Knight Writher
@jayw1023.bsky.social
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not even a rapper. muzak writer for Beats Per Minute, The Needle Drop, Under The Radar & more he/him https://jayw1023.medium.com/ // https://jasperwillems1023.substack.com/
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Made my The Needle Drop debut with a long read on grassroots venues – and why they are in danger of disappearing.

Interviewed Shabaka, Dan Deacon, Lambrini Girls, Jeff Parker and Anika for it. Check it out!

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THE SCENE CHANGES: Grassroots Venues in the Age of Algorithms
Jasper Willems interviews Dan Deacon, Shabaka, Anika, Jeff Parker, Lambrini Girls, and our expert Frank Kimenai on the state of grassroots venues in the year 2025.
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seeing national dutch newspapers trivialise rape and abuse so casually is actually scary
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trends are dumb as fuck
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'bros' by panda bear sounds like the velvets/beach boys collab that never happened. inconceivable stuff
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i was up late night ballin'
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saw Texoprint rip a hole thru time and space and caught the tail end of of MC Yallah's VulvaVerse set. this is rotterdam at its best.
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RIP Mrs. Bucket, erm, Bouquet
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the first three BSS albums always clear
stereogum.bsky.social
Broken Social Scene's self-titled LP was part of a massive indie rock groundswell in the mid-2000s.

The album turns 20 this Saturday, so let's look back:
'Broken Social Scene' Turns 20
In which the social scene started to seem a lot more coherent.
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the new dry cleaning artwork is fortunately less repulsive than 'stumpwork'. i still gag when i think about that
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there's nothing cooler than a gen of music fans discovering something that feels theirs.

you're a sad sack to want to undercut that somehow. every gen has its greats.
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lovecraft meets dick wolf
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don't conflate the Kimmel thing with that sexist turdbag Louis CK
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TRENDING: Some inconsequential bullshit
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these guys put up one of the best shows i've seen this year. seriously in peak form.
stereogum.bsky.social
Panda Bear’s on tour behind this year’s acclaimed ‘Sinister Grift’ and tonight Noah Lennox and his band headlined the first night of Woodsist Festival ‘25 at bucolic Arrowood Farms in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Here’s some “Slow Motion” from 2011’s ‘Tomboy.’

[📹: @scottgum.bsky.social]