However you feel about Smash Mouth’s music, his death is a tragedy of self immolation.
Alcoholism is serious, folks. Do your best to talk to your drinking friends about it sooner than later.
Also, don’t judge alcoholics, they often have very real pain they are drowning in. From what I understand Harwell lost a child to leukemia many years ago and has been in a downward spiral with alcohol since.
Mentally ill people don't deserve any kind of sympathy if they show behavior based on their illness I agree on that.
Dude was basically gone at that point and literally died three years later from a drug that destroyed his brain. I think it's appropriate to cut him some slack.
I know this isn’t a proper excuse for any of his behavior, but he did have serious neurological issues that affected his mental state. This is exactly why he retired, he got abusive with his crowd and realized the next day he needed to stop performing due to the lack of control and awareness he had.
Does he deserve compassion? That’s really up to personal preference. I recognize his alcoholism and resulting health issues, up to his death, as a tragic loss.
I'd be willing to chalk a slurred "I'll fucking kill your whole family I swear to god." to his being an alcoholic, but I can't set aside his actually killing people by holding a show and saying "fuck that covid shit" in the middle of a plague.
Nazism is also a line that should never be crossed with any justification.
That Sturgis motorcycle event is infamous for being a super-spreading event of COVID. However that Nazi salute thing was completely new to me, didn’t know about that. Belongs somewhat to the same category with Phil Anselmo’s similarly infamous Nazi salute at Dimebash 2016, even though Harwell didn’t shout “White power”.
A fight is just giving them what they want. They live and breathe on upsetting other people, so upsetting a liberal enough to fight is just pure joy to them.
Not sure if it’s exactly what you’re looking for, but I’m a fan of Interpol and I can give some recs for bands I consider similar, not individual songs.
Plenty of decent country before the 1990s. Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Charley Pride, Ray Charles, the Statler Brothers, Mel Tillis, Roy Clark, John Denver, Willie Nelson. Later country artists with pop sensibilities like Kenny Rogers, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Reba McIntire.
I’d argue that Roy Clark ranks as one of the most talented American guitarists/banjoists of the 20th century, easily in the same class as Jimi Hendrix or Prince.
Today, look for specific types of country music (e.g. Bluegrass) to find more authentic stuff, or just bite the bullet and listen to stuff with different genre labels like “Americana” and “Folk”. A lot of good modern country music ends up in those genre classifications because the marketers can’t figure out how to fit it into the stadium country ecosystem.
Reba McEntire! Love me some Reba
Alabama are another favorite of mine
Mary Chapin Carpenter is great too
The Judds
Loretta Lynn
Hank Williams Sr.
Kenny Rogers
Rosanne Cash
Waylon & Willie, baby (Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson)
Brooks & Dunn
Charlie Daniels Band
In a more modern iteration, I’ve been really enjoying The Dead South recently
This has been regurgitated over and over again in recent days. But what none of the articles talk about, is that for many, and I’d guess actually the majority of people, the editorial part never mattered. I’ve been using and praising Bandcamp for over a decade (first album bought in February 2010), and last week was the first time I ever opened their blog. It’s not bad, but also very clearly not something I’ll miss.
Now, yes, that sucks for people who always read that blog (though I’ve also never once seen a post of them shared anywhere I am). And yeah, Songtradr might turn out to be bad (I used the collection downloader to redownload everything as FLAC after the announcement, just in case), but for me and others like me, it might simply change nothing. And while the stop of BC Friday would suck, one also has to remember that it was a relatively new thing that the old Bandcamp never did for most of its life.
What maters for me: That they keep paying bands and labels their share, keep free streams of un-bought items, and keep a wide array of download formats. If those things stay, then BC did not lose its soul, but stayed true to its core.
I’m not paying you a dollar for a song or $10 for a complete CD. Especially if it is the way it is with movies where you don’t really own it, just a license to play it.
I can’t think of a way in which I would pay for music outside of a Spotify like model. Even at that, I’m on my sisters family plan. If I was not, I wouldn’t subscribe.
Maybe I’m just not the target market, maybe I’m cheap. Maybe I’m just not that into music.
But look at the value. A CD is like 90 minutes long and costs $10-20. There are great computer games out there in that price range that also have a sound track. If I have a limited amount of money to spend, which I do, then I’m going to pay for stuff that maximizes my entertainment.
The only time I’d buy stuff like that is if I knew most, if not all that money is going to the band. At least since a lot of the bands I listen to are smaller.
Yes, this exactly. Im fine with paying $1 a song if I knew majority of the money was going to the artist and not to various greedy media conglomerates.
Lotsa smaller ones, I know king gizzard, red vox, and Frankie and the witch fingers (my favorite bands right now) all have websites you can buy flacs from.
I think the modality of spotify is ok, but the model could be very different. In exemple, imagine if you payed 10$ month, but instead of those being distributed across all of spotify statistically, they where divided and distrubuted to the author YOU actually listened to, on a monthly basis.
Maybe one month you only listened to 10 songs, so 1$ for each song author that month.
Of course, there should be a cut for the platform from that monthly fee, after all they have maintenance and administrative costs. And perhaps it should also take into account how much of a song you listened to, down to the second.
This is not a new model, but it is not an interesting one for venture capitalist funds, because it is too egalitarian. It is up to us to create it.
“To have a fair music market, there needs to be a fair market”.
I like how this kind of article just don’t even try to talk about other streaming and download platform. It’s really nice also to not talk about the ecological cost of music streaming.
One thing, i think there is a wider debat that needs to happen about what is the actual point of gaining money with music, what is it, what it means, in what conditions, etc. Taking the time to properly explain what the industry want from a music creator, etc.
For alternative streaming/DL you have archive.org, funkwhale, dogmazic.net, even jamendo is an alternative. Peertube could be a streaming alternative as well
I wish I could take credit for the screenshot. I was mostly joking, because Winamp was the best music player. Currently I listen to music with Plexamp on my Samsung phone with Qudelix 5k and iems.
No need to reinvent the wheel. It works perfectly without any of the problems new software has. Though it does get a bit small on today’s screens and fractional scaling is still such a mess I refuse to use it.
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