The Irreverisble soundtrack into XTC? Some said it couldn’t be done

A chopped and screwed remix of Party in the USA? Of course

Multiple 2manydjs mashups? Yes please

Hipster rap and rap remixes done by hipster bands? We wouldn’t have it any other way

And balearic pop and chillwave? Out the wazoo

Hitting the “priority” button on the torrent and watching the mb/s shift down immediately

I mostly just like to imagine it as the vehicle for Travis to get some proper closure on his creative output

Have a memory of going to a hardcore show in DC around ‘07 and realizing there was a fully nude man (with shoes and socks at least) who had sidled up near me and just was there, cross armed and nodding along. It was a pretty packed show too and no one really did anything. Didn’t know it was A THING

The preview is tediously incorrect but the URL and link should be ok!

The really exciting coda to this one was that as we went to publish, public media in the state got its full appropriation, a hard fought battle that owes its legislative success to the community, staff, and musicians who love what it means for the state and all it gives back

Shout out to Gonzaga for making it mandatory that every student sit in a room for an hour their senior year as they turn 18 to show us how to respond to the selective service draft card to bolster proof you’re a conscientious objector and won’t have to go to war

Music world in all sectors is pretty rotten right now but what the rise of AI has reminded me is that you should be human forward (sucks to have to remind oneself of that but still). Don’t make fake fans, don’t hire tech companies to prop you up, don’t play into forces that devalue artistic scenes

If an artist is upfront about their ethical considerations for themselves as a product as flexible and they want to enter into the world as a meme and sound yet to seed their fame, go for it. But it deserves questions and judgement and it deserves the artist not hide that fact.

Astroturfing is looked down on because it’s sweaty and it doesn’t have faith in its product and the practice does that, it commodifies something. This approach explicitly did, putting music and clips into the background noise of a increasingly context-less social and media ecosystem