Molly Mary O'Brien's music musings.
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Things feel pretty bleak right now. Executive orders are terrorizing trans people, and also I guess everyone who receives any kind of help or money from the federal government. The president is cruel and his cruelty creates unimaginable stupidity. People are becoming conservative because they're dying to say
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We were driving away from our place in Northeast L.A. and the sky was the color of rust. The power had been out all night but we'd been up, listening to news reports via the hand crank radio I'd literally just bought from the Red
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I'm sorry about the subtitle of the blog post. But I had to do it. Has Grindelwald been held accountable for his Crimes yet?? We're about to kick off year 2 of "listening to your favorite songs of the year" which I am absurdly
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Good [time of day it is wherever you are]. I have scavenged some musical crumbs from all over the meadow to bring you a special new blog megamix. Within: getting innocuous at the LCD Soundsystem show gaming poorly at the Sega Dreamcast Rave a Potent Punk Rock Rec I Enjoy
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It was February 2020 and I was trying to be a videographer. Through a friend, I met this guy named Rich who had a management/promotion company and was looking for people to film the gigs they were putting on. I'd been shooting editorial stuff for Alt Citizen,
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Listening to a band's music for the very first time in a live concert format is underrated. There's something special about having your first impression of a band's entire oeuvre being the way they present their various wares on the stage—a throwback to
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Hello to the blog readers and the newsletter subscribers. Here is a personal pan pizza blog post about walking, bumper stickers, college library flow state, brash incorrect music opinions, and 90s alt rock... I was on one of my morning walks, and I was in a low mood. It happens
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A few weeks ago, Charli XCX hosted a birthday party at a bar in Los Angeles. Unless you were literally Billie Eilish or Sabrina Carpenter, you likely witnessed this party via photos taken by Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter: flash photos of party people, standing on a booth or
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Hello, it's me. I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to read...my blog. Hello to the blog readers and the newsletter subscribers. It seems like a good time to hit you with a Musical Moments Megamix...last time I wrote about enjoying
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The people in front of me in the Sphere security line fucked up. Dead & Co had already started playing, you could hear tinkling guitars piped all through the interior of the venue. We were the last stragglers in the TSA-esque experience that precedes all large format concerts now, and
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I was doing my horrid morning scroll on Twitter and came across a chunk of text that displeased me (this happens often on Twitter...it's what keeps me coming back, the displeasure...): As it turns out, this chunk of text came from a long Freddie deBoer newsletter about
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Welcome to another edish of the I Enjoy Music newsletter. To preview the format of the newsletter, in an Axios breakin'-it-down style, we have: a little bit of writing around a new-to-me song by an unfamiliar artist (last time I did that with Zimmer90, "What Love Is&