AURGG: An Unironic Rocker Girl's Guide!

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animist rock&roll
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music as a magic science

  • Hello hello, sticking my head in here a sec to talk about the new record CRUEL ENTERTAINMENT by the great Unwed Sailor. UNWED SAILOR is a band led by Johnathon Ford. We’ve known JF for a long time now &…

  • Usually when I think &/or write about Lou Reed, I talk about the oft-underlooked outsidery queerness of LULU [2011] or METAL MACHINE MUSIC [1975]; the nature & practice of songwriting; electric guitars & the meaning of tone; lyrics & their…

    Lou Reed

  • Sometimes “rock music” means literal rocks! I learned this fact from noted rock&roll lesbian Julian Cope (he/him so far as I am aware). His 90s albums included images of stone monuments in the UK & elsewhere, as well as his…

  • I’m sure many people have written songs about bigfoot, aka sasquatch, aka the Great Northern Wood Ape. Offhand, however, I am aware only of three. ~ ‘Sasquatch’ by Ani DiFranco—from her excellent cd Binary (2017) which benefits, & this song…

    stills from a video of a bigfoot peeking in through a living room window 8 feet off the ground

  • I’m a latecomer to magic—whatever we think “magic” is. Then again it’s been a primary focus of my life since childhood. Do I contradict myself? ~ The first “spell” (for lack of a better word?) that I consciously cast was…

  • Bear with me & I will bear with you as I sort this out… 🤘🤪💕

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