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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

don’t ever let anybody tell you you can’t slap a P bass with flats

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

7 months

it’s been hundreds of years of this man

brett goldstein

@thatguybg

7 months

this is insane cashier is literally zooming into nyc from the philippines

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

7 months

“they’re grateful for the opportunity!”

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

suga free tiny desk concert but it’s just him doing this again

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

shut all the way up. don’t try to spin my people’s indentured servitude to you for propaganda. Filipinos have far more in common with Palestinians than they ever will with you monsters

Israel ישראל

@Israel

1 year

Hero ♥️ Camille, a caretaker from the Philippines was in the bombshelter with 95 year old Nitza when Hamas terrorists broke into Nitza's home. Camille managed to convince the terrorist to take all her money and not murder them. She hugged Nitza for two and half hours until

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

3 years

hearing @Theoldp bust into a Shai song in a split second on a sportstalk radio show makes me feel seen in ways I didn’t know were possible. no other city has this. great sportstalk, forever

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

after 333 years of Spanish colonization + Japanese occupation and torture + American colonization and the razing of Manila (which still has never recovered)… yeah fuck settler colonialism. 🇵🇭🇵🇸 all day everyday

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores

@Jairo_I_Funez

1 year

I condemn the unprovoked violence against Ferdinand Magellan. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

10 months

almost like eliminating media literacy/critical thinking was intentional to help make it easier to maintain a fascist state

LAUREN ASH

@laurenashastro

10 months

“media literacy is dead” yeah decades of undervaluing the arts will do that

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

got the CRT to work and I am beside myself right now, it’s so beautiful

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

April Fool’s is over, @LATACO wins

Memo Torres 🌮

@el_tragon_de_LA

2 years

There’s a new Pizza town to be respected in the US. Sorry NY and Chicago. LA is where it’s at.

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

gotta get rid of the notion that culture exists just to be rated

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

3 years

forgot my sister copped the Linda Ronstadt Dodger jacket for both of us to wear when games come back and I’m stoked all over again

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

live citypop band… confirmed. let’s do this thing for real

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

doing some screen tests for reels (and yes, tiktok…) with my friend’s Stingray. what kind of person have I become… anyway I thought I’d have fun and do a Louis Johnson impression over Reach Out by George Duke and post it here for the Real Ones, enjoy~

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

7 months

oh hell no, I KNOW we’re not using 10-year cycle nostalgia to misremember literal gentrification

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

8 months

thinking about how Yasuko Agawa is canonically Raider Nation

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

7 months

teaching in LA really shows you firsthand how deeply segregated society and access to resources is even in the same physical space. very often I’ve taught two kids with equal talent or aptitude from the same school, but only the one with support and access at home gets to develop

arvo färt

@arvofart

7 months

The problem with nepotism isn’t that famous people’s kids are unskilled—they’re usually very good at their jobs—but rather that no genuine infrastructure exists to support artists whose parents aren’t famous

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

4 years

Oh No, Oh Yes! // Mariya Takeuchi 🌃🫂 Had some fun with the Boss OC-2 Octaver on one of Citypop’s best slow jams. Full video here:

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

10 months

petition to use this shot in national broadcasts of LA instead of the Hollywood Sign and the Santa Monica Pier

Los Angeles Magazine

@LAmag

10 months

Love this city. ❤️⁠ 🎥: @Asteryxtm

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

3 years

honestly i feel like cooking up some LAUSD coffee cake rn just to make it feel more authentic

taylor garron

@taylorgarron

3 years

sometimes i forget that not everyone went to a public high school where the fistfights started at 7:25am EST

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

8 months

every time In-N-Out discourse happens:

Mushroom man

@MetalFingersfan

8 months

I am sincerely convinced that people who hate in n out are trying so hard to be different cause there is legit no fucking reason to hate when they sell you a double double combo for $10 and it clears out almost every other burger around the area

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

in the studio w/ @EvannMcIntosh making Sade type bangers and beating the “Rickenbackers are only for prog rock” allegations. can’t wait for it to come out, truly some incredible work

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

8 months

same people calling this “new” probably “discover” “hidden gems” and live in “up and coming neighborhoods”

onion person

@CantEverDie

8 months

the west coast is cooking up a new kind of hot dog that would make a chicagoan kill themself

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

5 months

this album should be revered by sound engineers/producers/audiophiles the way Aja - Steely Dan is

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

Brandon Ousley

@brandonousley

1 year

Name one PERFECT album by a female artist.

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

hell yeah

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

7 months

thinking abt this again after subbing for a college jazz band and then immediately going to a boogie/funk night after. we lose so much by not pushing musicians to experience groove music, and by not giving proper attention to groove music in academic contexts in general

a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

really wondering what music would sound like if dance/groove music didn’t become nearly exclusively the domain of electronic/sample-based music and was taught for instruments/ensembles at an institutional level

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

10 months

the recent social media portrayal of us Filipinos as R&B obsessed karaoke savants with a taste for flamboyance and pageantry is honestly so sick. makes me way more proud to be Filipino than any piece of diaspora art so far anyway

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

haven’t posted in a while, but found a hilarious video of me overplaying the crap out of I Feel Love - Yukika lmao enjoy??

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

9 months

WEEDIAN

@weedian_ds

9 months

What's your fav (red cover) album?

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

10 months

traveling to a foreign land today (flying to the Bay Area)

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

7 months

feel like negative reactions to this refuse to acknowledge that the dramatic flattening of culture and the virtual monopolization of music distribution in the last decade may have actually… affected music in some way

jaime brooks ☭

@elite_gz

7 months

recorded music is an echo of something that once happened in real life. once, it gave you insight into relationships, social movements, neighborhoods, arguments, parties, wars, and history. now it gives you insight into guys sitting at their macbooks and ordering ubereats

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

10 months

7:30 am talking with my gf about how much I miss LA DIY

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

reading this and the replies makes me feel again that I and most of my friends (who are all some type of artist) grew up in a different LA than the one they always talk about

Zack Stentz

@MuseZack

1 year

Real talk: one of the most depressing things about living Los Angeles while working or trying to work in entertainment is how transactional nearly every relationship is. Networking is necessary, but...go make friends with people you like, not people you think will hire you.

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

4 years

when the stimmy hits

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

6 months

will this be the year……..

Sun Kin

@sunraykin

7 months

DIY music does not have to be emo. hope this helps

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

we used to be a proper country, etc

☆ RawR xD ☆

@plvnetmimi

2 years

back when life was great

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

3 years

about to go onstage in brooklyn. holy shit it’s happening

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

7 months

I’m crying man

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

God Damn I Love UK Garage

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

4 years

just shut everything down already

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

one of these days I really am going to throw my drink onto the windshield of a Tesla. the worst, most entitled drivers in Southern California and it’s not particularly close

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

6 months

learning music theory doesn’t kill the mystery of music and in fact makes the enduring presence of the mystery even more profound

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

9 months

really think people aren’t clued into what Yasiin Bey’s saying at the end of this. hip hop or not debate aside, it’s the musical embodiment of American commerce (in the same vein as T S*ft etc), and will symbolize it as this system collapses around us

Okayplayer

@okayplayer

9 months

When asked about Drake’s music, Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) labeled it as Pop and Target music 👀🤔 Do you view Drake as a Pop artist or a Hip-Hop artist that likes to experiment?

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

4 years

can the next cool twitter trend (anti-hustle culture, anti-content culture, etc) be not talking about LA if you’re not from here

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

4 years

time to learn synth bass for real

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

8 months

most days I’m very bummed about the state of Art but all the Akira Toriyama tributes remind me, in the most visceral, profound, beyond-a-cliché way, that art can truly change the world

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

i don’t wanna be a content creator i just wanna play bass

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

got an orchestra gig playing with a couple literal heroes at one of my favorite places in the world and I could cry

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

3 years

“no blues rock” hell yeah

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

realized the other day that Tiny Desk might be one of the last places in mainstream media where you can hear live arrangement and instrumentation, without backing track, and for that they should be applauded

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

7 months

played a lil bit on this one, check it out 3/27!!

Hannah Warm (ハナ・ウォーム)

@Hannah_Warm5

7 months

🥊BIG NEWS🥊 ▶︎2024.3.27(水) AM0:00 Hannah Warm 「JUST IN TIME -XL Middleton Remix」 3rd AL『JCT』収録「JUST IN TIME」を LA拠点のプロデューサー/ラッパーの XL Middleton @XLMiddleton Remixで配信リリース！シティポップ×モダンファンクサウンドをどうぞお楽しみに🎹 ▼ Each DSP

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

I just really love 94.7 The Wave okay

Nick Worrall 🎸

@heathensquirrel

1 year

Make a 20-track comp of your all-time fav tracks, each artist can only feature once. Not the 'best' songs, the ones that bring instant joy the second you hear the first note, the ones that give other people the best insight into what stirs your soul. Share when ready. #20tracks

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

God damn… RIP Junko Ohashi

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

I feel this way whenever people suddenly wanna make citypop/AOR stuff. like these dudes literally had YMO and Toto as session musicians, generationally talented songwriters, and a musical economy that afforded them the upkeep of their skill and craft. we’re just not beating that

molly mary o'brien

@missmollymary

1 year

great review, and the way it highlights the surface-level quality of the music reminds me of one of my fave james murphy bits from Meet Me In The Bathroom -

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

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Déaglán | ‏دكلن

@PresidentIRE

7 months

Update: ALL Irish acts have now pulled out of SXSW, in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

I feel local pride run through my veins for a second and then get sad because I realize this could have been our reality the whole time if we had just kept the electric streetcar system

Jules 🇵🇸🦊

@CatholicClod

1 year

Do LA residents ever get terrified whenever the smog clears up and they suddenly see this enormous mountain range apparate out of the ether

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

kicking myself for literally having the FLCL bass and not dressing up as Haruko from FLCL smdh I had a whole damn year

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

3 years

almost done recovering from a broken fridge induced concussion (yep) and hopping on to say: - I miss playing bass - I love the Los Angeles Lakers - Holy shit Albert Pujols is on the Dodgers

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

7 months

imo if you’re honest with yourself and your art, the timeliness takes care of itself (we are products of our time, after all). the time spent sitting with it gives it that accuracy and depth, one that could ultimately speak across genres, intended audiences, generations

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

8 months

not quite sure how to word it but I am thinking about the increasing prevalence and insidiousness of social media accounts that manufacture and sell the feeling of organic discovery

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

10 months

I don’t have a 2024 in and out list but representational politics should definitely be out and an actual change in material reality should definitely be in

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

if anything I think it’s even more deeply “LA” to put a real emphasis on being genuine when the entire world keeps insisting on the stereotype that you’re just out for yourself

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

officiating a wedding today??

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

11 months

got a random 310 number texting me about how stoked they are about Shohei Ohtani. city’s going crazy

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

4 years

been reading up on the GameStop situation and I’ve genuinely never been this proud of something the internet produced since SPF420

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

6 months

blow it all up. we gotta start over

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

playing Katamari again on my PS2 and baffled at how anybody could come up with this. what a beautiful concept for a game

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

this series means so much to me. you can watch it all in a day and it’ll stay with you for years afterwards

Today in Yacht Rock

@in_yacht

2 years

Episode 1 of “Yacht Rock” premiered on Channel 101 on this day in 2005. Created by JD Ryznar, Lane Farnham and Hunter Stair, the series also included co-producer Dave Lyons and host “Hollywood” Steve Huey. It coined the phrase “yacht rock” and rekindled interest in the genre.

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

research why Camille would be a caretaker in Israel in the first place and you’ll find the end result of hundreds of years of colonial and imperial brutality visited upon the Filipino people. spinning it as a servant sacrificing everything for the master is a literal mockery

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

8 months

boy am I making Content today

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

4 years

normalize playing smooth music at DIY venues

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@citypopbassist

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★

@celestialswiftt

2 years

let’s go

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

9 months

besides black american music, baseball, and the fender precision bass, the US has pretty definitively been a failure of a project

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

5 months

disrespectfully, don’t open your mouth about things you don’t know about. I’d love to see you self-compose/produce/master/promote an album on no budget that makes enough on your broken platform to buy you groceries

Daniel Ek

@eldsjal

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Today, with the cost of creating content being close to zero, people can share an incredible amount of content. This has sparked my curiosity about the concept of long shelf life versus short shelf life. While much of what we see and hear quickly becomes obsolete, there are

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

selling my soul to the devil (getting an amp/cab simulator for tour)

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

me whenever see an anime car window sticker on the road

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

became an uncle (for the second time) this morning, hanging w/ gf this afternoon, playing a show tonight. the dodgers may suck but my life doesn’t have to

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

imagine how sad you must be to go through life like this and grovel for clicks from other similarly radically lifeless art fascists. can’t imagine a more demeaning existence

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

first Philippines appearance in any World Cup tonight man I’m crying

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

2 years

they reposted this, which actually might be my favorite of all videos (so far) hittin the Dance Floor pocket through a synth bass setup but exploiting the touch sensitivity of the envelope filter to get more bass guitar-specific texture and expressiveness. very, very fun

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

9 months

damn right

emotionalandscape

@thiassou_

9 months

what did pitchfork rate your fav album of all time ?

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

8 months

reading the entirety of Persepolis while listening to the bootleg Lilith Fair type music they always had playing in the background

Andy🕹❤️RetroGaming

@LoveRetroBTW

8 months

Do you recall acquiring any specific item or having a memorable experience at Borders Books?

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

10 months

“hi-fi is a scam” is understandable considering how insane that community has always been, but entry level audio equipment should have never degraded to the “eggs which record your conversations for the police” point. these recievers help and are good!

alexandra

@bigmoodenergy

10 months

can anybody explain why if you want good sound you have to own one of these things. what does it do for me and why can't i just have speakers without one?

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

11 months

the “you have a sports car and you don’t wanna use it” line from the interviewer feels so insulting, to the point that the interviewer even cringes visibly while saying it. let Andre live, and let’s stop acting entitled

SK⚡️

@raptalksk

11 months

André 3000’s speaks on him rapping at the age of 48. “I gotta go get a Colonoscopy… what do you rap about?” 😂

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

4 years

alright, we’ll do this the hard way guess I’m recording my own citypop background music

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

9 months

saw a teenager run past me and literally skip into Amoeba with a smile. maybe everything doesn’t suck

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

been thinking about this a lot re: musicians losing jobs and gigs for showing support for Palestine, and I think we are much better off knowing exactly who is on the side of unending exploitation. we can build a better world without them, and I’m looking forward to it

a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

currently fascinated by the deep and startlingly clear divide between DIY and industry folks about Palestine/Israel on my social media feeds. honestly kind of disturbing

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

4 years

wrt Being Asian while playing music - I’m always haunted by people saying “wow, I didn’t expect you to sound like THAT.” i always reply, “well, what did you expect?” never once have I gotten a good answer to that, which really says everything

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

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getting novavax boosted at the Costco is great because instead of getting a lollipop treat at the doctor’s office you can get a Costco hot dog

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@citypopbassist

1 year

went to SB zoo w/ gf, saw LAFC win over the LA Galaxy, Dodgers win the NL West for the billionth time… damn I love being from Southern California

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

really bleak to be a musician in an industry run by people who hate music, don’t understand it at all, and have zero interest in it beyond it being lubrication for the transfer and generation of capital. the alternatives are being choked out before our eyes and it sucks ass

AmericanTruckSongs9

@ethangach

1 year

BREAKING: Epic Games lays off roughly 50% of Bandcamp amidst its sale to Songtradr. The Fortnite maker purchased the music platform just last year but is now spinning it off amid massive cost cutting.

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

I just wish live music was viewed less as ego worship that we’re lucky to see and more as communal experience

mya abraham.

@myabriabe

1 year

Lauryn Hill addresses her “lateness” — “Yo, y’all lucky I make it on this stage every night!”

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

11 months

gonna finally get sunglasses and the lakers jacket and look like this in 2024

Film at Lincoln Center

@FilmLinc

11 months

And.....ACTION! 🎟️ are now on sale for each screening in our upcoming retrospective Desire/Expectations: The Films of Edward Yang, running from Dec.22-Jan. 4 at FLC! View schedule and get tickets:

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

1 year

having my quarter life crisis (suddenly wanna drive a miata)

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

9 months

essential reading here. going to note that even though I love doing The Citypop Bassist whenever I can, I feel very strongly that the success of this social media project should not be the sole determiner of my survival or viability as a musician. that it is, is very bleak

rebecca jennings

@rebexxxxa

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I wrote about the soul-sucking labor of self-promotion and "audience building" that basically every artist/journalist/creative worker has to do now ... unless they are very lucky

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@citypopbassist

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currently fascinated by the deep and startlingly clear divide between DIY and industry folks about Palestine/Israel on my social media feeds. honestly kind of disturbing

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

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philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

1 year

The booking photo for Trevian Kutti:

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a citypop bassist

@citypopbassist

4 years

got the new pickups installed today

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