Sure, good year for music. Terrible year for like, people.
04.12.2025 13:28
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Sure, good year for music. Terrible year for like, people.
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In 2026 we’re deciding to stick with a crowd that feels home. We’ve struggled all year to find our people, and the “DIY” scene just doesn’t seem to be the answer.
If anyone knows where Scarlet Street belongs, let us know.
It's really easy to move away from Spotify and stop funding this shit.
Buying physical media from artists you love will get you into heaven* Here’s Pretty Bitter’s Pleaser LP and No Alternative by Scarlet Street on cassette. Listen to both right this second. Well not both at the same time. One and then the other. They are so great. * = this statement has not been verified
Music this week: scarlet street. Banquets. Camp trash. Dead billionaires. Dikembe. Magazine beach. Saturdays at your place. Broken record. Pretty bitter. Weakened friends. Bent shapes. The Menzingers. The Carolyn. Josaleigh Pollett & Crowd Shy. Kerosene heights. Stay inside.
My two favorite records of 2025:
- Pleaser by @prettybittermp3.bsky.social
- No Alternative by @scarletstreet.co
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new apfo newsletter! it's APFO LP2's one year anniversary. i reflect on the first four songs on the record, and include voice memos and demos from January 2022, when those songs were written.
i even included a demo from an unreleased song from that period called "Look At Love"
What I’m noticing more and more is that people don’t care if something is AI. They like it because it’s entertaining/shares their world view. It’s a losing battle to appeal to these people based on merits of stealing from artists or the environment. They just literally do not care.
Going to post more on here from now on. What have we missed while we were gone?
Ben Quad ska song confirmed
I wrote about some good new music for you to check out.
Ekko Astral: “their raw power is magic”
Scarlet Street: “a beacon in the fog”
Broken Record: “emo Gin Blossoms
Dead Billionaires: “powerful, incisive, catchy songs”
Banquets: “soaring melodic punk anthems”
Had a guy in a local band tell me he ‘doesn’t fuck with all the trans people in the scene’ to which I replied ‘is it because they’re so much better at music than you?’
He did not like that answer, lmao. Get fucked bozo.
Might as well just say “I don’t fuck with the scene.”
Trans people ARE the DIY scene.
Always a joy to read these. They honestly make me feel less crazy
New post! Great new music from @ekkoastral.bsky.social, @scarletstreet.co, @brokenrecord.bsky.social, Dead Billionares, & Banquets. Plus more on the "athletically allergic" and "pathetic" ICE recruits who can't pass an open-book test.
NO ALTERNATIVE is about what happens when the chaos becomes normal, when truth gets replaced by algorithm, & when everything has a price tag.
This is the heaviest thing we’ve done, not just in music but in its purpose. It’s for anyone who feels buried and hopeless
scarletstreet.lnk.to/NOALTERNATIVE
On this episode I sit down with Ben from @scarletstreet.co We talk about their new album "No Alternative", We're Trying Records 10 year show, and the power of notebooks! Check it out!!!
Streaming: linktr.ee/BeersWithBands
YouTube: youtu.be/yCuvH92YM_8?...
Anyways happy Friday
People need to understand the psychology behind fascist and right-wing ideology. We’ve been told to ignore their intolerance so as not to legitimize them, but the opposite is true: they see the lack of response to their action as victory. It’s when they are met with response that they stand down
This comes out in 48 hours. We worked really hard on it, it’s the most ambitious thing we’ve ever done and we’re mega nervous about what people will think.
jael stands in shadows in front of the lights in a green room. photo by murphy gerrasch
“horseglue” by ekko astral is now out everywhere you can get tinnitus @topshelfrecords.com
spotify.link/GtVCNjXfFXb
Thanks @pitchfork.com.
Listen to "horseglue" by @ekkoastral.bsky.social, watch the accompanying music video, and read frontwoman Jael's personal essay about the song.
You can do all that right here: www.topshelfrecords.com/listen?filte...
Ekko Fucking Astral
Cincinnati, OH
NO ALTERNATIVE
live and in person.
w/
MANOR GATES & YEAR TWINS
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/scar...
We're doing VHS Cassettes for this one! They'll be on sale tomorrow on bandcamp for $20. They are playable in a VCR and contains a collage of footage from the recording process and lyrics alongside the songs. The Cassette will also have RFID access to a digital copy of the LP on Samply.
I’m so glad you all did this. We wanted to do this for No Alternative but sort of forgot
And since this has no meaningful impact, the tastemakers have none either. To fill the void, culture is now selected by the most powerful; the rich or the well connected.
The “promise” of social media was that anyone’s message could get out there. What actually happened is just power consolidation
It really does feel like social media is just TV static. People post on here, they’ll promote their bands or movements or, but no meaningful change has occurred. It’s just noise. Nothing gained, only time lost.
The wave of the future.
People on twitter want memes and video game references and I’m not really sure they’ll be receptive to an album about meaningful purpose and societal systems collapsing. Will Bluesky?
Because so far we haven’t seen too much love here, either.
ekko astral on stage lookin epic photo credit alec pugliese
if you know a single soul in…
• the Kansas City metro area
• the St. Louis metro area
• the Indianapolis metro area
• the Nashville metro area
@ekkoastral.bsky.social is playing a few impromptu shows on our way back to DC
tomorrow thru friday
our last shows of the year!!!!
linktr.ee/ekkoastral
