My admittedly-pretty-out-there theory about stuff like this is that people are being conditioned to think less like humans, whose sense of their own knowledge is driven by experience, and more like LLMs, which understand knowledge as the sum total of whatever information it is they have access to

Thinking of covering the entirety of Enema of the State just to feel something

No the bar doesn't take debit cards, are you out of your mind?

It's all about eye contact

the senseless slaughter of songbirds

Hi new followers, I am broke as fuck. Are you into, y'know, music? iffin.bandcamp.com

Favorite resources on how neurodivergent people can support each other in relationships during difficult moments?

Hey. If your band plays in North Carolina, or is touring thru there, hit me up to open. I've written 3 songs since I got here

I started out trying to research a little promotional blog post for work and I've ended up with the realization that the human mind is essentially a well tuned set of oscillators

I have to say it's amazing that MTV continues to be a metonym for music videos in general since it's been at least 35 years since music videos were their primary programming

Outstanding storytelling, and it made me think: isn't "trying God" by handling a serpent the exact opposite of what the original instructions were all about

I just looked at a box of Delectables brand cat treats and said, bleary eyed, "that's the evolved form of Delekid." How's your morning going

I know it's all been said in the replies but the Clash fucking suck imo, plus blink 182 isn't on here so that's an automatic DQ

If you catch the pun in this album title can you please invite me on your podcast or something. CVS and Domino's aren't calling me back iffin.bandcamp.com

I don't make art for the money, but I do sell it for the money

Tears for Fear Factory

With all due respect, your bio literally says Sonic the Hedgehog. I don't think we should put the transphobia aside cause when you do that you're just kind of being a bully and picking a safe target, takes a bit of the teeth out of the whole transphobia thing

Finally, finally getting into Screamadelica. Took me twenty years to understand what is so cool and important about this album, and the rave-rock collision of the early 90s more generally: rock that won't let you listen to it as rock music - you need the surrender of the dance floor to get it

I don't have another Dune gag but I love the bottom right of this poster, Victoria Beckham all "does Posh Spice jump...? Oh shit he's taking the picture"

When I skip shaving to keep transphobes away at the lesbian bar

Git Er Dune

When I say "DIY ISN'T AN ETHIC IT'S A TECHNOLOGY" this is exactly what I'm talking about

This reminds me of when Bruce Springsteen was being accused of "denying service" to North Carolina when he refused to play there on account of an anti trans bill

My favorite Stiff Little Fingers song is "When Two Anxiety Disorders Clash"

Y'all remember back in the mid 2000s when people added "shoegaze" to their Myspace bio to show they had a sense of humor?

My brother called me a "traditionalist" (songwriter) once like 15 years ago

m.youtube.com/watch?v=4SHv... I'm a day late and it sounds like shit but I'll always have a soft spot for little egg me completely losing it in an attic in Vermont 8 years ago

Always very pleased to see this idea spreading. I like the underlying premise that a relationship with music is a practice of devotion to one another, which is exactly the kind of weaponry we need in the war that's being waged on our spirit

Indeed wants me to celebrate the holidays by getting a fucking job

Released my best work the day after everyone's year end lists dropped: iffin.bandcamp.com

Okay if I can be selfish for a moment: I'm delisted from itch. In the UK you literally can not see my profile. A big chunk of my income, my living money, comes from bundles like this. It would mean a lot if you could share it, send it to friends. 🧵 itch.io/s/175443/ver... itch.io/b/3377/bundl...

The premise of Persona 6 should be that entering the Metaverse causes you to change your gender. The main character, ie the Trickster, should be so because they are the Androgyne

Does getting abducted by ICE at one's workplace pertain to worker's rights? Or are we being selective with our definition of workers here

When I lived in Montreal I would routinely introduce my band as Wolf Parade and it got laughs every time

Fun fact: "Jingle Bells" was adapted from another tune with the same melody that describes William Dingle Balls losing his virginity

So I am sorry that it has come to this, but with my mother struggling with massive overtime to help us, I feel I must ask for help from others, to help us prepare to retreat back home to Sweden with our cats and without going homeless. www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-...

Not the point but you know Morrissey feels personally snubbed by this headline

My mother in law didn't tell us that her "financial planner" was ChatGPT, but one look at the "budget" she provided made it blindingly clear

I love music writers but wonder how they are so wrong so often. Evidently the Wake caught shit back in the day for sounding too much like New Order. Meanwhile I got two minutes into one of their albums before I heard a harmonic structure that I feel certain would never have occurred to New Order

It's been more than a year since I've had a day like this, where I feel like I can actually just sit around listening to music and thinking thoughts. My apologies I'm advance due the inevitable consequences on the vibes

The debasement of CBS makes me hope someone tries to bring RCA back, cause it would be funny

A data point for the AI debate: my rural North Carolina Craigslist currently lists a position editing AI outputs - in the gigs section, not jobs

You couldn't pay me to sit thru the opening credits of an Avatar film. I remember the hype around the first one that it was making people kill themselves because of how pretty it looked. I know that's nonsense but it made it pretty clear that this was in every way The Wrong Kind of Movie

If you listen closely at the end of "Helter Skelter" you can hear John Lennon say "I buried Donald"

The season 1 finale of Critical Listening is now live for patrons and with us to send off the year we have none other than the internet’s busiest music nerd himself: Anthony Fantano. Subscribe and hear in full at patreon.com/criticallistening, see you in 2026!

Cross posted from IG: If you think karaoke isn't part of the music scene; If you think the trivia host is your competition and not your colleague; If you think open mic is for hobbyists and not for artists; You are a poseur. You are the problem.

Great read, needed it today

COWARDS

Still mad about that Stranger article. I miss my friends but Seattle itself has never felt more to me like a lost cause. Move to shoreline!