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Music fan. Words at Creem, Treble, Metal Hammer, Bandcamp Daily, People, Us Weekly, New Noise, HL | newsletter openupandread.com

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Jason Brow @jasonbrow.com · 19d

linkin.bio/jasonbrow/ is my portfolio, if you want to peruse my work (and see why you should hire me).

And this is my cat.

A gorgeous black cat with green-yellow eyes

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Jason Brow @jasonbrow.com · 2d

I'm particularly proud of "the shape of egg punk to come" as an opener. The album is pretty good!

Snooper : Worldwide | Album review | Treble

Returning two years after their debut with 'Worldwide,' Snooper flesh out their fun, jittery sound with added dimension

www.treblezine.com

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Grant Sharples @grantsharpies.bsky.social · 2d

Finished a manuscript for a novel. Send me your fiction lit agents please 🙂

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 2d

My man @nedl.bsky.social went deep into Rhino's High-Fidelity edition of The Monkees' PISCES, AQUARIUS... over at our spot @vinylcut.net

www.vinylcut.net/review-the-m...

Review: The Monkees in Rhino High Fidelity

1967’s Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. is cut directly from the master—for the very first time. It makes perfect sense that the Rhino High Fidelity series take on a Monkees album. No, really...

www.vinylcut.net

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 3d

Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.

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Jeff @1000timesjeff.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about one of the best punk albums of 1984.

No, not that one, the other one. (Not that one either, this one 👇)

Plus Nirvana, Oneida and a bunch of other cool records

autobiographical-order.beehiiv.com/p/meat-puppe...

Meat Puppets, Nirvana, and the classics of the American Underground

Plus: Sessa (x2), Crooked Fingers, Oneida, and Asnakech Worku

autobiographical-order.beehiiv.com

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Treble @treblezine.bsky.social · 2d

Snooper add more experimentation and change into their punchy, immediate punk on 'Worldwide'

@jasonbrow.com reviews

www.treblezine.com/s...

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

let the record reflect i broke news minutes after ripping a sick set. slay

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Jason Brow @jasonbrow.com · 3d

Gross.

Jason Brow @jasonbrow.com · 3d

Which one was the pedophile?

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Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 4d

The books are here! Unboxing video of the paperback of the Freaks Came Out To Write, out Nov. 4th!!!

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Lina Morgan @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 4d

"Kira Nerys is like a lot of us. We don’t need literal Cardassian occupations to be revolutionaries in our youths. Nor do we need marching orders from superiors to make us favor pragmatism as we age. Not every war is worth fighting. 'Blow it up' cannot be the solution to every problem."

Kira Nerys Wears a Uniform: It's Too Tight

Deep Space Nine introduces Kira Nerys: Star Trek's freedom fighting first officer. But when we meet her she wears a uniform. It's too tight.

www.belloflostsouls.net

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Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social · 4d

A Sugar-related Instagram account popped up this week and if that means a reunion….whew. Band literally changed my life as a kid. www.instagram.com/sugarcopperb...

a screenshot for an instagram acct for Sugar

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Jason Brow @jasonbrow.com · 5d

It wouldn't be Halloween without the Misfits. And it wouldn't be WCW '99 without them, too. Read about this bit of horror business.

The Complete History of Misfits in WCW

It’s October, the time of the year for horror punk and Halloween music, and the Misfits are the horror punk band, if by the strength of marketing alone.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 5d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 5d

#RIP Chris Steele-Perkins

Outside Divis Flats, West Belfast, 1978.

Youth with stone during riot in West Belfast, 1978.

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 6d

Mike Baggetta's trio mssv has perfected a unique creative process, road-testing new material across dozens of consecutive shows before capturing it on their third album, 'On and On.' The result is a musical trip that thrives on combustion, energy, and pressure.

mssv's Perpetual Motion Machine:

Making the Steamship Move — mssv's Perpetual Motion

Mike Baggetta's power trio mssv has perfected a unique creative process, road-testing new material across dozens of consecutive shows before capturing it on their latest album, 'On and On.' The result is a musical trip that thrives on combustion, energy, and pressure.

www.thetonearm.com

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6d

Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

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Lars Gotrich @totalvibration.bsky.social · 6d

This proggy Norwegian post-metal band is scratching my SubRosa itch. nordicmission.bandcamp.com/album/occult...

Occultation, by Monograf

5 track album

nordicmission.bandcamp.com

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 7d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Jason Brow @jasonbrow.com · 7d

@lilyehirsch.bsky.social happy birthday!

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Lina Morgan @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 7d

To be clear, bsky is not that popular to begin with. If they drive their trans userbase away, that's game over. This is so fundamentally obvious I almost wonder if the goal here isn't self destruction.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 8d

all the press around the Ed Gein show seems to insist that Robert Bloch used Gein as the inspiration for Norman Bates - it’s become the accepted narrative - but here’s the thing: he didn’t!

screenshot from robertbloch.net
(Audience question regarding the aspects of the Ed Gein murder case as they have supposedly, "historically" applied to Psycho. This otherwise cliched question rates inclusion here because of the breadth of Bob's definitive answer.)
BOB: First of all, I didn't know anything about those aspects when I wrote Psycho. I did not use Ed Gein as a basis for Norman Bates at all; I used the circumstances, which were: somebody could live in a small town, where everybody knows everybody else's business, and conduct a series of murders without anyone suspecting. But people don't like this. They like to believe the legend. When you get right down to it, Ed Gein did not run a motel. He killed nobody in the shower. He did not preserve the body of his mother. None of those things were part of Mr. Gein's background. I invented a character at the time which, not having read the details, which were not being printed initially or immediately, because they were very prudish in most cases. Life magazine and a few other publications later came out with a great deal of stuff, but I would not have used it even if it had been available, because it didn't meet with my particular plot requirements.
But the legend persists, and will continue to persist.
A little over two weeks ago, I think, a network show called Hard Copy asked if they could interview me regarding Psycho. I said I did not want to be interviewed; I didn't want to go down to a studio.
They said, "We'll send a crew out." I said to myself, well, if it's good enough for Ackerman, it's good enough for me...

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They came, and throughout this interview they kept asking, "Didn't you think of Norman Bates because of Ed Gein?"
Didn't Ed Gein inspire the
characterization, and blah-blah-blah. I kept telling them what I just told you, and the interviewer and crew kept looking sadder. And sadder. I said to myself this isn't going to happen.
Sure enough, the show came on, and they'd gone to Plainfield, which had been Gein's home town, and they did a very nice broadcast regarding the case, and they used some dramatization footage which I swear was probably part of a documentary that had been made at the time, because it was in black and white instead of color, and was not aired because it was undoubtedly too strong for audiences then. They salvaged that and put together this program. And I was a non-person. I didn't exist. My name wasn't mentioned, and I certainly did not appear onscreen.
Obviously, if I had, they would not have had a program, because their title was The Inside Story: The Truth About the Ed Gein Murders! And my denials were the exact antithesis.
This is a horrible lesson in how easy it is for media, today, to distort by omission, or by any kind of editing, what actually happened, what occurred.
What I'm citing is trivial; it doesn't mean anything one way or the other. But think of the implications-how this sort of censorship and willful distortion affects so called "news" reporting, and so-called documentaries, on various topics that are of social or historical importance to an audience. And that's something that scares me far more than the activities of Mr. Gein.

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 7d

How musician Danny Stewart preserved Colorado Springs’ underground punk scene from the 80s and 90s

How a musician preserved Colorado Springs’ underground punk scene from the 80s and 90s

“It is another deep dive into this sneaky and tricky Colorado Springs music scene." The series preserves songs from local bands between 1983 and 1994.

www.cpr.org

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