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What is up with this trash panda thing anyway?

(and what the hell is ‘bloghaus’?)

Trash Panda Disco… where do we begin? Maybe October 2025, when a plucky cadre of electro punk weirdos decided to throw an anarcho-pop (that’s a real genre, we swear) party at a punk house in Detroit. It could be January 2025 when two Djs had drinks at Bronx bar and one mentioned that there should be more guitars in dance music and the other agreed and now they’re Dad & Uncle.

Or it could be decades ago, when the earth was young and people thought Vice Magazine was cool before realizing that Gavin McInnes was a piece of shit.

Back then people weren’t dependent on social media and AI to handle everything, instead they bathed themselves, had real people for companions, and still used things called “appendages” to write their own articles. Some of these were collected in “blogs” which, yes, is a stupid portmanteau, but still better than a racist hack from South Africa buying Twitter and thinking he’s cool for renaming it “X”.

These blogs would cover a wide variety of things, including music, and through these “music blogs” the “genre” of “bloghaus” was born – because when you’re on a roll making up stupid names for things you don’t stop until the cocaine runs out.

While there was no defining sound of bloghaus, there was an attitude. A plucky, DIY, do drugs in public and ignore consent attitude. The kind of attitude that lasted precisely from 2008 to 2012, upon which rock and electronic music had a disagreement and parted ways. From there one remarried trap music and became dubstep and the other remarried cottagecore and became stomp clap and the angels above gave up and just listened to hip hop from then on.

Now it’s the 2020s and no, electro-swing did not take over. And while we’re not here for the consent issues (because men definitely don’t need more reasons to be awful). We do look to bring back music with a plucky DIY attitude because being plucky and DIY is maybe the only way to survive a world where a dementia riddled dumpster fire is the US president.

So it is that we, the trash pandas of Trash Panda Disco don our black masks and official ANTIFA (copyright 2026 George Soros) arm bands and dive into that dumpster, avoiding the flames, to pull out the last remnants of morsels we can get.

And with those morsels we bring you the Trash Panda Disco blog – where we write about music that we think everyone should hear – because if we don’t – it’d be done by a trust fund DJ who thinks Coachella is high art.

Want to see your music or events here? Well before sending them to us ask yourself a few questions

• Are you an independent creative looking to get your stuff out there?
• Are you aiming for an alternative yet accessible (aka alt-pop) sound?
• Do you make music that has no discernable genre?
• Are you a queer person having trouble finding a platform for your ideas?
• Are you a trans person having trouble finding a platform for your ideas?
• Are you a BIPOC person having trouble finding a platform for your ideas?
• Are you a femme person having trouble finding a platform for your ideas?
• Are you none of the above, but a supporter of the above, and also need a platform for your ideas?

If you answered an enthusiast YES to any of the above – then yeah, please submit your music!
Also, if your music or art are AI generated, not only do you owe the world several gallons of water, but we also don’t want to see or hear it.

Also also, we’re an “eat the rich” kind of household here at TPD, so if you’re making art with the intention of fellating a bunch of capitalist parasites into giving you a crumb, this may also not be the right place for you.

Also also also, if your stuff is in any way trying to celebrate MAGA, QANON, or the like, we won’t even listen to that shit ironically, so don’t bother.

With class solidarity and (consensual) make-out parties,

-The Trash Panda Disco Team