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Bug Heaven - Wasn’t This Supposed to Be Fun? album art a stuffed sloth falling from the sky above the ocean

This record took so long to make, I don't think I'd ever be able to organize my thoughts enough to make a coherent post about it. (I've already been trying for about 30 minutes as I write this.) I'm grateful to everyone who made it happen, and I hope some of you enjoy listening to it. Thanks, first and foremost, to Alex, Kelly, Drew, and Austin for investing so much time and energy into playing in this band with me. Wherever Bug Heaven takes me, I will always miss the first 4 years of this band more than anything. You wouldn't know it from these songs, but 2020-2023 were literally the happiest years of my life, and it was largely due to being in this band with the four of you. I love you all from the bottom of my heart. I don't have a lot else to say, but a lot of people have been involved in the making of this record and in the past 5 years of this band, so I'm going to drop the credits and thank-yous here.

Drew Shuck - vocals, guitars, drums, synthesizer Alex Brown - guitars on tracks 3, 4, 6 Drew Augustine - bass, vocals Kelly Langin - synthesizer, keyboards, vocals Austin Elsberry - drums, auxiliary percussion Reuben Houser - guitars on tracks 1, 5, 7 Nick Costa - guitars & piano on track 2 Ian Aeillo - additional instrumentation Lindsey Yoneda - vocals on track 4 Alex Steele - additional vocals on track 4 Produced by Drew Shuck, Ian Aeillo, and Nate Van Fleet Engineered by Drew Shuck at The Elwood, Nate Van Fleet at ARC Studios. and Ian Aeillo at A Sun Room in Omaha, NE Mixed by lan Aeillo at A Sun Room Mastered by Doug Van Sloun at Focus Mastering in Omaha, NE Additional Engineering on "Happy Somewhere" by Nick Costa Additional Engineering on "If You Really Don't Want to Go, I Don't Know Why You Won't Just Stay' by Alex Steele at Old Haunt Audio Art Design & Layout by Alex Brown Cover photo by Sarah Marceau

Thank you to: Reuben Houser, who played guitar on a few of these songs and who I egregiously neglected to thank in the last album's liner notes for building more than half of my guitar pedalboard, Alex Brown, Mike Bauer, Yasmine Sayre, and Ellen Magnuson for the merch designs & show posters, David Schildman, Hannah Theobald, James Dean, Ben Semisch, Scotty Fields, Nat Breeden, and Thrash Panda for the photos, Zach Schmeider & crew at The Sydney, Alex Jochim and all the folks at Petshop/Petfest/BFF, Pat Oakes, Bill Sharp, and everyone at InkTank, Anne Hepburn & crew at The Slowdown, O'Leaver's Pub, Reverb Lounge, Pageturners Lounge, Bourbon Theater, Duffy's Tavern, Lefty's in Des Moines, Onion Transfer, Kung Fu Necktie, and Porchfest in Philly, Taylor Eagan, Eric Mellow, Adam Haug/Haunted Gauntlet/Conny Franko/M34n Str33t, Mikey Elfers/Lindsey Yoneda/Vempire, Alex Steele, Thomas Rehbein/Toilet Rats, Thom Flaherty, Jim Schroeder, DIY Twitter, Will Green/Full Blown Meltdown, Josh McManus/isitjosh, Megan Siebe, Mary Holzapfel, Shelby Hinman, Howdy Bates, the Shuck family, the Langin family, the Brown family, the Augustine family, the Elsberry and Ohm-Moser families, JP Flexner and Joe DeCarolis for keeping Bug Heaven alive in Philly, all the bands we've played with, everyone who has ever run sound or worked the bar for our shows, and all the venues I forgot to mention. Everyone who has listened or come to a show so far, everyone who has said nice things or bought merch, everyone who has put one of our songs on a playlist, everyone who has said a kind word about anything we've made - thank you. Love, Drew Shuck & Bug Heaven. As always, for Jmal, forever.

here it is. if you can hear me, i hope you hate it.
linktr.ee/bugheaven

Bug Heaven - Wasn’t This Supposed to Be Fun? album art a stuffed sloth falling from the sky above the ocean

This record took so long to make, I don't think I'd ever be able to organize my thoughts enough to make a coherent post about it. (I've already been trying for about 30 minutes as I write this.) I'm grateful to everyone who made it happen, and I hope some of you enjoy listening to it. Thanks, first and foremost, to Alex, Kelly, Drew, and Austin for investing so much time and energy into playing in this band with me. Wherever Bug Heaven takes me, I will always miss the first 4 years of this band more than anything. You wouldn't know it from these songs, but 2020-2023 were literally the happiest years of my life, and it was largely due to being in this band with the four of you. I love you all from the bottom of my heart. I don't have a lot else to say, but a lot of people have been involved in the making of this record and in the past 5 years of this band, so I'm going to drop the credits and thank-yous here.

Drew Shuck - vocals, guitars, drums, synthesizer Alex Brown - guitars on tracks 3, 4, 6 Drew Augustine - bass, vocals Kelly Langin - synthesizer, keyboards, vocals Austin Elsberry - drums, auxiliary percussion Reuben Houser - guitars on tracks 1, 5, 7 Nick Costa - guitars & piano on track 2 Ian Aeillo - additional instrumentation Lindsey Yoneda - vocals on track 4 Alex Steele - additional vocals on track 4 Produced by Drew Shuck, Ian Aeillo, and Nate Van Fleet Engineered by Drew Shuck at The Elwood, Nate Van Fleet at ARC Studios. and Ian Aeillo at A Sun Room in Omaha, NE Mixed by lan Aeillo at A Sun Room Mastered by Doug Van Sloun at Focus Mastering in Omaha, NE Additional Engineering on "Happy Somewhere" by Nick Costa Additional Engineering on "If You Really Don't Want to Go, I Don't Know Why You Won't Just Stay' by Alex Steele at Old Haunt Audio Art Design & Layout by Alex Brown Cover photo by Sarah Marceau

Thank you to: Reuben Houser, who played guitar on a few of these songs and who I egregiously neglected to thank in the last album's liner notes for building more than half of my guitar pedalboard, Alex Brown, Mike Bauer, Yasmine Sayre, and Ellen Magnuson for the merch designs & show posters, David Schildman, Hannah Theobald, James Dean, Ben Semisch, Scotty Fields, Nat Breeden, and Thrash Panda for the photos, Zach Schmeider & crew at The Sydney, Alex Jochim and all the folks at Petshop/Petfest/BFF, Pat Oakes, Bill Sharp, and everyone at InkTank, Anne Hepburn & crew at The Slowdown, O'Leaver's Pub, Reverb Lounge, Pageturners Lounge, Bourbon Theater, Duffy's Tavern, Lefty's in Des Moines, Onion Transfer, Kung Fu Necktie, and Porchfest in Philly, Taylor Eagan, Eric Mellow, Adam Haug/Haunted Gauntlet/Conny Franko/M34n Str33t, Mikey Elfers/Lindsey Yoneda/Vempire, Alex Steele, Thomas Rehbein/Toilet Rats, Thom Flaherty, Jim Schroeder, DIY Twitter, Will Green/Full Blown Meltdown, Josh McManus/isitjosh, Megan Siebe, Mary Holzapfel, Shelby Hinman, Howdy Bates, the Shuck family, the Langin family, the Brown family, the Augustine family, the Elsberry and Ohm-Moser families, JP Flexner and Joe DeCarolis for keeping Bug Heaven alive in Philly, all the bands we've played with, everyone who has ever run sound or worked the bar for our shows, and all the venues I forgot to mention. Everyone who has listened or come to a show so far, everyone who has said nice things or bought merch, everyone who has put one of our songs on a playlist, everyone who has said a kind word about anything we've made - thank you. Love, Drew Shuck & Bug Heaven. As always, for Jmal, forever.

here it is. if you can hear me, i hope you hate it.
linktr.ee/bugheaven

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we are finally releasing a record that took way too long to make, title track single drops on streaming at midnight and you can listen to it at bugheaven.bandcamp.com

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hey logged off for a while has this site gotten any less weird or is it still just maxed out vote blue lib energy over here all the time

I saw Flavor Flav in the mirror

Tim Robinson driving a car with the subtitle reading “I don't know what any of this shit is, and I'm fucking scared”

me seeing a bunch of posts about yet another album that doesn't have the artist or album name on the cover art

Buying one t-shirt ($20) from your favorite artist nets them more than 6,500 Spotify streams

Misery by Soul Asylum on Apple Music Song · 1995 · Duration 4:24

“fruuustraaaated incorporated” has gotta be a top five 90s hook
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As pretty much always, attempting to use the Bible in favor of imperialism is complicated by the act of reading it

Your Deep Rest - The Hotelier Cinderella - Northstar Chica Chica - Park All the Way (Stay)- Jimmy Eat World Birds- The Starting Line reindeer games- Oso Oso Balance- All Get Out When You Pass - Somos

Eiffel - Foxing Now That You're Home - Manchester Orchestra Dressed to Kill - New Found Glory Still Trying - Midtown Are We Really Happy With Who... - Moneen We're All Thieves - Circa Survive Silhouette - Thrice Remember To Feel Real- Armor for Sleep

drummers what songs did you drum along to last time you played for fun?

Activists release blue pink and white smoke in front of the SCOTUS with the trans flag colors draped in front of them

Transmasc protestor takes T in front of Supreme Court & smoke

Protestors occupying street in front of SCOTUS

Raquel Willis of GLM and another protestor in police van arrested

Today @genderlib.com and activist volunteers took HRT in front of the Supreme Court and then occupied the street in front of the building.

This was in defiance and dissent against Skrmetti, a demonic SCOTUS ruling that will kill so, so many trans people.

Please do not avert your eyes.

Remember the trans rights music festival I threw? Yeah, the money went to this.

The beautiful Dead City cover art by Evangeline Gallagher depicting a wide shot of a city street from above, overgrown with huge purple and green plants, and with a car overturned in the street below. A composition book lies next to it

Dead City, my sophomore album, is now available everywhere.

This album is about grief and loss, and the collapse of everything. But also about being able to put yourself together again after that. I’d really like you to hear it.

2amwakeupcall.com/deadcity to find it wherever you get music

oh my god the geocities/angelfire style website is so perfect

Also CALIFORNIA IS MEXICO! AMERICA TOOK THIS LAND FROM MEXICO!! WE DESTROYED A MEXICAN COMMUNITY IN LA TO BUILD A FUCKING BASEBALL STADIUM!!! GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE ICE!!!! FUCK!!!!

would be almost as dumb as thinking mask mandates were ended because covid was suddenly less threatening and not because it was making it difficult to run a surveillance state

BlueSky post reads: Biden had 95% + of kids back in person school within his first 100 days in office while doing a vaccine rollout that hit >75% of the adult population and >90% of US senior citizens.

imagine thinking putting 95% of kids back into in-person school during a still-raging pandemic was a really cool thing for a president to do

basement jam space with drums, guitars, and some pink and yellow

gonna have some fun down here

A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...

"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."

being a mastering engineer must be so fucking cool. I love spending months driving @theolympics.bsky.social insane with nitpicky mixing bullshit and then sending it off to Doug and a few days later being like “thanks Doug sounds sick appreciate you”

most people don’t know this about me but i love guitar music

Around the World by Daft Punk on Apple Music Song · 1997 · Duration 7:09

y’all ever wonder what it would be like to write a hook so fucking sick that you could just make a literal whole song out of it music.apple.com/us/album/aro...

Christ this is fucking bleak.