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Did you know we also recommend horror movies? Every October we add to our running list of our favorite Halloween films which now is over 100 movies. All rated by scariness from 1 to 5 skulls. Take a look and find a new scare for your nightly watch. getalternative.com/the-alter…
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to find songs for movies, but it was always a job that was just out of reach. Until now! This year I worked with ‘The Toast’ as Music Supervisor. It’s a wedding comedy starring Jon Lovitz, and it’s premiering this weekend at the Austin Film Fest!
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Seriously if you like fugazi, title fight, duck little brother duck or the colour revolt you gotta tap in
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Turnstile at the Washington Monument today, a benefit show raising money for humanitarian aid in Palestine, Sudan, and Lebanon [📹: Ayman Abdeldayem]
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Words in The Alt about the new June McDoom and @DawnRichard by me! Check it out!
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American author Ursula K. Le Guin was born on this day in 1929. “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
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Are bands even doing the growl-snarl-vocals combo anymore?
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Olá, Brasil. Estaremos com vocês na sexta-feira. A todos os nossos fãs, VOTEM EM LULA ✊🏼 Fight against fascism everywhere!
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A bunch of great people at @GetAlternative work every single week to curate a lovely New Music Friday playlist, and I think everyone should check it out. Here are my contributions this week
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Was watching a ton of @cryingband live videos and came across this cover they did of The Mother We Share by CHVRCHES. Unsurprisingly it rocks, it’s like an unreleased b-side from their chiptune era youtu.be/3Ch36YKyfgM?is=r4hK…
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Happy 10th birthday to this unique beast of an album, the immortal Beyond the Fleeting Gales by @cryingband! Literally sounds like nothing else in the world and is like a hyperactive fantasy adventure set to music. We await Crying’s return, but for now, we have this to worship
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hey whats up twitter we put out a new song! its called Ice Cream Truck hope you like it! bye summer go.mhe.fm/headnorth_ict
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I suppose since @EmoKidsAnonPod named it the best emo album ever I should repost our very first episode was about this very album! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… open.spotify.com/episode/2WE… @GetAlternative
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I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Thank You For Smoking is about David Berman’s dad???
What's crazy is that @SarahLongwell25 spent 15 years working for the most notorious lobbyist in the country, Richard Berman; he even got a movie made about him, called "Thank You For Smoking." And she's never accounted for that. The rule-of-thumb in DC has always been that it's ok to do the most antisocial kind of lobbying -- aside from tobacco and all sorts of other clients, Berman even lobbied to push pregnant women to eat more mercury -- but if you do that, you're a little less welcome in public, polite society. You can keep all your friends and go to private parties, in other words, but you're not gonna be invited to join the Kennedy Center board. No tobacco lobbyists need apply. Yet Longwell spent the bulk of her career working for the most notorious, evil lobbyist in DC, has never explained it at all, and has just seamlessly transitioned into journalism and advocacy for Democrats. Here she is explaining how it was actually fine for Kamala Harris to not take a stand against the genocide in Gaza. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. I would QT her here but she blocked me.
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