Welcome back comrades and a warm welcome to all you new subscribers, very happy to have you here and there is heaps to dig into today. First and foremost, I feel the desperate need for a long, deep breath. The last couple of weeks have been full of insanity, granted the entire last year has been a little like that but I am feeling these last 7-10 days. From whatever the Qanon nutjobs wanted to do, to Tory Westminster genuinely fucking everything up that they put their greedy little inbred hands on, to exploding numbers of covid related deaths here in Europe, to the new US administration rolling out their republican light in better suits reality- a bunch of crazy shit that really only applies to local news that I don’t bother highlighting in here to the ongoing farmers strikes in India and to what now appears to be a military coup in Myanmar - you know what I am saying. Truly, I am only scratching the surface here but it is and has been a lot to take in. For today I am switching up the regular program a little to pass along a number of articles for you to read to catch up on some of these topics.
Furthermore, there will be a new Black Lodges drop this weekend. I am re-releasing the “Sometimes Anti Social, Always Anti Fascist” graphic on a white t-shirt as well as a black long sleeve. Later on in the month I am looking at releasing a bag, or bags potentially as well as a new jacket, more on those later as the samples roll in. The last two drops are shipping as of today, and you will be getting automated emails from the web shop as soon as your order has left the house.
First off though, here is your new weekly playlist. It’s a little longer at 3:20hrs with ample reason, as I was fortunate enough to spend plenty of time digging through old and new music last week and that is also reflected the broad spectrum of tunes in here. We are talking Tool, Fridge, Junior Murvin, Thurston Moore, the Stones, BADBADNOTGOOD, Carly Simons to Ultravox, Sleaford Mods, Mogwai and so much more weird wild good shit in there that I hope it will get you through the week.
As mentioned above, here are some articles worth your time to dig into. I am still catching up on a lot of this and I am sure these topics will be revisited over the next few emails. All of these are linked for your reading.
I am obviously not going to leave you with your dose of hot shots from the internet today. Whilst there plenty good ones lately, I am going to cut these short today only because most email inbox limit large emails like this and I do want you to get these.