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Allison Hussey

1 year

here’s a story I’ve been working on for a few months, about how professional musicians who’ve chosen motherhood deal with an industry that’s poorly equipped to support them. we dug deep, but barely scratched the surface.

The Invisible Work of Mothers in Music

Sharon Van Etten, Rico Nasty, Corin Tucker, and more on how being a touring musician can make the struggles of motherhood that much more intense.

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3 years

correct use of disposable income, no notes

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3 years

here’s Johnny Cash in his thigh-high boots, in honor of the man’s birthday

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4 years

MAYBE DON’T

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5 months

one absolutely bizarro detail from this week is that Anna Wintour—seated indoors at a conference table—did not remove her sunglasses while she was telling us that we were about to get canned. the indecency we’ve seen from upper management this week is appalling.

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5 years

haven’t seen these circulating yet today, so here is your reminder. happy fall, y’all 🍁🍂🍁

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3 years

@rossgrady sorry can’t hear any criticism above the din of Clown And Zombie Porch

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3 years

you can try to say they’re waders if you want to, but good luck stepping through a river in these!!

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6 months

. @pitchfork is rolling out its tentpole year-end lists this week, which would not exist without the staff members who remain in the dark as to whether they’ll still have a job at the end of the month. happy reading : )

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The 100 Best Songs of 2023 🎶 Featuring @IceSpicee_ , @OliviaRodrigo , #LanaDelRey , @TroyeSivan , @Amaarae , @NewJeans_ADOR , and more See the full list here → #P4K2023

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Allison Hussey

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3 years

gonna be full-time at Pitchfork after next week, hope you like reading about kooky folk records and such :)

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2 years

Will Butler leaving Arcade Fire.........guess they'll just have to adjUUUUUUUUUUU-UUUUUUUUUUUUST

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5 months

I got laid off today and am not feeling particularly gracious about it right now! gonna take a break from…everything?…for a little while. holler at talktohussey at gmail and I’ll get back eventually 💌

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7 years

happy Monday from this very cheerful church sign 💀

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5 years

I'm joining the folks over at @pitchfork as an associate staff writer, mostly handling nights-n-weekends newsy stuff. I am thrilled!! 🌞

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4 years

when people tell you who they are, believe them. I'm so angry but so grateful for women who continue to speak up against abuses of power.

Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Three Women

Sources tell Pitchfork the acclaimed songwriter exposed himself without consent, forced a woman to touch his penis, and pressured a 19-year-old into nonconsensual sex

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Allison Hussey

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4 years

a small thing that could be helpful to artists losing work right now: @Bandcamp has the option to pay more than asking price for a record, so buy something you’ve been streaming elsewhere and tack on a couple extra bucks 💡

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5 years

I mean...............fair enough, David Crosby

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3 months

you read it right: laid-off Condé Nast workers are currently barred from freelancing for any other outlet, such as the New Yorker, Wired, Vogue, etc. foul!!! #IStandWithCondeContracted #p4kwired

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. @CondeNast not allowing laid off employees to freelance for any of its brands is named Worst New Policy🏆 #IStandWithCondeContracted #P4KWired

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5 years

it is important to examine all design elements closely before sending something to the printer

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2 years

. @hebakadryy has probably worked on one of your favorite records of the past few years—she was kind enough to speak with me about the finer details of her craft for @pitchfork

Meet Heba Kadry, Mastering Engineer to the Indie Stars

Catching up with the in-demand studio guru, who’s worked with everyone from Björk to Big Thief, about her empathetic approach to an unnecessarily mysterious field.

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3 years

some news: I am at last ready to begin a long-overdue R.E.M. phase

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4 years

a brief study of fictional North Carolinians of TV and film, I am not accepting questions or revisions at this time

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4 years

dear Sun Ra, could you please come pick me up, I hate it here

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8 years

I love this. #yallmeansALL #WeAreNotThis

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4 years

I talked to labels and retailers about the massive backlog situation at Direct Shot Distribution, which some say is threatening their livelihoods. my @pitchfork report:

A Major Music Distributor Has Stifled Vinyl Sales for Record Stores and Indie Labels, Sources Say

Record stores, labels, and even artists can’t get a hold of their own merchandise. They’re pointing the finger at Direct Shot Distribution.

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6 years

Moondance is touted as a classic record, but if a man ever said "it's a fantabulous night to make romance" to me in earnest, I would leave IMMEDIATELY

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4 years

GOTH DAD, the reigning dark lord of Durham

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5 years

no one did 2009/2019 like Grimes

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4 years

shoutout to the USPS designer who thought to make the Marvin Gaye stamps look like a 45 sleeve

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6 years

a year ago. remember how easily it crumpled?

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4 years

Moogs and Minimoogs imply the existence of a Megamoog

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7 years

@carvellwallace and the blatant ignorance of the fact that many, many jobs are not nine-to-fives!

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3 years

I am constantly haunted by Garth Brooks’ Breakfast Bowl

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4 years

I also have a statement and it is: fuck this

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Mark Kozelek has issued a new statement in response to accusations of sexual misconduct

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5 years

TFW YOU GET ON THE TRAIN AND IT SMELLS LIKE COLLARD GREENS

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3 years

as Woody Guthrie famously proclaimed, "let's get loud"

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6 years

🙋🏻‍♀️

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"No one could accuse me or Ariel Pink of ever being boring"—Mark Kozelek

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2 years

“They’re from Asheville, Daddy, they hate God” in the new Righteous Gemstones is a perfectly placed and executed joke, what a wonderful program

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3 years

[Offspring voice] you gotta get ‘em vaccinated

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4 years

no Hopscotch this year so instead this week I will: • run up and down the back stairs a whole bunch • have half a bag of chips and a cold brew for dinner at 4:30 • listen to records and yell WHO ARE YOU SEEING NEXT at my cat • continue to avoid people I knew in high school

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3 years

the VMAs and the Met Gala back to back are really driving home how badly our culture conflates “being expensive” with “being interesting”

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4 years

James Taylor pulling ahead on the White Male Boomer Icon Leaderboard: • minds his business between appreciating sobriety, saying nice things abt Joni • has *always* told folks not to vote Republican • prob just chilling in a refurbished Connectichussetts barn in his little hat

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6 years

pardon me but why would you go see Grouper, of all artists, if you’re just gonna talk over her???????

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6 years

last night I hung out with two friends, Spencer and John, and they were both wearing blue shirts. I called them the John-Spencer Blues Explosion and somehow no one else thought that was funny???? MYSTIFYING

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Allison Hussey

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2 years

if you missed it yesterday, I wrote about how Emmylou Harris shines as her fullest self on Wrecking Ball, with a little help from Daniel Lanois

Emmylou Harris: Wrecking Ball

Read Allison Hussey’s review of the album.

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3 years

it would be cool if UNC's journalism school had workshops on pitching, personal finance, and best practices for freelancers instead of uhhh whatever this is supposed to be

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8 years

my favorite neighborhood vandal has returned after many weeks, and I am very glad.

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6 years

there's a Facebook page called Fuquay-Varina Memes and it's full of the bizarre hyper-local roasts of my dreams

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2 years

it’s terrible to lose jaimie branch, who still had so much more to do here. I wrote about what she left for us.

Remembering Trumpeter jaimie branch With 5 Essential Albums

A gifted improviser, branch worked far and wide while carving out her place as an ambitious bandleader and composer

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7 years

just saw a man on a hoverboard in traffic, pushing a shopping cart, which contained a Doberman. I hope yr Saturday is equally surreal so far

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4 years

almost everyone I know is privately dealing with some sort of major personal crisis on top of all the other cascades of...everything. if that’s you, too, maybe you need to hear this: you’re less alone than you think!

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1 year

posting this story again because I’m still very proud of it and because working mothers exist year-round :)

The Invisible Work of Mothers in Music

Sharon Van Etten, Rico Nasty, Corin Tucker, and more on how being a touring musician can make the struggles of motherhood that much more intense.

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3 years

remember: • it’s Bandcamp Friday • be gentle to yourself and others because we are all still Going Through It with different ways of coping • you definitely don’t have to listen to the new Van Morrison Record

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4 years

happy Labor Day! all labor has dignity and every person deserves secure employment that affords them a safe and comfortable life.

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7 years

say it again for the morning crowd: A PROGRESSIVE SOUTH IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR

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6 months

some really fantastic news after a rough few weeks: no layoffs at Pitchfork. I’m so grateful for my @p4kunion colleagues who supported one another in pushing for the transparency we deserve. we’re not done. onward 💪

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🧵: After more than a month in limbo, we finally got word from our management that no members of Pitchfork Union will be laid off amid the current cuts at Conde Nast. This is great news, and we appreciate everyone’s support.

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4 months

cute! they still haven’t paid out our severance, either :)

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all the people that @CondeNast brutally axed from @pitchfork are still on the masthead

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8 months

as the author of this brief and informative sentence, I have thoroughly enjoyed all of the dunking it has inspired, thank you all

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Truly the wackest shit in the world

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7 years

gonna toot my own horn for a second: last year was hard as hell and I am proud of my dang self. 📯💃🏻

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4 years

my relationship with podcasts and the Grateful Dead is largely the same: • respect for the medium + skills involved • awareness of larger cultural influence/impact • I have enjoyed some occasional selections • I beg of you, please stop telling me "just listen to this one"

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3 years

I got really good at making biscuits this year, which isn’t much at all, but it feels good to have some sort of minor victory 🏆

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4 years

Dolly, Linda, and Emmylou

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What are the 3 branches of government? Wrong answers only.

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11 months

. @dnorsen_design x Smithsonian Folkways Sounds of North American Frogs stickers…….collab of a lifetime, absolutely iconic, purchasing immediately

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5 months

finally got to behold Kingsway, Daniel Lanois’ former studio in the French Quarter. this building has loomed huge in my writing and personal music fandom, dweeb levels all the way off the charts 📈

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4 years

the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou? set the stage for Americana in the new millennium. I wrote about how that happened for Pitchfork's Sunday Review. 🎻

Various Artists: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Original Soundtrack)

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the original soundtrack to the Coen brothers’...

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4 years

I talked to John Shepherd, subject of a wonderful new Netflix short film, about his efforts to contact aliens through radio broadcasts 🛰🌌

Meet the Man Who Used Kraftwerk, Fela Kuti, and Other Fascinating Music to Try to Lure Aliens to...

For nearly 30 years, John Shepherd broadcast freewheeling records from all over the world, to what he hoped would be an interstellar audience.

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4 years

I have accomplished the perfect biscuit.

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5 years

cackling so hard at this @mkenneymusic masterpiece

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4 years

it's cool how the best instrument is pedal steel and people keep sending me their very good pedal steel records. a niche interest that is an embarrassment of riches!

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4 years

Slint - Spiderland (1991)

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4 years

my Charlie Daniels Tweet is that he yelled at me over the phone about the confederate flag in 2017, my most memorable interview to date. his hard turn into vicious right-wing politics was such a shameful close to his interesting career.

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4 years

a bunch of stuff I collected over the years—poster prints, ticket stubs, set lists, a lot more—lives in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC now. it's such a surreal honor. there's a finding aid and everything!

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4 years

I asked my dad what he thought about Steely Dan being Cool now and he said "quit using your unwitting family members as props for anecdotes to make you seem funny and relatable online" LOL!!!!!!

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3 years

maybe your band is lucky enough to have some records to sell on the first tour you could book in almost 2 years, and sure they might melt in the van because of climate-change disaster anyway, but at least Dave Grohl got his latest goof-off back from the plant right on time

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4 years

Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings surprise dropped an album of covers, including an Elizabeth Cotten number, what have we done to deserve this gift!!!

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6 years

hello from a Honduran island, where this is the only US fast-food chain that’s survived and a man said “oh! come on and raise up!!!!” when I told him I was from North Carolina 😂

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3 years

here’s Big Boi encountering a man he believes to be Kenny Rogers, happy Friday to you all

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“ Kenny Rogers Is That U “ #Weoutchea

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6 years

mysteries of Cary, North Carolina: the Clay Aiken mural

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3 years

some personal news: thrilled to announce I still exist! looking forward to maybe going dancing again eventually 🪅🎆🌺

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3 years

@Ted_Scheinman De Niro’s attempt at Eastern North Carolina is appalling in Cape Fear, and Daniel Craig’s “Southern” accent in Knives Out is so bad that I thought it was foreshadowing a plot twist

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8 years

hiya! starting Monday, I'll be running the music section of @indyweek . I am really, really excited about this, y'all.

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6 years

where can you find gospel greats, polka compilations, and sounds of North American frogs? @Folkways , of course. I wrote a guide to the label on @Bandcamp !

A Walk Through the Legendary Archives of Smithsonian Folkways

The label’s goal is to create “a global encyclopedia of sound.”

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2 years

heartbreaking to write this one, there was nobody on this Earth like Patrick Haggerty

Lavender Country’s Patrick Haggerty Dies at 78

The lifelong activist made what is widely considered to be the first openly gay country music record

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5 years

shortly before I moved, I traded a sewing machine for this beautiful print of Elizabeth Cotten. it’s by Caitlin Cary, and it’s very special to me.

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5 years

nothing sets my nerd rage aflame like seeing prewar 78s referred to as “vinyl,” which I realize puts me in the 99th percentile of insufferability

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5 months

arts and crafts are therapeutic and so is hitting the picket line :)

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condé nast workers on strike

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Gillian Welch is rolling out 48 (!!!) previously unreleased demos recorded between Time (The Revelator) and Soul Journey. here’s two from Vol. 1, which is out at the end of the month

Gillian Welch Announces Archival Collection, Shares New Songs

“Strange Isabella” and “Mighty Good Book” are among the previously unreleased tracks recorded between 2001 and 2003

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5 years

the first week of February will be my last at the Indy. I'm moving to Brooklyn. yes, really!

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6 months

today I was sworn in as a volunteer court appointed special advocate to help support children, youth, and families in NYC. feels good!!

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5 years

I wrote about shifting attitudes toward psychedelics and artists embracing them for @nodepression ! it’s in the new print issue that’s out now!!

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4 years

really appreciate the folks who have checked in and offered support—seriously, thank you. I am okay! my own experience was a minor scrape. what keeps my heart heavy is long it took for people to listen seriously, and how much suffering has happened in the meantime.

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3 years

today in bad design that could’ve been avoided with five minutes of googling: mustard barbecue is a South Carolina thing! the Cape Hatteras lighthouse is in North Carolina! and the stripes go in the other direction!

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4 years

can't wait for karaoke to come back, I'm sure to win respect and accolades for my new showstopper "Murder Most Foul"

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4 years

As A Woman, it is time for me to confess: I do not like any bands

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is your child texting about LITTLE FEAT: LOL = Love Our Lowell WTF: Wow, That Feat! IDC: Incredible "Dixie Chicken" OMG: Old Man George BRB: Barrere's Real Boogie ROFL: Raitt on Full Lineup SMH: "Spanish Moon" Heavy

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4 years

channel anxious energy into biscuits, stress eat the biscuits

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4 years

the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack beat Stankonia for the Album of the Year Grammy in 2001, and I feel like there is a very fascinating book there about the lasting cultural impact of those records + what they said about the South and ~*American values*~ in a new century

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3 years

when you get really into krautrock but take it just a little too far maybe

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4 years

the thing that upsets me about the "what songs would Americans sing together in isolation" question is that I know in large swaths of the country the answer is, without a shred of doubt, "Wagon Wheel."

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strength, solidarity, and gratitude to the North Carolina teachers standing up for a better system today ❤️💪❤️

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