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This Week on coldplaysucks: Nov 1 - 8
Read more . . . →Sixty-three music posts in one week. House ran the table with thirteen, drum and bass brought the heavyweights, Mauro Picotto apparently woke up and chose violence with four releases, and hyperpop crashed the gate wearing a horse mask. If your ears survived November so far, you were not paying attention. The Charts TLM feat. Merely - Summer Jam: holding the top spot for a 9th week. Not even close to slowing down. Listen → AK & Liam Thomas - Soft Touch: brand new on the chart and already at #2. More on this below. Listen → Cartoon & Artino -...
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Twenty Letters and a Grudge
Read more . . . →The Justice Department sent target letters to twenty Democrats on Election Day. The actual day people were voting. The alleged crime: recruiting a Senate candidate in Alaska whose name happened to resemble the Republican incumbent’s. Election lawyers, DSCC staff, phone records, a hundred subpoenas. All for a tactic that’s been standard political playbook for decades. A federal judge already threw out the DOJ’s lawsuit to block Alaska’s certification. They appealed anyway. Pam Bondi’s office is also still running investigations into Letitia James and Adam Schiff, both of whom committed the unforgivable sin of doing their jobs while a president was...
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horsegiirL - lonely 2night (ft. Rocket Rese)
Read more . . . →There is a woman in a horse mask singing about loneliness over a beat that sounds like a county fair caught fire, and somehow it is the most sincere thing I have heard all week. horsegiirL built an entire universe out of a barnyard gag: the stable, the pony puns, the farmyard-rave character that should have worn thin two singles ago and instead keeps deepening. lonely 2night brings Rocket Rese into the pen, and the pairing works because neither of them plays it for a wink. The production is that crunchy, sugar-rotted hyperpop where every synth is shoved into the...
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vinter - wherever you go
vinter says wherever you go and we'd follow this track straight into traffic. Soft, glowy and a bit heartbreaking. Easy to love.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Open Drawer Policy
Read more . . . →The meeting went great. The paperwork is already being processed. Black and white. Pinstripe suit. The smile of a man who built the chute himself and put a nice desk over it. The visitor sees a polished office, a firm handshake, maybe a little charm. He does not see the furnace underneath. That is the design. The drawer is open because the drawer is always open. The complaint goes in, the fire does its work, and the man behind the desk asks if there’s anything else he can help with. The best part is the chair he gave the visitor....
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Habstrakt & Nostalgix - Split Signal
Read more . . . →When did bass house get this mean, and why is nobody stopping it? Split Signal is Habstrakt and Nostalgix feeding off each other in the worst way for your speakers and the best way for your night. Habstrakt has been a reliable supplier of that French, rubber-ball bass house bounce for years, all springy low-end and precision drops, and Nostalgix brings the thing it was missing: an actual presence on the mic, bars spat with real attitude instead of a borrowed pop vocal dropped in from a sample pack. The result is a track with a chip on its shoulder....
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Sota & Circadian - Sleep Forever (ft. Deaf Havana)
Sota & Circadian with Deaf Havana: Sleep Forever is a heavy one. Big emotions, bigger drops. Do not play at bedtime. Seriously good.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Grum - Stay With Me
Read more . . . →If you have ever stood in a field at sunset while a melodic trance track did something unreasonable to your chest, you already know what Grum is for. Stay With Me is the Scottish producer operating in his comfort zone, which happens to be one of the most reliable comfort zones in dance music, big arcing melodies over a propulsive progressive pulse built to detonate on a festival stage at exactly the right golden-hour minute. The vocal is yearning without tipping into cheese, a hard line to walk, and the synth lead that answers it in the drop is the...
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The Pivot Lasted Nine Hours
Read more . . . →Stephen Miller is the new White House Chief of Staff. That’s the takeaway from losing both chambers of Congress in the biggest midterm rebuke in decades. Voters said “absolutely not” and Trump’s first move was to fire the one staffer even his critics admitted was competent. Susie Wiles ran the 2024 campaign that actually won. She kept the building from collapsing for two years. Her reward for being the only adult in the room is getting replaced by the architect of family separation, the Muslim ban, and a losing streak of court battles that made first-year law students look good....
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Sigala - We Used To Dance Here
Sigala reminds us We Used To Dance Here and now we need a dance floor immediately. Shiny, nostalgic and sneaky catchy. Seriously good.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
