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pomCountyIrregs

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Los Angeles based Pop band that believes in inclusion and diversity. We want to be part of your complete musical breakfast. #IndieMusic #IndiePop #LaurelCanyon #SingerSongwriter #RadioTFSCArtist

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mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Happy !

I'm still not onto Black history. I'm still on white US history.

Q: Why were Black folk so happy when OJ was acquitted? To be honest, it feels disgusting. Why does it seem like you're happy he got away with murder?

A: Racism. Black folk did not like OJ that much. In fact, many Black people think he did it. Black folk didn't "celebrate OJ." Black folk celebrated the hope that a brutally unjust, evil, and racist system, could be defeated at all.

pomCountyIrregs,
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@mekkaokereke I was listening to live radio broadcast of courtroom audio. As I don’t need to tell anyone, the standard is not “did it” or “not”, but did the state prove beyond a reasonable doubt. And while we got news reports on all aspects of the trial, the jury only sees the witnesses. The police officers’ testimony was bad. To this listener, they clearly were obfuscating. As to other witnesses, what a jumble of often contradictory narratives. Any way, I did not second guess the verdict.

TheConversationUS, to music
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In the 1970s and 1980s, bands made money from album sales and concerts just promoted the album.

In the 2020s, bands make pennies from streams and rely on concerts to make money.

A industry scholar and former drummer looks at how this plays into the government’s antitrust lawsuit: https://theconversation.com/why-the-us-government-is-trying-to-break-up-live-nation-entertainment-a-music-industry-scholar-explains-230832

pomCountyIrregs,
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@TheConversationUS @lisamelton Let’s not forget that the vast majority of bands, and mine was one of them in the 80s, got nowhere near a record contract, and the vast majority of those who did get a contract did not sell enough recordings to retire the advances.

Add that a shockingly small percent of those with a contract had one ten years later, and one should conclude that for a musician playing live or sidemen (union) gigs, not the hit record, were the ways to make a living.

pomCountyIrregs, to ethelcain
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It’s #BandcampFriday and you know what that means?!?

Yes, tomorrow’s Saturday, sure, but maybe it means you see a post and follow a link.

#ThePomegranateCountyIrregulars link is https://pomegranatecountyirregulars.bandcamp.com

We like to use it for early availability. Before appearing at the streamers, it’s there on our page. Two “sided” singles for June, July, and August, and the tenth album, “Constructivism in Blue”. You might enjoy something from “Too Lazy for Words: An Instrumental EP.”

#IndiePop #Indie

pomCountyIrregs, to ethelcain
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It's official. On May 1, we will go worldwide with the single "Theme to an Imaginary Spy Movie (Deceivers Die)" b/w "A Hard Land." I thought to myself, self, I want to do a spy movie theme. Then, I had to come up with a plausible spy movie title. For the B side, some artifice as a character in the last line of a verse appears in the first line of the next verse. It's set in the west and in the past.

(It will be at Bandcamp much sooner.)

CuriousMagpie, to random
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“Microsoft shares your data with 772 third-parties. Yes, you read that right, 772.”
This is why I left all other email providers behind and stick with https://www.ghacks.net/2024/01/12/proton-mail-says-that-the-new-outlook-app-for-windows-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service/

pomCountyIrregs,
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@CuriousMagpie @Binder Well, 773 would be just too many.

pomCountyIrregs, to random
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A little later this week the official release of Album 9.

It’s at Bandcamp now.

With a bonus track!

https://pomegranatecountyirregulars.bandcamp.com/album/going-places-with-the-serfville-monad


Binder, to random
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SitCom is short for Situationally Comatose, a knack which some actors possess, allowing them to hit their marks & deliver lines using only their autonomic systems.

This allows their higher cognitive functions to be placed in an induced Temporary Vegetative State to protect them from awareness of the banality of their work.

pomCountyIrregs,
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@bytebro @Binder One person’s ennui is another person’s excitement for a new experience.

If anything, banal is overused because it suggests the speaker’s experience and taste is superior. And we know there’s an excess of self-proclaimed and self-deluded “superior” people.

pomCountyIrregs, to random
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And, as I sit in Santa Barbara with Hilary’s rain due for real in a few hours, it’s an earthquake.

pomCountyIrregs, to ethelcain
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In a few hours our instrumental EP will be available at streamers. You could even buy it, $4 at Apple Music or $2 at Bandcamp. 4 songs, 24 minutes.

#ThePomegranateCountyIrregulars #IndiePop

pomCountyIrregs, to random
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Midnight Eastern, 9 pm Pacific, our next single lands at the stores and streamers.

Sermon 18 b/w This Is No Train and I’m No Engineer.

https://pomegranatecountyirregulars.bandcamp.com/album/s2023k

pomCountyIrregs, to random
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https://www.cbjradio.com/ is the spot for and it starts within the hour. We’re on the program with its good music and no commercials!

pomCountyIrregs, to random
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Decided to do a solo acoustic version of the June A-side. Had some fun with background masking. (Should have looked at how before..., but, well, embrace the suckage, which is another way to say live and learn.)

Model Companion

https://youtu.be/dqfN5jdlggA

pomCountyIrregs, to random
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Okay, here’s some certainty, #ThePomegranateCountyIrregulars July single is available now at Bandcamp.

https://pomegranatecountyirregulars.bandcamp.com/album/s2024g

Thank you in advance, perhaps welllllllllll in advance.

#IndieMusic #IndieRock

gaviota, to random

Everyone should block me now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBYV_7a0FQs

#MuskratLove #CaptainAndTennille #HenryKissinger #NowPlaying

pomCountyIrregs,
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@gaviota @Binder

To the contrary, I’m considering following.

By the way I recorded a song called Gaviota.

(And, this may mean nothing to you, have songs with Carpinteria and Tajiguas in the titles in the backlog.)

https://pomegranatecountyirregulars.bandcamp.com/track/gaviota

pomCountyIrregs,
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@gaviota @Binder It’s an incorporated city, claimant to the world’s safest beach*, and a state of mind.

*Scary high waves the past few days, and no beach is safe in such conditions.

argv_minus_one, to random
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The progression of is generally considered to go from negative (past) to positive (future).

For example, “year -1000” is commonly understood to mean one thousand years before the beginning of the common era. Similarly, “T-minus 30 seconds” means 30 seconds before some event happens.

What if this was inverted, such that the past is considered positive, and the future negative? My first thought is that, although mathematically equivalent, this would seem rather depressing…

pomCountyIrregs,
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@argv_minus_one @Binder T-minus 30 seconds means 30 seconds before some event happens.

The event is T? Yes, please, Oolong or Green if you have it.

pomCountyIrregs, to ethelcain
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Well, we were on the list of artists two weeks ago, but not in the program.

This week #ThePomegranateCountyIrregulars is on the list for #WyattOnTheRadio

#IndieRadio #IndiePop

Binder, to random
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What if we held an exclusive invite-only war & let billionaires buy tickets to it for exorbitant rates & then when they got there, they get to do the fighting each other to the death part, themselves.

pomCountyIrregs,
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@Binder Pretty close to the last verse of Dylan’s Highway 61.

muz4now, to random
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@pomCountyIrregs Not sure what happened, but Spotify has removed 2 of my playlists, so I’m not adding any tracks there ATM. I’ll let you know if that changes.
Just glad we connected!

pomCountyIrregs,
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@muz4now Thank you.

They say they have been cracking down on playlists that are generating what their monitoring and algorithms claim are false plays. I’ve done enough coding to know babies do get tossed with the bathwater.

There’s also a possibility that is more slimy. With the limit before payment, there’s an incentive to obscure tracks that are getting close.

etherdiver, to random
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Hecklers suck but throwing a fit about it and walking off? That sucks even more.

Not surprised to find out John Cougar Mellencamp is a big baby, tho.

(Should be noted that the hecklers were just shouting at him to play music instead of telling rambling stories 😅 ... Can't blame people who paid $100+ a ticket to hear music wanting to, you know, hear music and not the wandering good-ol'-days recollections of a boomer.)

https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2024/03/legendary-classic-rock-singer-heckled-on-stage-exits-early.html

pomCountyIrregs,
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@etherdiver I have a few thoughts (I’m a boomer so you may turn away now). If one wants to hear the music, stay at home and play the records. If the show isn’t what one wants, leave and do something that’s more pleasing without disturbing the artist or fellow members of the audience. There’s a balance, but as a performer I believe some of it has to be for me and some for them. Contact my booking agent and I’ll disclose my fee for a one-on-one as they please private show.

Binder, to random
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Who out there is not recognizing clothes as an artificial technology? Who is being born fully dressed?

pomCountyIrregs,
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@Binder Cue the bot that would say “Clothing is a social construct.”

ianRobinson, (edited ) to music
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A small voice in my brain is telling me to stop creating the Spotify versions of my weekly new music playlists. I don't know if anyone even listens to any of the tracks on them. I create the Apple Music one for my use. If others use it, that's a bonus. I've no idea if anyone listens to that one either. But it doesn’t matter as I do. Poll below.

Archive at https://canicula.com/wp/category/music/

Do you ever listen to the weekly new music Spotify playlists I create?

pomCountyIrregs,
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@ianRobinson Because they won’t pay us small indies unless a track gets 1000 streams in a year, I’m no longer directing people to Spotify. I haven’t chosen, yet, to stop sending them tracks. The Dec., Jan., and Feb. releases (the latter out last Thursday morning your time) were set up before the announcement. I did include them when I set up the March 1 and April 1 singles a few days ago.)

I won’t opine on how someone else should or should not support Spotify.

ianRobinson, to random
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On Ep 4 of Masters of the Air. The episodes are all quite similar. I may not make it to the end of the series.

pomCountyIrregs,
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@ianRobinson I also thought if the underground railroad person left the fliers alone, she would have the foresight to teach them French for “May I see your ticket?” And doesn’t the conductor check tickets right after the last stop and not before the terminal destination?

But I’ll keep watching. What else is there to do on a Friday afternoon, watch Hail, Caesar? Wait, I did do that yesterday!

pomCountyIrregs,
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@ianRobinson I hear you. I’ll be staying with it. I was a bit taken out when the Major and his Polish one night stand looked out to the night sky and watched the anti-aircraft display. “Why aren’t they in a shelter?” Now I’m asking why aren’t blackout curtains drawn?

The USAAF made a tragic miscalculation when they delayed building a long-range fighter plane. They thought B-17 bristling with guns would be enough. 1943 was very rough for the 8th. We’re likely to hear two lines about this.

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    pomCountyIrregs,
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    @KrissyKat @thekitmalone The policy, I predict, will not apply to paid political advertising.

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