DAY 4 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

Challange four gets a little deep and dark….

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

HELLO & WELCOME to Alternative Nation, the Fediverse's largest alternative & indie music community!

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 "@alternativenation@lemmy.world" 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 "@AlternativeNation@lemmy.world" 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 🌈💕

Surprised I'm just now hearing this band. Solid ska punk tunes!

Don't think for a moment of looking down

"Echoes of a culture that would slaughter an indigenous racе / Echoes of a culture that would dare to put a man in chains"

• MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5e93a77b-486e-4cb1-a2e9-9da26e6d0d3b
• Official homepage: https://www.ististmusic.com/

• MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/29acd2bb-7e67-4722-97ed-472e365ae860
• Official homepage: https://highvisuk.com/

Drunk Mums have been around for a while. I believe they started as a band in Brisbane, but like so many others, they have ended up based in Mebourne. I first stumbled onto them maybe 10 years ago. I took some overseas visitors out on a school night and we ended up at a rock venue called Cherry Bar, on AC/DC Lane. DMs were on one of their visits from Brisbane.

Purely by chance, today I cycled down the very street that they are seen riding the e-scooters in this video.

Youtube link

One from the vault.

Youtube link

This band has a great sound. Admirers of stuff like Mazzy Star might find this up their alley.

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Thanks to @phant for pointing me in the direction of this current Melbourne band after I posted a track from a 90’s near namesake Melbourne band.

[Youtube link](https://youtu.be/watch?v= 6auDcfZM3Q8)

Edit - swapped out this song

• MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e538319d-a827-4bca-aefb-61f40ab74181
• Official homepage: https://www.gift-music.com/

Content Warning - The imagery is censored but the fruity lyrics remain.

What do you really think, Amy?

YT link

Another Canberra formed band that seems to now be based in Melbourne.

• This was from their first album. The video depicts life as a touring, indie band in Australia
• They have a new album out in November. You can find some of the already released songs on their channel/streaming.
• Not a name I would have chosen for my band!

• MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c0b8b637-d202-4428-a788-fd2e4f68736c

I just discovered this band that hails from Canberra, Australia's capital. It seems that some of them are based in Melbourne, which is where this video was shot. IMO, this is the most alluring of their tracks that I can find. The chime of the guitars and the effervescent vocal delivery /lyrics, do it for me.

YT link

I'm only just catching up with this 2022 album.

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This one makes me want to shotgun a Pilsner and hug all my buddies.

YT link

• MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c4153c51-b4ac-4183-beb3-c5dbfce39176
• Official homepage: https://www.cursivearmy.com/

Mix tape recreation part 5.

It wasn't all jangly indie rock.

YT link

Classic cassette mix part 4.

I love me some jangly power pop.

See also

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My classic, cassette mix tape playlist tracks series, part 3.

There are many bands who have been called Peachfuzz. Maybe the most niche of them is this indie rock band from Melbourne, Australia. I received this CD to review for a fanzine that I was part of, at the time. I like this track.

I have an even more obscure Melbourne band called Hurdy Gurdy on my playlist, that I would love to post, but they are so obscure, no one has put their stuff on Youtube!

Peachfuzz YT backup link

Another one from one of my classic mix tape recreation playlists.

Connoisseurs of Dinosaur Jr. may find this to be a sacrilegious cover of the track from the debut DJ album, but the BB version is quite faithful to the 1985 original, plus objectively, Juliana has a better singing voice than J! I like this version, a lot.

Alternative Youtube link

A song that just popped up on a playlist I have that recreates one of my classic mix tapes.

Alternative YT link

See also: The Plunderers - Christo

• MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/31f07dfd-df64-48dc-856e-9968059b8e35

Recorded this year.

Alt Invidious link, if you can make it work:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=UyGyuavlin4