I can't believe I'm about to say "setting aside the content of these messages" but why is it that people like Theil who can at least pretend like they're forming a coherent sentence in person, turn into sentence-fragment nonsense when emailing? I've known people IRL like this too and I do not get it

Lots of people are doing lots of great things and I don't mean to divert your charity towards my fundraiser specifically, but I will say primebirds.bandcamp.com is the only way to both materially benefit victims of ICE and also own a song called "Only Assholes Sign Up For ICE"

my longtime friends (not on here) are running a dad rock bracket that's silly and fun. take two or three minutes to vote for your favorites. there are four categories, 64 bands. have at it docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

All proceeds from my discog on bandcamp (including my newest single Only Assholes Sign Up for ICE) are being donated to the Immigrant Law Centre of Minnesota. First donation today. $35 CAD sales on BC translates to $25 USD. Thank you to everyone who donated. Link in replies if you want to donate

Marimar Martinez is a hero. She was shot 5 times by ICE. The agent told her to “do something b*tch” before opening fire. He later bragged “5 shots, 7 holes”. DHS tried to smear her reputation but video footage vindicated her. Next week she will testify in Washington about ICE’s brutality.

Here's some protest music from Boots on the Ground, an indie music supergroup, in my books. The riff *will* get in your head so be careful. youtu.be/8cbu5n2uUps?...

After a kind fan purchased my whole BC discog (for only $1.40 CAD by the way! or more if you choose) I realized this might complicate my accounting of how much to donate. As a result, I will donate my take of *any* purchases from my discog until at least the end of Feb. primebirds.bandcamp.com

Don't tell me you understand music theory until you can deconstruct Meshuggah using only digga digga diggas and dah dah dahs

Its a great day to say FUCK ICE. Standwithminnesota.com has tons of great ways to make an impact if youre able. You can also download my new hardcore punk song and if you choose to pay what you can, everything I receive will go to the imm. law center of MN. primebirds.bandcamp.com/track/only-a...

#JustListened The new single by @primebirds.bsky.social and Above The Snow Line brings a bit of welcome heat in these cold days. It's a nice piece of high-energy Hardcore and the proceeds got to the Minnesota Immigrant Law Center, so it's well worth picking up! Highly, highly recommended!

It's important to have good ice to play the game we love. But here's a song about bad ICE from my pal @primebirds.bsky.social . Really fucking bad ICE. Fuck ICE.

Rise and shine and FUCK ICE primebirds.bandcamp.com/track/only-a...

🚨NEW MUSIC FROM PRIME BIRDS (and @abovethesnowline.bsky.social) 🚨 "Only Assholes Sign Up For ICE" is now available on bandcamp. It's free to download, but should you choose to make a purchase, 100% of proceeds will go Minnesota Immigrant Law Center primebirds.bandcamp.com/track/only-a...

I love reading about why people like what they like, musically, and it always gives me a deeper appreciation, even if its not for me. But usually if @onlythehost.bsky.social likes it, I like it too. Check out his new series Song Obsession www.abrasivemonologues.com/only-the-hos...

Holy shit, I work exactly as fast as Bruce Springsteen. From writing on Saturday to releasing on Wednesday, ha! Go listen to the Boss' version, and then mine, and then comment and tell me why his is better. primebirds.bandcamp.com/track/only-a...

🚨NEW MUSIC FROM PRIME BIRDS (and @abovethesnowline.bsky.social) 🚨 "Only Assholes Sign Up For ICE" is now available on bandcamp. It's free to download, but should you choose to make a purchase, 100% of proceeds will go Minnesota Immigrant Law Center primebirds.bandcamp.com/track/only-a...

Genuinely bringing tears to my eyes.

Interestingly, not "disgust at the havoc they're wreaking" but I'll still take it.

If, in theory, I was to release an anti-ICE protest song in the very near future as a fundraiser to support people in Minnesota, would anybody know of, or have, a photo of the protests that they either took themselves or that wouldn't be subject to copyright?

Y'ever start writing a song and go "oh thats verse 2 of 3 right there" even though you dont have any idea what verse 1 or 3 will be? Me neither until right just now but this is the most Second Verse shit I've ever written

Id like to apologize to 80s/90s mustaine for anything bad I said about his vocals. If id known i would have to hear 2026 mustaine vocals I wouldve appreciated them more.

Depending on my mood when you ask me, LP1 is either tantalizingly close to being done or nowhere close to being done. Its never "eh, getting there!" though

We all know how burnt out we can get on our own music while we're working on it. Just listened to this one from 2023 for the first time in a while, and it's good. Give it a go. I need to give you all some new stuff to listen to. 2026 is the year, I swear. music.youtube.com/watch?v=NKow...

This video about the complete absence of screening that ICE is doing while hiring will both not surprise you and completely shock you at the same time. youtube.com/shorts/XwJtg...

A new Other People's Music is here! Inside you'll find lol-fi dream pop, experimental minimalism, genre-mashing electronica, goofy punk & expansive vaporwave. www.etherdiver.com/2026/01/09/o... #musicsky #MusicDiscovery

The exact timing of your pop cultural awareness leads to odd associations, like how a lot of kids my age knew Ringo Starr as Mr. Conductor and then *later* learned he was in the Beatles. In '97, a mere 3 yrs after Cobain died, I was a big Foos fan that didn't know Dave Grohl was in Nirvana.

I mean I haven't done a thorough check or anything but @bottlecapmountain.bsky.social might have written my favourite 21st-century Christmas Song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqRW...

Look at this adorable fatass (complimentary)

btw this is music theory, including the DAH

I don't like to make jokes about being on the spectrum; I don't have that diagnosis and I think it gets thrown around too easily. but I do have an ADHD diagnosis (spectrum-adjacent) and I'm currently obsessed w this chart f. thordendal posted of the opening of "I" so if there was ever a time...

when my son was a baby i'd sing to soothe him but I didn't usually sing kiddie songs, I'd just go with whatever was in my head. But lemme tell ya, I did have boundaries: Green Day - Longview Slayer - Payback Planet Smashers - Super Orgy Porno Party And maybe the worst of all - Last Caress

I enjoy (sarcastically) the idea that some may not find it divisive. Like there are people who are neutral on it. Who aren't Nazis themselves but think it's a legit thing to be. Arguably worse than the full on Nazi's, tbh. In a sense, the coast guard is actually bang-on (to be clear this sux)

I don't know who accidentally signed me up for Haley Steven's mailing list (running for the dem nomination for Senate in Michigan in '26) but as a Canadian I didn't waste a rare opportunity to someone directly tell off a shitty US congressperson when I unsubscribed!

Look at how multi-talented my buddy @mixrpd.com is. Incredible stuff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j5M...

My niche complaint of the day is that when Sol Niger Within was uploaded to streaming, instead of breaking it up into tracks like my CD is, it's just one big long 43 min song and sometimes that's great but sometimes I just want to listen to Bouncing at the Bottomless Pit and groove tf out

Here's Beastie Boys: Check Your Head Paul's Boutique Hello Nasty Ill Communication The Mix-Up Licensed to Ill To the Five Boroughs *Hot Sauce Committee Pt II *Never listened to it

Okay I'm gonna rank all of Aerosmith's 20th-century albums, with the caveat that it's been years since I revisited a bunch of them Rocks Pump Get Your Wings Toys in the Attic Nine Lives Draw the Line Get a Grip Rock in a Hard Place Self-titled Night in the Ruts Permanent Vacation Done with Mirrors

Can a waveform for a song indicate whether it's any good? (The answer is - why not??)

Okay, give me a cover-that's-better-than-the-original *BUT*: the twist is that the original has to be from one of your all-time-favourite bands. I want covers that are better than songs you thought couldn't be topped.

Okay hot take time. If Load/ReLoad is a single album that looked something like this: Fuel Ain't My Bitch Memory Remains Until it Sleeps King Nothing Devil's Dance Unforgiven II Hero of the Day And maybe 2 other tracks of the remaining NINETEEN songs, .....it's maybe better than the black album.

life is too short for me to complete any more surveys about my customer service experience today

I used to have opinions on who should and shouldn't get candy and I have come to realize that the only type of person I should deny candy is "asshole". If you're asking for something that I bought in order to give away, and you're not an asshole about it, you can have some.

I used to think I was crazy or naive for being frustrated that politicians wouldn't simply focus on what's important - thinking that there was some value in going along with buzzy-worthy issues at the expense of real shit. It finally seems there are a few, like, relatively normal ones out there

The green birds are champs The blue birds are finalists If the red birds can make thr playoffs for the first time in 10 years thatd be swell Then wed have some truly Prime Birds

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

Ive been bad at follow-backs lately. If youre a musician please say hi and I will follow. I like music on my timeline

There's cool and then there's John Lee Hooker.

Imagine being so out of touch that you think thisll make people go "well yeah okay fair hes got a point"

If you're looking to keep the NO Kings energy rolling into today music.youtube.com/watch?v=CrY-...

Meshuggah Metallica Nick Drake Dream Theater Foo Fighters Aerosmith Dave Matthews Band Beatles