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Sage Francis

@sagefrancis.bsky.social

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Emcee, writer, husband, dad, CEO of Strange Famous Records. https://sfrstore.myshopify.com/collections/sage-francis?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7P-Kj9y7_GZdya-YHWbcT3bBwQ08IVQZtf9f5_sjYh-ixi92PUDRL2xb0ivg_aem_qK7AH2YSzGvrYRMrnxoLaw

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Strange Famous Records @strangefamous.bsky.social · 17h

🚨IN STORES TODAY:

@sagefrancis.bsky.social
#AHealthyDistrust 20th Anniversary #Vinyl on
@epitaphrecords.bsky.social

Cop it at your local record shop & finer online outlets,
or get the ltd/300
@newburycomics.bsky.social
exclusive variant!

#SIGNED version from SFR @ tinyurl.com/SageMerch

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Izzy Davis 🏳️‍🌈♀️🩷🇪🇺 @mrsgayguevara.bsky.social · 3d

"Really the truth is just a plain picture."

@sagefrancis.bsky.social when you included that line at the end of "Makeshift Patriot", it became a go-to phrase to describe much of we're seeing in both #UKpolitics and #USpolitics. A simple truth.

#Farage #ReformUK #idiocracy

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 4d

My wife and kids love playing “99 Nights in the Forest” together. My son requested a “99 Nights” birthday cake so my wife whipped together this campsite cake while he was at school. She used 5 candles as the campfire. It hurt to cut into this one. Once the fire was blown out, no one was safe.

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 5d

My son turns 5 tomorrow. We took the whole family AND grandma to an amusement park today. I’m sure I’ve displayed how insanely proud I am of him. How enamored I am to see him grow and develop. Getting him out of his shell is tough, but when it happens he shines so damn bright.

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #Caturday! Remember to play nicely and take it easy on all human hands.

Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 7d

This #StrangeFamousFriday I’m speaking truth to power. Taylor Swift is out. jesse the Tree is IN, baby!
www.strangefamousrecords.bandcamp.com

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mark (and his) dope devices 🇨🇦 @dopedevices.bsky.social · 8d

Listening to this song by @sagefrancis.bsky.social really hits different now that I’m a parent.

I want to hug my kids right now.

#parentsky

youtu.be/VA8hzUDXvtk?...

Sage Francis - "The Best Of Times"

YouTube video by ANTI- Records

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 7d

“Worm in Heaven” by jesse the Tree is OUT NOW! Produced by Mopes with a slew of effin’ fantastic features including me. ‘Cause I’m a bad MFer.

▶️ Pre-order #Vinyl / 💿 / Tape / 👕 at TinyURL.com/JesseTheTreeSFR

🔽 Digital DL at StrangeFamousRecords.Bandcamp.com

🔊 Stream it everywhere you 🎧 🎵

Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 9d

We took in two kittens tonight which was a very emotional event for our family. Our last cat died last year. Tonight my son said, “I love them so much I think I’ll cry. I’m half happy, half sad.” I’m emotionally regulating myself. But here we are…new cat owners. #Caturday is back on, baby!

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 13d

Fewer things make me feel happier than hearing old NBA players telling their Larry Bird stories. Legend Larry talked a lot of shit and backed it all the fuck up.

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 13d

I’m sure she’s searched a couple songs on YouTube. That’s the extent of it though.

Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 13d

Clear Channel became Live Nation.

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 13d

Haha no. They haven’t gotten to that stage yet. But the other day I asked my oldest daughter what kind of music was playing on the radio and she correctly pegged it as Jazz. I was like, “How the heck do you know that?”

Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 13d

I live in a place where there are more country western radio stations than there are cowboy boots. Just give me ONE hip-hop station that doesn’t pretend that r&b co-inhabits the same home. In the late 80s I’d get at least get one hour of pure hip-hop every Saturday. I’ll even take that.

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 14d

😎

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 15d

Agreeing with pretty much everything Tucker Carlson says in 2025 was not on my bingo card. This is the craziest timeline.

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 16d

We all deserve hugs.

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 17d

Trombones are not commonly available. I’m not going to scavenge through Craigslist and potentially get burned. Thankfully it seems I have a reliable connect right now.

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 17d

Anyone out there with an operational trombone to spare if I pay for shipping? Our youngest daughter has chosen this as her instrument but we’ve already gone through a viola and flute. She swears to the heavens that she’ll play it every day. But my wallet is like, “Ehhhhhhh…”

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 19d

I’m at the age of immediately ignoring any and all optional illusions when they’re presented to me. Like, I get it…it’s not actually what my eye sees. Yet, my eye saw it, and that’s that. Anyway, what’s up with those Epstein files?

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 20d

Carnivals should be free. Where the hell are our taxes going? FREE CARNIVALS. Put it on the ballot.

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 21d

A follow up video on why I pretend I can’t be fired and why I think it’s important that people support independent artists.

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Some ghoul, hollering MIZ @craftylefty2126.bsky.social · 22d

Needed a whole verse today. An excerpt from "Vonnegut Busy" by @sagefrancis.bsky.social

I sift through the ashes in search of surviviors
Digging up the Earth filling urns with dirt
For what it's worth I'm richer than the cemetery soil
I use slant drilling to get my midnight oil
I've been moonlighting as a daydreamer
I'm at the wheel of an eight-seater, (hey) hey mister gatekeeper
Call me key master, no, home owner
One, two and to the three and to the foreclosure
They said the war was over, but we know it wasn't
They wanted more soldiers so we said ''sure, fuck it''
Here's a fresh batch of people with setbacks
The poor folk, in fact they’re all broke cause of your debt traps
Picking the pockets of people who probably needed assistance most
Selling them lies, selling them out, sending them off to a distant coast
Telling them anything anyone left with impossible debt is receptive to
Breaking a promise of negative worth like ''buddy there's nothing left for you''
Gotta buy buy buy to stay alive, they punish the payment delays
Then they charge you for the low balance then they ask ''why didn't you save?''
Too long we took it on the chin, too long we took it to our grave
Now we take what we can get, fuck an unlivable minimum wage
Do something

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 23d

Some of us own our own business and can’t be fired. Sure, we’ll lose opportunities…but we want be fired. And when it comes to artists who own their own businesses and can’t be fired, we speak the fuck up. Because we can’t be fired 😘

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Sage Francis @sagefrancis.bsky.social · 24d

I posted this video 16 years ago. This video may give some perspective as to how absolutely insane things have become, because it certainly didn’t happen over a couple years.
youtu.be/lUPMjC9mq5Y

9.12 DC TEA PARTY - March Footage with Interviews

YouTube video by New Left Media

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