Music

In Japan they have a couple of very cool J-Rock bands like Polkadot Stingray, FREDERIK, KANA BOON or Band Maid.

I just found another one: NECRY TALKIE.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25830853

Ripping version of Money in Both Pockets, with:

Ian Friend - Guitar
Scott Fried - Mandolin
Ryan Grant - Bass
Colby Joplin - Fiddle
Ben Perdue - Mandolin
Sam Stallings - Banjo

Feather+Flask opened for the Dustbowl Revival this past Thursday at the Elkton Music Hall in Elkton, MD. They are a new band with extremely talented musicians, amazing energy, and beautiful harmonies. They kind of remind me of Rusted Root with better vocals and they really deserve a lot of listens!

https://tidal.com/artist/49257322?u

https://on.soundcloud.com/ssY3bjAAjweFUQD4A

https://youtu.be/surSOwaByqs

a sampling of my favorite singles this month in no particular order. what were some of your most played songs of January? :D

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25364682

Missouri C tune played by Charlie Walden.

Another view of the same session

This is in addition to bandcamp, which AFAIK is unsurpassed in its awesomeness.

For less niche stuff, I've used 7 digital and Qobuz in the past; both have screwed me over by either making it very difficult to download my purchases, or else charging me for an entire album before revealing (in a light grey font on a white background) that 60% of the tracks can only be streamed but not downloaded due to rights issues. I don't think amazon's ever sold FLAC, and even if they did, I would never buy anything from them. And I'm not willing to use Spotify since it screws its artists over so badly.

So, with all those various conditions laid down, is there anything left that anyone would recommend? Getting CDs from the library and ripping them works too, but depending on the album, it can take so long for it to arrive through interlibrary loan that by the time I get it, I've moved on to other things!

The flag at the start is a bit anachronistic as Howard Zinn would not write this quote until 21 years after this song was written. However, I like the quote a lot, and I consider it fitting for an anti-war song.

"British War" refers to the War of 1812. In other recordings, he sings "British wars."

"Injun" is an old slur for Native Americans; "Little Bighorn" refers to the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Battle of the Greasy Grass), where Native forces successfully repelled a colonizer army led by George Armstrong Custer.

"United Fruit" refers to the United Fruit Company, a multinational corporation that participated, at the behest of the United States, in economic imperialism against much of Latin America, devastating these lands and turning them into effective puppet states of the US, with heavy economic inequality, poverty, and other such miseries. In 1960, they were accused by Fidel Castro of aiding Cuban exiles in an eventual plan to invade Cuba, which happened at the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.

"I ain't marching anymore" is a 1965 anti-war protest song by the American singer-songwriter Phil Ochs. He initially released it on his second album, the song's namesake, as a protest to the ongoing Vietnam War (of which he was a very passionate critic). Like many of his other songs, it was treated with suspicion by the US government, and seldom played on the radio (a factor that vindicated its purpose for him), though it was popular among the anti-war movement in the 60s, with Ochs even performing it outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, provoking hundreds to burn their draft cards. After Phil Ochs died, it was revealed that the FBI had nearly 500 pages on him.

This recording is an electronic remix released in 1966 as a single accompanied by The Blues Project, but was rather unpopular compared to the original acoustic version. I decided to use it because, though I do prefer the acoustic version, this one felt more conducive to uploading.

cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/10266150

This one's for Elon 👍

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English lyrics (not very poetic but at least accurate): https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-rammstein-mutter-english-translation-lyrics

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