Hump-Day Song of the Week: Spinning by Soft Science

This week’s is “Spinning,” a recent single from Sacramento dream-pop shoegaze band Soft Science and their first off their upcoming record Sand set to be released 4 September 2026. As you would expect, the catchy song features some bright, driving guitars, with a little lightness that is grounded by the bass and drums. Synths fill out the nearly etherial sound. On Bandcamp.

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Hump-Day Song of the Week: Move by Tank and the Bangas featuring Lucky Daye

This week, we have New Orleans outfit Tank and the Bangas with a track off their new record The Last Balloon. The Last Balloon finishes a trilogy of albums starting with 2019’s The Green Balloon and continuing with 2022’s The Red Balloon. Since then, Tank and the Bangas also released a spoken-word album, The Heart, The Mind, The Soul, which won a Grammy.

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He can’t take this from us

a person with a tattoo on their arm

Patriotism is a weird thing. Like, to be proud or whatever of a country you just happened to randomly, through no action of yourself, be borne into. But it does differ from nationalism; that is to say, it’s not being proud because the people are all the same as you and different from everybody else. No, the Declaration of Independence and Constitution created a people apart from a mere nation—that is to say, the classical notion thereof of a people related and united by blood—a more a body republic of people from all parts of the world...

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