Aggressively Humming

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Percy - Kingsborough

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I  love Montreal music.

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i was at a grocery store really late one night and some old guy kind of eyed me as i walked out of the store next to this other lady. She and I made eye contact and i knew she was scared too. we loaded up our groceries into our cars as fast as possible and I had way more bags than her so she got done faster than me. I panicked because i was sure she was going to leave so i just hurried faster, shaking a little, and then i noticed she sat in her car, watching me and making sure nobody came near. She waited not until all my groceries were loaded, or until my cart was put away, or until I got into my car. No, she didn’t drive away until I drove away. 

And that was the moment that I realized how much women need other women. That we can’t win this war without each other and we have to be looking out for each other, every second. 

[ofgeography]

my last year in new york city, i got off the subway around 9 or 10p.m. i only lived about 5 blocks from the f train, but i hadn’t gotten more than two before a woman’s hand suddenly touched my arm. 

“that guy behind us is following you,” she said. “he was watching you leave the train car and followed you up.”

i hadn’t noticed him, or at least not noticed him following me. when we stopped outside a grocery store, he stopped half a block back and loitered. the woman linked her arm with mine and walked me several blocks out of her way to my front door and made sure i got inside safely.

another time, nocigar and i were walking home and at a stoplight a stranger grabbed my arm when i wouldn’t respond to him and tried to physically drag me over to him. she—who is, by the way, not a very physically imposing girl—ripped his hand off my arm and snarled, “don’t fucking touch her.”

protect your friends. protect strangers. there are good men in the world, but don’t wait for them to do something if you can do it yourself.

[edmundo-noches-buckley]

I was at a club once and my friend left with her boyfriend so I finished my drink and was heading out to the parking lot when three girls came up to me and basically surrounded me. 

“Those guys behind us were talking about following you. We can walk with you.” 

I have MMA training but have never in my life had been offered the protection and sanction of my own gender. This is so important. 

[stele3]

GIRL CODE. FUCKIN’ GIRL CODE. LEAVE NO GIRL BEHIND. EVER.

[bothkindsofmusic]

Men, don’t be fuckin’ creeps. When you see it happeninng, get in the guy’s way and let the women get where they’re going. Don’t follow or escort unless they ask, otherwise your knight in shining armor act is just another level of creep.

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The Tragic Thrills - Soft & Sweet

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Dark room photograms using the byproducts of University of Brighton students

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DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak feat. Run The Jewels

This insanely swaggering new single from upcoming DJ Shadow album, The Mountain Will Fall, features assistance from the infallible Killer Mike and El-P and is my new favorite thing. 

The tune opens,“Picture this: I’m a bag of dicks. Put me to your lips.” Instant Friday mood.

Nobody Speak is part of Run The Jewels’ Record Store Day offering, a cardboard VR device that comes with a download code to the song (?!) and will appear on The Mountain Will Fall, out June 24 on Mass Appeal. Preorder here

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Broncho - Fantasy Boys

Loved these guys since I premiered one of their first singles “Losers” 3 years ago.

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pema - My Intentions are Good

Sonic exploration is something that all artists strive for.  Alexandra Cohen just sent me this letter sharing a bit of how she stepped out of her comfort zone to writing music with a tinge of fantasy. 

Hi Mark!

Let me tell you about Pema. I’ve been fronting 4 piece guitar rock band for a couple of years now (we’re called Alex Napping), and we hit a big lull at the beginning of 2015 (it was a few months after we had put out our debut album) and then I went through a breakup.

I panicked at how dependent I had become on my band & my partner for feelings of validation, so I started dedicating most of my free time to learning how to produce music on my own. At first, I was collaborating with folks. One off songs, much like one night stands. But with the intention of constantly creating while also getting to absorb new people’s workflows & skill sets. But my need for self-sufficiency grew with my knowledge, so I started writing “My Intentions Are Good” and decided I would see that track through from start to finish myself.

Okay, I lied. Someone helped me track vocals and my friend Roy played trumpet. But in essence, it’s the first track I’ve “produced” and “arranged” and “mixed” from the very seat & computer that I’m writing you this e-mail from. I had already decided a few months prior to starting “My Intentions Are Good” that all of these collaboration tracks were going to come together to be Doublethink – a sonically inconsistent album about the inconsistencies of human nature. But when I finished “My Intentions Are Good,” I realized I was also changed. It was the first time that I recognized myself as a producer in my own right and not just the guitarist/vocalist/frontwoman of Alex Napping. And with that new role, I needed a new name.

A lot of folks seem to think I named this project after Pema Chodron, which is maybe true to some extent since I think the character that I did name this project after was maybe named after Pema Chodron. But I was a big fan of Legend of Korra (the Avatar the Last Airbender spinoff), and there was a female character in the cartoon named Pema. (Nerd Alert Ahead) A non-bender married to an airbender, she was tasked with re-populating the air bending lineage by literally birthing a new generation of air benders! She is a strong woman in many ways that I am not (I am also a strong woman, I like to think, but definitely in different ways!) But this project, for me, was ultimately about rebirth.

I wanted to redefine my sense of self-worth to come from an internal place and learning to produce music myself was/is/continues to be an important part of that journey. 

“My Intentions Are Good” premiered this morning. The rest of Doublethink will be out June 3rd. I hope that you like it and will write some kind words about it!

-Alex

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Hey there! You, follower, friend! You can draw? And you happen to want to help a fellow blogger in need of a drawing? Want to help in less than 24 hours? Please message me!! I can't pay you (unless your prefered metjod of payment is undying gratitude) but i will love you :)

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Sevdaliza - Marilyn Monroe

Extraordinary music video directed by Hirad Sab for Sevdaliza‘s “Marilyn Monroe”. Sevdaliza is a singer and producer from Iran, based in the Netherlands. She self-released her debut EP, “The Suspended Kid” earlier this year, and she is now signed to Warp. Easy to understand why.

it’s true in this life i’ve never been the one in your eyes i’ve never been the truth all you saw was a broken mirror and they told me to care when tryin’ to fix your heart it’s unfair i’m tryin’ to fix myself and not care too much about you

he never really wanted me to be his wife i was nothing more than a trophy it was incredibly suffocating i’d find myself wanting him rather dead then alive

I am including her full promo picture, (not censured as I have seen in other media), because there is nothing wrong on it, and I just see a beautiful woman in a natural and perfect photography. A great work, as all what is around her.

Links: Official  |  Facebook  |  Twitter

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WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS. GO BACK IN THE CLOUDS.