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[senorboombastic]

This One Song… Dermabrasion on Goblin Dance

Tell you what – we love hearing from artists when things go right. We equally love hearing from artists when things go dreadfully wrong. A song that was a piece of piss, written in 20 minutes? Or years in the making and a bastard to write? Whether it’s a song that came together through great duress or one that was smashed out in a short amount of time, we’re getting the lowdown from some of our…

[johnconstantinekissesmen]

walked in to wlmart right after and theyr hiring for stocking and like.......

[justalilecho]

Daddy leme get a prise wen wnt to wlmrt an i gots da rare one!!

Der ws so mny I wntd n I wnts mre of em now!

[the-enzyme]

Got a few random things, from various stores, so I thought I would lump all of them in one post.

I finally got my last Suwarasetai Giyu Tomioka that I was looking to get (Hashira Meeting, vol 5 version). My bff gifted those two; I actually went to Wmrt with her some weeks earlier, and we saw an empty box of the mystery bags sold in USA stores. Then she saw these for sale online, as a set not that long ago, so she purchased them for me. <3

I got the Link figure from that time we went to Wlmrt, it was a huge surprise for both, as they are listed as sold out all the time. They had two, but the other didn't have the shield. I got one earlier version as soon as those released years back, but mine has a "mystery" element, which I believe is the same shield (I don't unbox my toys). So, I got this on to potentially unbox. Now, I am not too sure. I feel that the one without the shield had a nicer looking face... I am a weirdo! I also got the Barbie Mini Land figures from that trip.

The Nightmare Before Christmas Bitty Pop! and the Mini Verse capsule I got from Amnz. As well as the Lol surprise Hello Kitty collab dolls. Those are from way earlier, but I was lazy to take photos back then. The QA on those is disappointing to say the least, so I rarely collect, but I really wanted these Hello Kitty collab ones.

[doyouknowthemossinman]

my self checkout station at wlmrt beeped funny so an employee came over to see what it was and looked in my bag n shit and i STILL got away with petty theft. if god is real he did me a favor today

[dewprisms]

fun fact: i actually make less than what most places around me start at :) (most start at 14/hr. i make 13/hr.) and i have to try and do the work of 2 people because management cant hire anyone else to take the other position (because the higher ups refuse to let them)

I actually got a random offer from a manager at Wlmrt for 14/hr all because she says i walk fast and thats how she knew i already had retail experience 😭

I genuinely regret taking this promotion at work. It’s taken a toll on my mental health by making me feel like I’m not doing enough and now I’m working more hours so I have less energy when I get home to do anything I want to do even on my days off. I spent my two one-week vacations doing nothing except feeling exhausted.

It sucks when you go in as the sun is coming up and leaving as it’s getting dark. All of this just for me to make an extra 2.50. And I would have had no choice because they ended up getting rid of the position I had anyway.

[benzoeller]

[sometimesalwaysmusic]

DEATHSTICKS

Deathsticks have been called 'controlled chaos', employing 'feedback, crashing drums, roaring power chords and screaming solos' to devastating effect. Personally, I hear elements of Death From Above and Pretty Girls Make Graves - doesn't matter, just listen to it, OK!? Transplanted from Peterborough, they have been destroying eardrums with their live shows and powerful releases, such as 2018's Deathsnacks and In The Motors. We spoke with guitarist Matt Post (MP). Check out their tunes, and a live show, if you'd be so lucky! 

VITALS

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/buysomedeathsticks/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dethstyx/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Deathsticksband

BandCamp: https://buysomedeathsticks.bandcamp.com/

Latest Release: In The Motors (Single, Sep 2018)

Upcoming Shows: Friday, May 10 - Gleneagle at CMW. Cherry Cola’s, Toronto, ON. Friday, May 17 - Deathsticks, Torpor, Death Ex, and more. Pressed, Ottawa, ON. Sunday, June 9 - SOTO FEST III. Off Peak Green Barn. Ottawa, ON.

SA: How did Deathsticks first start playing music together? MP: Deathsticks formed in late 2015, originally with Evan Moore on drums (now of Toronto band Blankscreen). Laura joined a couple months later and we played our first show with this lineup in Feb 2016. Laura and I grew up in Durham region, in Oshawa and Whitby, but started playing together because of the Peterborough music scene. Laura was in a band that I was a big fan of and I sort of became their roadie. We had a mutual respect for what we’d been working on separately and just got along well.

SA: What bands or musicians would you cite as the biggest influences on your sound? MP: We were definitely influenced by local Ontario bands when we first started out. I had seen some Toronto bands like Soupcans and New Fries, anything that was on like Telephone Explosion, Pleasance Records or Bruised Tongue in Ottawa was stuff I thought was cool and wanted to do something like that. Laura and I saw Holy Fuck together and I tried to rip off some of their vocal effects on the earlier Deathsticks recordings. The first Peterborough show I saw was at a fest Laura organized, noise veterans Nihilist Spasm Band played and also a local artist called Paulabulus. I didn’t really know you could make ambient/drone/noise music like that and saw that there was an audience for that kind of thing in the Peterborough community. More recently my friends bands like WLMRT and the London crowd around Isolation Party, Shoobies, Manager and Disleksick have helped guide me back to making music fun.

SA: Thus far in your career, what has been the band’s biggest success? MP: We’ve been 100% DIY, with no help from booking agents, larger labels, publicists, or producers who would shape our sound. Of course everything is harder this way and takes longer but at least we’re not looking at spending the next decade locked in a record contract or something for art we could just continue doing the way we want to, on our own.

SA: Conversely, what is the biggest challenge you have faced, and how have you dealt with it? MP: This past winter we recorded about an EP’s worth of material and just scrapped it. It was all getting to be too self-serious and un-fun guitar post punk whatever. I’ve gotten over the angrier direction we had in the past and am trying to make music that’s still light-hearted while also still being destructive and cathartic. It’s difficult to look at something you’ve made and decide not to release it, but it’s important for a band to be real with themselves and understand that not everything you make is automatically worth listening to. We’re moving on with different instrumentation and new ideas we’re more excited about, rather than go through the trouble of paying for vinyl or tapes of music we don’t even care about any more.

SA: How do you guys approach the song-writing process? MP: With great difficulty. Usually we get a song either on the first time we play it. or from like weeks of cutting down a longer jam session to its bare bones. As long as the songs end up being like 2 minutes long or less I’m happy, and as long as it’s catchy then Laura’s happy, I think.

SA: I understand you guys are transplants to Ottawa. What are your thoughts on the Ottawa music scene? MP: Ottawa has been kind to us. We just moved to the suburbs and that’s where it’s at. But we’re really grateful to have great venues like House of Targ, Pressed and Black Squirrel Books. Promotional things like Sitting on the Outside, Ottawa Showbox and Side By Side Weekend are showing the larger Canadian and international scene that Ottawa is worth playing and that there’s some great bands no matter what genre you’re into.

SA: What is your favourite show that the band has played, and why? MP: Our first show, but we spend way more time talking about our weirdest shows ever. We have a running list of strangest experiences and when you play hundreds of times across Canada in a lot of unconventional venues like ice cream parlors, people’s living rooms, or Chinese food restaurants (don’t worry none of those are the weirdest ones, those ones were all good) it’s more fun than just playing the same kind of bar all the time. If you put us on a bill literally anywhere we will play it and have a great time.

SA: Thus far in the band’s repertoire, what is your favourite track, and why? MP: I like whatever the newest song happens to be. Once I’ve played it a few dozen times I can get tired of it though. Some of the songs haven’t left the live set in the whole 3 years so far. People still respond to them, so they work. “Buzzkill” is definitely a fan favourite and it’s been the opening song for a couple years. I like playing “Fridge Nachos” I guess.

SA: Are Deathsticks cigarettes!? I feel like they’re cigarettes?!?! Are you guys fans/haters of NO FRILLS grocery stores? I can’t tell from the album art. MP: Deathsticks refers to Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones. In high school no one wanted to be in a band with me which is for the best but at the time I thought it would be funny to call a band Deathsticks because that band would be saying “you don’t want to buy this, you want to go home and rethink your life.” It still is funny.  

SA: What comes next for you guys in 2019? Good luck this coming year! MP: We’re going to tour the USA for the first time. We started a label called Not My Car so we’ve been working on releases for that. Our EP Deathsnacks just came out on 7-inch through the label, and we’re recording some other bands we like in our home studio. Not My Car is DIY label where I do all of the production and recording in-house. Most immediately we’re doing a lathe cut split with Disleksick aka London’s most dangerous band.

[mosquito-crucifixion]

London, Ontario. This Saturday!!!

[yurifem]

perhaps if i take this clinic job, i should read tarot again on the side… i made good money from it on twitter…. i could make a side blog and everything and blaze my shit…

[50thirdand3rd]

Album of the Week: KILLED BY METH #3 from It's Trash Records

Album of the Week: KILLED BY METH #3 from It’s Trash Records

This is the third volume of this killer compilation series from London, Ontario’s It’s Trash Records in a little less than two years, and they just keep getting stronger.

This one boasts a little more diversity in sound than volumes 1 and 2 but throwing together tracks by obscure punk bands can be hit or miss. In the case of KBM, it’s been a whole lot of the former. I’d recommend checking out the…

[jiniretxoxo]

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[still-single]

HEATHEN DISCO 2019 LAUNCH -- listen

Show’s here, it’s a good one (aren’t they all though).

Tracklist below:

Crystalized Movements - Close Your Eyes

The Ill Wind - Full Cycle

Storks - Full Plate Blues (excerpt)

Gudrun Gut - Lover

Rain Parade - When You Smile

Tropical Fuck Storm - You Let My Tyres Down

Leda - Gitarrmusik VI

Baby Grande - Madam Lash

Laughing Hyenas - Here We Go Again

Monty Buckles - Miss You

Counter Intuits - Vietnamese Lighter

Uranium Orchard - Knife & Urinal

Writhing Squares - Dirt in My Mind's Eye

Earth and Fire - Ebbtide

LeVent - Ink

Hearts and Minds - Treeline

Nun - Debris

Johnny Rivers - Summer Rain

The Fates - Sheila

Skygreen Leopards - Roman Orchards

Dire Wolves - Just Live Your Life Behind Your Eyes

Beautify Junkyards - The Masque of the Hidden Garden

Arv & Miljö - Alla trad har samma rot

Flanger Magazine - View of the Interior from the Road

Gemini Sisters - Hurricane Shapes

Demdike Stare - Cracked

Shinichi Atobe - Republic

Stefan Christensen and Friends - Off Minor (live)

Private Arms - Peculiar Fiction

Eddie Ladoire and Pierre Bastien - Phantom Dance #7

WLMRT - Dark Dollars

Glen Schenau - Phantom Vibration

[anendoandfriendo]

You know what would be great?

Not being at wlmrt.

But we're still stuck without a different job and we just, we have to keep this job at least until we get something different.

On the plus side: one of our (state-based) students loans will be paid off at the end of this month!! Woo! The extra $61.00 or whatever will probably just be going towards another loan but it's nice to know we won't need to stretch that out nearly as much.

[rgr-pop]

looks like wet n wild has free u.s shipping no minimum right now, dunno for how long. they are nearly cleaned out of the zodiac stuff but get what you can if you wanted it, so you don’t have to haul your ass to wlmrt 

eta: I guess I have a shareable 25% off link, here