what i've been listening to this week

• the new Pixies single is actually super good. "Greens and Blues" is just the reminder of summer I needed (not really - it's fucking cold and thinking of summer is a bummer, kind of). the song has serious mermaid/merman concepts and the video is just as trippy as you expected a Pixies video would be
  
• riot grrrl-inspired pop punk band, Potty Mouth has a new interview in New York Magazine which features their video for "Black and Studs". they're a) a really fucking good band and I'm all about girls in pop punk (especially girls who are conscious of their place in the scene) and b) "Black and Studs" is really interesting to me because of the chorus' what happened to you to make you wear black and studs? there's something there about certain things having to have happened to make people punk, which I'll probably unpack later.
  
• as Warped Tour announcements continue to come out, I'm getting increasingly excited to see The Story So Far live. I've spent the last day and a half listening to pretty strictly their albums Under Soil and Dirt and What You Don't See.
• Modern Baseball has a new album out too. it's pretty good. 

what have y'all be filling your ear holes with this week?

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AR