This is a better song than the vast majority of songs

open.spotify.com/track/4ZbZmxyR…

This week I saw five shows in four days that all felt special in their own ways, so I decided to write a little bit about each one. Artists include Mannequin Pussy, String Machine, All 4 All, Enforced, George motherfucking Clanton, and more.

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Imo Princess are the next hardcore band to break beyond Pittsburgh. Their new EP sounds like GEL with mosh parts. I had fun chatting with them about their origins, their nuanced lyrics, and their political convictions for Pittsburgh City Paper.

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Imo Princess are the next hardcore band to break beyond Pittsburgh. Their new EP sounds like GEL with mosh parts. I had fun chatting with them about their origins, their nuanced lyrics, and their political convictions for Pittsburgh City Paper.

pghcitypaper.com/arts-entertain…

A pleasure to see Andrew *go in* like this. Loved this piece.

Nick and Evan play in some of my favorite active hardcore bands. It was lot of fun to review some new music with them and then talk about their own groups. And also share some Krate hot takes 😳

Oh yeah buddy we're doin this

Trynna pull a double header tn. See Soul Glo/Mannequin Pussy and then dash around the corner to see Enforced if they haven't played yet. Wish me well pls

Not saying this as a negative but I just think it's funny that Cloud Nothings are on Pure Noise now. A part of me still thinks Forever Came Calling and State Champs when I see that label's logo, which was just a galaxy away from what Cloud Nothings were circa Attack on Memory lol

Had a lot of fun shooting the shit with Larry on the pod. My favorite part was when he unflinchingly expected Eric and Miranda to have an opinion on $uicideboy$. Incredible content.

Got my eclipse soundtrack right here

Something cool about me is that I don't fall for Music Twitter engagement bait posted by right wingers and moronic Swifties, whose takes aren't representative of some sickening trend or anti-art cultural shift. But are in fact just engagement bait posted by marginal morons.

Rochester needs journalists.
Democrat & Chronicle needs journalists.

We’re on strike because Gannett somehow found funds to give CEO Mike Reed a 14% raise to $3.9M — but won’t even agree to $1/hr more for its frontline journalists.

Corporate greed is killing our newsroom. Newspaper Guild of Rochester ✊

I reviewed some music:

Cindy Lee's new double-album
A Country Western's new single-album
Balmora/Since My Beloved's split EP
Foreign Hands' new singles

And I wrote about my...weird time at a Jeff Rosenstock show.

elienis.com/chasing-friday…

It's complete.

Listened to all the MGMT albums and talked about them with my friends in a podcast setting.