Happy 30 years of blue album to him specifically

Music!!!

Was having a rough day and then I watched Death Cab for Cutie play Transatlanticism in full and now I’m fine

For The Ringer, wrote about Steve Albini—musician, producer, hater:
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we see this condescending “it’s more complicated than you know” deflection bullshit all the time. old tactic

it’s not complicated, we don’t want tens of thousands of Palestinians to be murdered by a govt that repeatedly explicitly states it wants to murder Palestinians. fuck you

Great afterword by grayson haver currin (doesn't tweet much at all) on Albini pitchfork.com/features/after…

My latest UPROXX Q&A is with my favorite new shoegaze band, Blushing!
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Steve Albini made those drums sound like they were bone-dry yet nonetheless powerful and no one else was capable of that. It sounded like there actually was powder bursting into the air with each thwack of the snare even tho it’s physically impossible.

Surfer Rosa and Attack on Memory and In Utero and Things We Lost in the Fire and Rid of Me and The Magnolia Electric Co. and that’s only scratching the surface

steve touched countless lives and changed mine and many others for the better. a genuine, singular, principled person. spent the last 40 years helping people make art. there's no reason for him to be gone and the world is less interesting without him. just a really sad day.

Thank you so much for having us Grant Sharples UPROXX - this was a fun chat 💜💜💜💜

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happy birthday to thomas pynchon

I wrote about some great new indie music for my column at UPROXX!

This week includes Mdou Moctar, illuminati hotties, Blushing, Caroline Polachek, Rui Gabriel, Jessica Pratt, SNARLS ⭐️💛, City Of Caterpillar, and more
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What more is there to say? The line was supposed to be “vote Dem or get fascism” but under Biden we have military cops gassing kids all across the US. The majority of the country is appalled by genocide in Gaza and yet this government is pretending that view is criminal.

The choice in November is between two vengeful, elderly, bloodthirsty racists with nearly identical platforms but the powers that be need to pretend there’s a difference to preserve this sham of a system we have

I wrote about some great new indie music for my column at UPROXX!

This week includes Mdou Moctar, illuminati hotties, Blushing, Caroline Polachek, Rui Gabriel, Jessica Pratt, SNARLS ⭐️💛, City Of Caterpillar, and more
uproxx.com/indie/all-the-…