#local folk bands!!

[mifithemuffin]

I 🩷 working on big projects because as soon as I start it becomes everyone else's problem

[daemonhxckergrrl]

synthesizers ? trans women

prog rock ? trans women

punk ? trans women

bass guitar ? trans women

noise ? trans women

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💛🤍💜🖤

[ghostincorrectinternetedition]

Primo: One thing about me is that I love a trinket. A knickknack. A little tchotchke. If it has no useful function, but is pretty or weird, it’s being displayed in my suite.

[sage-the-unwise]

i find it so interesting that the slugcats have titles instead of names. instead of being a concrete person with an individual name, they're a role to fill, someone the player can inhabit to experience being an animal in a certain way. also they conveniently sound like mythological archetypes, which i think is neat

[floral-hex]

“you should get all your patches from local bands and live shows!” Honey, I’m poor and I live in arkansas, how am I supposed to do that?

[oysterie]

sometimes i want to tongue-in-cheek post like "you all need to listen to shitty music" in reference to like finding random bandcamp albums and listening to artists w two dozen monthly listeners and appreciating them and adding them to your playlists and enjoying them but i cannot make myself call these artists i listen to shit or bad because i genuinly think theyre good despite sometimes low audio quality/cliche lyrics/undistinguished vocals/etc like. i am a serial low monthly listener artist enjoyer have found some of the best music construction and lyrics in these albums yknow. even putting aside calls to support local scenes and indie music or we loose subcultures and venues and artists these are still skilled people make genuinly good art and i feel bad reducing them to indie playlist titled shitty emo indie or whatever 👍like obvi youre not hurting them by saying such things but it feels redactive.

[briannacarmel]

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My name is Brianna Carmel. I am a 25-year old DIY musician + show promoter from Sacramento, CA who is in a few different projects.

I'd consider my main project to be my sadcore indie pop band, @bloomingheads.

We're in the middle of recording our debut album, but we've been around for a couple years, technically since late 2018. In the two years that we played shows nonstop before our current recording hiatus, we've opened for bands like Walter Etc., Crywank, and Hoity-Toity.

Here is our song Axis Access, which we submitted to NPR's Tiny Desk Contest.

I also recently joined my bandmate Josiah's main project, @little-tiny-knife. This band is very much their brainchild, a chiptune folk punk act whose music has touched my heart since I met them in 2016.

As you can see in a couple of these photos, LTK is technically a 3-piece; our bassist Jim is currently away doing Real Adult Things™️, but we're hoping for him to join us for our next show on April 2nd--we'll be opening for Local News Legend, with our friend Ash Bricky, at Golden Bear (21+).

Our debut single, Tired of Driving, is available now on spotify + bandcamp, and our next upcoming single, Roll Up Your Sleeves, is, quite frankly, a banger. Here's proof:

I'm also a solo artist in my spare time, I have been writing by myself since I was 16 and releasing my own music since I was 20.

I consider myself a singer-songwriter with a folk punk soul. My most recent solo release, the Building Blocks EP, has been described by @musicshelfwithmustard as "deeply personal and vulnerable ... as each track builds up and escalates into situations that should make a human feel uncomfortable."

In addition to all of this, I book + promote DIY shows in the Sacramento-area, under the moniker 916 Growth Gigs. I imagine this info is useless to anyone who isn't a DIY band touring through Sacramento, but, under this moniker, I am in the process of curating a compilation album of Paramore covers by queer DIY bands, to be released on bandcamp during pride month this year. All proceeds will benefit the HRC Foundation.

Currently, 16 tracks have been claimed, and it's looking to be a badass tracklist so far!

Here's a list of things I mainly post about // corresponding tags (may be updated as time goes on)...

@bloomingheads // #blooming heads

@little-tiny-knife // #little tiny knife

my solo project // #solo

my face/life stuff/thoughts I shoot into the void // #personal?

QUEERMORE comp album updates // #queermore updates

I also reblog posts about bands + media that I enjoy; Paramore is my special interest, I really enjoy nerdy shit like Doctor Who, Star Trek, various anime series, etc.

If you enjoy my content and would like to support me directly, consider supporting me on patreon for a mere $2/mo.?

[daisyachain]

the two-out symbol always reminds me of the horns + work stress has made me realize that i only listen to heavier metal when i need to chill out so. little abe-kun in his low-effort getup going out to a show. maybe in his uni years.

[mayra-quijotescx]

enjoying some live music right now (the Mrs. is playing the bass and the cat is screaming)

[transbcyfriend]

my brother took me to an az taproom w a stage for local punk bands. and i think. it may have altered my brain chemistry 🧍‍♂️

[krashing-starz]

my ideal job is a radio show from like 2-5 am in which i play music and discuss celebrity drama like a normal morning radio show BUT all the songs are covers of various top 40s by local bands and all the celebrity drama is made up and it’s heavily implied that im from an alternative universe but we never explain how or why this is

[youreaspecialflower]

This is where I'm at these days

[cowpokezuko]

For anyone interested, here are my song recs for each genre. Some of these are traditional songs that have a lot of versions, these are just my favorites. Also the line between country and folk is very fine and I run between the two like an excited dog.

Colonialism but Sad

Northwest Passage-Stan Rogers

Let the Bulgine Run-Four Pints Shy

Rollin' Down to Old Maui

Johnny Boy's Bones-Colter Wall

American Remains-The Highwaymen

Shenandoah-Pete Seeger

Rocky Mountain High-John Denver

Lost Lovers

Girl from the North Country-Bob Dylan

Bury Me Beneath the Willow-Four Pints Shy

May the Road-Four Pints Shy

Diamonds and Rust-Joan Baez

It Ain't Me Babe-Joan Baez

Leaving on a Jet Plane-John Denver

Lay, Lady, Lay-Bob Dylan

Undone in Sorrow-Four Pints Shy

Workers of the World Unite!

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize-Pete Seeger

Tear the Fascists Down-Woody Guthrie

John Henry-Woody Guthrie

The Rebel Girl-Hazel Dickens

John Brown's Body-Pete Seeger

Come Out Ye Black and Tans-The Wolfe Tones

Leave 'Er, Johnny-Dublin Gulch

Union Maid-Old Crow Medicine Show

Which Side Are You On-Pete Seeger

Chemical Worker's Lament-The Teeside Fettlers

Fairwell Johnny Miner-Dublin Gulch

I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore-Woody Guthrie

Blowin' in the Wind-Bob Dylan

Kinky Boots-The Irish Brigade

The Ballad of Bloody Thursday

Sparrow-Four Pints Shy

Byker Hill-Four Pints Shy

Additional subgroup: War Protest Songs

Where Have All the Flowers Gone-Peter, Paul, and Mary

Draft Dodgers Rag-Phil Ochs

Man in Black-Johnny Cash

Wild Irish Rose-George Jones

Knockin' On Heaven's Door-Bob Dylan

Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation-Tom Paxton

There are three genres of folk music:

Colonialism but we're sad about it

I have lost my one true love and now I'm going to play a sad banjo song

Workers of the world Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! You can and should beat the shit out of capitalists and their thugs.

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

Me finishing up a long talk about labor politics and how airport 🛩️ workers should strike next -> logging on to girlblog about my favorite jet setting pop star Taylor Swift ✨🦄🎆💖⚡️ because having a fandom tumblr account or not isn’t actually praxis 🌹💪🏻👩‍🌾

[hedgehog-moss]

I went to see the transhumance last week and it was an experience! I've lived here for five years and I'd never been to this event despite it being advertised in the library & town hall every year because I thought, it's just cows crossing a town on their way to their summer pastures, it's not that interesting—but I didn't realise that people turned it into a whole party, as people tend to do. When I arrived in town I found that a nearby field had been (temporarily) turned into a car park to accommodate the many, many visitors who came to see the spectacle—and I was like, maybe I've been missing out on something.

The town was festooned with tassels and garlands (some of the cows were also festooned, with big pompons on their horns) (festoon is a really great English word.) When I arrived there was a thriving little market with several cheese stands, because of course people would take this opportunity to sell their cheeses. They also sold bread, fruit, and cow milk-based desserts including ice-cream, so you were covered if you wanted lunch. (Unless you're lactose intolerant. I'm sorry.)

There were also folk dancers, and a contest going on where you had to guess the weight of an absolutely massive bull (see above). (My guess was way off, he weighed 1 200 kg!) There was a stand with a guy selling beautiful, framed photos of his cows. In one photo a cow was whispering something in her friend's ear. Nearby some prize cows were waiting to be paraded around and one of them was wearing a halter with a little heart <3

(I was invited for apéritif at a neighbour's house a few months ago, he's a retired farmer and he had old Kodak photos of his cows from the 1980s and 90s all over his house. He remembered their names and personalities.)

There was also a stand selling a dizzying variety of cow bells, and I've been resisting the temptation to buy a cow bell for five years now because, well, it's such a cliché tourist thing to buy, but I will probably end up buying one someday. It's hard to resist their allure. I'm not sure which of my animals will have to deal with the humiliation of wearing a bell for a few hours and being photographed cosplaying as a cow against his will.

(Definitely Pirlouit.)

I was buying an ice-cream and asking the vendor if the cows were fashionably late when finally, the herds started arriving. One herd would cross the town, with onlookers clapping and cheering (including from their balconies), then people went back to buying cheese and watching the dancers or the brass band, and commenting on the prize cows strutting on the plaza, then another herd would arrive half an hour later and children would run ahead to warn everyone "They're coming!" (kids love being sentinels) and people would eagerly gather again to clap and cheer as they walked past, and it went on like this all day. You'd think you might get tired of eating ice-cream and clapping for cows but no, people were still enthusiastic when the last herd came.

Imagine being a local cow, and every year when your owners take you to your summer pastures in the mountain you cross a town where people are eating cow milk ice-cream and clapping for you gratefully as you walk past, and buying cow merch (like bells) and admiring an exhibit of framed photos of you and your friends, and watching cow supermodels walking the catwalk on the plaza, and just as you think you've reached maximum levels of appreciation you reach the entrance of town and there's a lifesized statue in your honour in the middle of the roundabout. These cows must have such solid self-esteem.

[midwestphotography]

New Salty Dog live at Muskie Days in Nevis, MN- 7/23/22

I am catching up on editing photos from concerts this past summer and posting them as I go, so posts will be continue to be concert heavy for a while, but eventually I plan to get back to posting a variety of pictures. Just wanted to give an update on why there has been exclusively concert photos for a while.