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MFA dropout & host of Bandsplain ✉️ bandsplain at spotify dot com

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@yasisalek
yasi salek
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Bandsplain is once again on hiatus - see u in the fall ❤️
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
Watching After Hours, I really miss when actors had normal teeth
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
went to a high school production of Les Miz last night and there was a boy in a hoodie and a beanie pulled low sitting on the floor in the auditorium lobby reading The Stranger and it's like some things change babe but some things really do be staying the same
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 months
God we had it so good
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pavement archive
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Pavement's guest appearance on Space Ghost (1997)
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
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Albini was such a genius what a loss
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
3 months
Happy Father’s Day @harvilla
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
guess what babe Bandsplain returns Sept 29th with brand new episodes at our brand new home the @ringer Subscribe now: We made a cute little video about it:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
some of u really are unwell! this isn't build a bear bitch!! I talk how I talk and I'm not changing it as per your specifications!!!! get fucked
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco and this definitely ain't no fooling around babe This is Bandsplain Talking Heads part 1 My guest is a real live wire: America's favorite podcaster, @harvilla You start a conversation, you can't even finish it:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
3 months
This is a win for dumb bitches everywhere
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
Bandsplain returns Thursday, March 9th
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
4 months
okay that's enough of that stuff now NIN needs to play The Sphere
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
13 days
I guess they heard about the next season of Bandsplain…
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
5 months
thank god for Courtney Love fr
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
3 months
🥹
🤟🏾❤️
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
7 months
feel like it's finally the right time to write my deeply personal essay about losing my virginity to a juggalo who later wrote me letters from jail
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@nakedfoul
"Lou"ReedTyranny
8 months
No one has made four good consecutive studio albums., it's impossible
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
5 months
New season of Bandsplain starts Thursday April 18th
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
It doesn't matter if we all die babe because today's episode of Bandsplain is about The Cure with my very special guest @NifMuhammad I would tell you that I loved you if I thought that you would stay (for all 4.5 hour of Part 1) but Yasis do cry:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
5 months
Bandsplain is back tomorrow
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
3 months
Hunter Biden come on Bandsplain
@stereogum
Stereogum
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During Hunter Biden's gun trial, an exotic dancer who became Biden's girlfriend testified that when he first booked her for a private dance, he played Fleet Foxes on his phone
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
10 months
YOU GUYS MY DAD WAS ON TV I'm so proud I'm crying he barely even winced @harvilla !!!!
@CBSMornings
CBS Mornings
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No matter your musical taste, the 90s offered something for everyone — and @harvilla has made a career of sharing the stories behind some of the decade’s biggest and most beloved hits. He told @vladduthierscbs why he believes it is “the greatest musical era in world history.”
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
I did this
@thecure
The Cure
2 years
THE CURE RETURN TO NORTH AMERICA IN MAY FOR A 30 DATE TOUR #ShowsOfALostWorld23 - REGISTER FOR TICKETS NOW AT
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
fuck I'm so sad about Sinead
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
5 months
u guys the first episode of the new season of Bandsplain is out Thursday and the guest is so major I cannot wait for u guys to hear itttt
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
Me about to bring the house down singing “Shimmer” by Fuel at karaoke
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
5 months
Best music biopic by a mile
@JakeRudh
Jake (the 80s & 90s never ended in my world) Rudh
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22 years ago today, the movie “24 Hour Party People” was released in theaters.
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yasi salek
2 years
Says she likes my hair 'cause it's down my back, Says she likes my pod 'cause we pull in the slack... for 4 hours and 11 min of Scottish power pop worship at the altar of @TeenageFanclub with my special guest, Mr. Ben Gibbard @dcfc Everything flows:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
4 months
At the Pearl Jam show and maybe I just leaned over and told the guy in front of me the name of the live song he was trying to Shazam :)
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
4 months
Special ep of Bandsplain today, remembering Steve Albini Rob @harvilla and I talk about his influence and impact on music, his own bands, his hot takes, and what it means to live an ethical life I will always be the kind of punk who shits on Steely Dan:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
absolute fucking king
@pitchfork
Pitchfork
1 year
The Cure’s Robert Smith has promised partial refunds to ticket holders for the upcoming Cure tour after expressing his dismay over Ticketmaster’s fees
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
I love that there's still bands who hear Joy Division for the first time and are like "I can do that!"
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
5 months
new Pearl Jam album is very good
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
7 months
Seeing Luda and Lil Jon healed something within me
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
she's a 10 but she can't stop researching the trajectory of the late 90s post grunge alt rock band Fuel
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
6 months
I don’t have to go home but I can’t stay here (on the best podcast ever, Rob’s humor and poignance and brilliance are an endless inspiration to me and I’m grateful to have been a small part of this incredible show)
@harvilla
rob harvilla
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the 120th and final episode of 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90S is on semisonic's "CLOSING TIME" and i maybe get a little emo about it
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1 year
Somehow I’m still listening to The Cure
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yasi salek
1 year
The first episode of my new interview podcast is out today with the inimitable and effervescent and gorgeous and perfect Liz Phair We talk about lives unlived, creativity benefiting from constraints, stanning David Matthews, and more. I hope you like it:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
9 months
These raised me
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
:(
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yasi salek
1 year
I am once again asking: What is your favorite SHORT discography band (3 albums or less no exceptions!!!!)
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
hit rock bottom (made a letterboxd)
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
4 months
I feel really spiritually connected to Rodman tbh
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
She's clinging to the nearest google doc...she's lost control again... and made a 4 hour episode on Joy Division with special guest Anthony Anzaldo of @ceremony pod will tear us apart:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
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2 wines + sunset + “Hey Jealousy” on repeat I know that’s fucking right
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
Should I make a my favorite songs of 2022 playlist or does no one care or both
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
5 months
Son she said, have I got a little story for you... Bandsplain Pearl Jam pt 1 is out now with King @bykevinclark the wicked who definitely spoke in class today Is 5 hours too long for a podcast? Is that the question? And if so, who answers? Who answers???
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
9 months
Obsessed with people on here who feel like they have to weigh in on everything and everyone like they’re on the board of directors of lukewarm takes…I literally implore you to look into getting a life ❤️
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
Today on 24 Question Party People I talk to @JasonIsbell about his gut health, The Cure, how hard it is to make a song that slaps, bangs AND makes someone cry, his nascent acting career, and whether or not I am a better podcaster than Bill Clinton:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
interesting to use interview time with fun cool fascinating people to be a constipated boring uptight no personality having badly styled lightly racist bitch...simply could not be me!
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
I just did 100 back squats so if u think I’m about to fuckin care about your little thoughts about “yankee hotel foxtrot” today you’re dead wrong babe ❤️
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
Same
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
Truly impressive how many men show their whole ass when talking about Courtney Love
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yasi salek
1 year
not me trying to match with B*n Iv*r on Raya so I could figure out which Eras show will have "Exile" as the secret song
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
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Will I be the only person at the Olivia Rodrigo/Breeders concert in a Dave Matthews Band jersey? only time will tell
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
On a wee bit of mushrooms in Woodstock making everyone listen to sunny day real estate
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
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i love u so much
@ThirdEyeBlind
Third Eye Blind
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Happy Birthday.
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yasi salek
1 year
10/10 would recommend taking mushrooms at the Taylor Swift concert
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
6 months
today my boss @SeanFennessey told me I have "Bugs Bunny energy"
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
5 months
Literal longest google doc to date...my eyes are burning...my throat hurts...I hear crunchy guitars in my dreams... anyway Bandsplain is back this month (not an April Fool's) (maybe)
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
why am I working lawyer hours researching a band who was last in the cultural conversation 20 years ago what is wrong with me fr
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
Got rockegnized at all three Pavement shows I went to, just as god intended
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
9 months
this man listened to 2 full weeks of me talking please keep him in your prayers ♥️
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This one is deranged but I do work in manufacturing and listen to shit all day everyday. Always immaculate vibes. @yasisalek
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into the pod again...same old trip it was back then... so I made another 5 hour long episode...try to see it once my way... yeah here comes the rooster @harvilla (you know he ain't gonna die) If I would could you?
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
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I'm looking California and feeling Minnesota... Show me the podcast child, I'd like to say that we have a 4 hour ep on @soundgarden up today my guest @NifMuhammad gives me the butterflies, gives me away 'til I'm up on my feet again WHO gets mystified:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
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Load up on takes, bring your friends... The Bandsplain Grunge draft is stupid AND contagious Our little group has always been @SeanFennessey @ChrisRyan77 and @harvilla I'm worse at what I do best And for this gift I feel blessed:
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yasi salek
2 years
Listening to the cure and making myself a steak
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
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just perfect
@allgrungerock
All 90's Alternative Rock
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PJ Harvey playing “Sheela Na Gig” Live on the 28th of August, 1992 at the Reading Festival
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 months
For Ladygunn shot by Jason Rodgers
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
happy 311 day to all who celebrate
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
what if I suddenly start posting in the Bandsplain reddit
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@yasisalek
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1 year
Vacation from google doc begins now goodbye
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
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This week's pod type thing is 4.5 hours of running through Stone Temple Pilots' wicked garden Big Bang Baby it's a @SeanFennessey , who wants to cry but he's gotta laugh... Does anybody know How the story really goes? Or do we all just hum along?
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
Hello and welcome to Bandsplain
@Nerdspringbreak
Marisa Baldassaro
1 year
Gonna start a podcast where I have guests,but talk about myself the entire time.
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
3 months
On this week's episode of 24 Question Party People I talk to @clairo about her new album, donkeys, the Beyonce song that changed her life, her inspired choice of sandwich, listening to the Arctic Monkeys in high school, Dobby the House Elf, and more:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
Literally me making Bandsplain
@brandonstosuy
brandonstosuy
2 years
every single person ever honestly
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
In keeping with the customs and cultures of my new homeland The @ringer , here is the very first Bandsplain Draft: The Music of 1992, with my special guests, the most beloved men in America, @ChrisRyan77 and @harvilla :
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
you've waited hours for this...you've made yourself so sick... Bandsplain The Cure part 2 aka 2 Bob 2 Furious is up now we are spinning on that dizzy edge with Mr. @NifMuhammad show me show me show me how you do that pod:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
6 months
hello and welcome to Bandsplain
@natalievdavila
Natalie V Dávila
6 months
some music was just meant to be heard in a store. the fray while grocery shopping at night? spiritual. gin blossoms in home depot on a sunday afternoon? transcendent
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
6 months
Kevin Bacon come on Bandsplain
@kevinbacon
Kevin Bacon
6 months
Where were you the first time you heard Smells Like Teen Spirit?! This week on #MondayBlues we’re diving (pun intended) into this classic #Nirvana record, Nevermind. We’re spinning: Come As You Are Polly Smells Like Teen Spirit Take a listen:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
Hanging out down the street, the same old pod we did last week...not a thing to do...but talk to you about Big Star for roughly 5 hours and 40 min with my very special guest, @robsheff I was your butch and you were touched:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
I thought my middle school crush who I haven't seen in 20 years who texts me once a year, every year on my birthday had abandoned me but he was just camping with no reception and sent the text today!
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
should me and @harvilla go on a cruise
@metalinjection
Metal Injection
1 year
CREED Reunites, Announces 2024 Cruise With 3 DOORS DOWN, BUCKCHERRY & More
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
10 months
Hello and welcome to Bandsplain
@tkelce
Travis Kelce
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gotta love rock n roll class!!
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
Happy Father’s Day
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yasi salek
1 year
Can't think of anything to do, yeah My left brain knows that my pod is fleeting it's time for the @whitestripesnet episode with my very special guestboss, Mr. @SeanFennessey Said goddamn gorgeous beautiful song once before but it bears repeating now:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
date idea: we drive up to Hillside Manor sometime after 2am and talk a little while about the year
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
not about anything in particular but u cant love Lana and shit on Leonard Cohen they are our two greatest hoe poets and we must honor and celebrate them both
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
5 months
You guys it finally happened I got rockegnized in front of my parents
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
9 months
Anyway here’s Keanu talking about his love of Discharge aka me doing god’s work
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
You guys being gleefully cynical and snarky about Ed Droste doing something awesome with his life is so fucking losery and dark and soulless - please seek god
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
Hello and welcome to Bandsplain
@s4m31p4n
ppigg
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 months
Pray 4 Yasi
@nikostratis
Niko Stratis
2 months
Spotify announces new online space for reply guys to be intensely normal about facts that don't matter
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
cannot believe some people don't like The Clash truly blows my mind
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
I don't care about Wrapped I care that tomorrow is the day I start listening to "A Long December" 12-15 times a day every single day until 2023
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
2 years
New episode of Bandsplain today (the greatest day I have ever known) about the Smashing Pumpkins (part 1 bc I was not allowed to put out an 8 hour ep, much like William my creativity is being shackled) with my reluctant bestie @harvilla freak out:
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
calling anyone an industry plant in 2023 is such absolute loser behavior...like is the "industry" you speak of in the room with us right now?
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@yasisalek
yasi salek
1 year
Hello and welcome to Bandsplain
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