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Pissed Jeans - Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt

[thesearenotphotographs]

Pissed Jeans at Roberta’s

Full gallery available here.

For the second year in a row, Creem Magazine took over the backyard of Roberta’s in Bushwick, Brooklyn for an entire day for a show called Summer Sunburn. This year’s event began in the afternoon but since I was shooting something else, I didn’t arrive until right before Pissed Jeans took the stage as the headlining act.

The quartet from Pennsylvania performed songs from their new record, Half Divorced, along with playing older material and ending the show with “False Jesii Part 2,” from their 2009 album, King of Jeans, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year and has a reissued LP that you can purchase from the Sub Pop Records webstore here.

I realized during their set that I’ve been seeing them perform live for over a decade now and I’m so grateful that they’re still going strong albeit $62,000 in debt.

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Batman: Beyond The White Knight (2022-2023) #8 by Sean Murphy 

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SNOWPIERCER - Recensione 4x06 "Bell the Cat" e 4x07 "A Moth to a Flame"

Snowpiercer sta per concludersi e in questi due episodi succede davvero di tutto, fra colpi di scena, morti a sorpresa e un pericolo sempre crescente...

RECENSIONE 4x06/07

[hartshorn-and-isinglass]

I could put this in the queue but I don't have that kind of impulse control today:

[herbirdglitter]

Time to sell my soul for a plane ticket I guess

[tarnishedhalo]

Sorta stolen from @ronmanmob

PT Play List

I. Indestructible || Disturbed II. Warrior Song- Aer Vis || Sean Householder III. Whatever It Takes || Imagine Dragons IV. 99 Problems || Hugo V. Wolf Totem Remix || The Hu ft. Jacoby Shaddix VI. Bring on the Thunder || Miracle of Sound VII. Jeep Stuff MLG Remix || Neebs Gaming {He blames @morgansmornings for this one} VIII. Gonna Need A Grave || Urban Country IX. I'm Gonna Put You Down || Gangsta Grass Ft. T.O.N.E-Z X. Watch Me Bleed || Fearless Motivation ft. The Julianno XI. Come Out Ye Black and Tans || Colm McGuinness XII. Soldiers || Otherwise XIII. Pararescue is Running By || USAF XIV. Here Comes PJs Over The Hill ||USAF XV. PJ, PJ Where You Been || USAF XVI. Harden the Fuck Up || Jax Vellex

[dustedmagazine]

Pissed Jeans — Half Divorced (Sub Pop)

Photo by Ebru Yildiz

“Too bad/we’re screwed,” Pissed Jeans vocalist Matt Korvette triumphantly spewed on “No Convenient Apocalypse,” the eponymous side A of last year’s standalone single. Come this year and the sentiment hasn’t changed much. But, for this band, has it ever? Gleeful, supercharged pessimism is what they do. If anything, in Half Divorced, the Allentown, PA, quartet’s sixth full-length Jeans get even more explicitly bummed; the stakes yet higher, the scraping on the way to rock bottom increasingly frantic. Titles like “Cling to a Poisoned Dream” and “Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt” make past complaints like “Ashamed Of My Cum” (Shallow, 2005) or “Caught Licking Leather” (Hope For Men, 2007) seem trivial in the face of an interminable mid-life crisis, 21st century-style.

“Cling to a Poisoned Dream” and “Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt” are back to back and act like a pair. Both are fast and raucous and delivered with a truckload of bravado. Of course, this being a Pissed Jeans record, the bravado never lapses but the words strip it naked. The former’s title is a refrain, each hopeful qualifier immediately undercut by a reminder that the pursuit will, at best, make you sick, even if you manage to “keep [your] head down [and] swallow what’s left of your pride.” The latter gets more specific. While you’re clinging, make sure you’re paying things down – sure, you’ll inevitably “pass it on to [your] child,” but you can look forward to “someday [being only] sixty one thousand dollars in debt.” Maybe you’ll even smile once in a while!

Pissed Jeans are one of the few bands who can be described (with little fear of provoking a contemptuous eye roll) as “skewering” things. This applies to their treatment of personal near-ruin, as in “Sixty-Two Thousand…” and “...Poison Dream,” and, just as sharply, to the odious other — the people they’ve been unlucky enough to interact with. The apex of the form is, appropriately, “People Person” from Hope For Men, but Half Divorced’s “Helicopter Parent” is a worthy addition to their canon of oblivious and unpleasant characters. From the first line (“Oh you started getting bored, so you went and had a kid”), Korvette excoriates the psyche, the past, the present and future of his titular target over an ominous, feedback-riddled stomp laid down in unison by the rest of the band. By the last lines (“It's time to reflect and maybe contemplate respect instead of/micromanagement because it's just a generational dead-end”), he’s moved past annoyance to hit on something more fundamentally disturbing. It’s not only financial debt that one generation passes down to another, but their vapidities and hang-ups. It’s a dead-end; it’s a vicious cycle.

Like their Sub Pop label-mates in Mudhoney, Pissed Jeans back up their humor and disgust with hurtling, curdling sonic assaults – you can practically feel yourself shoved into a cloud of sweat and moshing bodies when the chorus hits on “Junktime.” But there’s often more than initially batters the ear. For all the sturm und drang on Half Divorced, the component parts of each song are well-differentiated and clean. You get a clear sense of both the individual performances and their interaction. For instance, on “Everywhere Is Bad,” we’re greeted by the thick slashes of Bradley Fry’s guitar, but never lose track of the tight, manic beat of Randall Huth’s bass as it scales the writhing jungle gym of sound, courtesy of Fry and drummer Sean McGuinness — delightfully, the latter takes a break from blasting elephant-caliber birdshot to bust a round, infectious solo. The call-and-response litany of dismissals, in four words or less, of everywhere from Mars (“could use some air”) to hell (“too many dudes”), are the highlight of the song, but the groove carved out by the band’s heavy agility makes the punchlines stick.

Pissed Jeans have always been able to make a personal grievance or mild hassle sound existential — see putting on a tight black shirt versus not bothering on “False Jesii Part 2” (King Of Jeans, 2009) — but with Half Divorced the desperation gets dialed up. When, on “(Stolen) Catalytic Converter,” Korvette says “I feel sick/but I can’t puke,” it seems right to extrapolate the almost absurd helplessness widely. The crass, humiliating and, worst of all, mundane depths of lives that aren’t quite falling apart are well-plumbed in the back catalog and that chronicle continues here, with vigor and feeling. Like the figure on its cover, Half Divorced stares down a smoking hole in the ground, the band hollering for everyone (someone, anyone!) to come look. “Too bad/we’re screwed.” At least we know it now.

Alex Johnson

[waheelawhisperer]

I can't draw for shit so my catalyst isn't art. Instead, have a nice list of sea shanties in hopes of attracting a Specter (the Unchained) of your own: THE GOLDEN AGE WILL RETURN AGAIN

Wellerman - Nathan Evans

Santiano - Santiano

Drunken Sailor - Irish Rovers

Bones in the Ocean - The Longest Johns

Barrett's Privateers - Stan Rogers

Keelhauled - Alestorm

Leave Her Johnny - Sean Dagher/Nils Brown/Michiel Schrey

Tyme Flies When You're Havin' Rum - Pirates For Sail

Over and Under - Colm McGuinness

Northwest Passage - Stan Rogers

Bound For South Australia - Fisherman's Friends

Randy Dandy Oh (metal ver.) - Jonathan Young feat. Caleb Hyles/annapantsu/RichaadEB/Colm McGuinness

John Kanaka - Fiddler's Green

Cape Cod Girls - The Captain's Beard

Santiana - Seth Staton Watkins

[lucapaulli]

Coda from and maps and plans on Vimeo.

A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.

andmapsandplans.com/coda instagram.com/andmapsandplans twitter.com/andmapsandplans facebook.com/andmapsandplans Contact: hello@andmapsandplans.com

Director: Alan Holly - instagram.com/qlqnhqlly Writers: Alan Holly and Rory Byrne - rorybyrne.ie Art direction & backgrounds: Ronan McMeel - ronanmcmeel.blogspot.ie Music: Shane Holly - shaneholly.ie Animation: Alan Holly, Rory Byrne and Eoghan Dalton - studiopowwow.com Colouring and shadows: Eimhin McNamara - paperpanther.ie Background painting: Áine McGuinness - ainemcguinness.ie Starring: Brian Gleeson, Orla Fitzgerald, Donie Ryan and Joseph Dermody Music recording: Paul Finan Voice recording: Tony Kiernan Sound design: Michelle Fingleton Sound editing: Andy Kirwan Sound mixing: Garret Farrell - screenscene.ie Musicians: Shane Holly, Aoife Dowdall, Katie O'Connor, Larissa O'Grady, Jenny Dowdall Emma Scott: Production Executive for the Irish Film Board Pauline McNamara: Executive Producer – RTE Fionnuala Sweeney: Film Specialist – Arts Council Jill McGregor: Schemes & Applications Co-ordinator for the Irish Film Board Thanks to Sean McCarron & Jennifer Evans

Funded under the Irish FIlm Board's Frameworks scheme irishfilmboard.ie/funding_programmes/Frameworks/65

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Pissed Jeans - Moving On

[screamingforyears]

IN_A_MINUTE: // AN INDIE EXPRESS…

“THOSE DAYS” is the second single from @thechiseluk’s forthcoming LP titled ‘What A Fucking Nightmare’ (2/9 @purenoiserecs) & it finds the London-based quintet of vocalist Cal Graham, guitarists Luke Younger/Charlie Manning Walker, bassist Momo & drummer Lee Munday running “the street like packs of wolves” across 2+ mins of laddishly oi! PubRock.

@futureislands are here w/ “SAY GOODBYE,” the latest single from their forthcoming LP titled ‘People Who Aren’t There Anymore’ (1/26 @4ad) & it finds the ever-reliable Baltimore-based quartet of Gerrit Welmers, William Cashion, Samuel T. Herring & Michael Lowry doing their dialed in thing across 4 mins of new_waving & ethereally elastic SynthPop.

“HOUSE RULES” is the second single from @lamplight_cam’s forthcoming self-titled LP (3/8 @westernvinyl) & it finds Ian Hatcher-Williams’ Brookyln/Roanoke-based project waxing upon the idea that “love is all there is time for” across a 3:50 clip of steadily streaming & laconically lush IndieFolk.

@realpissedjeans are back w/ “MOVING ON,” the lead single from their forthcoming LP titled ‘Half Divorced’ (3/1 @subpop) & it finds the Allentown, PA-based quartet of Mat Korvette (vocals), Brad Fry (guitar), Randy Huth (bass) & Sean McGuinness (drums) tackling that adult shit while movin on across 4 ½ mins of accessibly agile & potently punk AltRock.

“MY BEST FRIEND” is the final single in the run-up to @tysegall’s forthcoming LP titled ‘Three Bells’ (1/26 @dragcityrecords) & it finds the ever-prolific artist shouting out all the doggies & friends of doggies across 3+ mins of crunchily grooved, rakishly riffed & love laced PsychRawk.

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Batman: Beyond The White Knight (2022-2023) #8 by Sean Murphy 

[lostinaflashforward]

SNOWPIERCER - Recensione 4x05 "The Engineer"

La stagione finale di Snowpiercer si riprende dopo lo scivolone della scorsa settimana, con un buon episodio, che risponde a qualche domanda e orienta il tutto verso la fase finale della serie.

RECENSIONE 4x05

[usagirotten]

AMC Picks Up "Snowpiercer" for Season 4

AMC has reportedly picked up the 4th season of the former TNT series “Snowpiercer!” The show's first three seasons will hit the AMC+ streaming service later this year, with season 4 due to bow in early 2025. Based on the acclaimed graphic novel and the 2013 film of the same name, "Snowpiercer" has captivated audiences with its gripping storyline, complex characters, and thought-provoking themes. Set aboard a perpetually moving train that circles the globe after a cataclysmic event has frozen the Earth, the show explores issues of class struggle, social injustice, and survival in a harsh, dystopian world. “We’re so thrilled the train has finally found a home, and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone at AMC and Tomorrow Studios for giving the fans of Snowpiercer a chance to enjoy season four with all the hard work this amazing cast and crew put into it,” showrunner Paul Zbyszewski said. The series was originally developed for TNN before TNT picked it up. Scott Derrickson, who directed “Doctor Strange” for Marvel Studios and 2021’s hit “The Black Phone,” was set to show run and direct before parting ways with the project. It’s been a bumpy track for the show, based on Bong Joon-ho‘s 2013 film, which was based on the graphic novel “Le Transperceneige” by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, and Jean-Marc Rochette. “Snowpiercer” the series stars Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Sean Bean, Rowan Blanchard, Alison Wright, Mickey Sumner, Iddo Goldberg, Katie McGuinness, Lena Hall, Sam Otto, Chelsea Harris, Mike O’Malley, Roberto Urbina, and Sheila Vand. New cast members for season 4 include Clark Gregg and Michael Aronov. “Snowpiercer is an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride with a loyal fanbase – similar to the passionate fandoms we serve across our biggest franchise series – and a welcome addition to AMC and AMC+,” Ben Davis, EVP of original programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios, said. “We look forward to allowing viewers to binge the first three seasons later this year, in anticipation of the arrival of a remarkable fourth season helmed by Paul Zbyszewski and this stellar cast, which will premiere in 2025.”

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New Audio: Pissed Jeans Share a Bruising Ripper

New Audio: Pissed Jeans Share a Bruising Ripper @ThePissedJeans @subpop @subpoplicity

Throughout the course of their 20-year history together, Allentown, PA-based punks Pissed Jeans — Matt Korvette (vocals), Brad Fry (guitar), Randy Huth (bass) and Sean McGuinness (drums) — have never been known to go halfway: They’ve long been known for material that pairs feral vocals and acerbic, biting lyrics with buzzsaw guitars — and for their unhinged live show.  The Allentown-based punks’…