Dazzle Rebel

My new Sire L5 and L3 from Andertons Music. The quality of these guitars has knocked me for six. I can't believe how well they're put together. At this price point they play and sound better than many guitars several times the cost. Amazing.
#sireguitars
#sirel3
#sirel5

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

parenthetical aside of the day: “(It’s worth noting that as Zuckerberg has drifted to the right he has also started dressing badly, a fact which we will return to later.)” newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

AI is, unfortunately, a fever that will have to burn itself out. It may be the case that, like cryptocurrency, elites are simply so invested in this technology that, despite its total lack of utility, they will keep trying to make it happen. Given how great a fit it is for them psychologically, I would say that this is more likely to happen than not. However, as we saw in those two brief weeks of last year’s US election campaign, the right wing psyche is incredibly fragile. For some reason, they are able to process any inversion of empirical reality, but are acutely sensitive to being laughed at. Calling them weird absolutely works, and telling them their sole artistic output looks like shit also works. Laughing at people who treat AI art as in any way legitimate works. Talking about AI’s environmental impact or its implications for the workforce will not work - they like that, it makes them feel dangerous. Instead of talking about taking money from artists, talk about how it makes them look cheap. If hurting and offending people is part of the point, then we can take that fun away from them by refusing to express hurt or offence, even if we feel it.

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I love my home (planet earth). Such a shame some of us are focused on destroying it.

Breaking Me, by Dazzle Rebel track by Dazzle Rebel

A song for brokenhearted Valentines...

#postpunk #antivalentines #music #newmusic #nottinghammusic

dazzlerebel.bandcamp.com/track/breaki...

Can't put down the new #AmylAndTheSniffers album #CartoonDarkness

Fuck 'em

Just sayin'

Use this downtime to call friends and family, arrange a lunch meet or a night out. That'd be fun and healthy, right?

Hey USA! It's the first time I’ve opened the app in MONTHS but my TikTok is still up. Please, don't go follow me because you'll be very disappointed with the content or lack there of.*
#TikTok #TikTokBan

*(it's incredibly unlikely there will be much if any further content added).

Well, that was fuckin' bleak.

#civilwar

Goodnight Nan, you were the best and helped me be the man I am today. Love you xxx

I wrote this song after being grilled about my plantbased diet. It's a tongue-in-cheek way of addressing the many misconceptions of being vegan! It's out in all the normal places today!

#vegan #veganmusic #plantbased #plantbasedlife

The UK government shouldn't be hoodwinked, bullied or greased up to allow this to happen. Write to your MP and if it does end up passing, make sure you opt-out of allowing AI firms the option to use your creative property.

Absolutely disgrace. Years of trying to lock kids up for Napster, discontinuing movies because of music rights, YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR promo bullsh*t and they're ready to give it ALL away to big tech billionaires

I enjoyed the Jackal and Slow Horses this year, Black Doves was good.

Imagine how much £1 on every ticket would have contributed to a sustainable music industry of the future

Louder for the people at the back

There's a lot of artists who were the soundtrack to my late adolescents and early adulthood here!

HotWax release new single, “I Wanna Be A Doll” HotWax have shared "I Wanna Be A Doll” as the second single to be taken from their forthcoming debut album, Hot Shock.

HotWax explore self-destructive tendencies on new single, "I Wanna Be A Doll”

OK, this is a shout out! If there are any electronic music producers who wanna take any of my music and produce an extended queer club remix, drop in for a collab. I do like a club remix and we might just create a sausage anthem of the future 🌭💦

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

New songs for the shoegaze charts Dec with

Pills For Tomorrow • Slow Fiction • Bloody Knives • Lightfoils • Snowcuffs • Bright Like Stars • ADORER • anocean • Rainsong • All Done Bye Bye • Antonis Vlavo feat. Feminoise • Attic Ocean • Indigo Dream

All on blackmarketplaylists.de/shoegaze-cha...

Delighted to have written about Paul McCartney’s career-long experimental tendencies for the Christmas issue of Record Collector! Thanks to @djhistory.bsky.social and Cian Ciarán from Super Furry Animals for their insights too. #PaulMcCartney #TheBeatles #Recordcollector 🎶 🐸 🤯 🎄

Spotify unwrapped: I made fuck all from it this year. Same as it ever was.

There's a debate to be had about how pursuing a career in the arts is for those from a wealthy background. Not right now though. I've got more jumped-up, angry, working-man's music to write.

#SpotifyWrapped

NEW BRITISH ROCK [Rising Bands from UK]

Drank Like a Fucker has been added to this awesome playlist by @blackmarketplay.bsky.social THANKS!

#ukindie #britishrock

open.spotify.com/playlist/47M...

A song that's both #CrankWave and old school #GarageRock about going out and getting wasted, full of humor and social commentary? Already completed it mate.

www.dazzlerebel.net

Drank Like a Fucker, by Dazzle Rebel track by Dazzle Rebel

Who's out for a drink this weekend?

I might have the perfect track to get ready to...

...and also feel hungover to the next day!

This will make you feel parched and in need of a brew. It'll make you drink too much and wanna spew!

#gonzopunk #crankwave

dazzlerebel.bandcamp.com/track/drank-...

With the now well documented crisis in grassroots music, it will be interesting to see whether artists and fans flood social media with Spotify Wrapped again this year

Here’s a piece I wrote about #wrapped www.drownedinsound.org/existential-...