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“Sanjam,” a Serbian language 2023 single by currently-Berlin, Germany-based darkwave and synthpop act Sixth June

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Good Morning Social Media! Today’s featured #Spotify #Playlist is: #ElvisCostello; Mei Ling and I feature a new playlist daily. It’s what I have on here in the studio while I Paint and work. You can Listen as well, for FREE, both here at the Link and on the Pop Culture BLOG at my website: www.JamieRoxx.us enjoy :)

🎧 #SpotifyPlaylist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO1uOBIf

🎂 Happy Birthday. Today, Aug 14, 1948 – #BruceThomas, English bass player (#ElvisCostelloandtheTheAttractions) and author was born.

Rock #NewWave

🎨 Featured Painting here: A Custom #Commission #Painting I painted a couple of years ago:

‘#XRay #Specs’

PopArt! #Retro #Nostalgia

2018, acrylic and oil blend on canvas, 20"x16" by @ArtistJamieRoxx #JamieRoxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) This Sold Painting is Not Available.

Blog #Art #LifeattheBeach #ArtistsLife #BestFriends #SharPei #Painter #NeoNoir

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Bandcamp Friday March 2024 purchases

Once again, time to spend money on music :D

Black Nail Cabaret released their new album Chrysanthemum today. Gave it a few listens and it is damn fine :D More coherent than Gods Verging on Sanity. Hoping this will give them good boost on popularity, they sure deserve it.

Also bought BNC's Steril EP, which their (so far) only release in their native language, Hungarian. Title track is in my opinion one of their finest tracks ever.

This year's UMK introduced me to Jesse Markin. His track Glow was in my opinion the best song overall in the competition. I became interested in him as an artist. Wondered is his material purchasable somewhere. Didn't see them on Musa24 (Finnish mp3 store). Discogs said only released on vinyl.

To my surprise, his label VILD was on Bandcamp! I waited Bandcamp Friday to arrive to get FOLK and NOIR. Glow and Panic singles from upcoming album are also there. If you want to support him, then do it!

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Like riding a bike or the best is yet to come: Kids In Glass Houses. 'Smart Casual' 15th Anniversary Tour. Review.

Kids In Glass Houses with The Nightmares.

O2 KENTISH TOWN FORUM, LONDON.

O2 ACADEMY BRISTOL

GREAT HALL, CARDIFF

It's been a week since Kids In Glass Houses shows and it's been truly 'a bitch of a week'. Double dose kind of one. Almost like it had to balance out the truly great one I had when I went to see KIGH in London, Bristol and Cardiff. Because THAT week, every time I screamed those words, especially on Saturday, they simply were not true. For the first time, in a very long time. Like magic. I guess three time's a charm.

To say it was an emotional week, it would be an understatement. It's been a whirlwind of emotions: from bawling my eyes like a idiot while singing 'Sunshine' (which was followed by 'The Best Is Yet to Come', which didn't help at all) on a very rainy Wednesday to tears of joy as I was going back home on Saturday and reading KIGH's after-show's photo caption 'BRB... MAKING A NEW ALBUM!' [spoilers!].

Nine years ago I thought I was singing some of those songs at their show for the last time. It was gloomy, it seemed their hearts were not in it anymore. The KIGH chapter came to an end. 'Well, we lied!' Aled seemed to be having the time of his life, back at it, going through 'Smart Casual' like hurricane. The joy, the electricity was back up and running on high voltage, sparkling between the band in their eyes, smiles and little comments. The “aged like fine wine” applied absolutely, the band seemed to be better than ever, their form sizzling, their performance on fire...

Funny how things tend to go full circle, or go yin/yang: an experience that made my year/extremely mentally exhausting work week, a very naïve relation from 2008 show, when KIGH supported Simple Plan in Poland, when I barely knew one song and wished I could know more/ singing every single one of the songs from 'Smart Casual' amazed how they have weathered the time and are still fresh, on point. The burnt-out and tired last shows v. rebirth celebrating the album that started it all. Magic.

15 years ago 'Smart Casual' came to be in a room at the estate, filled with fax machines... or something like that. And 15 years later it means so much to so many... Nothing's changed, yet everything is different (including the fact that Cardiff was 'the first PG Kids's show' [as in there were kids in the audience] so Aled had to mind his tongue, so he couldn't swear, which resulted in 'Flip' instead of 'Fuck' and one hashed out, I guess “Damn!” passed somehow, but hey, it was hard to hide the excitement. Can't blame him. It was sight to see, or hear, I guess, when the room was filled with the choir of voices carrying the tune. And cheering, constant, happy cheering, with every first note of every song (“they're cheering like they don't know what song comes next?!” said the girl next to me at the Bristol gig and I couldn't help but laugh, she was obviously right since it was 'Smart Casual' track listing, yet, I understood the cheering, it's nice to be excited every now and then, also: it seemed for once I wasn't the biggest grump – even though I wasn't at my best that night, all the bad went into that sad, sad poem I wrote that afternoon and so the only thing that was left for me to do was to fully immerse into the happiness of the live show). As much as I enjoyed Bristol gig, it seemed a bit off with, let's call them: technical issues. The sound at times was a bit off, especially during The Nighmares' show. The confetti seemed to misfire and half of it blew on the stage rather than spill at the crowd (not that I mind). Aled dropped his microphone, landed in the crowd, recovered the piece of equipment and mocked himself mercilessly for it (since he went against everyone's advice and got himself cordless mic he said he should have known better that he would do something like this and until Bristol it worked just fine). Hey, as long as it wasn't Cardi B/ 50 Cent sort of thing (and it wasn't) I bet fans were rather happy to have Aled jump onto the barrier.

To add to the 'off' vibe – a girl smacked me in the face, right after the show ended and KIGH were taking after show photo, she went through the crowd like a battering ram, just to be in the photo, since I showed fim resistance that was my reward. There was no black eye, just a crappy feeling, so it wasn't as bad. And the show kind of seemed rushed. 'Lilli Rose' was cut from the setlist. But, but it was still absolutely wonderful and emotional and crazy good.

And on Saturday, their homecoming gig their smiles were brighter than at the shows before, and even though again 'Lilli Rose' got the boot from the setlist it was still a perfect night. With all the gratitude (and Aled thanking their loved ones for putting up with them this past year), cheeky spelling (instead of 'play D.E.AD' crowd was supposed to chant 'A.L.E.D.' which seemed to work especially in Cardiff) and fun it made the 'Smart Casual' 15th anniversary shows fill to the brim with great memories.

I must say I'm impressed they managed to keep the 'making new album' surprise under the wraps and revealed it they way they did. Well played.

Setlist:

'Smart Casual'

Fisticuffs

Easy Tiger

Give Me What I Want

Saturday

Lovely Bones

Shameless

Girls

Good Boys Gone Rad

Dance All Night

Pillow Talk

Raise Hell

Church Tongue

Encore:

Sunshine

The Best Is Yet to Come

Lilli Rose

Peace

Youngblood (Let It Out)

Matters at All

Few words about the opening band: The Nightmares.

Black roses and candles darkened the stage and set the mood for the support act – The Nightmares. Noir and goth aesthetic was laced and bound with synth filled indie rock that roared through the venue. Was it emo? New wave? Dark pop? Punk? Well, it was a mix of everything, packed with twisted, dark lyrics. Not something I expected, but something that was a great start of the evening.

I enjoyed it very much. They've just released their debut album 'Séance' and you can listen to it here.

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Good Morning Social Media! Today’s featured #Spotify #Playlist is: Music to Read #EdgarAllanPoe to; Mei Ling and I feature a new playlist daily. It’s what I have on here in the studio while I Paint and work. You can Listen as well, for FREE, both here at the Link and on the Pop Culture BLOG at my website: www.JamieRoxx.us enjoy :)

🎧 #SpotifyPlaylist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2JWcdev3AFH5Ahz2nlovKr

RIP today, Oct 7, 1849 – #EdgarAllanPoe, American author, poet, and critic (b. 1809) walked on.

👉 ** Digital Painting: 'Edgar Allan Poe' by CrisVector

( www.deviantart.com/crisvector/art/Edgar-Allan-Poe-214659580 )

🎨 Featured Roxx Painting: A #Painting I painted a couple of years ago:

’#Victorian #Skull Study Pop!’ 2012 acrylic & oil blend on canvas 18"x24" by @ArtistJamieRoxx #JamieRoxx ( www.JamieRoxx.us ) This Sold Painting is Not Available.

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This Painting started out as part of a Big Classic Blues Musicians Art Show I was getting ready for.  And then (as these things happen) a very good friend of mine called me and needed a Charity Painting for a Charity Event she was organizing and so BB here went for that event.  I did wind up Painting a different painting for the Blus Show, but it all really worked out, because I got a ton of commission work from both.  So the Lesson learned here… Say Yes to Everything! Put on some coffee and knock out your work and get it done. Get it down on the canvas!

a Custom #Commissioned #Painting I painted a few years ago:

’#BBKing w/ #Lucille’ 2008 acrylic and oil blend on canvas 48"x36" by @ArtistJamieRoxx #JamieRoxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) This Sold Painting is Not Available.

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Birthday Remembrances. Today Sept 12, 1913 – #JesseOwens, American sprinter (d. 1980) was born.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens)

A #Painting I painted a couple of years ago: ‘Running Man’ #Impasto #Abstract #MidCenturyModern #PopArt! 2020, acrylic and oil blend on textured canvas, 16"x20" by @ArtistJamieRoxx #JamieRoxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) This Sold Painting is Not Available.

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A Custom #Commissioned #Painting I painted of my friend, a few years ago:

‘Chest Rockwell (#DragKing)’ #PopArt #LGBTQ+ 2007 acrylic and oil blend on canvas 36"x24" by @ArtistJamieRoxx #JamieRoxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) This Sold Painting is Not Available.

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Today, August 10th, 2023, is National #DuranDuranAppreciationDay!

(https://nationaltoday.com/duran-duran-appreciation-day)

a #Painting I painted a few years ago: ‘Electric #DuranDuran’ 2008 acrylic and oil on canvas 36"x24" by @ArtistJamieRoxx #JamieRoxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) This Sold Painting is Not Available.

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3 HORAS DA MADRUGA COM A INSÔNIA NÃO BATENDO ESPANCANDO!

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