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Writer at many places | 🎙️ @EndlessScroll_ , @violentreatment | Ex- @Revolvermag | elijenis1994 @gmail .com |
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In 2023, shoegaze is bigger than ever. Major label signees, unprecedented Billboard charts, record streaming figures, and mainstream visibility. The sound, look, and reach of the genre are changing. And TikTok is the engine.
My analysis for
@stereogum
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What in the FUCK is going on with this Spotify desktop update??? Genuinely — *genuinely* — the most confounding, clunky, basically unusable UI update I've ever seen? I'm fuming lmao
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Cranking this fucker rn. Yeah I just don't think guitars have ever sounded any better?
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I have unwavering faith that a worker-owned music publication that publishes fearless criticism, savvy reporting, and smart features people actually want to read could be made sustainable. I really do. I hope some of the greatest minds in our field make a go of it.
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Framing herself as a victimized underdog, despite materially being the biggest artist in the history of music, is fundamental to her brand. Her fans can't just love her, ther adoration must be couched in *righteousness*. It's been a profitable approach for her.
Who are you to challenge her narrative? You are a journalist!!!!!
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For
@Stereogum
, I present a detailed argument for why we're seeing a New Wave of American Shoegaze that's giving the genre a long-overdue revamp.
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Been thinking about the concept of track premieres again...something I still get dozens of PR emails about each day...and how they're based on a music journalism economy that virtually doesn't exist anymore.
A big thread:
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Tell me more about how coronavirus brought their career to a screeching halt, yet the band was able to use the downtime to make their most intimate and personal work yet, translating the sense of overwhelming dread and uncertainty into confrontational songwriting
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Okay you can all pretend you were always too cool for Warped Tour (some of you were, yes) and that it's become nothing but a flaming railcar of problematic behavior
but you can't deny that it was a fundamental gateway into underground music for SO many people in this community
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Adult stans who behave this way are the enemy of music. Imbecilic philistines who are fundamentally incapable of understanding art and connecting with it on a human/spiritual level. Vacuous morons who only believe in hyper-capitalism and hollow idol worship. Pathetic wastes.
.
@pitchfork
is under fire after one of their employees (
@violet_by_hole
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"You share the same fate as the people you hate" - Car Seat Headrest, 2016
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Lumping the "racist" M*m J*ans guy—who was canceled for being an edgelord at the age of 14 (!)—in with literal rapists and serial abusers is precisely why people outside of this psychopathic Twitter bubble don't take sexual assault/abuse seriously.
A dangerous conflation.
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*some personal news voice*
This is my last week as a part-time news writer at
@consequence
and a freelance writer elsewhere.
Next week, I begin my new *checks notes* Full Time Job as an editor at
@Revolvermag
. I couldn't be more stoked.
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The Alex G show being across from the Morgan Wallen show makes for some fun, "which mulleted person is going where?" gameplay.
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I've been thinking a lot about how we write about, discuss and historically contextualize bands who've been "canceled" within subculture.
I wrote about that within the context of Whirr, who were canceled seven years ago yet remain remarkably popular.
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I hate this, and I'm not defending it, but I don't think it's historically unprecedented for audiences to behave this way. Listen to the crowd jeers on that Sonic Youth bootleg from '85. In the same era, Henry Rollins was spit on and harrassed every night by batshit fans.
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I'm all for younger generations revising musical canon, esp w/r/t to shoegaze, where that's long overdue. But putting Whirr in the genre's top 3 is like kicking Illmatic out of rap's pantheon for Man on the Moon. It's just not right lmao.
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After three years observing the state of mainstream metal, I've concluded that the genre's A-list artists are in a precarious state of creative, spiritual, and aesthetic bankruptcy.
Here's my dissertation on metal's new headliner class. For
@stereogum
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I thought the super fun Beach Bunny/Pup/Pool Kids show was an interesting case study in how a band with staggering levels of internet engagement performs alongside a road-dogging punk band w/ a comparatively marginal online presence.
Or something!
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My biggest accomplishment this year is that I fell in love with reading books. My whole adult life, I was always embarrassed to admit I read maybe one or two a year. This year I read over 30. I feel like a new person in a lot of ways because of it.
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Bands announcing albums 8 months in advance now to keep up with vinyl delays. Just normal, totally sustainable industry stuff.
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DIY emo kids: DIY needs to be more inclusive!!! Be kind to every1 :-)
Also DIY emo kids: Mmm a perfect day to start pointless, bad-faith, inner-circle Twitter drama that's totally isolating to anyone outside of our clique, sews division, and serves no one :-)
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Last year I noticed that signed indie artists were dropping one-off singles and EP's mere months after their last album. The trend seemed to be continuing in early 2020, so I looked into it for
@billboard
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Many of my theories were confirmed:
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My theory re: Alex G on RCA is that the label are doing what Geffen did with Sonic Youth. It's for show. Getting someone legitimately cool on their roster to convince this new gen of bedroom pop kids who see no point in signing that there must be some reason to, if Alex G did it.
the alex g news makes me wonder if we’re about to hit another moment like in the 90s when major labels are gonna throw a bunch of money at weirdos like the flaming lips and ween and primus again, especially when like alex g and duster are the big viral acts now
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I have so much hatred in my heart for the tech nihilists and VC pirates, these illiterate philistines who've plundered our industry. I wish I could find someplace productive to put this energy. It just feels so futile.
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I wrote a primer on Hyperpop for
@VICE
. Got into its sound, its creative ethos, what it means to some of its most essential figures, and how Spotify's "Hyperpop" playlist is its primary engine.
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The second part of this song should be 2, 3x longer. Minimum. Just wanna hear that groove forever, man.
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OK now he's just doing full-on Tom Delonge-face. This is appropriation.
Machine Gun Kelly on his extraterrestrial encounters: “They’re out here”
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An album I've never liked is Foxing's 'The Albatross.' An album I like quite a bit is The Hotelier's 'Home, Like No Place Is There'. Anyways, gonna see both those records played in full tonight.
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I wrote about why people like Alex G, the evolution of his sound, my experiences seeing him live, and why he's my favorite artist ever.
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I like this DIIV quote a lot.
Why are musicians expected to be miserable on tour just to break even?
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I wrote about The Hotelier and Foxing. Their landmark emo revival albums, their divergent career paths, and what it was like to see them meet in the middle again for this 10-year anniversary tour.
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I profiled the most Unknown and Underappreciated band of our time: Spirit of the Beehive. For
@stereogum
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The thing I'm proudest of this year is that I'm more *into* music now at 29 than I even was at 20. Btwn my job, two podcasts, my blog, going to more shows than ever, reading more about more music than ever. A lotta people my age are dropping off. I'm only ramping up. Feels good.
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Everything still seems pretty bad but I suppose I can share some personal news I'm excited about:
I'm now a part-time news writer for
@consequence
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Twitter emos will literally form their identity around a genre of music that's entirely based in airing out messy, angsty, emotionally undeveloped feelings and then cancel an adult for not being empathic enough when they were 14 years old.
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I can't even sell an interview on a relevant, talented, popular, and non-abusive indie artist right now. The state of music journalism right now...and that invaluable ink gets spilled on that fucking horseshit. Beyond infuriating on so many levels.
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Revisiting a bunch of 2023 shit as I narrow down my AOTY list. This is one of the best indie-rock songs of the year, no doubt.
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It's been said before & I think it bears repeating: The fact that people still get so worked up abt music criticism is itself a testament to the enduring value of criticism. People still care about reviews & nuanced/negative crit. It's investors who've decided it's not valuable.
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We're told we have to vote. We have to "engage with democracy." Not voting for these merciless cretins no matter what they say and do is a moral failure and a civic sin. And then this is what our votes go toward. And we're just supposed to eat it and vote for them again?
Footage for the unprecedented lsraeli air attacks hitting Gaza Strip.
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The Soul Glo album is gobsmackingly good in a way that honestly leaves me kinda speechless. This band has always been putting out amazing stuff, but this feels like a landmark punk album. A true generational feat.
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Boutta see an emo band of ~19/yo's and there're two MoBo shirts onstage. Do with that info what you will.
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I wrote about one of the best albums I've ever heard, Jeff Rosenstock's 'Worry.', for this
@EW
list of overlooked records from the 2010's.
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Got some bittersweet news: after five fulfilling years, I've decided that it's time for me to step down as an editor at
@GetAlternative
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There's no real reason other than my schedule is insanely busy and something had to go for my own sanity's sake. But I'll miss it.
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Been thinking a lot about grunge. The innovations of the last decade, but also why its current torchbearers can feel stale and redundant to me. And why the genre's pioneers remain at an elevated level of artistic excellence.
Wrote a lot about all that.
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The second Turnstile's "Mystery" comes on at the bar and your whole podcast is hanging irl for the first time ever.
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Personally, I think modern shoegaze bands are making the biggest, grandest, and most beautifully crushing music in the genre's history.
I talked to a bunch of bands and producers about how modern recording technology makes that possible. For
@splice
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I profiled Turnstile for one of the cover stories in Revolver's Winter 2021 issue.
I also had a life-spanning conversation with Every Time I Die's Keith Buckley and a wild chat with Poorstacy. More info here :-)
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Very pleased to share that I profiled one of my favorite new artists, Gupi, for
@RedBullMusic
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Person who talks during the set? Awful. Irksome. Rude. Intolerable.
That oafish narcissist who relentlessly tries to do bants with the band between songs, esp in smaller venues where the whole room can hear?
Those dudes make me reconsider my stance on corporal punishment.
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Very cool to see Turnstile, a band who completely reshaped my understanding of what music could be, and who's brought me pure joy for years in ways few other artists ever have, receive the same type of giddy embrace from outside of the heavy music world. Just good vibes.
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I absolutely refuse to believe that the corporate philistines destroying our industry recognize the value of and hunger for genuine music journalism/criticism. Don't let their imbecilic mismanagement and incurious greed determine the value of this field. I refuse to.
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I think growing up a metalhead prepared me to not let an artist's obnoxious fanbase impact my enjoyment of the music. Like, Boygenius stans pale in comparison to the average Pantera-loving troglodyte lmao
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Eli news: After 3 years, I've decided to step away from Revolver. I learned and grew a lot there, but it's time for me to pursue some new writerly horizons.
I'm returning to freelance for the time being, and I'm hungry to take on new assignments. Email me: elijenis1994
@gmail
.com
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Idk the exact date but it was def early Feb two years ago that I decided to quit my restaurant job and just try writing about music full time until I went broke. Somehow I'm still doing it and the opportunities I've had kind of blow my mind when I think about it.
So yeah, woo!
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It requires, and I say this w/out an ounce of hyperbole, qanon levels of delusional thinking to view Israel's barbaric decimation of Gaza through the prism of freeing hostages. Yet that's the line "liberal" zionists choose to repeat, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary
🚨Senior Israeli official admits they KNEW there were NO hostages in al-Shifa.
He said the raid was merely a "symbol that there is no place we will not reach" (i.e. nothing is safe in Gaza).
No claim of a "Hamas command center".
15 hours of IDF search, still NO tunnels found!
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Artists singing about mental health in 2021: "This record is about empowering radical vulnerability within neurodivergent communities."
Ozzy Osbourne singing about mental health in 1980: "I'm going off the rails on a crazy train! The locomotive is pure cuckoo! I'm fuckin batty!"
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Running From Cops, a podcast investigation into the corrupt practices of the show Cops, is literally one of the most informative, mind-boggling, and viscerally enraging pieces of media I've ever consumed.
I wrote about it for my
@outline
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See I don't think Matty's dumb, which is what makes him/the whole Adam Friedland/Red Scare world so cloying to me. Ppl who earned cultural cache by at one point subscribing to metropolitan left politics, and now use that as cover to "ironically" *act* dumb and say offensive shit.
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It's officially Listening To Peripheral Vision While Drinking Coffee and Sitting In Front Of An Open Window To Let The Cold Air Wash Over You szn
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Not sure if this band is actually any good, but this pitch — which basically amounts to, "hey, how about some music that doesn't suck ass?" — was 10x more compelling than the mealy-mouthed appeals to emotional vulnerability or w/e that pile up in my inbox.
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I saw people get shot in the fucking face with rubber bullets for throwing water bottles *near* cops at a BLM rally. And this is the response to protesters literally storming the Capitol?
BREAKING: Trump supporters have breached the Capitol building, tearing down 4 layers of security fencing and are attempting to occupy the building — fighting federal police who are overrun
This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Thousands, police can’t stop them
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Guy posting on X (formerly known as Twitter) who feels morally superior about no longer using Spotify.
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20 songs that make me start honking like a goose the second they come on, or what have you.
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A pair of sweatpants with words on the butt but the word is just "Cancelled"
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I wrote a big essay about how SXSW was so much better than many of my music media peers made it seem on Twitter.
Touched on a lot of things like DIY, community, and swerving capitalist bullshit. Very pleased w/ how this flowed out~
For
@GetAlternative
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Drop Nineteens were never, *ever* supposed to reunite. But then they did.
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Wish I could be stoked for tour announces, but alas, my gf is immunocompromised, the vaccine doesn't work on her, these mask mandates lifting essentially means she can't exist in public, and vaccination levels are at a pitiful ~43%. 🤷♂️
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I think one of Spotify's implicit goals is to be mistaken as a public utility. Be incredibly cheap for the consumer to have all their listening needs in one place, much like a public library, so that it feels less like an entertainment app and more like a resource.
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JJ took a chance on me and gave me my first Big byline in 2017. Working with them as a freelancer was always a uniquely professional, stress-free experience. Their lay-off is a profound mistake on the part of management.
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Saw a blog literally copy/paste the band bio I wrote, slap a link down, and call that a "premiere".
That's uhhhhhhhhhh shitty!!
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One for the Freaxxx:
I wrote about the inimitable zaniness of Brokencyde, talked to one of them about being uniquely loathed, and examined how their once-unforgivable sound can now be heard in some of the ~coolest~ artists of today.
For
@VICEUK
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Just got a press release announcing that an artist is releasing their new album on a "unique physical offering" -- a CD.
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You're making stuff up. What major label hyperpop artists are you talking about? Flash-in-the-pan nobodies like CMTEN? Ericdoa and glaive? Neither are rock. Gecs are the only ones and they always had a rock throughline. quannnic and jane remover are on an indie.
the hyperpop kids all pivot to rock once they sign to majors because there are still rock festivals, rock radio stations, and rock/metal press. especially internationally. they won’t get booked for rolling loud so they try to get booked for this instead
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Great indie-rock, imo
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I went to Philly to cover the first-ever Slide Away festival. I returned with a profile of Nothing, an ode to a city, and a report from the frontlines of this "epochal" moment in shoegaze history.
For
@stereogum
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In a surreal life twist, I got asked to come on Popcast to talk about 100 gecs, Attack Attack!, 3OH!3, Breathe Carolina, and other bands I never dreamed of uttering in a NYT setting.
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Unsurprisingly, a lot of shitty things appear to be going down in 2020. The upcoming third LP from the Chicago indie-rock band Ratboys is not one of them.
Shit is wooooah good.
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I used the iconic Punk Goes Pop series as a lens to explore how pop-punk's relationship with pop/hip-hop has changed over the last decade. In short, pop's going punk.
For
@billboard
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We're potentially on the brink of entering a golden age of music journalism: a ~practice~ that, like the OG blog years, is entirely shaped by writers' tastes/passions, but in a world that's slowly (hopefully) warming up to the subscription payment model so bloggers can maybe eat.
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Hot take: I'll always go to bat for emo bc it'll always be an underdog genre and I love what it stands for/its complicated history/identity. And there's nothing like a great fuckin emo band.
But most emo bands bore the shit outta me at this point in my life 🤷♂️
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While I'm unloading Weezer takes, might as well throw this on the fire: The White album -- generally considered their best in decades -- actually sucks, and their most recent good record is Everything Will Be Alright in the End, which largely rocks.
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Having a real moment with this band rn. I'd reductively describe them as "what if Fugazi were sexy?" but idk that kinda feels like an apt pitch! This record just sounds so...Cool.
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New Code Orange album is their best yet. It's a huge swing. It doesn't sound like what you think it will (it ain't nu-metal). The melodies blow me away. The heavy parts destroy. That's all I'll say...for now.
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People in the Sleep Token subreddit are writing fan fiction about me getting dumped by a girl who loves Sleep Token lmao
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I wrote a pretty hefty retrospective on Pitchfork's infamous 'Kid A' review, its impact on music journalism, and its lasting presence in the critical discourse. For
@billboard
*cue National Anthem bassline*
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Hotline TNT have awesome live energy and were really working the crowd last night in a way most indie rock bands fail to do. Wish they had more than like 2 good songs tho :/
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Boutta fill in a pretty huge blind spot for the next 'scroll ep. Let's see how this goes..
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I wonder how big a role gender plays in Spotify's algorithm. Why are Hole's "Fans also like" almost exclusively bands w/women members while Nirvana's are all men? There's no way the listener data yields such a stark gender binary. Gotta be some editorializing in there. Why?
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That thing Oso Oso does when they get real quiet and Jade sings softly over palm-muted guitars and you know the song's gonna explode in a matter of seconds but you kinda want the tension to last forever.
I like that thing.
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This might be my favorite song on the Wednesday album. Such a quirky, creaky, evocative little song that just sort of jitters and squeals and rumbles, and then just when it sounds like it's ready to get going, it ends. I love it.
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Been listening to 2009-era indie for the pod, & I find it really interesting that Chillwave -- this ephemeral, low-stakes micro-trend -- feels more emotionally/sonically relevant today than stuff like AnCo, Dirty Projectors & Phoenix that had a more widespread impact at the time.
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