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May 2025 Music Recs
Music recommendations while riding the waves Photographing Poison the Well, Glassjaw, Better Lovers, and Teenage Wrist in April lit something inside me. It was the music and musicians I loved and admired as a kid combined with meeting people who meet me and me them where we’re at. There are…
April 2025 Music Recs
Music recommendations from a louder place It is easier to see the almost palinopsia-like events—of course, almost all self-imposing—while writing about April from the place I am in June. March began the concerts, and April began the travels and protests. I adopted a new cat in February and was a…
March 2025 Music Recs
Music recommendations while sadness falls from the surface March is my birthday month and I most definitely live up to my emotional Piscean stereotype—if you had not yet gathered from my writing thus far. There is almost a sultry, humid sadness. For musical appreciation though, Cafe Astrology states that my…
February 2025 Music Recs
Metal recommendations meeting the darkness face first falling While January may have been a moment of quickened change, a high on catharsis, with utter focus on the beauty in darkness, February was meeting the darkness face first falling. The music slowed down in quantity—luckily never quality—and brought to mind more…
January 2025 Music Recs
Metal recommendations from a broken heart January was the month that encapsulated hope. I was that kid who did not think that I would live into my 30s. Poppy, jazzy, cathartic metal that met me in the depths of my broken heart. In the month after my elderly cat died,…
Napalm Death, Melvins, & Weedeater @ Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro – May 2nd 2025
I went out on a whim to the sold-out show, teetering on the bridge of “…or should I go” mere hours before. Not even two days back from Brooklyn, and there I was driving a long way down I-40 in my sticky-pollen-covered car to reach the third venue I ever…
On Writing a Trauma-Informed Care Proposal for Libraries
Disclaimer: The views, opinions, advice, and perspectives shared here are my own and should not be considered the views nor official recommendations of my employer. In 2023, at work, I was on my knees restocking books at the self-checkout display cube on the second floor. While pulling books off a…
2025.02 February Music Recs
written 2025 Feb 25 K L P S (KOLLAPS\E) K L P S “UNDERTOW” I feel like I refer to my favorite cult bands (Cult of Luna and Cult Leader) often enough on here that people notice…but it is because I really love them and they are prime examples of…
2024.12 December Music Recs
written 2024 Dec 28 samlrc A Lonely Sinner “Storge” Feeling numb at the moment, so let’s gaze. samlrc released A Lonely Sinner 2024 March 08. I put off listening to this experimental post-metal, shoegaze, folk beauty…sometimes things come when you need them. The ‘everyday expression’ mentioned as a theme in…
2024.11 November Music Recs
written 2024 Nov 30 Múr Múr “Vitrun” Múr somehow evokes bands Cult of Luna, Gojira, Devin Townsend, Ulcerate, Meshuggah, Opeth, and more. Múr’s self-titled debut album is likely one of the best if not the best debut from a band I have ever heard. Múr is solid, their sound so…
Blood Incantation & Midwife @ The Canal Club, Richmond – November 22nd 2024
On this crisp November night, Blood Incantation and Midwife took the stage. They are more than halfway through their tour showcasing Blood Incantation’s newest and highly acclaimed album Absolute Elsewhere. Nicklas Malmqvist of Swedish progressive rock band Hällas accompanies Blood Incantation’s set on keyboards.
IDLES & English Teacher @ Rabbit Rabbit, Asheville – September 14th 2024
British punk rock band IDLES has just come off their fourth break in their year-long Love is the Fing World Tour ’24 tour with a sold-out show at Rabbit Rabbit in Asheville, North Carolina.
Omar Apollo & Malcolm Todd @ Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh – September 11th 2024
Omar Apollo brought his God Said No tour to Red Hat Amphitheater Wednesday night. Apollo’s second studio album has received tall praise from various critics, including those from Rolling Stone, NME, Pitchfork, The New York Times, and more, and the love was shown in Raleigh, North Carolina. Apollo’s music is…
Fallujah, Persefone, Vulvodynia, Dawn of Ouroboros, & Detest the Throne @ Hangar 1819, Greensboro – July 6th 2024
For Fallujah‘s 10 year anniversary tour of their sophomore album The Flesh Prevails, they are joined by Persefone, Vulvodynia, Dawn of Ouroboros.
Orville Peck, Durand Jones, & Debbii Dawson @ Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh– May 30th 2024
The second night of Orville Peck’s Stampede Tour was filled with laughter and dancing on and off the stage at Red Hat Amphitheater. Plus it was fairly nice outside for a North Carolina summer night—not much humidity, enough shade to go around, and everyone comfy in their Western getups.
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