Micro/Macrocosms

Unnecessary Mix.

THE SUICIDE CHALLENGE

How far can you make it through this mixtape before realizing the irrelevant impermanence of your existence, the foolish illusion of your dreams, the incurable ills of humanity, and the fact that only in death will you find the true peace you so thirst for?! Try your hand at the SUICIDE CHALLENGE™ today!

1. The Haxan Cloak - Raven’s Lament

2. Swans - A Hanging

3. Prurient - Palm Tree Corpse

4. Circle of Eyes - Cyclic Exaltation

5. Death in June - Rose Clouds of Holocaust

6. Cut Hands - Rain Washes Away Every Thing

7. Burial Hex - Go Crystal Tears

8. Demdike Stare - Erosion of Mediocrity

9. Boyd Rice & Friends - Disney Land Can Wait

10. Iggy Pop - Mass Production

11. Gowns - When It Burned

with love,

Felix Skinner

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Sonic Youth

—Hey Joni

Yesterday the sky way you

Which is better? The Life of Leisure or the Life of Triumph?

Nirvana’s Secret Feminism

Nirvana’s opening salvo in its assault on mainstream rock, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” did more than just wash away any musical relevance of bands like Poison and Winger, but it also laid waste to the sexism that fueled so much hair metal and other dude-centric hard rock. The first human faces you see in the video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” belong not to the band members, but to a group of heavily tattooed women dressed like anarchist cheerleaders, a swift but brutal rebuttal to all the images of acceptable femininity that your average suburban teenager lived with at the time. Forget the hair metal groupies or the bubbly beauty queen cheerleaders. For girls watching this video, it was a revelation: You could instead choose to be a badass.

(Source: yarr-metis, via rebelgrrrlriot)

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The Smiths

—Pretty Girls Make Graves