Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community
**HELLO & WELCOME to Alternative Nation, the Fediverse's largest alternative & indie music community!** We are all so happy you are here. You love music, we love music, and here we are, headphones on, in our own little world happily outside the mainstream while also supporting the growth of Lemmy, Kbin, & the Fediverse at large. 💕 Figured it was time to talk about recommendations on how to format your posts for maximum visibility & engagement and also let you know the different ways you can post to the community. Sound good? Let's go! . . . ☝️ **POST FORMAT RECOMMENDATION** 🔊🎵 Key word here is "recommendation". I don't think we need strict rules to post, but here's what I recommend: 1. **Band - Song or Album Title:** At the very least, this should be included in your post title. Pretty standard way of identifying something. No worries about quotation marks, the text and the dash are more than enough. Obviously, if it's an article link, the article title would go here. 2. **[Description Brackets]:** Totally up to you, but personally I've been enjoying adding [Fresh] if the song or album is pretty new within the last week or two or so, or adding [Stream] if it's a link to an album stream link on Songwhip. I also sometimes use brackets to indicate the source if it's an article like [BrooklynVegan]. Not a rule, I just think it's nice to give some cred out. 3. **Dates or small commentary after the title:** Again, you do you. Year of release can be nice for older tracks & albums, or if you have a strong emotion about the album that you think needs to be in the title, go for it - though I think the caption section is probably best. 4. **Album Art/Image or Link?:** Lemmy is set up to share an image or a link as the primary content. Personally, I love album art or a cool image of the artist and would rather share the link to the music, video, or article in the caption. Lemmy's auto-thumbnails seem hit or miss, so to me it makes a richer post. But again, you do you! Great! But let's say you aren't posting from Lemmy or Kbin? . . . ✌️ **POSTING FROM MASTODON, FIREFISH, & OTHER FEDIVERSE MICROBLOGGING PLATFORMS** 🔊🎶 While having a Lemmy/Kbin account is the best way to not miss any comments, you don't need to be on Lemmy to post here. By tagging "@alternativenation@lemmy.world" in a Mastodon, Firefish (Calckey), or other federated microblogging platform post, you also actually post *to* our community! How cool is that! But the format of your post can get real janky if you don't follow a certain format. My recommendation is set up your Mastodon et al post in the following way: 1. Make the 1st line of the post the title like "Band - Song or Album Title" - no hashtags or account tags here, they get real messed up on Lemmy. 2. After the line break from the title, include your caption and any links. Feel free to add hashtags in the caption area (I know people follow hashtags on Mastodon et al) 3. Include "@AlternativeNation@lemmy.world" in the post (just not in the first line, please). This is how the post gets posted here! 4. Finally, I recommend adding an image to the post - this will be the thumbnail on Lemmy! . . . 🤟 **HAPPY LISTENING!** 🎧 That's it y'all! Hope this helps. Please spread the word to all your alternative music fans here, on Mastodon, and even on Reddit. Let's build something special together. Cheers, ren 🌈💕
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Recorded this year. Alt Invidious link, if you can make it work: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=UyGyuavlin4
She is an abolute oasis of inspiration to many musicians, including me. This is not on Timderbox though, my favorate album
There's an exhibition of photos taken during the Nine Inch Nails "Self Destruct" tour in London from Wednesday 16th - Sunday 20th October. Admission is free!
Mods' away. Post whatever. Am the Messiah is the only album by MC Honky, released in 2002.[3][4] Supposedly a middle-age disc jockey from Silverlake, California, MC Honky is promoted by, and widely considered to be, Mark Oliver Everett (or "E") of Eels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Messiah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Live version too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VCz0dAD02w Happy Friday y'all
I have seen them live, fucking amazing back in the day. 2 bass players, massive Sound.
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Fastbacks! Seattle, Washington's answer to .... ummmm... ROCK ON! This is from August this year. Glad to see they're still kicking ass.
www.nts.live
A two hour journey through the utterly singular sound of Broadcast. Fronted by the late Trish Keenan, the Birmingham band melded the novel soundscaping of library music and early electronic experiments with their own sensitive take on indie rock and pop. Keenan's untimely passing in 2011 effectively ended the project - but a limited amount of previously unheard material has surfaced in the following years. This mix features classics and obscurities from across Broadcast's discography, including exclusive tracks featured in upcoming compilation "Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006".
- MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9770786a-b7bb-4c98-b70a-a4dad6e5a330
- MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/312ffae7-7fd6-4bff-a655-eb2b410d96d4 - Blog: https://divisionoflauralee.tumblr.com/
The Breeders are on a US tour, and on a few dates, they're playing Pod and Last Splash, in their entirety and in album order. This YT channel posted their shaky phone vids for both; this is the Last Spash second half. I just saw them in Denver and it was great. That was prolly the 7th time I've seen them live and they seemed more into it, really focused on putting on a great show. I could listen to Kim & Kelley talk about anything for hours I'm pretty sure.
New track from Amyl and The Sniffers. Love the visuals. Much more low-key than their usual singles - but one of those tracks where it's worth paying attention to the lyrics.
[@alternativenation](https://lemmy.world/c/alternativenation) Hey there! My name is Chelsea, I'm very green to Mastodon but just came across this community and figured I'd share some of my music. Comparisons include "Joni Mitchell meets Nirvana," Hole, and Patti Smith. My latest album, Queen of No, came out in May: [https://open.spotify.com/album/2IcffqN7Cv0hUsuV9iEEq6?si=w73DEUqgQ3e4hIVspmWRlQ](https://open.spotify.com/album/2IcffqN7Cv0hUsuV9iEEq6?si=w73DEUqgQ3e4hIVspmWRlQ) I'm also a fan of alt from the 80's thru today - some favorites include The Replacements, Pavement, Bully, and Jimmy Eat World. If you take the time, thanks for checking it out! 🙂
Another new discovery for me. This band is from Rouen in France. Have been listening, today, to their new album that just came out. This is the lead track. A pretty good racket, don't you think? [Youtube link](https://youtu.be/watch?v=Sy3bIXcalj0)
A Sydney band who I have listened to a little bit before, but not extensively. This track from July, recently popped up in my suggestions. It's nice. [Youtube link](https://youtu.be/watch?v=LsRar2zwhQo)
[Youtube link](https://youtu.be/watch?v=HZhpHUEX2VI) I am liking the sound of Stockholm's Girl Scout. A little bit like Sprints, perhaps. Here's another of their recent tracks that is [a bit more jangly](https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=e8QkDN1UtIk). Would go to one of their gigs if they played near me.
I have absolutely no club at what genre I would classify this. It kinda feels like Extratone/noise but it is neither of both. Its a rather sad song, but this is a song, that actually tells something without the lyrics. A very good song where lyrics and melody are working together to create a very atmospheric song.
