So, Pandemic 2020 for me has meant working from home, homeschooling children, doing my best to support local breweries, drinking beer from said local breweries, discovering and listening to and purchasing SO MUCH music, and doing my very best to hold it all together and maintain the last shreds of my sanity. Watching over the last couple days as everything unfolds is doing its best to break that hold on sanity. There is literally hours of footage from all over the country of the police abusing their power, not that i thought this wasn't happening, but it's all in broad daylight now, and seemingly with no repercussions for any of them. I've watched footage of a cop on a horse ride over a lady. I've watched a multiple videos of police cruisers driving through crowds with reckless abandon. I've seen journalists shot with tear gas, rubber bullets, and arrested on live TV. Police firing into homes. An old man with a cane shoved into the pavement. And bystanders beaten in the streets. It's sickening. Turns out watching the police murder another black man finally made this country hit the boiling over point. And then compound this whole racist systemic structure with over 100,000 dead, off the rails unemployment, and a political system and environment that does jack shit for anybody aside from the rich and elite, and well...we might just be done.
Anyway, this one feels appropriate. Here's "Cop Killer" from John Maus, our Daily Jam.
Last year, John Maus released the excellent "Screen Memories" LP and announced an upcoming vinyl box set featuring his entire discography along with an album of rarities and unheard material, appropriately titled "Addendum." I'm a sucker for Maus's synthy, lo-fi weirdness, so new music from the artist is always welcome news. Listen to "Episode" below, and get the album later this month on Ribbon Music.
Here's another new track from the upcoming, triumphant return of John Maus and his new record "Screen Memories." Watch the video for "Teenage Witch" below, featuring footage of a young Mr. Maus and get the record later this month on Ribbon Music.
He had hinted at new music on the way, and now we know that John Maus's new album "Screen Memories" will be out at the end of October on Ribbon Music. Hooray! Anyway, check out the lo-fi, psychedelic video for "The Combine" below, a dark and synthy song about getting chopped up by a combine harvester. Sweet.
Could it be? New music from experimental synth pop musician John Maus on the horizon? It's certainly been a while (2011). Anyway, the artist just released a teaser video of sorts called "COUNTER STRIKE!" and a string of tour dates to boot, so maybe we have something to look forward to besides nuclear winter. Watch the video below.
