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Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community

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Alternative Nation : The Fediverse's largest alternative and indie music community! All things alternative music, from 80s college rock to today's indie and all the amazing alternative music in between. Welcome home, music nerds!

Some of y'all may remember MTV's Alternative Nation or 120 Minutes, awesome programs & incredible ways to discover #music back in the 80s & 90s...

Welcome, to the Fediverse edition!

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Subscribe, share, & chat!

Share youtube, songwhip, spotify, bandcamp links, music memes, album art, articles, whatever! But avoid links to directly download music (don't want to get Lemmy.world in trouble). Songwhip links always appreciated!

See this post on recs on how to post!

The Golden Rule: Music taste is subjective so don't be a gatekeeping asshole. There's no "bad music", only music you like or don't like.

We Are A Community: So no racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or spam.

๐ŸŽต Let's get lost in the Fediverse's record store together! ๐ŸŽถ

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Hey amazing music loving community, what are you listening to right now?

Links not necessary (but always welcome), any genre answered, a wide open no judgement question!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ren

https://pandora.app.link/67gDFrkCWBb

"Lovely Day" radio (Bill Withers)

Actually yields a surprisingly good mix...

#music #NowListening

[โ€“] ren 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I may recommend - I'm a HUGE fan of old school R&B and soul, but once Sharon Jones hit the scene over the past 15-20 years, what I call "revival soul" has been so so so amazing! So many modern bands going back to the old sound! I have a spotify playlist here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5o3TgsTajPiYH1JUqLuAm6?si=1c45e206d663444c

But, if you aren't on spotify, try a pandora station built off Sharon Jones, Curtis Harding, Lady Wray, Lee Fields, The Tesky Brothers, Durand Jones, - ugh! so much good music!!!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ren okay, this playlist is SO GOOD. So effing good!

And now I have a bunch of bands to delve more deeply into.

Nice work! #music #nowlistening #soul #revivalSoul

[โ€“] ren 2 points 1 year ago

that's awesome and makes me so happy!!! While it's not Sharon Jones specifically, but I really am thankful for what she & the Dap-Kings and Daptone Records did to music over the past 20 years.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ren I was going to ask for recs but here you are way ahead of me! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป

(And yeah not a fan of spotify but I should be able to use #soundiiz to export your playlist and pull it into #qobuz) #music

[โ€“] ren 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Awesome! Soul revival is just ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿณ๐Ÿ’‹

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ren When they were on tour just before her death they played Santa Cruz CA, where I was living at the time, and I REALLY wanted to go to the show (even though I really didn't know anything about them at the time) but couldn't due to personal commitments.

I SO wish I'd been able to go to that show. -sigh-

#SharonJones #SharonJonesAndTheDapKings #music #santaCruzCA

[โ€“] ren 2 points 1 year ago

I feel so lucky to have seen her 3 different times. Once before she hit, once after, and once more in NYC post-cancer recovery. Just amazing.

The first time we saw her we went down to Jacksonville and saw her in a dive bar on Super Bowl Sunday. Just 10 of us in the whole crowd dancing to get putting it all on on this tiny stage.

Amazing and unforgettable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] ren 1 points 1 year ago