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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
This band has always and will always support Trans rights ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
7 years
๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
The Beatles are cool but Iโ€™m much more of a Pianos Become the Teeth person, to be honest.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Trans friends: we are inspired today and all days by your courage and strength while furious at the world for requiring it of you. The world is failing you and my heart is shattered. You are seen by us and you are welcome as you are here, always and forever, without exception.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Got emotional this morning seeing our new recordโ€™s artwork for the first time
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
No skips
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
We have played shows, been hosted, fed, housed, treated as family under antifa banners and art across Europe, in buildings occupied and run communally as safe havens against racism, sexism, nazism, homophobia. Antifa means antifascist. Do not listen to the liar. Heโ€™s scared.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
7 years
Hey our second record is called Wildlife and not Wildfire, itโ€™s sorta nuts that it came out seven years ago and still see people getting it wrong all the time
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
Might never have been a band without mewithoutYou, at least not this band. Resisted the comparison for ages but itโ€™s the truth. Incredible band, incredible people. We owe a debt, all of us. mewithoutYou forever.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
This is a good joke
@emo_gf420
abby
4 years
i think i saw you in my sleep darling !โƒ ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—บ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—น๐—ฎ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 years
โ€œPanorama,โ€ our 4th LP, is out today. Little out of words at the moment but to every single person who helped us get here, to this day, we would not have made it without you. And to all of you who have listened or will listen, thank you eternally, on a loop until the end of days.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 years
Definitely still abolish ICE.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Hardcore forever.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
3 years
Frankly alarmed by the amount of you eager for the band with a full sets worth of divorce songs to play your wedding.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
3 years
After a show in Europe once this girl came up and put a tiny toy rubber hand in my palm and said quietly โ€œbecause it is such a small handโ€ then walked away and to my mind thatโ€™s still the best La Dispute joke. Sorry, internet.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
10 years ago today our first LP came out. Feels like yesterday in some ways, like it never happened in others. Grateful eternally for every opened door, every made friend, every story told to us by strangers who connected with it. Wouldnโ€™t be here today to write this without you.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 years
Remember back in the day when people wore super baggy pants and the backs of the bottoms got all shredded up from walking on them? And then you just had two loose sections of pants dragging along your shoes at all times? Should be a word for that.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
Ten years, finally. Tickets on sale Friday the 17th, 10am local time.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
3 years
With the usual caveats about health, safety, and the unpredictable nature of our world, weโ€™re going on tour later this year, in large part to celebrate, belatedly, the 10-year anniversary of Wildlife. In the process, weโ€™re hitting some festivals, including this one:
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Our new record is called "Go Vote Tomorrow." Thanks for listening.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
7 years
Excited to see the rest of our gang tonight after a winter break and get back to work on LP4 ๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸŒธ
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
โ€œRoomsโ€ can have a little Bernie, as a treat.
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jetty bones
4 years
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
Dance tonight, revolution tomorrow
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
You wonโ€™t @BernieSanders
@linemade666
Casey Anthony Fantano
4 years
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 months
I weep that it felt necessary. I weep that such injustice and suffering exists still to make it that way. I weep that a person can conjure such courage when so many canโ€™t even a fraction or do nothing at all. May this galvanize us. Rest in power, Aaron Bushnell.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
11 years of Wildlife today โœจ
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 months
there is history in the rooms of the house
@brooklynvegan
BrooklynVegan
5 months
2014 was a peak year for emo (revival), punk & post-hardcore. Here are 30 albums in those genres turning 10 this year:
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
3 years
We also donโ€™t make NFTs. Nor have we consented to any third parties making NFTs with our music, likenesses, lyrics, etc. Nor will we. Donโ€™t buy any of it.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
A bright white light, a low hum, two heads turning on highway. Below is the video for โ€œRose Quartz/Fulton Street I,โ€ the first tracks from our 4th LP, Panorama, via @nprmusic . Written by us, produced by us and @willyipmusic . Video by the amazing @sarahmaes
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
7 years
Spent much of 2017 writing and developing LP4. Now weโ€™re with @willyipmusic in studio, itโ€™s been such a great experience, we still have a ways to go but wanted to share the excitement as soon as we could.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
10 months
No lights. No phone or internet service. No fuel for hospitals, for the injured and sick, for preterm babies on incubators. Constant bombing. The absolute horror of all this. The unimaginable, unquantifiable pain. I just cannot imagine. Ceasefire now.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
Fucking do something.
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@ladisputeband
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2 years
They donโ€™t give a shit about human life.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 years
I felt your sickness Brush against my arm As I walked by you Heard your voice but Couldnโ€™t tell that it was you (11 days until tour starts Beloved old friends and new Come and sing along Love and happiness to everyone)
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
3 years
Thankful every day for this record: for Joe and Andrew, for No Sleep, for both studios in both cities, for Grand Rapids, MIโ€”our homeโ€”whose streets and people are every second of every song on it, for our families, our friends, all the bands who propped us up, for you.
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BrooklynVegan
3 years
10 years ago today, @ladisputeband released 'Wildlife.' A look back on the sprawling post-hardcore opus:
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 years
No war with Iran
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Nearly $6000 in donations from you, rounded up to $8000 and delivered to @TransEquality , then doubled. Thatโ€™s $16,000 in total that says trans friends: you are you, we believe you, you matter, you are loved. Thank you everyone for donating. Have a good and safe New Years. ๐Ÿ™
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
1 year
RIP to the building where this band was born, raised, forever bound together. Wildlife was written here, Somewhere too. May all their many ghosts forever haunt whatever new thing replaces it. SE GR forever. ๐Ÿ› โœ‹
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
Growing my hair out and dramatically changing both my hairline and head shape somehow so you people stop calling me Jesse Pinkman on the internet. lmao.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
Solidarity with all those protesting tonight. Be safe and look out for one another, always. Black lives matter.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
love spoke in tongues / loudly or hushed too much of you at once is just enough at all times (One particularly large step closer. Thanks for your patience)
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
Ed, if you hear me,
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@ladisputeband
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3 years
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
Music is comfort but itโ€™s a means to feel rage too. Turning to that again now.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
Late to post but 6 years ago yesterday โ€˜Rooms of the Houseโ€™ came out. Holed up together in this cabin to write it. MI. Upper Peninsula. Hard to know what a moment will one day mean when youโ€™re living in it. Wish I could go back and tell that to me. Tiny dots and all that. ๐ŸฆŒโค๏ธ
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
Ending a nearly 3-year hiatus from playing tonight, in our hometown of Grand Rapids, MI. Wild to finally get to this point, and here. Streets that raised us and all that. Looking forward to it.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
Are you, like me, listening to the new @ToucheAmore song again? And again? And again?
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
Hey
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
Everything feels a little less heavy
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 years
If you or someone you know works with or knows of an advocacy grp/non-profit in your town that might be interested in tabling at an upcoming tour date of ours, hit us up. harm reduction, disability access, mental health, LGBTQ+, housing first, etc. We got tables. ๐Ÿ™
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La Dispute
6 years
As a big fan of wearing our own bands Merch, I need to send a note of appreciation to @Foxing for what appears to be everyone in the band wearing the same foxing shirt on stage
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
To celebrate 10 years since the release of our first LP, we've put together a 10-Year Anniversary Edition with a new mix, new master & reimagined artwork. Look & listen at
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
What hope is there for people angry enough about masks and haircuts to crowd capital steps that canโ€™t understand the anger of communities terrorized by their own tax dollars? How do they not see what is so clearly and obviously in front of them?
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@ladisputeband
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5 years
Announcing a thing tomorrow. Very excited.
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@ladisputeband
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3 years
We are a band from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 months
oh, yeah, we put new music out today
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
Our โ€œTurn the Pageโ€ tour moment was Kevin telling a gas station attendant in the middle of nowhere we were in a band and the gas station attendant saying โ€œyou donโ€™t look like a band, you look like a computer class.โ€
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Happy Pride! Not able to make it down to the parade where I live but I can't stop scrolling through the hashtag and it'll be a full day at least until my big dumb smile subsides. The joy is palpable. Have the absolute best damn day, everyone. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Truly, I used music to heighten or lessen my mood more this year than I have since the second GWB term. Shoutout to everyone all over risking themselves making art in the end times. Paint, draw, write a poem/a melody, code, make a movie, dance, whatever. We all need it.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Spa Dispute - Spa-derland (2018)
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 years
10 years already of shared history with @ToucheAmore Floors, a van, highways on 2 continents, a record, too many good memories to count. Honored/thrilled to add 21 more stages to that list. Featuring the amazing @empathempath #ladispute ๐ŸŒธ
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 years
Hey, everyone, I was just joking. Heavy music forever. Also quiet music. And the in-between stuff. Just thinking about being told when I was younger how I'd grow out of punk/metal/hardcore and then how every day of my life since I've fallen deeper and deeper in love.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
We will be doing both a UK/EU and an Australian Wildlife anniversary tour at some point in the near future.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Stay warm, stay safe. Midwesterners: I know you (I am one), and you are not better or stronger than the cold and snow. Take care of yourself, look in on the ones you love, help when you can. People sleep on the streets still.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
For any potentially interested party who might've missed it, and so I can include this time how excited we are to be involved, we're going on tour this fall with two very amazing bands @circasurvive and @queenofjeansPHL . It's going to be the best and we can't wait. Honored.
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La Dispute
5 years
Would need another decade to summarize this last one so I wonโ€™t try here. Ten years back we were writing โ€œWildlife,โ€ thinking only of when weโ€™d next get to skip town, lose money, sleep on floors. Genuinely overwhelming to consider all thatโ€™s happened since.
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La Dispute
6 years
AM I MY BODY?
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
โ€œWHY EVEN RISK IT? ITโ€™S SAFER TO STAY DISTANTโ€
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
Not to pile on but another bad thing re: covid and touring will be if @mewithoutYou gets denied the farewell they deeply deserve for having been one of the absolute best bands in the world the last twenty years.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
3 years
FYI: not playing the third WWWY fest date so we can play Wildlife in full more places and for more people. Routing back to LV wouldโ€™ve chopped a whole corner of the country off and we didnโ€™t want to do that.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
Grand Rapids: Rosa Parks Circle, 6PM, today. Look out for one another. Practice social distancing. Be available to vulnerable people. White friends: let Black folx lead. Any advocacy groups, mutual aid, bail funds, etc. in need of a signal boost, hit us up. Love to you all.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
On the fence is the wrong side of it but you can still jump down. You can still decide for yourself a better world exists and then work at all times for it and for everyone to get there one day. I feel that powerfully right now.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 months
A million beautiful things said about Toriyama. All I really have is thank you. Rushed home from school every day as a kid for new DBZ. Chased that high in every piece of narrative art since. Rest in peace.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 years
Happy Pride Month to our LGBTQIA family and friends the world over. The universe is so much better for having you in it and happy than it is worse for every small-minded person who would try to take your happiness away. Love and gratitude from each of us to each of you. ๐ŸŒธโค๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
We are working the phones.
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3 years
When weโ€™re able to play a show again Iโ€™m going to absolutely lose my mind and I canโ€™t wait for that.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Shoutout to the guy who lost his glasses and his shoe tonight. Glad you got both back. Also sorry I called you โ€œglasses guy.โ€ Wasnโ€™t trying to reduce you to one trait so much as, well, youโ€™d lost your glasses. Thatโ€™s what I knew. Anyway, tonight was super fun. Cheers, Orlando.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Come and shake me from my sleep
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@ladisputeband
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6 months
La Dispute is, and will always be, a band from the state of Michigan โœ‹
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
You feel hopeless. I do tooโ€”often. They count on it. And fear the opposite. Make your own hope. Get involved. Be pissed. Get in the streets. Give money where you can to people doing the work. Decide to do the work yourself. Learn how. There are options against hopelessness.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 years
And again,
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La Dispute
5 years
Definitely still abolish ICE.
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7 years
Donโ€™t even know what to say about last night, most of us exhausted and are drearily on our ways home this morning and couldnโ€™t imagine having a better time celebrating @ToucheAmore with all our friends. Hereโ€™s to another 1,000 ๐Ÿ’œ
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La Dispute
5 years
Ever left so speechless by a performance that you have to physically remove yourself from the possibility of conversation to collect yourself? To contemplate the absurdity of a world that can so often be terrible but where, also, people can do THAT? @julienrbaker @aishaburnsmusic
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
How remarkable it is all these years on to still find new songs that make you shake and punch the air while walking down the sidewalk with headphones on.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
From where I sit I see an embarrassment of great younger bands, diverse in their make up and sound, building a community of mutual support. After three years of feeling the industry wouldnโ€™t last another ten, I feel hopeful better things are ahead.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 years
It feels the most right of all places to play our music in the state of Michigan, from Grand Rapids to Detroit, from the southern border to Lake Superior. If there is one constant character in our songs itโ€™s here, itโ€™s home, itโ€™s all of you. Thank you for tonight.
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La Dispute
2 years
Chat Pile
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La Dispute
5 years
Living is also beautiful. Looking every day for new things to love and distract. And fielding suggestions, always. Hope youโ€™re all well, it often isnโ€™t easy.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Listening to Tiny Dots while I work today Iโ€™m in a zone ๐ŸŒธ
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
Called the radio to request โ€œOne Armed Scissorโ€ so I could record it onto a blank cassette tape. The first thing any incarnation of this band did together was cover โ€œCosmonautโ€ in a hardware store warehouse. I was 16. Happy 20th birthday to a life-changer.
@hiddenmothersuk
Hidden Mothers
4 years
'Relationship Of Command' by @AtTheDriveIn is 20 years old today. If you've never listened to it, you should put that right before the day is out.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 years
Love today and all days to trans and nb people. Thinking of you, both smiling and crying, grateful until death for the unwavering light you emit in our lives. ๐Ÿ’ซโค๏ธ
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
5 years
GRAND RAPIDS. CALDER PLAZA. 12PM. THEY THINK THEY KNOW WHO WE ARE BUT THEY DONโ€™T. SHOW THEM WHO AND HOW MANY AND WHY WE CARE. SHOW THEM HOW LOUD WE CAN BE. A FUTURE THAT IS LIFE OR DEATH FOR ONE OF US IS LIFE OR DEATH FOR ALL OF US. BERNIE SANDERS. LETS DO THIS. โœŠโค๏ธ
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La Dispute
5 years
Bought a bright blue shirt at a thrift store the other day and I have red and white sneakers with me. In case you arenโ€™t filling in the blanks Iโ€™m going to be dressing like Sonic the Hedgehog on stage the rest of tour. From the MOVIE.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
3 years
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Richard Siken bot
3 years
Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Theyโ€™re family because before weโ€™d ever met they opened their doors to us when we were on tour and had nowhere to sleep. Theyโ€™re my favorite band because their music is devastating and beautiful and intelligent and inspiring all at the same time and always. Love you, @pianosband
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
4 years
Heartbroken, for so many, on so many levels. Peace to all of you. Black lives matter.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
6 years
Found some letters just now. Never been good at responding but, to anyone who's ever taken the time to send us one/hand us one at a show, know they are read, your stories felt, and that your trust in writing us has been the single most fulfilling part of being in this band.
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@ladisputeband
La Dispute
2 years
Whole catalog is free on bandcamp today with the option to donate. New live tracks, old Somewhere mix, more. Grab something, give somethingโ€”everything taken will be given away, to harm reduction services and resources for the unhoused in the Seattle area. ๐ŸŒธ
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