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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!

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☝️ 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?

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✌️ 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 "@[email protected]" 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 "@[email protected]" 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!

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🤟 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 🌈💕

It is Monday, for most of us.

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Alternative rock / indie rock / grunge / shoegaze

Song written, produced and mixed by Gabzito. Video edited by Gabzito, no AI used anywhere

LYRICS:

Lose your job, drop your friends, all the same in the end I’ll be there, for all you need, no one loves you more than me Tell me all you wanna see, with everything I will agree Please believe when I say, I’ll keep your feelings locked away Yeah Hey yeah

Lose your job, drop your friends, now on me you will depend We’ll find a way to relate, even though I’ll be your end I’ll save you time, fix your rhyme, will you let me own your mind? There is money to be made, so keep your worries locked away Yeah Hey yeah I want you to buy your thoughts and the things I stole from you I want you to find yourself questioning reality I want you to see yourself just the way I made you be

Use me now don’t fall behind, together we’ll commodify All you things you'll ever see, until you can’t believe your eyes All humanity will fade, but there's no time to be afraid There is money to be made, so keep your worries locked away

Yeah Hey yeah Hey yeah Hey yeah

1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, come on!

I posted the original MV here a while ago, and I recently noticed that the band have been touring again…35 years (!) later. They have a KCRW set that is nice.

In this video, Rachel Goswell joined them in London for a rendition of the song. Despite it being a crowd shot video, it still sounds great and I think it's special to see her reprise the role she had on the song, way back in '91.

Like ratatouille only mouse-ier. A great band that often squeezes on stage with ~9 members from all parts of the ochestra as well as rock band (violin, trombone, clarinet). Cool interplay between fun tunes and sad-core vocals.

Know any bands with a similar line up?

I've listened to kisses' album a number of times now and really love it. Saw them play recently as well and they were great. Very melancholic, but searingly beautiful. I take "the Eastern" [highway] to work most days and definitely feel the hum.

New record from Inland Years out now.

Twelve short songs recorded at home and with a DIY spirit.

Released by BSDJ out of Japan. Cassettes available on Bandcamp.

If you have 24 minutes today, I'd love for you to spend them with Nowadays. I think you’ll like it.

X - Blue Spark

yes

I've been listening through my Blake Schwarzenbach catalog, and this ep is disproportionately high on the list. Nothing but love for this little moment.

When Olivia Rodrigo announced Daisy Chain Fields, her long-awaited all-female music festival, the music world had one overwhelming response: it was about time. What nobody anticipated was that the conversation would be hijacked by a drummer from an all-male indie band, publicly announcing his band's absence from a lineup they weren't eligible to perform in the first place.

Jacob Tomsky, 47, drummer of Cigarettes After Sex, has since deleted the comment. The people on the internet, however, still want to say their piece.

Under a TikTok video of that very interview, Tomsky, 47, dropped a since-deleted comment: 'We won't be there lol tf'. When a baffled user asked him to explain, he replied: 'I mean, it feels like some forced promo for a festival, right? I'm just saying our band won't be performing there.'