For sure. You gotta save up for them. I'm recommending nabbing something second hand and originally crappy. Whatever the drum equivalent of an Eart guitar is. And then, because its a drum, you don't have to worry about notes. Just bang something out. And don't worry about technique. I've watched enough professional musicians use bad technique through the years to say with confidence to not let that stop you. I realized earlier I'm basically advocating rewilding music. Cannot emphasize enough that I really mean it when I say I recommend embracing being bad. Don't self edit. And if all this is too much, write clumsy poetry. Just make some art at home. Draw with sidewalk chalk on your streets. Sing badly while you go for a walk. Whistle, poorly. Whatever it is for you. But a really radical thing we can do as a form of protest is to make our own local media apparatuses
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Start with a drum. Bang out a rhythm. Be unbothered by being a bit off offbeat
I'm always on the hunt too. Its frustrating. Spotify consistently doesn't let me know about new releases I'd be interested in, and just boils everything to the most business friendly songs. Bandcamp has served me the best at being like "here's the weird shit"
That's what you get. Ukraine doesn't have access to YouTube either thanks to the rolling blackouts. So... I guess cry more? Or if you're Russian and reading this, and you want change for your country: realize you are many, they are few, and the few they have aren't currently as strong as they were before your country illegally invaded Ukraine. It won't be easy but maybe you and your brethren can secure a safer future for your children, those children, and all the children you will never meet, by rising up against your oppressors
I love antenna pod. And also check out phonograph for a local android music player
Then bandcamp and SoundCloud for you lol. But encourage your friends and neighbors to play music, too. And bring your instruments to their houses and have them bring theirs for yours. And you never gave to play in public or record anything. Just get together and be bad together. Its what our ancestors did. They weren't good. They just did it to enjoy themselves. And our modern culture factories have taken that away from us in a time when we should have more free time than ever because we're more productive than ever
Bandcamp, soundcloud, buying musical instruments off reverb
Spotify is hostile to making culture happen at home. I urge everyone to get off it
Almost joined there. Its a really good instance. Its just the core political philosophy is less directly aligned with me than the ones I listed. Again. Its a really good instance and I DO respect the core political philosophy, its just like... A slightly different kind of libertarian than I am to where its like... I'll coalition with y'all but it would be disingenuous of me to claim to be part of your movement. Me speaking on what I believe while saying I'm aligned with y'all would hurt your messaging and I don't want to hurt y'all like that
I also got added to that sub. I still don't... Understand what it was
There was some discussion about meta communities. You'd still need some curating because [email protected] and [email protected] really should be about completely different topics
Me and my partner have already agreed the Onn. Dongle is what we're getting when google inevitably "accidentally" bricks the Chromecast we got last year