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06.19.26 nobody wants to hear about your pedal board

nobody has ever left a show talking about the pedal board. not once. not in the history of shows. they talk about whether it was loud, whether it was fast, and whether the singer meant it. that is the entire list.

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06.18.26 we found the demo tape in a drawer

found in a drawer, unlabelled, behind a stack of unpaid invoices. eight songs recorded in what sounds like a garage with the door open. we have been trying to work out who it is for two weeks. if this is you, get in touch. if this is not you, do

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06.17.26 the show was sold out and it still sucked

sold out in nine minutes, resold at four times face, and the room was still half empty at nine because everyone who bought a ticket was buying it as an asset rather than a plan. the band played well. to a room of people who had paid too much to

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06.16.26 an oral history of one very bad weekend

everyone we spoke to remembers a different weekend. the promoter remembers a triumph. the sound guy remembers a fire risk. the band remembers being owed money. all three are correct. this is how every good weekend works.

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06.15.26 gossip: someone finally said it out loud

somebody finally said the thing everyone has been saying privately for two years, said it into a microphone, and then spent the following week explaining that they had been misquoted. they were not misquoted. we have the tape. everybody has the tape. elsewhere: a label that has been telling bands

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06.14.26 the merch table is where the real money is

the door money is a rumour. the guarantee is a negotiating position. the merch table is the only part of the night that is real. bring more shirts than you think you need. bring change. bring somebody who can count.

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06.13.26 we are not going to review this one

we listened. we are not reviewing it. writing four hundred words about why something is boring is a bigger favour than the record has earned, and we would rather spend the space on a band who is trying.

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06.11.26 the opening band was better and everyone knows it

they went on at eight to nine people and were better than everything that followed. this happens most nights and almost nobody is there to see it. go early. it is the only real advice we have ever given.

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06.10.26 twenty minutes with a man who hates us

he agreed to the interview specifically to tell us we were wrong about his last record. we were not wrong about his last record. it is, against all odds, the best conversation we have printed this year. being hated by someone articulate is enormously productive.

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06.09.26 the reissue nobody asked for

remastered, expanded, and worse. the original was thirty-one minutes and sounded like it was recorded in a hurry by people who had somewhere to be. the new one is fifty-eight minutes and sounds like a meeting.

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06.08.26 we drove to san diego for this

two and a half hours each way for a thirty-five minute set in a room with no stage and a p.a. borrowed from a church. worth it. not every time. this time.

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06.07.26 the guitar sound is fine, the lyrics are not

the band can play. the record sounds enormous. and then somebody opens their mouth and it turns out they have nothing to say and have decided to say it in metaphors. write about something that happened to you. it is not complicated and it is the only thing that has

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