yeah i still don't understand why teens think lipsync videos are so cool but anything that leads to more people discovering Any Other City is alright by me

Bandcamp is great for following record labels that you like, as labels will tend to put their entire catalog up, making it easy to explore. might i suggest Unseen Worlds? they have a wide variety of weird, interesting stuff, mostly instrumental.

"there mere fact that you call it hop-hop tells me you're not ready"

dude Mother Teresa is also bad

you don't think there's enough horny white guys in indie rock? what even?

i, for one, think it's okay to shame people for participating in an attempted coup. because they should be ashamed of themselves. shocking and brave, i know.

uhhhh you know these people participated in an act of domestic terrorism yesterday, right? it's not really about political "views" anymore when your compatriots are stalking the halls of Congress looking for politicians to zip-cuff.

i think of Parquet Courts as just punk, they don't really have that motorik gloominess that i associate with post punk.

i've resisted the urge to post chumbawamba on multiple weeks but i am only so strong

what the FUCK guess i'm smoking a stupid amount of weed and blasting Take Me To Your Leader tonight

thanks to Stereogum for helping keep me sane this year and thanks to RJ's weekend playlist for helping me know what week it is in a year when it was remarkably easy to lose track of time. here are all the songs i added this year, you can think of it as a "songs of the year" but includes a bunch of stuff not from this year so it really encapsulates the fuller picture of what all i was listening to over the course of the year: https://i.ibb.co/qpFQJ0r/weekendsongs2020-2.jpg

she says it out loud on "Ruby Falls"

i thought it was the same band that did the i like girls who wear abercrombie and fitch song

fuck yessss where has this Burial been for the past 5 years?

damn, this was a pissed off year, shout out to: Ghouli Envy Restraining Order The Fight Rotting Out End Antichrist Demoncore Mindforce Spiritworld Slowbleed Glorious World of Pleasure Phalanx Touche Amore Pinkshift Crowning Gulch Life's Question for helping me sublimate my rage

how did i forget Boris, the funnest metal album of the year

great list, i would add: Kvelertak Thy Catafalque Igorrr Rotting Kingdom Skeleton Spiritworld Bear Mace Hellripper Autonoesis Intronaut

ehhhh as someone with a higher tolerance for Liturgy than most, Origin is really not their best work

Frances Q being totally overlooked on all these lists! her album was a bit on the short side, but really good, plus her cover of "Carry the Zero" is just astonishing

not really in order but these are the 2020 songs i listened to the most: grimes- delete forever bartees strange- boomer frances quinlan- your reply ratboys- i go out at night sada baby- skubaru playboi carti- @ meh waxahatchee- can't do much jeff rosenstock- scram! dogleg- headfirst mary lattimore- dreaming of the kelly pool adrianne lenker- anything aesop rock- the gates the beths- out of sight mare cognitum- jupiter (the giant) boris- anti-gone phoebe bridgers- i know the end lucy dacus- lips of an angel