Song of the Week(end)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Cjow9lO2U Princess Nokia’s “A Girl Cried Red” was, to many, a surprise of a mixtape in its emo nostalgia. “Your Eyes Are Bleeding” seamlessly blends hip-hop elements with a teenage pop-punk aesthetic. While this mixtape is a very drastic shift from Nokia’s brujería feminist, rap heavy debut album 1992, Nokia has long been a cultivator and advocate for people of color’s involvement in punk, anime, video game and emo culture through her social media presence. The aesthetic of the video for “Your Eyes Are Bleeding” takes me back to my middle school days of fingerless gloves and knee-high converse. Despite emo culture being predominately thought of as a white subculture, most of the emo kids in my middle- and high-schools were people of color, queer or consid...

Starved in metropolis... Hooked on necropolis... Addict of metropolis... Do the worm on the acropolis Slamdance the cosmopolis Enlighten the populace.... "Ghetto Defendant" is one of those songs that will never tire me. I've listened to it religiously for months, always finding something new in the lyrics and the way in which the different speakers' words interact with one another. That pleasing, old poet voice rhythmically purring is none other than Allen Ginsberg reciting lyrics he wrote for the song, communicating "the voice of God." Take a listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/4WidRX7HuOreEGkQ6tKBBi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Tvr7Tz0Oc Loving is a mellow indie rock band from Victoria, British Columbia. Their song "Bowlly Going Dancing Drunk Into the Future" is off their 2016 self-titled LP, an album heavy with motifs of delicate nature, letting go, and wandering.  Listen to "Bowlly Going Dancing" while sharing a dessert with a friend this weekend. maybe you could talk freely  speak to me for once so truly  for once so truly  i could know  just where you're going  just where i'm standing.  that would really be something.  in most ways on most days  i am clearly disappearing  i am clearly disappearing  at the thought of our nearing  an end.  this morning i awoke  and read the words  that you wrote.  they were different from what you spoke  they were different from what you sp...

Breaking the silence  Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water- A deep resonance. -Matsuo Basho, The Narrow Road to the Deep North  Daniel R. Robinson was an acoustic guitarist who changed his name to Robbie Basho in honor of the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho. Like Matsuo Basho's poetry, Robbie Basho's music captures a beauty and calmness deeply rooted in the natural world. In Robbie Basho's rendition of Debussy's piano solo "Clair de Lune,"  Basho's guitar echoes the effects a piano's sustaining pedal would produce in a typical performance of the song while adding a rugged folksiness and energy to the piece.  Take a listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/5gP8ytgXOcX2Enq9yS5UHh