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🎧 Downbeat.fm Vol. 7 Track 1

This month’s playlist features Remember Sports, Hikes, Daughter, Prostitute, Nihilist Cheerleader, Ratboys, and much more!

Tom Morello playing on stage in front of a sign that says "NAZI LIVES DON'T MATTER" with an upside-down American flag under the word

Welcome to the SEVENTH year of Downbeat.fm!

I don't have more to say here other than fuck ICE, and fuck Donald Trump.

Love you, Minneapolis. Stay safe, and keep giving ICE hell.


January's Playlist

This month’s playlist features Remember Sports, Hikes, Daughter, Prostitute, Nihilist Cheerleader, Ratboys, and much more!

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Tracking down the girl on the Deftones' album "Around the Fur" almost 30 years later.

Is touring broken for indie bands? Support your favorite indie bands as much as you can, buy their merch directly from them. Go see them on tour. Buy more merch.

I personally define "classic rock" as anything between The Beatles on Ed Sullivan up to the release of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA, give or take a few years on either side. This article tries to pin down a definition.

Musical acts are disappearing from late night television. Well, late night television is also either disappearing (Colbert, After Midnght/Taylor Tomlinson thanks to facsism), trying to be erased (Kimmel, due to facsism), or just plain terrible (thanks to Jimmy Fallon being a bootlicking turd). Seth Meyers is my favorite late night host by a mile.

All global MTV channels that still played music (which were still around I guess?) went off the air this month. MTV started its life a week before I was born, it was always around, until they dropped music and became irrelevant. This guy put together an "MTV channel" where you can watch music videos. If you were a 120 Minutes fan, here is a giant playlist of full episodes.