iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 14/02/2026

“The concept of Second Estate is - hey, let's make this Earth the most important thing, and not give up the now for something that may or may not happen in the future.” read the interview with Jake (@okbuddycomputer.bsky.social) and Travis from Ray Gun Youth below! www.discfive.com/ray-gun-yout...

Photo of Ray Gun Youth. from left to right: drummer Hunter Thiesen, singer Jake Frazier, and bassist Travis Clark.

The text box reads: Ray Gun Youth asks, "what can we do to make this a heaven of our own?"

subheader reads: “I think ex-Mormons who listen to the album will definitely be like, soyjak face pointing at it."

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 23/01/2026

originally written and performed by Sue Fink, it eventually appeared on the compilation album “LESBIAN CONCENTRATE” from Olivia Records. it’s kind of a banger……

album cover
Lesbian Concentrate: A Lesbianthology of Songs and Poems

picture shows a picture of a can of orange juice edited to say “Lesbian Concentrate: A leabianthology 100% undiluted”

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 03/01/2026

“A friend recently said—when I showed him a Cities Aviv track—‘I don't know which parts of what I'm hearing are real and which aren't.’ That’s the kind of thing I'd like to achieve.” read the latest interview w/ Mexico City’s los esteroides www.discfive.com/weird-noisy-...

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 20/12/2025

“You make it look like there's a person coming out on stage who wants to appear very strong, but almost as soon as you hear them start to sing, you see how their face contorts and melts.” read the interview with Magick Flavour Station here www.discfive.com/magick-flavo...

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 22/11/2025

"I was asking, 'What and where is the Black avant-garde?' CODE NOIR and BLACK NOISE were both answers." Quinton Barnes sat with me and we talked about the ways critical theory informs his music, what people consider to be “cerebral”, and the Black avant-garde. www.discfive.com/quinton-barn...

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 21/11/2025

very helpful bjork lyric listing, thanks

lilith - PLAID, bjork, and mason bee
lyrics read: Oh deli owowowowow etc.
Woo…

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 15/11/2025

“I have a decreased interest in having Marc With a C pass as normal. I'm weird. I accept that." @marcwithac.bsky.social talks Steamed Hams, being genderfluid, adapting your art to different abilities, & the ways DIY’s changed over the course of their 25+ year career www.discfive.com/marc-with-a-c/

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 01/11/2025

"I have always felt like if you're going into live music trying to replicate the studio sound, then you failed. You don't understand what the medium of live music is for." for the latest interview, read @cimeband.bsky.social talk live performances, collectives, & more www.discfive.com/monty-cime/

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 24/10/2025

finallyyy started putting new article up, check out the latest interview with @bsdj.bsky.social, and listen to some of their catalog if you wanna sample some diy skramz from all over the world www.discfive.com/bsdj-bedroom...

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 21/06/2025

I got to talk to Matt, the guy behind the one-man bands Tanpopo Crisis, Sugar Wounds, and FUCKED, about his brand of J-Pop and anime inspired metal music. We also talked about how Witchcraft Works served as a huge influence for his music. Read below :) www.discfive.com/tanpopo-cris...

Aggressively happy grindcore & rainy day metal: the one-man band(s) Tanpopo Crisis / Sugar Wounds / FUCKED

Matt Miller talks about his one-man metal projects and explains how he adds a little Kyary Pamyu Pamyu into grindcore.

The first time I interviewed you, we talked about how Neon Genesis Evangelion influenced Sachiel. In general, do you find yourself pulling from anime often for your music projects?

Sometimes it's intentional, sometimes it's a little more incidental. When I'm watching something, I'll get a little seed of an idea and it'll grow. And sometimes if I'm writing lyrics, maybe some themes from Ergo Proxy or Evangelion will creep in. But there have definitely been a lot of FUCKED projects where it's straight up about one show or loosely inspired by a manga I read or something like that. Not quite as much anymore.

But Sugar Wounds especially was very anime influenced. And I mean, I got the name Tanpopo Crisis from the Witchcraft Works manga. It was one of the antagonist’s original names before they changed it.

Hang on… I have to look Tanpopo up. Oh, she has a big giant cat hat…she's so good.

Oh yeah, they had a pretty good anime adaptation of it as well! Actually, some music from that anime very, very heavily inspired a lot of the Sugar Wounds stuff - a band called fhána did the opening song for that anime. I believe they also did the Dragon Maid theme song. Their one album, Outside of Melancholy, is really, really good and very, very quintessential for inspiring Sugar Wounds. It's sometimes like listening to a J-Pop fairy tale. There's like, horse clopping samples and it's kind of whimsical. I get very inspired by stuff like that for Sugar Wounds because it's happy and endearing.

I love hearing things like this, because I wouldn’t have expected anything like that to be a major influence.

Sugar Wounds is kind of funny. It's the first project that I've done where I'll read stuff online, and people will be like, “this is obviously inspired by so-and-so band and this band and this band.” And I've never heard of any of these bands that people say I'm “obviously inspired by.”

The one band that will come up every once in a while is Melt-Banana. And I'm like, “finally, someone gets it!” This band is like, totally inspired by Melt-Banana, and a band called Midori. They're this weird, jazz-noise-harsh-rock outfit from Japan.

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 01/06/2025

the one-woman feral-metal act Lust Hag’s new album, Irrevocably Drubbed, feels like getting bashed over the head. she sat down for an interview with me to talk about the album, and you can read it here: www.discfive.com/lust-hag/

Irrevocably Drubbed sounds exactly as advertised, like an endless onslaught of indescribable violence and anguish. There is no respite - even the album’s interlude feels violent in its desolate emptiness. “The phrase ‘irrevocably drubbed’ is a bit of a metaphor in and of itself,” Eleanor explains. “Being drubbed means getting a beating that's supposed to be an act of humiliation or a punishment of some sort, and a lot of times I feel like the album cover, like my head is being bashed in over and over with all this stress from the ostracism and the persecution against trans people.”

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 18/05/2025

"It comes down to the riffiness. I mean, there's plenty of indie rock that’s riffy, but for us, I was thinking about metal riffs." check out our interview with @eatlava.bsky.social to hear more about their brand of tech death indie rock. www.discfive.com/eat-lava-do-...

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 05/05/2025

UGH THE ALT TEXT DIDN'T POST HERE IT IS AGAIN >:(

Aya - hexed!
Deerhoof - Noble and Godlike in Ruin
BRUIT ≤ - The Age of Ephemerality
Jenny Hval - Iris Silver Mist
Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack - Six Tenants Killing One Homeowner Six Times Over
Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars
Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
Saoirse Dream - saoirse dream
Rammellzee - Cosmic Flush
Material - Intonarumori
Vulgar Effect - Cat
Underbelly - And I've Told You of My Past Lives: My Life, My Death, The Fish and The Bait.
at first, at first - The Courage of Shutting Up
Lust Hag - Lust Hag
Sleeping with Sirens - Let's Cheers to This

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 05/05/2025

music i listened to this week hexed was my favorite listen, love the abstract guttural lyrics & the nightmarish rhythms. can definitely feel SOPHIE's influence here new BRUIT≤ takes frustrations w how tech bro's "more more more" only leads to "less less less" and turns it into post-rock agony

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 14/04/2025

sorry to say that i do think i hate the new marina single…

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 05/03/2025

omg she is going to do grimes boat adventure 2 pitchfork.com/news/45488-t...

That summer, the couple traveled 25 hours from Montreal to Bemidji, Minnesota, where they spent a month constructing a 20-foot houseraft on a friend's property with the intention of sailing it down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. They named the boat "Velvet Glove Cast in Iron" and renamed themselves "Veruschka and Zelda Xox" for the trip, as the Tribune reports.

Boucher and Gratz painted murals with "fantastical creatures" on the side of the vessel, which they filled with live chickens, a sewing machine, and 20 pounds of potatoes. Yes, chickens. And 20 pounds of potatoes. But soon after setting sail, the engine failed, and Boucher and Gratz spent three weeks traveling downstream, attempting to fix the boat, and dealing with the police.

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 05/02/2025

it’s my birthday!!! i’m celebrating by listening to albums that are also thirty this year! yay 1995! yay happy hardcore albums!

album: Disco 2001 artist: Tokyo Ghetto Pussy release: 1995

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 21/01/2025

oh yeah, this goes crazy…i heard “cuntology 101” on three different instagram stories this week

Who Let The Dogs Out - Lambrini Girls 2025

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 04/01/2025

the absolute thrill of catching the early rym profile (myfriendmyurn.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2... this is the release that led me here, fwiw - a 2 song screamo demo)

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jenn @ [disc five] @jenn.discfive.com · 22/12/2024

took way too long to check this out: urika’s bedroom - Big Smile, Black Mire. folk/trip-hop/alternative/sometimes midwest emo? so fucking good, should be on everyone’s end of the year radar

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