Ben Grigg

Hey Chicago! I’m playing bass with my friend Hanna in Cheezing this Thursday at Reed’s Local. It’s our first show and we’re playing with Milwaukee greats Brief Candles!

🎵 Running is nice, running won’t stop you, from doing all the things in life you want to 🎵

Whelpwisher - “Same Mistakes” | Album Review — POST-TRASH Whelpwisher’s Same Mistakes sees no need to bury technical skill beneath complexity. Ben Grigg is a songwriter who can seemingly churn out effervescent rock songs in his sleep. Whelpwisher is like t...

always happy to have more Whelpwisher (@bengrigg.bsky.social) in the world, wrote about them for the first time since 2019 for @post-trash.bsky.social

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Hey hey! We’re on this week’s @pitchfork.com selects playlist!!! 🤙🤪

The person who handled the lighting I’m pretty sure was my old friend Jay. FWIW, he played violin for Troubled Hubble at times!

Last time I got to play with Ovlov and Krill was 2014 at a stacked @eisrecords.bsky.social showcase in Brooklyn. So excited to play with them again on Saturday in Chicago!

New @babereport.bsky.social single out today on @eisrecords.bsky.social! Check it out and come see us on tour in a couple weeks! li.sten.to/babereportdi...

everything is 25% off today using code EIS25 on Bandcamp!! explodinginsoundrecords.bandcamp.com

Buds Demos, by Ovlov 7 track album

Ovlov are releasing “Buds Demos” on March 14th. Tapes are nearly sold out. Listen to “The Weekend (Demo)” now. ovlov.bandcamp.com/album/buds-d...

New Playlist: February 2025 It’s the February 2025 playlist! The year is in full swing, and this playlist reflects it, as it’s almost entirely culled from the new year. You’ll recognize a lot of these songs …

New post! Wrote about songs I enjoyed in February, featuring @grahamcrackerbox.bsky.social @milkocromlom.bsky.social @bengrigg.bsky.social @cruisinrecords.bsky.social @jtsimons.bsky.social @cheekface.bsky.social @nyxfears.bsky.social @filip.start-track.com @outro-band.bsky.social, Patches & more:

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Patent number 3! This one is for the pop filter on the Shure NXN8/S and NXN8/C. It was a real technical challenge to make a pop filter so thin, cost effective, and user-removable, while also making sure it was still a highly effective pop filter. I’m proud of this one!

There's a way for drake to come back from this and that is to make a ska record

MAGA rn:

Diversity: “Boooo bad, only strict qualifications (as defined by me) matter!!!”

Loyalty: “Yes, perfect, this was in fact the only qualification I cared about.”

Passage from Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World

Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

Heyo! We’re hitting the road for a couple weeks in March/April. Playing with so many friends and sick bands! Too many to list here. More updates coming soon!

HELLO! @eisrecords.bsky.social is raffling off four test pressings of Ovlov’s classic debut album AM! All proceeds will go to Mutual Aid Los Angeles Network. Please consider buying a ticket and help spread the word!

playlist: the best punk songs of january 2025 Seven dozen good songs that kicked off this hellish year, plus a blog about upheaval, community, and the Cher memoir.

here's a playlist of some great punk songs from the start of this bullshit year

this post includes an essay about moving through the latest era of upheaval by embracing community + lessons learned from a new year's day tarot reading and the cher memoir see-saw.fun/playlist-the...

Ovlov AM test pressings being raffled off by @eisrecords.bsky.social to benefit LA fire victims! Help spread the word!

Same! Never had those before until a couple weeks ago.

punk this week: jacket burner, intermission, plastic act + 13 more Some absolute heaters have arrived for the final day of January. Scroll all the way to the end.

some absolute gems from all over the world in this week’s punk column, including a trio of hits from the iconic Italian label Goodbye Boozy + some great stuff from Australia and Tokyo + some effortless Chicago power pop + ELVIS 2 see-saw.fun/punk-this-we...

Lol! Thanks Garrett! Every day is a Big Ben day if you’re a clock fan in London

Same Mistakes, by Whelpwisher 12 track album

New Whelpwisher out!

Cannot contain my excitement over playing with Ovlov, Krill, and Bursting! 😍😍😍

Forgot to mention that I managed to get a Simpson’s reference into the plug-in presets. My finest hour!

I’m so thrilled this is finally announced!!! Shure teamed up with Korneff and Black Lion to make new plug-in and hardware versions of the Level-Loc! I got to meet Tchad Blake and do some very basic maintenance on his Level-Locs, which were accurately and lovingly modeled in physical/plug-in form.

if i was instructed to censor the gestapo forces i’d start to wonder if i was one of the bad guys

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.