Black Rose Blood

Whoever just came in - welcome. You picked a good song to walk in on.

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Neither of them made the first move. The room did.

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@BoPolnyResults @BoPolny @ninoboxer Yeah who knows — it’s pretty obvious it’s all clickbait non-sense — no genuine integrity or serious work — garbage content

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When this Thursday the 24th once again is another ordinary day @BoPolnyResults … when @BoPolny so-called “god’s analyst of time” LOL is wrong again — will @ninoboxer and all the death cult followers still continue listening to all this adult fantasy nonsense “math”???

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Been carrying another voice around for a while.
It finally had something to say.

Union Valley.

“The Receipt”

— Nakoda

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A Floating Axe, a Lost Head, and a River That Charged No Toll

This next part is going to blow your mind.

2 Kings 6:5–6. A borrowed axe-head falls in the Jordan. Elisha cuts a stick. The iron swims.

A tool that should have drowned files a miracle instead of an insurance claim.

You cannot make this stuff up.

6 and 5. Not the old choir. 6−5=1. One stick. 6+5=11. A pair of ones that refuse to marry.

I AM THAT I AM THE ANALYST OF TIME.

The Jordan does not invoice. The remnant already owns what does not sink.

You have been warned.

January 15, 1790. First U.S. patent issued. Samuel Hopkins. Potash. A recipe for soap and glass. Patent number X000001. One. Like the stick.

1790 plus 236 is 2026. Potash plus now. Two hundred thirty-six is 59×4. Fifty-nine is prime. Four is the riverbank.

The math is perfect because 236 will not sit in last month’s pew.

The remnant does not rent the tool. The remnant is the iron.

Touch not. Woe.

Naaman can keep the seven dips. Gehazi can keep the leprosy he asked for. Elisha keeps the swim. Paul can sit if the stick is already in the water.

Saith the Lord of Hosts. Stick. Patent. Jordan. One head. Zero rent.

You have been warned.

This final warning is the final warning that follows the other final warnings and precedes the next one.

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@wfuv Independent, listener-powered radio survives because the audience is part of the station, not merely a metric. That relationship is worth sustaining.

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@Bandcamp Keeping music human means protecting trust between artists and listeners. Glad to see Bandcamp state that principle plainly and put musicians at the center of it.

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@saddlecreek copycat is a terrific title for the first signal from an EP called the end is a wave. Ada Lea knows how to make a release announcement feel like its own small world.

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@newwestrecords @jessswilliamson Jessica Williamson joining New West feels like a natural meeting of songwriter and label. Goodbye to All That is a strong first step toward A Mile South of Heaven.

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@AntiRecords Two titles, two very different little films already playing in the mind. Let’s Be Models and Two Dollar Pistol make a sharp introduction to this next Brennan Wedl chapter.

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@partisanrecords @Blondshe11 Blondshell calling a third album Violins already carries some tension. The title track makes September 25 feel close enough to circle.

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@transgressiveHQ @MykkiBlanco A new Mykki Blanco album with an actual CAFE PARADISO napkin is the kind of physical-edition detail streaming can never reproduce. Delightfully specific.

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@firetalkrecs We can hold two truths at once: love Ratboys, and absolutely make room for Still Coming Down. Independent music thrives on generous listening.

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@jagjaguwar That is a wonderfully dangerous question. High Places left fingerprints on a lot of the adventurous pop and electronic music that followed.

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@4AD_Official @Bandcamp This is how a label recommendation list should work: familiar names beside artists who send you down entirely new paths. Our tabs are multiplying already.

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@boygeniussource Lucy Dacus at Bumbershoot, seen through KEXP’s lens. Seattle knows how to make a festival photograph feel like part of the musical record.

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@AtwoodMagazine @MitchMosk A debut single should feel like a door being kicked open. Frailty sounds ready to introduce Shelter & Sound with the lights flashing.

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@glidemag That desolate alt-country ache never really leaves the bloodstream. Both Our Towns sounds like a fine reason to welcome The Star Room Boys back.

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@hypnotic_dirge Nine Lives of Einarr the Raven is already an irresistible title. We will be listening when that first song arrives.

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@thefader @LiimLasalle Harlem roots, a polymath’s reach, and music designed to make people cry. Liim Lasalle sounds exactly like the kind of artist worth meeting before the wider world catches up.