RSMurphy wrote:seanurban wrote:vox wrote:I encourage the American people and all of us in this room and beyond to not take the bait, Pressley said of Trump s remarks about, well, her. œThis is a disruptive distraction from the issues."seems smart.I understand the sentiment, but Trump's base eats thi...

Andrew. wrote:It s embarrassing to recall just how absurdly some people elevated Mueller, and how much faith was placed in him. [..]Like the idea that Barack Obama harbored a secret radical socialist deep within, this was simply imaginative fancy. Mueller was a cautious centrist through and through....

Guess I'm making up for lost time here. This is fucking fantastic:"I believe in tolerance, and therefore everyone on Twitter should be executed."(Also: "Don't hate the singer, hate the song...it's a new song and you never know when you're gonna get the lyrics wrong.")Massively stoked for late August...

Clyde wrote:New song and video. Described by Erica thusly, "I had a dream that I was served Brian Wilson s face at a restaurant and it tasted good and I woke thinking that I had to write about the doomed facade of the American dream 'cos the famous beach boy couldn t swim and Dennis drowned but that...

Riffs for Reproductive Justice is a compilation curated by Grim Kim Kelly, all proceeds from which go to the National Network of Abortion Funds and the Yellowhammer Fund in Gileadabama. It's raised over $10K in 48 hours, making it the second best-selling release on Bandcamp in any genre during that ...

Clyde wrote:Get excited, everybody.Done.

Verbs & Nouns wrote:I think the Libertine shirt needs to make a comeback.Would wear. I think that's the only one I don't have. Which reminds me, I should dig out my Firewater shirt.

Clyde wrote:MOD CON is legit but I don't rank them as high as TFS. I don't rank TFS as high as The Drones (yet), for whatever that's worth. I've been digging Poor People too. Not sure if this is quite right but its sort of sounds to me like it splits the difference between MOD CON and Palm Springs. ...

Confusingly, there's also a cryptic Bandcamp label page where you can order the LP. (Even more confusingly, there's an entirely unrelated Poor People from Brisbane.) I've been digging this for a few months without realizing it had gotten a physical release, but now the wax is on the way. I could lis...

Clyde wrote:Erica Dunn has quickly become one my favorite guitarists.This probably belongs in the hypothetical Mod Con thread, but her one-off project Poor People (featuring Jon from Mclusky on drums) is really fucking great. Loose and jangly in a sort of Nuggets / Flying Nun sense, but at times way...