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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User regular
    I didn't think we'd ever get new music from DREAMCAR after the news that No Doubt is getting back together, but on the eve of that happening, they just dropped an EP of new music, and it's extremely fucking good.

    For the uninitiated, DREAMCAR is Davey Havok from AFI backed by all the people in No Doubt not named Gwen Stefani, and they make music that sounds absolutely nothing like either band. They're primarily new wave power pop with a hint of synth-wave moodiness and their debut album from a few years ago is stellar and in pretty much constant rotation for me.

    The new EP has a couple of new tracks and a Bowie cover. Check it out:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfqgVCKnxQc

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGipJIogfMU

    Recommended if you like: Heavens, Soft Cell, Blaqk Audio, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User regular
    Fuck it, let's go. Here's some on-topic ways you can help provide aid for Palestine with some indie, punk, and electronic music. And, of course, avoid buying music under the Universal Music Group umbrella.



    https://palestinesolidaritycompilation.bandcamp.com/album/palestine-solidarity-compilation

    Palestine Solidarity Compilation
    27 new tracks, demos and covers from your favorite and new favorite bands. All songs are previously unreleased. In solidarity with Palestine, forever and ever.

    !!! PLEASE DON'T BUY THE DIGITAL ALBUM HERE !!!
    Because of some temporary tax issues, payment from this account to MAP is blocked by BC. We are trying to resolve the issue at the moment. In the meantime, please follow these steps to buy the album.

    1. Donate the amount directly to UNRWA, PCRF, PRCS, ANERA, MAP, PYM etc.
    2. E-mail the donation receipt to gd4palestine@gmail.com
    3. Get a Bandcamp download code in return
    4. Use the code to add the album to your library and download
    credits
    released January 12, 2024

    Track #2 is a Coneheads cover.
    Track #9 is a Village People cover.
    Track #14 is a Bruce Springsteen cover.
    Track #18 is a Gerry Rafferty cover.

    All songs are unreleased tracks, demos, covers or live versions by their respective artists and were uploaded with the artists' approval.

    Mastered by: Marcos Assis (cool sorcery)

    Artwork by: Mama Goblin & Moose

    Special thanks to: cool sorcery, Billiam and Sebastian Grondke.

    END APARTHEID. STOP GENOCIDE. CEASEFIRE NOW & FOREVER.




    https://humanendeavour.bandcamp.com/album/free-palestine-a-compilation-for-humanitarian-aid

    Free Palestine: A Compilation for Humanitarian Aid
    The situation we’re witnessing in Gaza is heartbreaking. While the world watches, over 30,000 innocent Palestinian people, many of whom were children, have been killed and over 70,000 more injured in attacks since October 7th. Homes, neighbourhoods and cities have been destroyed, and most of the population has been displaced and left without food, clean drinking water, electricity and fuel.

    The UK government has continued to allow Israel’s bombardment in the region and chosen not to back consistent calls for a ceasefire, despite the overwhelming majority of the UK public being in favour.

    In an effort to raise money for Palestinian aid charities, I’ve reached out to lots of talented artists who have kindly contributed their music to this incredibly important cause.

    Sonically it traverses chugging electronics, proto electro, Italo dance, UK techno and leftfield bass from artists like JD Twitch, Ambien Baby, Lisene, GoodMostlyBad and Azo, all of whom are joining our call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

    FREE PALESTINE.

    All proceeds from the compilation will be split 50/50 between two charities who are working hard to provide support and humanitarian aid in Gaza: Medical Aid Palestine and War Child UK.

    Eternal thanks to Jeena Ra for creating this beautiful artwork and to Justin Drake for lending his mastering skills to the project.





    https://womenofnoise.bandcamp.com/album/women-of-noise-for-palestine

    Women of Noise for Palestine
    !!! FROM MARCH 2024 you can ONLY send us a receipt of your own donation to PCRF to our e-mail womenofnoise@gmail.com in order to receive a download code for the album.

    All proceeds for this charity compilation were donated to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.





    https://aterral.bandcamp.com/album/gaza-fundraiser

    Gaza Fundraiser
    Our hearts go out to those affected by the ongoing situation. Our compilation, though a small gesture that does not remotely address the complexity of the issue, aims to raise funds for Gaza's people amidst the stark reality of an oppressively imbalanced struggle. Marked by widespread destruction and critical shortages of food, water, and electricity, the situation in Gaza is dire. Our focus is on providing aid where the international community has fallen short. Our efforts stand firmly in support of an immediate cease-fire and in response to an urgent need for relief.

    We have decided to select two charities, donating 100% of our proceeds equally between them:

    Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) - www.pcrf.net/about-us
    Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) - www.map.org.uk/about-map/about-map

    A sincere thank you to all the artists who have contributed, and to Tawfiq Dawi for helping us out with the artwork. The solidarity and support in our community is humbling to see.





    https://moottapeslabel.bandcamp.com/album/gaza-relief-fund-ep

    Gaza Relief Fund EP
    We know that music seems frivolous in a time like this, but we are just using it as a means to get money to Palestinian charities. Please encourage everyone you know to give directly to the PCRF or a similar Palestinian charity—if you fund a Palestinian charity send us a screenshot and we will give you this EP for free. This is a small gesture, but lots of small gestures add up. We need to diplomatically and economically isolate Israel. Israeli Apartheid needs to end. Free Palestine and fund Palestine!

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  • TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User regular
    Another one for y'all.

    https://gunkyard.bandcamp.com/album/for-palestine

    For Palestine
    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    For Palestine is GUNK's digital compilation album made by artists and musicians in solidarity with Palestinian liberation.

    100% of donations of For Palestine will support Palestinian organizing efforts worldwide and relief in Gaza, splitting between the Palestinian Youth Movement — a transnational grassroots and independent movement of Palestinian and Arab youth struggling toward the liberation of Palestine, and Anera’s rapid response relief aid: distributing hygiene kits, food, and blood donations in Gaza.

    palestinianyouthmovement.com
    www.anera.org

    For Palestine releases November 15, 2023 features 53 songs by artists in NYC and beyond.

    Contributors:
    Adelyn Strei
    Alex Harwood
    Alyx Zauderer
    Avery Friedman
    bobbie
    Boyfactory
    Buice
    Captain Tallen
    Ceci Sturman
    d. a. crimson
    Dead Gowns
    Downtilt
    Ebb
    Eli Winter
    Elijah Wolf
    Frankie Cosmos
    ghost crab
    h. pruz
    Helenor
    James Chrisman
    Jane Lai
    Kat Curey
    Kevin Boots
    Kid Lake
    Lamniformes
    Lea Jaffe
    Lily Talmers
    little cliff
    mean2me
    Mike Nowotarski
    Mutual Benefit
    nara's room
    Oblivion Orchestra
    Overheard
    Paul Spring
    PFFU
    Pinky Verde
    Reaches
    Sam Cope
    Savannah Rabin
    Sex Week
    Siberian Teens
    sister.
    Slake/Thirst
    Small Wonder
    The Answers In Between
    The Lunar Calendar
    Tiberius
    Told Slant
    towhead
    Why Bonnie
    Youth Large
    Yvonne Hunter

    Curated by GUNK (Ceci Sturman and Hannah Pruzinsky)
    album cover by Felix Walworth, edited by Abigail Paulson

    Free Palestine. Solidarity forever.

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User regular
    A quick lesson on the anti-apartheid origins of Ska from J.E.R. of Skatune Network:

    https://www.instagram.com/skatunenetwork/reel/C0Hdd_fO5UZ/
    It is the least ska thing to stay silent during a genocide. It is the least ska thing to support an apartheid state.

    Since it’s inception, ska has been fundamentally intertwined with politics. The music was birthed from Jamaican independence from their colonizers. The artists who pioneered the genre stood against violence inflicted by a colonizer, apartheid state.

    On his 1977 record, equal rights, Peter Tosh sings
    “Everyone is talking about crime
    Tell me who are the criminals?
    Palestine is fighting for Equal rights and justice“

    Historically, ska has sided itself on the right side of history. Make sure you do too! From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    Brojob released a new single today, and while I've been following their new singer for awhile on Instagram I haven't actually listened to any of their music before. The song's about blowjobs and jizz, and it's pretty heavy. Looking forward to more from them!

    https://youtu.be/BEAKgxbYiyI?si=HgvNg8PqhbfZ2oLl

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    for those watchin coachella, hatsune miku is going on in like 20

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsXtPO4tUYE

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Just had to adjust the truss rod on my guitar

    I hate doing that it always freaks me out

    But my first string was not ringing right on the first couple of frets (F and F#) with no sustain at all and I looked at it and like, the string was basically touching those first two frets or damn close to it.

    Makes me think maybe the notch is cut too deep in the nut actually?

    But after giving it a little anti clockwise movement of like a 8th to a quarter turn it is at least ringing out again. I am beginning to worry it's too humid in here to store it in my room? I dunno

    The intonation needs work too everything past the octave is slightly sharp and more noticeable closer to the 24th fret you get. Not that I'm ever playing in that part of the neck I'm not that good haha. So it's rarely a problem.

    Uriel on
  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    You can check nut slot depth by pressing the string down at the 3rd fret and checking the height over the 1st fret. It should have just a sliver of space. In my experience, most nut slots from production guitars are actually too high.

    As for the humidity in your space, it's probably fine. Guitars are stored in poorly climate managed warehouses and stores for months. It's probably just that time of year when the weather is changing significantly and the neck is gonna react to that.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Heh

    Nut slot depth

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Heh

    Nut slot depth

    Where else are you going to put your G string?

  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User regular
    Heh

    Nut slot depth

    Where else are you going to put your G string?

    Depends. Does your guitar have F-holes?

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  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    I have begun recording some ideas for a little ditty. Perhaps in several months when I have enough ideas and have it them together and learned how to program drums and also mix and master I will post it for you all to listen to.

  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    Just bought tickets for Barenaked Ladies concert in October. That crosses off a second of my top 5 favorite bands to see in concert.

    Dream Theater almost happened last year, but it was too close to my daughter's due date. Metallica will be very expensive and make me sad.

    My fifth varies between Zevon, Cohen, and Buffett so no matter what that one's not happening.

  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    BNL's Rock Spectacle is genuinely one of my favourite live albums. I've never actually gotten to see them in person though. Have fun!

    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

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  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    Magell wrote: »
    Dream Theater almost happened last year, but it was too close to my daughter's due date.

    Better try like hell for the next one, then. Given their previous touring volume with Portnoy in the battery, I anticipate the 40th Anniversary tour lasting till one of the five breaks a hip or strokes out on stage.

    No matter where you go...there you are.
    ~ Buckaroo Banzai
  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Heh

    Nut slot depth

    Where else are you going to put your G string?

    Depends. Does your guitar have F-holes?

    No it's a solid body, schecter Omen extreme in a blue cloud burst finish.

    I do think those look cool though. I wonder how different it makes the sound as I have never played one.

    Anyway I need to practice more again, I really want to go back to lessons still too because I'm kinda stalled out for how to move forward in my playing as there's so many paths to learning more.

    I also need to get over the hump of trying to learn to play along with full songs without getting intimidated by it.

    Edit to be clear I know I'm responding to a joke post but eh whenever

    Uriel on
  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    I wish I still knew other local guitarists or other musicians I could try to learn to jam with and pick up things from.

    Alas

  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    @Darmak That shit is hilarious. Made my day.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0CerQcBZu8

  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    What can I say, I really appreciate good poetry

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oh cool, Kittie released a second single. It's a banger, I'm definitely looking forward to their upcoming album

    https://youtu.be/wtxGVI87pls?si=l5O90V2Kt0PW0LcW

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    Man, I love women singing over metal. No joke. It’s been my main gateway into metal these past few years.

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    I like the singer for jinjer

    The was she switches from singing normal to the really deep yelling or back at the drop of a hat is absolutely insane to me

    Just googled her since I didn't remember her last name. She's apparently like my age which is a little odd to me for some reason. I always assume people who are that talented would be older than me.

    Uriel on
  • TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
    Man, I love women singing over metal. No joke. It’s been my main gateway into metal these past few years.

    Check out Spiritbox if you haven't already

  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    Tynnan wrote: »
    Man, I love women singing over metal. No joke. It’s been my main gateway into metal these past few years.

    Check out Spiritbox if you haven't already

    Face Yourself is pretty great too

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  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    Darmak wrote: »
    Tynnan wrote: »
    Man, I love women singing over metal. No joke. It’s been my main gateway into metal these past few years.

    Check out Spiritbox if you haven't already

    Face Yourself is pretty great too

    I'd also add Ad Infinitum and Seven Spires to the list, though they are both in a bit proggier direction.

    No matter where you go...there you are.
    ~ Buckaroo Banzai
  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Rap beef is fucking boring right now but this?
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    This is that GRADE-A beef. This is old school ARTIST beef, Hemingway getting soused and taking potshots beef. This beats ass.

  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    I mean, she's right

  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    I mean, she's right

    I agree with her, but that's even completely aside from why I think this rules

    There is nobody on the planet better built to withstand the inevitable fury thrown at her. It will be water off a duck's back. We get to enjoy some just old-school hateration without modern internet making it all fucking weird and stupid.

  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    edited April 16
    Rap beef is fucking boring right now but this?
    This is that GRADE-A beef. This is old school ARTIST beef, Hemingway getting soused and taking potshots beef. This beats ass.

    Cause when I think of important and interesting musical statements, I think of Hole.

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Cause when I think of important and interesting, I think of Hole.

    I would contend that they were both!!

  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    edited April 16
    Cause when I think of important and interesting, I think of Hole.

    I would contend that they were both!!

    The interesting I can go with on most of Celebrity Skin and a couple of tracks off Pretty on the Inside, but I never thought of them as important.

    Then of course, I wasn't big on the alt-rock and punk scene of their era, so it may just be me.

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  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    "Celebrity Skin" has a lot to say about how women were viewed in the 90s and thats just one song.

  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    I know folks have (largely deserved) opinions about Pitchfork, but they have this one REALLY cool recurring feature that I wish more people about, where every Sunday they take a look at a historically-significant (in some music critic's estimation) album. They examine the cultural and industry context around the album, where it slots into an artist's catalog/reputation, the pieces are always REALLY interesting even (maybe especially?) when they're about artists/albums I don't know much about. Fantastic feature.

    Anyway, there's a piece about Hole's Live Through This that I really love: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/hole-live-through-this/

  • AzraithAzraith DON'T Registered User regular
    I got to see Rosegarden Funeral Party open for Night Club here this last weekend and dang they put on a great show. Intimate venue. They have a great 80's goth vibe that hits just right.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRJuxPAyhH4

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  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    Hole were great and Courtney Love genuinely has a case for being one of the most unfairly maligned celebrity of her era, which is fucking saying something.

    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Look. I got thoughts about this, and I actually published a piece a few years back about this exact topic, so I'm gonna rant a little bit.

    Courtney Love is truly one of god's own prototypes. It's easy to let the misadventures of Courtney Love (punching Kathleen Hanna in the face, calling Cypress Hill "a bunch of pussies", her relationships with people like Kurt Cobain, Trent Reznor, and Billy Corgan, talking shit about Olivia Rodrigo, etc) color your perceptions and overshadow things, but beyond all that she's one of the most talented and important songwriters of her generation.

    Every record is absolutely vital. Live Through This is a perfect record and in another world where it wasn't overshadowed by the specter of the literal and figurative death of Grunge, it would have been instantly received as a modern classic. It offers an uncompromising and unfiltered female point of view on trauma that traditionally just didn't get play in Rock and Roll at the time, and even with all the doors it kicked down it still got relegated to the sidelines as an "angry chick record" by radio stations and reviewers. Or "that record that Kurt probably wrote", which is, of course, more misogynist bullshit -- any dipshit who bothers to listen to Hole's discography is going to immediately recognize the throughline of Courtney Love's singular voice, with (at most) the barest hint of the pop sensibilities of Cobain's songwriting. Love's point of view in almost all of her best writing has always been driven by clear, righteous anger and lived experiences that shares very little with Kurt's Burroughs-esque disjointed poetry.

    Celebrity Skin is another record that's just incredibly unfairly maligned. It existed at the wrong time in the popular culture to really connect like the first two records, but it's also just a front-to-back collection of songs that should make most bands jealous. The title track is a mirror polished pop song dressed up in grunge riffs that tackles the dark side of fame and the industry that reduces young women to a constant churn of pretty faces and eye catching cover art. It's a towering piece of craft that evokes Dante Gabriel Rossetti to give a middle finger to vicious, predatory industry. And that's not even getting into tracks like "Boys on the Radio", "Malibu", and especially "Awful" which follows similar themes and prove that Courtney's songwriting chops and razor sharp tongue aren't a fluke.

    Not only does Hole have a frankly peerless discography, but her solo record absolutely fucking rips and has more attitude than most shit written by people half her age.

    From "Mono", off her solo record America's Sweetheart:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2SmHALECBw

    "Well they say that rock is dead
    They're probably right
    Ninety-nine girls in the pit
    Did it have to come to this?
    Oh god you owe me one more song
    So I can prove to you that I am so much better than him"

    It wouldn't be Courtney Love if she wasn't willing to stare down her own legacy and spit in the face of her detractors. And you know what? That rules.

    And Courtney's right, of course. It's just taken a lot of people way too long to realize it. I'll argue any day of the week that Hole's influence is still rippling through modern feminist rock music more than almost any other band of the grunge era. She may not be solely responsible, but there's a clear fucking line that starts at Pretty on the Inside and continues past Hole's discography, right through bands like Mannequin Pussy, Paramore, Amyl and the Sniffers, Weakened Friends, Olivia Rodrigo, Fresh, Charly Bliss, Screaming Females, Bully, and Destroy Boys. She talks a lot of shit, but she's one of a rare breed who can actually back it up.

    So yeah, do I think Taylor Swift is great in her own right? Of course. She's a fantastic pop songwriter and she's very important to a lot of people. But if Courtney Love wants to talk shit about her she's earned that right and is better equipped to kick that beehive than anyone on the planet.

    God bless Courtney Love. We don't deserve her, but that never stopped her.

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  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    Alrighty then, I have a homework assignment for this weekend.

    No matter where you go...there you are.
    ~ Buckaroo Banzai
  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    I have recently seen people saying she killed Kurt.

    Even if I give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they were joking, it's still an extremely shitty thing to say! For a lot of reasons!

    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

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  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    facetious wrote: »
    I have recently seen people saying she killed Kurt.

    Even if I give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they were joking, it's still an extremely shitty thing to say! For a lot of reasons!

    Da fuq?!

    I wasn't into Nirvana, but based on his history and behavior leading up to it, he needed help and sadly never got it, for whatever reason.

    No matter where you go...there you are.
    ~ Buckaroo Banzai
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