Pop Music Fever Dream bassist and girl-you-saw-at-the-door-at-Elsewhere-and-envied-her-vibe CARMEN CASTILLO is in studio with Ái Vy & Brandon this week to discuss coming up in the Brooklyn post-punk scene, her music & style inspirations, and why "Black Christmas" (1974) is a subversive feminist classic !!!!!!!

You can find Carmen on IG @carmenesperanza_ along with her band, POP MUSIC FEVER DREAM @pmfd.nyc -- their EP "Songs for Emotion" is NOW ON VINYL - LINK HERE OKAYYY???!!!!!!

PMFD also features our gorgeous stellar rock n' roll audio editor Nicole Harwayne on guitar xoxo

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Sampled in this episode:

- "Me and My Friends" by STAR'S REVENGE (writers Olive Faber & Emily Green)

- "Elegy for Memory" by POP MUSIC FEVER DREAM (writer Tim Seeberger)

- Cardi B on "Love & Hip Hop: New York"

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Since the topic of show notes is discussed WITH FERVOR in this episode, please enjoy this not-quite-exhaustive list of references:

- "Every Al Pacino Movie is Gay" by Drew Burnett Gregory

- "Jennifer's Body" (2009) dir. Karyn Kusama

- "Black Christmas" (1974) dir. Bob Clark

- "Scarecrow" (1973) dir. Jerry Schatzberg

- "Together" (2025) dir. Michael Shanks

- "Weapons" (2025) dir. Zach Cregger

- “The Red Shoes” (1948) dir. Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell

- “Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story” (1987) dir. Todd Haynes

- “May December” (2023) dir. Todd Haynes

- Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! / “Transgender Dysphoria Blues”

- Brody Dalle of The Distillers

- "We Are Sex Bob-Omb" from "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World" OMPS (writer Beck Hansen)

- "Summertime Sadness" by Lana Del Rey (writers Rick Nowels & Lana Del Rey)

- The Lana & Ethel feud

- RIPPERS burger shack, Rockaway Beach, NY