New Polly Jean?
Yes, please!
July 18, 1992: The First Photo Uploaded to the Web, of CERN’s All-Girl Science Rock Band
https://musiclub.web.cern.ch/bands/cernettes/
The article contains links to 5 songs on soundcloud which just won’t onebox for some reason.
They’re quite musical there:
Because if I have to be thinking about it, you have to be thinking about it
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I’m glad, but way too late… And this little factoid:
Missy Elliott – the first female rapper to be inducted
How the fuck is this possible? Women have been part of hip-hop since the beginning… 
Misogyny is exhausting…
In…checks calendar…2023?
Since we’re all Valerie June fans today over in the covers thread…
And from the thread about Desmond Doom, @GilbertWham noted his video about Leningrad Sandwich:
And how about Desmond Doom’s ep:
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I know the youtube says this video just came out, but I’m pretty sure it actually came out in 1994…
And this is so 70s Afro-centric!
Although… a song from Bloodflowers but not a single cut from The Top:
I call shenanigans!
I have loved loved loved the Pet Shop Boys since I was in high school. Here they are in a special COVID-lockdown version of “West End Girls”:
One more:
I listened to the Top a lot one summer I spent sick in bed in the 80s as a teen (it wasn’t the current album but I hadn’t listened to it) so it has a special place in my heart.
Although I actually don’t listen to music I listened to when I was young. Time’s running out and there’s so much to listen to.
Lastly: I’m an old. I hate that the trope is we can’t enjoy new music. “Back in my Day”, etc.
Eff that.
Here is Dua Lipa:
