Kathryn Calder

Kathryn Calder did a 30-min livestream from her home tonight and it was super cool. Her voice is one of my faves in pop music today, it's just so clear and lovely. And she seems like a genuinely good person, to boot. Thankfully it's preserved on the Youtubes, and you can watch it again and again and again, if you like. Or just the once. She runs through hits from all three of her albums and even tosses in a New Pornographers tune (Adventures in Solitude, which I fucking LOVE) which is the cherry on top. Check it out.

Infection

Morpheme, one of Dean Garcia's many, many side projects, put out the Red Dog EP in 2011, which included this song (which fucking destroys, as far as I'm concerned). You might know Garcia from the band, Curve. If not, do yourself a favour and get acquainted. Hope y'all's quarantines are going okay.

I Think We're Alone Now

Today, Billie Joe from Green Day posted this pretty cool cover of the 1967 Tommy James and The Shondells classic. Apparently he recorded it in his bedroom since he's under quarantine like anyone else. A lot of interesting things are popping up because of C19 and it's nice to see people working around quarantine and still finding a way to be creative. Stay home and stay safe, y'all.

The Machine is Bleeding to Death

MOOD

the car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel

and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides

and a dark wind blows

the government is corrupt

and we're on so many drugs

with the radio on and the curtains drawn

we're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine

and the machine is bleeding to death

the sun has fallen down

and the billboards are all leering

and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

it went like this:

the buildings tumbled in on themselves

mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble

and pulled out their hair

the skyline was beautiful on fire

all twisted metal stretching upwards

everything washed in a thin orange haze

i said: "kiss me, you're beautiful -

these are truly the last days"

you grabbed my hand and we fell into it

like a daydream or a fever

we woke up one morning and fell a little further down -

for sure it's the valley of death

i open up my wallet

and it's full of blood

Don't Die on My Doorstep

Music for self-quarantine. Listen to Felt's The Pictorial Jackson Review (1988) here.

Stop Coming to My House

Music for self-quarantine. Listen to the full album, Happy Songs for Happy People (2003), here.

BBF3

Weirdly, I think about this guy (interviewed in the song) a lot and the way things are right now, I think he was right to some degree. This still remains one of my favourite GY!BE pieces. It's from the Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada EP (1998), which you can check out right here if you like (it feels weird linking to GY!BE on Spotify, but this is where we are).