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A dark “Tease”. Far from Sunny. A teaser for my new track “SUNSHINE”.
Coming to IG and SoundCloud on Friday 3rd June 2022.
Teaser from “SUNSHINE” my newest musical work.
Second single “Teen Spirit!” produced by Speen out for stream and free download on my official soundcloud!
#HEATHENSHIT
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A Halloween Megamix // 2018
I fell behind in my goal of 4 specific Halloween mixtapes, so I’m making good on it, by compiling everything thus far unused, into a megamix that you can throw on and enhance your spooky times. The collection will be continually updated and reaaranged through Halloween, so by all means, subscribe on Spotify and stick around for some additions.
Featuring: Joy Division, Chromatics, Radiohead, M83, The Cure, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, David Bowie, The Shins, The Knife, and many, many more.
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Halloween Sounds 2018 (vol.two)
Here goes some more spooky sounds for your pumpkin loving ear holes… that sounded like more of an insult than it was intended. I love your ears. And pumpkins. Anyway, volume two finds the sounds leaning into the dance and electronic genres and branching out from there. Dabbling all over the place. Again, sounds way different outloud than when i was typing it. So, as per usual, you can stream this on the platform of your choice. Apple or Spotify.
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Come through on Saturday!
We at UP Underground will be launching the 6th LoFi! LoFi is an annual compilation of different songs from different artists from different genres. This will be, obviously, the sixth one we’re releasing, and what’s cool is LoFi songs are ALL LOCAL, ALL INDIE, ALL FOR FREE! We’ll be giving out physical copies at the gig, so be at Mow’s on December 5 at exactly 9pm. (Yes, exactly 9pm, because we always start on time.)
BONUS:This time around, we’re holding the super special Mixtape Madness. You just create a mixtape, upload it and send the shortened URL online, and bring a note with the link to the gig. If you do it before the deadline, you get in for free! The mixtape submission has been extended to DECEMBER 4!The mixtapes will be exchanged between people who have never ever met, so that’s kinda cool, too.
We hope to see you there!
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Today is the 16-year anniversary of Lil Wayne and DJ Drama’s “Dedication 2” mixtape!
https://www.lilwaynehq.com/tag/dedication-2/
What was your favorite track?
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GOODBYE. Is there such a thing as upbeat sad love songs? I didn’t think so until I made this mix and realized that heartbreaks doesn’t need to be a “wailing like a baby while slowly sliding down the wall” moment or it can be but you’re crying and dancing to this mix instead. Download.
Tracks:
Bahamas - Lost In The Light
Aloe Blacc - Love Is The Answer
Disclosure - Latch feat. Sam Smith
Sean Bones - Here Now
Gotye - I Feel Better
We Are Trees - You
Miike Snow - Bavarian #1 (Say You Will)
The Black Keys - Little Black Submarines
Jack White - Love Interruption
Heartless Bastards - Down In The Canyon
Delta Spirit - California
The Shins - Simple Song
alt-J - Breezeblocks
Icona Pop - Nights Like This
The Other Tribe - Skirts
Brass Knuckles - Bad Habits
Asa - Why Can’t We
The Bamboos - Where Does The Time Go? Feat. Aloe Blacc
Seeker Lover Keeper - Light All My Lights
Glass Animals - Cocoa Hooves
Panama - Magic
Favored Nations - Blame Game (Alternative Mix)
Hot Chip - Look At Where We Are
St. Lucia - Closer Than This
Hermitude - Paradise
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Build That Foundation
A Mixtape for if you have to see your ex again soon.
Feeling Ok • Best Coast | Cranekiss• Tamaryn | Star Roving • Slowdive | The Mountain • Heartless Bastards | The Ring• Tancred | High Rise• Cross Record | Moaning Lisa Smile• Wolf Alice | Volcano Girls•Veruca Salt | Awful• Hole | Cherry-coloured Funk•Cocteau Twins | Brazil•Declan McKenna | Conviction•Meshell Ndegeocello | Sticky Thread• Local Natives | Brill Bruisers•The New Pornographers | The Gardener •Tiny Deaths | Ultralife•Oh Wonder | Honey Do•Beverly | Last Goodbye•Jeff Buckley
curated by Brittany Ashley for Everyone Is Gay’s ‘An Honest Mixtape’
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An Honest Mixtape: Build That Foundation
by Brittany Ashley
Hello! We are starting a new advice series here at Everyone Is Gay called “An Honest Mixtape”! Each month (starting right now!) we will feature a new guest writer who will tackle one of your advice questions with words *and* music!
Writer, comedian, and actor Brittany Ashley kicks things off with some back-to-school breakup advice and a mixtape to help mend your broken heart and give you the strength to get through seeing your ex again for the first time. GREAT.
“I’m in high school, and I went through a really messy, miserable breakup last school year. For the rest of the year, I would get anxious every time I saw my ex and tried to avoid her at all costs. Now I haven’t seen her in two months because of summer and I’ve been doing a lot better, but I’m afraid of how I’ll react when I see her again/if she tries to talk to me or if we end up in a class together. Help?”
BrittanySays:
We’ve all gone through it. Trying to avoid seeing an ex-girlfriend is like the world’s worst video game that we’re all stuck playing for the rest of our lives. To take extra precautions, we’ll deny ourselves going to that party (5 points!) or cut off seeing certain friends (Bonus level!), just in hopes of avoiding one particular human being who seems to have the cheat codes to our anxiety.
Let’s start by saying this: throughout the summer, there’s no doubt that you’ve made progress. You started to feel like yourself again and finally like she’s not the only radio station playing in your head. Seeing her again doesn’t get to erase any of the work you’ve done. She doesn’t get to have that—that was work that you did! It’s yours! You own the rights to it!
I get that you think seeing her again might throw a wrench in your betterment. The best (but also worst) thing about being a fleshy mortal in this situation is that you simply can’t control the outcome of every awkward interaction or every student’s class schedule. Well, wait. Actually, if you learned how to hack into your school’s database, you could probably engineer the perfect schedule to where you two wouldn’t be likely to cross paths. Obviously you’d have to come up with an algorithm that also prevents hallway run-ins–maybe setting up roadblocks that block the flow of students. But even so—learning hacking as a trade feels like an enormous amount of effort just for this.
So focus on what you can control, like how much time you spend dwelling on the what if’s or how much space you let those negative feelings take up in your mind in places where good stuff could go instead. Remember good stuff? Good stuff is nice.
Once you relinquish the idea of control, the next thing you can do is build up your foundation. By that I mean: think of your self-esteem like a house. How banal, I know! But you don’t have to take an architecture class to understand how spot on my metaphor is. It’s easy to feel better momentarily when you paint the walls a bright new color or hang up a cool new Buffy poster. Who wouldn’t? Aesthetic improvements feel nice but they’re momentary. Why? Because if your foundation is cracked, the way the house looks doesn’t really matter because you have to rebuild that goddamn thing. The good news is that whether or not your house feels like an abandoned roadside shack or an immaculate mansion a la MTV Cribs (too old a reference?), remember that you can always build up your foundation.
So how can you build up this foundation, you ask? Well, emotional health should be tended to at all times, not just when you’re in dire need of it. If you continuously appreciate yourself and the people around you, you’ll build a strong ass foundation that won’t crack easily.
Think about what makes you feel warm and good. Maybe that’s simply being outside. Listen, you don’t have to go base jumping or extreme whitewater rafting, but sometimes it means just taking a book in your backyard or sitting on a swing.
Too much like an indie movie? Fine. Then go do something nice for your friends like writing them a handwritten card or making them a mixtape (Am I out of touch?). Strengthening your friendships and telling people how much you care about them is by far the coolest thing on the planet. Trust me. They won’t forget it.
Walk through the halls confidently with your headphones in while you listen to music. I like to daydream and picture myself as the lead singer, but that’s just me. Maybe you can even jam out to this playlist I crafted for you.
But most importantly: Give yourself a break. It’s okay to not fully be over the messy feelings that ensued, that just means you’re human. If we could think our way out of heartache, we’d all be robots.
Eventually, you’ll be so distracted simply basking in your own incredible atmosphere, that you’ll forget that you ever cared what you’d think if you ran into her. I know it sounds kind of silly: Distract yourself with yourself. t’s the best advice I can give and has gotten me through many versions and variations of “fear of running into my ex at school.”
Listen to Brittany’s Mixtape, “Build That Foundation,” right here!
Cover Art designed by the incredible Isabella Rotman.
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PEN PAL:In A Crowded Station
It’d be weird if we listened to cassettes only from Baltimore. There are folks we write letters to or trade tapes with on the interwebs, and it’d be rude not to share some of those gems every now and again. Gather ‘round for Baltimore Tape Club’s first Pen Pal post.
I first visited Mississippi Records when on a brief stint with Future Islands out west through Portland, around the corner from where Jason Urick resided. Jason was opening the show and our host, and had nothing but amazing things to say about the shop and label.
Mississippi Records has a truly magical mixtape series spanning gospel to rocksteady to a collection of auto-tuned pop via Brazil and everything in between. In A Crowded Station is volume 30, a soul and R&B exploration named in honor of Mask Man & the Agents’ song.
This tape purrs gently, with plenty of answers to midsummer’s heat-induced cravings via deep cuts of cosmic soul. It may bring you to tears, or it may have you dancing wildly upon your front stoop, but either way snag it here or go visit Mississippi Records.
