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The Modern Folk

@themodernfolk.bandcamp.com

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HOMEMADE MUSIC/VIDEOS / ECO-JAZZ / ABOLITIONIST / 🎵 on Debacle, Eiderdown, F/NF, WarHen, Bud Tapes, Island House, Horse Complex, Echodelick, Ramble, EEG, Monadnock S&V / he/they / same @ on IG I often delete posts PNW https://linktr.ee/modernfolk

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · Sep 28

1 like = 1 favorite live performance video

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 2h

are you saying you don't enjoy the frog?

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 13h

FIRE, WALK WITH ME - obviously I love it, horror-est Lynch movie? Forgot how busy Laura Palmer was!

The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 1d

The reward for me is just that it exists and thus I exist. I *have* to make stuff, like Henry Darger or whoever

I Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bsky.social · 1d

What's the reward, then? People reacting positively to music?

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 1d

Making and releasing music is a pure, and at times significant, financial loss for me

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 1d

I listen to a lot of mainstream/drill/trap hip-hop and there is oblique, totally detached if any references to politics, every album cover is made by AI, and stuff is only ever released to streaming, no thought to the ethics. The nihilism is comforting

The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 2d

18 years ago today I finished through-hiking the Appalachian Trail

The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 2d

STARSHIP TROOPERS - horror adjacent at best but it has monsters and goes unreasonably hard

The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 2d

My mom’s protest t-shirts. She’s activated

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 3d

28 YEARS LATER - post apocalypse movies always hit for me, zombie had a giant hog, will watch the next sequel for sure

The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 3d

LONGLEGS - was fun to watch and scary, but afterwards I tried to explain the plot to my wife and I realized it just wasn’t coherent

The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 3d

I have a tradition of watching a lot of horror movies each October. Below is a thread of what I have watched and what I thought

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 3d

Posed MF band pics

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 4d

I never feel more self-conscious and dorky than when I try to get my band to take a band photo

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 5d

I hate to say it but I am proud of all the records I have put out

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 5d

Buying the new Taylor Swift record on bandcamp so she gets all the money

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 5d

Patronize my bandcamp page for bandcamp Friday. Lots of stuff, mostly name your price. I recently made a lot of stuff private, the best is left available

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HOME MADE MUSIC / ECOLOGICAL JAZZ / ANTI-CAPITAL / NO SCENE The Modern Folk is a borderless musical recording and improvisational group based mostly out of the Cowlitz and Clackamas land currently kn...

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 5d

Our live album MF LIVE AT TTT recorded when we opened for Sir Richard Bishop is streaming if you stream. Love this cover pic by the homie Ignacio. Here is the alt cover too

The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 5d

TLC’s Sister Wives is a 400 hour long avant-garde western if you have the eyes to see it

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 6d

Me at the big aquarium

The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 7d

Mr burns baseball sideburns pete hegseth meme

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 8d

I read an article about Leonard Peltier and how much he is enjoying being out of prison and it made me cry

The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 8d

I received a box of sugar cane from Singapore addressed to my house but to another person

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 10d

Thanks for the airtime @garyrjames.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏

Gary James @garyrjames.bsky.social · 10d

Repeat show tomorrow 7pm BST mothership.voyage @filip.start-track.com @andystockton.bsky.social @hawaiiworms.bsky.social @analoguetrash.com @pigsinpie.bsky.social @ghostdubs.bsky.social @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social and more.. Come on over.

Grainy black and white photo of the boy wonder, at the top of Convalescent Hill, Felixstowe. Advertising the two hour long Uptown Transmission repeat on Radio Mothership. 7pm BST Monday 29th September, via mothership.voyage. With music from Lonkero Twinz, Harper, The Disobedients, Maganda Shakul, HawaiiWorms, Tina & The Hams, Pigsinpie, Phoebe Simmons, Bow Wow Wow, Fin del Mundo, Can, Tripping Daisy, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Elephant Stone, Kati Roover, Billy Bonbon, Ghost Dubs, j.demar, Broken Candles, Hania Rani, the modern folk, Dead Man’s Tuning and Score.

The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 13d

One of my favorite album’s I’ve ever made is only available on @idiotwitchamelia.bsky.social label. Huge thanks to her for taking a chance on it! There might even be a tape left

The Ballad of Lents, by The Modern Folk Electronic Ensemble

8 track album

horsecomplexrecords.bandcamp.com

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 14d

I will 100% send a demo to any underground record label that says "we are not accepting demos at this time"

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