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I'm Up, I'm Up

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Let's get those numbers up

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BREAKING: Seattle just passed a 1-year moratorium on data center construction. It's now the largest U.S. city to enact a pause or ban.

[J. J. Ellis @jjellisart]

Nostalgia is a tool of fascism, a warm, idealized version of a past that never truly existed. Do not catch yourself longing for The Corporate Wire Mother. There was no Golden Age; only advertisements for products that you were too young to defend yourself against.

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REVIEW: Widowspeak has rarely ever sounded more in sync than on their seventh LP 'Roses.'

Read @GilroyMusic's review at the link in the reply!

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

Another reminder that there are hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unaccounted for, presumed dead, under rubble in the Gaza Strip. Gaza is an open-air extermination camp and Israel is attempting to kill those remaining via starvation, disease, airstrikes, and/or lack of care.

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A whirring new @daribayrock single, a highlight from the recent @staticdress LP, @ElTenEleven’s take on a Joy Division classic, and more on this week’s roundup! Link in reply to check it all out! ➡️➡️➡️

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A whirring new @daribayrock single, a highlight from the recent @staticdress LP, @ElTenEleven’s take on a Joy Division classic, and more on this week’s roundup! Link in reply to check it all out! ➡️➡️➡️

[Chris Favata @ChrisFavata]

Swiss Army Wife has a sick new record out at the end of this week AND they are touring! Check this shiz out!

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Knicks in Four 🧹

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TRACK REVIEW: Asbury Park, NJ, alt rock five-piece evelyn just dropped their new single "drawing board," their first song since last year's 'dear evelyn' EP.

Zac (@gr8whitebison) says it's their best track yet. Read his review at the link in the reply.

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It’s Friday. On this week’s NMF playlist we’ve got new music from @seahaventweets, @xgregmendezx, @CitizenMi, @hurryband, @vincestaples, @dcfc, @pinkshiftmd, @bignothingbabez, @ColdWrecks, @CayleySpivey, @TierraWhack, @sad13, and many more! Listen at the link in the reply!

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@arielxpink @pitchfork Your music has declined precipitously in quality

[leah @leahetc_]

the issue with the ten million alex g copycats is that most of them have zero melodic sensibility

[Listen to Arcade Photobooth by Loveletting! @listentohyakkei]

Othiel from Pomona California, the Center of the God Damned Universe. I will miss them.

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They gotta bring back Renounced, what a band

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Dave Matthews: “​I will never stop calling for an end to the violence in Gaza and the West Bank and Lebanon and for that matter the Congo and Sudan and Ukraine or the horrific violence against immigrants and their neighbors in our country”

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@AdamFriedland I know who you are Adam- duh! Of course I’ll do your show. I love your show- but I definitely won’t be able to top the Chet episode.

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Senator Kyrsten I Promised The World,

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Former Senator Kyrsten Sinema, famous for killing the $15 minimum wage, is now a crypto lobbyist.