a bit ballad, but this song is very catchy. Besides, she is very beautiful.

Bojan: Thank you very much.

JM: Additionally, there is also a music video and in it we see a man spinning around candles. What do the man and the candles symbolize in this clip?

Bojan: We wanted to find the person who would represent each of us. To be in this world, someone who is in his own house, only with his own thoughts. He simply finds himself by relaxing through music. Candles represent a sense of fulfillment, happiness and joy. So he basically enters this room through song with our help, because we are such "ghosts" in this clip. Gradually, he discovers himself and turns on his light. In the end, he wins all the candles through the song. However, it also in some way symbolizes people lighting our candles and at the same time us lighting theirs.

JM: During your gigs, fans could hear your new songs. Will you perform any during the concert in Krakow?

Bojan: *asks Jan* Will we perform any new songs during the concert in Krakow?

Jan Peteh: Of course! Today we will be playing two songs.

JM: And what are their titles?

Jan: They are called "Šta bih ja" and "Bluza".

JM: Ooo Bluza is also in Polish.

Bojan: It sounds the same in our languages. In fact, the text doesn't contain the word "bluza" at all. It is described as a blues rhythm, but it is written as a bluza, and that is what it stuck with.

JM: Very clever. As we know, you recorded your album in London. Why did you choose this city to work?

Bojan: We needed to lose our money in two months. *laugh*

JM: And that's why you did it in London? *laugh*

Bojan: No. *laugh* In fact, we were in London to try and write the album. Ultimately we didn't write the entire album, we just spent a lot of money. *laugh*

JM: Oh gosh. And when can we expect the album?

Bojan: If I'm right, it's the beginning of October.

JM: Ahhh. However, I would prefer 25th of October. *laugh*

Bojan: Because you have a birthday then?

JM: Yes.

Bojan: I think it will be sooner, but we will think about it. *laugh*

JM: I hope. *laugh* Let's talk about your campaign aimed to musicans from other countries in Europe. Why did you decide to do this during your tour?

Nace: It's hard for me to answer this question because I was the last one to join the band. But when you like a band you dream of opening a concert for someone bigger than yourself or having a concert with them. So we wanted to give other young bands a chance to open up to us with their music.

JM: The band Heima will play for you in Krakow. Why did you make this choice?

Nace: We had this online competition and the fans decided to participate, so we chose them.

JM: Have you had a chance to listen to their material?

Nace: We definitely listened to and watched their competition video together.

Kris: I listened to them during the rehearsal!

Bojan: We tried our best. We once had a music competition in Slovenia for school bands, so we tried to follow the same model and achieved something similar. This was the easiest and most objective solution for us.

JM: Do you have any expectations for today's concert?

Kris: Polska gurom! *laugh*

Bojan: Have the best party of our lives in Krakow!

JM: So finally, I would like to praise myself about the one sentence that I learned in Slovenian. Hvala lepa za intervju! (Thank you very much for the interview!)

Joker Out: Ooo. Hvala! (Thank you!)

#joker out #bojan cvjeticanin #bojan cvjetićanin #jokeroutsubs #jan peteh #nace jordan #kris gustin #kris guštin #jure macek

[itsallmadonnasfault]

Thurston Moore on Madonna: ‘She had credibility, she was really ahead of the game’

The former Sonic Youth frontman remembers her emergence from New York’s underground scene.

We were neighbours. We knew each other, by sight. She would say hi to me and I would say hi to her. She was dating a friend of mine for a millisecond, so we were introduced that way and then, through the years, when we’d cross paths on the street, we’d nod heads and smile. She was very friendly with Jean-Michel [Basquiat], Keith Haring, and these artists who were all our neighbours, and we all hung out at the same places: Danceteria, CBGB, Tier 3 and Club 57 were the main places. When she became super-famous, which was all of a sudden, she disappeared from the New York scene. It was a very strange thing, to be working washing dishes, and making pennies per day, and seeing someone who was in your neighbourhood all of a sudden become a superstar. It was unusual. There was no real model for that, for us. It became kind of exciting.

She was really ahead of the game. She was taking elements of what was cool at that time – punk rock, new wave, dance music, hip-hop and Latino music all clashing in this great non-hierarchical playground of New York. It was all kind of new; everybody was trying different things. Madonna was actually in a couple of no-wave bands that nobody ever talks about. She was in a band with these two twins, Dan and Josh Braun, who were the first members of Swans, Michael Gira’s band. Nobody really knows about that part of her history; she was in a pre-Swans no wave band! There’s all that interconnected history in New York with Madonna and the no wave scene.

She was really able to tap into the sound of what was genuine and the culture at the time, where it was free from any gender or sexual persuasion distinctions. There was no concern about any inequality or [the boundaries of] gender or race – that’s how we felt, it was totally revolutionary. And [there was] this balance between Latino, black and white culture on the scene. She was really significant in giving voice to that and consistently doing it – you never got the sense that she was doing it as a gesture of being hip. She was a person, I think, who was really very loving toward people who were historically disenfranchised by society.

We actually embraced Madonna’s joie de vivre, her celebrity. We did that record and everybody felt we were crazy, and some people lambasted us for giving her some kind of credibility in the underground. But she already had credibility, as far as I was concerned; she was already a part of the downtown scene. I don’t think she capitalised on it.

When we first came to London, Lee [Ranaldo], Kim [Gordon] and I wore Madonna shirts and I remember kids at the gig coming up to us and saying “Are you taking the piss?” and we would say “No, have you heard this Madonna album? You should listen to it next to your Swell Maps albums, next to your Wire albums, next to your Raincoats albums.” Mix it up. Don’t be stuck in some kind of tunnel. I was all about bringing people together. Plus the T-shirts were really cheap.

Actually, I think she was very dignified in the way she referenced all of these different subcultures. She was a very big part of it. She made a lot of money, and when you make a lot of money and become so famous you have to protect yourself, because everybody wants to claw at you. It’s not like she could just walk into a Tesco and buy milk; she’s going to get hammered. People who bring that in to their lives… it’s a mixed blessing. It does prohibit you from being free in the social world. I think she dealt with it really well, let’s put it that way.

#Madonna #Thurston Moore #Sonic Youth #early Madonna #no wave #Kim Gordon #Lee Ranaldo #Danceteria #CBGB's #NYC #Lower east side #Queen of Pop #Peter Noble

[anitalianfrie]

rockstar au 👀👀👀👀👀

rockstar au... i accidentally built it while writing "this is a love story"....

Dani and Jorge and Vale all together in a world-wide famous rock band that have to get a replacement for Casey after he fucks off to retirement because he's tired of vale's bullshits... and they have to do it super soon because they've got a new album that's just coming out and have scheduled a world tour. and ideally it should be a long term thing because going through too many guitarist would be detrimental to the image of the band as a 'united' group

And Marc who is a super fan but also a classically trained guitarist slash musical genius that through various endeavors gets Vale to listen to his stuff and vale goes omg... i need to meet this super talented almost unknow twenty years old... so he fucks off to spain and auditions marc without telling jorge and dani and like. listens to marc for three seconds and tell him he's hired without even consulting the others and brings him back to london where they should rehearse.

etc etc many things happen during the tour vale and marc fuck like crazy instead of writing songs and dani and jorge don't even realize because they are fucking like crazy when they are not hitting each other with the respective musical instruments.

they write an album, make another world tour, everybody is still fucking, pedrenzo are having faux hate sex and licking tequila from each other's sweaty bodies in the club, rosquez are snorting cocaine from each other's abs, you know normal rockstar thing. marc is beloved by the fanbase, they rise in popularity, marc and vale sometimes get this close to fucking on stage.

but then they have to write another album. jorge and vale keep arguing about everything, uccio who's vale's personal manager does evil uccio things, marc proposes to write more on his own and vale takes it as a personal insult and proof marc is trying to throw him out of his own band, everybody has a terrible time. Vale goes crazy and like, hints at marc's percived evil plan during a concert, and literally like the day after talks to the press and publicly divorces marc. Marc replies by releasing an auto-produced song (like. literally a demo) where he clearly slanders him, and hard. But they still contractually have to get an album out, so while everybody keeps having a terrible time they finish it through gritted teeth and then split as a band.

pedrenzo get out of the band basically married and rosquez get out of the band as divorced as john lennon and paul mccartney when they ended the beatles. To complete the image, picture dani signing the band divorce papers in the same way george harrison did.

ps: if you wander what kind of shenanigans rosquez did on stage when they where in a situationship, picture the last shadow puppets. if you don't know who they are, ouch, i'm hurt, but here are some examples of... whatever they do/did (the homoerotic solo hug (ignore the weird ass camera angle pls)) (coachella) (every single rendition of standing next to me they ever did) (compilation of some of their gayes weirdest moments (key word: some))

#i'm so insane about this........ sorry #rockstar au #btw id love to talk more about this... pedrenzo i feel could be an untapped golden mine #motogp #rosquez #pedrenzo #adora's tag

[rolandrockover]

Reprise Vol. 1 - Master & Slave

I think it's no big secret that Paul doesn't have much good to say about Kiss' Carnival of Souls. To put it mildly. Or he simply does everything imaginable to at least create such impressions whenever this album title should rarely enough become the subject of an interview question. Of course, he's welcome to do as he pleases, but personally, from my humble perspective, I think it's a bit of a shame, because I can also remember times when he spoke a tiny bit differently about it.

For example, I can still remember the time when the subject of a reunion was still treated as fictitious, and it wasn't on anyone's horizon, least of all Paul's and Gene's. That was back in 1994/95, when Kiss' laudable motto of perseverance and giving their best was for a change increasingly emphasized in their new music.

I still remember very well that regular little Kiss feature in the German Rock Hard magazine, which was supervised by their Kiss Die-Hard (0), and from whom one got the vivid impression that he regularly got a certain insight into the world of our favorite band. I think it must have been February or March 1995 when Paul and Gene (1), but also Eric Singer (2), apparently got in touch with the interviewer directly from the rehearsal room in a telephone interview and Paul confidently said, not without his usual side-swipe at Gene, that his songs were much more melodious and heavier than Gene's. There was a certain pride in that. At some point later he even went so far as to claim that the new album was the best and heaviest since Creatures of the Night.

Oh my! What I mean, since that's a rather thoughtful and equally rare tribute to their own music, which was previously only outspoken to give a very special shine to the indeed excellent Revenge, and the return to form associated with it. And I must add to this Paul seemed quite proud of Revenge in 1992 regardless of how hard he had contributed to the previous albums in the 80's anyway. But who knows, once again, it was probably just the latest sensationalization of the upcoming album (3). Promotion is a double-edged sword, but to wipe Revenge away so succinctly because of it, I really don't know. But maybe and probably because it wouldn't have sounded so good to say their new album was the best since... their last one.

But to get my act together and to at least briefly talk directly about Master & Slave in this context.

So, as I already mentioned in my original entry, Master & Slave had the working title: Paul's Riff. In my perception, this suggests pride and respect, not necessarily from Paul himself, but clearly from his band environment. And the fact that such a meagre, yet all-saying no-name was chosen as accepted as a working title, if not even honored from everybody involved clearly speaks for itself.

And because this is a reprise, I'll simply feature an excerpt from my original text about what I see in this song:

"What begins in Not For the Innocent with a few approaching, ominous tones, continues in Unholy as a small extension in a slightly different pitch, and a much more compact back and forth oscillation of these tones, which thereby does not form the entire riff, but only a complementary part of it. In Master & Slave the whole thing gains in drasticness, and the motif is doubled to a lower pitch, added to the previous one to secure its terrain, only to turn into a Black Sabbath motif a la After All. An endlessly repeating highly dynamic acrobatic feat in loud and quiet/guitar and bass contrast."

When writing Master & Slave, Paul must have thought to himself: Ok Gene, a dark album full of Unholys shall it be? This time I'll listen to you, then you shall get Unholy. Which must have stimulated his ambition to try to outdo Gene in terms of Unholy by more than a small margin. I think the result shows in all strength what the right ambition can achieve.

"To conjure up this wet dream of riff Paul must have really tried hard and done his very best to achieve such a result - regardless of what he claims about Carnival of Souls as a whole today."

It is a real pity that he no longer stands by it. Gene and, above all, Bruce (4) seem to have fewer problems with this.

Side Notes:

(0) Jan Jaedike.

(1) Gene emphasized the psychedelic component and compared Carnival of Souls to the Rolling Stones' Satanic Majesties Request (1967) (5) , and that they couldn't explain either why it sounded different from the previous album.

(2) Eric said the album was super heavy and exactly the kind of music he wanted to play. I love to mention this because he had also clearly distanced himself from Carnival of Souls over the past few years. Klassik.

(3) Can anyone still remember how they loud-mouthedly advertised Crazy Nights as a mixture of Animalize and Destroyer back then? There's even a Youtube video of it, but don't ask me where. Anyway, that was still was something different.

(4) Or the last of the Mohicans, as I like to call him.

(5) Hmm, which Stones album did Ace's cover of 2000 Man actually come from?

Master & Slave starts from the beginning. Unholy and Not For The Innocent are highlighted. Turn up the volume and open your ears, I assume no liability:

Master & Slave (1997)

Unholy (1992)

Not For The Innocent (1983)

I'll add After All by Black Sabbath on top.

After All (1992)

#Kiss #Paul Stanley #Bruce Kulick #Last of the Mohicans #Curtis Cuomo #Gene Simmons #Vinnie Vincent #Master & Slave #Carnival of Souls #Lick It Up #1997 #1992 #1983 #Revenge #Bob Ezrin #Michael James Jackson #Toby Wright #Rock Hard #Magazine #1994 #1995 #The Rolling Stones #Satanic Majesties Request #1967 #Roland Rockover #Eric Singer #Youtube #Black Sabbath #After All #Jan Jaedike

[deedoop]

Painkiller

CW: Implied suicidal thoughts

Sometimes Billy hurts. Feels like his stomach is fighting him, heavy and filled with something taunting. He feels this way when he sees Steve kiss Nancy, sees the way he looks at her in the hallway, all doe eyed and pathetic.

Billy hurts all the time. Whether its a fist to the face or the fact he could never have Steve Harrington. Its never sometimes anymore. He always hurts.

Hurts enough that he kicks at the dark rocks ontop of the quarry, watches them whistle and splash into pitch black water. Beer cans lay littered at his feet, the evidence of his pain tangible and mounting.

Trapped in a town that doesnt care, that refuses to see, with Steve Harrington kissing on Nancy Wheeler, with everything falling apart around him. Billy hurts. The quarry sings its siren song and he can't help but wonder how cold the water will feel.

"Hey!" The smell of marijuana is strong, there's music playing faintly from a walkman. "Didnt know you came here." The long haired freak stood beside him, puffing on his spliff. "Billy right? We're juniors together."

Everyone in Hawkins High is scared of Billy in some way, even his so called friends. Billy who's fueled with rage, whos every pour seeps pain. Whether they tag with him or avoid him, they all cower from the ticking time bomb, rather stay away than help diffuse it. Eddie is different. Scared of nothing, not even him. Hed only heard about the freak in passing but here he was, smoking beside him.

"Metallica? Kill Em All?" Billy finally asks, he can hear the rumblings of his favorite album, hes too tired to push Eddie away, or maybe he's just curious.

"Yeah dude. Metallica is the shit! You wanna hit? And uhh maybe step away from the edge?" And to Eddies surprise, Billy, new keg king popular kid billy, takes the spliff, steps back, and takes an inhale like its a lifeline. The boy's cheeks are red, his lips a dark pink, he blows the smoke out of his nose, tilts his head back to just feel the moons light. Eddie is mesmerized.

"Im Eddie by the way? I dont think we've ever uh really been introduced but if you want? I got some better shit in my trailer if you wanna hang out? Listen to some music?" In Billy's heart he knows he should say no, should protect his image, the one thing he has left. Instead he passes the spliff back, wants to stop hurting even for awhile, be in company that's honest and unafraid to see.

"Yeah." Billy murmurs, "For the record I know who you are Munson, I think everybody does." That has Eddie pausing, even smirking a little.

"But I dont think anyone knows you Bills." Billy isnt sure how he feels about the nickname, about how the night has gone, but the ache in his skin, the pit in his stomach, has eased. "And for the record? No one knows me either." Eddie cant help but snort at his own stupid line.

Steve Harrington had consumed Billy's thoughts for weeks, had left him with sharp pain under his skin for weeks. Between home and school, pain had been a constant, but Eddie for some God forsaken reason was a painkiller and maybe, just maybe, Eddie could be a cure.

#billy hargrove #stranger things #harringrove #steve harrington #eddie munson #mungrove #writing

[unholyverse]

waterparks // rock sound awards 2017

(full text under the cut)

Best International Breakthrough WATERPARKS

Who else could be the winners of our Best International Breakthrough category besides Waterparks? Sold out tours, magazine covers, and even a new album on the way… there isn't a hotter new band on the planet. Awsten Knight joins us to look back on a year that completely changed his life, and gave the rock world their next superstars in the process.

PHOTOS: Jawn Rocha

Well there we have it - you're our Best International Breakthrough winners for 2017! We take it you're quite happy about this?

Says Awsten: "[Yells] YES! IT FEELS VERY COOL!"

Haha! It's been a crazy year for Waterparks. When you went into the studio last summer to record [debut album] 'Double Dare', could you have ever fathomed coming this far so quickly?

"I had hopes! The thing is, I listened to those songs before the album came out or anything, and it's hard to picture how they'll be received. If I listen to them and think, 'This is so fucking cool…' I wouldn't make it if I didn't think that they were the shit. They wouldn't come out if I didn't think t they were were awesome songs. Also, you can't count on them being as well received as you think they should be. Plenty of people make stuff they're proud of, put it out, and the public's kind of like…Okay', know what I mean? I never know what the response is going to be - I can't have any expectations."

You guys have always had a very unique sound, and that's very much the case on 'Double Dare'. Were there any nerves in making a record that was so left-field?

"Honestly, it was pretty natural just because there wasn't a whole lot of pressure with it. If you treat all of the songs like, 'No one's going to hear this, it doesn't matter', then you can go in and just do whatever you want, pretend that it's just for you or whatever you want to do. Then when the time comes to comes to actually pick what's going to make the album it's like, 'Oh, okay'. There's not any sure while it's actually happening, whether pressure it's stylistic, in terms of genres or weird lyrical shit—anything goes."

Even before the album you'd made fans of Joel and Benji Madden, Mikey Way played bass on your EP, you got to know Pete Wentz… You got to know all these people that you yourself were fans of. Was that a real giver of confidence, knowing you had these guys' support even before you went in to record an album?

"It's a strange thing, because it's like…before this all happened we were literally outside of all these peoples' shows passing out flyers. We'd be there like, 'Hey, check it out check it out!' Now those people are going, 'Hey everyone, check out this band', endorsing it or whatever. It's the first step of there being pressure behind everything. It's like, 'Oh dang, everybody I love is watching us right now! This is insane!'"

Earlier this year you had your first ever full band magazine cover with us. How huge was that moment for the band?

"Thank you for that! That was tight. That's probably the coolest thing that's happened to us at this point, to be honest with you. The first full band cover, as a collective, I think that's the coolest."

You've been playing some crazy venues across the year as well—you've toured almost everywhere there is to tour. Was that daunting, or was it just a lot of fun?

"The All Time Low UK tour near the start of the year was just a daze, because I was so sick, but it was also very cool. Going to Japan… okay, no beef with the UK or America or whatever, but Japan was the coolest place! Internationally, Japan is my favourite place to go. The food was ridiculous, and the people were so nice. It's weird—everywhere there's a sense of cynicism. Everybody has a cool guy wall, semi built up. But in Japan, everybody is just psyched as fuck on you. This dude ran up to me and was like jumping up and down, hugging me and shit. I was like, 'Holy shit, this guy's psyched!' It made me psyched, and I hugged him too. If everyone was like that I'd be so happy. Sometimes a guy will walk up to me and be like, 'Yo, I didn't want to like your music but it's really cool'. Then he gives me a cool guy handshake and I'm like, 'Thanks, I guess'. Nobody in Japan would ever say that. Like a backhanded compliment."

Your first ever UK headline tour sold out months in advance. Did it feel like that was the moment that the hard work you put in paid off?

"You know, you bust your ass doing something for so long, like… I love going to the UK now, I've figured out the food situation, it's cool. But it still is the most difficult place to tour, for us. If we go really far towards Japan or whatever, we're only three or four hours apart from loved ones in terms of staying on the clock, even though it's a whole day ahead. In the UK or Europe it's eight or nine hours, which makes it a lot harder. But to be able to do some of these tours that have been difficult, being able to come back and sell out our own shows, we felt the pay-off."

On a personal level, you're very much the musical engine of the band, but you're a very prominent frontman and voice for the band as well, especially online. Has that got overwhelming at any point? "When I'm not feeling stressed and can just sit for a second, I'll go [on Twitter] and look at replies and get back to people. If you reply to people they get so psyched, it's really fun. But I think when you're actually being being creative, you're making things that are now… if I'm sitting down to make a song that's not currently on Earth, and I want to make it the best thing it can be, so that when it's publicly thrown down, I want it to be the best thing it can be. I feel like too much input from outside people, it can't help the process. Leading the, I guess 'vision' or whatever of the band, it's not a lot of pressure because it's really just whatever I'm thinking. It's not a super-calculated, 'We're going to do this serious thing, we're going to drop this vague post on this' etc. I literally just go online and the posts are literally just me."

Geoff [Wigington, guitar] and Otto [Wood, drums] have been really embraced by fans as well. Has that been really cool to see?

"Yeah! The thing is, Waterparks is a band. It would feel weird if people were only embracing me, you know? Granted, when I have looked at our mentions and stuff like that, I see a lot more of like, 'Geoff's my favourite!' over the last six months. I'm like, 'Alright, I see you!""

The year isn't even over and you've already announced your second album. Did you feel like you should act on this year's success as fast as you can and make the most of it?

"Doing the album so quickly honestly just came from looking at it and going, 'There's already enough material for another album, so why wait?' I feel like bands take longer than anybody to put out new music. You don't see fucking Drake putting out an out an album, and then two years later going 'Deluxe Edition!' and throwing on two more songs. Like, milking that for another year, that just doesn't happen. I think that if we're able to make new albums quicker than everybody else and put out things quicker than most, why not? We don't require a bunch of time to go and sit with a bunch of writers and producers and be like, 'Alright guys, let's try and make a song today'. They just happen, and they happen quickly and all the time. It's always progressing, too. Stylistically it's got to the next point already, it's moving fast. It's like, 'Okay, the next album's ready, if we're ready to record, we have a month, let's do it!'"

Given rap and hip-hop artists seem to move so quickly these days, do you think it's important for bands to start releasing new music regularly, to keep up with them? "Bands need to catch up! If you're looking at it objectively…I'm not going to say it's harder to make band music than it is a rap song, but it's a hell of a lot more expensive. If you want to get really theoretical you can be a dick about it, but if you're talking about a real studio and d everything, you can technically go make a beat—one that can be in a popular rap song—you can make that on your laptop and then just go and put the vocals on it. Whereas with a band, you need a lot more equipment. You need to record live drums, you need to to record live bass, guitars, keyboards, you need to then do all the programming etc. Then the track gets made, programmed, cut up, fucked with…I'm not discrediting rap, I listen to it all the time, it's one of my favourite genres, but it takes more time, and probably a bigger budget, to make something that has more instruments and more involvement. And plus, for the rapper, he has to work with one schedule. With a band, a lot of bands are like five people. That's five schedules you've got to line up." We've had some brilliant conversations across the year, saying that people want to slap the pop-punk label on you guys and that sort of thing, and that actually in essence you guys aren't pop-punk at all. People build up these weird expectations and impressions of you out of out of nothing. Has that been quite annoying to deal with at times, or is it just something again that you've just taken on as you've gone?

"I used to get more bugged about it and go 'We're not pop-punk, fuck you!' or whatever. And if it comes up, I'll still try to clear it up best I can. But I don't actively try and fight that label anymore. If some dumb idiot wants to be like, 'This is a bad pop-punk album!' then I'll be like, 'You know what, you're a fucking bad person! The end!' I don't lose sleep over being called pop-punk, you know what I mean?"

Going towards 2018, how are you feeling looking forward? And how does it feel looking back on the year you've had?

"It's weird, I have a really tough time stopping and looking back at things, especially while there's still so much work going on. Right now, the last few days have just been stupid busy. We did a full-on photoshoot yesterday, did a bunch of stuff with the new album tracks, got the masters back, made a bunch of edits, made the setlist for the next tour…When you called, I was actually going over some production things. I'd got the songs we'd all written on a journal in front of me in the car, while we were returning some rental equipment, going over what's going to be on the screens during the shows, now I'm about to go back and do more mastering…it's like a whole thing. Once there's not a lot going on and I can just chill, I'll be able to look back more. The next year is going to be tight as fuck, I know that much!"

'Double Dare' is out now via Easy Life / Equal Vision. The band's new album 'Entertainment' is released on January 26.

#waterparks #awsten knight #geoff wigington #otto wood #i.zip

[dustedmagazine]

Sparklehorse — Bird Machine (Anti-)

Photo by Danny Clinch

Bird Machine by Sparklehorse

When Sparklehorse released Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot in 1995, it felt like an outlier. At the time, during the height of Britpop, there weren’t many artists making slow-motion, country-influenced, lo-fi rock music like Mark Linkous. His aesthetic brought together a classic pop sensibility with a junkshop approach to instrumentation and timbre, where a song like “Chaos of the Galaxy / Happy Man” from second album Good Morning Spider literally sounded like tuning into a radio transmission. He collaborated with PJ Harvey and Tom Waits on It’s a Wonderful Life, and on the title track of fourth album Slept For Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, he painfully evoked the syrup-thick sensation of depression. Though Linkous was candid about his mental-health struggles, when he took his own life in March 2010, it was still a shocking and tragic loss.

Bird Machine is technically the fifth Sparklehorse record, and was worked on by Linkous in the months leading up to his death. This posthumous release has been lovingly put together by Linkous’s brother, Matt, and his sister-in-law, Melissa — and they’ve done a fantastic job. It sounds just as a Sparklehorse album should, and is a surprisingly upbeat listening experience given it was recorded during Linkous’s final months. Among the 14 songs are some searingly fuzzy numbers, such as opener “It Will Never Stop,” “I Fucked It Up,” and “Listening to the Higsons,” a Robyn Hitchcock cover. There’s the sparklingly Beatles-esque “Daddy’s Gone,” the bright, Mellotron-laced “Evening Star Supercharger,” and “The Scull of Lucia” is reminiscent of Radiohead’s “No Surprises,” with a naïve, music-box feel to its melodies.

It’s in Bird Machine’s heavier moments, though, where the album really hits home — and the loss of a unique artist is most keenly felt. The harrowing “O Child” is so slow and sparse that it feels like it could fall apart at any moment, and the lengthy instrumental outro includes fractured, static-flecked dictaphone recordings. On “Everybody’s Gone to Sleep,” Linkous taps into a mellow Yo La Tengo vibe, his vocal sounding uncannily like Ira Kaplan. After the brief guitar instrumental “Blue,” “Stay” is a heartbreaking piano-driven closer, reassuring a loved one “It’s gonna get brighter,” yet sounding as if Linkous is already heading towards the light. And on standout “Kind Ghosts,” which belongs among Sparklehorse’s finest songs, the lyrics are all the more bittersweet given the context: “Where were you, my kind ghosts, when I needed you?” Let’s hope they were waiting for him on the other side.

Tim Clarke

#sparklehorse #bird machine #anti- #tim clarke #albumreview #dusted magazine #mark linkous #posthumous music #songwriter #indie #alternative

[e2019]

music 03/04/24 - 03/08/24

The Cranberries — No Need to Argue (1994), To the Faithful Departed (1996), Bury the Hatchet (1999), Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001)

for some reason, i had assumed that their debut album was the only one worth listening to (altho i knew that "Zombie" is one of their biggest hits). i was, of course, sorely mistaken. i still need to finish listening to the rest of their discography, but if what i've heard so far is any indication, their sound and the quality of their music is very consistent. i really liked Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, so of course i liked all of this as well.

idk if i just need to do a few more listens to become more familiar with their entire body of work, but apparently No Need to Argue is their best-selling album—i don't see it, the 2 that stand out to me most are Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? and To the Faithful Departed. the former is their best imo and is the most characteristic of the band's identity. the latter shows that they have some versatility. in particular, the track "Salvation" really surprised me. it's shockingly noisy, punk, and energetic... for a Cranberries song, that is. different album, but "Zombie" is an outlier as well (it's grunge supposedly, no wonder why i don't care for it, idk why it's such a hit aside from the political messaging).

Cocteau Twins — Four-Calendar Café (1993)

good but not as good as Heaven or Las Vegas, probably

Polvo — Cor-Crane Secret (1992), Celebrate the New Dark Age (1994), S/T (1995), Exploded Drawing (1996), Shapes (1997), In Prism (2009), Siberia (2013)

i loved all of this a lot. my top 3 Polvo projects are Today's Active Lifestyles, Celebrate the New Dark Age, and Exploded Drawing, in that order. idk why it took me so long to listen to the rest of their discography considering how much i enjoyed Today's Active Lifestyles. easily a top favorite band for me. technical noise rock with an ethnic swing, need i say more?

The Cure — Faith (1981), The Head on the Door (1985)

these were the last 2 Cure albums i had yet to listen to. actually i think i'd listened to The Head on the Door before but idr. Faith is considered to be one of The Cure's best albums, but idk why, i didn't think much of it. same for The Head on the Door, except for "In Between Days", which is an awesome song. since it's the intro, you may as well just listen that first track then turn it off.

Lifelover — Pulver (2006), Erotik (2007), Konkurs (2008), Sjukdom (2011), Dekadens (2009)

in the past i've tried and failed several times to get into Lifelover. i was never ready for it because i didn't know anything about metal or how to listen to it. this time it finally clicked for me. i read that the idea behind this band is that it's "accessible" black metal because it incorporates melodic pop-like elements. i must confess i am a normie, and so i like their earlier projects better than their later ones because they seemed to get less pop/more metal over time. Pulver is by far my favorite, i loved it. i really like the vocalist (name: Kim Carlsson, i think), the way he screams and moans so emotionally it's almost erotic (or should i say... erotik...) and it makes me blush. it sounds like he's in pain, no wonder it's called dsbm.

i also read that some people are annoyed by the songwriting/structure of their songs. i can see that. sometimes it kinda seems like the band is just slapping together a bunch of disjointed musical movements at random. like they combined snippets from 5 different songs into one franken-song. this is how i used to feel when i listened to math rock before my brain had developed enough to appreciate it.

Cherubs — Heroin Man (1994)

i had big expectations going into this one because i read a bunch of reviews where people spoke very passionately and with such drama about how ear-splittingly intense and heavy and grating this album is. people were really acting like this is so noisy you can only stand to listen to it once in your life and never again. well i was a little disappointed on that front because to me this was very easy to listen to, not at all challenging, not too harsh or abrasive. nonetheless i liked it a lot. the only thing i disliked is the singer's voice, sometimes it's alright but mostly it's so fucking annoying.

and i read that it's some kind of sludge or sludge-adjacent genre. to me it was more like punk—especially in the lyricism, for the most part i couldn't really understand what the vocalist was saying, but it was still clearly apparent that the songwriting was very simplistic and juvenile, for example much of it is just repeating/screaming the song title over and over... not that it makes a difference to me because i like both kinds of music. but yeah.

Television — Marquee Moon (1977)

so like 10yrs ago i knew someone on a forum whose username was Marquee Moony. i never even thought to think about what it might mean, but it always sounded kind of funny to me. i guess it was a reference to this album. i wish it hadn't taken me so long to discover this album, but it's ok because i know i wouldn't have been able to appreciate it back then. it kinda reminds me of The Velvet Underground or The Beatles in that it's pretty normal by today's standards but is very experimental, noisy, and impressively progressive for the 90s.

Rodan — Rusty (1994)

i feel very lucky to have found this from a random spotify recommendation. i only listened once so far so i need to listen at least a million more times, but i really liked it. idk what happened exactly but i think this band only ever released 1 album because all the band members died so i'm kind of scared i just inherited some kind of curse.

[flesh-into--gear]

@rozecrest this was just easier but im so glad you liked it!

honestly you can't go wrong with any of his albums.

Purgatory is hilariously strong from start to finish and has these tracks which i love (i love the whole album but, in order)

I Swear (To God)

Feathered Indians

Tattoos

Purgatory

Universal Sound

Lady May

Live at Red Barn Radio I & II in absolute entirety tbh but the usual standouts are here

Shake the Frost

Deadman's Curve

Charleston Girl

Rock Salt and Nails

Follow You To Virgie (oof, about his mom, its a hard listen some days but FUCK its good.)

Bottles and Bibles

Country Squire was a mild style change-up, a little more honky-tonk. it's got some great tracks on it but it was also a mild writing departure for him as well, focusing a little more on country tropes and a LOT more tongue in cheek (the song Ever Lovin' Hand is a masturbation joke wrapped in a song about missing the person you love a lot). probably his weakest album? but:

Creeker

House Fire

Peace of Mind

All Your'n

Long Violent History is a kinda cool album, it's all instrumentals, old school holler jams and stuff. kinda hard to get into unless you're from that kinda thing i would assume? just reminds me of when i was a kid at thanksgiving and christmas back when we still spoke to my dad's side, and he and my uncles and one of my aunts would all get together and jam on some old gospel and bluegrass tunes. everybody brought instruments.... ah well. but i digress. you can take me out of the country but ill always be a big tomboy butch who gets a little too excited around jacked up trucks of a specific set of years, or the smell of gas and oil in the morning.

Can I Take My Hounds To Heaven i admittedly completely checked out on because i was deep in covid depression throes so i can't and won't comment because it won't be an accurate representation so.

Rustin' In The Rain I still haven't taken time to fully check out, as im working through a music backlog, but.

In Your Love is an incredible song and go watch the video because it cut me deep as fuck. i know a lot of people still stuck in those mines and i have friends with family members dying today because of coal companies. and im a trans woman from backwoods VA with all my roots in Appalachia from both sides (we had a handful of bootleggers in the family, explains a lot tbh). song hit me hard, in a good way.

anyway! im sorry! thank you for listening to me ramble about an artist i really enjoy! one of these days i should really just start a podcast called "Nobody Asked" and it's just me screaming into a microphone about stuff like this!

like dave matthews! like yeah i get it "ha ha dad rock" but come on!

Live at Radio City with Tim Reynolds is a fucking MONSTER album! and dave is a good guy! or at minimum is actually worthy of supporting because the dude has been doing activist things quietly and loudly for longer than ive been alive! and their music spans so many genres!

Eh Hee

Bartender

Still Water / Don't Drink The Water (back to back! they must be listened to together! please listen to this and Bartender off Live at Radio City)

#41

Two Step

Satellite

Some Devil

Grace Is Gone

and thats not even touching a fraction of this man's catalogue, he's been making music for forty something years

ahain im sorry i just really really love music and GAH theres so many artists from my chilhood and teen years and stuff that get so undeservedly swept under a rug because... i really don't know why. i feel like a lot of artists immediately get written off because of styles or genres or whatever and thats just so unfair and upsets ke geeatly.

that's not directed at you whatsoever rozecrest to be clear lmao sorry it may have come off that way

also anyone who has an interest in bluegrass/gospel go listen to The Seldom Scene's "Old Train" and "Live at the Cellar Door" in their entirety

#music

[estradasphere]

21 & 23

hi forfy!

21: A favorite song with a person’s name in the title

samplingmasters rottel-da-station because it has MY name in it. serious answer though hmmm. ok. let me be clear most songs on this album suck i do not recommend it BUT the songs marie and chloe by mojow and the vibration army are really nice. genuinely sweet. i really like john's voice... marie is about his mom, chloe is about a really old pet (cat?)

23: A song that you think everybody should listen to

oh gosh so many. silly answer: tub ring - bernard's three awakenings, its such an unlistenable clusterfuck of a song and i love it so much i wish they made more like it. makes you feel like the little boy on the album cover serious answer: mr bungle - the air conditioned nightmare. this album was iirc my entry point into experimental rock / avantmetal / Weird Music in general, this song is my favorite off it. it's simultaneously goofy and wholly genuinely beautiful, and it means a lot to me..... i dont need everyone to Like It just Listen to it also i selfishly think everyone on earth should listen to estradasphere but y'all knew that already.

[anmechokola]

Music asks:

20, 23, 24, 29 & 30!!💜

Thank you!!! 💜💜

20: A song that has many meanings to you

Daniel, by Elton John

(There is some Family History involving this song, so listening to it is always kind of bittersweet and reminds me of my family)

23: A song that you think everybody should listen to

Working, Drunk or Hungover, by Astral Yeehaw

("Your dad gave you magic and mine gave me bipolar" lives in my head rent free)

24: A song by a band you wish were still together

Thirty-three, by The Smashing Pumpkins

(I don't necessarily wish they were still together because I've heard the singer was a nightmare to work with, but I miss the vibes the music had, you know?)

29: A song that you remember from your childhood

Re-Hash, by Gorillaz

(Their first album was also the first CD I ever bought with my own money)

Or, if anyone wants to try some Brazilian music:

O Descobrimento do Brasil, by Legião Urbana

(It's one of the most famous Brazilian rock bands of the 80s and early 90s, my older siblings listened to them a lot and I kind of inherited the taste)

30: A song that reminds you of yourself

One, by Sleeping at Last

(When I was in my personality quiz phase, I remember reading about enneagrams and then finding out that Sleeping at Last had made songs for all nine types, and this one kind of stuck with me. Guess which type I am lol)

#ask game #deb talks #chroniclesofaloser

[my-chemical-wheaties]

Albums That I Listened to in March 2024

This month started out pretty fast in terms of how often I listened to albums (As in, there were two days where I listened to three albums in a row), and then later as the month progressed, I noticed that it was taking me longer to actually get around to listening to something. I think for next time, I need to pace myself more so that I don't get burnout. I also lifted the genre and decade restrictions that I put on myself last month and allowed myself to just listen to any album that I thought I would enjoy upon first glance.

These are the albums that I listened to this month:

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel (1970)

Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas (2020)

Heard It in a Past Life - Maggie Rogers (2019)

Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends - Coldplay (2008)

Have You in My Wilderness - Julia Holter (2015)

What Now - Brittany Howard (2024)

Adventure - Oohyo (2015)

Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We? - The Cranberries (1993)

And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow - Weyes Blood (2022)

Michigan - Sufjan Stevens (2003)

The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We - Mitski (2023)

You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene (2003)

Here's how I would personally rank these albums:

Michigan: The instrumentation is so unique; I love the usage of different types of percussion (Especially the bells) and a horn section on this album. The subject matter seems to mostly pertain to Sufjan's personal life, but as someone who was born and raised in Michigan, there are some parts that I can relate to and I definitely feel like the album sounds like Michigan, if that makes sense. This is the first Sufjan album that I've ever listened to, and I'm definitely interested in hearing the rest of his discography. 9/10

Heard It in a Past Life: Maggie Rogers has such a unique sound that fits my exact music tastes. This album scratches the itch really well for me and truly is a no skip album. I really like the fusions between house and indie rock on here. 8/10

And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow: This album sounds like a deeper, more refined version of Weyes Blood's previous album, Titanic Rising. Like with Heard It in a Past Life, this really is a no skip album for me and I respect Natalie for exploring deeper lyrical topics and themes. 9/10

Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We?: This album instantly had me hooked. The instrumentation on it is dreamy and Dolores O'Riordan has such a unique and beautiful voice (Rest in peace). At least in the United States, this is a truly underrated 90s alternative rock album and I'm eager to hear what else this band has put out. 8/10

The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We: I saw Mitski live in concert this past month and so I decided to take it upon myself to listen to her most recent album in preparation. The songs themselves are pretty short, but they are all beautiful and have an almost gothic country feel to them that I really like. Plus, you cannot go wrong with Mitski's lyricism. I can confirm that a lot of these tracks sound as great live as they do as studio recordings. 8/10

Have You in My Wilderness: I feel like this is the objectively better album between it and the Mitski one, but in my head, their placements on this ranking are interchangeable. Some of the songs drag on for a little longer than I feel like they should, but I'm always down for a good art pop album and this one delivers. I especially like the usage of the harpsichord. 9/10

Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends: The only song that I have ever heard from this album was one of the two title tracks, "Viva La Vida," before last month, so I decided out of sheer curiosity to give the whole album a listen. The album overall is pretty solid, and I like some of the switch-ups that happen in the middle of certain tracks. The lyrics could use some work, though. 7/10

What Now: The first I ever heard of Brittany Howard was when I was watching the Grammys some years ago and her former band Alabama Shakes did a live performance. I didn't really seek out any of Alabama Shakes' music, but I did acquire respect for Howard as a vocalist and songwriter. Just last month, she released her second solo album, What Now, and after hearing a brief radio interview that she did, I decided to go check it out. The album is fairly short at about thirty-eight minutes, but it is a wonderful listen all the way through. The soundscape is as colorful as the album's cover. It's still the same alternative rock music that Howard has been making throughout her career, but there are touches of psychedelia and house music mixed in that give this album its own unique personality (The saxophone on "Samson" in particular is just *chef's kiss* exquisite). This also marks the first album that I have listened to in this challenge that was released in 2024, the year in which I am doing this. I will probably be going back to this one. 7/10

Bridge Over Troubled Water: This is a pleasant album to listen to. I love the vocal harmonies, and the tracks manage to all sound different from each other without losing any sonic cohesion. It doesn't really stand out to me as much as some of the other albums that I listened to this month, but I wouldn't mind putting it on once in a while. 8/10

Lianne La Havas: Lianne is an underrated singer-songwriter and musical artist, and I feel like I was overdue for listening to a full album of hers. It's a pretty solid album, but I feel like some of the tracks don't have enough interesting things going on with them. It can get kind of overly repetitive at points. 7/10

Adventure: Continuing my venture into more indie, singer-songwriter Korean artists spurred by my listening of Modern Times by IU last month, Oohyo's sophomore album is a light, smooth pop album with some pleasant electronic elements thrown in for good measure. I wouldn't necessarily say that this project enthralled me as much as some of the other ones that I listened to this month, but it was a nice album to go through. Also, the track "UTO" sounds a little like "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds to me. 7/10

You Forgot It In People: The melodies and guitar work on this album are wonderful and there are some genuinely beautiful moments, but the lyrics come off as extremely pretentious and honestly kind of problematic, if not outright offensive sometimes (For example, there is literally a song that has a homophobic slur in it. To my knowledge, no one credited with writing nor singing this specific track is LGBTQ+. Yikes). Additionally, there are some production choices that I disliked, such as that weird vocal effect they put over Emily Haines in "Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl." Overall, I feel like this album was mid and severely overrated by the indie crowd. 5/10

I already have a few albums that I want to listen to in April, so stay tuned for when I review those next month! :)

#music #albums #album review #simon and garfunkel #lianne la havas #maggie rogers #coldplay #julia holter #brittany howard #oohyo #the cranberries #weyes blood #sufjan stevens #mitski #broken social scene

[jivvin]

if you're willing to do the music ask thing, I'd also love a Playlist from you as well. If doing them all is too much, just do the questions you like the most. :D

oh man, this sure was a ride <3

1: A song you like with a color in the title

Charles Brown - Black Night. it's double damage, 'cause the artist's name also has a colour in it ;p

2: A song you like with a number in the title

Steeleye Span - Seven Hundred Elves

3: A song that reminds you of summertime

Cesaria Evora - Sangue de Beirona

4: A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about

i don't have anything quite like that, but this one - Michal Oginski - Polonaise Farewell - reminds me of someone departed, thinking of whom is still painful, so i don't listen to it often

5: A song that needs to be played LOUD

Ida Maria - Oh My God

6: A song that makes you want to dance

Florence + The Machine - Free

7: A song to drive to

i can't and don't drive, but this is what i imagine would be a cool track to drive to: Wormview - Ashes and Diamonds

8: A song about drugs or alcohol

again, can't recall anything quite like that. SIAMÉS - The Wolf is a great song though, about addiction in general

9: A song that makes you happy

Meg Rock - Clover

10: A song that makes you sad

Neutral - Luna

11: A song that you never get tired of

Caravan Palace - Miracle. don't know if i'll never get tired of it, but there was definitely a time when i was listening to it a lot and often, and i still love it

12: A song from your preteen years

Sum 41 - Fat Lip

13: One of your favorite 80’s songs

Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

14: A song that you would love played at your wedding

honestly never given it any thought or whatever, but i guess this is a nice wedding-vibe song: Beach Boys - God Only Knows

15: A song that is a cover by another artist

Hannah Gill - Somebody That I Used to Know. i love the original, but there's just something about this cover, man

16: One of your favorite classical songs

and here's where i out myself as the most basic bitch imaginable, but Eric Satie - Gnosienne no.1

17: A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

i absolutely cannot imagine myself singing karaoke, let alone with another living person( sorry, but this is the one that genuinely stumped me, i can't even come up with an interesting alternative here

18: A song from the year that you were born

Queen - The Show Must Go On

19: A song that makes you think about life

Alex Wurman - Ending

20: A song that has many meanings to you

The National - Sorrow

21: A favorite song with a person’s name in the title

Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer - Willie's Lady

22: A song that moves you forward

Антитіла - Все красиво

23: A song that you think everybody should listen to

Go_A - Solovey

24: A song by a band you wish were still together

Високосный год - Метро. i not so much wish they were still together, as i wish they'd done more than 1 album over their entire career

25: A song by an artist no longer living

Connie Boswell - I Cover the Waterfront. this is probably the category where i could go on for an especially long time lol

26: A song that makes you want to fall in love

not sure if i've ever gotten this kinda feeling from a song, but Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - Home is one of my favourite love songs, and i think it captures well this warm, upbeat feeling love is theoretically supposed to give you

27: A song that breaks your heart

Лея - Підмінок. definitely cried at this one

28: A song by an artist with a voice that you love

Rammstein - Haifisch

29: A song that you remember from your childhood

Oda Kanako - Moonlight Densetsu (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

30: A song that reminds you of yourself

well, that's easy: Gotye - Smoke and Mirrors

#thank you man! #replies #music #about me