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DAY 23 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

Okay, this should be fun - there’s always songs where you are like, “oh my, people GOTTA hear this!!!” Well, now’s your chance. Let’s hear them!!!

Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!

DAY 22 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

Much like this song challenge idea, 22 days in, how do I keep going??? MUSIC! So what's an alternative song that gets you out of bed, gets one foot in front of the other, buckle down, and GRIND.

Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!

Modern Rock in Motion column relives R.E.M. post-2000 and brightly discovers the sonic pop of The No Ones.

https://www.goldminemag.com/columns/modern-rock-in-motion-from-reissued-r-e-m-to-the-colorful-rock-of-the-no-ones

By Peter Lindblad

Abuzz with activity, camp R.E.M. is suddenly alive with the sound of music, with singer Michael Stipe readying his first solo album for a 2023 release.

Keeping up with guitarist Peter Buck requires constant surveillance, catching Buck in the act of making the ‘60s-inspired pastiche My Best Evil Friend – reviewed below – with intercontinental co-conspirators The No Ones and producing The Eyelids’ wonderful Colossal Waste of Light, both unveiled earlier this year. Escaping the confines of the studio, but not before recording a new LP with The Baseball Project, Buck finally got some fresh air, hitting the road with The No Ones in June and July, before turning around to link up with The Baseball Project for another round of touring in August and September.

And TV’s favorite gritty, tension-filled restaurant kitchen drama, FX’s “The Bear,” has joined with R.E.M. on a video for a remixed “Strange Currencies,” with a new digital Strange Currencies EP – boasting a previously unreleased live version of the song and other recordings of it – also available. That remix is culled from 2019’s 25th edition of Monster. Additionally, the frequency of R.E.M. music drops in “The Bear” has been a welcome development.

Even original drummer Bill Berry, who’s been lying low for decades down on the farm, surfaced in January with The Bad Ends and their acclaimed inaugural LP of twangy, contemporary Southern Gothic pop, The Power and the Glory.

All of which is a roundabout way to get to news of Craft Recordings’ long-awaited vinyl reissues of 2004’s Around the Sun and 2011’s swan song Collapse into Now, two long out-of-print R.E.M. albums overly ripe for reassessment that came out July 14. They are getting the 180-gram treatment. Reveal and Accelerate are next in line, with a release date of Aug. 25.

Sorry for the delay! Early meetings at work today....

DAY 21 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

"Stepanie says"... THIS should be a good one!!!!

Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!

30 Day song challenge got a bit abstract today, so tossing out a 2nd question.... what's your favorite music tech?

From a pair headphones or maybe you make music or you have a record player that you live and die by, maybe it's an old iPod that still cruising along... What's that one piece of music tech you just Mmm Mmm LOVE!

DAY 20 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

Damn these are getting kind of abstract! A song with many meanings? Hmmmm......

Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!

Here are our Top Voted Songs for the week!!! Two ties giving us 12 amazings song to add to the Spotify playlist here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/29udpr0DH32c7BeBdmRwYN?si=6fabff9fb6554670

Lots of oldies this week and I am not complaining!

• 110: Primus - Jerry Was A Race Car Driver
• 61: The Cardigans - My Favourite Game
• 60: Beck - Loser
• 56: Pulp - Common People
• 46: The Breeders - Cannonball
• 44: Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
• 40: Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
• 38 (Tie): Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye
• 38: Rocky Horror Picture Show - Time Warp
• 34: The La’s - There She Goes
• 32 (Tie): Puscifer - The Remedy
• 32: Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

Thank you everyone for posting songs & helping to build the community!!! Your posts & votes matter!

DAY 19 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

This one is a thinker…. get it? ha!

Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!

https://youtu.be/_nW2lQ4dNxY?si=EwtrB2blKT7d0LdG