I have discovered Marseille ragamuffin jazzy hiphop.
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I suddenly remembered the existence of Eiffel and have now spiralled back into listening to their whole discography again, and this specifically is the genre of music I adore, not even sure what exactly it is. The proper term can only be alt rock, but alt rock now can refer to so many different styles of music. Is it indie? Not really, it's more rock than that. Is it garage rock? No, it's less fuzzy and more melodic than that (although if you go far back enough to the album Abricotine then hell yes). It's vaguely grunge, but not Seattle grunge. I mean, this band took their name from a Pixies song, so there you have the type of alt rock I'm talking about, but of course, tone down the Americanness and up the Frenchness. Between them and listening to Super Furry Animals all evening I ask, who needs English?
Talking about this song. And about the following (older) album Abricotine
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August 7, 2021: LP by Mary Bell
Fun fact: Mary Bell found their lead singer, Alice Carlier, by posting a message reading “looking for a female punk singer in Paris” on Facebook! Carlier comes from an interesting musical background for a punk singer:
Carlier, a classically-trained vocalist, went to conservatory and studied baroque music in Versailles. She loves the composers Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Baptiste Lully and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. But, Carlier says, she grew up listening to her father’s Led Zeppelin records and has always “been into rock n’ roll.” At age 12, looking for inspirational female singers, she found Hole’s Live Through This in her older sister’s CD collection. “When I heard ‘Violet,’ it was an inspiration,” she remembers. “I listened again and again. And I practiced my voice, my screams, to it.” Hole lead her to seek out other feminist punk bands—Bratmobile, Le Tigre, The Distillers – but also earlier bands, like The New York Dolls, Johnny Thunder and the Heartbreakers and the Dead Kennedys.
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At age 16, her parents sent her to a rock n’ roll summer camp where she discovered her “punk voice”—smoking a lot of cigarettes helped, she says—and composed her first punk songs.
I highly recommend the Bandcamp article that I linked above – it covers, in addition to Mary Bell’s origin story, the punk scene in Paris, which is thriving in spite of obstacles like city noise ordinances and a high cost of living. You could read it while listening to LP, perhaps? In any case, enjoy the album!
Resources for social change:
Cool, gonna check them out!
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July 7, 2021: Embrace by Keep Dancing Inc
*Bandcamp here
If your tour bus was hanging over the edge of a cliff and you needed to throw out one band member as ballast, which member would it be and why?
Louis because he’s by far the heaviest and as a former boy scout he’ll definitely survive and find his way home.
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If you’d like to get involved with stopping the atrocities against Palestine, here’s where you can start (text in bold for readability):
- DONATE: here and here
- PETITIONS AND ACTIONS: petition (UK only), petition (UK only), petition, actions to take/reading list
- HISTORY AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION: overview of the conflict (video 1 and video 2), Decolonize Palestine’s FAQ, the conflation of Jewish identity with the modern Israeli state, the Nakba, the history of the Israeli settlements in Palestine, miscellaneous podcast episodes about some specific issues with the narrative around Palestine, and a list of various resources for information
- PRESENT DAY: the crisis as it currently exists, U.S. foreign aid to Israel, Palestine-United States relations, Israel-United States relations, perspectives from on the ground in Gaza, a bunch of videos about the crisis (recommendations: “Life Inside Gaza After Nearly 2 Weeks of Bombings”, “Israel Is Vaccinating ‘Everyone’ – Besides 5 Million Palestinians”, and “Why Evangelical Christians Love Israel”), the gentrification of East Jerusalem
Black lives matter and here are some ways you can get involved in the fight against racism, specifically anti-black racism (text in bold for readability):
- This Linktree and this Carrd are full of ways to confront and fight against anti-black racism: places to donate, advice for protesting, educational resources.
- Donate to: Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence, the Racial Justice Network, Communities United Against Police Brutality, the Bail Project, the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition, the NAACP, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Okra Project, the Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative, For The Gworls, G.L.I.T.S., the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, the Black Trans Travel Fund, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and the Black Trans Femmes in the Arts Collective.
- Here is a post with a list of GoFundMe campaigns that have yet to reach their goals.
- Additional GoFundMe campaigns: Justice for Breonna Taylor, In Memory of Jamarion Robinson, Rent Fund For Black LGBT Family, Esperanza Spalding’s BIPOC Artist Sanctuary, Survival and Gender Affirming Needs for Black Enby, Jaya and Dylan’s Move out Fund, Janet and David’s apartment burned down, Help Revay get to medical school, Help Dai Parker Get Back into College Fund, Help Send Howard to Berklee College of Music, A Home for Harriett’s Bookshop
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Okay, it’s music time!
I’ve never uploaded my music to Tumblr before, but self-isolation (and the added motivation that comes from having finals in *checks watch* three days) has given me quality time to waste and so oddly OTT 80’s arena synth-rock is my current mood.
The guitar has taken a well-earned rest and I decided to mess around with some GarageBand synth samples.
This is probably evident in the clip, but I’ve been listening to a lot of Daniel Balavoine (I was thinking of Je Ne Suis Pas Un Héros as I recorded this!)
(Also, am I the only one who still pronounces garage garage with an emphasis on the first syllable? There was a time I’d forgotten that was a thing.)