Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple

The Albini version of Public Witness Program goes so hard

Highly recommend. Bought the first volume years ago when I was working at a used bookstore - public library has me covered for the rest

Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Stop literally everything.

Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.

fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

Currently reading Akira for the first time!

10. Against Me! Is Reinventing Axl Rose (2002)

9. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010)

8. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations (2006)(STRONGLY considering pitching a 20-year retrospective, they simply don't make 'em like this anymore)

Got just a few more so let's do some highschool picks.

7. Metric - Plug in Plug Out (2009)(the acoustic Gimme Sympanthy changed my life, and it kills me this is no longer on streaming)

6. Me Rex - Megabear (2021)(listen to Giant Elk and the EPs if you want their songs, and you do want their songs, but come on - nobody's ever made an album like this, and we don't talk about it enough)

5. Nnamdï - Please Have a Seat (2022)(my most-listened album on Last fm)(do yourself a favor and go listen to "Smart Ass" right now)(and then also the rest of the album)

4. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog (2018)

3. Elastica - Elastica (1995)

2. Electrelane - The Power Out (2004)

Let's go. Gonna start with some deep cuts.

1. Helium - The Magic City (1997)

Black and white photo of a rickenbacker guitar captioned 1 like = 1 favorite album

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Topshelf Records Cancels Album Release for Ekko Astral Ahead of the D.C. punk band’s new album and Liberation Weekend festival, their scene reacts to legal action by frontwoman Jael Holzman.

Topshelf Records dropped D.C. punk band Ekko Astral after news broke of Jael Holzman’s peace order against former drummer, Miri Tyler.

The abrupt cancellation comes amid a public reckoning with Holzman’s actions by other members of the D.C. music community. More here:

“Hostile Street” is out now 🧿 So, an increasingly cruel society is encroaching on people who are basically good and friendly and just trying to do their thing. I know that, you know that, we all know that. Me and Mandy saw it in hostile street furniture – those bus benches that have uncomfortable

We're so back

I need to give these another spin but tell me if I'm hearing things

Or at least more compressed! Similar pop sense, but it was recorded with Ryland Heagy of Origami Angel and it's got a little bit of that pop punk/easycore thing to it I'm thinking?

Abacot singles have me hyped for the record - love that the DMV has its own Liquid Mike (but heavier?)

I didn't 'get' Pirog as a guitarist until James Brandon Lewis got in the mix, I love the dynamic of the four-piece lineup

I'm always sore for at least two days after seeing Pinky Lemon. That's how good they are

Campr, by Broke Royals 10 track album

Here’s a music challenge: listen to this!
brokeroyals.bandcamp.com/album/campr

This Is Just To Say It Ain't So

somebody’s sweet plums are crowding my icebox

somebody’s cold plums are giving me chills

Tell me five classes you took in college:

Modernist Fiction into Film
Public Affairs Production
Muse and Memory: Women in 19th-20th Century Russian Lit
Podcast Production
Intro to Post-Tonal Composition

NOT A PHASE: Best of 2025 — Emily from MD 1.26.26 9–11 pm show on Gutsy Radio The best songs of 2025.

Here’s my latest radio show recording: www.mixcloud.com/gutsyradio/n...