I finally got around to listening Phoebe's new record and among some uplifting moments and lots of experimenting is this one song that will absolutely tear you apart from the very first few notes. That little piano melody is strong enough to support a whole song.

There's also a dark and impactful little throwback to Boygenius' (band Phoebe Bridgers is a member of) Afraid of Heights in the lyrics. And the climax will absolutely give you goosebumps. I look forward to putting this song on repeat and letting it "ruin" my day.

Hey everyone!

I will listen to and talk about any song you post in the comments. It can be your song or someone else's, any genre. Anything goes!

🎶 Won't you take a ride... on heavy metal 🎶

(We're so fucked)

1. I love listening to songs on repeat and hearing them again and again and again every night
2. I'll get back to you asap

I've been listening to this on repeat for two days. It refuses to get old. I'd love to find the time to learn it.

I've been contemplating making a huge list of songs I want to cover and giving that to my students at their first guitar lesson to choose from. It'd sure make teaching more fun (except the scales and chord changes, which are already fun to me cause I'm a huge nerd)

Good news for small venues and indie bands.

The business rates cut will benefit nearly 32,000 pubs, clubs and live music venues, according to the government, saving the typical pub an estimated £1,100 in the next financial year. The support will be targeted so that the very largest live music venues are not included.

“For too long, governments have stood by while cherished venues have disappeared from our local high streets. So today I am changing that,” the prime minister said. “This government will back the businesses that people want to see in their communities. I said I would protect pubs and local high streets – the beating heart of our communities – and that’s what we will do.”

Been a while since I made one of these

"Show me what you got. I want to see what you got."

It can be anything: your song, someone else's song, a song you like, a song you dislike. Anything.

I will listen to it and comment on it.

Happy Phoebe Bridgers day to all who celebrate! 🥹

I've listened to it half a dozen times already

I've been up for an hour now cause today one of my bandmates fired another one of my bandmates behind my back by telling her that I was in fact the one who wanted her fired but didn't know how to break it to her so I asked him to do it instead, when the truth is he wanted her out of the band because he doesn't want to be in a band with women. So I fired this douchebag and called her to bring her back into the band but now she's so upset by all this that she doesn't want to come back. And now I have a tour next week and it's just me and a drummer

And the worst part of all this? I DREAMED this. None of this is real. And I am raging mad about it and can't fall back asleep. I don't even have a band...

And now I've made an actual real note to tell all prospective band members that I will do all hiring and firing personally, as if this would ever happen in real life. All so I can go back to bed having the peace of mind that I've fixed this completeley made-up problem.

Anxiety dreams, man... they're... I have them.

I've been listening to this angst-filled song for a while now

Today I saw the music video. I did NOT expect this. 😂

In-deep-in-your-mouth Indie right here, folks. Get with it or get left grabbing-your-behind

I've found a new musician that has just the right kind of melancholic vibe. Fresh new album out.

I can't remember ever riding in the back of a pick-up truck like that, but I'm sure I have, else I wouldn't miss it so much.

How likely are you to buy music from an indie musician? Do you buy merch from bands you like? Have you ever bought anything from someone's Bandcamp or other digital download sites? Do you go to local shows?

If you don't, what's stopping you? Personal financial troubles? General anxiety about the economy? Something different?

I'd like to get a broad view of Lemmy on this. I see a lot of people promoting piracy without elaborating around here. Their position on big labels is clear to me, but I'm always curious where they stand on indie art.

Are they only mad at the likes of Universal and Warner, or do they think "making music shouldn't be job"?

EDIT: While we're at it, feel free to recommend some albums too :D

No, it's counterproductive perfectionism

I'm sitting here watching live performances on KEXP and seeing how they're using SM-58s and Sennheiser HD-280 PROs for vocals and monitoring respectively and I'm thinking...

I have a £580 Neumann TLM 102 microphone on my shopping list that I've been saving up for to record my vocals, because that's a "studio mic"

These performances sound perfectly fine and my vocals wouldn't exactly suck if I recorded them with my SM-58. And yet, I'm stalling, waiting until I can make it all "perfect". What a disease. It's not even like I'm putting that mic in a professional studio or through anything more than a Focusrite 4i4 in a tiny room I'll treat to the best of my amateur knowledge. And it's not like the mic itself is some unique fancy high-end thing or like mics can magically make your voice better (sometimes even a high-end one will literally be a bad fit for your particular voice)

I wish I could be one of those people who just do things and hope for the best. For once I wish I could just rip off the band-aid.

My perfectionism helped me excel academically but also almost miss deadlines. Now that I have no deadlines, I'm free to waste entire years of my life, and it is fucking terrifying.

I've changed the cups on those HD-280s twice since I started this album and I still haven't gotten around to recording the damn thing. My days are spent in limbo, doing all sorts of other things, from paid work to purely wasting time. Awful.

It's been a while since I've done one of these

I will listen to every song posted in the comments. Post your own song or any song you'd like to talk about! 😊

This is the first EP by the band Momma

If you're a beginner guitarist, please listen to this EP and more by Momma to see that you don't have to achieve full proficiency in order to write absolutely great music!

There are riffs in here I'd dare start teaching in a first lesson and I absolutely love them! It's amazing how much they can do with so little in some of their songs.

If you know more stuff that you think a beginner could pull off with a bit of practice, drop it in the comments, my clients will thank you! :D

If you're a musician and you're using social media platforms other than the massive mainstream ones, thank you for being here.

I hope we collectively manage to create a future environment where artists hold control over their art and algorithms and marketing budgets don't decide who gets to make a living.

Small steps.

I'll be taking on a personal challenge. I'll try to get at least one artist I know or like to join at least one non-mainstream social media platform every month.

If I succeed, I'll be back with proof. And if I succeed, you should all try it too! :) It will most likely require [yuck] logging into Meta to message people, but...

I'm willing to fill up a few barf bags while I'm at it. haha All for the greater good.