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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · 12d

as a gift to homo sapiens, THE SPLIT SABER by jason dafnis

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Natalie @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social · 16d

And that's a wrap on Pod Hero Season 2!

Thank you to everyone who's listened & enjoyed, excited to finish out this silly passion project (likely next year) with GH5 + Warriors of Rock, two fascinating mixed bags

(P.S. anyone interested in guesting on S3 should hit me up in the hiatus period 👀)

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Natalie @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social · 16d

me, before recording: "i don't think I have a ton to say about Metallica"

me, hours later: *puts in nearly 3 hours talking about Guitar Hero: Metallica*

Deeply bizarre, silly episode where I fixate on the over-the-top orchestral song and we spend a ton of time goofing on Some Kind of Monster

Indieheads Podcast @indieheadspod.bsky.social · 16d

On the season finale of Pod Hero, we're joined by @marcyani.me as we tackle the setlist for Guitar Hero: Metallica (2009).

Support us on Patreon for as low as $1/month to hear this episode over 2 days early: patreon.com/c/IndieheadsPodcast

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Natalie @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social · 17d

which unused album title for St. Anger are you?

possible album titles on a whiteboard that include:

Old, Ugly, Nasty
Best Dressed Chicken In Town
Butchered
Sarcasm With Meaning
Surfing the Zeitgiest (sic)
Unbridled
Aint (sic) Askared (sic) No Mor (sic)
Floods of Vomit
Speed Ave.

possible album titles on a whiteboard that include:

Light Hate Speed Love
Pills
We're Already Dead
We're Just Haunting Together
Feels So Much Better .. Not to Think
Satanic Cuckoo Clock
Unresolve
Every Gift Ha$ Its Pri¢e S
My Azz

possible album titles on a whiteboard that include:

Tails - I Kill You
If Your (sic) Broke, You Were Never Fixed
Time Issues Are Never About The Clock
The Unclearness Is Very Clear
I Love You Even When You Smile
I Am My Own Friend !

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Natalie @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social · 19d

Jackass 3D is back in theaters this weekend, so now's a great time to revisit one of my favorite things I've written this year about the series ❤️

Natalie @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social · May 30

Hi, I'm Natalie Marlin, and this is Laughing With The Pain (my @bwdr.bsky.social essay on Jackass being an unconventional form of community, finding queer belonging, and displacing the prevalence of trans pain)

Jackass: Laughing With the Pain

One of Jackass’s perpetual charms is that it feels like it can belong to anybody, that anybody can become a part of it.

www.brightwalldarkroom.com

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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · 20d

Was so so fun putting this poster together for my favorite place to experience a movie—Twin Cities folks, I highly recommend coming out to see these films this weekend, especially THE INTRUDER!

Trylon Cinema @trylon.org · 22d

Abbie Phelps designed this poster for our upcoming weekend dedicated William Shatner, before he would become known as Captain Kirk. Two long neglected and consistently underrated films both newly restored and deserving of a second look.

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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · 20d

ALSO MY WIFE HAS AN AMAZING PODCAST YOU ALL SHOULD CHECK OUT bsky.app/profile/indi...

Indieheads Podcast @indieheadspod.bsky.social · Sep 3

Out now wherever you find podcasts, we're joined by @leahetc.bsky.social on this week's Pod Hero as we somehow aren't done talking the Guitar Hero World Tour (2008) setlist.

Find your platform of choice here: linktr.ee/indieheadspodcast

EPISODE SETLIST:
Airbourne - Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast
Negramaro - Nuvole e lenzuola
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama (Live)
Muse - Assassin
Radio Futura - Escuela de Calor
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze (Live)
Stuck in the Sound - Toy Boy
Beatsteaks - Hail to the Freaks
Kent - VinterNoll2
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Hollywood Nights
NOFX - Soul Doubt

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 21d

“Welcome, Mr. President and Madam First Lady!”
<strange, muffled Eastern European accent> “Am I Melania? Or am I—“ <rips off hat and clock> “Geeeeeene Parmesan, at your service?”
<Charles III squeals and waves his hands excitedly>

Tom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.social · 21d

Loving Melania entering her Grim Reaper mode. Just needs a scythe!

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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · Aug 15

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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · Sep 9

wow same

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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · Sep 1

fuck yeah the intruder!!!!!!

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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · Aug 30

I didn't know @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social was there

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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · Aug 23

happy birthday alyssa!!!

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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · Aug 22

nuthatch fell asleep in the feeder 😭

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Natalie @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social · Aug 21

Now live on the newsletter: an extensive interview with industrial duo @streetsex.bsky.social about their long-awaited return through two very distinct records, starting a synthpop project, noir and pulp, the perils of alternate album mixes, and their (failed) attempts to prank producer Ben Chisholm

Inter/Sect: An Interview with Street Sects

The industrial duo talk returning from hiatus with two very different records, pivoting to synthpop, their inspirations in noir and pulp, the perils of alternate album mixes, and their (failed) attemp...

ghost-tropic.ghost.io

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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · Aug 16

listening to thunderstorm noises on my headphones because the actual thunderstorm outside is too distant

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Natalie @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social · Aug 13

Had a blast talking with ecstatic black metal superstars @agriculturemusic.bsky.social for @stereogum.bsky.social about all the many inspirations in music, queer literature, and art that influenced their amazing upcoming record The Spiritual Sound

Agriculture On How Zen Buddhism, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, & More Influenced 'The Spiritual Sound'

It can be so hard to succinctly pin down what goes into the “ecstatic black metal” of Los Angeles band Agriculture that sometimes that self-proclaimed label feels incomplete. At the very least, the ba...

www.stereogum.com

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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · Aug 11

have been going insane seeing people who vocally disliked BARBARIAN rave about this one, so it is very refreshing reading a review that ranks them justly 🫡

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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · Aug 7

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · Aug 3

🫂

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Natalie @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social · Jul 29

Had an amazing, all-over-the-map conversation with @giantclaw.bsky.social for @thequietus.com about how reinventing pop forms outside the rigors of commerce, abstracted sampling, the repetitions of experimental composition, and the Chili's Babyback Ribs jingle play parts in his incredible new record

The Shape of Free Pop to Come: Giant Claw Interviewed

Keith Rankin, aka Giant Claw, speaks to Natalie Marlin about leaning deep into pop music, carving it all up and assembling something completely unique on new album Decadent Stress Chamber

thequietus.com

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Natalie @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social · Jul 27

SO thrilled to have Tilley back on so soon, especially for this wild, iconic stretch of songs in the GH3 endgame

Knew this one would be an all-timer the second Tilley piled on an already completed bit and turned it into a running joke the entire rest of the episode

Indieheads Podcast @indieheadspod.bsky.social · Jul 27

On this episode of Pod Hero, we're joined by Tilley Komorny of @homeiswhereforever.bsky.social to talk the final stretch of songs from the original setlist of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.

Support us on Patreon for as low as $1/month to hear this episode over 48 hours early.

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Natalie @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social · Jul 26

Wrote about the compounding horrors that make billy woods' latest record the most striking rap album of the year so far over at FLOOD

The Best Albums of 2025 (So Far)

25 records from the first half of the year that exhibit a bold sense of creative freedom.

floodmagazine.com

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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · Jul 25

DAY ONE PURCHASE

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whatever you want me to do i will do @sistersaeko.bsky.social · Jul 23

dare i say there is no one more qualified to write this piece!

Natalie @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social · Jul 23

SO thrilled to share that I was asked by @thequietus.com to kick off a new column of scene reports across North America, and got to write on what makes the current Minneapolis/St. Paul underground music scene so exciting and powerful

(with photography from @dj90shentai.bsky.social!)

North American Music: tQ in The Twin Cities, by Natalie Marlin

Natalie Marlin delivers an insider's guide to the frantic, uninhibited and queer-driven energy of the Minneapolis Saint Paul underground, and picks out five essential new releases from the cities' mos...

thequietus.com

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