My treasured, most excellent followers, amazing fedizens, mischief-makers, music-lovers, and creatures of multiverse. I’m excited!
Today, under the light of a full moon, I present to you, a brand new Dgar song! Airlock is out now!!
Also, I have bonus shenanigans.
I’d like to give some algorithms a good punch in the face, and shock them into noticing this, my first new release of the year. If you would be generous enough to give my new track a play (or three) on your favourite streaming service (and your second and third favourite streaming service if you’re up for it), I would very much appreciate it.
This experiment will need a lot of people, so please don’t scroll by. I really do need your help to do this. It’s a short song, a bit over two and a half minutes, and I’m really excited for you to hear it!
It’s my dream that I can spend my days making music and sharing bad jokes for all you beautiful beings. I’m working hard right now to release at least one new song per month for 2024. The goal is to supplement the income from my part-time job, at least enough that I don’t need to get a second job.
Additionally, if we can make a meaningful impact on a song release with this kind of action, I’d love if we were able to help other musicians and songwriters of Mastodon with their song launches in the future. Perhaps we can come up with a hashtag for this kind of mission? Please leave your thoughts, suggestions, and expert knowledge in the comments.
I’ll pin this toot, and share the insights, stats, and relevant results for this experiment in the comments as they become available.
Thank you for your help in my attempt at breaking the interwebs. Hopefully we can give some algorithms something to think about!
Boosts are very much welcome and appreciated! I adore those favourites and likes too!
I’ve got a day off tomorrow, so instead of banging on about my music, I’m going to stay up late listening to yours.
If you’re an #indiemusician on #bandcamp or #soundcloud and you have a toot with a track you’d like to promote, link your toot in the comments and I’ll give it a boost.
[edit: If you’re a musician or songwriter here on Mastodon and have your music somewhere else, please share a link! This is about the artists and their music, not any platform!]
#Dgar Now listening to:
Splinter In The Mind’s Eye
~ Dgar
The first song I recorded and mixed. Also first song I published and I made a mistake where an earlier mix got published and the “good” version can only be found on Soundcloud.
Ok heavy metal and other friends of ours, the post on how to set up your own self-hosted digital audio storefront is now LIVE.
This will help you abandon BandCamp and all the other big distribution sites that want more and more money and are more and more enshittified by the day.
Go read and let me know if you have any questions \m/
#Dgar Release Schedule:
2024.01.27: Airlock
2024.02.16: Stupid
2024.03.29: Little Black Hatchback
2024.04.20: Gettin Stoned
2024.05.10: Only the Music (Keeps me Alive)
2024.06.13: All Zombies Go To Heaven
Full release to all the streamy places will be on the 29th March.
In the meantime, I think it sits nicely as track two on my Singles and B-Sides playlist on #Soundcloud, which I keep in the order that I think would work if they were released as an album.
Thank you all for following along. Next release is set for 20th April. Big love to everyone!!
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