I got this after reading the article 👀 I have been able to toy around a bit and it's been really fun! I like how the available sliders are focused enough to keep you moving forward but you can dive in and do more detailed tweaking if you want to

Shrewgaze music

got last minute tickets for Addison Rae in Brussels!

honestly, it's crazy how often cis 'allies' suddenly start using they/them pronouns "for everyone" when they need to refer to a trans woman

the weather is turning more gray and I’m feeling melancholic (again)
youtu.be/yBJyIlnAsrk

reading about bitwig 6 swayed me over to try it again, bought a new upgrade license and it has been really fun actually! I still need to find my way around (the ableton muscle memory is strong), but I have been able to build interesting sounds from scratch and the editor is really nice actually

taking estrogen so people i went to high school with can’t recgonize me in public

what’s the hipster/niche alternative to labubu’s? I love the little gremlin girl aesthetic (I know she is an elf) but hate how it’s hyped up and being priced up like crazy

probably Russian Circles + These Arms Are Snakes back in 2008 when they toured Europe, so just a few years before the latter split up. saw them in a pretty small venue in my hometown. it was also my first 'real' gig too!

joined the listen party for Thirst by Slow Crush and looking forward for this one to drop 🔥 it sounded really good (it's like heavy shoegaze with some doom metal maybe?) and the whole album felt consistent all the way through
slowcrush.bandcamp.com/album/thirst

came across Faircamp and it looks neat! I love static sites and having a generator with a bunch of features for self-hosting music is awesome
looking forward to using this if/when I release some tracks
simonrepp.com/faircamp/

western media spent idk like 20 years fearmongering about china's Social Credit System (which doesn't even work the way most ppl think it does anyway) only for the US and UK to legally implement actual orwellian laws because it doesn't like you having free access to the ahegao tags on gelbooru

came across an album that “pushes post-rock to extremes” and I’ve never felt so deceived before when it turned out to be mid-west emo
nothing against that, but with post-rock I’m expecting stuff like Godspeed, Explosions, or Yndi Halda. genres are whatever but slapping post-rock on this felt big oof

wait they got a puppygirl to play Krypto???

rediscovered this amazing cover of Homesick by Rosetta and it hits just as hard as ~10 years ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAzX...

I honestly think it's rather people are constantly using religion as an excuse to be homo/trans/queer-phobic. people have always been selective in their interpretation of the bible and religion is used to enforce patriarchy and vice versa

it's kind of crazy how it seems like last.fm hasn't changed much in like 10 years, it ironically doesn't make me feel very confident the platform is going to stick around

do people still use last.fm? I found my old account and my last scrobble is from 2017, I kind of miss tracking my music (outside of whatever the streaming platforms do)