SCARLET STREET

SCARLET STREET

@scarletstreet.co

NO ALTERNATIVE 2025-10-24 https://weretryingrec.bandcamp.com/album/no-alternative

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So what’s the plan when the GOP doesn’t accept the results of the midterms? We know they’re not going to just allow themselves to lose power, right?

NO ALTERNATIVE was written for the people one mistake away from being forgotten. The ones already behind before anything went wrong. We’ve been quiet because we were still in it. That’s why it sounds the way it does. We see you. NO ALTERNATIVE is yours.

In 2026 we’re deciding to stick with a crowd that feels home. We’ve struggled all year to find our people, and the “DIY” scene just doesn’t seem to be the answer. If anyone knows where Scarlet Street belongs, let us know.

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new apfo newsletter! it's APFO LP2's one year anniversary. i reflect on the first four songs on the record, and include voice memos and demos from January 2022, when those songs were written. i even included a demo from an unreleased song from that period called "Look At Love"

What I’m noticing more and more is that people don’t care if something is AI. They like it because it’s entertaining/shares their world view. It’s a losing battle to appeal to these people based on merits of stealing from artists or the environment. They just literally do not care.

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Had a guy in a local band tell me he ‘doesn’t fuck with all the trans people in the scene’ to which I replied ‘is it because they’re so much better at music than you?’ He did not like that answer, lmao. Get fucked bozo.

Might as well just say “I don’t fuck with the scene.” Trans people ARE the DIY scene.

Full Blown Meltdown@fullblownmeltdown.bsky.social

Had a guy in a local band tell me he ‘doesn’t fuck with all the trans people in the scene’ to which I replied ‘is it because they’re so much better at music than you?’ He did not like that answer, lmao. Get fucked bozo.

People need to understand the psychology behind fascist and right-wing ideology. We’ve been told to ignore their intolerance so as not to legitimize them, but the opposite is true: they see the lack of response to their action as victory. It’s when they are met with response that they stand down

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We're doing VHS Cassettes for this one! They'll be on sale tomorrow on bandcamp for $20. They are playable in a VCR and contains a collage of footage from the recording process and lyrics alongside the songs. The Cassette will also have RFID access to a digital copy of the LP on Samply.

John Superdestroyer (NCTV 2 out now!)@superdestroyer.diysky.xyz

NCTV2 is out at midnight and I'm so excited for people to hear it! We leaned into rock influences on this one and ended up with an album full of our catchiest, fastest, and heaviest songs yet FFO: Slow Joy, Full Blown Meltdown, The Merrier, Joyce Manor, Anamanaguchi distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

People on twitter want memes and video game references and I’m not really sure they’ll be receptive to an album about meaningful purpose and societal systems collapsing. Will Bluesky? Because so far we haven’t seen too much love here, either.

It really does feel like social media is just TV static. People post on here, they’ll promote their bands or movements or, but no meaningful change has occurred. It’s just noise. Nothing gained, only time lost. The wave of the future.

And since this has no meaningful impact, the tastemakers have none either. To fill the void, culture is now selected by the most powerful; the rich or the well connected. The “promise” of social media was that anyone’s message could get out there. What actually happened is just power consolidation

to say we’ve put everything we have into these 12 tracks would be an understatement. This has cost us nearly everything we have. There is pain, anger and real anguish behind this, and we weren’t content with making something that was fun to hear, we wanted to leave a mark.

Every day feels like the worst day & then it happens again. The load we carry day in and day out comes at a cost, one day that bill comes due. There is no message of hope on this album, there is no moral to this story; just like the world we inhabit, it simply is and then was.

This won’t be for everyone. We didn’t make this for everyone, but if you’re with us, we made it for you. That’s the takeaway from this whole record: everything is awful, but we’re here in it all with you.