Music August 2025

I made the switch frm spotify bitches!!! So can you <3

I used the app songshift to transfer from spotify to apple music (they made it possible to switch over all your liked songs which was previously not an option when I tried to switch years ago)

Here’s the monthly playlist and the yearly

As more and more artists take their music off spotify, I think I genuinely feel movement happening. I’m figuring out what approach feels right to us rn in regards to our music on there, so will keep ya’ll updated <3

Kinda a chaotic listening month if you can’t tell from the presence of Demi Lovato, Hannah Montana era Miley and Zara Larsson

It’s been a month of digging indie guitar music and Forever 21 pop for whatever reason. It’s the end of the summer baby.

New Cass Mccombs is unsurprisingly litty

I LOVE this song Peace

Our boy Xandy plays on the gorgeous new Teethe album <3 Tires and Bookmarks is my fave, Xandy’s parts make me so emotional THAT IS MY FRIEND!!!

The new Deftones album is EXACTLY what i fucking needed. I get so much happiness listening through this shit. I love a later period rock band album that is as deeply creative as older albums. I don’t know how their sound still is this fresh all these years later….. actually i do… they just do what the fuck they want and if you stick to your personal taste as a musician instead of catering to trends of the times your music alwayssss stays fresh.

my mind is a mountain and departing the body might be some of my faves of their whole career

Deftones 4ever

I really like this new song of Demi’s even though it is clearly running off the steam of Charli’s tea both in the sonic and visual sense.

I think it’s funny how her expression is sooooooo exactly the same throughout the whole video. She looks hot though! I honestly wish the best for her, her life seems to have been fucking hellish.

New Gregory album TAGABOW and Geese singles obviously sicko mode

Such an odd month for me music wise….. welp ! Hope yall HAGS !!!!

While were on the pop train… I like the fucking Zara Larsson song !!!! I LOVE the video. It reminds me of buying perfume at Victoria’s secret as a middle schooler.

I think the beat underlying the whole song is sick, especially the first minute or so before the first chorus.

The lyrics are shockingly bad but I can’t help loving this leave me alone.

Music July 2025

Here’s da monthly and yearly playlist!

This was the month of Teenage Fanclub for me ya’ll….. This song “Tears Are Cool” has been repeated to beyond and hasn’t lost a bit of it’s spark. Been spinning their albums Thirteen and Grand Prix like it is my vocation.

Been bumping experimental pedal steel extraordinaire Susan Alcorn (RIP) this month. Mostly her first album that is not on streaming. Alcorn’s music is a deep well, highly worth looking into if you luv you some steel playing.

New Alex G of course bangs. This is my personal fave… really evokes the Alex G classics I know and luv

Tombstone Poetry opened our secret Weaverville show and they rawked<3 The front person of this band Caelan I have known since they were a wee babe. Their new song is gewd!!!!

I saw Moontype on the 4th of July at etc. in Greensboro !! They were so good I HIGHLY suggest catching them live if they’re in your area. Sick ass live band. New album (out on the incredible Orindal Records) is great great great

At the tail end of the month I started listening to Jake Tobin cause our TM Patrick was wearin a shirt from one oof his tours and I was like who that??? This song rocks

okay peace !!!

Music June 2025

Here’s the Playlist for Juneeeee and the master playlist or the year and heres the master playlist on youtube !

It’s been another chaoottic month for me brain wise wtffff and my listening this month reflects that most absolutely

Found this CD at a shop in Valdese, NC… didn’t buy it but wish I did.

found this off of Eli’s Chasing Sundays substack…. and whew mama. Has a lil bit of douchey metal guitar in a way I LOVE

Mainlined TUI this month…… the new Turnstile left me wantin’ old Turnstile and Trapped Under Ice

Deepening my hardcore research also led me to Integrity… and thank jesus for that

Listened to the new Kesha for the first time on a pontoon boat……. epic

Reminded me of when i first heard TikTok for the first time at my bat mitzvah party and it changed my fockin life

My boy samuel had a deep listening party for this stereolab album.

We sat around and listened all the way through, and i deepened my connection with many of the songs on the album<3 honestly, making an event out of music listening, with a group of friends has been kinda life changing for the way I interact with music

Heard this song on UNCG student radio the other day… i’m addicted to it. This guy apparently does all the beats for the Beastie Boys? IDK their discog that well if im tbh….. but i wanna

started emailing w matt from 9millions and exchanged some music. He recommended this final agony rec and its fweaking awesome.

One of ya’ll recommended this Pie album, I’ve been puttin it on oft

Also shout out to this Raymond Brake 7’’ that they sent me alsooooo

Last but not least, I smoked some weed and re listened to three Unwound albums all the way through and it was a religious experience. love u forever unwound

Music May 2025

I made both a monthly playlist as well as a 2025 master playlist! Sorry I use spotify… I am ashamed!!! But I’ve got playlists from friends that have since passed away on there that I’m scared to transfer for some reason. lol that’s my excuse…. I’m also gradually trying to make a playlist on Youtube for these but it’s kinda a time suck… I’ll just sit down and watch some movies and try to update it all.

Damn it’s been a chaotic ass listening month for me… if you can’t tell. I got a fuckin jonas brothers song on the playlist??? ok girl. As well as the Jet Set Radio soundtrack… so good for running though.

I’ve been bumping the new Bitchin’ Baja’s record with the Natural Information Society. Their whole discography rocks. I wish this was the music that was playing anytime I get a massage. It’s definitely a sound for that type of situation… but the best version of it. I saw them play a few years ago at the Pilot Light in Knoxville and it was the last time live music made me cry (actually not true I cried when Waxahatchee played “Much Ado About Nothing” at Hopscotch). But the Baja’s made me cry cause they were holding a single beautiful chord for like 5 minutes and then changed it to another somehow more beautiful chord…. I was MOVED.

The new Florry album is completely blowing my mind. Francie’s voice is wildly good on this new shit. Especially in their song “Pretty Eyes Lorraine”. Whole album fucking cooks tho.

Binch I love Toner. They’re a Wednesday tour van staple. We’ve played with them a few times too and they’re secret sweeties…. although you could be fooled by how like “idgaf” they look lol

I think I talked about the new Friendship music last month, but that record is out too and fucking rocks.

New Tracy Nelson record! We met Austin years ago when we played a Philly show with Tagabow and Hotline TNT and he was on second guitar.

Jake recorded this a billion years ago when we still lived in Haw Creek together so it’s kinda crazy to hear now. I sing on a bunch of these. “Just Shoot Me Now” is my faveeeeeey.

Music April 2025

As usual here’s the playlist! A little shorter this month than usual. I kinda got into the mode where I truly just wanted to listen to the same couple songs over and over.

As predicted it was a big month for Polvo, I listened to their album Cor-Crane Secret ova and ova. It’s my favorite of all the ones I listened to in their discography this month.

I also listened to this band Truman’s Water. Especially their first album , 1993’s “Spasm Smash Xxxodxox Ox & Ass”. It sounds like a Pavement, Pixies and a Swirlies song playing at the same time.

I was deeply stuck on this specific George Jones’s song. It has all the sadness of spring within it!

My favorite Friendship song is finally out!!!! I have been addicted to this song since i heard Dan play it solo on the MJ/Wednesday solo dates last December. “Who’s that shithead!!!!! in my living room???? Playing resident evil????”

New Colin Miller record out as well!!! He recorded the first MJ and Wednesday albums and also drums in MJ and the Wind. I love many songs on this record but I think “Thunder Road” is my fave

New Bleary Eyed single is fucking so sick…. some really exciting noises and sounds on this one. Gives me hope. Plus Alan is repping them in tshirt form in the press photos we took this month for the next Wednesday album….

Been jamming this when I need a pick-me-up… it was a weird month. The beginning was mad weird brain wise but by the end I am the happiest I’ve been in years…. funny!

This label reissues a lot of cool shit

Finally… now that it’s getting warm out it’s time for that SHITTY (complimentary<3) pop country!!!!

Get me on a GD pontoon boat and blast this shit!!!!!!

Music March 2025

Here’s a playlist for this month, again, ordered by moment of discovery not any sort of cohesive listenability. I ain’t precious about that.

Really been enjoying Shizuka. She was buds with the Les Rallizes Dénudés ppl. “III” is like low-fi demoy ballads and “Heavenly Persona” is noiser. “Plan For Solitude” makes me feel like i’m watching that scene at the end of Train to Busan where the little girl is singing through tears in the tunnel after escaping from the zombies, unknowingly saving her own life.

I have a feeling that April will be a month devoted to the discography of the infamous North Carolina and Merge Records band Polvo. Strangely enough I haven’t had a devoted moment to them yet in my lifetime. It is time. This was a realization I had on March 30th, so I think I’ll have more to say about the music at the end of April. Just so strange I have yet to really dig into this band considering how much I love Sonic Youth and Swirlies…. which are built on very similar sonic foundations. I find music that uses more these more innovative and unconventional but vaguely gazey sounds much more inspiring than traditional shoegaze. At least shoegaze that really commits to the “rules” and precedent set by Slowdive and MBV etc.

I listened to an episode of this podcast HardLore that was inerviewing the guy Todd from Nails. Nails is known as a really accessible entry point into heavy-azz music, I suggest giving their classic “Unsilent Death” a listen if you’re curious. I’ve always been a fan of em, since Alan played me some of their songs in the tour van, and think they do a lot of really exciting shit. I think making accessible music in heavy genres is cool. My friend Will said Nails is a classic “door guy’s tshirt” band. We were wondering what other tshirts guys doing door at venues often wear to signal dominance, feel free to comment below.

Todd spoke a lot about other hardcore bands he came up playing with in the 90’s and I found a lot of fun songs going down that rabbit hole.

Carry On is a legendary band he was in… I didn’t know about it before the podcast. My relationship with hardcore music has been really funny. I find it in a lot of random places and have missed hearing many of the foundational bands and classics. So I’m circling back and doing recon a bit. I really loved listening to a bands adjacent to the early Carry On/Nails scene: Buried Alive (they’re from Buffalo!), Go It Alone (Vanocuver), and Terror (LA).

I’m honestly not a huge fan of the gang vocals in a lot of these songs… they harken back to my middle school days listening to A Day to Remember which I’m assuming was influenced by this stuff. I’ve been getting lots of inspiration from their energy though.

I love the Oklou album………

It’s the first collection of songs in a while that I would describe as “minimal” and “tasteful” that isn’t boring or tedious in anyway.

I appreciate her patience and long intros. Really builds the world before coming in with anything akin to a “hook”

In a similar but totally different vein I leave you with Michelle Mercure. “Ahead of her time” is a gross understatement. The sounds she gets out of her analog equipment are so fucking impressive.

The album below is a collection of her self produced and self released songs in the 80s