Album is fire

This band is for real crazy. Friend recommended I listen to their fingerprints album, which is basically just a bunch of short song nuggets that are a few seconds long. It’s pretty ridiculous, but really fun.

It’s for sure possible without an huge audience. Sometimes being able to capture even an audience of 5-10 strangers can be powerful.

I played a show in Seattle at a bar last September and during one of our songs, I saw someone in the audience look to their friend and mouth “what the fuck” - as in we had sounded really good and they were shocked by that.

Afterwards we had a really great conversation and that person told us we were one of the best bands she had seen at that bar.

I think the energy thing is something that is palpable when the music is just undeniably good and fills the room, crowds just throw fuel onto the fire.

I’m curious, was the Reddit alternative non Lemmy based? I know there have been a bunch of attempts have been tried, but I didn’t keep up too much.

I’ve been going to punk shows and playing in bands for years.

One of my favorite things about a show is when a band is absolutely crushing it and there’s just an electric feeling in the air. It’s hard to describe, but the music gets the entire room of people synchronized in vibe and people just want to move and have fun.

It’s a rare thing, but when it happens, it’s unreal. As a musician, I’ve been chasing this high my entire life. It’s an incredibly hard thing to do, because sometimes the best music feels like it’s on the edge of falling apart, but doesn’t… that might be what makes it so great.

I haven’t been able to find anything like this yet.

One thing I’ve noticed about a lot of Reddit music sharing communities is that they tend to be pretty devoid of useful feedback/community generally. People want to just drop their content and bounce.

If Lemmy were to have an instance for a music sharing community, I think it would need to be pretty heavily moderated.

I’ve known about Lemmy for a few months and just registered with Beehaw because it looked active and had a funny name.

What has been the biggest driver in activity? I’m curious how a community like Beehaw bootstraps itself into existence

Capitalistic forces undermine real tools for human connection. They’re sole focus is to extract value, and that is incongruent with a healthy network. Fediverse and other p2p tech will definitely be the foundation for a future web.