I don't know much about transgender dysphoria, but it doesn't sound pleasant. This article is not meant to be a piece where I attempt to find the root of the discord, and I will not make judgments on the new path. It also won't be a piece where I make any claims about the process of gender transformation, nor will I speculate as to how anyone comes to this decision and what they plan to do in their new life. However, I know Tom Gabel (now Laura Jane Grace) the songwriter and performer quite well, as I was immersed in his [...]
![[Listen] Cygnets- Teenager](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4251848_lg.jpg)
by teepoo The Cygnets are a brilliant group of indie-pop makers from Edmonton, Alberta. This song comes from their Dark Days album that was released in March. Here's the video. There's something eerie about the band being cutouts while everything around them is moving.
Rest in music, Dick Clark.
![[MP3] Inspired and the Sleep: "Take Pills (Instructed Bliss)"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4204131_lg.jpg)
Max is bax. Check out his latest single, "Take Pills (Instructed Bliss)" the third off of the forthcoming album, Teenager . It was created, according to Greenhalgh, through "a series of live recorded percussion loops, a drum machine setting from my toy Casio keyboard, flute, uke, and bass." The single is brought to us in partnership with start-up internet label Hanging Hills . I love the percussion in this one - it sounds like hundreds of handclaps (why didn't Magic City change their name to that??). Inspired and the Sleep - "Take [...]
teen age - nothing is everything wizard oz - it's nearly time alligator indian - beach cities (poor spirits) new animal - nightmares of candy yang and the black italian
Goodbye Fairbanks est, comme déjà beaucoup d'artistes cette saison, un groupe originaire de Berne . Ma propension à choisir des artistes de ce coin de pays en particulier commence sans doute à ressembler à running gag, mais à ma décharge, les quatre musiciens de Goodbye Fairbanks ne sonnent pas vraiment bernois . En effet, on ne se voit pas tellement au pied de la Jungfrau en les écoutant, puisque leur musique trouverait davantage sa place dans un film américain pour teenagers, sur un campus où se déroule une fête de fraternité, avec ses [...]
When I was 19, I shamelessly picked up tickets with one of my good friends to the Milwaukee leg of the Taste of Chaos tour. Deftones were headlining, and as a teenager during the nu-metal era, I figured I owed it to the ganglier/angstier version of myself to see them live. The Eagles Club was permeated with a sort of carnival atmosphere, packed to the brim with suicide girls and pimply teens, a goth rainbow of bondage pants and Atreyu t-shirts. Fueled by six free energy drink shots, I decided to ignore the absurdity of it [...]
[80's quote]Les, that license in your wallet, that's not an ordinary piece of paper, that is a driver's license, and its not only a driver's license, it's an automobile license, and it's not only an automobile license, it's a license to live, a license to be free, a license to go wherever, whenever and with whomever you choose.[/flashback] Today we've got the first new Work Drugs single coming off the Philly group's upcoming 2012 album. Aurora Illinois based Bobby Cahn Records tells us its an ode to Corey Haim, Zumba Pants, and stealing the parents car [...]
Mary Quant, 1963 These days the King's Road looks not unlike many other high-streets across the country, albeit a bit posher. If you stroll down the road you'll see, just like anywhere else, Boots, McDonald's and the ubiquitous coffee-shop chains. In fact, always a trend-setter, the King's Road was where Starbucks chose to open its first ever UK coffee-shop in 1998. Of course the Kings Road has earned its notoriety for setting rather more exciting trends than over-priced milky coffee and it was here that perhaps the most celebrated fashion-statement of the last century [...]
The fine folks over at Bobby-Best Creative turned me onto George Barnett , a 17-year-old kid from the UK who sings songs about college ("If you want to waste 5 years, baby you can do it with me"), not wanting an ID ("I don't want my iris scanned so I can walk through my yard"), and dancing the night away on his debut EP, Sierra Planes . George is a wise kid, he knows the way of the music world even as a teenager, and he's offering up the EP [...]
An album that I quite enjoyed in 2009 was Ladyhawke's self-titled album so when I heard the Kiwi was getting ready to release her latest album, Anxiety, I was pretty excited. The first single... Read the rest on Speakerboxxx.com
Things are starting to get a little hectic. Between the trying to get everything prepared for a cross-country move and the fact that I work in a bar in a city that's about to host the Super Bowl causing me to have one day off in the next two weeks has me more than a [...]
Things are starting to get a little hectic. Between the trying to get everything prepared for a cross-country move and the fact that I work in a bar in a city that's about to host the Super Bowl causing me to have one day off in the next two weeks has me more than a [...]
Having met as teenagers at the Institute for Young Blind in Mali, Amadou & Mariam got married and started playing music together. They've come a long way since then and popped up on the international music radar after Manu Chau produced some music of theirs in 2004. They recently announced that a new album called Folila is pencilled for release in March. It will continue their expansive take on west African music and will excitingly feature the likes of Santigold, TV on the Radio and Theophilus London. The lead single Dougou Badia is featured below and can [...]
Ja - was war sie? Cool, gut, grandios, fantastisch? Keins der Worte beschreibt sie richtig. Sie war besonders. Das Konzept ging auf und die 2 verschiedenen Welten konnten gut verschmelzen. Die urische Atmos...
![[MP3] Inspired and the Sleep: "Running"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3965665_lg.jpg)
The so-called "Eyelid Kid" (aka Max Greenhalgh) is back with "Running," the second single off Teenager , which was released last summer. Check out the accompanying beach-y video here . Inspired and the Sleep - "Running" [MP3] Inspired and the Sleep on Knox Road
San Diego's Inspired and the Sleep craft breezy tunes that possess both an easing charm and bright-eyed tone. Songwriter Max Greenhalgh's forthcoming batch of songs under the Inspired and the Sleep moniker is entitled Teenager , and, fittingly enough, is the product of Greenhalgh's reflection on his teen years. It was inspired, lyrically, by his observations while working as a beach lifeguard, which makes perfect sense when you hear it -- you can almost feel the relaxed beach atmosphere. Lo-fi, bedroom pop -- call it what you will. This trio makes it hard not to long for the magic [...]
Heycoolkid! Best Songs Of 2011 (11-25) THIS IS WHERE THINGS START GETTING OFFENSIVELY GOOD [I messed up the count. See #17 as to why. Yes I realize there are two 26's just enjoy the music, we're all friends here] . . 26. Radical Face - "All Is Well (Goodbye, Goodbye)" Radical Face is oneartist who've [...]
The Best Songs Of 2011 (76 - 100) Making the Best Albums list was relatively easy compared to nailing down the 100 best songs of 2011. The level of incredible music to surface this year is unbelievable. What's more difficult is trying to create some sort of order when laying these songs out, what makes [...]
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