The newest project from Pearl Earl, entitled It’s Dread, exemplifies many aspects of 21st-century living: feelings of despair, social immobility, and frustration with patriarchal values. These anxieties, combined with otherworldly instrumentation and lyricism, create the world that lives within this album.
It’s not that Jason Suder dislikes the annual stock show and rodeo. The Tulips FTW owner just wants those of us who aren’t interested in three weeks of saluting animal husbandry and ungulate riding to have something else to do. That’s really why Not Stock exists. “It’s not like we’re competing with the rodeo,” Suder