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Amateur writer and cartoonist, trash poetry specialist, musician, punk radio host, computer science student and enthusiast. Muser, hi hello! Museblogging at @sunburnacoustic. Disastrously cooking at @vengefulcooking
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It's Friday, my good folks, time for another Song-To-Go poll!

If you're new, hello and welcome! Song-To-Go is a weekly song poll released every Friday where I present you with new, lesser-known songs to listen to while you scroll.

As always, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (and I try to make sure there’s always something you won’t know). If you like what you hear, go listen to the full songs, they’re yours to carry along on your scroll!

[last week’s poll, playlist of everything so far (in order) and other/future picks]

This week’s picks are some cool pop rock to sing along to, lofi indie from Vancouver (tbf Ekkstacy isn’t unknown in certain circles), Welsh indie, funky jazz— so funky they got the man himself Nile Rodgers to guest on it!!, a cool punk/post punk band and leading Mercury nominated junglist Nia. Guess this week is a bit of a bigger hitters list!

Happy listening! Pass it on and let me know in the tags what you liked this week :) I’ll be back with another next Friday!

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Sex Pistols this, Ramones that. Were you there when the 222s started Montreal’s punk rock riot

This being Canada, of course nothing was ever recorded or properly documented save for Sam Sutherland’s retrospective book Perfect Youth. But I did get to ask Chris Barry, singer in the 222s, about it in more detail. He had just turned 17. They were playing at McGill. Drunk fratboys immediately clocked that they were different. They dressed more colourful. They wore makeup. They didn’t conform and weren’t manly. They wore makeup, not just on stage, but all the time.

(from the museum of Canadian music) The opening band Chromosomes also clocked this. Thought the 222s to be too arty, they could actually play their instruments. Well, so could Chromosomes, when their singer wasn’t on a phenomenally high, self-destructive run, attacking everyone and everything in his path. Including his band and gear. Famously at a show, he ran headfirst and dove into a swimming pool, wired microphone still in hand. The PA followed him. He could’ve been electrocuted and died. I don’t think he cared. Here’s from Sutherland’s book:

    “Our reasons are simple,” says Chromosomes vocalist and guitarist Dave Rosenberg in the interview. “Playing music gets you laid and gets you more free drugs.” The band’s logo was a bat impaled by a hypodermic needle; by the end of the ’80s, Rosenberg would be dead from a heroin overdose. But in 1977, he was still just a hell-raising punk, in and out of jail, and the charismatic frontman for one of the city’s most popular bands.

The Chromosomes sabotaged the 222s’ gear. The last thing you want is to be stood before a crowd of drunk fratboys, you in makeup, your instruments failing while they look back at you expectantly. Challengingly. Sneering at your very existence. The bottling began. A few cups may even have come from side stage (Chromosomes), and the students needed no invitation. Chris didn’t know what to do, he was so young! The only thing he could think to do was copy his idol Iggy Pop: he provoked the crowd. The homophobic slurs boldened, and so did Chris’ taunting: ‘oh yeah? I’ll screw you too!’

Then the venue killed the sound and turned on the lights. The students smelled blood and victory. In minutes, they had spilled into the streets.

This was Montreal’s first ‘punk rock riot’. 1979. Malcolm McLaren could only dream of such provocation. Though of course, this being Canada, it was largely forgotten. Left to a renewed interest in Canadian punk to bring back the forgotten years of ‘77-81, particularly outside of Hamilton and Toronto, where people still at least remembered Teenage Head and the BFGs. Canada was better known for the 80s punk scene: of course DOA set the gold standard for how to be a DIY touring punk band and actually hit most of North America. In Montreal, the bands that came out of watching the 222s through the glasses at Station 10 went on to form some of the 80s most influential alternative bands: the Doughboys, Asexuals, Men Without Hats, all came from the same music scene (hell, there’s even a link between all of those very same bands: John Kastner was in all these bands and was since involved in the setting up and programming of NXNE for the longest time before moving to Canadian Music Week).

But who remembers the Canadian punks? The revolution wasn’t televised, and it sure as hell wasn’t put down on vinyl. Maybe some shitty 2-track, for whichever punk could afford that. All the recordings of the 222s we have are remastered from a radio session they once did. And a handful of televised appearances, like this one.

Fun! Fun! Fun!

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Friday is here, so I've got another Song-To-Go poll hot n' ready to go for you!

If you're new, hello and welcome! Song-To-Go is a weekly song poll released every Friday where I present you with new, lesser-known songs to listen to while you scroll.

As always, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (and I try to make sure there’s always something you won’t know). If you like what you hear, go listen to the full songs, they’re yours to carry along on your scroll!

I've scheduled this one in advance because do you know what I'm doing this Friday? I'm on the road losing my mind before a show by my OG favourite new band: Fontaines D.C.!! Maybe you'll find your fave new fave in these polls; I presume nothing but that would be unfair to these incredible bands. (Also, most songs-to-go are scheduled, to shatter the illusion)

[last week’s poll, playlist of everything so far (in order) and other/future picks]

This week— we’ve actually got a record 3 Welsh picks! This is pure coincidence, I built this list over the week. But that aside, we’ve got dark post punk, indie pop about the morality of robbing an IKEA, funky funky funk rock, surf rock from a band clearly thrilled to have access to a blue screen, Welsh indie punk from 2-time Welsh Music Prize winners and some Welsh rap that cleverly winks at the past. Idk, have fun. Incidentally, a lot of this week’s artists are those who have gone on to sound quite different in newer work. Growth, etc.!

Happy listening, tell me what you enjoyed, come back for more next Friday, reblog and trouble your friends; have fun!

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🎵 SONG-TO-GO 🎵

It's Friday again, which means incredibly for the 7th week running, I'm sending you off on your scrolling journey with a packed lunch and a new song in your heart <3. So go on, take a song along with you as continue to reblog Chappell Roan gifs. You know I'm doing that too, right?

(For the uninitiated, Song-To-Go is a weekly song poll to take a lesser-known song along with you as you scroll)

As always, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (I’ve tried to make sure there’s something you won’t know), and if you like them, go listen to the full songs, they’re yours* to carry along on your trip!

*as in add them to your library etc., if you like them a lot come ask me and I’ll try and dig up a Bandcamp like for you, hee hee

[last week’s poll, playlist of everything so far (in order) and more]

By this point there are more than 40 songs Back in the day 40 songs would've been an impressive CD collection for a broke young 'un. Bless the internet!

This week's picks: Welsh heavy rock, some LCD-like glitzy trans-Atlantic dance punk, Irish indie hip hop, indie rock, pop punk and post punk. Poll’s open for a week, new one next Friday.

Happy scrolling! If you want to give your mutuals a few songs, reblog, and let them know what you liked :)

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🎵 SONG-TO-GO 🎵

It's Friday again, which means unbelievably, I get to do yet another song wizard new music Friday. For a 5th week! Somehow you're all still here. I'm not out of music, so let's do this!

For the uninitiated, Song-To-Go is a weekly song poll to take a lesser-known song along with you as you scroll!

As with last week, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (I’ve tried to make sure there’s something you won’t know), and if you like them they’re yours* to carry along on your trip!

*as in add them to your library etc., if you like them a lot come ask me and I’ll try and dig up a Bandcamp like for you, hee hee

[last week’s poll, now complete, and you can see the results. Or just listen to more music! And then tell me about it :) ]

This week's picks are all about rock and weird but really catchy indie (and the one ska punk track). What other genres do you want to hear in the next few weeks?

As always, poll’s open for a week, so if you miss this one, I’ll be back with another one by next Friday. I think I'll also keep a running playlist of everything I've posted so far, plus others I'm planning to use for upcoming weeks because honestly, I don't really feel like there's a magician's cloth I'm pulling back to reveal songs. A lot of this is actually just stuff I've played on introducing radio over the last 4 years :P

The growing playlist, here.

Happy scrolling! If you want to give your mutuals a few new songs, reblog and tell them what you liked. Happy listening!

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seen people calling this Fontaines’ pop album and that they lost what made Dogrel special, I think youse missed the essence of Fontaines D.C.! It was never specifically about the punk or the aggression. It was about Fontaines’ poet-in-the-corner observations. It was about how if five people with ideas in their mind came together and spent a long time carefully crafting a record, people who developed their taste in music together, people for whom ideas and motifs gave rise to music, then the music will take on an identity of its own. It was never specifically about the Lotts on the corner. The ideas will evolve. This is the best evolution of a band you could’ve asked for! If a few strummed acoustic guitars equal sold out pop for you I don’t know what to tell you.

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It’s Friday, and so here’s week 4 of your takeaway song-to-go! I’ve had so much fun with this over the last few weeks, so I’m back bearing more songs! The idea is that every Friday I open a weekly poll for you to take a lesser-known song along with you as you scroll.

Choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (I’ve tried to make sure there’s always something new and lesser known), and if you like them they’re yours* to carry on your trip!

*as in, add them to your library etc., if you like them a lot come ask me and I’ll try and dig up a Bandcamp link or something for you, hee hee

[last week’s poll, in case you wanted more songs to take with you. Or just come talk to me :)]

🎵 SONG-TO-GO 🎵

You’ve been visited by the song wizard! 🪄🎧🎵 Take a lesser-known song with you to go as you scroll…

As always, poll’s open for a week, so if you miss this one, I’ll be back with another one by next Friday, and the reason why I know this is because I got excited and queued the next three weeks of Song-to-go >:)

Happy scrolling! If you want to give your dash a few new songs, reblog. Happy listening!

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It’s Friday and I’ve had fun with this over the last few weeks, so I’m back bearing more songs! Here’s another song wizard new music Friday, a weekly poll to take a lesser-known song along with you as you scroll!

As with last week, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (I’ve tried to make sure there’s something new and lesser known), and if you like them they’re yours* to carry take on your trip!

*as in add them to your library etc., if you like them a lot come ask me and I’ll try and dig up a Bandcamp like for you, hee hee

[last week’s poll, which itself links back to the first week’s, which aren’t open anymore, in case you wanted more songs to take with you. Or just come talk to me, I love a music chat! Always.]

Poll’s open for a week, but we’ve been going three weeks (!) now, so if you miss this one, I’ll hopefully be back with another next Friday.

Any genres you’d want me to throw in more music from? I know my circle of influence is very alt and rock, so I’ve been sparing with my jazz, pop and hip hop picks, but if you want more, I’m happy to add more of them!

Happy scrolling! If you want to give your dash a few songs, reblog, I’m just bored :)

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If you are seeing a deluge of Green Day reblogs on your dash, that is my fault. I queued a lot of them. A LOT. Of them. In what I can only describe as post-gig induced hysteria. It is like 2:40 AM and I SHOULD sleep because there’s one more day of Osheaga to go, and there are bands I want to see on Sunday!! I am Going to see RAYE! I came to the festival literally only for her! But then also I rediscovered my love for Green Day, I’d forgotten how this was one of the first guitar bands I’d ever been exposed to (/English pop music I’d ever paid much attention to?) They didn’t play this, but 21 Guns, a little performance, way back in 2011 or 2012, I can’t even remember now. That, to discovering power chords aged 13 (as you do), to the downtuning and Dookie. To Billie’s frank discussions of sexuality and mental health. To both, Green Day’s unadorned rage to unbridled joy. From all the love Billie has to show and how he wasn’t afraid of being an atypical boy. How his refining of what a man can be helped me redefine and become comfortable in what I as a girl could be. Billie on his own terms? Me on my own terms. ‘I found out what it takes to be a man, my mom and dad will never understand’, but we did! He did it for himself, but what it meant to us!

Billie continues to redefine America for me. I’m not American, so I can’t even imagine how much more this must mean to American Green Day fans. I keep thinking back to those American Idiot photoshoots, the band with the green-tinted US flag behind them in the pictures and the music video, those shoots of the band sat together, wrapped up in the American flag. Many musicians have tried the patriotic route, most have failed. Spice Girls Union Jack? Cringe. Noel’s Union Jack guitar? Meh. If anything, a bit confusingly contradictory. Most bands trying to do the American flag these days. 👀 is the most common reaction. But not with Green Day. They continue to be the defiant laser pointer dragging your eyes away from other interpretations of the flag. As time goes on, I find myself thinking about how the only positive representations left of this flag, the ones I want to see, remain sports/Olympics and by Green Day. Rejects all-American indeed ✊❤️

And so here I am, rambling at 3 AM. Sorry. I’m queuing this too, so that the spam apology comes when the posts are flowing and not at 3 AM now, but I’m going to hold this experience close and cherish it and go to bed before the light comes up. Long day tomorrow, and I’ll upload the videos when I’m back home. Hope you’re enjoying the Green Day spamming, haha. I feel like I’m 13 again, in the best possible way. Viva Green Day! 💚

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Once again I come bearing songs! It’s Friday so I’m back with another song wizard new music Friday!

The idea? A weekly song-to-go poll to take a lesser-known song along with you as you scroll!

As with last week, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (I’ve tried to make sure there’s something you won’t know), and if you like them they’re yours* to carry along on your trip!

*as in add them to your library etc., if you like them a lot come ask me and I’ll try and dig up a Bandcamp like for you, hee hee

🎵 SONG-TO-GO 🎵

[last week’s poll, which isn’t open anymore of course, in case you wanted more songs to take with you. Or just come talk to me, I love a music chat!]

Poll’s open for a week, so if you miss this one, I’ll hopefully be back with another one by next Friday!

Happy scrolling! If you want to give your dash a few songs, reblog, I’m just bored :)

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