1982-1985, Custom written in Z-Grass Programming Language An absolute beauty, via @vanityset

holy moly

Ampled is, as I understand it, a service for musicians to offer subscriptions to fans with a focus on transparency for how the service itself actually works. They've adopted a co-op structure where the Artists and workers of the service "own 100% of Ampled - not venture capitalists."

Honestly, it looks a whole lot like Patreon in terms of the functionality that it provides. A musician signs up and posts regular exclusive content to garner subscriptions from fans. The difference here being that Ampled does not offer tiers and the artist account determines what percentage share goes back to Ampled; so you aren't forced into a particular rev share.

Looking at the artists pages, they seem well put together and, when the artist is using the service properly, seem like a good deal for fans.

I've always want to pursue something like this for a yk Records artist but never really had one that had enough content to make a subscription even possible. I'm curious to hear if anyone has used this as an artist or subscriber and had any thoughts.

my buddy Dave G restarted his radio show as a podcast. if you like punk, metal and noisey things; Dave's your guy.

Lovely story and a charming photo shoot

Director David Lowery tackles your most burning questions. Actually helpful… somewhat

Better than your average listicle video. Nothing surprising here but just pleasant to watch

Stupid but enjoyable

To read

At the very least, go listen to the first track…

to read

RIP Sean. Always a treat

Wonderful interview with The White Lotus creator, writer and director. He is unsurprisingly eloquent and self-aware. Worth a read, maybe twice.

I really believe this argument just boils down to App Store fees feeling too high for developers. If it was 10-15% flat for everyone, I doubt we'd ever hear of this.

HT to Mr Ryan Hale on these available prints from The Future of What, aka Sara Murphy. Love the simplicity and emptiness of so many of these images; not to mention the beauty of the light flares and the affinity for neon signs. Lots to love here. Dig in.

You needed this album cover in your life.

great performance with an all-star band

The kids are alright

Netflix but for fake movies and tv shows that appear inside real movies and tv shows

You may recall back in 2018 when Makeup and Vanity Set and Jasmin Kaset joined up to create a new project called You Drive. I've always loved it when Kaset provided vocals to MAVS songs and having a whole record of the team of them collab'ing was really something special. Honestly, it's a record that I don't think really gets the recognition it deserves.

The two recently released a new track called "Such a Perfect Thing" (via yk Records). It's a standalone single that was actually written for the Starz series The Girlfriend Experience. The track is featured in one of the episodes but not on the official soundtrack. Despite that, it's a wonderful piece of music. I don't know if there is more You Drive on the immediate horizon but I'm happy that they're continuing to work together. They also managed to pull in Caspar from Version Industries for the artwork, who also did the original You Drive album art. It's a Dream Team collab if ever there was one.

This will hit streaming services on August 13th but, for now, it's exclusive to Bandcamp.