Music

I found this really lovely (imo) queer punk cover of Jolene today, that I thought would be nice to share.

Although often associated with Satan, swords, and sorcery (and illegible logos), metal has always reflected on the environment and the state of the world. Indigenous bands have been part of the scene almost from its start more than five decades ago, but the past few years have seen a growing number of Native musicians writing about a wide range of subjects, from rurality to discrimination to the universal experience of having a good time despite all of that.

Metal is famously opaque, with around 70 subgenres, but it is almost universally accepted that everything started with Black Sabbath in 1968. Even as that British quartet was laying the foundation, XIT, pronounced “exit,” was singing about the Indigenous experience on its 1972 album Plight of the Redman.

As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, metal began splintering as bands like Metallica and Brazil’s Sepultura took it beyond the blues-based sound hard rock and metal were based upon. Testament, founded in 1983 and led by Chuck Billy, a member of the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians, sang about climate change on the 1989 album Practice What You Preach. In the song “Greenhouse Effect,” he refers to rainforests burning and “the world we know is dying slow” before singing “seal the planet’s fate, crimes they perpetrate, wasting precious land. It’s time to take a stand” in the rollicking chorus. Still, Billy doesn’t think many took the message to heart. “Twenty-five years later, everybody in the world realizes that, ‘Hey! Our climate has changed,’” he told Radio Metal.

Metal has, in recent years, grown more explicitly concerned with climate and the environment, with pagan- and folk-infused bands bringing an element of spirituality and pre-colonial romanticization. Pre-colonial Scandinavian bands like Warundra explore traditional Pagan worship that was the norm before Christianity. This connection with nature is more than vague gestures to a pan-Pagan past, according to Kathryn Rountree, an anthropologist at Massey University who wrote a paper on the topic. For Indigenous peoples, it is “connected to this-worldly social and political concerns.”

WTF is wrong AI CEO tech bros. People don't like making music? Get fucked.

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It's a new year, and despite the numerous encroaching horrors, What's Good shall continue. If I don't do nothing else, I'm going to help you put together your personal soundtrack for getting through this mess.

If this is your first time visiting, What's Good is my weekly new music blog, where I give you a big list of new music, along with playlists for your convenience, and a few bits of music news and writing in a section called Bonus Beats. Sound cool? Then join me for the new drops, including:

New Albums

• doseone & Steel Tipped Dove
• Ethel Cain
• Matthewdavid
• miles cooke
• NAHreally
• Satchel Brown
• Sleep Sinatra & August Fanon

New Singles

• Boldy James
• clipping.
• Deep Sea Diver
• Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek
• Ghais Guevara
• Japanese Breakfast
• SPELLLING

Looking for intuitions on the best genre niche for my friend’s project if anyone has time!

I figured since the world is suddenly being filled with weak-ass "strongmen" who do nothing but get into dick measuring contests, it was time for a nice song about it! "I'm gonna get me one better! Just you wait and see!"

Remember ol' Khrushchev when he was ridin' high with that sputnik satellite

He told us Yankee boys, he's gonna fill the skies with them shiny new satellites

He said "Hey Mr. Eisenhower, watcha think of my sputnik satellite?"

Well, Ike reeled his head back

Looked him in the eye, "that's a mighty fine satellite"

But I'ma gonna get me one better (just you wait and see)

I'ma gonna get me one better (you can't get the best of me)

I'ma gonna get me one better (the baddest one around)

I'ma gunna get me one better ('cause' I got the biggest balls in town, mmhm!)

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/14973402

I know one so far, Legend of Arthur and the Roundtable, but I want to learn about more and listen to more for inspiration and the story telling potential it holds.

Any suggestions would be great

Catchy and pretty funny

Snailmate - Trash, Baby

My eldest son loves to go down huge rabbit holes in order to find great music that most of us have never heard. This is another example that he just shared with me.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24020479

Hooray Jake, Hooray John, breaking up christmas all night long Oh me, oh my, oh me, what'll I do

This is possibly my favorite collection of christmas renditions, and is the first set of christmas songs our three month old heard (tonight we'll be listening to Dick Leibert at Radio City circa 1973)

Total runtime is 19m05s

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23909890

Great flatfooting from Phoebe Douthwaite. Joe McDuff on fiddle.