World Eater Recordings

12/13/2025

12/09/2025

Garbage singer Shirley Manson does not like beach balls. We know this because she unleashed a rant on fans tossing beach balls around on one of the band’s sets last week. Then later, she doubled down, saying antics like this make her feel “tired” of artists being treated like “circus performers.”

On December 5, 2025, Garbage was performing at the Good Things Festival in Melbourne, Australia. At one point, Manson noticed a beach ball bouncing around the crowd, and she made it clear that she was not happy about it. “Big guy with your big f***ing beach ball. What a f***in douchebag,” Manson said, pointing to a man in the audience.

“You’re a f***in middle-aged man in a f***in ridiculous hat, and you’re a f***in’ f*** face,” Manson continued. “I want, literally, to ask people to f***in’ punch you in the f***in’ face. But you know what? I’m a lady, so I won’t.”

Louder reports that Manson’s comments were somewhat controversial once the footage made its way online. The outlet noted that some felt Manson’s approach was rude and called on her to apologize. There were also claims that the beach balls actually belonged to Bay Area metal band Machine Head, who kicked them into the crowd.

In response, Manson did take to social media to clarify her position, which is not changing: “I make no apologies whatsoever for getting annoyed at beach balls at shows.” In a Threads post, she wrote, “I joined a band because I hated the f***in’ beach. I joined a band because I wanted to listen to Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure and be dark and beautiful.”

Manson then added, “I love the musical community, and I want to respect their artistry. I am so tired of folks taking music for free and treating us all like circus performers.” Later on, she again took to social media to praise Tool’s set, where there was “not a beach ball in sight.”

12/08/2025

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12/05/2025

12/04/2025

😪🙏🏾🤘🏾✊🏾

"So sad to hear of the passing of our dear friend Steve Cropper today. His soulful guitar playing, songwriting, and record productions inspired us to be a soul band when we were teens and eventually led us to work with him in Memphis on our 2nd, and one of our best selling albums, "Bump City". Steve also produced an album for us in the late 70's entitled "We Came To Play" and was always a consummate professional in the studio and a totally down to earth guy. Over the years we'd run into him on the road, mostly in Europe, when he was touring with the Blues Brothers, and it was always a joy to spend time with him. Our sincere condolences go out to his family.

Steve Cropper was a founding father in the soul music world and was instrumental in changing music as we know it."

Emilio Castillo - Bandleader for Tower of Power

12/02/2025

https://shrine4tbm.bandcamp.com/track/someday-monday

track by Shrine for the Black Madonna

11/29/2025

Watching a Japanese film as a teenager changed Arthell Isom's life. Today, he and his brother Darnell run Japan’s first majority black-owned animation studio...

As boys, twins Arthell and Darnell, from New Jersey, US, watched the 1995 Japanese classic Ghost in the Shell. It set the course of their future lives.

The brothers loved the film so much, that at the age of 17 they made a pact:

"We wanted to make a company, a film and animation studio," says Arthell. "And we decided the only way we can do this is we both kind of kind of split up and learn different crafts."

The brothers decided Darnell would learn special effects - and Arthell would learn animation. So that's what they did.

Arthell went to the Academy of Art in San Francisco, but he found the traditional, western-style of art taught there restrictive - so he made a new plan. He'd leave the US and go to Japan's biggest animation school, the Yoyogi Animation Academy.

Without hesitation, Darnell drove him to the airport.

"Then I got to Japan. And I realised that, yeah, I don't have a place to live. I can't speak Japanese. I don't have a visa," says Arthell.

So Arthell returned to the US and spent a year learning Japanese. He returned to the Yoyogi Academy - and the teachers were so impressed, they took him on.

On his first day in school, he wrote down that he wanted to work under Hiromasu Ogura, the art director of the original Japanese version of Ghost in the Shell - the movie the brothers had seen aged 17.

"I remember my teacher coming to me was like, oh, no, no, you probably can't get that job... And then I was like, oh, no, no, this is, this is where I want to work. I only want to work here."

Eventually, he got an an interview with Hiromasu Ogura himself. He had ten minutes to impress his hero - but this didn't phase Arthell.

"There's this expression in America - they always say never meet your heroes. And I don't know who came up with that because I totally disagree."

The thing was, Arthell knew everything about Ogura-San. All of his art, his paintings, his movies. The master was so impressed he gave him the job.

Arthell worked on some iconic projects at the studio, finally leaving to set up D’Art Shtajio with his brother, Japan’s first majority black-owned animation studio. The childhood pact had come true.

🎧 Hear more on Outlook: https://bbc.in/4pg4iSN

11/27/2025

YOU’RE NOT A SUPERHERO. YOU’RE A HUMAN BEING.

There’s a lot of content out there that glorifies what touring professionals “endure.”

The 20-hour days.

The time-zone swings.

The dehydration, the jet lag, the no-sleep turnarounds, the diet built on whatever’s within arm’s reach.

It’s usually framed as proof that we’re a different breed—some kind of ultra-adaptable, fatigue-proof species.

But here’s the truth most of us learn the hard way:

You are not special because you can survive this.

You are human—and that’s the entire point.

The industry loves the mythology of “grit” because it distracts from the cost.

The real cost.

The one that hits your body first.

Then your mind.

Then your relationships, your sense of self, and your ability to feel grounded in the world.

Most had to learn that the hard way.

Not as a badass.

Not as a warrior.

Not as someone who can “power through” anything.

But as someone who finally realized:

I suffer like anyone else.

And pretending otherwise almost broke me.

We don’t need to be celebrated as superhumans.

We don’t need to be told we’re exceptional because we can take a beating.

We need support.

We need infrastructure.

We need systems that don’t require superhuman endurance just to stay afloat.

The job is demanding enough.

The culture doesn’t need to pile on.

Your humanity isn’t a weakness.

It’s the thing worth protecting.

11/26/2025