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Sonic youth, “daydream nation”

One of the least talked-about GOAT double albums ever. I think I caught the band live for the first time on the “Sister” tour that preceded it - I’d never seen or heard anyone abuse guitars in such a creative and unusual way before that (or since). Not a dud track on it. A mind-blowing, life-altering, perspective-forming monster of a release. I was and have remained a fan ever since (and Kim Gordon is a goddess, I’ll go down with that particular ship forever). When someone says “best NYC art rock” this is automatically my go-to reaction. Like a gallery showing for a new artist you can’t wait to tell your friends about. 🖤 P.S.: Yes it sucks that they're gone and I blame Thurston, of course.

@coreydubrowa

Oct 8, 2024

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Pablo picasso - the modern lovers

(the Bowie cover from the 90s) is excellent, but I’ve done nothing but listen to the Modern Lovers since my move to New York even if they’re more Boston. Had a realization that punk rock ranges in quality, but proto-punk from garage rock is great and post-punk is great.

@joepeters

Aug 23, 2024

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The gits and the music of the late, great mia zapata: “frenching the bully” gets a special reissue

For years since her shocking rape and murder in Seattle in 1993, Mia’s story (and that of her amazing band, the Gits) was always framed as a tragedy - which it WAS, one that tore an emerging Seattle music scene apart - rather than the story of one of America’s great indie rock ‘n roll bands, perched on the cusp of a breakthrough before this senseless crime stopped them in their tracks. Thanks to Sub Pop reissuing the sole album recorded during the band’s time together, we have come a long way in giving Mia - whose music was kind of a cross between Patti Smith’s warrior poetry and Ann Wilson’s throaty belting (and that clearly inspired Amy Taylor of Amyl and the Sniffers) - her voice back. The NYT wrote about the story late last year: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/arts/music/the-gits-mia-zapata-reissues.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare but the remaining Gits just played some reunion shows in Seattle to celebrate the occasion and “now” is always a good time to watch the band’s documentary via YouTube. I caught them live in Portland way back in the day and they were a revelation. Mia was a force of nature and a performer who would have grown exponentially before our eyes, had her life not been taken away. I am so delighted to see her/their MUSIC being given its rightful due.

@coreydubrowa

Feb 4, 2025

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When your new book is finally available for preorder ❤️

Hey tyler hopefully this doesn’t violate some PI.FYI golden rule But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here: https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/ The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s. Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha). For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I can’t wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! ❤️

@coreydubrowa

Mar 27, 2024

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The cure announcing their first album in 16 years by PUTTING up a single poster outside the pub in crawley UK where they played their first gig

“Songs Of a Lost World” coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 🖤 The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for

@coreydubrowa

Sep 14, 2024

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Unwound

I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s. So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it: “Unwound is the best band of the ’90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesn’t say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasn’t stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the ’90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.” R.I.P. Vern Rumsey. This is their finest song, from their finest album. I really can’t say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. 🖤

@coreydubrowa

Mar 23, 2024