#local folk bands!!

[mifithemuffin]

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

[birdfriend-theband]

[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 🌹💪🏻👩‍🌾

[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.

[briannacarmel]

‼️shows‼️

@little-tiny-knife 04.02: Golden Bear (21+) w/ Local News Legend + Ash Bricky

solo 04.22: charity e-gig on youtube w/ Cayt W, Pacing, + MANY more

solo 04.45: The Colony Sacramento w/ @lokeigh, Terra Tigerman, Audrey Plath, + Chloe Defector (benefit for Pride Was A Riot Sac)

solo 05.25: @lokeigh's EP RELEASE SHOW at Golden Bear (21+)

If you've never listened to LTK, check out our next upcoming single, Roll Up Your Sleeves:

If you've never listened to my solo stuff, check out this song, Take Me Back, from my most recent release, the Building Blocks EP:

I hope to see you at a show! Thanks for reading!

[ms-demeanor]

This is regarding your post involving making friends. I have had a spectacular amount of failures in meetup groups, particularly involving men from multiple meetup groups trying to take advantage of me or using me. In addition to that, the other members of the groups tend are often quite rude. Also, many meetups in my area tend to fall into one of the following categories: professional seminar, mommy & me, or the other members are double my age or older. What would you advise?

Volunteering - find something you care about and see if there is a local volunteer opportunity; you might want to look into food banks or mutual aid projects.

Crafting - this will likely be an older crew, but making friends with older people is cool honestly.

Sports - see if there's a kickball league or some other variety of low-key sport that you can sign up for.

Get super into the local music scene. Go to bar shows, go to basement shows, go to backyard shows. If you go to places where they have local music and hang out a bunch you will get to know local music people eventually, which includes both people in bands and people interested in bands.

Become a regular at your local library. Go once a week at the same time of day and you'll start to get to know people.

Become a regular at something else local. If you go to the same coffee shop three times a week for a few months and are polite to the employees you will probably eventually have friends among the people there; even if you do this by walking around the neighborhood park at the same time of day you will start getting to know the park regulars people love habits and if you can become a chill part of their daily scenery they will eventually want to investigate further.

Start your own club of some kind. Maybe start a book club for a particular genre of book that you like, or start a movie group where you meet up to see a movie together twice a month. You can post things like this on meetup websites or facebook, but you can also make fliers to put up in places that you think people you might find interesting would hang out.

Join a gym and go regularly. Sometimes a random person you see all the time in a gym can go from being a reliable on-the-spot spotter to a good friend.

Take a class locally. See if your town has a community center that offers cooking classes or computer classes or any kind of classes even things you already know. I keep making jokes about improv but improv people are great; see if you can take an impov class. See if your local music store offers music classes (I made weirdly good friends with the folks at the music store where I took vocal lessons; this was a pleasant surprise!)

When you try any of these places make friendly smalltalk with the people you encounter and express interest in them. If you are speaking to employees, make sure you're giving them lots of conversational outs because attempting to befriend people who are working can feel like you're cornering them, I'd actually say don't try to befriend the employees at a business unless you go there and they attempt to befriend you, however as someone who worked in coffee shops for ten years if someone randomly started showing up for six hours a week I would almost certainly have gotten to a friendly shoot-the-shit level with them within a month; if you go out among people who are sociable and are around them enough sometimes the sociable people go "aha! new friend sighted!" and do the hard work for you, but you do have to go to places to let yourself be found by the sociable ones.)

I do not, generally speaking, use meetup groups as a generic thing as much as I look into what groups exist locally that I am interested in. If a local game store is running a weekly Magic tournament, that's a better place to meet people in my opinion than a one-time bowling event.

[lesboslibra]

adding my own punk recs:

1980s CALIFORNIA HARDCORE: The Weirdos, T.S.O.L., Black Flag, The Adolescents, Circle Jerks

Also watch Clockwork Orange County if you're in the mood for a cool documentary

BRITISH/AUSSIE: Subhumans, IDLES, Boom Boom Racoon, The Chats, Amyl and the Sniffers

QUEERCORE/RIOT GRRL: G.L.O.S.S. (seriously listen to GLOSS they're legendary), Dog Park Dissidents, Dazey and the Scouts, Be Your Own Pet, Bikini Kill, Gender Chores, Sorry Mom, Pleasure Venom, Destroy Boys, The Oozes, VIAL, Mommy Long Legs, Slutever, The Distillers, The Interrupters, Deli Girls

FOLKPUNK: Days n Daze, Escape from the Zoo, Kimya Dawson, Birdcloud, Harley Poe, Apes of the State, Amigo the Devil, Rent Strike

MODERN CALIFORNIA SCENE: Kuromy, GLOSSY, Fusion Babies, Wacko, Nü God, The Altitude, Human Music, Raccoon Union, Cancer Christ, The Sleeperz, Bushfire, Dildox, Xacto, Nutt

SOUTH FLORIDA PUNK BAND MY COUSIN FOUND: Curleys

MODERN HARDCORE/MINCECORE: Dead City, Haggis

Happy Saturday have some punk recs!! Caveat: Do not fight me on shit like whether Blink 182 counts as real punk or not, there's like 17 of us left and we need to band together or they're going to start eating the lesser pop punk bands for nutrition

POP PUNK: The Queers, Chixdiggit, Masked Intruder, Teenage Bottlerocket, Diesel Boy, Nerf Herder, SR-71 (shitty 90s opinions cw), Sicko, Rancid

HARDCORE/POST-HARDCORE: New Found Glory, Sum 41, Propagandhi

THIRD WAVE SKA PUNK: Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Big D and the Kids Table, Suburban Legends

REGULAR SKA PUNK: Oingo Boingo, Mephiskapheles, the Stranglers, Skatune Network/JER, the Toasters, Operation Ivy (the first ever ska punk band!)

FOLK/DIY: AJJ, Jeff Rosenstock/Antarctigo Vespucci/Bomb the Music Industry, The Taxpayers, the Copyrights, Defiance Ohio

EMO SHIT IMPRINTED IN MY BRAIN FOREVER (fondly): 3OH!3, MCR, Elway, Fall Out Boy, pinkshift

MAINSTREAM: Blink 182, Dead Kennedys, Flogging Molly/Dropkick Murphys/Real MacKenzies/anything from that stupid era, Bowling for Soup, Guttermouth, the Offspring (i am becoming someone's dad. i can feel offspring likers becoming the jimmy buffet of the 2020s), Bad Brains (not mainstream just a big deal)

OK DUDE I'M A CONOISSEUR I NEED SOME DEEP CUTS HERE shhhh i got you i got you: The Kominas, Showcase Showdown, the Lillingtons/the Riverdales