#otherbody

[music-addiction-disorder]

jaxers

This is some damn great power pop with old school influences on its sleeve (Byrds, 70s power pop, Dwight Twilley) but contemporary enough to identify itself as non-wholly-retro. Methinks it's also influenced by 'emo' and what passes nowadays for "punk" but (mostly) without the almost insulting (to this old school punker) saccharine teen stupidity of both genres. Good job, junior. I dig it. If you cut it on vinyl, I'm there.

I Know Nothing At All 02:33 lyrics

2. Every Little Thing 02:17 lyrics

3. ESTAO 04:05 lyrics

4. Tucked Inside My Head 02:57 lyrics

5. Submarine 01:47 lyrics

6. Peel 02:12 lyrics

7. Mental Math 01:25 lyrics

8. Always In Between 02:12 lyrics

One amp. One mic. One person. Countless hooks. That’s the Dazy formula. Since first releasing the single Bright Lights b/w Accelerate in August 2020, Dazy mastermind James Goodson has been writing, recording, and releasing new music like a man on the hunt to find the best pop hook, and he won’t stop until he’s put all of them into his songs. With the release of MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs, Convulse Records collects all of the singles and EPs from Dazy’s first year onto one tape. And because Goodson can’t stop making things, there’s five brand-new songs up top to prove there’s plenty more in the tank.

Showcasing a unique set of influences, Dazy’s sound marries thumping drum machine beats, blasts of feeding back guitar, and sugar-sweet hooks into something that sounds like Godflesh covering Oasis—or maybe the other way around. With lean songwriting that recalls Teenage Fanclub but a home-recorded production style better suited for Big Black, Goodson builds a constant churn of abrasive, consuming noise and then makes it catchier than anyone else would ever dare to.

Out Of Body - Lame-O Records (2022)

OTHERBODY ‎- Lame-O Records (2023)

MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD ‎- Convulse Records (2021)

Bandcamp, Twitter, instagram.com, tiktok.com, linktr.ee

Dazy & Militarie Gun "Pressure Cooler"

[sinceileftyoublog]

Dazy, Lifeguard, & Illusion Of Choice Live Show Review: 12/4, Cobra Lounge, Chicago

Dazy

BY JORDAN MAINZER

I'm not sure what Dazy does at a faster pace these days: tour or release tunes. Since we caught his Chicago debut of full-band arrangements in January, he's come to town twice more, including last night's stop at the Cobra Lounge. And mere months after releasing OUTOFBODY in 2022, in March, James Goodson shared songs recorded around the same time in the form of the cheekily titled OTHERBODY. The record continued the vibe of Dazy's debut LP, from the "Revolution" crunch of opener "I Know Nothing At All" to the sugary noise of "Every Little Thing". Just two months ago, Dazy shared the Ryan Hemsworth-assisted "Forced Perspective" (Lame-O), a collection of rounded country pop guitar riffs, a chirpy electric beat, and an uneasy, yet anthemic chorus.

Dazy's James Goodson

Always writing and always playing, it must be hard for Goodson to pick a setlist on a nightly basis. A year-plus removed from OUTOFBODY and over two years from MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs, Dazy's set at the Cobra Lounge felt like as close as you can get right now to "the hits," the crowd pumping fists, banging heads, and singing along to favorites "On My Way", "Split", "The Perfect Crime", "Pressure Cooker", and "Invisible Thing". I was just as happy, though, to see Goodson lean into the sweet, softer side of Dazy. "Forced Perspective", with its curly bass and guitar scrapes, was a highlight, as was "Every Little Thing", "could be a country hit" "Rollercoaster Ride", and set closer "Out of Body". "Is that my brain hanging by a thread?" Goodson sang on "Out of Body"; as much as he may have been disassociating at the time of writing the song, his everyday anxieties have certainly provided ample creative fodder for some of the best power pop of the past half-decade.

Lifeguard

Chicago's Lifeguard opened for Dazy, which was perhaps anybody's final chance to see the band in an opening slot at a venue as small as Cobra Lounge. The hyped three-piece, formed in 2019, signed to Matador Records earlier this year. Let's get it out of the way: Yes, drummer Isaac Lowenstein's sister Penelope is in labelmates Horsegirl, and bassist Asher Case's father is Brian Case of FACS (and formerly of Disappears, The Ponys, and 90 Day Men). Thankfully, Lifeguard is a beast of its own, combining chanted vocals with clanging, metallic guitars and dexterous, repetitively pummeling drums. Earlier this year, Matador re-released the band's 2022 EP Crowd Can Talk along with a collection of new material, Dressed in Trenches. Live, Lifeguard showed what they're truly about: off-kilter time signatures, uneven song sections, moments where you can't tell when they're warming up or about to switch gears. When they played "17-18 Lovesong", Case's rounded bass and monotone vocals wiggled around Kai Slater's stabbing guitars and falsetto off-beat harmonies, though the band never let you get too comfortably hypnotized in a groove. They finished with their newest song, the uncharacteristically poppy and straightforward (yet very welcome!) "In The City". You never know what's next with Lifeguard, and they're just getting started.

Illusion of Choice

Starting off the night was another local institution, four-piece shoegaze indie rock band Illusion of Choice. Most of their songs revolved around the atmospheres you'd expect with a genre descriptor like that: Alex Rackow's distorted guitars, Judith Pelkowski's heavy bass lines, Alex Boyajian's mammoth snares, and Tyler Tumminaro's sharp, nasal vocal delivery. Occasionally, they added elements of jangly surf, but for the most part, they chugged along deliberately, like on "Circling the Drain" and standout set closer "Bad Boy". Overall, Illusion of Choice offered an appropriate middle ground between Dazy's hooks and Lifeguard's deconstructed songs.

[punkrockmixtapes]

Listen/purchase: Every Little Thing by Dazy

[gretchen-geraets]

'Mother lode' [third utter]

I look forward to presenting some work-in-progress from my 'Mother lode' project at the Maternal Bodies Interdisciplinary Symposium, alongside some fantastic contributors, papers and interdisciplinary works. Held at Birmingham University, 15 June 2023,

https://lnkd.in/eGCNgvB7

[fatherlyfrog]

GRAH...

[trentreznortuesday]

every album i listened to this year pt. 1

i listened to 238 albums that were new to me this year. this is the first 119 of them + basic genre tagging.

A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent [noise pop]

ABBA - Volume 25 [karaoke]

Agriculture - Agriculture [black metal]

Agriculture - The Circle Chant [black metal]

Alcest - Écailles de Lune [black metal]

Altar of Plagues - White Tomb [black metal]

Animals as Leaders - Parrhesia [djent]

Another Heaven - 1: You Are Loved [shoegaze]

Art Sorority - Older Boys [folk punk]

Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture [black metal]

Atomic Guava - Peasants of the Future [power metal]

awakebutstillinbed - chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger [emo]

Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell [punk]

bar italia - Tracey Denim [post-punk]

Basketball Divorce Court - rebound [punk]

Big Black - Atomizer [noise rock]

Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You [alt-country]

Black Ends - Stay Evil [noise pop]

Black Math Horseman - Black Math Horseman [black metal]

Blanky - Blood Harmony [alternative]

Bosse-de-Nage - Bosse-de-Nage [black metal]

Bosse-de-Nage - ii [black metal]

Bosse-de-Nage - iii [black metal]

Bosse-de-Nage/Deafheaven - Split EP [black metal]

boybrain - In The Company of Worms [punk]

Bríi - Último Ancestral Comum [rock]

Cable Ties - All Her Plans [punk]

Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist [hardcore]

Charlie Megira - Da Abtomatic Meisterzinger Mambo Chic [lo-fi]

Chat Pile - God’s Country [sludge metal]

Chat Pile - Remove Your Skin Please [sludge metal]

Chat Pile - This Dungeon Earth [sludge metal]

Chat Pile & Nerver - Brothers in Christ [sludge metal]

Cherub Tree - where are your manners [alternative]

Choncy - Community Chest [post-punk]

Corker - Falser Truths [post-punk]

Crime of Passing - Crime of Passing [post-punk]

Dark Factory - Dark Factory [new wave]

Days ‘N Daze - Rogue Taxidermy [folk punk]

Days ‘N Daze - Songs We Recorded for Splits [folk punk]

Dazy - OTHERBODY [alternative]

Deafheaven - New Bermuda [blackgaze]

Deafheaven - Sunbather [blackgaze]

Deeper - Careful! [post-punk]

Dirty Old Town - No Returning Home [alternative]

Dummy - Mandatory Enjoyment [post-punk]

dust - et cetera, etc [punk]

Eddy Arnold - Cattle Call [country]

Ekko Astral - Quartz [punk]

Ekko Astral - The Quartz Farewell [punk]

Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo [black metal]

Erik Hall - Canto Ostinato (Simeon ten Holt) [neo-classical]

Erik Hall - Music For 18 Musicians (Steve Reich) [neo-classical]

Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone [post-rock]

Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence [post-rock]

Ezra Furman - All of Us Flames [art rock]

Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People [art rock]

Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus [art rock]

Ezra Furman - Twelve Nudes [art rock]

Feeble Little Horse - Girl with Fish [shoegaze]

Fela Kuti - Beasts of No Nation [afrobeat]

Fela Kuti - Coffin for Head of State [afrobeat]

Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit [afrobeat]

Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight [afrobeat]

Fela Kuti - Zombie! [afrobeat]

Feminazgûl - The Age of Men is Over [black metal]

Frail Body - A Brief Memoriam [hardcore]

Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams [hardcore]

GEL - Only Constant [hardcore]

Genital Shame - Gathering My Wits [alternative]

Gilla Band - Live at Vicar Street [noise rock]

Godcaster - Godcaster [psychedelic rock]

Hatchie - Giving the World Away [dream pop]

hey, Ily! - Internet Breath [bedroom pop]

Hoaxed - Hoaxed [alternative]

Home is Where - i became birds [emo]

Home is Where - our mouths to smile [emo]

Home Is Where - The Whaler [emo]

Horse Lords - Comradely Objects [microtonal]

Horse Lords - Hidden Cities [microtonal]

Horse Lords - Interventions [microtonal]

Horse Lords - The Common Task [microtonal]

Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight [post-hardcore]

Housewives - Twilight Splendor [post-punk]

Ian Noe - Between the Country [bluegrass]

illuminati hotties - FREE I.H.: This Is Not the One You’ve Been Waiting For [pop rock]

Institute - Readjusting the Locks [post-punk]

Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking [alternative]

Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE [punk]

Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream [punk]

Jeff Rosenstock - POST- [punk]

Jeff Rosenstock & Laura Stevenson - Still Young [punk]

Josaleigh Pollett - In The Garden, By The Weeds [bedroom pop]

julie - pushing daisies [alternative]

Kitten Forever - 7 Hearts [riot grrrl]

Kurt Vile - b’lieve i’m goin down… [alt-country]

Lamp of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm [power metal]

Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms [choral]

Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony [folk]

Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Room [folk]

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker [folk]

Liturgy - 93696 [black metal]

M(h)aol - Attachment Styles [post-punk]

M(h)aol - Gender Studies [post-punk]

Malthusian - MMXIII [black metal]

Mamaleek - Cadejos [black metal]

Mamaleek - Come and See [black metal]

Mamaleek - Diner Coffee [black metal]

Mamaleek - Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Worlds [black metal]

Mandy, Indiana - i’ve seen a way [post-punk]

MDC - Live at CBGB’s [hardcore]

MDC - Millions of Dead Children [hardcore]

MDC - Millions of Dead Cops [hardcore]

MDC - Multi-Death Corporations [hardcore]

Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II [alternative]

Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun [alternative]

Messa - Close [hard rock]

meth. - Mother of Red Light [noise rock]

Midori - Aratamemashite, Hajimemashite, Midori Desu [hardcore jazz punk]

[huaquero]

from Dazy- Otherbody

[screamingforyears]

IN_A_MINUTE:

AN INDIE EXPRESS… // @collective_fear are here w/ “BULLET TRAIN,” the final single in the run-up their forthcoming EP titled ‘Truly Free at Last?’ (3/23 @candlepin_records) & it finds Michael Guerard’s LA-based project lulling us in w/ a somber slice of bombastically gazed & guitar_driven DreamPop. “TWINS” is the second single from @c0ryhans0n’s forthcoming LP titled ‘Western Cum’ (6/28 @dragcityrecords) & it finds the LA-based Wand frontman stepping out under his namesake while giving us a tasty taste of his patina covered, road-weary & psych-tinged Americana… that slide tho! “TUCKED INSIDE MY HEAD” is a choice cut from @dazysound’s surprise new album titled ‘OTHERBODY’ (@lameorecords) & it finds the Richmond-based multi-instrumentalist James Goodson channeling his inner Rubber Soul-ing Revolver w/ a 2:57 clip of hypnotically psyched PowerPop. @kickingband are here w/ “CHEEKS,” a brand-new single from their forthcoming EU re-release of ‘Goodbye Party’ (@summerdarlingtapes) & it finds the Jackson, MS-based quintet of Bobbie Flanders (vocals), JD Burns (guitar), SG Shepherd (guitar/vox), Lacy Ellinwood (bass/vox) & Lexie Gay (drums) bringing those stacked six-stringing, low-end thumping & oh_so_soft_grunging goods. “WRAPPED IN GOLD” is a new standalone single from @worldnewsgram & it finds the South London-based trio of singer/guitarist Alex Evans, bassist Rory Evans & drummer Malte Henning bringing their whip-smart brand of the Police meets Knopfler meets Rolling Blackouts-esque GuitarPop.

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LISTEN, DOWN BELOW...

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[spinchs-field]

aaaaa shifted otherbodies and my head feels like fog but it’s still being held up. i dont know how to describe this feeling but i should be bending around this object not. resting on top of it. bleh

[atlas-of-the-stars]

My third personal list of somewhat obscure musicals.

I did two of these already, but I have more. 

Tarrytown - This is an adaptation of Sleepy Hollow. I can’t say much other than Ichabod Crane is now a gay music teacher in a small town in New York, and the cast consists of Andy Mientus, Jeremy Jordan, Krysta Rodriguez and no one else. It’s great, honestly, and has great spooky vibes.

Otherbody: A Brief Musical Allegory - I really have no idea what the hell this musical is about. I’ve listened it about ten times, still not sure. Maybe someone with more knowledge about politics would know more. The music really does vibes though.

Ride The Cyclone - This is a musical about a high school choir that dies on a carnival ride and then is stuck in purgatory while they compete for the chance to come back to life under the watch of the carnival’s robotic fortune teller. It contains a song about wanting to be a french prostitute, one about sexy alien furries, a Ukrainian love ballad, and some genuinely haunting and scary songs in very close proximity to each other. Also the final song made me cry. If that’s not enough to get you to listen to this damn musical I’m not sure what is.  

[we-will-all-be-stories]

Its Ryan Scott Oliver stan time

[l0ps]

I cant believe no one knows about Otherbody

[spaghettijoe]

plugging my buddy’s music, please give it a listen

his soundcloud, bandcamp, and youtube are right here

[jacoboalonso]

From the series “Otherness” Fumage and body impression on couché paper. Diptych-193x63cm.2016 . . #fumage #body #cuerpo #otredad #otherness #art #paper #monotype #papel #contemporaryart #monotipo #fire #fuego #deleuze #jacoboalonso #duality #dualidad #otherbody #collage (en Morelia, Michoacán.)

[m0nd0bizarr0]

[burricane]

Spooky Musicals For The Kiddos

Some have warnings because no one deserves a trauma spook during Hallow-Month

Repo: This is.....oh man. You know how sometimes you find something and you’re like this is terrible, I love it??? That’s Repo. VERY GORY WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK. It’s like a Italian opera but it’s gory as all hell and also there’s organ theft uh oh

The Devil’s Carnival: Imagine The Greatest Showman but they’re all in hell and Satan really likes fairytales. That’s this musical. Lots of bussy bops in this one I’m not gonna lie. The same people that made Repo made this one what do you expect. Listen to the sequel as well that ones really good too

Phantom Of The Paradise: Retelling of The Phantom Of The Opera, but this version is set in the 70s and the phantom really likes black lipstick. Rock and roll and also murder yeehaw

35 MM: A musical that’s literally based off of a bunch of different photos. Has a psychopathic high school bussy bop, a song about fucking vampires, Lindsay Mendez, it’s really just the whole package. WARNING: MENTIONS RAPE AND DOMESTIC ABUSE IN LEAVE LUANNE

Otherbody: This is literally my favourite musical of all time. It’s a retelling of The Outsider by HP Lovecraft but it’s a metaphor about racism and homophobia in modern day America which must make that horrible author’s ghost very unhappy it’s great

Jasper In Deadland: Local boy journeys to the underworld to save crush, doesn’t realize that he’s a massive idiot and is chugging idiot juice in the underworld with a bunch of ghosts when his crush is riGHT THERE SHE’S RIGHT THERE DAMMIT JASPER

Ghost Quartet: A really complicated musical about murder, ressurection, forgiveness, and love. It’s by Dave Malloy (NPATCO1812) and if you are looking to ease in gently into the sp00ky musical genre then I would suggest this one

Lizzie: An all-female rock retelling of The Lizzie Borden murders. Gay and very good. WARNING: MENTIONS CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE THROUGHOUT MUSICAL

Love Never Dies: It’s a sequel to The Phantom Of The Opera musical but you don’t have to like the first one in order to enjoy the second. Set ten years after its predecessor, this musical talks about love, murder, and what to do when you really are the baby daddy. Side note: Domestic abuse is subtly referenced in many parts of the musical but not all of it

The Addams Family: How could I make a scary musical list without mentioning The Addams Family? It’s not spooky, but we love it none the less

Into The Woods: Fairytales but dark as hell. First act is super happy but by the second you are literally sobbing your eyes out. You’ll never get Your Fault out of your head sorry. It mentions rape in some scenes but doesn’t go really full head on into it

Rocky Horror Picture Show: If you love musicals but haven’t seen this movie or heard its songs then I feel very bad for you. Sexy, gender explorative, and boptacular this musical is a gift to humanity. But whatever you do DON’T watch the live version from two years ago because it will take ten years off of your life it’s that bad

Carrie: A good musical about why bullying is bad. Has Christy Altmore and Derek Klena in it and they sing a love song it’s super cute. WARNING: HAS BULLYING AND CHILD ABUSE IN IT

Hadestown: A retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice but it takes place during the Great Depression and is big ass commentary about capitalism. I didn’t think that I could be any gayer for Amber Gray but I was wrong